David Heap

A parent of two, a UWO faculty member (French & linguistics), peace and social-justice activist and trade unionist feminist. Participated in the Gaza Freedom March in December 2009-January 2010, the Canadian Boat to Gaza (CanadaBoatgaza.org) and Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FreedomFlotilla.org) campaigns from 2010 to present.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Language games, mind games

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Some time after our internet connection and satellite phones were blocked on the afternoon of November 4, we received our first radio h...

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Musical winterlude 2 (+post-script: the Power of Song)

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Contrary to the impression an earlier post might have left, I am not opposed to seasonal singing generally (just to artifically “festive...

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Saturday, December 31, 2011

“Conversation” (?) or rather, Interrogation # 2

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As previously discussed , my reconstructions of these questioning sessions are necessarily partial , in both senses (somewhat biased and so...

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Musical winterlude

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While my feelings on this time of the year might not go as far at to list Top Ten Things I hate about Christmas like my friend and blogging...

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

“Conversation” (?) or rather, Interrogation # 1

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I have described elsewhere how the Tahrir was boarded on afternoon of Friday November 4 2011 by overwhelming Israeli military force. Immed...

Sunday, December 18, 2011

How can I keep from singing?

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This song is part of what kept me going while imprisoned in Israel for six days, following the capture at sea of the Tahrir (the Canadian ...

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DavidHeap: A parent of two, trade unionist feminist, peace and human rights activist. Participated in the Gaza Freedom March in December 2009, and the Canadian Boat to Gaza campaign from June 2010 to present. Day job: teacher-researcher aka Associate Prof at the University of Western Ontario (French & linguistics), interested in formal representations of variable pronominal morphology in nonstandard Romance dialects (among other things), but teaching whatever linguistics comes my way.

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