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Victory for staff as Royal Ballet and Opera pulls Israel production 182 members of The Royal Ballet and Opera said they “reject future performances in Israel”. They stand in solidarity with performer who protested with Palestinian flag. CEO announces decision to ca…

64. From the UK -- a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement as the Royal Ballet and Opera cancels a planned collaboration with an Israeli National Opera. artistsforpalestine.org.uk/2025/08/04/v... #MovementWins2025

#HamOnt now

#FreePalestine

Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in July 2025 At least 11 people were killed by police in Canada in July 2025. This means that at least 59 people have been killed by cops so far this year. At least six people were killed in police deployments in ...

"At least 11 people were killed by police in Canada in July 2025. ... These deaths include people who were directly killed by police, as in police shootings, and people who died during police deployments or in police custody."

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No current plans for return of school resource officers despite Ford government bill Toronto Police say they will not be bringing back school resource officers, despite the Ford government’s Bill 33 which would allow them to do so. The decision comes on the heels of a rally at Queen’s...

63. Despite provincial legislation pushing for a return to cops in schools, community opposition results in Toronto police saying they will not resume the practice, which was originally ended by the Toronto school board in 2017. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/07/31/t... #MovementWins2025

Slovenia becomes first EU country to impose arms embargo on Israel The Central European country has also recognised Palestinian statehood in 2024.

62. In a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, Slovenia becomes the first EU country to impose an arms embargo on Israel. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/... #MovementWins2025

If Poilievre were doing what Mark Carney is right now, liberals would be frothing at the mouth in anger, but instead they're just cheering him on because he's their guy and he's in charge.

Report Slams Canada’s “Systematic Deception” Over Weapons Transfers to Israel Activists say the government is misleading the public as Canadian weapons flow to Israel despite pledged restrictions.

"Report Slams Canada’s 'Systematic Deception' Over Weapons Transfers to Israel"

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This totally makes sense. A notable public figure in the US (Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls) is illegally arrested by Israel and subjected to severe physical violence while on a hunger strike… and not one US media outlet of any type has decided that is news.

Israel has systematically assassinated Palestinian journalists in Gaza while preventing international journalists from entering for nearly two years, and it does not take much to understand why the IDF views the very concept of journalism as an existential threat

On Sept 1st you're kicking refugees out on the street to pay for it

Mark Carney: "We're busy negotiating a sweeping, comprehensive, multi-bilateral, pan-national trade and military agreement."

First Nations: "Uh, great ... any idea when we'll get clean water?"

Learning from Movements – Norman Nawrocki Norman Nawrocki got his start in grassroots political work as a Vancouver high school student protesting the Vietnam War in the 1970s. From there, he got involved in a broad spectrum of issues as a un...

Check out my interview with @normannawrocki.bsky.social, a long-time activist and prolific musician and writer in Montreal. He talks about housing struggles, strengthening movements through the arts, being inspired by Zapatistas and Palestinian youth, and his new book.

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Fed up with technology today. Enough with all the misbehaving computers, I want a bird that can chisel what I write onto stone tablets which then get delivered to people's door by dinosaurs...

Electoral politics will not save us, etc., etc., etc....but I do hope the vile Keir Starmer is quaking at least a little bit at the remarkable launch of the new socialist party in the UK...

We need more Alan Cummings and Pedro Pascals.

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls was on the Gaza freedom flotilla which was just raided by Israeli forces.

The CMA breaks its silence on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Calls it a “humanitarian crisis” and “hopes for an immediate end to the hostilities”. Laughably bad. The CMA is run by genocidal racist doctors who do not value Palestinian life nor see them as human.

Here’s an example of one leader who will go down in history as a genocide collaborator because he refused to follow his obligations to international law.

But he did offer plenty of pretty words!

The ability of liberal elites in the West to pretend to be surprised by and aghast at the horrors they themselves have not only caused but could have prevented at any point is...well, nothing new, I suppose, but horrifying nonetheless.

ALRB certified 3 more unionized workplaces The certificates include 9-1-1 communicators, long-term care workers, teachers, and custodians.

61. Victories for workers in Alberta, as groups of 9-1-1 communicators, teachers, custodians, and long-term care workers unionize. albertaworker.ca/news/alrb-ce... #MovementWins2025

Transit riders, environmental groups celebrate the approval of dedicated transit lanes in Toronto

60. A victory for transit riders and environmentalists in Toronto as their advocacy secures city council approval for new dedicated transit lanes. www.ttcriders.ca/transit_ride... #MovementWins2025

It's wild how different crime reporting looks when the police and their allies aren't trying to discredit BLM and the "union" isn't in contract negotiation. There have been more murders in Montreal so far this year than any Jan-July since 2007, but the copagandists are chill.

I wonder how different our world would be if Canadian media could muster the same outrage over the government’s inaction on the forced starvation in Gaza as we do for foreign interference and government debt levels…

Breaks my heart, truly. These are choices.

If you think about it, the fact that we can still read free books from the library is one of the best things. It's still free.

We definitely need to put effort into developing overlapping, big-picture, left visions for the future, ideally as one element of concrete struggle on the ground. But I'm really not interested in reading yet another individual lefty-bro's manifesto published in book form.

An update: The pub date for my new book was originally supposed to be early November, but has been moved to October 21. Pre-order now! :)

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

There’s a direct through line from the dehumanization of the War on Terror to today.

I remember so vividly when Obama refused to hold anyone in the Bush Administration accountable so we could “look forward, not backward.”

We’re where we are because the rich & powerful are unaccountable.

(Sorry about the minor glut of #MovementWins2025 posts today...I was away for a week in circumstances in which I was somewhat online but posting would've been cumbersome, so I had a little backlog!)