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4 Muslim folks were murdered in London Ontario yesterday in an act of Islamophobia.
In Alberta, Muslim women have been being attacked and violated constantly, there have been over 10 attacks in the last year.
Protect Muslim folks. Protect our hijabi sisters.
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Workers are united; workers have shut down arms factories in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Hamilton today in solidarity with Palestine.
We won’t let arms companies support the Israeli war machine 🇵🇸 We’re here for as long as it takes to say: NO MORE COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE
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The UCP literally put a motion on the table to set up local militias in Alberta.
We live in a fucking hellscape.
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if your women’s liberation doesn’t include land back, the abolition of prisons and borders, justice for trans women, disabled women, poor women
you’re probably reinventing systems of supremacy to benefit you and I want no part in it 🤷🏽♀️
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Canada does not have universal healthcare. We need universal dental care, pharmacare and mental health care.
I got my wisdom teeth removed 2 days ago, and the cost of that surgery was $5,000 out of pocket. My insurance company claimed it was an elective surgery.
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it’s 2021, if you’re not publicly supporting full drug decriminalization, free public transit, housing for all, don’t call yourself a progressive.
people are dying. we’re in the fourth wave of a pandemic and an opioid crisis, and a climate crisis. this is the bare minimum.
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We’re holding a read in at
@chaptersindigo
in Toronto
We’re here to demand an end to Heather Reisman, Indigo’s CEO, complicity in genocide & to drop the charges against the Peace 11
Heather runs a foundation called HESEG which funds lone solider to join the IOF
#FreePalestine
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today, my mom texted me to lock the door…something we never do.
This was immediately after finding out that another Muslim woman had been attacked in YEG.
I’m tired and scared and sad. This is an epidemic of anti Muslim violence in Edmonton, and no one is taking it seriously
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We’re occupying
@cafreeland
office in downtown Toronto to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza, an end to all arms sales to Israel, and an end to the Israeli occupation and genocide.
#PalSolidaritySitIn
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Cargill is owned by the Cargill family, the fourth wealthiest family in the United States. They can afford to close the plant.
They are choosing to prioritize their profits over the lives of their workers. This is murder, plain and simple.
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200+ workers in Toronto have shut down L3 Harris for the day.
L3 manufactures key components of the F35 jets are that being used to siege Gaza by air & murder thousands of Palestinians
We’re shutting down weapons companies in solidarity with Palestine ✊🏽
#PalSolidaritySitIn
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2 days after 4 Muslims are murdered in London, Ontario, there’s literally a bunch of cars driving down Whyte with stickers that say “No to M103”.
tell me again how this isn’t Canada? because it absolutely is.
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if you’re looking at what’s happening in the US and are horrified, remember that the Edmonton police department continues to card Black and Indigenous folks at disproportionate rates, continues to enact brutality and terror on Black and Indigenous communities.
Defund the police
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academia is predicated on expecting students to disclose incredibly personal trauma in order to arrange accommodation. instead of expecting your students to disclose trauma to you, have you considered making accessible policies the baseline?
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Workers are shutting down Zim, we refuse to let the Israeli war machine continue unabated.
Zim is Israel’s oldest and largest shipping company and directly complicit in the genocide of over 20,000 people in Palestine.
Zim shipping, you’re supporting genocide
#FreePalestine
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if you needed another reason to defund the police…
this sounds like a person who is clearly having a mental health crisis, and instead of offering care or support, EPS decided to release a dog that has been trained to be a weapon.
defund the edmonton police service.
#yegcc
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I am tired. Tired of watching my kin experience violence, tired of wondering when the next attack will happen.
and let’s be clear, the answer is not policing or prisons. It’s addressing the rampant islamophobia, and racism that informs this violence.
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if you’re talking about what’s happening in afghanistan without explicitly naming that it is the result of western imperialism, you’re continuing a colonial practice of orientalism and white savioursm.
afghani people don’t need western saviours, they deserve reparations.
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your annual labour day reminder that cops aren’t workers, their literal job is to enforce the machinations of capitalism and white supremacy.
it’s 2020, there’s never been a better time to kick cops out of the labour movement
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Winston Churchill was a white supremacist man who is responsible for the starvation and murder of 3 million people during the Bengal famine.
