Derrick O'Keefe

People power works. Thanks to everyone who came together to force Pattison’s hand this week. #bcpoli

Canada will require refugees and asylum seekers to co-pay for health care starting in May They will have to pay 30 per cent of the costs of services such as dental, optometry and physiotherapy and a $4 flat rate on each prescription.

This came in the same budget that axed a luxury tax on yachts. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

“I've survived war. And I'm definitely going to survive intimidation and whatever these people think they can throw at me because I'm built that way.”

The right-wing Somali pogrom architects are shocked she’d square up and stand-up for herself, because they are inherently cowards.

Naag Nool!

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

Vancouver mogul Jim Pattison’s company under fire for proposed sale of U.S. property to ICE Canadians are organizing boycotts of businesses tied to the billionaire while Virginia residents are planning demonstrations

A suburban county in central Virginia is considering its legal options over a plan by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to purchase a warehouse property owned by Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments to use as a holding and processing centre
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UFCW 1518 has written to the Jim Pattison Group about the decision to sell a Pattison-owned warehouse for conversion into an ICE processing facility.

We stand firmly against practices that dehumanize people anywhere — including the harms reported by victims impacted by ICE.

'Sorry you're all upset that we're profiting off of fascism.' 🤷‍♀️

It me

A Pattison Company’s Possible Deal with ICE Brings Boycott Threats | The Tyee Trump’s immigration enforcement agency wants to buy a warehouse for a ‘processing centre’ in Virginia.

Pattison profits off of the largest coalport on the Pacific coast of the Americas, shipping US thermal coal. Now he's looking to profit off of real estate deals with ICE.

So great there's finally a political leader in this province willing to criticize BC's Mr. Burns.

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Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor the six million Jewish lives — and the millions of others — senselessly murdered by the Nazi regime. We remember not only the unimaginable loss, but the warning history leaves us.

Vigils were held around Minneapolis and beyond Saturday night in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents.

Photo and video: Jeff Wheeler, Anthony Souffle, Simon Peter Groebner/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

BC's Mr. Burns has been profiting off of Trumpism for years, not least through his ownership of the coal port that exports thermal coal from the U.S.

Billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and the planet ricochet.media/climate/envi...

AFL-CIO Mourns Killing of Minneapolis Union Member, Reiterates Calls for ICE to Leave Minnesota: The AFL-CIO mourns the senseless killing of another Minneapolis resident by federal agents. Alex Jeffrey Pretti was a VA intensive care unit nurse and a member of AFGE Local 3669—a brother in our union family. Our thoughts are with Alex’s loved ones, his union siblings, and the people of Minneapolis at this devastating time. As tens of thousands of Minnesotans made clear peacefully and powerfully yesterday, the Trump administration’s horrific operation—and their actions aimed at stoking violence and chaos—must end. America’s unions join the call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed. We demand local authorities conduct a full, transparent investigation that will lead to accountability for this tragic and violent act, and for Congress to use its power to hold ICE accountable.

America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO

Boycott Pattison List🇨🇦:
- Save-On-Foods
- Quality Foods
- Nester’s Market
- Western Family
- Urban Fare
- Pattison car dealerships and media

Time to crank the pressure until Pattison cuts ties with ICE. #BoycottPattison #bcpoli

Alex Pretti, a 37-year old nurse, was just murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. We must organize and build solidarity across borders to #AbolishICE.
First up - BC billionaire Jim Pattison owns a US warehouse that will soon be turned into an ICE processing facility. Tell Eby to shut down the deal. #bcpoli

I would very much like to see a BC reporter follow up on this. Is the party's official position to support US-led regime change abroad? And if so, where else?

UN Charter Article 2(4) is a core principle of international law. It prohibits all states from the threat/use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any other state, banning war & coercion except self-defense or UN Security Council authorization.

NDP denounces the illegal attack of Trump against the venezuelian regime. Latin America is not owned by the USA and it’s not its playground. International law and the people’s right to self determination exists. The liberal government should clearly defend these principles. #NDP @ndp.ca #cdnpoli

Excerpts from interview with Fox News important read for Canadians

Trump just announces the US will be running Venezuela now, until the can do a "safe, proper, and judicious" transfer of power. Announcing an occupation before you've occupied a country is a new one.

In 2002-2003, it took a massive and sustained anti-war movement for the Chretien Liberal government to oppose Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq.

Let's not succomb to fatalism in the face of the spectacle of Trump's Idiocracy-imperialism.

No more wars for oil.

Truly deranged and dangerous.

U.S. imperialism, mask off.

Cowardice and complicity.

The U.S. attack on Venezuela was a flagrant, over-the-top violation of international law.

Canada should be echoing Mexico's principled stand against war. Instead, we get Elbows Down bootlicking. Pathetic.

Mayor Katie Wilson speaks in a crowd

“It’s about being full human beings and not just means to an end. I want to live in a city that honors what you’re doing when you’re not making money: time spent on the playground with a kid or visiting a sick friend…we need bread, but we need roses too.” -Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson

Happy Zohran Mamdani is the Mayor of New York City to all who celebrate 😭❤️

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