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Queer Trans Community Action Support and Education - fighting racism and conservatism in local organizing (Tkaronto)

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

The National Post is in Canada but it’s not Canadian. It’s owned by rich Americans.

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

In Africa, we don't send our African elders to old age homes. They stay at home so that they pass intergenerational wisdom.

[QT CASE @qt_case]

@aapayes Weaponizing bad breath and ugly face!

[comra @comrawire]

Watch a Mau Mau revolutionary explain how he resisted British colonialism, and why the fight isn't over.

Maina wa Murigu took up arms against British colonial rule and is still waiting for his land back, more than six decades after independence.

Speaking from Nairobi on Kenya's 63rd Madaraka Day, he described fighting British soldiers with machetes, seizing their weapons and retreating into the forests. Madaraka Day, marked every June 1, commemorates the day Kenya achieved self-rule from Britain in 1963.

"Our parents died without ever getting justice," he said. "We are soon following them."

Britain's response to the uprising was a state of emergency lasting from 1952 to 1959. The Kenya Human Rights Commission estimates 90,000 Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed. 160,000 were detained. Nazi-style concentration camps held over 1.5 million more.

Documents recording the atrocities were later destroyed or hidden by British authorities.

[si ꨄ︎ @xosiian]

a trans woman was beaten to death in toronto & police are having trouble identifying them. the police also don’t seem to be pushing this story as much so it seems unlikely her people will find her :(

[Camila Lourdes Galarza @sovietwithsazon]

TODAY— Photos were smuggled out of Ecuador’s prisons and published by the brave Karol Noroña. Under the current U.S.-backed military dictatorship, inmates are starved and 1 dies every 7 hours— an alarming rate for the 2nd smallest nation in South America. NOBOA IS A MURDERER.

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

This story gets so much worse. Apparently this all started because police were called out for a disturbance after her husband broke their tv out of anger after finding out his brother was killed by Israel in Gaza. The husband is Palestinian. When the police were taking him into custody his wife stopped them because she wanted to accompany him and that is when the officer threw her on the ground for “interference.” The couple was cooperative with the police the entire time and yet this is how they were treated.

She delivered the baby prematurely because of the physical trauma on her body but thankfully both she and the baby survived and are in good health. She easily could have miscarried.

This entire police department should be investigated and that officer should be arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

[Toronto (GTA) World Beyond War @TorontoWBW]

An absolute disgrace that Toronto is hosting Walk with Israel. This city can never live this down. Toronto supports the genocide of Palestinians. There’s no other way to explain it. Remember who stayed silent too @MayorOliviaChow

[OUTSIDERS.ESP @outsidersesp]

Los primeros campos de concentración los levantó España en 1895 en Cuba.

Acabaron con la vida de medio millón de cubanos.

El primer campo de concentración de la era moderna lo puso en marcha el general español Valeriano Weyler en Cuba en 1895, en vísperas de la guerra con EEUU que finalizaría con la pérdida de las colonias de ultramar, en 1898. La idea del general era “reconcentrar” a los campesinos, con el fin de evitar que ayudaran al Ejército Libertador, conocidos como “mambises”.

La proclama que daba inicio a la reconcentración decía:

1. Todos los habitantes de las zonas rurales o de las áreas exteriores a la línea de ciudades fortificadas, serán concentrados dentro de las ciudades ocupadas por las tropas en el plazo de ocho días. Todo aquel que desobedezca esta orden o que sea encontrado fuera de las zonas prescritas, será considerado rebelde y juzgado como tal.

2. Queda absolutamente prohibido, sin permiso de la autoridad militar del punto de partida, sacar productos alimenticios de las ciudades y trasladarlos a otras, por mar o por tierra. Los violadores de estas normas serán juzgados y condenados en calidad de colaboradores de los rebeldes.

3. Se ordena a los propietarios de cabezas de ganado que las conduzcan a las ciudades o sus alrededores, donde pueden recibir la protección adecuada.

