Scott Neigh
@scottneigh.bsky.social
Writer, media-maker, parent, activist in #HamOnt. My latest book is *Listen! Knowing the World and Fighting to Change It*: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/listen.
My author site: https://scottneigh.ca.
(On Twitter, I can be found as @canadianlefty.)
My author site: https://scottneigh.ca.
(On Twitter, I can be found as @canadianlefty.)
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Once again in 2026, I'm going to maintain a thread on Twitter and on Bluesky tracking victories won by social movements and other grassroots formations fighting for justice and liberation. #MovementWins2026
“But when did property ever listen to reason, except when cowed by violence?” — CLR James
January 5, 2026 at 10:22 PM
“But when did property ever listen to reason, except when cowed by violence?” — CLR James
"Not everyone is rising to the occasion because the times you live in do not immediately shape who you are and what you do. The other truth, I believe, is that you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self." prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
prisonculture.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM
"Not everyone is rising to the occasion because the times you live in do not immediately shape who you are and what you do. The other truth, I believe, is that you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self." prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
In praise of reading broadly and randomly: lithub.com/the-unexpect...
The Unexpected Benefits of Reading at Random
As someone who has spent much of the last half-decade trying to “make it” as an author—an increasingly slippery ideal, I fear—it feels bizarre to admit that for much of my adult life I didn’t read …
lithub.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
In praise of reading broadly and randomly: lithub.com/the-unexpect...
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Here’s How Canadian Workers And Unions Fared In 2025
Here’s How Canadian Workers And Unions Fared In 2025
Union wage gains were relatively healthy, but unemployment crept up and workers felt the cost-of-living crunch.
www.readthemaple.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Here’s How Canadian Workers And Unions Fared In 2025
"At least nine people were killed by police in December 2025. This means that at least 94 people were killed by cops this year." mediacoop.ca/node/119334 #cdnpoli
Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in December 2025
At least nine people were killed by police in December 2025. This means that at least 94 people were killed by cops this year. At least nine people were killed by police in Canada in November 2025 and...
mediacoop.ca
January 4, 2026 at 4:16 PM
"At least nine people were killed by police in December 2025. This means that at least 94 people were killed by cops this year." mediacoop.ca/node/119334 #cdnpoli
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Everything we accepted being done in places like Palestine will be done again and again elsewhere until we stop accepting it anywhere.
We can't carve out exceptions where human rights don't apply and expect human rights to still apply everywhere else.
We can't carve out exceptions where human rights don't apply and expect human rights to still apply everywhere else.
January 3, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Everything we accepted being done in places like Palestine will be done again and again elsewhere until we stop accepting it anywhere.
We can't carve out exceptions where human rights don't apply and expect human rights to still apply everywhere else.
We can't carve out exceptions where human rights don't apply and expect human rights to still apply everywhere else.
Canada must immediately cut off all direct and indirect support for the U.S.’ acts of war and military violence. No War on Venezuela!
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... #cdnpoli
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... #cdnpoli
Urgent: No War on Venezuela
Canada must immediately cut off all direct and indirect support for the U.S.’ acts of war and military violence. Early on January 3rd, the U.S. carried out a violent military assault on Venezuela, b...
actionnetwork.org
January 3, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Canada must immediately cut off all direct and indirect support for the U.S.’ acts of war and military violence. No War on Venezuela!
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... #cdnpoli
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... #cdnpoli
"The Israeli state's ‘Scholasticide’ and Canadian Complicity" by Maren Savarese Knopf and Naeem Abu Al-Qumbuz
mediacoop.ca/node/119335 #cdnpoli
mediacoop.ca/node/119335 #cdnpoli
The Israeli state's ‘Scholasticide’ and Canadian Complicity
The Israeli state's ‘Scholasticide’ and Canadian Complicity Since October 7, 2023, Israel has enacted what its former minister of defense Yoav Gallant has called “a complete siege on Gaza.” Its action...
