According to mass media, these are pro-Palestinian protests, but what if it was in fact an encampment in protest of #McGill University’s involvement in the atrocities unfolding before our eyes.
Some of the students in #Montreal standing up today against #genocide are the same students who navigated a pandemic and managed to stay on track with their academic pursuits. May they remain strong and safe.
Curious about #university#divestment movements, I poked around student newspaper archives today. While some discussion of South Africa took place at the U. of #Toronto earlier, 1983 looks like the moment when it took off. However, this relatively well-known case wasn't the first to garner attention at UofT and other Canadian universities (notably U. of Winnipeg). That honour seems to go to Noranda, a mining company heavily involved in Pinochet's Chile. #BDS#histodons 1/ https://archive.org/details/varsity
Students at #McGill University, where the largest camp currently is, seem to have focused initially on South Africa. While the beginnings of the movement there look to have taken place around the same time as at UofT, the main student newspaper (the McGill Daily) includes far more material on divestment from an earlier date (1980). 2/
All of this makes me want to do more university history, especially to get a better handle on how institutions (especially these two - McGill and UofT) shifted from a more-or-less hand-to-mouth existence (where they were in the mid-19th century, the period in which I know their history best), to the endowment-toting behemoths they've become. I've got reading to do! 3/
Want to help striking TAs at McGill who've been fired or suspended from their other campus positions for participating in the strike? Here are a couple of mutual aid links for funds to support students facing financial hardship. 🧵
Some of you are aware of the ongoing TA #strike at #McGill, and it pains me to see the administration is succeeding in actively dividing undergraduates, graduate #students, and #professors alike, by pushing all three to the absolute mental limit. We - and by that I mean all three above - must NOT let the administration tear the social fabric in our #university to put money before people. When the #union says "united we bargain, divided we beg," it means not just them, but everyone. 1/
Chanting “Education is a right, not just for the rich and white,” hundreds of Concordia University students marched down Sherbrooke St. Wednesday afternoon before joining their peers at McGill in the latest protest against tuition hikes targeting anglophone universities in Quebec.
More than 20,000 students at #McGill and #Concordia universities are set to strike for a week on Monday to protest the #Quebec government's tuition hikes for out-of-province and international students.