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Toronto ... Revue Cinema is showing No Other Land till May 15.

Such an intense and important watch. Go watch it!

The intimacy between consecutive library card numbers who often sit on hold next to one another on the holds shelf

If you're homeless and want to vote in the upcoming federal election, or a homeless service provider who wants to know more about the voting process, I've created a guide for you! The PDF can be downloaded here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ioJM... #elxn45

I'm not sure which video to post--the fifteen paramedics in their last moments as one of them prays amid gunfire, the journalist being burned alive, the man holding a headless toddler, the people blown into the air, or the young man quietly rocking the shrouded body of a child.

It's a genocide.

Just found out about a new mutual aid fund for Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ people called Project Rainbow Turtle. Diné Aesthetics helped start it. Give to www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-... #MutualAid #HelpSky #SettlerSaturday

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ProjectRainbowTurtle is a mutual aid fund and network that provides direct financial assistance, support, and resources to our Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ+ Relatives within the united states.
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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.

After a heavy snow one is really reminded of how little Toronto cares about pedestrians. The roads are basically passable but the sidewalks are still a mess

“To fight the inhumanity of our enemies, we must nurture our own humanity and cherish what makes our existence meaningful and worthwhile…‘Find at least one moment of beauty, joy, laughter, and pleasure every day. Because fuck them.’”

Wildfires bring pollution hazards for unhoused people in LA: ‘Like breathing in lead’ As officials urge people to stay indoors, those experiencing homelessness struggle to shield themselves from toxic air

There are 52,000+ unsheltered people in Los Angeles facing toxic air and fire hazards. Winds are destroying tents and structures. City says it’s made available *135 hotel vouchers.* Advocates say they can’t access them

“It feels like you’re breathing in lead + you can see what you’re breathing in”

Always interesting how so many people complain that the Post Office & public transit don't make money, but never demand that fire departments, cops, & the Department of Defense show a profit.

Folks forget that unions made gains not through polite negotiations but through mass resistance to state violence. And why have labour organizers and workers been willing to risk incarceration, beatings, even death? Because that's what workers face AT WORK ANYWAY.

Private company buys a public good. A few years go by and the company decides the public good is no longer worthwhile; the public suffers as a result.

This story arc is way too common in modern society.
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96% of children in Gaza feel their death is imminent, and nearly half express a desire to die due to the unimaginable trauma they've endured from Israel's genocide, according to a new study by a Gaza-based NGO sponsored by the War Child Alliance.

i sure am tired of everyone’s quality of life being at the whim of the hugest losers who ever lived

Cover image of Mahdi Sabbagh’s edited collection of essays, “Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities with Palestine (2024)”

“Our solidarity [with Palestine] cannot be made from a position of passive witnessing, and it cannot be bracketed from the rest of life. My solidarity with Palestine must be a practice that is also about me, and my life, and my future, and that of my children.” — Mahdi Sabbagh

They don’t beat you at chess, they remove your pieces from the board.

“The reason to include Indigenous pedagogies in educational practice ‘is not so that Aboriginal students can compete with non-Aboriginal students…It is, rather, that immigrant society is sorely in need of what Aboriginal knowledge has to offer.” — Marie Battiste (From “Teaching Where You Are”)

Quote by Critical Race Theorist Mari Matsuda about the interconnectedness of oppressive systems, from “Abolition. Feminism. Now.”

“No form of subordination ever stands alone,” — Mari Matsuda on the interconnectedness of oppressive systems. (From “Abolition. Feminism. Now.”)

Image of Fred Hampton holding a mic. Black & white image. White text.

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"We don't think you fight fire with fire. We fight fire with water. We won't fight racism with racism. We fight racism with solidarity. We won't fight capitalism with black capitalism. We fight capitalism with socialism."
-Fred Hampton

How nice is it having Laserdisc cover art??

“Special education students are often the most vulnerable… They’re the proverbial canaries in the coal mine: the quality of their school experience is an indicator of how well the education system is working as a whole.”

Empowering the vulnerable shouldn’t be seen as charity, it’s a benefit to all.

Drawing in marker of a person with curly auburn hair and brown skin wearing an N95 mask.

Even if you don’t normally mask please mask up on your flight or bus or train. Do not bring sickness to your relatives. Do not disable yourself by catching covid. If you need help finding a better fit let’s talk options. There’s so many new masks!

These signs across Toronto this morning are making a point: the Ontario government closing down supervised consumption sites doesn't make people who use drugs, let alone the toxic drug crisis, disappear — but it does ensure that using drugs will be openly forced into public space.