Lesley Wood @lesleybikes Twitter profile

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

5 months

Delighted to be selected for a 2024-25 Fulbright Award for my research on social movements. Gutted to be declared ineligible due to allegations I postered against a genocide. #ArmsEmbargoNow

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1 year

Sit in at King and Bay calling for a #CeasefireForGazaNOW

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1 year

Occupying MP @BillBlair office demanding a #CeasefireNow #PalSolidaritySitIn

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1 year

Jews for a #CeasefireNow sit in at Toronto’s Union Station. Rooted in the Jewish belief that all life is sacred.

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5 months

@CyForPalestine Allegations of postering against genocide, not posting. Just to clarify.

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5 months

This week will mark 6 months since being placed on “administrative leave”. Grateful for all the support. Good piece here.

University Professors Are Losing Their Jobs Over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza

As brutal police repression sweeps campus encampments, schools have been cutting ties with pro-Palestine faculty members without tenure.

theintercept.com

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@lesleybikes

2 years

Rn . Police hauling people out

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@lesleybikes

5 months

Charges quietly dropped for four of the 'Indigo 11' pro-Palestine protesters via @torontostar

Shree Paradkar: Charges quietly dropped for four of the ‘Indigo 11’ pro-Palestine protesters

The disproportionality of the police response to them should frighten us all, writes Shree Paradkar.

www.thestar.com

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

7 years

I'd rather work at #YorkU where there are strikes & ongoing attempts to defend workers rights, equity & resistance to the commodification of education; than work at a university where those struggles have been abandoned/lost. @cupe3903comms

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@lesleybikes

4 months

Some sort of weird triad this week. Promoted to Full Professor. On sabbatical. Still suspended.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

4 years

On National Housing Day, during a snowstorm, and on the eve of a lockdown, a bunch of Torontonians built dome shelters for homeless people who have a #righttosurvive at the doors of Mayor Tory's condo. #HousingNow #nomorehomelessdeaths @ESN_TO @OCAPtoronto @SHJNetwork

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4 years

Breaking: Incensed Torontonians set up outside Mayor John Tory’s luxury condominium to build makeshift shelters for community members he refuses to house.

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3 years

One time as a grad student, I was underprepared for an upcoming talk. "Ah, its not a big deal, I'm sure they won't even listen." I said. My mentor, Chuck Tilly cautioned me, "Every audience deserves your best. Never forget that." #mentorship #AcademicTwitter #Agame

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

6 months

Five months of being in the ‘suspended for Palestine related activities” club. Its membership is growing quickly.

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@lesleybikes

4 years

@jncohen One time I said I was just going to wing it, in an upcoming presentation and my supervisor, Chuck Tilly said, “every audience is important.” Stuck with me.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

2 years

In the face of evictions as the Novotel shelter hotel is being closed. Residents and supporters are occupying hotel. Demanding an end to evictions without consent and a meeting with #CityofTO

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

6 years

“Abolition is a ruptural and emancipatory approach. Abolition aims to destroy the structural conditions of society that produce subjugation, while building new ways of being in the world.” Luis Fernandez, SSSP Presidential address #SSSP1org #asa18

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@lesleybikes

2 years

#KilltheDrill Stop the CGL pipeline! At the Stockyards! Right now

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@lesleybikes

3 months

Thank goodness for to the Toronto Community Justice Fund. It helps with the legal costs of Palestine solidarity activists arrested in Toronto. $200,000 raised so far but at least $1,200,000 needed. Organize a fundraiser or donate.

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@lesleybikes

6 years

#YorkU Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies votes non confidence in Uni President Lenton and BOG Chair Waugh 108 to 29 (5 abstn)

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@lesleybikes

6 years

@SamTecle @metromorning And they can teach each other! Or get their parents to hire tutors!

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@lesleybikes

3 years

Hundreds of cops and security guards. Drones. Copters. Security fence. All to assist in evicting an encampment. People before property. @ESN_TO @OCAPtoronto #nomorehomelessdeaths

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@lesleybikes

2 years

Happy May Day!

