Sarah Rotz
@sarahrotz.bsky.social
Professor, EUC, York University; political ecologist; land & food studies; anti-colonial scholar/activist. she/her. settler. feminist. #foodjustice #climatejustice.
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Our response to #MarkCarney's new pesticide support Bill. A short-sighted view of #foodsecurity #canpoli @canadiandimension.bsky.social
Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Carney government just gave itself sweeping new powers to authorize the use of any pesticide if it unilaterally decides it is in the interest of "national food security." The legislative changes came after meetings between government officials and the pesticide industry's leading lobby group.
A new piece I wrote in response to Ontario’s new ‘food independence’ act in Candian Dimension. I hope it can provide a different perspective from what’s dominating the headlines. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Who is Ontario’s ‘food independence’ really for?
Ontario’s new “food independence” legislation promises resilience and local food systems, but the reality is more complicated. These goals are politically appealing, particularly during a period of gl...
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ICA has officially released our latest report: Nature-Based Climate Solutions. While NbCS are often positioned as climate solutions, this report takes a deeper look at what they mean for Indigenous Peoples, lands, and sovereignty. 🔗 The full report is linked in our bio.
When the bodies of starving children in Gaza reach a ‘point of no return’ mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when...
When the bodies of starving children in Gaza reach a ‘point of no return’
Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their bodies...
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Evidence of what so many have been saying for far, far too long: This is a #genocide. These are #warcrimes
Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC
A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.
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Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII www.commondreams.org/news/famine-...
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII | Common Dreams
"This is preventable starvation," said Alex de Waal. "It is entirely man-made."
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POLLEN 2026 will take place in Barcelona next June 💫, and we warmly welcome you all to join us. Stay tuned for updates on exact dates, costs, and scheduling ⌛—details will be available soon on our new website! 🖥️🙂
"This genocide will haunt us. It will echo down history with the force of a tsunami. It will divide us forever. There is no going back..."
Genocide by Starvation
This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wo...
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If a former Israeli prime minister can say this, what is stopping European leaders?
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last yr."What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
Great piece, and I am proud that the activist group I've devoted the most time to over the years was based on this idea: law students' ability to withhold their labor from corporate firms. Check out @lsca.bsky.social people!
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2y ago"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met." Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time time.com/collections/...
Reckoning and resistance: The future of Black hiring commitments on campus theconversation.com/reckoning-an...
Reckoning and resistance: The future of Black hiring commitments on campus
The true commitment to racial justice lies not in performative statements, but in sustained support for marginalized scholars and research, even during economic and political precarity.
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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's (CJPME) federal election guide: www.cjpme.org/election_gui...
Lawfares use of IHRA "leaves no room for Palestinian claims to rights and sovereignty..."In effect, that framework treats Palestinian political expression as inherently antisemitic. Lawfare champions even frame the existence of Palestinian culture and history as evidence of antisemitism."
Canadian lawyers borrow from U.S. playbook to quash Palestine solidarity ⋆ The Breach
In a new push for ‘lawfare’, pro-Israel groups are weaponizing the courts to silence criticism of Israel
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"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2y ago"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
Israeli Soldiers Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza 'Kill Zone' www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-pe...
Israeli Troops Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza 'Kill Zone' | Common Dreams
One IDF officer said that not only are Israeli troops killing military-age males, "we're killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We're destroying their houses and pissing on their...
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Let's be clear, Trump's outrageous detention of migrant farmworker leaders shows how his "working class" populism is hollow BS. If he were pro-worker, his admin wouldn't be detaining labor leaders, but supporting all workers raising all wages across all sectors. What we need is solidarity.
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2y agoVideo of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
This is the Vice President of the United States saying "excellent" to collapsing an apartment building full of civilians and *maybe* one person who wasn't a civilian.
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2y agoThis jibes with contemporary reporting that the raids hit several residential buildings, in each case killing about 15 people and wounding more. Maybe a little more of the conversation should be about how cavalier we apparently are about bombing civilian homes? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan who fled the United States after ICE illegally terminated their SEVIS and Columbia arbitrarily de-enrolled them. An unfathomable level of violent predation and oppression happening at such a rapid pace.
Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada – Aurdip
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Indigenous faculty at York University push back on enrolment suspension: Program suspensions are a shortsighted solution to managing school's financial crisis
Indigenous faculty at York University push back on enrolment suspension | CBC News
Professors of Indigenous studies and gender studies say they'd like to see York University reverse the decision it recently made to suspend enrolment in those programs.
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A very helpful analysis of nationalist formations and internationalist struggles and considerations in these times. thanks for this @skipfer.bsky.social
<i>Anschluss, Schulterschluss</i> or Concrete Internationalism?
In these turbulent and rapidly shifting times, we often search for quick answers. “How to respond to Trump 2.0?” is a question that calls for an immediate response here in Canada. This question harbor...
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"This is what electoral autocracy looks like". U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog
ANALYSIS | U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog | CBC News
Possibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' Declaring a predecessor's pardon null and void. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
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A disturbing effort to crush academic freedom in Canada. Would appreciate some university presidents to affirm their support for academic freedom & importance of research in Canada.
Adriana Guatame-García@adriguatame.bsky.social · 2y ago“the implications seem clear: Projects not compatible with the views of the U.S. government may lose their funding” 🧪 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/84ef4ff...
