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.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Radical hospitality, practical solidarity, boundless love: Memorial for mum

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Alice Mildred Heap (née Boomhour) July 20, 1925 - March 24, 2012 Antiphon The work of Justice shall be peace, ...

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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Lies, misinformation and manipulations

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Our very first contact with Israeli authorities involved them telling us what turned out to be one in a series of deceptions and outright...

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

From campus to a Gaza flotilla: the experiences of an activist academic [republished]

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[NOTE: as originally published on TheConversation.edu.au February 22. 2012] Canadian academic David Heap last year took part in an act...

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

More mind games, and the language of resistance

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It was almost two days after our kidnapping in international waters and being brought by force to Israeli jail that we finally got a chance...

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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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