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Dozens of Indigenous protesters forced their way into the COP30 climate summit venue and clashed with security guards at the entrance to demand climate action and forest protection.

Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract *** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY*** Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy

Flying the @caut.bsky.social flag with @cupe3912.bsky.social and the @cautdefencefund.bsky.social

Oh boy, the trickle down is gonna be great for all us underlings.

An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Why is a tax incentive for private-sector R&D considered an “investment,” but public R&D spending (through government, universities, or other public institutions) not? And why is spending on education, and other forms of “human capital”, not considered an investment?

"How 'War' Becomes War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Ours of Us" "From the moment the armed services violently engage their first civilians, their prestige will be gone forever, and service members will be destroying the Republic they are sworn to serve." snyder.substack.com/p/how-war-be...

ICE goons kidnapped daycare worker from Rayito de Sol Nov 5 /25 Chicago WGN video

As universities and colleges cut academic programs, close programs, and slash 13,000+ jobs, Budget 2025 halves international student enrolment without boosting core funding.

This, from @attackerman.bsky.social, is brilliant and appropriately brutal. Must read. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The new mayor.

Canadian Members of Parliament seek to undermine the long established peer review process for university Tri-Council grants. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/cc21826...

These diplomatic tensions are only likely to erode in the near future. www.policymagazine.ca/our-hoekstra...

What's the correct description for this activity?

"60% owned by six large companies that are backed mainly by private equity firms.... corporations buying hundreds of independent vet practices, pushing up prices and making excessive profits." ://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/02/firefighters-charities-animal-rescue-callouts-england

Four of this year’s #JAF articles examine how “philanthropic agendas directly reshape academic life”: 🧵

Notwithstanding the kids ...

Historically, there have always been anti-union toadies. This is what they sound like.

The Contrarian

As has already been stated by others, no need for Halloween as the ongoing horror show of authoritarianism + incompetence continues apace.

“No government that purports to uphold the rule of law and fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens would ever take away the right to free collective bargaining and the right to strike."

Pete needs to head back home. We're about done with this nonsense. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/cc21826...

When anti-Semites claim to be fighting anti-Semitism they trivialize a very real problem and thereby deliberately make it worse. Attacking universities was always about spreading anti-Semitism, not combatting it. forward.com/fast-forward...

Lonely Village on the Saint Lawrence Clarence Gagnon 1922

The Charter of Rights is foundational to 🇨🇦's democracy & national vision of fairness & due process. Decades of cases have confirmed its value to labour rights. Danielle Smith takes a big step toward authoritarianism, tossing it aside for fiscal & political convenience. #canlab

Considering Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite" with the actual POTUS is maximum cognitive dissonance.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2014... How we made Hobson's Choice

These are still moldering in various cupboards.

An appalling abuse of legislative power.

Tiger, elephant, giraffe, despot.

Our thoughts are with Jamaicans as this terrible situation unfolds. The evolving climate emergency cannot be denied.

"Mark Walter, the principal owner of the #Dodgers … leads TWG Global, which partnered with Palantir Technologies, which built a data analytics platform including facial recognition to track immigrants and support deportation efforts." sanfernandosun.com/2025/07/09/d...

We need to not only resist Donald Trump, but stop Trumpism from becoming a permanent ideology in American politics. Argentina is a warning. ICYMI @raders.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/is-the-arg...

The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish. The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

This proposed policy is a muddled attempt to evade accountability. Faculty have long exercised their academic freedom while making reference to institutional appointments. The assumption is never that they speak officially for universities or colleges.

All the news unfit to print? www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

Americans agree: Trump's management of the US economy is the worst by any American president in history.

Solidarity with our CUPE 3912 colleagues at SMU and MSVU in their efforts to secure fair and equitable contracts. cupe3912.ca/2025/10/22/s...

The reliance on contract academic staff is eroding Canada’s research and innovation capacity. Join the call for the fair treatment of contract academic staff to help secure the future of Canadian post-secondary education. #MakeItFair

New risograph from Australian illustrator and unionist Sam Wallman in the shop! justseeds.org/product/what...

The new issue of LABOR is here, and it’s hot!

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Kudos to these universities for standing up to Trump's demands.

“In the last ten months we’ve seen dozens of attempts from the White House to impose an ideological agenda on U.S. colleges & universities. Our AAUP Chapter, together with national AAUP & many dozens of chapters across the country, recognize the danger it poses to academic freedom.” #DefendHigherEd

It’s like they fed a bunch of mobster movies into ChatGPT and then beat it with sticks until it shat out the most garbled mafia boss preening imaginable

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing. And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power. When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.