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

6 months

Alas, pre-emptive arrests are part of the toolkit of “strategic incapacitation” approach to protest policing. I fear we will see these in the coming days across the country.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

4 months

My new piece on temporal conflict. Ie how police and protesters manage the pace and duration of action and the temporal horizon and orientation in order to gain leverage.

birgan gokmenoglu

@birgangokmenog

4 months

Next article in our special issue on Political and Transformative Uses of Time @megafauna : Lesley Wood @lesleybikes writes about Temporal Conflict and Challenging the Police in Toronto and New York City. Please read & share 👇🏼👇🏼

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@lesleybikes

6 years

#WomensMarchTO “This is no time for fair weather feminism”

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@lesleybikes

2 years

#StatusForAll Toronto

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@lesleybikes

7 years

Hoping to avoid a strike but Proud to be in a dept attempting to be consistent for our students and in solidarity with our colleagues. If strike? No class. @YorkUSOCI @cupe3903comms @YUFAyorku

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@lesleybikes

4 years

“The housing crisis is a real estate game.” Projected onto empty buildings that could be homes for encampment residents. Amazing protest @ESN_TO #expropriate #nomorehomelessdeaths #TOpoli

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

3 years

My partner, Mac ⁦ @OCAPtoronto ⁩, ⁦ @nooneisillegal ⁩, ⁦ @MDCLegalUpdates ⁩ is back from solidarity delegation to #Wet ’suwet’en blockade of pipeline. News is that #s and morale is high, but $ are needed. Check out . Next delegation, Jan 2022?

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

3 years

Many are comparing the policing of Black led and indigenous protests with the policing of the truckers ‘Freedom Convoy”. There are no perfect comparisons, at least until some new organizing happens amongst truckers. I understand the police strategy in the following way:

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@lesleybikes

4 years

Let’s ensure this energy pushing towards #DefundThePolice doesn’t justify #privatization and even less accountability. #Abolition #BlackLivesMatter

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@lesleybikes

6 years

So proud of my kid and all the other kids walking out today. They understand what larger class sizes, fewer electives and less support for public Ed means. #StudentsSayNo

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

7 years

Senate vote to discuss suspending classes fails. 54-53 . @cupe3903comms Now we discuss powers of senate in strike.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

7 years

Chair of York Senate says that Board of Governors believes all the business of university is their mandate. This marginalizes Senate, that reps students, faculty and unions. (a bit) @cupe3903comms @YorkULAPS @YUFAyorku

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

5 years

Group calls on city to turn vacant downtown properties into affordable housing

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@lesleybikes

5 months

Today is the last day to vote yes for the @ASAnews @Soc4Pal Resolution for Justice in Palestine. While I know many of us have grown weary and cynical about statements, as sociologists we know how legitimacy works. It’s a small ask. Do it.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

6 years

I've been thinking a lot about escalation lately. Tactics, tone, sites, size, speed, targets. Here's a nice example.

Rana Sukarieh رنا سكرية

@ranasukkarieh

6 years

A board of governors meeting is supposed to take place here , but.... #CUPE3903 #Yorkustrike #striketowin

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6 years

Faculty, students call on York to return to bargaining talks amid 'unprecedented' strike | CBC News

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@lesleybikes

7 years

If a university senate no longer has the ability to be a representative and accountable body for university governance, what do we do? @cupe3903comms @YUFAyorku

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@lesleybikes

7 years

#reclaimyorku

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

3 years

Countdown begins. Last department meeting as @YorkUSOCI chair? Check. Last exec meeting as chair? Check. Starting to feel strangely sentimental about my colleagues? Check.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

1 year

#LandAlliance Chief of Grassy Narrows calls for protection of land and water, and meaningful consultation #freegrassy

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

5 years

"When states make it illegal to save drowning people, what does that mean for those hoping to expand and defend human rights?" Thinking through Italy's 'crimes of solidarity.'

