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January 28, 2026
Matriarchy, Land, and Bannock: A Conversation with Marlene Hale
<p>In this episode of Habibti Please, Nashwa was joined in person by Wet’suwet’en Matriarch, activist, filmmaker, chef, and community organizer <a target="_blank" href="https://chefmaluh.ca/who-we-are">Marlene Hale</a>, in Montreal last May. Marlene is the founder of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ourdecisionourfuture.ca/">Our Decision, Our Future</a>, now evolving into Beyond the Ballot, and is currently working on a <a target="_blank" href="https://chefmaluh.ca/">documentary film</a> examining systemic racism, land defense, and Indigenous resistance across so-called Canada.</p><p>The conversation centres Matriarchy as a lived role, shaped through mentorship, listening, and accountability to land, people, and future generations. Moving between Wet’suwet’en feast house protocols, food sovereignty, climate justice, youth political organizing, and Bannock as pedagogy, Marlene offers a grounded vision of leadership rooted in care instead of hierarchy.</p><p>Rather than treating matriarchy as symbolic or historical, this episode understands it as active governance, survival, and responsibility, carried through everyday practices and intergenerational relationships.</p><p>This episode offers many learnings. Marlene generously explains that becoming a matriarch is not automatic or symbolic, it is a lifelong process of being mentored by grandmothers, mothers, and aunties. Knowledge is passed through observation, correction, and presence, beginning in childhood and continuing throughout life. She also describes feast houses as places where governance is learned through protocol, seating, service, and respect. Young people learn by watching elders closely, understanding roles, and asking questions when guided to do so. As mentioned in the episode, I first met Marlene in May 2025 during a rally at Montreal’s Cabot Square to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.</p><p>Although I have long been honoured to do work with and alongside Indigenous people I had rarely heard the kinds of connections Marlene made to pipelines and Missing and Murdered Indigenous women. Marlene connects resource extraction projects and, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/wetsuweten-isnt-just-about-a-pipeline-but-keeping-indigenous-women-safe/">increased violence against Indigenous women</a>. logging roads, and man camps to broader forms of harm: disrupted animal migration, food insecurity, environmental risks These are not separate issues, but interconnected outcomes of extractive systems.</p><p>Marlene reflects on how families once lived off the land year-round through hunting, fishing, drying, and berry picking,canning while today, forest fires, industrial development, and ecological destruction have made those practices difficult, forcing people far from their territories. To close we talk about a project Marlene spearheads Our Decision, Our Future and how it grew into Beyond the Ballot Box after witnessing deep political alienation among young people. Voting, she emphasizes, is only one step, while real democracy requires ongoing accountability to youth whose futures are most at stake.</p><p>Throughout the conversation, Marlene stresses that Youth and Elders. Elders create time and space and experience; Youth bring urgency serious issues and imagination, and each share stories. Marlene returns often to awareness: ofLand, Food Systems, and people, and as a form of survival and responsibility in a rapidly changing and often hostile political environment.</p><p><strong>Film & Ongoing Work</strong></p><p>Marlene is currently filming a documentary film grounded in years of organizing, The film examines systemic racism across health, education, justice, and environmental systems, while situating Wet’suwet’en struggle within global Indigenous movements.</p><p>Furthermore, since the pandemic hit,she has been raising awareness through her weekly webinar series, “Marlene Webinars Solidarity Action Group”. She has created this space for youth, elders, activists and more to share news and support each other through the many issues to its depth.</p><p><strong>Follow & Support Marlene Hale</strong></p><p>● Website: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ourdecisionourfuture.ca">www.ourdecisionourfuture.ca</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://chuffed.org/project/126670-our-decision-our-future">https://chuffed.org/project/126670-our-decision-our-future</a></p><p>● Instagram: @OurDecisionOurFuture</p><p>● Bio: Marlene Hale - Our World</p><p>● Webinar: Marlene Solidarity Webinar</p><p>● Film: <a target="_blank" href="http://chefmaluh.ca">chefmaluh.ca</a></p><p><strong>Video Interviews, Talks & Panels</strong></p><p><strong>Baking Bannock & Battling Environmental Racism with Marlene Hale.</strong></p><p><strong>POP Symposium – Day 3: Marlene Hale & Stefan Christoff</strong>The Artist’s Role in Indigenous Land Struggles.</p><p></p><p><strong>Marlene Hale Solidarity Update.</strong></p><p><strong>Additional Talk on Indigenous Struggle & Resistance.</strong></p><p><strong>Wet’suwet’en Chef, Turned Activist in Quebec Ready to Take on the Politicians.</strong>(APTN News – video)</p><p>https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/wetsuweten-chef-turned-activist-in-quebec-ready-to-take-on-the-politicians-to-get-answers-for-her-people-in-b-c/</p><p><strong>Further Reading & Viewing</strong></p><p>A curated list to deepen the themes of matriarchy, Indigenous feminism, land defense, food sovereignty, and political accountability discussed in this episode.