Harsha Walia

@harshawalia.bsky.social

Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle. New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.

Spot the difference: "Citizens from eTA countries – like Australia, Germany, Croatia, New Zealand – had all visitor requests approved Others that required visas – like Ghana, DRC, Syria, Uganda, Sri Lanka – had applications mostly denied." www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Canada rejected more than half of all World Cup visitor applications

Thousands of soccer fans applied to visit Canada for the 2026 men’s FIFA World Cup, but less than half were allowed to enter the country.

ctvnews.ca

AI is deepening worldwide webs of accumulation, bringing about new class and power relations This is cohering as triangulated bloc of transnational capital that brings together giant tech, transnational finance capital, and military-industrial-repression complex. truthout.org/articles/the...

The Fight Against AI Data Centers Is the Newest Frontier of Global Class Warfare

AI is deepening worldwide webs of accumulation, ushering in new class and power relations.

truthout.org

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

theguardian.com

A quintessential pillar of facism is the fascist and punitive crushing of anti fascist dissent. A few months ago, i was notified that alleged writings of mine were entered as seized evidence in the trial. *writings* Today is a horrifying day, and full solidarity with the Prairieland defendants.

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Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”

EU Parliament has just approved "strictest-ever" migration law in its history. Pushed by far right, with support from centrist parties, new law will speed up deportations, sanction deportation camps ("return hubs") in third countries, facilitate enforcement raids. Césaire "Europe is indefensible"

And this is why I am always going off about people needing to stop thinking of Canada as "benign" peacekeeper or an "unwilling" imperialist partner. Former DHS head Kristi Noem has just been hired by BC mining company, NovaRed Mining headquartered in Vancouver. globalnews.ca/news/1190912...

Kristi Noem hired in strategic advisory role for B.C. mining company | Globalnews.ca

In March, Kristi Noem was reassigned from Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security after serving in the role for 13 months.

globalnews.ca

NEW: "It's literally the gulag." A Meta engineer describes their job in the new 6,500-person "Applied AI" unit, where highly-paid Silicon Valley talent are now "draftees" forced to write puzzle problems to feed the beast. WIRED's inside the morale collapse:

‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess

Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta's chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.

wired.com

If you watched the viral video of Bosnian soccer fans shouting for Palestine ahead of game in toronto today, read this piece about Bosnian team grappling with legacy of genocide & displacement with 17 of its players born elsehwere. "Playing for the national team becomes a symbolic act of return."

The country they never left

Bosnia’s World Cup squad is built on the descendants of war and displacement, players raised across Europe and North America who are finding their way back through football.

africasacountry.com

Abolish ICE, Abolish CBSA! The Montreal CBSA office is now processing about 200 deportations each week, and more than half of all deportations in Canada are happening in Quebec. "That drastic rise is really putting us in the eye of the storm." - Mostafah Henaway breachmedia.ca/cbsa-using-h...

CBSA using ‘harsh, unprecedented’ tactics in Quebec for record-breaking deportations ⋆ The Breach

Border agents confronting migrants in workplaces and schools, detaining them without prior contact, and rushing deportations before legal options for asylum seekers have played out

breachmedia.ca

Breaking: Four Filton activists have become first protesters in UK to be sentenced to prison as terrorists *without* even being convicted of terror offences Lottie Head, Samuel Corner, Ellie Kamio & Fatema Rajwani entered Elbit factory in UK in 2024 and damaged military arms equipment. Heroes.

Zapatistas on world cup 2026 "football, like almost everything, is caught between crime and resistance, between authoritarianism and rebellion, between business and play.. So, without any shame, let’s declare that FIFA is a shithole, period.” mexicosolidarity.com/zapatistas-f...

Zapatistas: FIFA is a Shithole, Reality in Mexico Prevails Over Frivolous, Superficial World Cup

Captain Marcos decried the "Trumpist FIFA, which pretends to give lessons in morality and good customs."

mexicosolidarity.com

Interesting piece suggesting a turn from the already parasitic FIFA in two ways. One, Trump is indifferent to what visitors and tourists think. Two, with expansion of world cup infrastructure, FIFA now desperately needs host countries (rather than vice versa). www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Omar Artan scandal reveals Gianni Infantino for what he is: one of sport’s greatest cowards | Jonathan Liew

The Fifa president has prostrated the organisation before Donald Trump and lost control of his own tournament as a result

theguardian.com

Everybody fcking hates FIFA. "disruption, street closures, and security perimeters; lopsided accrual of revenue to FIFA; rearrangement of their city’s summer cultural and event calendar that many view as an unacceptable requirement of hosting” vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/09/w...

7 in 10 polled in Toronto, Vancouver say FIFA World Cup matches 'not worth public costs'

A new poll finds many people in Toronto and Vancouver don't think hosting the World Cup matches are "not worth the public costs."

vancouver.citynews.ca

AI is fossil capital accumulation: One of govt's stated top “public policy benefits” of constructing data centres is creating new markets for Canadian fracked gas producers, w/ build-out of vast electricity-consuming data centres providing markets for Canadian energy. thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

Federal Adviser Says Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ for Gas | The Tyee

Boosting energy production is one of the top ‘public policy benefits to Canada’ of data centres, says internal government document.

thetyee.ca

Violence in Belfast is tethered to growing anti migrant racism in UK, Scotland & across Europe. This fuels legislated violence, w/ new EU migration pact coming into force this week: expanded detention & more border outsourcing w/ return camps. Fighting far right means fghting border imperialism.

"Someone who is rioting doesn’t know that the person they are targeting is actually looking after their mother or their granny. Meanwhile, I left my mother back home.” Care workers tell of being trapped as fires took hold of their neighbours houses in Belfast www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘It was so terrifying’: care workers tell of being trapped at home by Belfast mob

Sumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot feared they would be next as fires took hold of neighbouring houses

theguardian.com