Just to be clear: THERE ARE NO PERMITS IN TORONTO FOR RALLIES.
There is no permit to apply for, no authority that can issue it, no application you can fill. Not even for private property.
Olivia knows because Jack went to Supreme Court on this in 1984:
Wow.
Federal NDP calls for:
*Ceasefire
*Humanitarian aid to Gaza
*End to arm sales to Israel and Hamas
*International Criminal Court investigation into the conflict
*End to Occupation
*Just peace
This is a direct result of mobilizing and organizing led by Palestinians.
Ford is using the classic right-wing-in-gov playbook. Greenbelt attacked; tenant protections stripped; strikes criminalized. They expect us to scramble, become issue-centric, be shocked. It's early enough that voters may forget.
There is ONE strategic response that can work:
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The ship was allowed to sink.
These are not deaths, they are murders.
Our people did not die, they were killed.
The border is externalized, the deaths happen out there, seen on cameras but not by citizens.
Europe maintains innocence.
Frontex has released new images of the refugee ship that sank off the coast of Greece. The time frame in which the images of the ship were recorded shows that the ship was under Frontex surveillance hours before it sank. The Greek Coast Guard is also being informed.
According to
We win against these tactics by UNITING at the point-of-resistance.
Right now, education workers are fighting back. So environmentalists, housing activists, others must join in. Show up with signs linking struggles.
Turn many different issues into a single political crisis.
This is Canada's former ambassador to the UN asking why Canada voted against its own official position on settlements. It's crucial to see how singularly exceptional Canada's position is right now. It's the whole world on one side, and Israel, US & Canada on the other.
Canadians need to ask our government, the rationale behind this devastating decision for Canadaโs standing in the world.
From my experience, the ๐บ๐ธ did not ask us to side w/them.
We did this on our own. But why? Because the cost is enormous, we should be told the reason.
Breaking: Montrealers rally at Foreign Affairs Minister
@melaniejoly
's home to call for an end to Canada's military and diplomatic support for Israeli genocide.
Moments ago Canada announced that any Ukrainian refugee who has applied for a visa as of today, and can get to the country by March 2024, will be given citizenship in October 2025. As of July 1, over 1.1 million Ukrainians had applied to come. This is EXCEPTIONAL.
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This is egregious, it's targeted anti-Palestinian racism!!
Gazans are being asked to share information that no one is, ever. Palestinian family members of Cdns have to explain every scar, and give reasoning for every job disciplining after age 16 to apply to come to Canada!
Gazans applying under IRCC's new visa program are being asked to list all previous phone numbers and e-mail addresses, provide links to all social media accounts, give a history of any scars or injuries they have sustained, and describe any disciplinary issues that they had at
Police in Ontario now allowed to inquire why anyone is outside. Expect racial profiling and immigration enforcement.
Hundreds of thousands of people have to choose between going to work and feeding their families, or going out for emergency healthcare and potential deportation.
The most ridiculous photo-op. We disrupted and left when everyone was gone..and then the police didn't this random shot outside an empty building. Constant propoganda.
Police have regained control of the entrance to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Protesters successfully disrupted an event featuring Prime Minsters Justin Trudeau ๐จ๐ฆ and Giorgia Meloni ๐ฎ๐น
#cdnpoli
#Toronto
#Palestine
#Israel
#Gaza
#ProtestMania
Dozens of people reading Palestinian poems at Bay-Bloor Indigo to shed light on Heather Reisman's funding of HESEG foundation which gives scholarships to foreigners to join Israel's genocidal army.
#CeasefireNOW
BREAKING: The U.S. and U.K, with support from Australia, the Netherlands, Bahrain, and Canada, conducted joint strikes tonight against Houthi targets in Yemen, per DOD official.
Strikes involved U.S. aircraft, ships and submarines.
ANNOUNCING: Toronto Palestine Solidarity Community Defence Fund.
This fund will support EVERYONE criminalized for protest and direct action in solidarity with Palestine in Toronto, including the recent Giller & Indigo arrests.
Please share and donate.
No one was protesting Mount Sinai Hospital.
All hospitals in Gaza have been bombed.
No one was protesting Mount Sinai Hospital.
All hospitals in Gaza have been bombed.
No one was protesting Mount Sinai Hospital.
All hospitals in Gaza have been bombed.
