Innovation in 2019: SIR guest visits recorded for podcast content. By '21 the experience was the basis for a new podcast for a Community Engaged course at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social: The Art of Change with SIR alumni producing. Listen to how we got started: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Coverage of the danger of white supremacists rallying across #Niagara "“They’re pretty forward about what they are up to,” @ameil-joseph.bsky.social said. “What’s worrying is how little is being done in response to it.”" www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara...

Join us on Thursday, March 5th on Zoom with Dr. Moyo Mutamba for a participatory workshop to build both the mindsets and skill sets needed to navigate interpersonal conflict with greater awareness, confidence, and care. Moyo is a therapist, mediator, and equity and conflict transformation 1/3

Discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability cannot be assessed without historical analysis. Historical impacts and outcomes are why those forms of discrimination exist.

From the overt racism at the top, to those who do it in secret, all the way to those in our everyday that do and say nothing to intervene, all of it harms. For those who live it, it is awful everyday, everytime.

For those (of us) who have researched, published books, chapters, Journal articles, conference papers on racist immigration violences, including deportation and detention, your work is needed now more than ever. Share it, wield it, care with it.

So he made up a board, invited mostly war criminals to be on it, called it a board of peace, which does not exist as anything right now. Then, un-invited Canada...and that is international mega news? Free Palestine.

What would you do if you had one day to design a solution to a real tuberculosis challenge? On Feb 6, students come together at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social for a global health case competition grounded in real TB challenges. 🏆 Big prizes 🎟️ Limited spots Register 👉 bit.ly/FEB06

There is nothing novel about calling the rules-based order a useful fiction. Postcolonial, TWAIL, and critical race scholarship built this critique. What’s novel is watching it reappear stripped of names, histories, and accountability.

I wonder if he understands that the useful fiction he is referring to is colonial capitalism. Yes, it does not and cannot work.

Over 10000 people fired over the last year and this happening again, and again until 2029. Anyone that tells you this is good is a liar and a terrible human. globalnews.ca/news/1161996...

I am going to add more acts of kindness to may days and hope that it spreads. The world needs everything it can get.

When killing dissent is defended from the top and accountability is erased, democracy ends and authoritarianism advances

Just posted moments ago The City of Hamilton's internal audit report: "Barton-Tiffany Temporary Shelters Investigation and Lessons Learned" Part of the audit has been labelled "confidential" and is not being released to the public. #yhmcc #HamOnt pub-hamilton.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx...

Blaming innocent people for when cops kill or brutalize them is and has always been a deeply dishonourable, repugnant gaslight.

There are enough people who want things to be different to stop all of this.

It is deeply worrying how startled so many are when racist colonial capitalism violently advances as it was designed to as though something else was before them. Conquest via supremacy is its project. We need to educate in ways that help more see this and to imagine differently.

“He’s unleashed something that cannot be stopped,” And it hasn't. All of this continues unaddressed. "Althorpe also recruited a small group of neo-Nazis in the Greater Hamilton area to train them as a militia, taking them on hikes and engaging in mixed martial arts" www.thespec.com/news/ontario...

I guess appeals for Nations like England, France, The Netherlands, or Spain, to intervene on the current attempt from the US to attack and steal from South America would be a stretch, as they made themselves via doing the same.

White supremacist organizing, training, policy making, country leading, deporting, imprisoning, banning, all need to be stopped. We cannot live like this, work like this, breathe like this.

There are not enough chocolated salted caramels in this world.

Crowdfunding for racists, training and recruiting, it is happening everywhere and advanced at leadership levels. More people need to step up together to stop this.

I mean, maybe the hunting down & criminalizing of people living outside, trashing their encampments, & closing safe consumption sites needs their action instead of declaring an emergency of their making. www.chch.com/chch-news/ma...

For the past 3 budget cycles, the HPS has requested year-over-year budget increases that were higher (in percentage terms) than the City of Hamilton’s overall tax-supported budget increase across ALL other progs & services combined. HPS expanding faster than anything www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

November 15 marked a full three years in my role as Councillor for Ward 2. Every year, around this time, I write about another year gone by, what I’ve learned in this job, what people tell me when they see me at a meeting, stop me in the street, or share their thoughts with me in an email. #HamOnt

Join us for an evening of critical community conversations on how we respond to hate and racism through solidarity, care, and shared knowledge. 📍CityLAB Hamilton (58 Jackson St W) 🕕 Nov 24 | 6–8 PM 🔗 Register now: tickettailor.com/events/mcmaste…

Robyn Maynard Book Launch: Policing Black Lives Revised & Expanded Fri 7 Nov 2025 4:00 PM - 6:00 PML.R. Wilson Concert Hall, McMaster University, L8S 4L8 www.tickettailor.com/events/afric...

Racism, hating the poor, attacking those without housing, destroying the environment, gender based hate, and eugenic policies do not make life any better. One day, people will remember that.

Sycophantic service to racists makes you that too.

We have become desensitized to non-sense leaders saying and doing non-sense and running out of energy to try to convince them of things they are incapable of getting. There needs to be a minimum bar. We have no bar right now.

Playing Not Like Us for their entrance is dirty. #LetsGoBlueJays

How can people help? Post replies below and share. apnews.com/article/hurr...

For those unfamiliar with the school-prison pipline literature, who are gasping at the thought of this & attempting to target those who speak about it (especially when analyses of racism, coloniality, & eugenics are, named), I will provide a few pieces here for background 1/10

Congratulations Dr. @maddiebrockbank.bsky.social !!!! An excellent defense and dissertation. It was an honour to be on your supervisory committee.

The ways public racists harass, surveil, and stalk racialized women in this city needs to be addressed.

The outward, impunity with which some are advocating for white supremacist systems, policies, practices and laws in Hamilton is a problem that requires a collective response.

McMaster is 3rd best in Canada for securing SSHRC funding. You would never know it by the way those disciplines are treated here.

So we have calls for inquiries into white supremacist activities in HPS, calls to end the criminalization of unhoused people, conerns over ever rising policing budgets, etc., etc. and they choose the new board member by......drawing names from a hat.

Genocide, authoritarian rule & far-right leaders weilding its permissions across sectors, while people die living outside. Policing & militarization increasing. The language of "safety" is weilded to justify violence toward those who suffer &/or resist. This has to be stopped.

📢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

Maybe you should not get to write your own report on a matter related to racism when you are currently be called to be independently investigated for potentially covering up racism internally.

There is too much power in the grip of too few. Many who did not even need to know basic things to get there or how to do anything in particular. Now, there is no way to hold them accountable. This entire context need to go.

Mayor resigns from police board, members discuss officer who supported white nationalist groups www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The example being set, of punishing anyone who disagrees has proliferated already in places of work, school. Removing folks who speak out. Some were just waiting for the permission.

Congratulations Dr. Mercy Lilian Gichuki! A superb defense, an incredible dissertation. Thank you for your contribution.