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Economic research towards positive social impact.

[Sam Hersh @SamHersh01]

Heard that Michael Polowin is set to be appointed as a new member of the @OttawaPolice Board.

He is well known for conflating criticism of Israel as antisemitism (as can be seen below).

He also notably served as the lawyer for Timbercreek during the Heron Gate mass evictions.

[Winnipeg Police Cause Harm @WpgPoliceHarm]

There's a lot of talk in Winnipeg about body cams, especially in the wake of the WPS killing of Jordan Charlie and the Manitoba RCMP's rollout of them.

In this new blog post, we examine the evidence on body cams and present five reasons to oppose them.

https://t.co/YgsWk2LLOI

[Winnipeg Police Cause Harm @WpgPoliceHarm]

reroot pride, a collective who feel Pride Winnipeg does not adequately represent who it claims to, is hosting a discussion and barbecue to reimagine what a pride that represents our communities could look like

Dufferin Park
Sun, Sept 8
4:30pm to 7:30

https://t.co/VIKTKEW2JT

[Defund La Police @defundlapolice]

🎭🎊 FESTIVAL DEFUND LA POLICE 2024 🎭🎊

22.09.2024 / 12h-19h / Parc Angrignon

[Coalition Against More Surveillance @CAMSOttawa]

Here are the organizations confirming their support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza and willing to withdraw their support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Ottawa as a result.

Fixed it for you.

[Sam Hersh @SamHersh01]

I just want people to understand that despite all the right-wing propaganda, literally NO ONE has died of an overdose at a safe consumption site in Canada because they do exactly what they're supposed to do - prevent overdose deaths.

Without them, people will die.

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

One thing I'm left with at the end of @occupyuoft: the failure of media to engage with what actually happened there, and the likely inability now to accurately summarize or thoughtfully reflect on what happened, because there was so little curiosity to begin with

[Winnipeg Police Cause Harm @WpgPoliceHarm]

New blog post: Contrary to claims that the new transit security force exists to improve "safety," early data shows some of its top responses involve displacing "sleepers" and "substance abusers," as well as conducting detentions, searches, and seizures

https://t.co/VyMtLkZuPl

[derecka @dereckapurnell]

this is exactly why every struggle for love, freedom, and justice has to also be an abolitionist struggle: the cops will be called in against you. This is what it means to fund the police

[National Students for Justice in Palestine @NationalSJP]

URGENT CALL FOR MOBILIZATION: IF YOU LIVE IN NYC COME TO THE NEW SCHOOL RIGHT NOW. WE NEED ALL HANDS ON DECK. NYPD IS IN THE BUILDING AND THE STUDENTS NEED NUMBERS ON THE OUTSIDE. ADMIN IS RELYING ON THE FACT THAT THE CROWD IS MOBILIZED AT NYU/COLUMBIA.

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

In 2020, three police officers fired their guns into a car whose driver was fleeing from them. They killed a 33-year-old man, and his 18-month-old baby, Jameson Shapiro

Today, Crown prosecutors dropped all the charges against the cops https://t.co/hGN0QHGc4W

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

“Some of my best enemies are feminists” - read @reproutopia’s characteristically brilliant essay on Zionist Feminism.

https://t.co/nT7BMCJS7X

[karen ward @kwardvancouver]

its fucked up that this needs to be said.

but it does. keep saying it. drug users are human people. more than twenty human people in Canada who use drugs will die today. and tomorrow. the day after that too. nobody should die from using unregulated drugs.

read this

[Critical Criminology @critcrim]

Cops love to push "evidence-based policing" when it comes to increasing their budgets, not when it comes to presenting the numbers of people they kill each year.

[Stella, Montréal @AmiEsdeStella]

On #Mar3 International #sexworkersrightsday we raise awareness of the constant erasure of #sexworkers from bars & streets of @MTL_Ville. @QDS_Mtl has systematically coopted our red light symbols. #Sexworkers are the real heart of this city. #ISWRD @Val_Plante @projetmontreal

[Kayla Hagerty @kayla_hagerty]

The recent closures of safe injection sites in so-called Ottawa have left a significant gap in harm reduction services, posing a grave risk to PWUD in our community. 1/3

[Winnipeg Police Cause Harm @WpgPoliceHarm]

WINNIPEG - Here's the info for this year's International Day Against Police Brutality (IDAPB) action!

WHAT: Rally & march
WHEN: 5 pm on Friday, March 15
WHERE: Starting at City Hall
BRING: Flags, signs, keffiyehs, masks

ASL interpreting will be provided

https://t.co/Ml6oHOQjOi

[Coalition Against More Surveillance @CAMSOttawa]

A community member reached out to every service provider mentioned by @PlanteSteph613. This was in response to the pushback Plante received for her harmful suggestions advocating for fear-based "prevention" through voyeurism tours to encampments and safe consumption sites. /1

[MB @matthew__bonn]

The impact of an unsanctioned compassion club on non-fatal overdose by @JKalicum, Eris Nyx, @MCKennedy_, & Thomas Kerr in @ijdrugpolicy.

Amazing novel research folks! @DULFBC saved the lives of many people, it’s absurd that they got shut down.

Link: https://t.co/pwjPocuteg

[Winnipeg Police Cause Harm @WpgPoliceHarm]

Don’t want to send love letters to violence workers? Send @SherriLRollins an email demanding an apology for mocking police violence. Police are violent abusers who kill & gaslight. Conversations about safety cannot be had w/cops, they need to be had about how cops make us unsafe.