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Shannon
@shannon77.bsky.social
Artist/filmmaker
Film and media production instructor
Concordia University Tiohtià:ke

Lover of animals/plants/rocks/rivers/oceans🏳️‍🌈🍉
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Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter:

spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE – Spectre Journal
TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.
spectrejournal.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.

"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."

It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City
“We understand these are our last days.”
www.dropsitenews.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree
We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
linktr.ee
July 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.

This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.

We are doing this and history will never forgive us.

Gaza:
“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population”

A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.

#Gaza
July 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Iran’s Health Ministry says over 400 Iranians — mostly civilians — have been killed amid Israel’s recent strikes. At least 3,056 people have been wounded in Iran.
truthout.org/articles/isr...
Israel Launches New Round of Strikes, Warns of “Prolonged Campaign” Against Iran
Iran’s Health Ministry says over 400 Iranians — mostly civilians — have been killed amid Israel’s recent strikes.
truthout.org
June 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.
June 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Palestinian photojournalist Abdel Rahim Khudr breaks down after discovering the loss of 48 family members in an Israeli air attack that hit his home in northern Gaza on the first day of Eid al-Adha.
June 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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June 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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NYT: Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans (Gift Link)

“Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics, Democratic lawmakers and critics have said.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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UN says its mission to help Gaza is ‘most obstructed in recent history’ as its entire population is at risk of famine.
Gaza ‘hungriest place on Earth’, all its people at risk of famine, UN warns
UN says its mission to help Gaza is ‘most obstructed in recent history’ as its entire population is at risk of famine.
bit.ly
May 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.
May 31, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
bit.ly
May 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Errol Mendes: What is at stake in both the Middle East and Ukraine is the continued survival of the norms of international law, peace, and security.
What's happening in Gaza could well be regarded as the graveyard of international law
What is at stake in both the Middle East and Ukraine is the continued survival of the norms of international law, peace, and security that if preserved and respected, will help to prevent the…
www.hilltimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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We have a president who virtually never thinks rationally, logically, or even in sequential steps. Nor can he fully comprehend causes and effects. His base of knowledge on virtually all subjects relating to governance and economics and world affairs is minimal. (1/2)
May 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Moving between a story about JD Vance saying Russia/Ukraine "isn't our war," to this story, which is apparently the US's war.
UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live
UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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BREAKING: At least 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1
May 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Gaza is on the brink of an imposed famine. Sign the petition calling on PM Mark Carney to implement a full, two-way arms embargo on Israel to end the violence: leadnow.ca/campaigns/ca...
Implement a full, two-way arms embargo without delay. - Leadnow
leadnow.ca
May 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
May 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Canada is on track to lose its 30-year measles elimination status by the fall.

Should provinces be doing more to stop this? globalnews.ca/news/1116848... @kdangerfield.bsky.social

𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
May 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM