@londoncouncilcdns.bsky.social
A non-partisan citizens' advocacy group whose focus is on water, peace and social justice issues and a robust universal taxpayer-funded healthcare system. We advocate municipally for improved services and climate action over tax cuts.
Please join People for Peace #LndOnt, with Cdn Palestinian Social Association & @indjewishvoices.bsky.social London
Sunday July 27, 12-2 pm
MP Fragiskatos' office, 231 Hyman St.
(at Richmond, 1 block north of Vic Pk)
ALL WELCOME:
Please bring pots and spoons to make noise for Gaza. #BreakTheSiege
Now is the time for @mark-carney.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social to impose strict sanctions on Israel, including a two-way arms embargo, an immediate ceasefire, and urgent delivery of humanitarian aid.
#BreaktheSiege #EndtheOccupation #EnsureSafePassage
@freedomflotilla.bsky.social
journalists, labour union organizers, & social justice warriors onboard #Handala.
Now is the time for every cdn MP to join Heather and @faresaalsoud.bsky.social calling for a safe passage for #Handala to reach Gaza with humanitarian aid, medicine, baby formula, and prosthetics.
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Thank you, @heathermcpherson.bsky.social for your public & ongoing support of Palestine and #Handala. Your solidarity means everything to those brave activists, artists, human rights lawyers, physicians,
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NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.
“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
Toutes les communications avec le bateau de al #Flotilla, le #Handala sont bloquées.
Agissez maintenant @rubaghazalqs.bsky.social @quebecsolidaire.bsky.social @alexboulerice.bsky.social @harounbouazzi.bsky.social @andresfontecilla.bsky.social pour EXIGER sont libre passage à #Gaza.
ALL communications with 'Handala's crew have been jammed. We lost all contact with our crew, and there are multiple drones near the vessel. Which means they could've been intercepted or attacked. Check the next slides to help >
We need you to pressure for the safety of our crew. Tag and message your government representatives and local media to pressure Israel to let 'Handala' to, and guarantee a safe passage to Gaza. Keep your eyes on the tracker on our website.
#AllEyesOnDeck: ALL communications with #Handala's crew have been JAMMED. We lost all contact with our crew, and there are multiple drones near the vessel.
Keep your eyes on the #FreedomFlotilla tracker. Tag & message your governments & elected officials! freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/
Grand MERCI à @rubaghazalqs.bsky.social et ses collègues du parti @quebecsolidaire.bsky.social de ce beau message de solidarité avec #Handala, qui navigue pour briser le siège & mettre fin au blocus de #Gaza.
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Thank you to Mississauga MP @faresaalsoud.bsky.social - your support for #Handala & #FreedomFlotilla @freedomflotilla.bsky.social
to #BreakTheSiege & #EndGazaBlockade is deeply appreciated!
TY for joining us in opposing Israeli genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza
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Try @leahgazan.bsky.social, @avilewis.bsky.social &
charlieangus104.bsky.social. Need loud voices & media @maxfawcett.bsky.social, @pressprogress.ca, @nationalobserver.com, PnP & About that on CBC. Try NGOs. @sokcofc.bsky.social @londoncouncilcdns.bsky.social exists for this. canadians.org/about/
We have been warned about this moment for all our lives. Now it's here. What will you do about it?
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He literally never said a thing when the longest ballot campaign ran in Mississauga-Lakeshore, Winnipeg South Centre, or Toronto St. Paul's.
Now they are running in a riding he is contesting it's a great travesty and an afront to democracy.
Everything he does is self-serving.
‘It’s painful, it’s terrible,’ Faculty, students reveal concerns over Ontario college layoffs and program suspensions
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Wow! what year?
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Albanese: universities must “cease all business activities and terminate relationships directly linked with human rights violations and international crimes against the Palestinian people” and “pay reparations to the Palestinian people, including in the form of an apartheid wealth tax.”
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Handala ❤️
@freedomflotilla.bsky.social
Whoa
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A #FLOTILHA DA #LIBERDADE NAVEGARÁ NOVAMENTE
#Handala navegará para romper o cerco pelas crianças de #Gaza
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La #FlotillaDeLaLibertad ESTÁ ZARPANDO DE NUEVO
#Handala navegará para romper el asedio, por los niños de #Gaza
#FinBloqueoGaza
#PorLaNiñezDeGaza
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Le #Handala prendra la mer pour briser le blocus – pour les enfants de #Gaza
#FlottilleDeLaLiberté
#FinBlocusGaza
#PourLesEnfantsDeGaza
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hundreds shot while waiting for food. The children of Gaza now face famine, disease, and trauma few of us can imagine.
