Food Insecurity and UofT: A deep-dive with Mike Lawler & Sean Ihn

In the first of this two-parter, we spoke to Mike Lawler and our first returning guest, Sean, both grad students and former residence dons. From some truly horrifying tales from the ground to dealing with Kafkaesque bureaucracy, the often under-discussed food insecurity crisis continues to persist across UofT’s residence halls. This might just be the worst of all worlds, but it doesn’t have to be! Check out Part 2, where Sean and I get into solidarity-building between various student activists today.

Check out Sean and Mike’s first food drive at Chestnut and Chelsea.
You can learn about the PEARS Project here. 
Read about the Robert Reisz Investigation and the Campus Police incidents. 

We at the UnCover Podcast are producing and studying on the lands of the Huron-Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, and the Mississaugas of the Credit River. We live under the Dish With One Spoon Treaty, the Williams Treaties, and Treaty 13. As part of these Treaties, we must work “in the spirit of peace, friendship, and respect” to be truthful about our positionality as students of the University of Toronto who benefit from the wealth accumulated by Canadian universities through stolen land, artifacts, and culture of Indigenous Peoples. We hope to use our platform to speak and act beyond this acknowledgement to educate ourselves and our audiences on how students around UofT challenge its foundations of colonialism, capitalism, and extraction.

Resources:

• Support an ongoing effort to restore the sovereignty of the Haudenosaunee: 1492 Land Back Lane, follow on Instagram @1492landbacklane
• Learn about Residential Schools and support survivors through https://www.irsss.ca/
• Watch and support Indigenous film through https://imaginenative.org/
• Educate yourself and help Indigenous women at Native Women’s Association of Canada (https://www.nwac.ca/)
• Read UofT’s “Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada” and help keep the university accountable to its stated goals:...