I was harassed, asked to not protest, and questioned about my political opinions yesterday while coming home to Canada.
It's been happening for 10 years.
I am humiliated, frustrated and tired.
Does this happen to you? Why is this okay?
Plz RT.
@billblair
@marcomendicino
I need to tell you something. I've been in meetings with all levels of government and health providers and
There are NO guaranteed VACCINES for UNDOCUMENTED people in Ontario.
Potentially half a million people.
And this is a PROBLEM.
In Canada this unity began to happen in 2012 in the student strike in Quebec. One difference is, Ford is at the beginning of this mandate. They are trying to catch up on the changes they couldn't make during COVID. And while he may not be an ideologue, those around him are.
Violent arrests of peace activists - early morning raids, police not identifying themselves, traumatizing children and elderly parents, handcuffing people for hours, seizing all personal and work devices in homes - must be opposed
#DefundthePolice
#CeasefireNow
#DroptheCharges
When this has happened before, fight backs have taken longer to start. Not this time. Education workers are out already.
So winning a (any) fight early for us is essential. But even more is is making sure we are more linked every day; new alliances are being formed.
Un*fckin*believable.
Conditions for release for
#WetsuwetenSolidarity
actions include a bar on use of social media to support
@UnistotenCamp
or
@Gidimten
Understand what we are up against, escalate accordingly. Build organizations capable of withstanding the assault.
380,000 people have died in Yemen civil war - much of it because of a US-Canada armed Saudi led coalition. Now the US and UK are bombing the same people.
Now is when our actions matter.
While the playbook is an old one, we are off-script. Ford didn't wait for job action and he didn't just legislate back-to-work, he imposed a contract. Same with greenbelt.
The intention is not to just win, but to demoralize and demobilize us.
On June 15 2015 Ontario Prov Police officer held a towel over Abdurahman Hassan's mouth and neck till he died. He was in immigration detention. SIU & post mortem ruled cause of death as unknown, the cop walked. Coroners inquest starts Dec, 6 years later. Will the truth come out?
Police went after some people's cellphones for Palestine solidarity actions in Toronto. This doesn't have to be scary. Know your rights. Consider these simple tips and keep taking action for a
#FreePalestine
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Protest are uniformly focussed on getting the most attention so are in public places, over highways, etc. Absolutely no one is protesting in neighbourhoods because our Jewish brethren live there. Connecting protests against Israel with Jewish communities is anti-semitic.
The recent antisemitic incidents in Canada โ an arson attack at a Jewish-owned grocery store, and protests targeting where Jewish Canadians live and shop โ are unacceptable. All of us, especially non-Jewish Canadians, must condemn this vile hate wherever and whenever it occurs.
Canada is gravely concerned by the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza. I went to the border to hear first hand the unacceptable challenges aid organizations are facing getting in even the most basic amounts of aid.
And that's a good thing. Struggle will teach us lessons.
We cannot be distracted by those who will say that we should just vote them out. The elections are too far.
So we have a chance now. Unite the struggles. Show up. Build bridges. Challenge the entire agenda. We can win.
Everything TO cops did last night - delayed arrival at cop shop, no access to lawyers, moving comrades if there's a rally outside (so many marches from div to div!) , lied to media - they have done before and will do again till we
#DefundThePolice
#FreeThemAll
#JohnAWasARacist
We will make gains, and sustain losses.
But only in being united - across any and all issues - do we have a chance.
Many will say, you can win or at least survive, if just defend your little piece, or keep your head down. That's never true.
We don't know what happens next..
10 years ago, I was charged with conspiracy and was on house arrest for 18 months after our political groups were infiltrated by police. My charges were eventually dropped. Today that police informant - Constable Bindo Showan - has an arrest warrant out for corruption.
Walking home and seeing white supremacist Faith Goldy has over 22,000 votes.
Thinking about how many of them, my neighbours, want me, want us, dead.
Talk to your neighbours, and family. Don't let them join this wave.
This stops when we build a new world.