Los cerca de 400.000 cubanos encerrados en estos campos hacia finales de 1896 vivían en “condiciones higiénicas deplorables” y carecían de una alimentación suficiente. Además, la privación de libertad de los campesinos provocó una hambruna que cercenó a un tercio de la población de la isla. La cifra de fallecidos en los campos entre 1895 y 1898 se estima entre 300.000 y 600.000, según el historiador Miguel Leal Cruz.

Por los servicios prestados a la Corona española, el general Valeriano Weyler ostenta desde hace décadas una placa en el Paseo del Pintor Rosales de Madrid: “Modelo de lealtad constitucional”, según se lee, sin aparente ironía.

Tal fue el éxito de los campos de concentración que los ingleses no tardaron en copiar la idea y aplicarla en su guerra contra los boers en Sudáfrica, aunque fueron los nazis los que llevaron la idea de concentrar -y aniquilar- civiles hasta el paroxismo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

Why is there a “Walk with Israel” being held in Toronto? Israel is committing genocide and apartheid against Palestinians. The international court of justice has ruled that Canada as a third party state has obligations to not be complicit in aiding Israel in these crimes.

[QT CASE @qt_case]

@BlackMediaHub Being a race traitor isn't an accomplishment.

[David Yambio @DavidYambio]

Deliberate reduction of human beings into nothingness.

For years, this is what we have fought to make visible: EU-funded concentration camps in Libya where enslaved “migrants” and “refugees” are detained en masse, shoulder against shoulder, body against body, with barely enough room to turn or sit upright. Exhaustion, dehydration, disorientation, heat, suffocation, darkness, sheer collapse—you name it.

One does not need visible blood for violence to be present. Sometimes violence is architectural, administrative, and above all a decision to place hundreds of enslaved people in a room never meant to contain them and then call it “migration management.”

My outrage comes from the fact that such scenes have become normalised both in Libya, Europe and around the globe. The world has slowly learned to consume the dehumanisation of “migrants” as recurring theme instead of evidence of ongoing crimes against human beings that concerns all of humanity.

And while this reality is already unbearable, this morning a document leaked to @StatewatchEU confirmed that the EU has begun collaborating with Haftar’s forces in eastern Libya on “migration control.”

The result will be worse than what is happening in this footage.

This is a condition that no court, parliament, humanitarian institution, or democratic society should tolerate for a single hour, let alone for years that has passed.

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

Sorry Canada, you won’t be getting pharmacare because all of our tax dollars are going to this sort of thing instead of being invested in our communities.

Right now representatives of the Israel, the UAE, and other states and companies directly involved in genocide are being protected at #CANSEC weapons fair.

#ShutDownCANSEC

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Black victims of police brutality deserve justice

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

Canadian politicians want it to be a hate crime to condemn the men responsible for this.

[🇵🇸 Rafeef Garbi #FreePalestine @RafeefGarbi]

Can you imagine had the roles been reversed? Had a Palestinian done the same to anyone they would have arrested him for terrorism. Which restaurant is this in Montreal?

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Americans are told from birth that their country is the greatest on Earth and that everywhere else is backwards dangerous.

Meanwhile, when you compare the United States to other major economies, it ranks 18th globally in median wealth and 60th in life expectancy, the latter being lower than many middle income nations. Behind Cuba, actually, with America declining due to opioid overdoses, gun violence, maternal mortality, and barriers💰 to healthcare.

Yes, the US ranks very high in mean wealth, due to extreme wealth at the top but much lower in median wealth, mostly because of the obsession with and worship of oligarch billionaires.

The US is also the only G20 nation with no mandatory paid maternity leave, or any national leave mandate. Meanwhile, Americans work 500 more hours per year than the more productive Germans; they don’t have universal healthcare, while their food contains additives banned in many other nations, even the poorest ones.

On public safety, 127 countries are safer than the US. That includes Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea, the same nations Americans are taught to fear. The US might be “peaceful” because it exports war and death, but domestic homicide statistics reveal a higher affinity for murder compared to fellow rich nations.

Now, the final boss of American arguments is “freedom”. But of course, in practice that freedom is a prison keeping them inside by scaring them that leaving America automatically means stepping into something worse. Their government is everything it teaches them about North Korea.