mediacoop.ca
January 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
"The Israeli state's ‘Scholasticide’ and Canadian Complicity" by Maren Savarese Knopf and Naeem Abu Al-Qumbuz
mediacoop.ca/node/119335 #cdnpoli
mediacoop.ca/node/119335 #cdnpoli
Once again in 2026, I'm going to maintain a thread on Twitter and on Bluesky tracking victories won by social movements and other grassroots formations fighting for justice and liberation. #MovementWins2026
January 1, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Once again in 2026, I'm going to maintain a thread on Twitter and on Bluesky tracking victories won by social movements and other grassroots formations fighting for justice and liberation. #MovementWins2026
“It is part of morality not to be at home in one’s home.” — Theodor Adorno
January 1, 2026 at 4:32 PM
“It is part of morality not to be at home in one’s home.” — Theodor Adorno
“Bring a book and notepad everywhere with you. That way, you can read and write anytime, whenever you are bored or waiting for someone.” lithub.com/3-ways-to-be...
3 Ways to Become a Better Reader
Always Have a Book With You I read somewhere that authors are voracious readers. I would imagine so. When I read, I also feel the urge to create something of my own. Likewise, I don’t think I’ve ev…
lithub.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“Bring a book and notepad everywhere with you. That way, you can read and write anytime, whenever you are bored or waiting for someone.” lithub.com/3-ways-to-be...
“This is collapse. We are no longer living through the prelude, nor the warning, but the thing itself.” scalawagmagazine.org/2025/11/the-...
The Parables Are an Autopsy – Scalawag
In witnessing the wreckage of the South, I finally understand Octavia Butler’s Parables not as prophecy, but as an autopsy.
scalawagmagazine.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“This is collapse. We are no longer living through the prelude, nor the warning, but the thing itself.” scalawagmagazine.org/2025/11/the-...
An article from a year ago on re-thinking left strategy in a way that puts histories of militant Black anti-fascism in the US South at the centre. scalawagmagazine.org/2024/12/mili...
Militant Strategy: The Black South’s Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Tradition – Scalawag
The Black South has a rich history of antifascist organizing and militant strategy through direct struggle and conflict with fascistic forces
scalawagmagazine.org
December 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
An article from a year ago on re-thinking left strategy in a way that puts histories of militant Black anti-fascism in the US South at the centre. scalawagmagazine.org/2024/12/mili...
A little glimpse into the Canadian national security state's widespread historic surveillance of the left (with a mention in passing of the founding of @btlbooks.com): www.cambridgetimes.ca/news/waterlo...
The librarian who was under surveillance: Inside the RCMP’s spy operations against radicals and leftists
Waterloo grandmother surprised to see her name in RCMP file. A soft-spoken, retired librarian caught in Cold War era surveillance program 50 years ago.
www.cambridgetimes.ca
December 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
A little glimpse into the Canadian national security state's widespread historic surveillance of the left (with a mention in passing of the founding of @btlbooks.com): www.cambridgetimes.ca/news/waterlo...
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It's xmas so we're watching LOTR and there's a scene in which the beacons are lit, one after another lighting up across mountains and rivers.
It's a great visual of organizing against darkness. Find your people and do what you can, lighting a beacon that will encourage others to do the same.
It's a great visual of organizing against darkness. Find your people and do what you can, lighting a beacon that will encourage others to do the same.
a mountain covered in snow and rocks with clouds in the background
Alt: a mountain covered in snow and rocks with clouds in the background. Beacons of fire light one after another
media.tenor.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It's xmas so we're watching LOTR and there's a scene in which the beacons are lit, one after another lighting up across mountains and rivers.
It's a great visual of organizing against darkness. Find your people and do what you can, lighting a beacon that will encourage others to do the same.
It's a great visual of organizing against darkness. Find your people and do what you can, lighting a beacon that will encourage others to do the same.
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'By year’s end, #Indigenousyouth across Northern Ontario had made it clear their opposition would not be short-lived — or quiet.'
www.elliotlaketoday.com/local-news/h...
www.elliotlaketoday.com/local-news/h...
How Indigenous youth shaped the fight against Bills 5 and C-5
In a year marked by sweeping legislative changes, Indigenous youth across Northern Ontario launched a powerful resistance movement — one that spanned hundreds of kilometres, multiple rallies, and a gr...
www.elliotlaketoday.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
'By year’s end, #Indigenousyouth across Northern Ontario had made it clear their opposition would not be short-lived — or quiet.'
www.elliotlaketoday.com/local-news/h...
www.elliotlaketoday.com/local-news/h...