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romanticizing burnout is killing us.
joy and rest need to be at the centre of our movements or we’re guaranteed to fail
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when police do "wellness checks", people die.
defund the police.
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If GraceLife was a mosque, this would have happened weeks ago.
If GraceLife was a mosque, we would have heard Hinshaw talk about how cultural values and norms are the reason COVID is spreading.
If GraceLife was a mosque, Muslim communities would have been under attack.
Roads blocked and fences going up around GraceLife Church this morning...
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This is huge! EPSB just announced that the SRO program will be suspended pending review of the program.
We need counsellors, not cops in our schools, and this is a huge first step!
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so just to be clear, Black students were suspended for recording their non-Black principal saying the N word.
sounds like anti-Black racism to me.
in case you didn't know, if you're not Black, don't use the N-word. it's literally that simple.
Students suspended over recording of Calgary school principal using N-word
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We were removed from
@cafreeland
office by Toronto Police. We’re rallying at Bloor and Spadina and continuing to read the names of the dead.
SHOW UP 🇵🇸✊🏽
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to be clear, if
#YEGcc
doesnt defund the police, they will have actively asked BIPOC folks to share stories of police trauma without actually honouring those stories.
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the narrative around this is wild.
the RCMP are NOT voluntarily leaving wet’suwet’en territories, instead, they said that if the injunction was respected, they would withdraw
this is more of the same, and blockades will continue until RCMP stand down✊🏽
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If you’re Muslim, and want to process this or need support, my DM’s are open.
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Here’s a list of thing
#yegcc
could spend $500,000 on instead of a tank.
1. Housing solutions for our housing insecure neighbours
2. Safe consumption sites to address the opiod crisis
3. Investments in good affordable transit
4. Building and maintaining public washrooms
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today, Chief Na’moks, Aunty Janet & Wet’suwet’en land defenders rallied outside RBC in downtown Edmonton to demand that
@RBC
defund Coastal GasLink
Folks in so-called Alberta & Treaty 6 stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en. It’s time for RBC to walk the talk & defund CGL ✊🏽
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tonight a group of young people disrupted a UCP event at the U of A campus (I was one of them)
during this event, we were yelled at, verbally harassed and one woman physically assaulted a member of our group.
#abpoli
#uasu
#yegpolitics
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ok listen, i’ve been a talus ball hater from the start
today was the first day I walked to them, instead of just driving by
and y’all, i was wrong. i love the talus balls, they’re beautiful & show the sky and the land and putting them next to the highway was the biggest mistake
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32% of Edmonton Police Service calls are non-criminal. This means that
#yegcc
must divest that money from policing and invest it into community support that keep us all safe.
Send an email to your councillor now demanding this transition using the tool.
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today, folks took the high level bridge in downtown Edmonton, in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en nation.
we won’t let CGL and the RCMP invade Indigenous lands without fighting back.
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#WetsuwetenStrong
#YEG
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Olivia Chow, do you hear us now? We want a ceasefire NOW.
Hundreds of your constituents are occupying Union Station in downtown Toronto to demand a ceasefire, and an end to genocide NOW.
#FreePalestine
#canpoli
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Let’s be clear, as an anti-racism educator, I know that DEI training is not the solution to this violence.
DEI education works when folks already care about each other. But when we’re dealing with dehumanization and hatred, DEI education is not the answer.
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my riding, Edmonton-Riverbend, is a toss up riding for the first time ever. if you live here, you know how special this community is.
the suburbs are not conservative heartlands, they’re full of working class racialized families. we deserve a representative that care about us.
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if you ever needed proof that canada is a fake, violent entity build on and sustained by violence towards Indigenous peoples, the choice for a Canadian national costume is the uniform of a paramilitary force that invades and brutalizes Indigenous communities.
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there’s never been a better time to stand with healthcare workers.
if you have time today, head down to the picket, bring coffee, show up for these workers the way they’ve been showing up for all of us.
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Land defenders have been arrested at gunpoint on Wet’suwet’en territory for protecting the water and future generations.
tonight, folks in
#YEG
came out in solidarity to demand rcmp off Wet’suwet’en lands and a stop to the coastal gas link pipeline.
