It's still 15 days until official release and I've yet to lay hands on a physical copy myself, but a reliable source sent me this photo today. Pre-orders are beginning to be fulfillied and *Listen!* is starting to appear in the wild! (Order yours here: fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/listen)

"Canadians show solidarity with the Alliance of Sahel States" mediacoop.ca/node/119315 #cdnpoli

"At least eight people were killed in police actions in Canada in September 2025." mediacoop.ca/node/119313 #cdnpoli

I want to read more history that is unconnected to anything that I might end up writing about.

This will be great!

Full solidarity with the flotilla, which represents the very best of humanity. And eternal shame to the European states who refused to protect it from Israeli assault and establish a corridor for aid to Gaza.

Canadian physician Yipeng Ge has been on the ground in Gaza during the genocide. A year and a half later, he joined me and reflected on what he saw — and what the people are doing in the face of government complicity. Here’s a sneak peek of our conversation:

For folks who can't make it to an in-person launch, I will be doing an online event for *Listen! Knowing the World and Fighting to Change It* in conversation with Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay on October 28. Register for the Zoom session via the email address in the image.

📢Introducing the incredible speakers joining us on Friday, Oct. 10th at our event, “Policing-Free Schools Is Disability Justice: Knowledge Mobilization & Calls-to-Action”! Meet our amazing panelists for:“School-Prison Nexus & Carceral ‘Care’”⬇️ 1/3

We are complicit. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As others, including Ireland, rush to help their citizens involved with the flotilla, here’s what Canada’s government told me of the six Canadians on board: “The Government of Canada is not able to guarantee the safety of Canadian travelers, or to provide them with security and protection abroad.”

It's book launch season! #HamOnt folks can come and listen to me talk about my new book with Jane Mulkewich on October 23 at The City and The City Books! (I'll post about the online and Sudbury launches in the coming days...)

Check out Stefan Christoff's interview with Tess Tesalona about the founding of the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, and about key issues in the struggles of immigrant workers past and present: mediacoop.ca/node/119311 #cdnpoli #cdnimm

I appreciate the intention here, but as an "international friend" I must say it makes no sense for anyone to visit the US right now. I have avoided it for years, and I will continue to do so. The rule of law, such as it was, has been suspended. Crossing that border is an unnecessary risk.

As long as the Giller Prize maintains Indigo and the Azrieli Foundation as sponsors, the boycott continues. Canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller

I’ve been reading articles about phones, lately, because the gods of planned obsolescence are dictating that I need a new one soon. And it’s very troubling the way that obviously factually incorrect AI slop articles are so seamlessly integrated with decent ones in search results.

Told ya. Dozens and dozens of you partisans insisted there wouldn't be cuts to services. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

shame on the federal government for being so on the wrong side of this.

Add your voice to the petition calling to reverse Canada's ban on radical hip-hop group Kneecap's entry into the country! nwmd.social/s/twitter/4A... #cdnpoli

With a couple hundred people in Gore Park in #HamOnt for the Draw the Line protest, as many thousands more do the same in 65+ other communities, demanding that Canada put people before profit, uphold Indigenous sovereignty, stop blaming migrants, end the war machine, and end the era of fossil fuels.

All out for Draw The Line tomorrow! www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art... Find your local action at drawtheline.world.

Canada's government -- colonial, pro-genocide, and profoundly unserious. #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

They are trying to force people to act like they believe lies (about that one horrible guy who was killed by that other horrible guy, among other things) not because they care about what people believe, but to demonstrate they have the power to force behaviour even when the lies are transparent.

“Represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), college workers are demanding job security. The union said the sector has already seen 10,000 job cuts across the system in the last year.” rabble.ca/education/da... #onpoli

A conference on refugee healthcare lost sponsors, and a talk for employees at Canada's public health agency was cancelled, after Palestine advocates were labelled "antisemitic." A look at the campaigns targeting doctors who want to discuss the health crisis in Gaza: pressprogress.ca/campaigns-ta...

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat

Just recorded an interview for *Vital Signs*, the #HamOnt Community Foundation's TV show. I talked about my new book *Listen! Knowing the World and Fighting to Change It* (out Oct. 21), my earlier social movement oral history work, and social movements in general. It broadcasts in a week or two!

No question a better world is possible, we all need to believe that the future is a choice, and that we have a choice about making it. This is fundamental! I tell my kids this!

I'm really looking forward to reading this book! So many writers I admire have essays in it, and I can't wait to read their wisdom about how to deal with *gestures broadly at everything* and keep going. ❤️

Very excited to hear this!

It appears the Canadian government is introducing new legislation that will likely be weaponized to prevent anti-genocide protests on university campuses. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

It's all resolved now (I think), but I *cannot* *believe* how hard Bell Canada made it to GIVE THEM MORE MONEY by transferring a number from another provider to an existing account with them. This is, supposedly, their core business!!!

This Hamilton police officer is a white nationalist. "McNabb, who researches criminal justice policy and administration, said there's a blue wall of silence — an unspoken expectation officers will protect one another at all costs." #cdnpoli #policing www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

"A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that 'not once' in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Check the latest from The Media Co-op -- a first-hand account from Demetrius Buckley, a prisoner in Michigan, of the impacts of Canadian wildfire smoke. mediacoop.ca/node/119308

This article about past environmental successes doesn’t do nearly enough to think about the role of power, but its examples are interesting nonetheless. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

“[W]ithout organizing the suburbs, the left has no chance of building working-class power or reversing the right-wing tide across the country.” breachmedia.ca/to-start-win... #cdnpoli

Spread calm. Tell the truth. Defend vulnerable people who are under attack. Getting stuck in a reactive mode is exhausting, and exhaustion can make us weak.

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

Elite liberals acting like a neo-Nazi purveyor of hate and violence wasn’t a neo-Nazi purveyor of hate and violence is bad. But some left-ish folk acting like this is some online happening instead of a way that the regime and grassroots far right will ramp up the awful isn’t great either.

"Prison is not a building over there but a set of relationships that undermine rather than stabilize everyday lives everywhere." — Ruth Wilson Gilmore

A review of what sounds like a fascinating book about how youth read, particularly in online contexts…while not ignoring serious challenges, the book sounds curious, thoughtful, and hopeful, and I want to read it. www.publicbooks.org/our-golden-a...

I hate that practice in TV writing in which some intense, complex, emotionally difficult thing is resolved in a single story beat, never to have any impact on the characters ever again.

HAHAHAHA UHHHH WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK??????

At least five people were killed by police in Canada in August 2025, bringing the total for this year to at least 64. This includes people who were directly killed by police and people who died during police deployments or in police custody. mediacoop.ca/node/119306 #cdnpoli