Speaking of which, US citizens are taught that North Korea has a widespread, evil forced labour system. But then the US has the largest for-profit prison system in the world, fuelled by brutal policing, bail fees, plea bargains, and long sentences which produce a legal form of forced labour to produce a “prison as punishment” system.

Today, many US prisoners are used as labourers to produce goods sold to private corporations like Victoria’s Secret, McDonald’s and Whole Foods.

The American constitution is clear that slavery is acceptable: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

That “except” is key. It says forced labour is legal if imposed on a convicted criminal. Combined with the US having 2 million prisoners, this is not a small “exception” and means a vast pool of people, disproportionately Black and poor, can be compelled to work for pennies or nothing at all.

Americans gaslight themselves into believing this is OK because their constitution says so. And even though the UN and the International Labour Organisation have criticised this exception as a violation of modern forced labour conventions, which the US has ratified but not fully implemented, the US just continues to do it because it’s just good business, and the constitution says so.

As long as Americans continue to mistake exceptionalism for progress, they will remain the only developed country that has to be reminded that infant formula does not need to contain toxins, and that a nation ranking behind Cuba in life expectancy has no business lecturing the world on greatness.

[QT CASE @qt_case]

@SizweLo wow.... Did not know he was so bad! Thanks for the education

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

This is Gandhi Square in downtown Johannesburg.

It’s named after Mohandas K. Gandhi who in an open letter to the Natal Legislative Assembly, complained about how he felt Indians in the British Colony were being dragged down to the position of a “raw N****”.

Gandhi sailed all the way from India to southern Africa to show the British colonisers that Indians were so much better than Afeucans.

One of his earliest victories in Durban was petitioning the post office to open a third entrance so Indians would not have to share the entrance used by Blacks.

And then when King Bambatha KaMancinza led an uprising against the British in 1905, Gandhi, the great pacifist volunteered the Indian community for it. Writing an Indian opinion in 1906, he said it was not for Indians to judge whether the Zulu revolt was justified. He was clear that the Indians’ existence in Natal depended on British power, and therefore it was their duty to help the British against the natives.

After the Boers arrested him for the campaign against the Transvaal Asiatic Amendment Act, Gandhi objected to being placed at the same level as the natives, whom he described as uncivilised, troublesome, very dirty and living like animals.

A year later, he wrote about spending a night in jail in great misery and fear because of a Chinese and an African prisoner who appeared to him to be “wild, murderous and given to immoral ways”. So, he petitioned the Bier Republic authorities for separate boarding, meals and bathrooms for Indian prisoners. Because, of course, he did.

Today, some people make excuses for Gandhi and claim that he later “repented” and “learned from his mistakes”.
But the thing is that four decades after he denigrated Africans in South Africa, the anti-colonial Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told him that Africans and Indians needed to stand together against the White regime in South Africa. Gandhi replied that however much one might sympathise with the Bantus, the Indians could not make common cause with them.

This was in 1939. This was AFTER Gandhi had already become celebrated internationally as a moral leader. By then he had developed his philosophy of “non-violence”, supposedly suffered enormously for Indian independence, and had every reason and opportunity to extend his principles universally. Yet, he still didn’t.

The defence that Gandhi simply didn’t know better collapses when you observe that people around him did know better and said so to his face. It’s insane to imply nobody in that era could have known better when anti-racist, pan-African, socialist, Christian-humanist, and anti-colonial critiques of racial hierarchy already existed, including in South Africa itself.

How Gandhi’s statue is just standing there facing Winnie Mandela House is one of those many mysterious contradictions that make up post-1994 South Africa.

Gandhi Square is in the heart of Johannesburg’s CBD, a city built on dispossession, named after a man who explicitly said Indians could not make common cause with the very people the city was built on the backs of. All because he eventually fought the British in India, which papers over what he actually did in South Africa to and against Black people specifically.

[Mads✨️ @ev3sln]

She was Lynched. Her name is Juliana Nzita, she went missing and found Lynched at a White church. Sixteen years old, she had a future ahead of her, she was kind and honest, and White people decided that because of her skin color, she didn't deserve life. Stop White supremacists!