emily b.

she/her. i did then what i knew how to do. now that i know better, i do better. -maya angelou

[𓂆 deeja🫒 @deedeehimawari]

ARE Y’ALL NOT HEARING THIS?? ARE YOU NOT ENRAGED??? THEY INFILTRATED THE REFUGEE CAMP IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID!!! IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID!!!!!!!

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Bisan Owda has just won one of broadcast journalism’s highest honors – the Peabody Award – for her work with AJ+.

Bisan is currently facing intense Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip. This is her message to the world:

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Breaking: Good morning from People's University of Gaza.

Students at UBC and across campuses in the Lower Mainland have launches an encampment in solidarity with people of Palestine.

[Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now]

The Refaat Alareer Memorial Library is now open at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at UCLA, Royce Quad.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

What is clear from these trials is the @rcmpgrcpolice and their “Community-Industry” mercenaries are out of control, hateful rogue cops. They are the norm and not the exception. There is a pattern of racism and violence shot up and down every action of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police pertaining to First Nations people and land defenders, as court records continually affirm and uncover.

@AbolishCirg #AbolishCIRG #Wetsuweten @CoastalGasLink #CoastalGasLink @RcmpAbolish @rcmpoffyintah

Article: "Caught on tape: RCMP officers laugh about brutal arrests" https://t.co/E1xI72wQFA

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Today we are celebrating my dad @DrGaborMate's 80th birthday. He was born in Budapest on January 6th 1944, two months before Nazi Germany occupied Hungary.

He was able to escape the Jewish ghetto after his mother, Judy, gave him to a stranger on the street, who agreed to take him to cousins in a safer area.

Staying in a cold, overcrowded flat, they kept him warm by sleeping on each side of him. After reuniting with his parents, who managed to survive, they fled to Canada along with his brother Janos in 1956. Living in Vancouver, he became a student activist, writer, high school teacher, doctor, healer, and renowned author.

He and my mom Rae taught me and brother Daniel and sister Hannah from an early age to be uncompromising about the truth, both the personal and political, and to stand up for the oppressed, especially the Palestinians occupied in our name.

On his 80th birthday, I honor his life and all that he has given to me and to the world.

And my wish is that today's modern-day Jewish ghettos — the Gaza death camp and occupied West Bank — will be liberated from today's modern-day Nazis, the Israeli government, so that every Palestinian can have the same freedom to follow their life path that my dad has been fortunate to have.

[Colter Louwerse @ColterL]

Today the UN General Assembly passed by a large margin a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. It also rejected a Canadian amendment to the resolution, condemning Hamas.

Regrettably, most reporting on the Canadian amendment is misleading to the point of being sinister. 🧵

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Learn about colonization of Palestine thru visual resources https://t.co/i4txFMYUPl or readings https://t.co/5x1GMzCykt or updates https://t.co/UleEwwr0aY

Watch Gaza in Context w @4noura: https://t.co/EDS8H7CkvE

Palestine Action Toolkit by @PalFeminist https://t.co/PIxmvCdRcM

[Sarah Andersen @SarahCAndersen]

Nobody:
Black cats:

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

No pride in genocide, #CancelCanadaDay

History of #CanadaDay:

July 1, 1867 - Dominion establishes Canada within British Empire, legalizing colonial occupation over Indigenous lands & nations

July 1, 1909 - Canada claims sovereignty over entire Arctic archipelago & Inuit people

[Vancouver Public Library @VPL]

Pedro Pascal as VPL Branches (a thread)

#PedroPascal #TheLastofUs

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

Maps twist our perception of the world
Here are 20 to rethink it:

1. Countries closer to the equator (~poorer) seem smaller than they are

(map by @neilrkaye)

[Defund 604 @defund604]

VPD officer McKinnon wearing a prohibited symbol after a long day of beating up unhoused neighbours. #StopTheSweeps #BlueLivesMurder

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

The carceral capitalist system in a nutshell.

City of Vancouver is considering reneging on its living wage for workers commitment because apparently there isn't enough $. However, upcoming budget has 2.7% increase for VPD, making up 20% of city's budget.

https://t.co/6DOPZbnW6x

[Tracking (In)Justice @trackinjustice]

Police shootings are on the rise across Canada, with 51 police-involved deaths related to a gunshot last year. 73% of police-involved deaths in the past 22 years have been shootings. Learn more: https://t.co/Xa7YoWv4o3

[Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @KeeangaYamahtta]

there is literally nothing left to write about police abuse and violence. Abolish the police.

[Justin McElroy @j_mcelroy]

Here's a new chart of just how expensive rent is Metro Vancouver, looking at the difference in price between occupied units and newly vacant ones, and wait why are you crying