#TOpoli
#TOVOTES
There are over half a million people undocumented in Canada. Many from places disenfranchised and exploited by global capitalist interests but denied citizenship here. We must demand that Canada
#RegularizeEveryone
as well as ensure
#StatusForAll
migrants. 6/6
TD Bank: $16 million in General Dynamics stock
RBC: USD $57.7 million in Palantir Technologies Inc
Scotiabank: $500 million in Elbit Systems stock
BMO subsidiary provided USD $90 million loan to Elbit
Canadian government: $500 million on Lockheed Martin F-35 warplane
While hundreds of thousands of people call for a ceasefire and a stop to the bombing of Gaza, Canadian banks are profiting from holdings in weapons and military technology companies. An overview of this and Canadian "military goods" at
#CeasefireNow
CBC called me 2x times to weigh in on this anti-China story. They wanted to feature a "good" Cdn employer and had spent months searching. When I asked them if they had looked as hard to find a good Chinese employer, the calls stopped. My comments on Cdn laws didn't make the cut..
L3Harris in Hamilton, ON Shut Down!
Location: 50 Leavitt Blvd, Waterdown
Three L3Harris facilities & one Lockheed Martin site shuttered in Canada today.
#ShutItDown4Palestine
#Toronto
reverberating today as organic street tactics emerged: going around not 1 but 2 reinforced police lines and surrounding them; taking all sides of the streets to manoeuvre better; splitting and regrouping to divide cops; organizers being flexible. Be ungovernable.
Immigration enforcement in Canada is the wild west. Absolute impunity and total disregard for migrant life.
Dale Lewis, who has wrecked many lives, is now finally being exposed for using FAKE documents from Gambia to deport Ebrahim Toure.
But there's so much more!
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The
@cbcfifth
show on "birth tourism" is wrong.
FACT: There is little increase in non-residents births. โBirth tourismโ as a concept dehumanizes migrants. It distracts us from chronic unfunding of public services by governments. CBC is trumpeting racism.
There are around 30 million displaced people in Africa. And Canada has only resettled 8,940 refugees from the continent through government assistance programs since January 2015 - that is under the entire Trudeau government. Numbers prior are just as low.
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Working class people must be able to move freely in the world. And we must support citizenship for ALL Ukrainians. But we must face the hypocrisy. For eg, there are only 2,900 refugees in Toronto shelter system - and the City is turning the rest away.
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As
#Christchurch
#climatestrike
is ended early by police because of
#MosqueShooting
- we have to realize that no matter what the issue, fighting racism and xenophobia must be all of our priority.
Because if the racists win, we all lose.
#NewZealand
Thousands have shut down highway entrances blocking part of Gardiner ramp and all of Lakeshore in Toronto.
End the Siege.
Ceasefire Now
End the Occupation
#FreePalestine
After actions in 50+ cities across the country today to demand
#CeasefireNow
, it's time to take the call for
#FreePalestine
directly to MPs. This week (Nov 13 - 19), MPs are in their ridings, and doing events, so the perfect time to ask them why they are supporting a
#Genocide
.
IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT CN AS OPP RAIDS
#TYINDENAGA
BLOCKADE:
(1) CN Rail's eastern network only accounts for 4% of the company's traffic on its entire network. 1/4
#WetsuwetenStrong
(All research by
@kolekili
)
It's been NINETEEN days since mass graves, with evidence of tortured, were discovered in Gaza. The death count is 700 and rising.
Canada has still said nothing.
Waiting on
@JustinTrudeau
@PierrePoilievre
@theJagmeetSingh
Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri has just returned from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Palestinians are still uncovering more bodies, many with evidence of torture or summary execution. "The three different mass graves are containing around 700 bodies," he says.
The organizers of yesterday's actions with 17 MP sit-ins in 12 cities have created a toolkit for any small group of friends or organizers to take over MP offices.
#PalSolidaritySitIn
#CeasefireNow
#EndtheSiege
Arrests of comrades
@DesmondCole
& others for exposing Conservative Harper's profiting from Israel's genocide is another in a long list of the police's failed attempts to scare our movement for justice for Palestine
Solidarity & escalation is necessary. They can't jail us all.
World Court / ICJ calls on Israel to stop genocide.
Canada must stop selling or buying weapons to Israel immediately, incl via the US, to end the murders.
ALL OUT THIS WEEKEND!
BREAKING: Protestors disrupt
@scotiabank
โs Giller Prize Ceremony this evening. Scotiabank is funding the genocide of the Palestinian people through its $500 million stake in Elbit Systems, Israelโs largest weapons manufacturer.