#ShutDownCanada
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Indigenous women make up 50% of the population in women's prisons in Canada.
this is colonialism in action. free them all, and stop jailing sovereign people on sovereign lands.
#IWD2023
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a fun reminder that the Edmonton Police Association, & by extension, the Edmonton Police Service is definitely surveilling who criticizes them
for the EPA to launch a complaint against
@michaeljanz
for holding them accountable is chilling & proof that we live in a police state
The president of the Edmonton Police Association
@AFPAElliott
confirmed they maintain a list of "critics" of the EPS, and thinks that
#yegcc
councillors should be prohibited from interacting with "known critics".
They tried to silence
@michaeljanz
.
This is absolutely chilling.
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I really thought we were beyond this, but today, a man approached me in the grocery store demanding that i hide the box of tampons i was holding.
my dude, people menstruate?! is that really news to you?
anyways, menstruation supplies should be free for anyone who needs them.
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As a result of Johner's resignation, the SRO program should be immediately suspended.
Racist's votes don't count.
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And no the answer isn’t for us to take more self defense classes or buying weapons for our keychains, it’s for white people to hold their kin accountable for anti Muslim hatred and racism.
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Defunding the police opens up so many beautiful possibilities, so many liberatory futures.
It opens up the potential for us to respond to crisis with care instead of brutality.
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There are 544 active cases of COVID-19 in Edmonton, this is 2x as many as Toronto.
and yet somehow, kids are being sent back into schools without safe procedures in place, and physical distancing is no longer required.
The Kenney government will have blood on its hands.
A health order signed over the weekend by Alberta's chief medical officer of health has lifted a mandate requiring physical distancing in the classroom when students return to school
#yyc
#yeg
#yql
#ymm
#abpoli
@VirginiaCTV
@CTVRyanWhite
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let’s be clear, people are eating at restaurants and going to Halloween parties because the AB government isn’t willing to provide clear COVID directions.
the UCP are prioritizing business over people in their public health mandates, that’s who’s responsible for our COVID surge
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Canada is fake. It’s a violent myth built on Indigenous genocide and Black enslavement and it should no longer exist.
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how many of these officers are going to suddenly become SRO's in the next 12 months? 🤔🧐
Edmonton police officers are under investigation for allegedly using excessive force.
Joshua Powell, who filmed these two videos, was charged with obstruction of justice — a charge that was dropped Wednesday after CBC published this story:
#yeg
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We were told that queer and trans people were psychopaths, that our dads must not have loved us and that we needed psychiatrists.
this is the kind of Alberta Jason Kenney wants. this is what is at stake
#abpoli
#yegpolitics
#uasu
#stopkenney
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I have wept through every single public hearing because I am so angry that BIPOC folks are expected to tear themselves open in order to receive justice AND I never thought I would hear anyone, nonetheless dozens of people make the case for abolition at a city council meeting
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@UbakaOgbogu
it’s not like racialized people are already been murdered on the prairies by white people with guns 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
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women’s lib is definitely not Shell tweeting in support of women’s rights and then ramming extraction projects through Indigenous territories and building man camps that disproportionately harm Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit folks
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all day, community members have testified about how policing is racist and violent. we are demanding divestment from police, and re-investment into our communities.
the only question now is whether
#yegcc
will prioritize community safety and defund the police.
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I keep seeing tweets talking about Islamophobia as the fear of Muslim folks. That’s wrong. It’s hatred, pure and simple.
Fear is my mom not going on a walk tonight because “you never know what could happen”. Islamophobia is hatred.
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hey
#YEG
, it’s our turn to show up in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en and demand the RCMP leave Wet’suwet’en territory and never return.
see you there tomorrow at 5 at Beaver Hills House.
#AllOutForWedzinKwa
#WetsuwetenStrong
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@SlutStrathcona
honestly this sounds about white to me.
must be really nice not to be impacted by the murder of Black folks, Indigenous folks, and folks of colour or be impacted by the amount of hatred t***p has stocked, but cool i guess?
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In downtown Tkaronto,
@RBC
CEO, Dave Mckay is receiving an award for business leader of the year.
We’re here to crown Dave the climate villain of the year.
RBC, stop violating Indigenous rights and defund fossil fuels.