</p><p><strong>Indigenous Matriarchy & Women’s Leadership</strong></p><p>Reid, Teela. <strong>“The Power of the First Nations Matriarchy: Warrior Women Reckoning with the Colony.”</strong> Griffith Review.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/the-power-of-the-first-nations-matriarchy/">https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/the-power-of-the-first-nations-matriarchy/</a></p><p>Murray, Roxann. <strong>“The Healing Power of Matriarchs.”</strong> YES! Magazine, 2024.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/04/22/women-native-healing-matriarch">https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/04/22/women-native-healing-matriarch</a></p><p><strong>“Indigenous Matriarchal Traditions: A Tribute for Women’s History Month.”</strong> Owamniyomni.<a target="_blank" href="https://owamniyomni.org/2024/03/21/indigenous-matriarchal-traditions-a-tribute-for-womens-history-month/">https://owamniyomni.org/2024/03/21/indigenous-matriarchal-traditions-a-tribute-for-womens-history-month/</a></p><p>Hale, Marlene. <strong>“The Making of a Matriarch.”</strong> BILD-LIDA.<a target="_blank" href="https://bild-lida.ca/blog/uncategorized/the-making-of-a-matriarch-by-marlene-hale/">https://bild-lida.ca/blog/uncategorized/the-making-of-a-matriarch-by-marlene-hale/</a></p><p><strong>Indigenous Feminism, Care, & Knowledge Practices</strong></p><p>Tuck, E., Stepetin, H., Beaulne-Stuebing, R., & Billows, J. (2022).<strong>“Visiting as an Indigenous Feminist Practice.”</strong> Gender and Education.<a target="_blank" href="https://poche.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/4740723/2022-Tuck,-E.,-_Stepetin,-H.,-_Beaulne-Stuebing,-R.,-_-_Billows,-J.-2022.-Visiting-as-an-Indigenous-feminist-practice.-Gender-and-Education,-1-12.pdf">https://poche.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/4740723/2022-Tuck,-E.,-_Stepetin,-H.,-_Beaulne-Stuebing,-R.,-_-_Billows,-J.-2022.-Visiting-as-an-Indigenous-feminist-practice.-Gender-and-Education,-1-12.pdf</a></p><p><strong>“An Indigenous Feminist Commemoration of Canada 150.”</strong> University of Winnipeg — Weweni.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/indigenous/weweni/past-wewenis/an-indigenous-feminist-commemoration-of-canada-150.html">https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/indigenous/weweni/past-wewenis/an-indigenous-feminist-commemoration-of-canada-150.html</a></p><p>Palmater, Pamela. <strong>“#MeToo and the Secrets Indigenous Women Keep.”</strong> The Walrus.<a target="_blank" href="https://thewalrus.ca/metoo-and-the-secrets-indigenous-women-keep/">https://thewalrus.ca/metoo-and-the-secrets-indigenous-women-keep/</a></p><p><strong>Law, Governance & Indigenous Feminist Frameworks</strong></p><p>This section brings together Indigenous feminist scholarship that interrogates how law, governance, and state systems shape and often enable violence against Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people. These works are essential for understanding why extractive projects, policing, and jurisdictional gaps continue to produce harm, and how Indigenous feminist legal thought offers pathways toward accountability, relational governance, and land-based justice.</p><p><strong>Deborah McGregor — Indigenous Feminisms, Environmental Justice, and the Law</strong></p><p>In this work, Deborah McGregor advances Indigenous feminist approaches to law and environmental governance. McGregor demonstrates how settler legal systems and extractive governance models marginalize Indigenous women’s authority, responsibilities to land, and knowledge systems, while reproducing colonial and gendered violence. Her work is foundational for understanding how environmental decision-making, resource extraction, and legal regimes intersect with the MMIWG2S crisis.<a target="_blank" href="https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works/2924/">https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works/2924/</a></p><p><strong>Cherry Smiley — Indigenous Feminism, Colonial Violence, and Resistance</strong></p><p>In her doctoral research, Cherry Smiley offers a rigorous critique of how colonial governance, state feminism, and liberal legal frameworks obscure and perpetuate violence against Indigenous women. Smiley centers Indigenous feminism as a site of political resistance, challenging racialized and patriarchal narratives while foregrounding Indigenous women’s leadership in struggles against sexual violence, disappearance, and state harm.<a target="_blank" href="https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/990510/">https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/990510/</a></p><p><strong>Pipelines, Man Camps & Violence Against Indigenous Women</strong></p><p><strong>Content note:</strong> The following resources discuss colonial and gender-based violence, sexual violence, disappearance, and murder of Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people. We share these readings to deepen understanding of the structural conditions that create harm and to honour the leadership and analysis of Indigenous communities.</p><p>This set of readings explores how resource extraction projects, particularly pipelines and associated “man camps” intersect with the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people (MMIWG2S). Together, these pieces show how extractive economies, colonial jurisdictional gaps, and temporary industrial workforces create conditions that heighten risk and violence for Indigenous communities.