Deb Cowen
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Deb Cowen
@debcowen.bsky.social
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I called for a Canadian arms embargo and trade restrictions on the UAE until it stops funding the RSF and for Canadian weapons manufacturers to be held accountable for their complicity in the Senate today, I also called for Canada to adopt bill c-233 (1/4)
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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October 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Precious good news! Welcome Emma!
August 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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What you need to know about the Ring of Fire.
This is not a nation-building exercise.
For many years as a politician I was a booster of this massive project in the fragile wetlands. I turned to doubt and then opposition over the huge impacts on the land.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-breath...
The Breathing Lands: Getting Burned by the Ring of Fire
With the Trump administration's threat to Canada, companies and politicians are falling over themselves to secure Prime Minister Carney's support for the next "nation-building" mega-project.
charlieangus.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
zeteo.com/p/israels-te...
Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’
zeteo.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Canada says it's a refuge. It has dangled only false hopes to Palestinians seeking to study here after Israel bombed their universities, or who have applied to be reunited with family.

I co-wrote this piece with Deborah Cowen, Kyo Maclear and Madeleine Thien www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7a8fbe1...
Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help people in Gaza
Ottawa’s ‘special measures’ visa program for Gaza has so far proved to be little more than a cruel taunt
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Divestment victory! Yesterday, the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) voted to call on the University Pension Plan (UPP) to divest from the manufacture of weapons used to commit or facilitate war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Sudan www.cjpme.org/who_supports...
May 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Communication, Culture & Critique is now under the direction of a new editor and editorial collective!

Check our first issue to learn more:

academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/18/1
April 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Okay, everyone, get this in your calendars....

Glen Coulthard, "Indigenous-Palestinian Solidarity and the Political Economy of Oil"

Birmingham Race Impact Group Cafe, 6PM, Friday, 24 January 2025

Register now!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indigenous...
Indigenous-Palestinian Solidarity and the Political Economy of Oil
Glen Coulthard, "Indigenous-Palestinian Solidarity and the Political Economy of Oil"
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 18, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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I've signed (it's now open to allies and supporters as well). Cdn legal scholars: pls share and consider signing on.
📢 Racialized legal academics across Canada stand in solidarity with those who shared their stories in The Walrus article on systemic inequities at @AllardLaw . Read our open letter to Dean Pindell and join us by adding your signature. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open Letter - Dean Pindell.docx
Please fill out this Google Form if you would like your name to be added to the letter. Thank you! Dean Ngai Pindell Peter A. Allard School of Law University of British Columbia Dear Dean Pindell, We,...
docs.google.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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What we are seeing in Sudan is a mass mobilization of people coordinating relief efforts in the face of an inadequate intl. aid response and an absent civilian state. The situation is catastrophic AND ppl can learn frm the mutual aid networks they built.

Please support them here:

t.co/oasdF8htWV
https://sudansolidarity.com/
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November 20, 2024 at 3:23 PM