We are not governments. We are people taking action where institutions have failed. We are not backing down.
#FreedomFlotilla #WeWillSail #AllEyesonDeck #BreakTheSiege #Handala
The children of Gaza—who make up over half the population—have been living under a brutal blockade and siege for their entire lives. Since October 2023, over 50,000 have been killed or injured, tens of thousands orphaned, and nearly a million forcibly displaced and homeless. All now face famine, disease, and trauma few of us can imagine. This mission is for them.
Just weeks ago, Israeli forces illegally seized our boat #Madleen and abducted 12 unarmed civilians aboard her in international waters.
Since March, more than 6,572 Palestinians have been killed, over 23,000 injured, and
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Photo of Handala boat with Palestine flags. Quoted text: The Freedom Flotilla is setting sail again. Handala to break the blockade for the children of Gaza. Read more on next four tiles.
Siracusa, Italy - On July 13, 2025, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) will launch 'Handala' - a civilian boat setting out to challenge Israel's illegal, deadly blockade of Gaza. The vessel will carry life-saving humanitarian aid and a message of solidarity from people around the world refusing to stay silent as Gaza is starved, bombed, and buried under rubble. This mission comes just weeks after Israel's illegal attack on the 'Madleen', another Freedom Flotilla boat illegally seized by Israel in international waters. Twelve unarmed civilians - including a Member of the European Parliament, a doctor, journalists, and human rights defenders - were abducted by Israeli commandos and taken against their will to Israel, where they were interrogated, abused, then deported. Their "crime"? Attempting to bring food, medicine, and solidarity to Palestinians under siege.
We are not backing down. The 'Handala' launches in the shadow of ongoing mass atrocities. Since March 18, 2025 - when Israel broke the ceasefire and resumed attacks on Gaza - at least 6,572 Palestinians have been killed and over 23,000 injured, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Among them, over 700 gunned down as they waited for food at distribution points controlled by the U.S. - and Israel-backed "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" (GHF) - a death trap masquerading as an aid scheme; a structure of control and cruelty serving Israel's genocide. The 'Handala' is part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, a grassroots international network that has been sailing against the blockade since 2010. On board will be volunteer medics, lawyers, social justice activists, journalists, and community organizers. We are not governments. We are people, taking action where institutions have failed.
For the children of Gaza. Named after the Palestinian cartoon figure 'Handala' - a barefoot refugee child who turned his back on injustice and vowed not to turn around until Palestine is free - this boat carries his spirit, and that of every child in Gaza who has been denied safety, dignity, and joy. In 2023 and 2024, 'Handala' sailed to ports across northern Europe and the UK, breaking through the media blockade, engaging the public, and building solidarity through press events, art installations, and political education in every port it visited.
We are setting sail again. On July 13, 2025 our boat #Handala will depart from Siracusa, Italy to break Israel’s illegal blockade. This mission is for the children of Gaza.
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YES!!! I'm hoping everyone - my global siblings - will support, share and monitor this next Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
"We will not stay silent as Gaza is starved, humiliated, executed, bombed, and buried under rubble."
I think a lot about this. Toni Morrison’s words on racism. “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work.” The function of anti-Palestinian racism in the West is to distract from the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Be focused.
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70 year old Vigdis Bjorvand from Norway is sailing to break Israel's illegal siege of Gaza. A Palestine activist since 1978, she never wants her grandchild to say: “Grandma, you didn’t do anything.”
Keep Vigdis and 'Handala' safe. Help end Israel's illegal siege and genocide.
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To our American friends 🇺🇸
Québec tourism dropped the friendliest ad ever inviting you to come visit. Come explore, show your love for Canada and support your neighbours up north! 🇨🇦🧀🍷
#BonjourQuebec #CrossBorderLove
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I’m watching “Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office” and it is infuriating and heartbreaking to see how people’s lives were ruined by malfunctioning Horizon software and bureaucratic coverups.
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Read more online via https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-12/paris-unesco-world-heritage-ruling-on-murjuga-rock-art-wa/105522888?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
Murujuga, #Pilbara region of West Australia's north-west has more than one million petroglyphs, some dating back 50,000 years. The ancient Aboriginal rock is older older than the Pyramids of Giza.
#UNESCO members unanimously voted to inscribe the rock art on the World Heritage List. #auspol #NAIDOC
“This equation of anti-Zionism and antisemitism has been a very difficult thing for me and many others,” Brody says. “It’s an absurdity and an ideological trap. It lays the foundation for a whole new kind of antisemitism.”
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