</p><p><strong>Selected Readings & Resources</strong></p><p><strong>• Pipeline of Violence: The Oil Industry and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women</strong>This legal and human rights analysis examines how oil and pipeline projects intensify violence against Indigenous women through jurisdictional failures, lack of accountability, and the social impacts of extractive economies on Indigenous lands.<a target="_blank" href="https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2021/05/28/pipeline-of-violence-the-oil-industry-and-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/">https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2021/05/28/pipeline-of-violence-the-oil-industry-and-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/</a></p><p><strong>• Pipeline Fighters – Missing & Murdered Indigenous Persons Resource Hub</strong>A community-based resource linking pipeline resistance with MMIWG2S advocacy. This page connects extractive infrastructure to patterns of violence and offers pathways to further reports, inquiries, and Indigenous-led organizing.<a target="_blank" href="https://pipelinefighters.org/resources/indigenous-resources/missing-murdered-indigenous-persons/">https://pipelinefighters.org/resources/indigenous-resources/missing-murdered-indigenous-persons/</a></p><p><strong>• Pipelines, Man Camps and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada (Al Jazeera)</strong>This feature centers Indigenous voices describing how pipeline construction and transient work camps have led to increased harassment, intimidation, and violence in nearby communities, echoing findings from Canada’s National Inquiry.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/5/5/pipelines-man-camps-and-murdered-indigenous-women-in-canada">https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/5/5/pipelines-man-camps-and-murdered-indigenous-women-in-canada</a></p><p><strong>• What Do Pipelines Have to Do with Sexual Violence? (Vancouver & District Sexual Violence Prevention Alliance)</strong>A clear, accessible overview explaining how pipeline projects and man camps can contribute to sexual violence, particularly in rural and Indigenous territories, and why prevention must be built into project planning and policy.<a target="_blank" href="https://vsdvalliance.org/press_release/what-do-pipelines-have-to-do-with-sexual-violence/">https://vsdvalliance.org/press_release/what-do-pipelines-have-to-do-with-sexual-violence/</a></p><p><strong>• For Indigenous Women, More Pipelines Mean More Threats of Sexual Violence (The Revelator)</strong>An environmental justice perspective highlighting how fossil fuel infrastructure projects increase risks of sexual violence for Indigenous women, drawing on community testimony and land-based resistance.<a target="_blank" href="https://therevelator.org/fossil-fuel-indigenous-women/">https://therevelator.org/fossil-fuel-indigenous-women/</a></p><p><strong>• Wet’suwet’en Isn’t Just About a Pipeline, but Keeping Indigenous Women Safe (VICE)</strong>Reporting from Wet’suwet’en territory that situates land defense as a form of community safety, emphasizing how opposition to pipelines is also about protecting Indigenous women and girls from violence.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/wetsuweten-isnt-just-about-a-pipeline-but-keeping-indigenous-women-safe/">https://www.vice.com/en/article/wetsuweten-isnt-just-about-a-pipeline-but-keeping-indigenous-women-safe/</a></p><p><strong>• Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ People – Resource Guide (Canadian Human Rights Commission)</strong>A comprehensive guide to reports, inquiries, community organizations, and educational materials — including Reclaiming Power and Place — offering broader context on the MMIWG2S crisis in Canada.<a target="_blank" href="https://humanrights.ca/resource-guide/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-girls-and-2slgbtqi-people">https://humanrights.ca/resource-guide/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-girls-and-2slgbtqi-people</a></p><p></p><p>P.S. </p><p>I also want to name that today feels politically important. Last year I attended Avi Lewis’ NDP leadership launch in Ottawa, and it left me feeling something I haven’t felt in a long time in formal political spaces: a sense of movement, seriousness, and possibility.</p><p>As many of you know, including from my essay Voting Is Not Harm Reduction I’m not someone who believes party politics will resolve our crises, or that electoral wins replace organizing, mutual aid, land defense, or movement work. I don’t see voting as the horizon of change.</p><p>But I do think moments like this can be openings. A leadership race like this one is a chance to push a mainstream party toward bolder climate justice, anti-war politics, and accountability to movements including Indigenous land defense and feminist struggles against violence. For me, this feels less like an endorsement of party politics, and more like a strategic intervention: an attempt to widen what’s politically sayable and possible.</p><p>If this resonates, <a target="_blank" href="https://act.lewisforleader.ca/become-an-ndp-member?r=cO8s7hav">you can sign up for an NDP membership</a> (as little as $10) to be able to vote for Avi Lewis before <strong>before midnight PST/3 am EST today, on January 28.</strong>. I’m sharing the link <a target="_blank" href="https://act.lewisforleader.ca/become-an-ndp-member?r=cO8s7hav">here </a>for anyone who wants to join me. An invitation, offered in the spirit of collective experimentation and hope.</p><p>For further context on why this leadership race matters strategically for the broader left, I recommend Martin Lukacs’ article “<a target="_blank" href="https://breachmedia.ca/the-left-case-for-joining-the-ndp-and-voting-for-avi-lewis/">The left case for joining the NDP — and voting for Avi Lewis,”</a> which lays out how building party membership now can expand space for movement politics.</p><p>As always, thank you for listening, for thinking alongside me, and for holding these conversations with care.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe</a>
