Elena Basile
@throwofdice.bsky.social
University teacher, researcher, translator.
“It reads more like a charter for a reborn Dutch East India company than a document of the 21st century,”…in case you’re still wondering how colonial the whole plan is…
'The language used in both Trump’s plan and the Blair proposal reflects that of a business, with talk of boards, a chairman, and a CEO, rather than of a country or territory.' #GazaPeacePlan
www.middleeasteye.net/news/corpora...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/corpora...
A corporate occupation: Trump's plan is no guarantee the Gaza hell will end
By placing the enclave into the hands of a 'Board of Peace', Trump and Blair are intentionally trying to strip Gaza of its Palestinian identity
www.middleeasteye.net
October 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“It reads more like a charter for a reborn Dutch East India company than a document of the 21st century,”…in case you’re still wondering how colonial the whole plan is…
Reposted by Elena Basile
This 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
September 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I highly recommend this workshop for Cupe3903 members. If you’re able to attend, please do so. Lots of hands-on learning and thoughtful engagement with a range of very real scenarios.
Less than one week away: the next mentoring program fund workshop! 🤩
Join us on Tuesday, July 29 in Vari Hall 3005 from 11AM-3PM for more of Being in Good Relationship: Empathic Listening & Setting Boundaries in the Academic Workplace. ❤️
RSVP: cupe3903.org/event/being-in-good-relationship-2/
Join us on Tuesday, July 29 in Vari Hall 3005 from 11AM-3PM for more of Being in Good Relationship: Empathic Listening & Setting Boundaries in the Academic Workplace. ❤️
RSVP: cupe3903.org/event/being-in-good-relationship-2/
July 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I highly recommend this workshop for Cupe3903 members. If you’re able to attend, please do so. Lots of hands-on learning and thoughtful engagement with a range of very real scenarios.
Reposted by Elena Basile
FUN FACT: Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
June 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
FUN FACT: Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
Important project. Curious to know if there are similar initiatives in universities in Canada (where I live)?
Neil Pemberton and Beck Heslop discuss their participation in Jo Longhurst’s installation, In Plain Sight? The graffiti installation uses images of bindweed to provoke questions about disability, belonging, and exclusion.
thepolyphony.org/2025/06/05/i...
thepolyphony.org/2025/06/05/i...
In Plain Sight?: Invisible Disabilities and Bindweed Entanglements
Neil Pemberton and Beck Heslop discuss their participation in Jo Longhurst’s installation, In Plain Sight? Commissioned by the SMS Belonging Project at the University of Manchester, the graffiti in…
thepolyphony.org
June 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Important project. Curious to know if there are similar initiatives in universities in Canada (where I live)?
Reposted by Elena Basile
Nominations are now open for pro-tem positions on the Executive and various committees, to be appointed June 3rd.
See more details on our website:
🌟 Exec - cupe3903.org/news/notice-to-pro-tem-exec-positions/
🌟 Committees - cupe3903.org/news/notice-to-pro-tem-committee-positions/
See more details on our website:
🌟 Exec - cupe3903.org/news/notice-to-pro-tem-exec-positions/
🌟 Committees - cupe3903.org/news/notice-to-pro-tem-committee-positions/
May 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Nominations are now open for pro-tem positions on the Executive and various committees, to be appointed June 3rd.
See more details on our website:
🌟 Exec - cupe3903.org/news/notice-to-pro-tem-exec-positions/
🌟 Committees - cupe3903.org/news/notice-to-pro-tem-committee-positions/
See more details on our website:
🌟 Exec - cupe3903.org/news/notice-to-pro-tem-exec-positions/
🌟 Committees - cupe3903.org/news/notice-to-pro-tem-committee-positions/
An opportunity to deepen self awareness and community building. Attend if you can!
April 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
An opportunity to deepen self awareness and community building. Attend if you can!
A truly amazing group!
April 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A truly amazing group!
Why isn’t media paying attention to education in this #election2025? Provincial governments are starving all levels of public education, but you can’t have a robust democracy without a robust public education infrastructure. What’s happening in the US is a case in point of the path NOT to follow.
April 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Why isn’t media paying attention to education in this #election2025? Provincial governments are starving all levels of public education, but you can’t have a robust democracy without a robust public education infrastructure. What’s happening in the US is a case in point of the path NOT to follow.
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Don't forget, besides the bombs falling, people dying, & soldiers marching through, life continued as normal for many, many people during every major historical inflection point. I see a lot of y'all hoping that's you, and I want you to realize how fucked up that is.
It's up to us to fix this.
It's up to us to fix this.
March 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Don't forget, besides the bombs falling, people dying, & soldiers marching through, life continued as normal for many, many people during every major historical inflection point. I see a lot of y'all hoping that's you, and I want you to realize how fucked up that is.
It's up to us to fix this.
It's up to us to fix this.
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They straight up black-bagged her in broad daylight. Her whereabouts are unknown. Pls don't pmo saying we're exaggerating about how dire shit is.
Marching and calling reps will not cut it. We need to starve out the system and build parallel structures, fast.
Marching and calling reps will not cut it. We need to starve out the system and build parallel structures, fast.
March 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
They straight up black-bagged her in broad daylight. Her whereabouts are unknown. Pls don't pmo saying we're exaggerating about how dire shit is.
Marching and calling reps will not cut it. We need to starve out the system and build parallel structures, fast.
