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And a standing ovation greets Francesa Albanese.

I believe you can watch the stream on Instagram at the @OccupyUofT feed.

https://www.instagram.com/occupyuoft

Albanese leads with:

"Impartiality" has become a pompous synonym for "indifference".

That is exactly what white supremacy wants of us. "Neutrality", "objectivity", and dispassion over compassion.

"Genocide is a process, not a singular act."

The reports tonight's presentation is based on.

March 24, 2024
Anatomy of a Genocide – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 to Human Rights Council – Advance unedited version (A/HRC/55/73)
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/anatomy-of-a-genocide-report-of-the-special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-palestinian-territory-occupied-since-1967-to-human-rights-council-advance-unedited-version-a-hrc-55/

01 October 2024
Genocide as colonial erasure – Report of Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/genocide-as-colonial-erasure-report-francesca-albanese-01oct24/

"The free trade agreement between Canada and Israel must be suspended."

After a short list of Canadian companies and organizations invested in business in illegally occupied territories, she says that there needs to be a mobilization of lawyers — CANADIAN lawyers — tongold these entities fully accountable.

Francesca Albanese's presentation went brilliantly, without a single disruption.

We are now into the panel and Q&A.

237 UN aid workers have been killed in Gaza in the past year.

Israel ia a serial violator of international law.

We are now listing the myriad ways in which the failed Canadian project is complicit, from allowing products manufactured in ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS to be sold in Canada, to allowing LAND SALES from here.

She says there should have been arrest warrants for all the participants in these crimes.

Canada itself, therefore, is in violation of international law.

TIL:

"Pariah" is an extremely racist term.

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pariah, member of a low-caste group of Hindu Indian society, formerly known as “untouchables” but now called Dalits. The word pariah—originally derived from Tamil paṛaiyar, “drummer”—once referred to the Paraiyan, a Tamil caste group of labourers and village servants of low status, but the meaning was extended to embrace many groups outside the so-called clean caste groups, with widely varying degrees of status.
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Scratching that from my personal lexicon.

And we end as we began, with another standing ovation for Francesca Albanese.