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“The most important evaluation happens twice a day. In the morning when you look in the mirror and at night when you look in the mirror and you ask yourself, what have I done for the cause today?” Dr. Stafford Hood, in his AEA 2019 address (Rest in power)

Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.

"We have to help people understand what is (the current, shared reality), we must collectively imagine what can be (a future possibility), & we have to diligently labor for what must be (organizing to sustain life/​livingness & for liberation)."

@prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.

Your Guide on How to Support Mutual Aid Groups in Palestine as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens As we speak, up to two million people in Gaza are being threatened with starvation, as the state of Israel, backed by the US government, continues to blockade humanitarian aid into Gaza, attack basic ...

Two million people are being threatened with forced starvation in #Palestine, as the US government continues to support ongoing ethnic-cleansing.

We've created a list of on-the-ground mutual aid groups in #Gaza that you can support, amplify, and follow. itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-o...

Photo of an orange miniature flag hanging from a rearview mirror. 215 is written on it.

1/ While the news was released on May 29, 2021, May 23 was the date that the 215 were discovered by ground-penetrating radar. Today, the fourth anniversary, is a day that should be remembered and acknowledged. #fnmi #215 #kamloopsresidentialschool #residentialschools #cdnpoli

Joint statement from the leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom and France on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law.

take five minutes tonight to call or email your MP and ask what "further concrete actions" Canada will be taking immediately, as Israel continues to block essential aid from reaching Gaza www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

I keep seeing a lot of super shallow left-ish observations that Carney winning as PM means that Canada “got it right”, but holy hell, y’all, this election pulled the country way further to the right.

Donate to Help Christi and Nox recover from the Lapu Lapu tragedy, organized by Amanda Koop Hi, my name is Amanda. My good friend Christi and her son, Nox (11… Amanda Koop needs your support for Help Christi and Nox recover from the Lapu Lapu tragedy

fundraisers run by family & friends ❤️

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Help bring Ate Rizza home
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Made a contribution just now to Filipino BC & The Filipino Centre. If you're moved to do likewise in solidarity with the Filipino community in the wake of last night's mass murder, donations can be received at the following link:

Screenshot of words: To our community, We are still finding the words to express the deep heartbreak brought on by this senseless tragedy. We are devastated for the families and victims. We encourage everyone to check in, support and hold each other. Do not hesitate to access resources available. You are not alone. Victim Services are available 24/7 for those who witnessed or experienced trauma - call or text 1-800-563-0808 or email 211-victimlinkbc@uwbc.ca 310 Mental Health Line at 310-6789 Crisis Line at 1-800-784-2433 We will not be taking any media requests, as we are focused on supporting our community right now, in addition to experiencing this trauma. We also want to make it clear that we discourage the viewing and sharing of the videos that are currently circulating of the tragedy. In the coming days, we will be sharing more resources. More details will be made available by the VPD as the investigation unfolds. Filipino BC

Absolutely devastating, a senseless tragedy. Condolences to all those affected 💔 This is a message from Lapu Lapu Day organizers Filipino BC.

In tagalog

Filipino Emergency Response - Supporters If you have capacity to provide capacity to community members, please fill out this form.

You can also offer support, like childcare, counselling, meal train, volunteering for aftercare and grief circles, and more..

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Visit:

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Much love for Filipinx comrades and community impacted by horrific violence during Lapu-Lapu Day celebrations.

For ppl seeking support such as meal train or counseling, you can access resources thru Filipinx-led mutual aid network coming together.

Share widely:

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2025 by-election: Saturday, April 5 Get details on the 2025 Vancouver city by-election on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

want your vote to matter? want to impact the conditions by which you are governed? screw the feds, there's a municipal by-election for Vancouver City Council *right now* 2 seats out of 11 (18% of council!) are going to be decided by this! Vooooooooote. vancouver.ca/your-governm...

Opinion: 10 bus routes that could be cut without TransLink funding | Urbanized If TransLink's fiscal cliff is not resolved, these 10 bus routes could be among the most at risk of being cut.

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Here are all the bus routes that are up for elimination if our decision-makers don't fund transit by April! Each bus route listed here is indispensable for those who take them. They all play an important role in keeping our region connected and moving, no matter how big or small.

hermit crabs are me but with shells instead of hoodies. (I got a new hoodie today and I’m just going to live in it till I have to move on)

Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction Thyme Travellers brings together fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction, the first collection of its kind in Canada.

Look, real talk? I know that awards and acceptance in social circles will not make us free. But I still want to see these Palestinian authors get their flowers. So, please, read this book and get it on all the award reading lists: fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/thyme-t...

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

The words are also 20% shorter due to shrinkflation.

Absolutely love Libro.fm. I get to support my local bookstore (hell yeah Iron Dog Books) while also enjoying my favourite format (hell yeah audiobooks). And I own what I buy. 💜📚

Far too many of you fail to understand you can resist fascism without demanding a deepening loyalty to the nation-state...especially since extreme nationalism is literally one of the hallmarks of fascism.

Indigenous Ppls are not the enemy, and we are not going to be forced to reify our colonizers.

Thought of @tinylantern.bsky.social's suicide intervention resources the second I say the headline and sure enough, they are referenced!

I've done this work for 23 years and Carly's zine is *the* most powerful resource I've come across for community care : static1.squarespace.com/static/5c38d...

This is the stupidest timeline.

trade war btwn imperialist allies (US & Canada) is means to use economic nationalism to rally behind otherwise status-quo. struggle between 'foreign' & 'domestic' capital maintains capitalism, hurts ppl through price gouging, reinforces racist nationalism & intensifies extraction on Indigenous lands

People think resistance comes naturally, but forget that most people need to be shown how. They need it modeled and more so than that they need to be shown that it is even possible. That is part of the power of protests and other public forms of resistance.

“On the level of individuals and civilizations, personality predates ideology. Meaning before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an asshole.”

Just a quote from Brennan Lee Mulligan that’s been playing on repeat in my mind today.

It’s evergreen unfortunately

The End of Term Archive team @eotarchive.org crawled millions of federal webpages! If you are worried about a page going down or changing information on it, you can check to see if it is saved in the Internet Archive's @waybackmachine.bsky.social. 1/2

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.