David #ArmsEmbargoNow! Heap

@davidheap.bsky.social

Peace & human rights advocate, trade-unionist & anti-militarist; teacher-researcher; parent, spouse, sibling, neighbour, human. #ArmsEmbargoNOW 🍉

"AUFA is taking the unprecedented step of publishing details of a personal grievance, and calling on all members and supporters for their help – AU is forcing a member to choose between her job and her child's legs." aufa.ca/blog/2026/7/...

AU professor forced to choose between job and her child's legs — AUFA

Dr. Sabine Graf has been stripped of her faculty association membership and told she must abandon her family, relocate her child to Canada where his legs will be amputated, or lose her job.

aufa.ca

UWOFA is proud to support OPSEU Local 166 through a financial donation and by collecting non-perishable food for striking members and their families. Read and share the OPSEU open letter (link in bio) and drop off a food donation at the UWOFA office if you’re able.

Bild

Henschel's lawyer played up his military PTSD. This affected the sentence. As a veteran who has lived with PTSD (and the resultant hyperarousal) every day for over 20 years, and as an academic who has studied mil/vet PTSD and moral injury in-depth, I call BS on this one.

Be a doctor who is against genocide. Be a doctor who is for collective liberation. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸 Grateful for my fellow healthcare workers who organize for Palestine for gifting me this t-shirt. ❤️

Yipeng wearing a T-shirt that reads “Doctor” with a keffiyeh pattern, standing in front of the Palestinian flag.

Dr. Abu Safiya, a Palestinian pediatrician, is in grave danger. He’s been detained by Israel without trial for over 560 days and it’s been reported his health is rapidly deteriorating. The latest from his lawyer is that he fears he’ll die.

A 58 year old Swiss man is able to come to Ottawa and attend the CANSEC arms fair, and yell “I’m a fucking racist and I’m proud of it”, and punch a 21 year old Palestinian woman down to the ground, without any meaningful accountability. Appalling decision by the judge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Swiss man who assaulted protester in Ottawa gets absolute discharge | CBC News

A Swiss man who pleaded guilty to punching a protester in the face outside an Ottawa defence conference in 2024 was given an absolute discharge Wednesday before exiting the courtroom to angry shouts f...

cbc.ca

Your antiracist and anticolonial approach and lens to health is deeply needed in our current world. May we keep practicing with an ethic of love and joy making. Happy birthday my dear friend, sending you so much love. ❤️

Looking forward to seeing people in Bangor, Washington on the weekend of August 8th, as we remember what nuclear weapons did to cities in Japan 81 years ago -- and what such weapons should never do again to anyone, anywhere.

Bild

My friend Bob Steck was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and taught high school history for decades afterwards. He explained to me once that the history of civilization was primarily a history of the struggle between the haves and the have-nots, in its various forms.

THE WRITING ON THE WALL is the latest David Rovics album you'll find on the streaming platforms as of today, along with Ai Tsuno's WHO WILL STOP THE EMPIRE? One of the tracks is the audio from this video of "Before the War."

In light of Ford’s new “Protect Ontario” initiative, set to spend billions on jails while our social services get cut, we invite you to attend the Prisoners’ Justice Film Festival. We have 5 screenings (+ guest speakers) looking at a different aspects of the carceral system + Info below

Prisoners' Justice Film Festival event schedule flyer. Screenings at 7 PM, August 1-8, 2023, featuring films on themes of justice and activism.
August 1st: screening" Stop Cop City" at 244 Pall Mall Street
August 4th: screening "conviction" at Dough EV, 621 Dundas St
August 6th: screening "A healing River" at 201 King St
August 7th: screening "Circles" at 244 Pall Mall St
August 8th: screening "The Palestine Laboratory"