Day 2 UofT Occupy for Palestine University of Toronto

I spoke with Alejandro Paz, associate professor University of Toronto & steering committee member for JewishFaculty.ca

“There’s a lot of people who want to say that somehow these encampments are an attack on Judaism & Jewish communities & they’re not.”

A roundup of Canadian union statements demanding that the right to assemble and protest on university campuses be respected #canlab #canpoli

Canadian Association of University Teachers (@CAUT):
caut.ca/latest/2024/04…

URGENT CALL FOR SOLIDARITY TONIGHT ✊🏾📢👇🏾

Protestors who include members from CUPE Local 3902, 3261 and 1230 and students have set up an encampment at King’s College Circle at the University of Toronto, calling on the university to sever financial ties with the Israeli…

🚨 LIBERATED!! University of Toronto students have SUCCESSFULLY set up their ENCAMPMENT of King's College Circle in SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE, despite attempts by police to disrupt our non-violent protest.

Welcome to the People's Circle for Palestine.

Medicine is at a crossroads. Please read our piece on the pushback to challenging power when trying to centre equity in CanMeds and more. If we want to actually move towards anti-oppressive healthcare, we need action. journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cmej… #meded #MedTwitter cc Saroo Sharda MD MMEd FRCPC

'Mapping a moral panic: News media narratives and medical expertise in public debates on safer supply, diversion, and youth drug use in Canada' by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸 et al (2024) via International Journal of Drug Policy...why is safer supply so stigmatized?

Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#DrugPolicy

So proud of the team for pulling this together - looking forward to hearing new ideas, platforming new voices, and focusing in on the people, entities, and CORPORATIONS that pervert our path to healing, health, and safety.

Join us for our virtual series, Plunder, Profit, and Punishment: Exposing & Addressing Drug War Profiteers!

We'll explore the private & public companies, agencies, and organizations profit off the drug war and plunder entire communities.

RSVP at bit.ly/DrugWarProfite…

Decrim's days are numbered.

The BC NDP government that created decrim refuses to defend it. They prefer the Alberta model. BC United & CPC created a moral panic. The backlash wins.

Our deaths have no political cost. But helping us does. And it's an election year in BC.

the fact that the 40 beheaded babies lie received global news coverage for days on end, while the mass graves of handcuffed people in hospital grounds has received next to nothing, should teach you a very important lesson.

Very excited for the release of this paper, mapping the emergence of a moral panic around safer supply prescribing. Led by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸, our team uses established criteria for moral panics to explore recent rhetoric around safer supply, diversion and youth drug use 🧵

New in International Journal of Drug Policy: media coverage of #safersupply in Canada as both #moralpanic and #moralsidestep , by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸 Gillian Kolla, PhD and colleagues sciencedirect.com/journal/intern…

also: routine lockdowns create de facto conditions of solitary confinement; interrupt access to programming (what little exist)

“Everybody is impacted. Everybody's hurting”: Grief, loss and the emotional impacts of overdose on harm reduction workers' by Gillian Kolla, PhD et al (2024) via International Journal of Drug Policy...how is your community dealing with grief in regards to the overdose crisis?

LInk: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

An overlooked aspects of the drug toxicity overdose crisis has been the emotional impacts of overdose on front-line harm reduction workers. Our new paper in International Journal of Drug Policy explores the devastating toll from overdose on the wellbeing of workers, and strategies to support them 🧵

New publication written by Navin Kariyawasam (lead) & I. We hope you engage with it & share ur insights/feedback/challenges to it! Ultimately we hope this helps shift how clinicians approach care with trans & non-binary youth! CQMSA 🏳️‍🌈 ACEQM LGBTQ+ Health Journal Club cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🔥 event tomorrow 🔥
Link to register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

We are officially suing the Canadian government for selling weapons to Israel.

On March 5, we initiated legal proceedings in the Federal Court against the Canadian government for exporting arms to Israel.

I’m joined by my mother, Hiba Farah; Dr. Ayman Oweida; and a confidential…