#RBCIsKillingMe
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Cargill employees were forced back to work today, despite Cargill being responsible for the largest COVID outbreak in Alberta.
Most of their employees are migrant workers, this is a death sentence.
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If you’re poor, racialized, queer and trans, right now is the time to go to the doctor.
Get your blood work done. Go for that ultrasound you’ve been putting off. Ask all the questions for all the random ailments you never went to see someone for
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having 10,000 people in the heart of Alberta demanding climate justice would have been unthinkable a year ago.
the youth are rising. we are unstoppable, another world is possible ✊🏽
#ClimateStrikeYEG
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The correct statement would have been "The Alberta NDP stands in solidarity with striking healthcare workers"
For a party that claims to support workers, it would be good if you actually just supported workers for once in your lives......
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stop calling the person who murdered 4 Muslims in Ontario a terrorist, call it what is is: state-sanctioned violence.
Using the language of terrorism is only going to heighten the surveillance and criminalization of Muslim communities. Prisons and policing won’t solve this.
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Because I am clearly choosing to remove my teeth from my mouth. Addressing inequality in our healthcare system means investing in truly universal care. It means considering therapy, dental care, medications, chiropractic appointments, mobility aids as part of care.
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Over 300 folks have called
@RBC
executives in the last 24 HOURS to demand that RBC defund the Coastal GasLink pipeline 🎉🎉
We need to keep this pressure up.Drilling under Wedzin Kwa is imminent
CALL THE DIRECT LINES OF RBC EXECS NOW
#AllOutforWedzinKwa
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3 years ago, a gunman entered a Quebec city mosque and murdered 6 people; Azzedine Soufiane, Khaled Belkacemi, Boubaker Thabti, Abdelkarim Hassane, Mamadou Tanou Barry, and Ibrahim Barry
It's wild how easy it is for us to forget
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Coastal GasLink will drill under Wedzin Kwa any day now and as the lead funder of the CGL pipeline,
@RBC
could stop the drill NOW.
RBC is blocking our calls, so we're releasing the direct lines of RBC CEO Dave McKay and his senior execs.
CALL THEM NOW AND DEMAND RBC DEFUND CGL
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Police presence is increasing inside
@cafreeland
office, but we can hear the rally outside.
Show up at Bloor and Spadina, and demand an end to genocide in Gaza NOW.
#PalSolidaritySitIn
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holy shit, is anyone actually surprised that Adriana LaGrange is the aunt of Cargill’s GM.
Bui Thi Hep was murdered because of Cargill’s disregard for the safety of their workers and the UCP are deeply implicated.
Close the plant, and pay the workers
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Let's be clear, no one has been harmed or injured as churches have burned down.... but thousands of Indigenous people have been murdered at the hands of Canada and the Catholic Church...
It really tells you something when the burning of churches is what Trudeau is worried about.
NEW:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls the destruction of places of worship as "unacceptable", as several churches have burned to the ground in the wake of the discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools.
Says we must work together to right past wrongs.
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This morning, we paid a visit to the home of
@RBC
CEO Dave McKay in Toronto in solidarity with
@Gidimten
Dave, stop building a fracked gas pipeline through Wet'suwet'en land and defund Coastal GasLink or we're going to bring drilling to your front door.
#AllOutforWedzinKwa
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I hate to be a broken record, but organizing is fundamentally a labour of love
you gotta actually care about other people in order to build better futures with them
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a small update; a month ago, i joined the incredible team at
@standearth
as a digital campaigner on the climate finance team 🌸
i’m really excited to be working with such incredible people in the fight to stop banks from investing in fossil fuels, and funding climate crisis.
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this piece by
@emilyjaneriddle
is brilliant, and gets to the crux of what solidarity must look like.
“The logical response would be for unions like Unifor to begin taking direct action in solidarity with Indigenous land defenders” 🔥🔥
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I am so tired.
I am so tired of how BIPOC folks are forced to recount their trauma in order to put policy change on the table. I'm tired of how often we are forced to beg for our safety. I'm tired of how we are ignored every single time.
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As a person with a full time salaried job, $5000 out of pocket is still inaccessible and makes me feel precarious and stressed.
Now imagine if I didn’t have access to paid sick leave, stable income or housing, getting my wisdom teeth removed would have felt impossible.