January 1, 2026
Monarchy, Militarism, and the Quiet Expansion of Canada’s War Economy
<p>In this episode of Habibti Please, Nashwa Lina Khan joins <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/local514montreal/">Local 514</a> for a deep-dive conversation unpacking the recent visit of the Swedish royal family to Montréal, Ottawa, and so-called Canada, a visit largely framed by mainstream media as ceremonial, benign, and cultural. This episode argues otherwise.</p><p>What begins as a seemingly innocuous royal tour reveals a much deeper story about arms deals, NATO expansion, Canada’s growing role in the military-industrial complex, and how cities like Montréal are quietly being positioned as hubs fo r weapons manufacturing and military AI.</p><p>Royal visits are not Neutral. The Swedish king and queen were not simply visiting for diplomacy or cultural exchange. Their presence functioned as high-level corporate lobbying on behalf of Sweden’s arms industry, specifically the push to sell Saab Gripen fighter jets to Canada amid tensions with the United States and a reassessment of F-35 procurement.</p><p>Sweden’s carefully cultivated global image as progressive, neutral, humanitarian collapses under closer scrutiny. The episode traces Saab’s history of corruption allegations across South Africa, Brazil, Central Europe, and beyond, raising urgent questions about why Canada would deepen military partnerships with a company repeatedly implicated in bribery and misconduct. “Humanitarian arms exporters” do not and will never exist. </p><p>Far from being peripheral, Montréal is already deeply embedded in global weapons supply chains. Montreal is indeed a weapons hub. From aerospace manufacturing to AI research institutes, public funds and public institutions are increasingly tied to military production often without public debate or consent. Montreal is already a weapons hub, you can read more from Arms Embargo Now <a target="_blank" href="https://armsembargonow.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Exposing-Canadian-Military-Exports-to-Israel_07292025_compressed-.pdf">here.</a> The Swedish delegation’s visit to Montréal’s AI research institutions highlights how “innovation” rhetoric is used to normalize military tech development. Civilian research spaces are quietly absorbed into war-oriented futures under the banner of jobs and competitiveness.</p><p>The promise of “10,000 high-paying jobs” is interrogated head-on. The episode asks: Why are weapons framed as the only viable economic growth strategy? What would job creation look like if public money were invested in housing, climate resilience, care work, or food security instead? Why jobs implicated in war instead of justice?</p><p>While politicians insist Canada is not directly exporting weapons to conflict zones, the episode lays out how Canadian-made components feed into global arms supply chains including those linked to Gaza, Sudan, Yemen, and beyond. Canada is and has been quietly complicit.</p><p>This conversation invites listeners to move beyond surface-level nationalism and media complacency. It challenges the idea that Canada or Sweden can position itself as peace-loving while expanding war infrastructure. It also asks Montréalers to reflect on what kind of city we are being shaped into, and who benefits from that transformation. or clear, evidence-based reporting on how Canadian-made weapons and components continue to circulate globally despite official denials, spend time with this investigation from <strong>Arms Embargo Now:</strong> https://armsembargonow.ca/.</p><p>As this episode reminds us, militarized economies are life-taking economies and they require permanent war to sustain themselves.</p><p><strong>Complicity Is Not a Mystery: Canada, Arms, and the Architecture of Denial</strong></p><p>Canada often describes itself as a peacekeeping nation, restrained, principled, and guided by “benevolant” international law. Yet the evidence tells a different story. Over and over, Canadian-made weapons, components, and technologies surface in sites of mass violence: Gaza, Sudan, Yemen. Each time, the response follows a familiar pattern. Officials insist exports are frozen. Ministers emphasize complexity. Responsibility is displaced onto allies, intermediaries, or technical classifications.</p><p>What this bibliography reveals is not a failure of information, but an architecture of denial.</p><p>Civil society reports show how Canadian arms complicit in violence globaly reach places through U.S. supply chains. Investigative journalism documents contracts approved after internal reviews flagged extensive human rights violations. Parliamentary interventions warn that Canada is “on notice” of potential complicity under international law. Faith institutions and humanitarian organizations call for embargoes and sanctions. Still, the machinery continues.</p><p>Complicity here is not accidental. It is bureaucratic. It lives in export permits, Crown corporations,Canadian ports, risk-mitigation language, and procurement contracts framed as “industrial benefits.” It is reinforced through diplomacy, royal visits, trade missions, defence partnerships that normalize militarism as innovation and economic growth.