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@lesleybikes

7 years

As far as I can tell - depts cancelling classes thus far during the @cupe3903comms strike. Politics, Glendon, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Social Sciences, Equity Studies, and Sociology @YorkUSOCI Others?

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

7 years

Excited for my New course where the students track protest in Delhi, Joburg, NYC & TO. #somuchtofigureout

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

1 year

@ScientistsLift Peer review is a reasonable system.

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@lesleybikes

6 months

Rereading Hirsch’s 1990 article about the 1985 Columbia student encampments that lasted 3 weeks and led to divestment from South Africa. #ColumbiaUniversityProtest

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@lesleybikes

3 years

Stop the cuts! Fund Laurentian Univesrity! #IWillDefendPublicEducation #

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@lesleybikes

4 years

So sad to hear of the death of #LeoPanitch . Fond memories of him and his partner coming to a grubby church basement to support @OCAPtoronto . Honoured to have been part of his collaborative @socialistregister project. He will be missed.

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@lesleybikes

5 months

So much of my social movement life these days (always?) involves learning new skills, platforms and ideas. Thinking of Aziz Choudry’s insight on this.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

2 years

Thank you Brazil. sincerely, the planet.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

3 years

I support mercury Justice for #GrassyNarrows ! @JustinTrudeau @cafreeland @marcmillerVM . Will you fairly compensate every member at of grassy narrows First Nations?

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

10 years

#YorkUStrike laps faculty council passes motion to resuspend classes that were supposed to restart today.

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@lesleybikes

3 months

@davidabbottbris Most vivas/defenses I’ve been part of are opportunities for discussion amongst 5 or 6 people who have read the work. The candidate is central to the conversation of course. I dont think getting the whole committee to agree on questions would even be possible.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

4 years

New book alert - "We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times." Honoured to be with a massive crew of great thinkers/activists like @catekasper @JohnOCAP @steve_darcy @AmiraElghawaby @NGMcLaughlin @maxhaiven @mostafah @Pam_Palmater +++

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

3 years

This is not about freedom. This is not about 'mandates'. I've seen similar behaviour from toddlers who don't want to let go of a bag of candy.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

3 years

The job of the police is to defend the status quo. And it is a racist, classist, xenophobic and colonial status quo. No need to prop that up. Instead of asking for more policing, lets push for a society that values health care workers, immigrants, land defenders, + poor folks.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

4 years

My parents win. Dad, 93 just finished Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples and starting Ackroyd’s London. Mum, 80 reading Desmond Cole’s The Skin I’m In. Neither went to uni. I read Twitter.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

3 years

The trucker’s convoys are a serious problem, not because of their demands, nor even their disruptive tactics, but because of their appeal to the many folks, frustrated about their jobs, their lives and the inaction of governments.

The threat of the truckers protest

The trucker’s convoys are a serious problem, not because of their demands, nor even their disruptive tactics, but because of their appeal to the many folks, frustrated about their jobs, their lives…

lesleybikes.wordpress.com

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

2 years

When does social movement scholarship help movements? and when does harm? First episode of a podcast series we're doing with the @dartsandletters crew. Looks at the history of pathologizing movements... with @colonizedmutant , Sigrid Schmalzer, Susannah Mulvale, Sami McBryer..

Darts and Letters

@dartsandletters

2 years

🚨New EP🚨 Some leftists explain #January6 as an irrational mob mentality. Pathologizing our opponents is convenient, but will it backfire? We discuss the long history of how the left always got dismissed in the same way, w/ James Jasper & @JoyRohde .

