Lucas Sharkey Pearce

/Weston Road Scholar//La Hinchada del Pueblo/

[Juan Branco ✊ @anatolium]

La victoire du peuple sénégalais est également un exemple pour le peuple de France.

Tout est possible. Organisation, coordination, résistance.

Il ne faut pas renoncer à l'espérance.

[Louise Blais @blais_louise]

Canadians need to ask our government, the rationale behind this devastating decision for Canada’s standing in the world.

From my experience, the 🇺🇸 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.

[Dr James Makokis (nehiyô), MD, M.H.Sc, CCFP 🌈 @DrMakokis]

My 71 year old father grew up drinking directly out of streams, creeks, rivers and lakes. There should be no Indigenous communities without clean drinking 💧. Our Treaty agreements, embedded in our ceremonies, guaranteed our Peoples to thrive, not our slow and insidious demise.

[Farrah Khan @farrahsafiakhan]

For decades Islamophobia has been used by governments to rationalize wars, stoke hatred i.e. Barbaric Cultural Practices Act, niqab bans and rationalize surveillance and arrests of Muslim communities. The terrorist act in London didn't come from nowhere, it was created here.

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

Hospital bed: $10,900/month
Provincial jail: $4,333/month
Shelter bed: $1,932/month

Social housing: $199.92/month

Make no mistake: Housing doesn't just save lives, it also saves money.

[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

Last week, someone said, "thank you for your work. I try not to get political".

I seized the moment to explain that Nursing is inherently political. You can't provide holistic care without advocating for the social determinants which affect your patient's health.

[Cindy Blackstock @cblackst]

In 1763, King George III issued a Royal Proclamation. It recognized Indigenous land rights saying treaties were needed to acquire land. The treaties were the 1st land contracts but the Crown/Canada did not fully honour them. #Colonialruleoflaw Resource 4. https://t.co/vM0A4ChSXi

[Dr.Janine Francois @itsJaninebtw]

Critical race theory has a concept called interest divergence. It’s when working class white people politically align with the white power structure instead of class solidarity with POCs.

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

when faith goldy ran for toronto mayor last fall, her major opponents refused to participate in debates with her. now maxime bernier is running and his opponents will debate him. white supremacists are gradually lowering the bar of acceptable public discourse in canada

[Gregory McKelvey @GregoryMcKelvey]

I had a police officer stationed in my high school. At one point he got a warrant to investigate me for a stolen calculator, that I didn’t steal. He kicked down my door after school one day with 8 other cops in riot gear with guns drawn on my Grandma.

[Angela Wright @angewrig]

In no year since I was born have I seen more public discussion (debate) on racism in Canada.
It can be hard to weed through the BS, pedestrian, unhelpful arguments. Here's a list of 17 (in 2017) essential reads on race/racism, Black peoples, and Indigenous peoples

[Lucas Sharkey Pearce @Sharkey_Pearce]

Thomas Sankara, I have always held your example high above me and in your words and deeds have seen the distance, the promise of this world

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

until more people understand that these white supremacist marches are a form of violence, we're in big trouble https://t.co/eXH2c9TSSz

[Lucas Sharkey Pearce @Sharkey_Pearce]

So blessed my father shared this man's work with me when I was still a young person. Rise in power, rest in peace #dickgregory

[PHAROAHE MONCH @pharoahemonch]

I can't keep compartmentalizing these losses. I miss these dudes so crazy, Sean Price. Prodigy. Phife. PumkinHead. Smh RIP. I just keep Smh

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

#StopCarding https://t.co/z0B9yY0n2p

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

what does it mean to be black in the gta? some highlights from the largest study ever on this question https://t.co/ykLSDWfvW6

[Lucas Sharkey Pearce @Sharkey_Pearce]

@deejayndn I almost quit reporting this fool after 5 months but happy to hear the good news☝✌👌