Huge BDS win on cultural front
Giller Prize is no longer partnered w Indigo Books, Azrieli Foundation & Scotiabank
In 2023, comrades were arrested protesting the Giller. Then, thousands of writers & book workers refused participation.
Giller has now separated from all genocide-invested sponsors.
Giller Prize is no longer partnered w Indigo Books, Azrieli Foundation & Scotiabank
In 2023, comrades were arrested protesting the Giller. Then, thousands of writers & book workers refused participation.
Giller has now separated from all genocide-invested sponsors.
April 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Huge BDS win on cultural front
Giller Prize is no longer partnered w Indigo Books, Azrieli Foundation & Scotiabank
In 2023, comrades were arrested protesting the Giller. Then, thousands of writers & book workers refused participation.
Giller has now separated from all genocide-invested sponsors.
Giller Prize is no longer partnered w Indigo Books, Azrieli Foundation & Scotiabank
In 2023, comrades were arrested protesting the Giller. Then, thousands of writers & book workers refused participation.
Giller has now separated from all genocide-invested sponsors.
Do you think it will rhyme with Blephen Giller?
June 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Do you think it will rhyme with Blephen Giller?
As long as the Giller Prize maintains Indigo and the Azrieli Foundation as sponsors, the boycott continues.
Canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
Canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
April 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
As long as the Giller Prize maintains Indigo and the Azrieli Foundation as sponsors, the boycott continues.
Canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
Canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
please enjoy the brilliant @emophilips.bsky.social on Letterman
Emo Philips Collection on Letterman, 1984-2001
YouTube video by Don Giller
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July 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
please enjoy the brilliant @emophilips.bsky.social on Letterman
Huge news! 🎉
Giller Prize, one of Canada's largest literary prizes, has cut ties with lead sponsor Scotiabank after one year of literary community protesting the bank’s ties to Elbit, Israeli arms manufacturer.
BDS works! We have power wherever we are.
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...
Giller Prize, one of Canada's largest literary prizes, has cut ties with lead sponsor Scotiabank after one year of literary community protesting the bank’s ties to Elbit, Israeli arms manufacturer.
BDS works! We have power wherever we are.
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...
Giller Foundation, lead sponsor Scotiabank end partnership
The foundation that administers the Giller Prize didn’t say why the partnership ended, but the sponsorship has recently come under fire over a Scotiabank subsidiary’s investment in an Israeli arms com...
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Huge news! 🎉
Giller Prize, one of Canada's largest literary prizes, has cut ties with lead sponsor Scotiabank after one year of literary community protesting the bank’s ties to Elbit, Israeli arms manufacturer.
BDS works! We have power wherever we are.
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...
Giller Prize, one of Canada's largest literary prizes, has cut ties with lead sponsor Scotiabank after one year of literary community protesting the bank’s ties to Elbit, Israeli arms manufacturer.
BDS works! We have power wherever we are.
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...
#Breaking: Giller Foundation ends its decades-long partnership with Scotiabank
CP NewsAlert: Giller Prize cuts ties with lead sponsor Scotiabank
The Giller Prize has cut ties with its lead sponsor Scotiabank more than a year after members of the literary community began protesting the bank's ties to an Israeli arms
www.thestar.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
#Breaking: Giller Foundation ends its decades-long partnership with Scotiabank
Some photos from last night's Boycott Giller picket and counter-gala, right at the doorstep of the Toronto Giller Prize ceremony - which went off alongside 5 other nights of counterprogramming in Montreal, Winnipeg, Fredericton, Vancouver and Halifax
canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
November 19, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Some photos from last night's Boycott Giller picket and counter-gala, right at the doorstep of the Toronto Giller Prize ceremony - which went off alongside 5 other nights of counterprogramming in Montreal, Winnipeg, Fredericton, Vancouver and Halifax
canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
After fifteen months of outcry from the literary community, the Giller Prize has cut ties with Scotiabank.
The Giller Prize has (finally) cut ties with Scotiabank.
After fifteen months of protests, boycotts, and pressure campaigns (from Can Lit Responds, No Arms in the Arts, and other activist groups within the Canadian literary community), the Giller Prize&#…
lithub.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
After fifteen months of outcry from the literary community, the Giller Prize has cut ties with Scotiabank.
join us in boycotting the giller until they drop sponsors complicit in genocide! www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
CanLit Responds
Over 20 authors pull work from the 2024 Giller Prize
www.canlitresponds.ca
November 11, 2024 at 5:21 PM
join us in boycotting the giller until they drop sponsors complicit in genocide! www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
Bizimle derdi olanın derdi hiç bitmesin...
İmza; Pati giller... 🐾🐾🐾
#KatliamaSonVerin
#ÖldürmeyinYaşatın
İmza; Pati giller... 🐾🐾🐾
#KatliamaSonVerin
#ÖldürmeyinYaşatın
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Bizimle derdi olanın derdi hiç bitmesin...
İmza; Pati giller... 🐾🐾🐾
#KatliamaSonVerin
#ÖldürmeyinYaşatın
İmza; Pati giller... 🐾🐾🐾
#KatliamaSonVerin
#ÖldürmeyinYaşatın
NEW: The Giller Prize boycott has ended. The embattled literary prize confirmed that it is no longer sponsored by groups with ties to Israeli occupation and genocide.