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

5 years

Hey, my piece looking at the changing role of "Anarchist Gatherings 1986-2017" is out in @ACMEJournal Much love to the storytellers, packrats and co-conspirators who guided me.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

5 years

Today my @YorkUSOCI students incorporated teachings from 40+ activist oral histories into their campaigns against #cutstoeducation , #singleuseplastics , #racistpolicing , and 4 #foodsecurity and #mentalhealth . ❤️ melt.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

4 years

#whichsideareyouon ? #LandBack

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

2 years

Tilly reminds me that movements are “contingent assemblages of social networks [that] manage to create the illusion of determined, unified, self-motivated political actors, then act publicly as if they believed that illusion.” In Mcadam 2001 by @warofposition and Ann mische

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@lesleybikes

2 years

@MahsaShahsavar @PhDVoice @PhD_Genie my brain. lol. but I'm clearly out of date.

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@lesleybikes

2 years

Between the Day of Action to #KilltheDrill in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en vs. @RBCo2lonization AND the #cupestrike #CUPESolidarity actions, its a busy day.

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@lesleybikes

6 months

Toronto joins in to demand divestment. #occupyUofT

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@lesleybikes

4 years

About 1000 folks at today’s #Justice4BlackLives protest in #Toronto . Multiracial crowd; pretty young. Lots of enthusiasm. Now at #queenspark #JusticeForRegis

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@lesleybikes

5 years

Is there a word for the particular sensation of helplessness that one feels, being unable to stop innocent people from being killed, half a world away? #NoWarOnIran

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@lesleybikes

3 years

Why the hell are we in a situation where pepper spray and hundreds of cops are the city response to those demanding housing, rather than simply housing people?

Wild videos show police and protesters clashing at Toronto encampment

Things are turning violent at Toronto's Lamport Stadium Park this afternoon as city officials attempt to clear out yet another homeless encampment wi…

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@lesleybikes

5 years

Strong solidarity rail blockade today in TO. Support the land and water defenders in/of Wet’suwet’en. #KeepItInTheGround

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@lesleybikes

6 years

Last class done. Feeling the feels for my students who interviewed activists + organized small campaigns vs carding, vs cuts to OSAP, for more consent workshops vs gender based violence, & for gun control. @YorkUSOCI

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@lesleybikes

4 years

powerful day

Rachel Small

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4 years

Thousands out at Christie Pits right now about to start marching. #Toronto showing the hell up demanding #JusticeForRegis #notanotherblacklife #BlackLiveMatter #DefundThePolice #topoli

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4 years

#FreeThemAllCaravan #statusforall #freethemall #FlattenTheCurve

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

7 years

Heads up. IMHO the @yorku website on class suspensions is bollocks because depts who suspended all courses aren’t allowed to list them en masse. @cupe3903comms

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@lesleybikes

2 years

Documents Reveal 'Rural Policing' Money Is Going to the C-IRG via @TheTyee

Documents Reveal ‘Rural Policing’ Money Is Going to the C-IRG | The Tyee

An RCMP unit under investigation by a federal commissioner will receive 15 per cent of the funding promised for safer communities.

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

8 months

So grateful for this solidarity..

ISA

@isa_sociology

8 months

The ISA is deeply concerned that university leaders are using disciplinary & administrative measures to silence critical analyses of ongoing violence in Gaza. (Read our previous Statement on the Situation in Israel and Palestine 🖇️ ) 🧵

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2 years

Looking forward to talking tomorrow at #mobilizationconference2022 on the conversations activists have after major events, and how the emotional and temporal characteristics of these conversations affect strategy...

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@lesleybikes

2 years

Suspending the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in order to impose a contract affects every last one of us.

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@lesleybikes

6 years

Expropriate 214-230 Sherbourne. The city of Toronto must build social housing. Rally Oct 11, 1 pm. Dundas & Sherbourne. @OCAPtoronto #nomorehomelessdeaths

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@lesleybikes

5 years

Blocking Front Street in front of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada #PDAC2020 #Shutdowncanada

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4 years

#myG20story 10 years ago was the Justice for Our Communities march that brought together tons of community groups. The police kept blocking us, so we couldnt march. Then we stayed in Allan Gardens. Some guy set up a kiddie pool and filled it with oil for wrestling. So weird.

