“There is no reason to intentionally block the passage of humanitarian aid or intentionally obliterate small-scale fishing vessels, greenhouses and orchards in Gaza — other than to deny people access to food.” analystnews.org/posts/weaponiz… via Analyst News

New Post! Building on her long-lasting interest in settler-colonial land transformations in Canada, Sarah Rotz focuses on the expansion of large-scale agriculture in the country’s north landrush Madeleine Fairbairn Julia Sizek is elsewhere Andre Magnan CRC in Science and Society
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This speech by Nada Tarbush at a United Nations conference yesterday will go down in history.

In front of a room filled with states from around the world, she exposes the racist ideology that underpins Western support for Israel.

What is the purpose of continuing to send arms to Israel,

‼️🚫 York University refuses to address the affordability crisis caused by rising housing and food prices at the same time that wages on campus have stagnated. More and more, academic staff are living further from campus and being forced to work other jobs to make ends meet.

Friends: important fundraiser by CPEP Group CAPP Kemptville this Friday in Ottawa. $$ raised will support legal battle against Ford to stop the planned construction of the Eastern Ontario Correctional Complex on arable farmland with floodplains and Rideau River watershed creek.

“You can’t behold evil and then return and not speak on it.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American and Palestinian liberation struggles, and the moral responsibility to speak out.

Wow.
Federal NDP calls for:
*Ceasefire
*Humanitarian aid to Gaza
*End to arm sales to Israel and Hamas
*International Criminal Court investigation into the conflict
*End to Occupation
*Just peace
This is a direct result of mobilizing and organizing led by Palestinians.

UN's Navi Pillay: Israel has 'no intention of ending occupation' | Talk to Al Jazeera aje.io/nmamxf

It's been 17 days of terror and the whole world is screaming at the top of our lungs for a ceasefire as the atrocities in Gaza unfold. Since when is mass murder self-defence? How dare you all weaponize Jewish grief to condone a genocide?

“The propaganda against peace activists has been horrible,”...“We were the traitors, the anti-Zionists, the anti-Israelis! We were supposedly the naïve ones who did not know the game.
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Some of the clearest/most meaningful pushback on the framing of Palestinians as literal Nazis and politicians’ appalling misuse of the Holocaust to justify genocide comes from Jewish Israeli scholars. I have to assume this garners significant personal attack. Yet they persist.

humble reminder to those focusing on 'ceasefire.' Don't also forget calls from Palestinians: refuse return to status quo & clearly demand end to current genocidal campaign, end to colonial occupation, BDS & anti-normalization of Zionist entity, stand with Palestinian resistance.

Excited for the North American stop in #Ottawa by Beehive Collective on Sat July 15th. This Family-friendly event combines Art w/ Climate Justice. The talent to creates these murals is inspiring - and we imagine their storytelling will be equally compelling eventbrite.ca/e/beehive-coll…

Confronting Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Asian Racisms in Food Systems in Canada

Leticia Ama Deawuo
Michael Classens
#AntiRacism

CFS is proud to be #OpenAccess
#FoodStudies #FoodPolitics #FoodWays #FoodCulture #FoodJustice #OpenScholarship
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Following the Special Report on 'Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Ontario - A Study of Exclusion at OMAFRA” Kaitlin Rizarri has written a Brief about the incredible community-based Indigenous food initiatives that are excluded by provincial policy:

yellowheadinstitute.org/2023/04/11/tka…

This is super gross and awful 🤮

The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs supports food security initiatives in the province, except those led by Indigenous people. In our latest Special Report, Tabitha Robin, Sarah Rotz & Adrianne Xavier ask why that's the case: yellowheadinstitute.org/food-sovereign…