📣HAPPENING TOMORROW! We still have limited spots left, so sign up if you haven't already. Link in bio! Please note that we can't guarantee specific access/dietary requests for last minute/walk-in registrations. Also, see pre-event access guide in LinkTree. See you tomorrow!

⚠️TODAY SIMCOE COUNTY STOP ‼️Simcoe County stop alongside local-based partners UPlift Black and PARSC along supporters to send a message: #NoToBill33 & #FundOurSchools NOT Policing-in-Schools 🗓️⏰11am, Oct. 9 📍1110 ON-26, Midhurst #PolicingFreeSchools #PolicingFreeSchoolsON

@AndreaVasquezJ 🔥SPEAKER🔥 📣 Michael Speers (he/him) is a husband and father of three, an activist and spokesperson for change in his community, and a proponent of divesting from policing and investing those funds in our communities.

@AndreaVasquezJ 🔥SPEAKER🔥 📣 Sarah Peart (she/her) is the Director of Operations at Parents Against Racism Simcoe County. Mother of 5, she combines professional leadership with insights gained through her children’s lived experiences to advance equity in education & address systemic racism.

@AndreaVasquezJ 🔥SPEAKER🔥 📣 Shelly-Ann Skinner (they/she) is the visionary Founder & President of UPlift Black, an organization they launched during 2020 Black Lives Matter movement in Canada. Shelly-Ann has dedicated their life to fostering community growth & supporting marginalized voices.

🔥SPEAKER🔥 📣@AndreaVasquezJ (she/her/ella) is the Director & Principal Consultant of @PolicingFreeSch. She makes part of a national & international movement working on these issues with, & alongside people & organizational partners based across Canada, U.S, U.K & South Africa.

⚠️PFS #ON CAMPAIGN TOUR STOP ‼️Simcoe County stop alongside local-based partners UPlift Black and PARSC along supporters to send a message: #NoToBill33 & #FundOurSchools NOT Policing-in-Schools 🗓️⏰11am, Oct. 9 📍1110 ON-26, Midhurst #PolicingFreeSchools #PolicingFreeSchoolsON

⚠️TODAY SUDBURY ‼️Greater Sudbury stop alongside local-based partner @blmsudbury & supporters to send a message: #NoToBill33 & #FundOurSchools NOT Policing-in-Schools 🗓️⏰11am, Oct. 8 📍408 Wembley Drive #PolicingFreeSchools #PolicingFreeSchoolsON

See the access guide for our upcoming event: "Policing-Free Schools Is Disability Justice: Knowledge-Mobilization & Calls-to-Action"! 🗓️This Friday, Oct. 10th (9am-6pm) 📍Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, UofT Full plain-text access guide in LinkTree! 1/3

⚠️TOMORROW ‼️Greater Sudbury stop alongside local-based partner @blmsudbury & supporters to send a message: #NoToBill33 & #FundOurSchools NOT Policing-in-Schools 🗓️⏰11am, Oct. 8 📍408 Wembley Drive #PolicingFreeSchools #PolicingFreeSchoolsON

⚠️ 6TH ONTARIO CAMPAIGN TRAIL STOP SIMCOE COUNTY—OCTOBER 9, 11AM ‼️JOIN US! Co-hosted w/ local partners UPlift Black & Parents Against Racism Simcoe County along supporters saying #NoToBill33 & #FundOurSchools NOT Policing-in-Schools #PolicingFreeSchools #PolicingFreeSchoolsON

@blmsudbury @AndreaVasquezJ 🔥SPEAKER🔥 📣 France Gélinas (she/her) is the Member of Provincial Parliament for Nickel Belt and a member of the Official Opposition with her fellow Ontario NDP MPPs. She is the Official Opposition Critic for Francophone Affairs and Health.

@blmsudbury @AndreaVasquezJ 🔥SPEAKER🔥 📣 Scott Florence (he/him) is the executive director of the Sudbury Workers Education & Advocacy Centre, & he also works with the Sudbury Community Legal Clinic on the Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Project. He is a tireless champion of workers rights.

@blmsudbury @AndreaVasquezJ 🔥SPEAKER🔥 📣 Tanya Shute (she/her) is a White Euro-western settler and associate professor in the School of Social Work at Laurentian University.

@blmsudbury @AndreaVasquezJ 🔥SPEAKER🔥 📣 Aspen Groom (they/them) is the co-chair of Fierté Sudbury Pride (FSP), a nonprofit, community-based organization that has supported, educated, and celebrated the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Greater Sudbury since 1997.

@blmsudbury @AndreaVasquezJ 🔥SPEAKER🔥 📣 @blmsudbury, founded in 2020, is a non-profit, grassroots organization dedicated to advocating for the rights and empowerment of Black communities in the Greater Sudbury Area and beyond.

@blmsudbury 🔥SPEAKER🔥 📣@AndreaVasquezJ (she/her/ella) is the Director & Principal Consultant of @PolicingFreeSch. She makes part of a national & international movement working on these issues with, & alongside people & organizational partners based across Canada, U.S, U.K & South Africa.

@blmsudbury ⚠️PFS #ON CAMPAIGN TOUR STOP ‼️Greater Sudbury stop alongside local-based partner @blmsudbury & supporters to send a message: #NoToBill33 & #FundOurSchools NOT Policing-in-Schools 🗓️⏰11am, Oct. 8 📍408 Wembley Drive #PolicingFreeSchools #PolicingFreeSchoolsON

...through both institutionalization & incarceration, panelists will discuss the denied right to education & youth justice. 🔗Registration is closing soon—sign up if you haven’t already! Link in bio. 3/3

This panel will feature discussions on the continuum of institutionalization connecting schools, detention centres, prisons, group homes, shelters, psychiatric facilities & other segregated institutions. Centring on colonial legacies of eugenics & systemic pushout... 2/3