Marching and calling reps will not cut it. We need to starve out the system and build parallel structures, fast.
Reposted by Elena Basile
Happy International Women’s Day! 💫
CUPE 3903 has a long history of women in our union fighting for real change in our workplace and our communities.
Check out these archival photos of CUEW 3 (CUPE 3903’s predecessor) from an International Women’s Day rally and march in 1988. 📸 #50YearsOf3903
CUPE 3903 has a long history of women in our union fighting for real change in our workplace and our communities.
Check out these archival photos of CUEW 3 (CUPE 3903’s predecessor) from an International Women’s Day rally and march in 1988. 📸 #50YearsOf3903
March 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Happy International Women’s Day! 💫
CUPE 3903 has a long history of women in our union fighting for real change in our workplace and our communities.
Check out these archival photos of CUEW 3 (CUPE 3903’s predecessor) from an International Women’s Day rally and march in 1988. 📸 #50YearsOf3903
CUPE 3903 has a long history of women in our union fighting for real change in our workplace and our communities.
Check out these archival photos of CUEW 3 (CUPE 3903’s predecessor) from an International Women’s Day rally and march in 1988. 📸 #50YearsOf3903
Reposted by Elena Basile
CUPE 3903 members: Are you a Black and/or Indigenous and/or person of colour (BIPOC) interested in learning more about applying for Unit 2 contract faculty work? 👩🏫
Register for this now! 💡
cupe3903.org/event/bipoc-mentoring-from-grad-student-to-contract-faculty/
Register for this now! 💡
cupe3903.org/event/bipoc-mentoring-from-grad-student-to-contract-faculty/
March 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
CUPE 3903 members: Are you a Black and/or Indigenous and/or person of colour (BIPOC) interested in learning more about applying for Unit 2 contract faculty work? 👩🏫
Register for this now! 💡
cupe3903.org/event/bipoc-mentoring-from-grad-student-to-contract-faculty/
Register for this now! 💡
cupe3903.org/event/bipoc-mentoring-from-grad-student-to-contract-faculty/
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Dr. #AbuSafia has been tortured by his #Israeli captors but he is alive and his whereabouts are known.
Gaza hospital chief Abu Safia ‘detained, tortured’ in Israeli jail
The 51-year-old Hussam Abu Safia was detained by the Israeli army from Gaza in December.
www.aljazeera.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.
February 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.
Reposted by Elena Basile
If I told you there’s a medicine that can prevent:
90% of cervical cancers
90% of anal cancers
90% of HPV-caused oropharyngeal cancers
85% of vaginal cancers
90% of vulvar cancers
90% of penile cancers
Would you be on board with it?
Read more ⬇️
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-say...
90% of cervical cancers
90% of anal cancers
90% of HPV-caused oropharyngeal cancers
85% of vaginal cancers
90% of vulvar cancers
90% of penile cancers
Would you be on board with it?
Read more ⬇️
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-say...
RFK Jr says he wants to tackle chronic disease. His war on the HPV vaccine shows otherwise.
RFK Jr. profits by scaring people from a proven cancer prevention: that’s the opposite of combating chronic disease.
news.immunologic.org
February 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If I told you there’s a medicine that can prevent:
90% of cervical cancers
90% of anal cancers
90% of HPV-caused oropharyngeal cancers
85% of vaginal cancers
90% of vulvar cancers
90% of penile cancers
Would you be on board with it?
Read more ⬇️
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-say...
90% of cervical cancers
90% of anal cancers
90% of HPV-caused oropharyngeal cancers
85% of vaginal cancers
90% of vulvar cancers
90% of penile cancers
Would you be on board with it?
Read more ⬇️
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-say...
Really important opinion piece here. Post secondary education is at a similar crossroads in Ontario. The province’s explicit underfunding of education at all levels verges on the criminal at this point.
Ontario is asking education workers to do more with less and blaming them for the consequences of funding cuts. Parents need to pick a side. My latest for the @torontostar.bsky.social
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
In my next teacher-parent meeting, my focus will be the teacher. Here’s why
I wonder how my kid’s teacher is coping with the repeated funding cuts, increased demands on schools, and public attacks from our own provincial government?
www.thestar.com
December 8, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Really important opinion piece here. Post secondary education is at a similar crossroads in Ontario. The province’s explicit underfunding of education at all levels verges on the criminal at this point.
Reposted by Elena Basile
Is York rushing your studies? ⏱️
FGS recently told some faculties that they’d be more aggressive in enforcing program completion timelines. This includes threatening to de-enrol students & denying extensions.
To fight back, check this spreadsheet, add info, & organize! cupe3903.org/news/mapping...
FGS recently told some faculties that they’d be more aggressive in enforcing program completion timelines. This includes threatening to de-enrol students & denying extensions.
To fight back, check this spreadsheet, add info, & organize! cupe3903.org/news/mapping...
November 30, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Is York rushing your studies? ⏱️
FGS recently told some faculties that they’d be more aggressive in enforcing program completion timelines. This includes threatening to de-enrol students & denying extensions.
To fight back, check this spreadsheet, add info, & organize! cupe3903.org/news/mapping...
FGS recently told some faculties that they’d be more aggressive in enforcing program completion timelines. This includes threatening to de-enrol students & denying extensions.
To fight back, check this spreadsheet, add info, & organize! cupe3903.org/news/mapping...