Category Archives: Global Politics
Unearthing: A Mining Justice Zine
Dear Readers, This zine is the collective effort of the 2018 iteration of the class: “Geography 495: Social Movements in the Americas: The politics of North-South solidarity in theory & practice” taught by Dr. Juanita Sundberg. As we moved through the class we learned about “extractivismo or the (re)turn to resource extraction as development and […]
“Pictures in Protest” by Zoe Hertz at the Hatch Art Gallery
“Pictures in Protest” put on in collaboration with the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights Group by Zoe Hertz, will be showcasing a series of photographs depicting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The exhibition will seek to explore the often-marginalized Palestinian perspective as a result of biased Western media sources and the implications that this has caused. The […]
Storm the Wall: A Symbol of Hope from UBC and Beyond
The Wall in Palestine. The mythologized/as-yet-unrealized wall at the U.S. – Mexico Border.
The Walls and structures that continue to oppress, dominate, and exploit.
#StormTheseWalls
At a time when new borders are created and existing borders are reified to enable violence and dehumanization, it is imperative that we take a stand.
We call on UBC students to stand in solidarity with ‘Storm the Wall’ & with global victims of colonial border walls, unjust militarization, detention, and other violences of border imperialism.
Coming From Genocide
Yasmin Ullah’s parents left their village of Sinya Pra, Buthidaung township in Rakhine, in 1995, slightly more than a decade after Myanmar’s generals had stripped the Rohingya ethnicity of their citizenship. That year was 1982. It would be seven years before Aung San Suu Ki would be put under house arrest, thirty four years after […]
Susan Rice is a War Criminal and Should Not Lecture at UBC
I recently discovered that the Lind Institute is hosting the former US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Thursday, February 15 at UBC. I posted my utter shock and disagreement on the Facebook event page, but it is likely my post will be deleted. I invite you to read the following piece outlining the war […]
A Reflection on “March On, Vancouver! The Next Step March”
“What if we shift the question from ‘who do I want to be?’ to the question, ‘what kind of life do I want to live with others?’?… If the I who wants this name or seeks to live a certain kind of life is bound up with a ‘you’ and a ‘they’ then we are […]
Respectability Politics doesn’t Protect Us
“After all the work I’ve done, after all the work our people have done, they don’t want us?” Those were my mother’s words the morning of Trump’s immigration ban. My mother is a chemical engineer who has greatly contributed to the field of wood pellet size reduction for their use in renewable energy. I couldn’t […]
Interview with Yves Engler – A Propaganda System: How Canada’s government, corporations, media and academia sell war and exploitation
This interview was recorded on October 9, 2016 at the University of British Columbia on the occupied, ancestral, unceded territory of the Musqueam people. It is important to recognize that institutions across these lands continue to perpetuate acts of colonial violence and dispossession towards the region’s First People and that questioning and dismantling these oppressive […]
“Love will fix all”
When people tell me that Liberal-ized “LOVE” is the answer… that all we need is sole “love” to lick the well-deep wounds… I have this burning desire to respond: Will Love put my native tongue back into my bruised, post-9/11, numbing-cream™ filled mouth? Will it allow me to share my passions and heartaches with my […]
Corrupt prosecutors behind Brazil’s 2016 right-wing coup selected as finalists for UBC’s $100,000 Allard Prize
“…By contrast, much of Brazilian civil society and grassroots political movements view the Car Wash Task Force as a tool of an oligarchic elite, represented by the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMBD), that sought power by “judicial” means after having lost the 2014 election to Rousseff’s Worker’s Party (PT).8 Protests opposing the Task force number in the hundreds of thousands9, while an attempted rally in its defense only attracted a little more than half a dozen people.10 Brazilians reject the hypocrisy of the Task Force’s ‘crusade against corruption’, which played a key role in undemocratically installing the notoriously corrupt Michel Temer as President.”
