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PERSPECTIVES: “Beneath Gaza’s Stars” and “Midnight Thoughts in Gaza” rewire my associations with my own memories

This piece is a companion to the article: “I want people to understand”: Writers in Gaza publish zines through volunteer-led Coastal Lines Press I read Coastal Lines Press zines Beneath Gaza’s Stars by Heba Ali and Midnight Thoughts in Gaza by Mohammed Al-Bardawili with a deliberate slowness, trying to build pictures in my mind, trying to open my heart further and further like training a muscle.  I needn’t have tried so hard. Their words surrounded me with their sights, sounds, and thoughts in a way that rewired my associations with my own memories.  Pain, when woven into language, becomes a…

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“I want people to understand”: Writers in Gaza publish zines through volunteer-led Coastal Lines Press

Audio excerpts of interview with Lama Alharazin, including Alharazin reciting her poem “Those who are still here” from her zine “Rain Was Once A Promise”: “During the war, I actually couldn’t find sense of the chaos around me. I was always looking for meaning in every displacement” says 24 year old writer Lama Alharazin over a Zoom call from Gaza City on August 30. “I was missing my home, I was missing my life, but I only found a way to make sense through writing. I started writing. I wrote about my home, my friends, the loss, the beautiful memories,…

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Open letter: Western University community demands action for colleagues in Gaza

The following is an open letter from hundreds of students, staff, faculty, and alumni addressed to Western University President Alan Shepard demanding support for students in Gaza admitted to Western University. It was provided to Antler River Media Co-op by members of the Western University community. Dear President Shepard, We, the undersigned, are Western University students, staff, faculty, and alumni who are concerned about the plight of students in Gaza admitted to Western University’s graduate programs. These students are passionate, scholarly, highly qualified, and keen to begin their studies after surviving three years of genocide during which they completed, against…

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Photograph of three hand-painted posters. One shows the logo of TD bank placed on a green armchair and reads "Comfortable with Genocide." The others read "TD funds genocide" and "TD is art washing genocide."

Arms Embargo Forest City and Museum London clash over TD Funding

According to anti-war coalition group Just Peace Advocates, TD bank has invested ten billion dollars in war crimes and genocide through financial ties with weapons manufacturers and war profiteers like General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, RTX Corporation (also known as Raytheon) and Northrop Grumman. All of these manufacturers have provided weapons, vehicles, and weapons development to the Israeli military. The Israeli military has made use of them by filling the streets of Gaza with Palestinian blood.  Museum London, sponsored by TD bank, had its Summer Launch Party on June 11. The event featured the exhibition opening of Franco-Manitoban artist Dominique Rey,…

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Image of a poster advertising the Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide" film series on June 27, 2026 at London Public Library in London, Ontario, sponsored by Embassy Cultural House, Antler River Media Co-Op, People for Peace London, and Independent Jewish Voices. The poster features artwork by Incé Husain in red and green tones, portraying a fish jumping over a wave formed from a keffiyeh.

Remembering 2025 “Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide”, as 2026 program to screen in London this June 

“Queer Cinema for Palestine is about exposing and fighting Israel’s pinkwashing agenda, which uses all queer and trans identities to create a pink smokescreen attempting to hide Israel’s violent oppression of Palestinians. When an Israeli soldier committing genocide in Gaza poses for a photoshoot among the devastation while holding a pride flag with the words ‘in the name of love’, this is a textbook example of pinkwashing,” says activist Ghadir Shafie in her recorded introduction to Queer Cinema for Palestine’s 2025 program.  “Queer Cinema for Palestine is about creating an ethical space for the hundreds of filmmakers who have withdrawn…

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“Two Nations. One Voice”: Palestine and Lebanon rally grips Victoria Park

“I was born in Haifa. I am older than Israel,” said Lilian Mattar-Patey, a Windsor-based United Church minister. She addressed crowds gathered beneath a grey sky at Victoria Park in London on April 19 for a Palestine and Lebanon rally; a social media post about the protest read Two Nations. One Voice. Together, we rise. “In 1948, the first day of the Nakba or ‘catastrophe’, my brother was carrying me. I was less than two years old then, and he said that the Israeli soldiers were shooting at us, and one bullet came beside my ear and he said if…

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“You Will Not Kill Our Imagination”: Palestinian writer Saeed Teebi’s book launch at Western University 

“The greatest battleground in any war is always that of story,” reads Palestinian writer Saeed Teebi from his memoir You Will Not Kill Our Imagination at his book launch at Western University’s Conron Hall on November 10th. “In my view, Israel’s greatest accomplishment is that, even decades after its colonial inception, its story has remained in the foreground, while the stories of the Palestinian natives to the land continue to exist in relative obscurity. Of course, the obscurity of the Palestinian story is a manufactured one, a whole cloth tailored to fit snug over the minds of Western audiences. It…

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Londoners gather at London courthouse in support of local activist

Yesterday morning, a crowd of Londoners gathered to support longtime activist David Heap at his court hearing. Heap faces charges related to protesting the ‘Best Defence’ weapons manufacturing conference held in London in October 2025. Heap, an associate professor at Western University, was charged with one count of obstructing a peace officer after the London Police Service (LPS) Street Crime Unit executed search warrants at his home on November 25. In their press release, the LPS announced that a variety of items had been seized, including computers, cell phones, radios and protest placards during their pre-dawn searches at activists’ homes…

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“We are waiting to rebuild Gaza as scholars”: Canadian government stalls visas for students in Gaza admitted to Ontario universities

Audio excerpts of interviews with Nour, Khaled, and Raneen – students in Gaza accepted to Canadian universities: “I am Nour from Gaza. I have got a PhD acceptance in the civil engineering department at Toronto University since May 2024. I want to complete my PhD in order to get back to Gaza and rebuild it after the destruction happened in the war,” says Nour over a WhatsApp audio call from Gaza City on Wednesday, December 3. “Here, the destruction is very huge, the buildings are destructed, infrastructure is destructed, streets destructed, so we dream about this — a good education…

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“We do not make peace with colonizers”: Palestine rally, vigil on UN International Day of Peace 

On September 21st, the UN International Day of Peace, Londoners gathered at Victoria Park for a Palestine rally and vigil. The crowd was filled with human rights posters, Palestinian flags, and keffiyehs that reeled honks of solidarity from passing cars.  End genocide, end apartheid, free Palestine, read the posters. In Gaza, a bag of flour costs a life. Against killing kids?: Palestine is your cause. Invest in justice, stop arming Israel. You can’t say I didn’t know, you can only say I didn’t care.  Speeches from community members redefined “peace” with imagery of resistance and a rage that grieves.  ***…

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