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Lesley Wood

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6 months

Jar of olives leaked in my bag and soaked my outfit. If you see me/smell me this evening at the @winchevsky @jsntg “liberation is not a metaphor Seder” know that I am dressed in solidarity with all things pickled. And Palestinian liberation.

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@lesleybikes

7 years

#ReclaimYorkU go on through and support em

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@lesleybikes

6 months

Such arrests are meant to intimidate, and create alarm. This doesn’t happen when movements keep calm and support each other.

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@lesleybikes

6 years

A few thoughts on theorizing the York strike - "What use is social movement theory during an endless university strike?"

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3 years

oohboy. having just finished four years of Charing - watching #TheChair is too soon.

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@lesleybikes

2 years

@decolonialsol Climate villain of the year seems deflated at our opposition to the #CGLpipeline #killthedrill #AllOutForWedzinKwa

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@lesleybikes

7 years

Rhonda Lenton, President of York University: York University Admins - Return to the Bargaining Table!

President of York University: Return to the Bargaining Table!

We, the undersigned members of the York University community urge York University’s Senior Administration to return to the bargaining table immediately. The approach taken up to now is clearly not...

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

5 years

Map of Unist'ot'en Solidarity Economic Disruptions and Actions. -

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@lesleybikes

5 years

Hey, we've got a new book series!

Laurence Cox

@ceesa_ma

5 years

Announcing the #SocialMovements #Activist #Research book series from @PlutoPress @DYShulman Edited by me & @alfgunvald w @CDinerstein @DollyKikon @warofposition @dlandy100 @AliceEmme @GeoffreyPleyers @ProfSrilaRoy @aniaszolucha @Karl_SWOP @lesleybikes

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4 years

Next week will be 10 years since the protests against the G20 in Toronto. We'll be talking about it at; but also, where were you? #myG20story

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@lesleybikes

4 years

Repression breeds resistance. #blacklivesmatter

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1 year

Outside Global Affairs speaking against @TCEnergy pipelines on #Wet ’suwet’en land and indigenous land across the hemisphere #UnitedAgainstTC

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11 months

A few thoughts on the particular features of this wave of protest - Why is this mobilization different to other mobilizations?

Why is this mobilization different from other mobilizations?

Right now, there is a worldwide upsurge of disruptive protest. Enormous and almost daily protests across the world; widespread sit-ins and blockades of weapons manufacturing, of businesses that fun…

lesleybikes.wordpress.com

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Lesley Wood

@lesleybikes

4 years

Imagining the world in 50 years.... honoured to be part of this.

Luminato Festival Toronto

@Luminato

4 years

"At the end of the day, we need to really think through who is in control." – @oliviachow Thank you @syrusmarcusware , @lesleybikes , @oliviachow & @cjobrubaker for asking pressing questions & addressing the state of activism during the pandemic. Watch: .

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2 years

@wawisloyola I know how frustrating it is. I prepared to lecture today for 3 hours, and only 6/45 students showed. I gave them the whole song and dance, but my heart felt a little sad.

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@lesleybikes

5 years

A new issue of @Interface_Journ ! Great movement relevance , and book reviews..

irina cerić 🍉

@irinaceric

5 years

Start 2020 off with a good dose of activist-scholar reading! The new issue of @Interface_Journ , a journal for and about social movements is out now. Open access at

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4 years

Happy Mayday from @Interface_Journ ! This week's CoVid movement reports: vs. domestic violence (Wuhan), Aurat (Women’s) March (Pakistan), Spain, kitchens (UK), food sovereignty (Bologna), cultural movements (Brazil), + degrowth, feminism, & volunteerism.

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3 years

First, police didn’t see them as a threat. This is where the racism comes in. We know that protests dominated by white men, whose demands make sense to police, are treated with more respect than other protests. There is also overlap between police and this movement.

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