Harsha Walia

At a personal level two things are true at the same time

Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.

And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.

Love and Rage, always

Yesterday was powerful gathering against Apple exploitation and complicity in genocides in Congo & Palestine

I was arrested & facing bogus charges

Vancouver increased its police budget by 40% (!) over past three yrs. Effects are felt daily by targeted communities plus ⬆️ criminalization of dissent

Wild! Ppl throw away 80% of items purchased on Black Friday after few uses

Black Friday deliveries also generate 429,000 tonnes of emissions

Black Friday is built on exploited retail workers, migrant warehouse workers, garment workers in Bangladesh, forced labour in Congo

Community > capitalism!!

Carney rode into power claiming nation-building project of pipelines & ports & profit for corporations.

Canada-Alberta pipeline MOU today proves what nation-building on these lands always is - devastating colonial extraction on Indigenous lands without Indigenous consent

No consent, no pipelines!

Cbsa offices have been shut down!!

Cbsa offices have been shut down!! No more detentions, no more deportations

Breaking we have shut down Cbsa!

Breaking we have shut down Cbsa!

Breaking we have shut down Cbsa!

Breaking we have shut down Cbsa!

Breaking we have shut down Cbsa!

Falling for anti-migrant racism doesn't protect workers, it entrenches capitalism by making workers more vulnerable & exploitable! Our enemy arrives in limousine, not someone on a boat fleeing colonial devastation.

Being pro-migrant is central to our collective fight against fascism!

Polls show increasing support (over 70 percent) for immigration restriction.These racist policies have been justified under the false austerity logic of "not enough resources". As billionaires & banks & bosses make record profits - largely on the backs of migrant labour!!!

5. While some places (EU, US etc) use active militarization as deterrence, Canada's geographic location allows it to use slow bureaucratic violence as deterrence. Processing times for many PR streams is now 50 years (!).

4. At a provincial level, governments are also restricting immigration. Ontario, literally overnight, cancelled its ONIP skilled trades stream and Quebec has ended its PEQ stream. This leaves thousands of workers in limbo and distress.

3. Bill C-12 being pushed through by Carney is a MASS machinery of deportation. It allows Canada to deport refugees without a hearing and grants mass immigration status-cancellation powers to ministers (internal documents released to CBC suggest targeting people from Punjab, India, and Bangladesh).

2. Now the new budget further slashes refugee & humanitarian spots by over 10,000; cuts international student numbers in half (mostly students from Punjab and India); introduces co-pays that will deny refugees basic healthcare; and reduces temporary residents by 43 percent compared to 2025 numbers.

1. Already, in 2025, the number of international students (who subsidize increasingly privatized post-secondary education) and migrant workers has dropped by 53 percent compared to last year. Refugee claims have also been reduced by about 30 percent compared to 2024.

I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?

Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!

Here are 5 other things to know:

This!

Ty!

Breaking! Port of Vancouver being shut down. Join us!

No more genocide. Shut it down.

Flash Fundraising Drive for Sudan Join us in raising 8k for our comrades at Sudan Solidarity Collective! Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me  With Sudan in memo. Collecting etransfers this way helps our comrades save on individual t...

Flash fundraiser closes today!! Any amount helps.

Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective.

All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma.

www.weavingourworlds.ca/flash-fundra...

Ty

Next Saturday!

Join the Sudanese community in a protest and vigil at Surrey City hall.

Share widely!

We are the Surrey Detention Center in solidarity with detained migrants. Canada is expanding its deportation machinery, not one more detention, not one more deporation

"Israel is a fake state"
"UAE is a fake state"
Canada is a fake state"

Let's bring that energy to.. literally ALL states! They are all man-made fake af, creations of a "post-colonial order" to maintain colonialism, manage capital, and discipline society into structures of belonging vs unbelonging

Nov 10: Indigenous Love and Rage: Resistance to Settler Colonialism Indigenous Love and Rage: Resistance to Settler Colonialism Registration required: https://actionnetwork.org/events/indigenousloveandrage 🗓Monday November 10 at 6 pm 📍1803 East 1st Ave. xʷməθkʷəy̓əm...

Join us for our next event! Mon Nov 10

Indigenous Love & Rage: Resistance to Settler Colonialism.

Meal at 6 pm, childcare available, ASL-English confirmed, Masks required

(we are all volunteer collective with no funding, email to get involved & help out!)

www.weavingourworlds.ca/indigenous-l...

Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan The headlines are horrifying: Aid Blocked. El Fasher under siege. Ethnic cleansing. Famine. Millions displaced. Beyond slogans like Eyes on Sudan or Free Sudan, how can we a...

Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan.

www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...

The multiplying border - The Architectural Review The border is an elastic regime, rather than a fixed line, that can exist anywhere and everywhere, writes Harsha Walia

"The border is best understood as an elastic regime that extends and thickens across space and time."

@harshawalia.bsky.social for @social.architectural-review.com: www.architectural-review.com/essays/keyno...

Photo of Mskwaasin with a keffyeh, black background with Canadian Boat to Gaza logo + LARGE red text: "MSKWAASIN AGNEW (DENE/CREE) ABDUCTED BY ISRAEL." and smaller white text: "Contact the Government to demand: - immediate sanctions on Israel - a two way arms embargo - demand the release of Mskwaasin and other Canadian members of the Flotilla." White text in a red outlined box: "Prime Minister Mark Carney mark.carney@parl.gc.ca Anita Anand (Foreign Affairs) anita.anand@international.gc.ca David Mcguinty (National Defence) david.mcguinty@forces.gc.ca Rebecca Alty (Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations) rebecca.alty@parl.gc.ca 613-992-4587 MP Karim Bardeesy Taiaiako'n-Parkdale-High Park. karim.bardeesy@parl.gc.ca 416-769-5072

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

Tony Blair heading up so-called Gaza International Transitional Authority is disgustingly apt for an imperial plan.

Not only is he a war criminal who led UK invasion of Iraq, but he now heads Tony Blair Institute - a capitalist haven for security & global imperial governance in "fragile states."

Beautiful to see more support infrastructure joining the flotilla - much of which exists because they are responses to border violence.

Life Support medical vessel now joining has been doing missions in Central Med - world's deadliest border, and has done over 3000 rescues.

Freedom is intertwined.

"Why do you talk about genocide at parties"

"Why do you talk about genocide with kids around"

"Why do you talk about genocide during work calls"

"Why do you talk about genocide with people who have their own shit going on"

Why do you talk about genocide when...

BECAUSE there is a GENOCIDE.