John Clarke
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Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) Organizer, John Clarke. RTs can mean anything from solidarity to hostility. I don't debate racists and bigots.
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When Ontario
#educationworkers
walk out, they will be fighting for everyone who works for a wage or who uses a public service. We owe them full support and solidarity.
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The media coverage, particularly the interviews, are incredible to behold. It's so overt and shameless in terms of class bias but
#MickLynch
is pretty unflappable and the venomous hatred of the big name media figures who are going after him is remarkable.
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The
#UniversityofToronto
was looking a bit drab but this is much better.
#PalestineSolidarity
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No political party can be allowed to claim a place on the left if it abandons its duty to show solidarity with the
#Palestinian
people at this dreadful moment.
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Conversation when four Toronto
#cops
sat down at the next table as I was eating a slice of pizza.
One cop: "Hey, you're John Clarke aren't you?"
Me: "I won't deny it."
Cop: "You were a guest speaker in my criminology class at Brock University."
Me: "I see I didn't convince you."
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The majority of the world's
#miningcompanies
are headquartered in Canada. Don't believe the 'we just do what Washington tells us' line. The capitalists in this country are ruthless global predators in their own right.
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This week,
#Torontopolice
have raided homes of people allegedly involved in a
#Palestine
solidarity action and dispersed a camp set up by people without homes. Notice they weren't deployed to arrest tax cheaters, abusive landlords and employers engaged in wage theft.
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This is the same police force that operated as a babysitting service for the fascist 'trucker' convoy.
#OttawaPolice
#PSACStrike2023
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This can’t be dismissed as some Ill considered comments. No progressive formation could tolerate someone who employs the standard racist line that colonial dispossession was justified because it was inflicted on inferior people
#SelinaRobinson
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Despite the routine accusation of
#antisemitism
and the undue credibility it is afforded by the establishment, the voice of
#Palestine
#solidarity
gets louder all the time.
#EmmaWatson
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"We thought she'd fit right in here but how could we have known that she actually meant all those things she said about solidarity and justice?"
#SarahJama
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"Dear Team Members,"
"We interrupt the farce of
#capitalist
paternalism for some
#classwar
."
#TimHortons
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#MikeHarris
has been awarded the
#OrderofOntario
for his outstanding services to social inequality and human suffering.
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The
#OntarioNDP
kicks out
#SarahJama
, alienating any supporters with a trace of principles, in a futile effort to appease the rabid right. A classic case of selling out when no one's buying.
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The cartoonist lost his job of 25 years for this powerful comment so its doubly worth passing on.
#migrantchildren
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All thoughts that I might be getting too old for the barricades go out the window when I see a sight such as this.
#Solidarity
with women in struggle in
#Poland
.
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I think we're now far enough into
#OliviaChow
's time in the Toronto Mayor's office to draw the inevitable and necessary conclusion that measures that run counter to the agenda of the neoliberal city will have to be extracted from a reluctant power structure by mass social action.
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Undercover
#cops
at a Toronto
#Palestine
solidarity protest. The cunning devils know how to blend in with the crowd!
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Here's why the
#refugees
don't go back where they came from and why your laws,
#cops
and
#fences
won't stop them
http://t.co/87JKLviIBB
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It doesn't all come from Washington and Canada functions as a world class global exploiter in its own right.
#Miningcompanies
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The role of the state in
#capitalist
society couldn't be better summed up than by the spectacle of
#police
beating people trying to protect a camp of
#homeless
people that is being driven out in the interests of developers and property owners.
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Hospitals are overwhelmed, public education is being eroded, a
#housingcrisis
is unfolding and the homeless shelters are bursting at the seams. This represents a crisis in society and it calls for an immediate and massive increase in...the
#police
budget.
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A truly great bargain put forward by some of the
#Chicago
people who helped shut down
#DonaldTrump
's hate rally
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This day 1779, an over confident Captain
#JamesCook
runs into an occupational hazard for
#racist
colonialists.
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The tired ritual of pretending the frequent examples of pervasive anti-
#Indigenous
#racism
are exceptional incidents no one saw coming.
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One day, well live in a society where people would find it impossible to believe that anyone could eat a meal a few feet away from such a sight of human misery.
#Homeless
#SanFrancisco
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"If two men in a world of more than 7 billion people can provide €300million to restore Notre Dame, within six hours, then there is enough money in the world to feed every mouth, shelter every family and educate every child."
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As a shop steward I used to deal with managers who were very much like this.
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The royal bucket has been kicked. As racist parasites go, he was particularly horrible and I'm not going to let the inevitable deluge of hypocritical eulogies rob me of this moment.
