If you have time to read one good story today, please read this. It documents how ICE agents entered a community and used Thomson Reuters' CLEAR product to conduct surveillance on a whole community, and ultimately arrest undocumented immigrants.
https://t.co/jLhzpxuDin
Unions are for building worker solidarity & workplace equity, NOT protecting the militarized police state & its violence against Black folks/Black communities
1/ The CBC needs more Black producers. And to cut the crap. #BlackLivesMatter#JusticeForRegis
I was tapped yesterday to appear on The Current this morning to discuss "George Floyd and Amy Cooper."
When I asked if we would also talk about Regis Korchinski-Paquet, I was told:
This is the 🤬 reality for us in our community. Traumatizing our families, destroyed our communities, triggering fear that’s uncontrollable and heighten need to protect our children from the #TorontoPolice! #NoCops
@chiefladybird on sexuality + body sovereignty:
"Through our reconnection with our bodies, we’re addressing the impacts of colonialism on our connection to our language, ceremony, medicines and the land"
https://t.co/5cmiJWdsgp HT @MarniBinder
Reminder: Many of those asylum seekers on the front line of Quebec’s COVID-19 battle in care homes crossed at #RoxhamRoad. Due to the Safe Third Country Agreement, most asylum seekers MUST cross irregularly in order to even make a claim: https://t.co/KMW7dkmTnx #cdnpoli#polqc
Passing this on, please share: the #BordeauxHungerStrike is ongoing. With extremely high rates of COVID-19 transmission behind bars in Quebec, this is an ongoing crisis that is life or death: demands in the images below and more information found at https://t.co/ZQE6y1o1lR
'Our farmers' are migrants.
A proper show of thanks would be to grant them permanent status on arrival, so they don't have to be separated from their families year after year.
#Covid_19#cdnpoli
If you’re heading out for groceries this weekend, buy Canadian. Not only will it taste great, but it’ll help all those who are making sure there’s food in our stores and on our plates. And to them - our fishers, our farmers, and everyone else who’s involved - we say thank you.
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"as artists in this new terrifying reality, when we realize there may be a chance we cannot create for the purposes of $ we have to shift our thinking toward the idea of creating for truth, for story" @theloudlady
https://t.co/dU8AKFUkBk #COVID19
Delete your liberal & NPIC language
❌ high-risk populations
✔ high-risk conditions
❌vulnerable communities
✔ communities made vulnerable
❌marginalized
✔ oppressed & repressed
❌poverty
✔ manufactured poverty
❌scarce public resources
✔enforced austerity
#COVID19