Do #BlackLivesMatter at UBC?: an impassioned yet exhausted analysis
I wasn’t always aware of my Blackness. Nigeria has fewer white people than countries in the Eastern and Southern parts of Africa because the climate and diseases aren’t ideal for colonizers. So, lucky...
View ArticleThe new ‘normal’ in the face of COVID-19
There is nothing that brings people together like a global pandemic. For once, the world has put aside any existing political differences to collectively agree that COVID-19 is a universal threat to...
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RESURGENCE!: Talon Art Zine, Spring 2020
Over the month of February 2020, our Editorial Collective invited submissions of writing or artwork reflecting the theme of “resurgence.” In the midst of planetary crises and unrelenting news cycles,...
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Reconciliation is dead: The educational ramifications of an empty promise
A version of this article was published in the Georgia Straight and this was (re)published with the permission of the authors. Reconciliation was a promise. It promised a better future between...
View ArticleLETTER: The Talon Supports “Safety for Residents with Precarious Status:...
The following letter was sent by The Talon Editorial Collective to Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart and councillors in support of the motion “Safety for Residents with Precarious Status: Delivering...
View ArticleAcademic freedom at UBC threatened by false allegations of anti-semitism
In 2018, six members of the UBC community were the subjects of an investigation based on allegations that they had engaged in antisemitic behaviour after they declared their opposition to holding the...
View ArticleEgypt: 9 Years After the Revolution
Aaesh, Horeya, Aadal Egtamaaya: these were the three simple demands that Egyptians had when they took matters into their own hands during the Egyptian Revolution nine years ago. They asked for life,...
View ArticleStudents Reflect on Iran: History, Implications & Next Steps
On January 3rd 2020, Qasem Soleimani was killed by a drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump. The killing of Soleimani shocked much of the world. However, many do not understand the depth of...
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Pushing For Full Divestment: UBCC350’s Presentation to the Board of Governors
“There are no neutral stances here. By not divesting, you are siding with the fossil fuel industry and continued climate devastation. This is at odds with the purpose of UBC and your duty as governors...
View ArticleThe Talon & Independent Media: Notes from David Barsamian on Resistance
On October 18, Colour Connected Against Racism UBC and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights UBC hosted David Barsamian, an American investigative journalist and friend of renowned cultural critic...
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On International Day of Resistance: A Message from UBC Kashmiri Students
On October 1st, members of Stand With Kashmir UBC held a demonstration on campus, bearing signs and posters and standing in solidarity with UBC allies of Kashmir. Kashmiri students spoke to their...
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Canadian Mining Impacts and Resistance Movements: A Zine
Dear Readers, This zine is the collective effort of the 2019’s Geography 495: “Social Movements in the Americas: The politics of North-South solidarity in theory & practice” class taught by Dr....
View ArticleStand With Kashmiri Human Rights
They make a desolation and call it peace. – Agha Shahid Ali, poet On August 15, Genocide Watch issued a Genocide Alert for Indian-administered Kashmir. This alert was based on early warning signs of...
View ArticleAli Shariati: Lessons for Muslim Marxists
Marx famously calls religion “the opium of the people” in his work The Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.1 While this has often been misinterpreted to mean that Marx was against religion, Marx...
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The Far-Right Grift: Ex-Muslim Edition
UBC Students Against Bigotry: “When guests of UBC’s so-called “Free Speech Club” aren’t defending Nazis, they’re defending the Ku Klux Klan. (White supremacy is NOT peaceful.) For Islamophobes, there...
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UBC Invites ISIS-linked Propagandists to Campus
The UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of Sociology are hosting an event on Thursday, April 11 at 5pm during which leading units from the White Helmets terrorist...
View ArticleI accuse UBC of complicity with fascists
There are many things to like about UBC. It regularly ranks among Canada’s top universities, has a vibrant student community, and the view of the mountains from the flagpole is hard to beat. I also...
View ArticleLetter: UBC Social Justice Centre Opposes Canada’s Intervention in Venezuela
February 3, 2019 We, the students of the UBC Social Justice Centre, who live and learn on the occupied, unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the...
View ArticleCedar George-Parker speaks at “Students for Climate Action”
This speech took place on the unceded, traditional and ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples at the University of British Columbia at an event called “Students for Climate Action” on...
View ArticleWorse Than Prison: How Vancouver Detains Non-Citizens (Excerpts from post...
300 Georgia Street. In the heart of famously multicultural Vancouver B.C., lies one of the city’s most beloved and beautiful landmarks – the 6-story tall, Vancouver Public Library. Looming above the...
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