</p><p>Looking at Sudan makes it impossible to dismiss as rooted on a single conflict. Canadian rifles appear in the hands of militias accused of massacres. Canadian exports pass through the UAE despite clear diversion risks. The same loopholes, the same rationales, the same denials reappear.</p><p>What changes when we read these sources together is scale. The question is no longer whether Canada knows. The record shows it does. The question is whether Canada is willing to act when accountability threatens profit, alliances, or national myth.</p><p>This archive exists to interrupt that myth and to insist that responsibility does not end at the border, the permit, or the press release.</p><p><strong>Canada, Arms, and Complicity: A Starter Reading List</strong></p><p>This short list is designed for people who want to learn about the issue issue or need a clear entry point. Each item attempts to answer a different “first question.”</p><p><strong>1. Arms Embargo Now (2025)</strong></p><p><strong>Exposing Canadian Military Exports to Israel</strong><a target="_blank" href="https://armsembargonow.ca/report/">https://armsembargonow.ca/report/</a></p><p><strong>Why start here:</strong>This is the clearest overview of what Canada is exporting, how it moves (especially via the U.S.), and why official claims of a “freeze” don’t match the evidence.</p><p><strong>2. CBC News (2025)</strong></p><p><strong>Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials</strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/arms-ammunition-shipments-israel-canada-1.7596091">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/arms-ammunition-shipments-israel-canada-1.7596091</a></p><p><strong>Why start here:</strong>Shows how mainstream journalism confirms what civil society has documented and where government messaging breaks down.</p><p><strong>3. Project Ploughshares (2025)</strong></p><p><strong>Canada under contract to supply the IDF with artillery propellant</strong><a target="_blank" href="https://ploughshares.ca/canada-under-contract-to-supply-the-idf-with-artillery-propellant/">https://ploughshares.ca/canada-under-contract-to-supply-the-idf-with-artillery-propellant/</a></p><p><strong>Why start here:</strong>Introduces the idea of indirect complicity and how Canadian goods flow through U.S. contracts and Crown corporations.</p><p><strong>4. The Maple (2025)</strong></p><p><strong>How Canada’s purchases of Israeli weapons fuel genocide</strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.readthemaple.com/how-canadas-purchases-of-israeli-weapons-fuel-genocide/">https://www.readthemaple.com/how-canadas-purchases-of-israeli-weapons-fuel-genocide/</a></p><p><strong>Why start here:</strong>Shifts the conversation from exports to imports and how Canada financially sustains Israel’s military industry.</p><p><strong>5. Yellowhead Institute (2023)</strong></p><p><strong>Canada’s Role in the Colonization of Palestine</strong><a target="_blank" href="https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2023/candas-role-in-colonization-palestine/">https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2023/candas-role-in-colonization-palestine/</a></p><p><strong>Why start here:</strong>Provides historical grounding on how Canada’s relationship to Palestine did not begin in 2023.</p><p><strong>6. Anglican Church of Canada (2025)</strong></p><p><strong>General Synod Resolution C012: Arms Embargo on Israel</strong><a target="_blank" href="https://gs2025.anglican.ca/resolutions/c012/">https://gs2025.anglican.ca/resolutions/c012/</a></p><p><strong>Why start here:</strong>This is no longer a fringe position, institutions are publicly calling for an embargo.</p><p><strong>7. Local 514 (2025)</strong></p><p><strong>The Swedish royal couple in Montréal to sell warplanes?</strong> (video of this episode)</p><p><strong>Why start here:</strong>Connects arms exports to diplomacy, monarchy, and the normalization of militarism.</p><p><strong>PART II — DEEP-DIVE APPENDIX </strong></p><p></p><p><strong>A. Export Loopholes & State Risk Assessments</strong></p><p>* <strong>Project Ploughshares & Amnesty International Canada</strong> —“No Credible Evidence”: Canada’s flawed analysis of arms exports to Saudi Arabia<a target="_blank" href="https://ploughshares.ca/special-report-no-credible-evidence-canadas-flawed-analysis-of-arms-exports-to-saudi-arabia/">https://ploughshares.ca/special-report-no-credible-evidence-canadas-flawed-analysis-of-arms-exports-to-saudi-arabia/</a></p><p>* <strong>The Maple</strong> —Government export agency noted 99 Israeli crimes but OK’d arms sale<a target="_blank" href="https://www.readthemaple.com/government-export-agency-noted-99-israeli-crimes-but-okd-arms-sale/">https://www.readthemaple.com/government-export-agency-noted-99-israeli-crimes-but-okd-arms-sale/</a></p><p>* <strong>Middle East Monitor</strong> —Canada reviewing report on U.S. loophole sending military parts to Israel<a target="_blank" href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251122-canada-reviewing-report-on-us-loophole-sending-its-military-parts-to-israel-despite-freeze/">https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251122-canada-reviewing-report-on-us-loophole-sending-its-military-parts-to-israel-despite-freeze/</a></p><p><strong>B. Civilian Infrastructure</strong></p><p>* <strong>The Rover</strong> —Are passengers on flights from Montréal sitting above shipments of bullets?