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I am no political scholar, but if the kinds of arguments Americans are having with each other at the dinner table and on social media are any indication, a Dem sweep of the midterms (far from guaranteed) will just be a bandaid on the necrosis. Public trust and social cohesion have collapsed.
Trump is too inept to be of use to US allies or adversaries while Vance wants to pursue an arrogantly deluded path that turns US allies into more adversaries.
2026 mid-terms look like the last moment through which this slide into self-inflicted American decline can be reversed.
2026 mid-terms look like the last moment through which this slide into self-inflicted American decline can be reversed.
December 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I am no political scholar, but if the kinds of arguments Americans are having with each other at the dinner table and on social media are any indication, a Dem sweep of the midterms (far from guaranteed) will just be a bandaid on the necrosis. Public trust and social cohesion have collapsed.
“More carbon dioxide in the environment is making food more calorific but less nutritious – and also potentially more toxic, a study has found.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide
Researchers noticed ‘dramatic’ changes in nutrients in crops, including drop in zinc and rise in lead
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“More carbon dioxide in the environment is making food more calorific but less nutritious – and also potentially more toxic, a study has found.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“The graduates had studied and sat for examinations while working nonstop inside Gaza’s hospitals during two years of starvation, displacement and genocide.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Palestinian doctors graduate in ruins of Gaza’s destroyed al-Shifa Hospital
Ceremony held at hospital destroyed by Israel highlights toll of two-year war on Gaza's medical system.
www.aljazeera.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“The graduates had studied and sat for examinations while working nonstop inside Gaza’s hospitals during two years of starvation, displacement and genocide.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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Sometimes I wish there were a website, or at least a social media account, that only posted stories about mutual aid organizing.
Sometimes I just want to read the positive "people are building things" stories and not have to scroll through twenty stories covering all the horrors to find them.
Sometimes I just want to read the positive "people are building things" stories and not have to scroll through twenty stories covering all the horrors to find them.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Sometimes I wish there were a website, or at least a social media account, that only posted stories about mutual aid organizing.
Sometimes I just want to read the positive "people are building things" stories and not have to scroll through twenty stories covering all the horrors to find them.
Sometimes I just want to read the positive "people are building things" stories and not have to scroll through twenty stories covering all the horrors to find them.
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The US has had the most combative, organized and social movement oriented working class in the West over the last fifteen years, there are whole national street mvmts people have completely forgotten about (OccupyICE, anybody?) and anyone who fails to name this assessing the political situation 🚮
I’ve said it and I believe it is true
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
December 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The US has had the most combative, organized and social movement oriented working class in the West over the last fifteen years, there are whole national street mvmts people have completely forgotten about (OccupyICE, anybody?) and anyone who fails to name this assessing the political situation 🚮
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Not an archivist, but one of the most striking things I've ever seen in an archive (@ Duke): a midwife's tiny notebook, containing locks of hair of the babies she delivered. How do you digitize that?? No digital copy could capture it or inspire the same feeling as holding it in your hands.
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
I live in the heart of California gold country. One of the richest mines ever in CA is nearby. Opened circa 1860 closed 1942. A local foundation has preserved the records on site. I know not a stitch has been digitized and am confident no more than 2 pro historians have ever been in there.
December 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Not an archivist, but one of the most striking things I've ever seen in an archive (@ Duke): a midwife's tiny notebook, containing locks of hair of the babies she delivered. How do you digitize that?? No digital copy could capture it or inspire the same feeling as holding it in your hands.
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You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.
December 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.
"UN experts have expressed “grave concern” for the wellbeing of Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers and warned their treatment raises questions about the UK’s compliance with international human rights laws." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UN experts raise ‘grave concern’ over treatment of Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers
Special rapporteurs say handling of prisoners raises questions over UK’s obligations under human rights laws
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
"UN experts have expressed “grave concern” for the wellbeing of Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers and warned their treatment raises questions about the UK’s compliance with international human rights laws." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...