We had an amazing time playing MINE-O-POLIS at CONTACT Gallery yesterday--thank you to everyone who came out and for your invaluable feedback on the game. We look forward to finalizing it and making it available to all on our website 🎲

🎲 We're excited to announce an upcoming #workshop to introduce our latest project: MINE-O-POLIS, an alternative #boardgame that invites players to explore #Toronto as a global capital of mining power. www.beyondextraction.ca/mine-o-polis 1/3

And check out the rest of this special issue on the theme of 'Care-ful Convening' with writing by @sarahcomyn.bsky.social & @mediacology.bsky.social among others! intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

New article in the Journal of Environmental Media is out, co-authored with Jordan Kinder, Zannah Matson, & @camillemarys.bsky.social . We write about Beyond Extraction’s creative media interventions challenging PDAC (the world’s largest mining convention every year in Toronto).

Beyond Extraction@beyondextraction.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Published in time for this year's #PDAC, a new article by Beyond Extraction members in the Journal of Environmental Media reflects on our last few years of creative, anti-extractive interventions against Toronto mining hegemony: doi.org/10.1386/jem_...

For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight. We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Resisting Erasure

Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...

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Phenomenal report www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...

Unearthing trends in environmental impact assessments for mines and quarries across Canada

In Canada, at least 200 active mines and 6500 quarries produce 60 commodities. Many proposed mines and quarries undergo impact assessment (IA) to predict potential impacts and inform final decision-ma...

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Tim Bousquet@timbousquet.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New report ‘unearths’ environmental impact assessment trends of Canadian mine and quarry projects reported by @dentremy.bsky.social

Faculty locked out Aug 20. We have heard nothing from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - we WANT to BARGAIN, our members WANT to WORK! Where is the Board? Students start move in Aug 28. Time for the Board to take this seriously and work with us #KeepDalStrong

“Until this point I had imagined that I just had to wait it out and the University would intervene to protect me. I was still worrying about grading my students’ assignments. I was wrong.” Ranjani Srinivasan

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university. www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...

From the bombs falling on Palestine to the theft of Indigenous land to the war profiteering in DRC—Canadian mining kills, destroys, colonizes. Show up on March 2 to stand with frontline communities resisting Canadian mining & militarism to #DisruptPDAC. mininginjustice.org/pdac2025

Toronto - see you this Sunday at the Toronto Stock Exchange to say "NO" to mining hegemony! #DisruptPDAC

Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN)@mininginjustice.bsky.social · 2y ago

From the bombs falling on Palestine to the theft of Indigenous land to the war profiteering in DRC—Canadian mining kills, destroys, colonizes. Show up on March 2 to stand with frontline communities resisting Canadian mining & militarism to #DisruptPDAC. mininginjustice.org/pdac2025

DYK? Toronto is the global capital of mining - nearly 60% of mining companies are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)! Join @mininginjustice.bsky.social TODAY at TSX to protest the world's largest mining conference. Here's a sneak peek of what we have in store for PDAC this year. #DisruptPDAC

"The Asscn of Collegiate Schools of Architecture announced [yesterday] it has canceled a forthcoming Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) edition abt 🇵🇸.... The announcement arrived on the same day McLain Clutter, JAE interim executive editor, was fired by ACSA." Shameful.

ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor

ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...

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The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN) is putting together a zine to highlight the relationship between Canadian mining and militarism - submit your artwork or short writing piece by March 14th! mininginjustice.org/campaigns/mi...

✨️ It is finally here! I am so excited to have co-edited this open-access special issue of Museum & Society with @ellietheelement.bsky.social on critical approaches to mineralogical collections. Please join us in reading and sharing widely! #CriticalCollections #Mineralogy #MuseumStudies #GLAMs

Join us this afternoon for a brief chat about this special issue of the JSSAC/JSÉAC

Beyond Extraction@beyondextraction.bsky.social · 2y ago

How does extraction shape contemporary Canadian architecture? Join BE members & co-editors Christopher Alton, @emeliedt.bsky.social and Zannah Matson today to explore this question and celebrate the launch of their special issue "Architecture and Extraction" for SSAC Journal! bit.ly/jssaclaunch

Hello Bluesky! We're Beyond Extraction (BE), an interdisciplinary collective of researchers, writers, artists, and activists who have come together to critically investigate and resist Extraction in its various forms. Find out more at our website: beyondextraction.ca

Beyond Extraction

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"uni's reliant on investment portfolios in a system where mega-profits are made by companies that threaten + destroy human life, influenced by an increasingly radicalised class of billionaires,... managed by supine administrators threatened by (or willingly collaborating w) a reactionary right..."

Gareth Fearn | Liberalism without Accountability

Witnessing the scores of militarised police being deployed to round up student protesters, many people in the United...

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Reminder that proposals for this call for papers are due TODAY! See below for more information and share widely please.

Landscape Research@landscaperesearch.bsky.social · 3y ago

📢Michael Ripmeester and Matthew Rofe an exciting call for papers for special issue of Landscape Research Journal entitled, "A Possibility for healing: contested memorial landscapes and the project of socio-cultural change". Details on the theme & submission 👇 landscaperesearch.org/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers: Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History (NEAR-EH) Workshop An Investigation of our own Backyards Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts November 10-11, 2024 Proposal Deadline: June 1, 2024 niche-canada.org/2024/02/29/c... #envhist

Call for Papers: Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History (NEAR-EH) Workshop

We wish to engage environmental scholars in a discussion on local, backyard, neighborhood, or community environments...

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"Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians and should be held accountable for war crimes – and genocide, according to the UN’s leading expert on the right to food." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says

Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’

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Decaying empire

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3y ago

After a freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio a year ago, the rail industry pledged to work to become safer, and members of Congress vowed to prevent similar disasters. No bill was passed and accidents went up.

Taqralik Partridge has departed from Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), becoming the second Indigenous curator to exit the Canadian museum’s Indigenous and Canadian Art department within two months. hyperallergic.com/868285/indig...

Finally a Canadian museum doing something good amidst the censorship and horror. "Responsive Dialogues: Anti-Colonial Urban Histories of Palestine" at the Museum of Anthropology moa.ubc.ca/event/respon...

Responsive Dialogues: Anti-Colonial Urban Histories of Palestine - Museum of Anthropology at UBC

In this dialogue, architectural historians Rana Abughannam and Dr. Nadi Abusaada discuss Palestine’s urban landscapes and how they have been shaped through history by British...

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"I allow Palestine to clarify my relation to the settler colony on my homeland, and to theirs. I don’t have words and I can’t imagine.  I don’t have words and Palestinians don’t have the luxury of not finding words." —Leanne Betasamosake Simpson indigenousforpalestine.org/2023/11/29/a...

My latest at Substack -- do not say that we have free speech in Canada.

Do not say we have free speech in Canada

It’s been more than a week since MPP Sarah Jama was booted from the Ontario NDP caucus and censured by the Ontario government for daring to name Israel as an Apartheid state. It’s been more than a...

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Half a million people in London right now. Jewish activists in New York last night. Polls in both countries overwhelmingly support a ceasefire in Gaza. Cannot imagine this level of support even five years ago. Whatever happens, the Palestinians are no longer alone.

Gaza’s infrastructure relies on the flow of electricity and drinking water from Israel and supply trucks entering via Israeli crossings. By blocking necessary aid, Israel is punishing all of Gaza’s civilians for Hamas’s attacks.

Israel Still Blocking Aid to Civilians in Gaza

The Israeli government is deliberately deepening the suffering of civilians in Gaza by refusing to restore the flow of water and electricity and blocking fuel shipments. Willfully impeding relief supp...

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