#PrincePhilip
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Hostile piece in the
#TorontoSun
. Interesting that I was never asked what I am actually teaching in my
#socialjustice
course. It is just assumed I am simply teaching students at
#YorkUniversity
how to stage protests
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In the dying days of the post
#GreatRecession
#recovery
, it is more and more openly accepted that mass
#unemployment
has been prevented only by driving vast numbers of workers into precarious super exploitation.
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In the spirit of full disclosure, here is the complete list of all the
#developers
who donated to the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty during the 28 years I was with it.
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Safer clothing bins are good but a society where no one lacks warm clothing or a home to sleep in would be much better.
#Homelessness
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It is clear that
#DougFord
's political existence is entirely attributable to the lack of a viable alternative. However, that lack of alternative shows the challenges we face run a lot deeper than the need to rid ourselves of Ford.
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"
#Cops
, of any type, are not workers. No cops should be anywhere near unions or the labour movement."
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I'm sick of
#BillGates
and his 'solutions.'
#Billionaires
who want to know what's wrong with the world should look in the mirror.
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#DougFord
didn't invent corruption and the servicing of vested interests but he brings a quality of juvenile delinquency to it that is all is own.
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There's an enormous reservoir of truth in this simple point. One of the ways in which the official discourse is effectively policed is by limiting the questions that can be considered to those that don't challenge some basic assumptions.
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A vicious campaign of slander and disruption against
#Foodbenders
restaurant in
#Toronto
for putting up a small sign in the window in support of the people of
#Gaza
has resulted in a big sign in the window.
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I wonder if 'friendly sausage maker' will catch on as the new media term for the
#rightwing
white
#terrorist
.
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I'm approaching 69 years of age. Some things about me haven't changed but I did make one mistake. At 18, I thought I hated
#capitalism
but this feeling was actually only mild indignation compared to what I feel now.
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If the entire
#NDP
caucus followed
#SarahJama
’s example and wore
#keffiyeh
’s in the Legislative Chambers, the Speaker’s racist ruling would be in trouble. However, that would mean putting solidarity ahead of parliamentary niceties.
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There’s a very real anger at the Weston family
#profiteers
out there that this reflects.
#Loblaw
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A $50 million increase in the bloated
#TorontoPolice
budget, to serve and protect wealth and power, while communities face austerity, inflation and a housing crisis. Truly, the lines are drawn.
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The administration at the
#UniversityofToronto
must have guilty consciences if the need to make this subtle move.
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"Fixing the price of bread a food staple of Canadian households was a serious criminal offence."
Then why is no one going to prison? A rhetorical question but a telling one.
#Pricefixing
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The role of any serious left in Toronto is to fight for
#housing
to be treated as a social need vs a commodity. Asking
#developers
to be a little less greedy and destructive is worse than useless.
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I'm not sure this cartoon is so much an illustrative exaggeration as an expression of the literal truth.
#ClimateCrisis
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The selective outrage that
#MelanieJoly
has shown during her trip to
#Israel
seems devoted to the proposition that
#Palestinian
lives are worth less
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Congratulations to the members of CUPE 3903 at York University for forcing a tentative agreement out of their employer. Respect to all who kept up the picket lines and to all who respected them.
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I'm declaring a truce in the war within myself so I can focus on coming after you bastards.
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Consider what it means that there are people with such share of the social wealth that they can spend this much for a bottle of drink in a world where people die for lack of food, clean water and basic healthcare.
#inequality
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When none of the passengers on his bus would move to allow a
#wheelchair
user to access the vehicle, a
#Paris
#busdriver
kicked them all off, brought the man in the wheelchair on board and then drove off with him as the only passenger
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I was part of a delegation that met with
#BrianMulroney
when he was PM. He angrily told me that he didn't have to put up with my diatribes. On the occasion of his death, I feel another one coming on.
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We live in a society that shapes the minds of people with great power and money in such a way that they can knowingly sell a baby product with
#asbestos
in it, put the money in the bank and go home and sleep at night.
#JohnsonandJohnson
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The evidence for removing the profit motive from
#healthcare
(and everywhere else) just keeps piling up. I hope you're taking notes.
#ItalyCoronavirus
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A surprising lack of working class activists putting down the $55,000 fee needed to run for the leadership of the
#OntarioNDP
.
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Parking spaces for
#disabledpeople
are just the sort of politically correct nonsense that will have to go when
#DougFord
takes back
#Ontario
for the people
#ontarioelection
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My piece for
@jacobin
on Canada's parasitic
#housingbubble
, its horrible impacts and the need for mass action in the face of it.
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I've waited all my life for
#capitalism
to be in this much trouble and I can't bloody well go anywhere.
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It's fantastic to see vast
#Palestine
solidarity actions in the major cities but pay close attention to the numbers taking to the streets in smaller centres. This is a powerful indication of the depth and potential of the movement that is now awakening.
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