I spoke to previous Giller winners and nominees about the news for @thegrindto.bsky.social.
www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...
I spoke to previous Giller winners and nominees about the news for @thegrindto.bsky.social.
www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...
Organizers End Giller Prize Boycott, Say Demands Have Been Met
The embattled literary organization is no longer sponsored by Scotiabank, Indigo or the Azrieli Foundation, organizers confirmed. The Grind spoke to several authors about what this means for the…
www.thegrindmag.ca
April 10, 2026 at 2:05 PM
NEW: The Giller Prize boycott has ended. The embattled literary prize confirmed that it is no longer sponsored by groups with ties to Israeli occupation and genocide.
I spoke to previous Giller winners and nominees about the news for @thegrindto.bsky.social.
www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...
I spoke to previous Giller winners and nominees about the news for @thegrindto.bsky.social.
www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...
The Giller Prize finally cut ties with Scotiabank?! #FreePalestine
February 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Giller Prize finally cut ties with Scotiabank?! #FreePalestine
An antidote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Xc...
Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)
YouTube video by Don Giller
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:59 PM
An antidote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Xc...
The boycott of the Giller Prize is over, as all three demands have successfully been met
Reporting from @rdassaly.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social here:
www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...
Campaign statement here:
www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-succ...
Reporting from @rdassaly.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social here:
www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...
Campaign statement here:
www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-succ...
April 10, 2026 at 1:45 PM
The boycott of the Giller Prize is over, as all three demands have successfully been met
Reporting from @rdassaly.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social here:
www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...
Campaign statement here:
www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-succ...
Reporting from @rdassaly.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social here:
www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...
Campaign statement here:
www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-succ...
One down, two to go - the Canlit Responds response to the Giller Prize and Scotiabank severing ties
February 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One down, two to go - the Canlit Responds response to the Giller Prize and Scotiabank severing ties
Read poet and organizer Jody Chan’s Giller Prize boycott speech: “Here, today, we throw our labour into the gears of the death machine.”
Read Jody Chan’s Boycott Giller Speech
On Monday night, the gala for the Giller Prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary award, took place at Toronto’s Park Hyatt hotel. The Giller Foundation has been dogged by controversy …
lithub.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Read poet and organizer Jody Chan’s Giller Prize boycott speech: “Here, today, we throw our labour into the gears of the death machine.”
The Giller Prize will be handed out this evening.
Nearly 300 Canadian authors and book workers are boycotting the event, accusing the Giller Foundation of artwashing genocide, and demanding it cut ties with Scotiabank, the Azrieli Foundation & Indigo.🧵
t.co/lWeafucXlu
Nearly 300 Canadian authors and book workers are boycotting the event, accusing the Giller Foundation of artwashing genocide, and demanding it cut ties with Scotiabank, the Azrieli Foundation & Indigo.🧵
t.co/lWeafucXlu
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZ3r5LywQveuqEJ2U85pSizqpVGeFKoZrEa2EOUbKNBX0q3Q/viewform
t.co
November 18, 2024 at 3:15 PM
The Giller Prize will be handed out this evening.
Nearly 300 Canadian authors and book workers are boycotting the event, accusing the Giller Foundation of artwashing genocide, and demanding it cut ties with Scotiabank, the Azrieli Foundation & Indigo.🧵
t.co/lWeafucXlu
Nearly 300 Canadian authors and book workers are boycotting the event, accusing the Giller Foundation of artwashing genocide, and demanding it cut ties with Scotiabank, the Azrieli Foundation & Indigo.🧵
t.co/lWeafucXlu
Right now, protesters are outside the pre-taped 2025 Giller Prize ceremony with a puppet of David Fingold (the asset manager at Scotiabank responsible for the bank's Elbit Systems investment) asking:
Who funds the Giller Prize?
Who funds the Giller Prize?
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Right now, protesters are outside the pre-taped 2025 Giller Prize ceremony with a puppet of David Fingold (the asset manager at Scotiabank responsible for the bank's Elbit Systems investment) asking:
Who funds the Giller Prize?
Who funds the Giller Prize?
Giller Prize, anyone? Griffin Prize? Beuller?
When you see a name on the side of a hospital or university, it's because that person is a prick, hoping to convince you they're not a prick.
"Donations" are investments.
"Donations" are investments.
November 27, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Giller Prize, anyone? Griffin Prize? Beuller?
Good morning Bluesky. I happened upon this and was blown away! I hope you enjoy it. It was the BEST way for me to start my day! (a breathtaking cover of Neil Young’s After the Goldrush) youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?...
Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)
YouTube video by Don Giller
youtu.be
August 27, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Good morning Bluesky. I happened upon this and was blown away! I hope you enjoy it. It was the BEST way for me to start my day! (a breathtaking cover of Neil Young’s After the Goldrush) youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?...
Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems!
Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Scotiabank’s 1832 Asset Management sells last shares in Israeli military supplier Elbit
Bank faced criticism for investment, including high-profile protests at the Giller Prize
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems!
Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...