Sarah Rotz
@sarahrotz.bsky.social
Professor, EUC, York University; political ecologist; land & food studies; anti-colonial scholar/activist. she/her. settler. feminist. #foodjustice #climatejustice.
When the bodies of starving children in Gaza reach a ‘point of no return’ mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when...
When the bodies of starving children in Gaza reach a ‘point of no return’
Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their bodies...
mondoweiss.net
July 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
When the bodies of starving children in Gaza reach a ‘point of no return’ mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when...
Evidence of what so many have been saying for far, far too long: This is a #genocide. These are #warcrimes
Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC
A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.
bbc.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Evidence of what so many have been saying for far, far too long: This is a #genocide. These are #warcrimes
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII www.commondreams.org/news/famine-...
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII | Common Dreams
"This is preventable starvation," said Alex de Waal. "It is entirely man-made."
www.commondreams.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII www.commondreams.org/news/famine-...
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POLLEN 2026 will take place in Barcelona next June 💫, and we warmly welcome you all to join us. Stay tuned for updates on exact dates, costs, and scheduling ⌛—details will be available soon on our new website! 🖥️🙂
February 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
POLLEN 2026 will take place in Barcelona next June 💫, and we warmly welcome you all to join us. Stay tuned for updates on exact dates, costs, and scheduling ⌛—details will be available soon on our new website! 🖥️🙂
"This genocide will haunt us. It will echo down history with the force of a tsunami. It will divide us forever. There is no going back..."
Genocide by Starvation
This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wo...
www.counterpunch.org
June 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"This genocide will haunt us. It will echo down history with the force of a tsunami. It will divide us forever. There is no going back..."
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If a former Israeli prime minister can say this, what is stopping European leaders?
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.
www.huffpost.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If a former Israeli prime minister can say this, what is stopping European leaders?
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Great piece, and I am proud that the activist group I've devoted the most time to over the years was based on this idea: law students' ability to withhold their labor from corporate firms.
Check out @lsca.bsky.social people!
Check out @lsca.bsky.social people!
"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Great piece, and I am proud that the activist group I've devoted the most time to over the years was based on this idea: law students' ability to withhold their labor from corporate firms.
Check out @lsca.bsky.social people!
Check out @lsca.bsky.social people!
Reckoning and resistance: The future of Black hiring commitments on campus
theconversation.com/reckoning-an...
theconversation.com/reckoning-an...
Reckoning and resistance: The future of Black hiring commitments on campus
The true commitment to racial justice lies not in performative statements, but in sustained support for marginalized scholars and research, even during economic and political precarity.
theconversation.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Reckoning and resistance: The future of Black hiring commitments on campus
theconversation.com/reckoning-an...
theconversation.com/reckoning-an...
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's (CJPME) federal election guide:
www.cjpme.org/election_gui...
www.cjpme.org/election_gui...
April 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's (CJPME) federal election guide:
www.cjpme.org/election_gui...
www.cjpme.org/election_gui...
Lawfares use of IHRA "leaves no room for Palestinian claims to rights and sovereignty..."In effect, that framework treats Palestinian political expression as inherently antisemitic. Lawfare champions even frame the existence of Palestinian culture and history as evidence of antisemitism."
Canadian lawyers borrow from U.S. playbook to quash Palestine solidarity ⋆ The Breach
In a new push for ‘lawfare’, pro-Israel groups are weaponizing the courts to silence criticism of Israel
breachmedia.ca
April 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Lawfares use of IHRA "leaves no room for Palestinian claims to rights and sovereignty..."In effect, that framework treats Palestinian political expression as inherently antisemitic. Lawfare champions even frame the existence of Palestinian culture and history as evidence of antisemitism."
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"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
Israeli Soldiers Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza 'Kill Zone' www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-pe...
Israeli Troops Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza 'Kill Zone' | Common Dreams
One IDF officer said that not only are Israeli troops killing military-age males, "we're killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We're destroying their houses and pissing on their...
www.commondreams.org
April 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Israeli Soldiers Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza 'Kill Zone' www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-pe...
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Let's be clear, Trump's outrageous detention of migrant farmworker leaders shows how his "working class" populism is hollow BS.
If he were pro-worker, his admin wouldn't be detaining labor leaders, but supporting all workers raising all wages across all sectors.
What we need is solidarity.
If he were pro-worker, his admin wouldn't be detaining labor leaders, but supporting all workers raising all wages across all sectors.
What we need is solidarity.
March 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Let's be clear, Trump's outrageous detention of migrant farmworker leaders shows how his "working class" populism is hollow BS.
If he were pro-worker, his admin wouldn't be detaining labor leaders, but supporting all workers raising all wages across all sectors.
What we need is solidarity.
If he were pro-worker, his admin wouldn't be detaining labor leaders, but supporting all workers raising all wages across all sectors.
What we need is solidarity.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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This is the Vice President of the United States saying "excellent" to collapsing an apartment building full of civilians and *maybe* one person who wasn't a civilian.
This jibes with contemporary reporting that the raids hit several residential buildings, in each case killing about 15 people and wounding more. Maybe a little more of the conversation should be about how cavalier we apparently are about bombing civilian homes? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
March 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is the Vice President of the United States saying "excellent" to collapsing an apartment building full of civilians and *maybe* one person who wasn't a civilian.
Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan who fled the United States after ICE illegally terminated their SEVIS and Columbia arbitrarily de-enrolled them. An unfathomable level of violent predation and oppression happening at such a rapid pace.
Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada – Aurdip
aurdip.org
March 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan who fled the United States after ICE illegally terminated their SEVIS and Columbia arbitrarily de-enrolled them. An unfathomable level of violent predation and oppression happening at such a rapid pace.
Indigenous faculty at York University push back on enrolment suspension: Program suspensions are a shortsighted solution to managing school's financial crisis
Indigenous faculty at York University push back on enrolment suspension | CBC News
Professors of Indigenous studies and gender studies say they'd like to see York University reverse the decision it recently made to suspend enrolment in those programs.
www.cbc.ca
March 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Indigenous faculty at York University push back on enrolment suspension: Program suspensions are a shortsighted solution to managing school's financial crisis
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A very helpful analysis of nationalist formations and internationalist struggles and considerations in these times. thanks for this @skipfer.bsky.social
<i>Anschluss, Schulterschluss</i> or Concrete Internationalism?
In these turbulent and rapidly shifting times, we often search for quick answers. “How to respond to Trump 2.0?” is a question that calls for an immediate response here in Canada. This question harbor...
socialistproject.ca
March 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A very helpful analysis of nationalist formations and internationalist struggles and considerations in these times. thanks for this @skipfer.bsky.social
"This is what electoral autocracy looks like". U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog
ANALYSIS | U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog | CBC News
Possibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' Declaring a predecessor's pardon null and void. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
www.cbc.ca
March 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"This is what electoral autocracy looks like". U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog
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A disturbing effort to crush academic freedom in Canada. Would appreciate some university presidents to affirm their support for academic freedom & importance of research in Canada.
“the implications seem clear: Projects not compatible with the views of the U.S. government may lose their funding”
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March 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A disturbing effort to crush academic freedom in Canada. Would appreciate some university presidents to affirm their support for academic freedom & importance of research in Canada.