<a target="_blank" href="https://therover.ca/gaza-are-passengers-on-flights-from-montreal-sitting-above-shipments-of-bullets-for-israels-war/">https://therover.ca/gaza-are-passengers-on-flights-from-montreal-sitting-above-shipments-of-bullets-for-israels-war/</a></p><p><strong>C. Sudan, the UAE, and Global Spillover</strong></p><p>* <strong>CBC News</strong> —Sudanese fighters accused of massacres use Canadian-made rifles<a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sudan-rsf-massacres-canadian-rifles-sterling-cross-9.6969856">https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sudan-rsf-massacres-canadian-rifles-sterling-cross-9.6969856</a></p><p>* <strong>Truthout</strong> —As Canadian weapons enter Sudan, activists decry Canada’s deepening UAE ties<a target="_blank" href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-canadian-weapons-enter-sudan-activists-decry-canadas-deepening-uae-ties/">https://truthout.org/articles/as-canadian-weapons-enter-sudan-activists-decry-canadas-deepening-uae-ties/</a></p><p>* <strong>CJPME</strong> —Canada must halt arms exports to the UAE<a target="_blank" href="https://www.cjpme.org/pr_2025_10_30_sudan">https://www.cjpme.org/pr_2025_10_30_sudan</a></p><p><strong>D. Parliamentary & Institutional Accountability</strong></p><p>* <strong>Senate of Canada — Kim Pate (2025)</strong>Senate intervention on Gaza and risk of Canadian complicity<a target="_blank" href="https://sencanada.ca/en/senators/pate-kim/interventions/671800/51">https://sencanada.ca/en/senators/pate-kim/interventions/671800/51</a></p><p>* <strong>Oxfam Canada</strong> —3 actions to limit Canada’s complicity in genocide<a target="_blank" href="https://www.oxfam.ca/story/3-actions-to-limit-canadas-complicity-in-genocide/">https://www.oxfam.ca/story/3-actions-to-limit-canadas-complicity-in-genocide/</a></p><p><strong>Listen + read more</strong></p><p>Subscribe to <strong>Habibti Please</strong> on Substack for extended analysis, reading lists, and companion essays:<strong>habibtiplease.substack.com</strong></p><p>Follow Nashwa Lina Khan’s work at the intersections of disability justice, anti-militarism, and feminist decolonial analysis.</p><p><strong>Stay Connected:</strong></p><p>* Follow us on Twitter:<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/habibtiblease"> @habibtiblease</a> and the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/habibtiblease/?hl=en">habibti please instagram</a></p><p>* <strong>🌳Our </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://linktr.ee/habibtiplease"><strong>Linktree</strong></a></p><p>* <strong>💕Habibti Please is proud to be part of the </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://harbingermedianetwork.com/"><strong>Harbinger Media Network</strong></a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cutvmontreal.org/"><strong>Community University Television</strong></a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/@local514montreal"><strong>Local 514 Youtube</strong></a></p><p>Subscribe to Habibti Please on<a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3HfMgIoBhNZF0jBbgcFiJM"> Spotify</a>,<a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/habibti-please/id1531935387"> Apple Podcasts</a>, or<a target="_blank" href="https://habibtiplease.substack.com/"> Substack</a> to keep up with future episodes, resistance reading lists, and conversations from the frontlines of feminist, abolitionist, and anti-colonial struggles. 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September 26, 2025
Medicine is Never Neutral - Solidarity, healthcare, and Genocide in Gaza with Dr. Yipeng Ge
<p>Medicine is never neutral. In this episode of Habibti Please, host Nashwa Lina Khan speaks with Dr. Yipeng Ge, a public health physician and activist who has worked in Gaza during the genocide. They speak about the entanglement of healthcare, colonialism, and liberation struggles.</p><p>From Six Nations of the Grand River to Gaza, this conversation connects Indigenous resistance, Palestinian liberation, and the responsibilities of healthcare workers who refuse silence in the face of genocide. Dr. Ge shares first-hand experiences working in Rafah, witnessing severe malnutrition and attacks on Gaza’s hospitals, and reflects on the responsibilities of physicians to act politically, not just clinically.</p><p>They also discuss the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s largest-ever mission, the <a target="_blank" href="https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/">Sumud flotilla,</a> which set sail with over 50 boats from 44 countries to break Israel’s illegal blockade — and the increasing risks activists face as Israel escalates attacks and labels them “terrorists.”</p><p>To practice medicine is to confront colonialism, speak out against genocide, and understand care as inseparable from justice. Yipeng reflects on their education at McMaster, where Indigenous leaders like <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Martin-Hill">Dawn Martin Hill </a>fought for the creation of Indigenous Studies, shaping a transformative understanding of privilege, responsibility, and solidarity. Drawing on the words of Dr. Nidal Jabbour, the conversation underscores that liberation and freedom — not aid alone — are essential for health and survival in Palestine and beyond.</p><p>Solidarity is an act of risk: putting one’s voice and body on the line, following the direction of oppressed communities, and standing in the way of erasure. Propaganda and lobbying in Canada and Western media erases and dehumanizes Palestinians while legitimizing settler state violence. Activism can be a driver of systemic change, from Burnaby declaring itself an apartheid-free city to Italian ports blocking Israeli arms shipments and a recent general strike.