Fiona Jeffries
@fionajeffries.bsky.social
Bookworm, solidarity enthusiast (she/her) Editor @ fernwoodpublishing.ca
As residential school denialism grows, the truth matters more than ever. Yet, survivor records will be destroyed in Sept. 2027. Connie Walker explains what will be lost when the records are destroyed & proposes a new archive to protect the truth. Full brief: yellowheadinstitute.org/2026/truth-j...
Organizer Chris Dixon discusses how we can sustain our collective efforts over years of social and political struggle.
A Lifelong Organizer Shares Lessons on Sustaining Activism for the Long Haul
Organizer Chris Dixon discusses how we can sustain our collective efforts over years of social and political struggle.
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Powerful portrayal of the everyday nightmare of moving under surveillance. Rehab Nazzal’s brilliant project Driving in Palestine does it in still photo, drawing and essay form fernwoodpublishing.ca/books/drivin...
Driving in Palestine التحرّك في فلسطين
This research-creation project by artist Rehab Nazzal documents the politics of surveillance and mobility in contemporary Palestine through photos, hand-drawn maps and critical essays in English and A...
fernwoodpublishing.ca
WIRED@wired.com · 6d agoSee what it’s like to travel in the occupied West Bank, for the nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/experi...
Thousands of nurses and taking over the streets of San Francisco and marching on ICE's detention center to protest Palantir tech in our communities and to demand our public resources go toward the benefit of working people.
Here are the 11 Canadian think tanks funded by this U.S.-based libertarian network as of 2022, when the network stopped publicizing who they were supporting on their website.
A U.S. libertarian network called Atlas Network has been funding at least 11 Canadian think tanks that have been fuelling, climate denialism, support for the oil and gas industry, and Alberta separatism.
How the US Atlas Network Built Alberta Separatism | The Tyee
A global cabal of libertarian and right-wing organizations has fuelled the province’s independence movement.
thetyee.ca
20+ PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED BLOCKING THE ROAD TO THE AI HEALTH SUMMIT, where healthcare CEOs and tech billionaires are rolling out the red carpet for Palantir-backed healthcare. 72 floors above them, healthcare executives are gathering to talk about Al, hospital profits, and the future of our care
it’s interesting to see normalization of technology as a “solution” to pretty serious social issues. do you really think people will take parenting advice from appliances? I’d like folks to make the connections from this to carceral contexts a la luxury surveillance by @hypervisible.blacksky.app.
Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2w agowhy is everyone dunking on this. it's good that the glasses told him to stop yelling at his kid
The Media Co-op has been publishing (and paying for!) grassroots journalism in so-called Canada for more than 20 years. Learn more about what they're looking for and send them a pitch! mediacoop.ca/node/119373
Call for Pitches!
The Media Co-op is a grassroots media outlet that has been publishing in so-called Canada for more than 20 years. We publish (and pay for) grassroots journalism focused on important issues and struggl...
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Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
Capitalist empire is a roiling crisis machine, one that constantly creates openings for something else
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 3w ago🤷🏼
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Amazing work! May we make bathroom access justice happen everywhere. 🥳
Bright D Limm 임대중@bdlimm.myatproto.social · 3w agoKnowing who deserves our anger is important, but so is knowing who deserves our gratitude. On this issue: The main force on the outside has been the Free to Pee coalition, led by @vocal-ny.bsky.social and @nyhomeless.bsky.social. On the inside—Council members @sandynurse.bsky.social + Rita Joseph.
Find the English version of this brainy and passionate book here at @fernpub.bsky.social: fernwoodpublishing.ca/books/essent...
Essential Work, Disposable Workers
A book about the massive expansion of precarious work under neoliberalism and how migrant workers are challenging the conditions of their hyper-exploitation through struggles for worker rights and jus...
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Fiona Jeffries@fionajeffries.bsky.social · 3w agoSo wonderful to see @mhenaway.bsky.social essential, brilliant book out in French with @ecosociete.bsky.social! This analysis rooted in years of scholarship and organizing could not be more timely and urgent. ecosociete.org/livres/trava... 🥳📚
@churlishness.bsky.social and Leah Werner’s The Consulting Trap advances a critical analysis of the scandal of the consultant industry of everything - including higher ed and govenment fernwoodpublishing.ca/books/the-co...
The Consulting Trap
This book exposes how powerful consulting firms influence public policy with grave consequences for democracy, essential services, and the common good.
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David Kaib@davidkaib.bsky.social · 3w agoWho is researching the role of consultants in the dismantling of higher education, especially layoffs?
So wonderful to see @mhenaway.bsky.social essential, brilliant book out in French with @ecosociete.bsky.social! This analysis rooted in years of scholarship and organizing could not be more timely and urgent. ecosociete.org/livres/trava... 🥳📚
Travail essentiel, travailleurs jetables
Plus qu’une analyse implacable d’un système mondial d’hyper-exploitation, Travail essentiel, travailleurs jetables est aussi le récit des liens de…
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Yes! The revolutionary urbanism that we all need! Bathrooms + transit access are preconditions to basic sociality
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago17 new public bathrooms. Across all five boroughs. Because you can’t wait — and you shouldn’t have to.
This weekend we organized a counter-summit to Carney's fire sale of resources & public infrastructure. The rooms were overflowing and alive with movement energy. Then we marched, led by Indigenous leaders, took the barricades for hours and danced. Colonialism, neoliberalism, fascism: NO to it all.
wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:
Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social · 3w agoLukas Graham, another support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, also now withdrawing from the tour.
« This is a company that has maximized both worker surveillance techniques and the methods by which they can be exploited to quell labor unrest. » jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...
How Amazon Busts Unions, in Its Own Words
Internal documents disclosed in a British Columbia labor case give us an incredibly detailed look into how exactly Amazon carries out its union-busting operations.
jacobin.com
The current scene at the protest against Carney’s financial summit. Heavy police presence and barricade. @nationalobserver.com
I was thrilled to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Books Through Bars NYC, an all-volunteer group I co-founded. Since 1996, BTB NYC has sent app 168,000 book packages to people in 38 states (one package has multiple books). Help them keep sending books to imprisoned readers: booksthroughbarsnyc.org
Happy to share that our new book is out now #OpenAccess! Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity explores how grassroots actors across 11 European cities build solidarity and enact citizenship through struggles over migration, housing and care. doi.org/10.51952/978... @brisunipress.bsky.social
Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity
Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity - Urban Struggles on Migration, Housing and Care in Europe; How are grassroots movements reshaping European cities? This book explores how activists across ten citi...
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Page proofs are innnnnnnn!! Book coming your way March 9, 2027
This 🧵 will have readings that I assign in my Sociology of AI class.
On Friday, we are hosting an online event featuring @nesrinemalik.bsky.social and Magdi El-Gizouli. They will discuss El-Gizouli’s monumental essay in Equator about revolution and counterrevolution in Sudan. 6pm BST / 1pm EST / 7pm CAT – free and open to all! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revolution...
Revolution and Counterrevolution in Sudan
A conversation between Magdi El-Gizouli and Nesrine Malik
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#BrockU is hosting the annual @cawls-acets.bsky.social conference next year. Check out the call for proposals here: cawls.ca/en/2027-annu... #labourstudies #canlab @brocklabour.bsky.social
