Trudeau gave Bell $40 million.
No strings attached.
No guarantees of jobs or local news.
Bell gave it to shareholders and CEOs.
Then cut 4,800 jobs.
A "garbage decision" for sure, from a Prime Minister who feeds a bottomless pit of corporate greed.
Fascists don't see root causes.
Kid misbehaves. He's not examined. He's hit.
Poor person steals. She's not fed. She's caged.
Migrant risks their life at a border. Western foreign policy that made their home dangerous is ignored, and they're dehumanized and deported.
In Canada, you have to be 18 for lower gender-affirming surgery. Top surgery can happen at 16, but it requires a parent’s signature. And to get to the point of surgery, it takes years of medical doctor and psychologist led meetings and therapies.
Nothing happens if we don't do it. Nothing done is done perfectly. Doing never guarantees succeeding.
So direct action embraces our inherent insufficiency. We are imperfect actors, and our actions are insufficient.
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In particular, our actions are insufficient in isolation. In order for our actions to become sufficient, we must embrace the actions of others, increasingly muddying our perception of the imperfection of our own actions.
The rule is action.
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Video description: chants of “search the landfill, cancel the games” echo in the background as a crowd of police and their vehicles block an intersection outside the convention centre
Cops are actively recruiting at the World Police and Fire "Games." This is what governments are spending more than $9 million in public funds on, while refusing to pay for landfill searches, safe consumption sites, or housing. SHAME.
#CancelWPFG2023
Rob, a WPS officer for almost 23 years, immediately blocked us for criticizing the "games."
But here he is just yesterday welcoming Brazilian COs to our city with a racist + far-right "thin blue line" hashtag.
#CancelWPFG2023