</p><p>Yipeng shares his experience working in Gaza, describing malnourished children, the destruction of hospitals like Nasser Medical Complex, and the resilience of Palestinian healthcare workers who continue to care for their people under siege. The Global Sumud Flotilla, international intervention from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/9/24/spain-to-join-italy-in-deploying-naval-ship-to-escort-gaza-flotilla">Italy and Spain in deploying naval ships to support the flotilla</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/23/million-strong-general-strike-blocks-italy-for-palestine/">1 million Italians striking and shutting down the country for action</a>, are critical escalation of global solidarity, even as the genocide intensifies.</p><p>The history of Western medicine is one that is complicit in slavery, eugenics, and Indigenous genocide. Yipeng reflects on disrupting these structures from within the profession. Hope is not passive, but a discipline — an active practice of persistence and resistance, embodied by Palestinian steadfastness and echoed in abolitionist struggles.</p><p>This episode is a call to understand medicine as resistance, solidarity as risk, and hope as a discipline — forged through collective struggle, from Gaza to Turtle Island.</p><p>Resources & Links</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://globalsamudflotilla.org/">Freedom Flotilla Coalition – Global Sumud Flotilla</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://globalsumudflotilla.org/#map">Countries part of the global flotilla</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.doctorsagainstgenocide.org/">Doctors Against Genocide</a></p><p>* Independent Media mentioned: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.readthemaple.com/">The Maple</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thegrindmag.ca/">The Grind,</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://ricochet.media/">Ricochet</a></p><p>* Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta’s work: <a target="_blank" href="https://drghassanabusittah.com/">https://drghassanabusittah.com/</a></p><p>* Follow Yipeng:<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/yipengge"> Twitter</a> |<a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/yipeng.ge/?hl=en"> Instagram</a></p><p>* Subscribe:<a target="_blank" href="https://habibtiplease.substack.com/"> Habibti Please Substack</a></p><p>Academic / reports / analyses/ advocacy / activist/ coalition / grassroots resources</p><p>* A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide (Public Health and Human Rights Initiative, PHRI) This report frames much of the health system collapse in Gaza through the lens of genocide law. (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.phr.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Genocide-in-Gaza-PHRI-English.pdf">רופאים לזכויות אדם</a>)</p><p>* Safeguarding healthcare workers in Gaza and throughout conflict zones — Khanji et al., 2025 Focus on legal / ethical imperatives for protecting medical personnel in conflict. (<a target="_blank" href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11822384/">PMC</a>)</p><p>* Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent — The Lancet (Editorial) A call to medical institutions to break selective silence and act. (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2825%2901735-0/fulltext?rss=yes&">The Lancet</a>)</p><p>* “Healthocide and medical neutrality: a call for action and accountability” — (Abi-Rached et al.) <a target="_blank" href="https://gh.bmj.com/content/10/8/e018656">BMJ Global Health</a></p><p>* “The Rhetoric of Decolonizing Global Health Fails to Address the Reality of Settler Colonialism: Gaza as a Case in Point” —<a target="_blank" href="https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4577.html"> International Journal of Health Policy and Management</a></p><p>* Doctors Against Genocide — Medical Resources A live, updated resource hub including webinars, profiles of Gaza health workers, and advocacy materials. (<a target="_blank" href="https://doctorsagainstgenocide.org/medical-resources">Doctors Against Genocide</a>)</p><p>* The Sameer Project A Palestinian-led medical / relief operation in Gaza. Their public pages (e.g. Open Collective) explain their work in shelter, medical care, supplies, etc. (<a target="_blank" href="https://opencollective.com/the-sameer-project?">Open Collective</a>)</p><p>* Librarians & Archivists with Palestine — Readings & Resources A curated and updated reading list and resource guide (nonfiction, fiction, archives, etc.). (<a target="_blank" href="https://librarianswithpalestine.org/readings-and-resources/">Librarians with Palestine</a>)</p><p>* Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) statements on Gaza / doctors’ calls to action MSF has publicly described that doctors in Gaza “face the devastating reality that they cannot stop genocide.” (<a target="_blank" href="https://msf.org.uk/article/gaza-doctors-cant-stop-genocide-world-leaders-can">MSF UK</a>)</p><p>* “Gaza’s healthcare system is being destroyed by targeted attacks” (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/08/gazas-healthcare-system-is-being-destroyed-by-targeted-attacks">The Guardian</a>)</p><p>* Doctors who visited Gaza speak of ‘atrocities,’ collapsing healthcare” (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/doctors-who-visited-gaza-speak-atrocities-collapsing-healthcare-2024-03-20/">Reuters</a>)</p><p>* Healthcare collapse and disease spread: a qualitative study of challenges in Gaza strip Abuzerr, S., Zinszer, K., & Mahmoud, H. (2025). BMC Public Health (Open Access) — examines how the collapse of