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The attacks on Black Muslim women are a result of rampant islamophobia and anti-Blackness on the prairies.
settler myths of who is welcome on these territories reinforce white supremacy, and create the conditions for this violence.
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idk maybe try not being racist?!?!?!
Racist rants will come back to haunt you, so don't go public with your beliefs
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The TMX pipeline is being built under the North Saskatchewan River, just minutes from my home.
This is what that area looked like a couple weeks ago. This is just upstream from YEG’s water treatment plant.
We can’t afford a spill here or anywhere. This means
#TMX
can’t be built
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young people have been at the heart of this movement for so long, look at allll these incredible youth organizers that have pulled off an incredible rally with
@GretaThunberg
in less than a week
#abpoli
#ClimateStrike
#yeg
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non-profits are never going to be the revolution, at their best, they can be harm reduction.
movements like
@pekiwewinyeg
are showing us how community cares for each other, how we will always do a better job at caring for our neighbours than an organization ever will
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today, Edmonton Police are presenting a report to
#yegcc
on how essential the SRO program is for community safety
This report doesn't actually consider the lived perspectives of BIPOC youth who are criminalized and harmed by SRO's.
we need counsellors, not cops in our schools
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The Edmonton police department is 355 million dollars of the city budget.
When city councillors tell us that there’s no money for free transit or social services, they are saying that terrorizing Black and Indigenous communities is more important that strong public services
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@Elijah_Winter1
@Themindseye8
let's be clear, the death penalty is fucked. incarceration is fucked. i am not looking for revenge, muslim folks are out here begging y'all to stop murdering us, and the only solution you can think of is to continue state violence through the death penalty????
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Winston Churchill is responsible for the murder of 3 million Bengali people, and
@JonDziadyk
cares more about red paint on his statue, than the fact that Churchill is a murderer.
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@edmonton_anne
@michaeljanz
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
@aaronpaquette
@AndrewKnack
this is how EPS treats those experiencing crisis, this is why we need to defund the police.
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Having a healthcare system that supports all of us means addressing how Black and Indigenous folks are treated in our healthcare system. It means demanding
#PaidSickDays
for all. It means shutting down businesses when COVID cases are out of control.
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while you're here, attendance policies are fundamentally ableist. post your notes online, don't make attendance a part of their grade
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The chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” isn’t anti-Semitism. It’s a call for Palestine liberation, and a promise that no one in Palestine gets left behind.
This is an incredibly scary overreach of police powers.
🔵 CHARGE LAID 🔵
Following the protest on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, after consultation with the CPS Hate Crime Coordinator, one man has been charged with causing a disturbance & hate motivation has been applied to the charge.
Ahead of the protest, our Diversity Resource Team & our
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Holy shit. In Edmonton, Black Muslim women are routinely being attacked, and now mosques in Edmonton are dealing with an anthrax scare.
Anti-Muslim hatred is ramping up in Alberta, and everyone should be concerned.
#ableg
#yegcc
PR: We are alarmed at the series of packets mailed to mosques in the Edmonton area containing various kinds of white powder in an apparent anthrax scare.
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how many of the folks who attended Bowden Rodeo are correctional officers at Bowden Institution? how many of them have flouted lockdown rules and endangered folks incarcerated at BI?
COVID-19 in prison is a death sentence. Bowden institution ALREADY has an outbreak.
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hey, uh, if the Alberta NDP really wanna show up for workers, this is what they need to do
lots of politicians are willing to speak at rallies, how many are willing to stand with workers at the police line?
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
@RashidaTlaib
just got arrested with protesting airline catering workers outside
@Delta
terminal at Detroit Metro Airport.
Workers are done with unaffordable health care and poverty wages—and aren't giving up until they get the good jobs we deserve.
#1job
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i’m pretty disappointed in
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
response to encampments.
Our community members deserve to be treated with dignity and care. The eviction of folks at Pekiwewin last year was horrifying, and can’t be the solution moving forward.
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Workers in Tkaronto shut down L3 Harris this morning.
L3 Harris manufactures components of jets and bombs that are being used on people in Gaza.
L3Harris has blood on their hands, we need an arms embargo NOW
#CeasefireInGazaNOW
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