It's 1:15am, three hours later, and everyone's released. The cops delaying just so they can get extra over time. Will update on charges and conditions later.
We wont stop till we win a
#FreePalestine
Never ever EVER forget that the richest man on earth asked for donations to support his employees because he wouldn't pay them enough during a pandemic.
This, just this, should be enough to incite total revolt.
Canadaโs largest corporations are making record profits and paying income tax at record-low rates, according to a new report from the non-profit Canadians for Tax Fairness.
82.6% of Ontario education workers participated in their strike mandate vote. For comparison, the last Ontario election had 43% turn out. This is the most exciting development of strategy and labour institution building in years. Congratulations
@osbcucscso
@cupenat
! Onwards.
#GrassyNarrows
Leader Steve Fobister Sr on Queens Park tonight.
A reminder to
@fordnation
that he is a settler on colonized land. His time is temporary. The rivers flow forever.
There is so much noise about
#immigration
and
#housing
and immigrants are being blamed for increased rent and housing costs. I dug into the numbers so you don't have to.
TL;DR: Migrants aren't raising your rent, your landlord is.
**IMMEDIATE ACTION AT JULIE DZEROWICZโS OFFICE!**
1202 Bloor Street West
Come join a spontaneous sit-in!!
Ceasefire now!
Come as soon as you can!!
Fwding, following
@SURJto
in IG
#Ontario
considering adopting a
#curfew
is not cause for celebration. Racial profiling by police is well-documented. Increased policing will also result in increased immigration enforcement. Migrant & undocumented people going to work or out for emergencies need assurances.
Toronto police conducted pre-dawn raids on activists who postered Indigoโa major operation that a policing expert says is usually used for โgun and drugโ busts.
@Martin_Lukacs
reports the pursuit of hate crime charges is an attack on Palestine solidarity.
As comparison: The largest program to-date was Vietnamese refugees in the 80s, a mix of private and govt sponsorship, which was 110,000 people. At that time Canada's population was 25 million, today its 40million. This is a 525% increase in terms of population proportion
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Receiving reports that at least two people are still in police custody in Toronto at 51 division after Palestine solidarity Land Day March. If you can't make it to 51 Divisicall call 416-808-5100 and demand the their release.
Please repost.
In other words, the alarmism, the threats are overblown, designed to create public outcry, and fire up racist anti-Indigenous sentiment. Also, we must
#ShutDownCanada
. 4/4
December 18: Launching a cross-country network to show Liberals MPs that they will face direct electoral consequence if they don't support
#CeasefireNow
#EndtheSiege
&
#FreePalestine
.
Organize in your neighbourhood, sign up now:
New video!
@JustinTrudeau
confronted! How many babies have to die before you support
#CeasefireNowInGaza
.
No business as usual. Stop the Bombs. End the Occupation. Free Palestine.
Jews Say No to Genocide condemn Hesseg Foundation, put up replica posters that 11 people were allegedly arrested for.
#CeasefireNow
Fighting anti-Semitism means fighting anti-Palestinian racism!
We strike today because we know that while the few have it all, too many of us have too little. We strike with a deep desire for something else, something better. We want โ I believe โ We want to be free.
#ClimateStrikeCanada
#FridaysForFuture
This is how the police acts against those it deems criminal. Doors knocked down, people traumatized. It doesn't even matter that much that the person they were looking for wasn't there; or that the 'crime' here is postering. It is that the function of the police is to terrorize.
Early Wednesday, police raided a townhouse, reportedly looking for a man they allege vandalized a Toronto bookstore. The problem? The man in question moved out the home more than a year ago. How a police raid left these Toronto housemates terrified
Over 1,200 people marched in
#Toronto
today.
The streets sang with one voice.
What do we want?
#StatusForAll
And if we don't get it? SHUT IT DOWN!
We are unstoppable, together we will win.
Today we stand together to demand
#StatusForAll
migrants in Canada.
Let's send a message to
@JustinTrudeau
that the regularization program must be inclusive AND permanent. No one should live in fear of losing their status. Let's make this happen!
#RegularizeEveryone
Toronto Star front page on our fight to win full and permanent immigration
#StatusforAll
. Change is possible, but the scale of if depends on how we act. If you've been waiting for a time to take to the streets, it's now. All Out September 18.