healthcare infrastructure is driving infectious disease spread in Gaza. (<a target="_blank" href="https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-025-21817-1?">BioMed Central</a>)</p><p>* Barriers faced by primary healthcare providers in addressing emergencies in the Northern region of Palestine before and during the Gaza war Hamshari, S., Hamadneh, S., Ghneem, M. et al. (2024). BMC Primary Care (Open Access) — focuses on what primary healthcare providers are experiencing, before & during the genocide. (<a target="_blank" href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12875-024-02512-3">SpringerLink</a>)</p><p>* Resilience amid chaos: The role of Gaza medical points — from PMC (Open Access) — looks at “medical points” (mobile / temporary clinics) and how they function under severe shortage, damage, and conflict pressure. (<a target="_blank" href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12443234/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">PMC</a>)</p><p>* Rebuilding the health sector in Gaza: alternative humanitarian voices Blanchet, K., Najem, M., Shadid, L., et al. (2024). Conflict and Health (Open Access) — perspectives from humanitarian actors on how the health system can be rebuilt and what alternative / grassroots voices are calling for. (<a target="_blank" href="https://conflictandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13031-024-00599-0?utm_source=chatgpt.com">BioMed Central</a>)</p><p>* Defending the right to health in Gaza: a call to action by health workers Mohammed, F., Elgailani, U.S.A., Ibrahim Ali, S.Y., et al. (2024). Conflict and Health (Open Access) — health workers’ statement about the destruction of the health system, challenges, and what is urgently needed. (<a target="_blank" href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13031-024-00613-5">SpringerLink</a>)</p><p>* The Urgent Struggle for Health Justice in Gaza: A Crisis of Human Rights and Inequity Mansour, W., Theobald, S., Fouad, F.M., et al. (2025). International Journal of Health Planning and Management (Free Access) — an editorial framing Gaza’s situation as part of a broader struggle for health justice. (<a target="_blank" href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hpm.3882">Wiley Online Library</a>)</p><p>* Critical care in Gaza amidst military pressure: the struggle of healthcare workers in Gaza’s Warzone — from PMC (Open Access) — detailed account of how critical care (ICUs, surgeries, anesthesia, etc.) is being impacted by conflict, blockades, hospital damage etc. (<a target="_blank" href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12406927/">PMC</a>)</p><p>* Frontiers | The War on Gaza and Its Impact on Public Health: Challenges and Pathways to Recovery Al Bakri, Khader, Khatib, et al. (2025). Frontiers in Public Health (Open Access) — discusses present public health emergencies in Gaza and what pathways there might be for recovery. (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1664850/full?">Frontiers</a>)</p><p>* The cost of conflict: how war is crippling Gaza’s healthcare system Sajid, F. (2025). Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery (Open Access) — letter-style piece detailing how war is affecting healthcare, capacity, infrastructure, etc. (<a target="_blank" href="https://ejns.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41984-025-00437-2">SpringerOpen</a>)</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.msf.org/medicine-being-strangled-gaza">“Medicine is being strangled”: An MSF doctor on collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system</a>. Médecins Sans Frontières. (2024). Doctors Without Borders.</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://journals.lww.com/annals-of-medicine-and-surgery/fulltext/2024/12000/famine_and_disease_escalate__gaza_s_humanitarian.8.aspx">Famine and disease escalate: Gaza’s humanitarian disaster</a>. (2024). Annals of Medicine & Surgery.</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2819473">Public Health Crisis in Gaza — The Responsibility of US-Based Academic Medical Journals</a>. Ijaz, N., & Habib, A. R. (2024).JAMA Network.</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/1833">Doctors for Global Health Statement on Gaza</a>. Social Medicine.</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-a-medical-student-in-gaza-i-studied-malnutrition-now-its-all-around-me/">As a Medical Student in Gaza, I Studied Malnutrition. Now It’s All Around Me</a>. by Hend Salama Abo Helow Truthout (First-Person Essay).</p><p><strong>Stay Connected:</strong></p><p>* Follow us on Twitter:<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/habibtiblease"> @habibtiblease</a> and the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/habibtiblease/?hl=en">habibti please instagram</a></p><p>* <strong>🌳Our </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://linktr.ee/habibtiplease"><strong>Linktree</strong></a></p><p>* <strong>💕Habibti Please is proud to be part of the </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://harbingermedianetwork.com/"><strong>Harbinger Media Network</strong></a></p><p>Subscribe to Habibti Please on<a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3HfMgIoBhNZF0jBbgcFiJM"> Spotify</a>,<a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/habibti-please/id1531935387"> Apple Podcasts</a>, or<a target="_blank" href="https://habibtiplease.substack.com/"> Substack</a> to keep up with future episodes, resistance reading lists, and conversations from the frontlines of feminist, abolitionist, and anti-colonial struggles. 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