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No one is free until everyone is free. That's why Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Toronto gathers white people into anti-racist action. Get involved.
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This racist, Islamophobic truck has been spotted in Toronto sharing its message of hate. How is this acceptable in our city
@MayorOliviaChow
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Toronto took the streets last night to mourn and show solidarity. Shame on
@JustinTrudeau
for characterizing this protest as targeting a hospital. We did no such thing!
Last night in
#Toronto
THOUSANDS took to the streets to condemn Israel for bombing the most densely populated area on Earth after forcing 1.5 million Palestinians to shelter there for "safety."
This is genocide. Do not look away.
#RafahUnderAttack
#RafahMassacre
📷 seifelyouss
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Right now Jewish activists and allies sit in at union station right now demanding Justice for Palestine
#FreePalestine
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BREAKING Jews Say No To Genocide Coalition disrupts eaton centre
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The community is out in the thousands to let Toronto know that there will be no Christmas as usual until Palestine is free
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Today, Dr
@AyyashMohannad
came to give a talk at
#YorkUniversity
.
@TorontoPolice
showed up at the lecture because they heard it was a major event.
@MayorOliviaChow
why are our tax dollars being used to help
@YorkUPresident
criminalize Palestinians?
#DefindTPS
#TPSIsRacist
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Health workers are sending a loud and clear message to
@cityoftoronto
that they will not allow a handful of racist Zionist physicians to distract from the ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people!
#FreePalestine
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University of Toronto has been reclaimed as the People’s Circle for Palestine! Come down and support these amazing student activists!
#FreePalestine
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Thanks Sarah Jama for speaking up about Palestine and we support you even when your own party doesn't.
I'm reflecting on my role as a politician who is participating in this settler colonial system, and I ask that all politicians do the same.
#FreePalastine
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Sarah Jama continues with principled politics 😍
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Every politician is hurling baseless accusations of antisemitism right now to distract from their complicity in the genocide unfolding in
#Gaza
Yesterday, the Mount Sinai Hospital was targeted because of its ties to the Jewish community in Toronto.
This is not okay.
Hospitals are a place for healing - not a target for protests.
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Jews and allies take over union station with a sit in and song demanding a
#FreePalestine
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Right now
@JulieDzerowicz
is having her office occupied
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
#FreePalestine
#EndTheOccupation
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Toronto is
#AllOutForPalestine
today and we love to see it! Thanks Alex for the pics 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
#FreeGaza
#StopGenocideInGaza
#FreePalestine
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Today we join Jews Say No to Genocide to mourn those lost in Palestine and to demand an end to this bloodshed and inhumane cruelty
#FreePalestine
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Pro Palestine protesters take over Eaton Centre before violent arrests
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“Const. Alex Li, spokesperson for the Toronto Police Service, said there were no arrests, no injuries, no pepper spray and no tear gas used, contrary to some claims on social media.”
@CopWhoLovesCars
This you,
@TorontoPolice
? 🤔
#ToPoli
#TorontoPolice
#DefundThePolice
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Toronto is taking the street for another weekend in a row to demand a
#FreePalestine
and a
#PermanentCeaseFireNow
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Transit "enforcement" is class oppression and a site for racist policing (not to mention bad climate policy).
This rider-blaming campaign is offensive and Torontonians are having None. Of. It. 😡🙅♂️🙅🚮
One of our members fixed your signs.
#NoFareIsFair
#MakeTTCFree
🚃🚋🚎
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Fuck you TPS
The Toronto police violently attacked and arrested two protesters who carried Palestine flag.
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Our members are out in the street for another weekend calling for
#JusticeForPalestine
and we won’t stop until we see a
#FreePalestine
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These young people have more courage than many of our leaders
#FreePalestine
3 days after being publicly attacked & slandered by
#CIJA
, hundreds of Marc Garneau students took to the streets to call out the
#TDSB
's silence & anti-Palestinian racism.
"Why isn't the TDSB standing up for us and challenging lies by one of its partners?"
#CeasefireInGazaNOW
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Attention white people in
#Toronto
and
#Ontario
and
#Everywhere
:
Do NOT call police regarding
#COVID19
restrictions. Do not call in general. If you see folks not adhering to the messy, confusing, and fucked up pandemic orders, LEAVE IT ALONE. It is not your job.
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No more business as usual. Weapons manufacturers are on notice
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
#AllOutForPalestine
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We would also like to know
@MayorOliviaChow
can you let us know how much we are spending on policing peaceful protests. Asking as a Jew.
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Thank you Sarah Jama for taking a strong stance against injustice and not backing down!
“We have an obligation to challenge settler colonialism in us.”
Canadian elected official Sarah Jama has been censured at the Ontario provincial parliament for her stance on Palestine. She refuses to apologise and is fighting the censure in court.
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Breaking! People have stormed
@cafreeland
office and are demanding a ceasefire and no more arms sales!
#PalSolidaritySitIn
#AllOutForPalestine
#CeaseFireInGaza
#EndTheOccupation
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Join us on Monday, March 1 for *two* phone & email zaps to demand the city drop legal action against Toronto Tiny Shelters.
Take 1 hour to make a big impact.
Housing for all, tiny shelters save lives!
Register:
12pm noon:
6pm:
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For those unclear on our politics, we believe in a free Palestine, landback, status for all, and an end to all carceral systems.
We also love queers, Jews, muslims, sex workers, and our racist uncles. No one is free until everyone is free.
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Regardless of whether
#DafonteMiller
was or was not breaking into cars, there was nothing that warranted a brutal and vicious beating by an officer and brother (not an officer).
The notion that police (+ a random civilian) can carry out “justice” in this way is unacceptable.
Christian Theriault's call reports that there were guys breaking into cars. At one point, Christian Theriault can be heard saying "you picked the wrong cars."
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We’re here at L3Harris demanding an embargo on arms sales to Israel. No more Canadian complicity in genocide. No more business as usual.
#FreePalestine
#CeasefireInGazaNOW
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White Canadians don’t care when traffic is blocked by corporate parades, huge developers blocking roads for construction of over-priced condos that they'll never afford & other ridiculous things, but hate to see solidarity actions w/ Indigenous ppl that will benefit all.
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Join us Thursday to say standing up for Palestine is not antisemitism
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Our Jewish SURJ members are proud to be joining this action. They are showing up in their Jewish faith on a Jewish holiday to do what Jewish communities have been doing for centuries-standing strong in the struggle for justice. We hope you’ll join us tomorrow!
Sick and tired of this. Jews are involved in organizing this hence mention of Purim.
Apologies to
@RobynUrback
and
@MacLeodLisa
that they aren't the "right kind of Jew" for them.
This antisemitic stereotype that Jews critical of Israel aren't "Jewish enough" needs to end.
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@rcmpmb
Wait till you hear about the RCMP's direct role in stealing land from Indigenous people and stealing Indigenous people from their families.
#AbolishTheRCMP
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Students are still occupying!
🚨Students have been occupying
@UofT
Pres Meric Gerter's office at Simcoe Hall for a full 24 hours, demanding
@UofT
divest from Israeli Apartheid. And we’re still here.
#OccupyUofT
#DivestUofT
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On December 29th, hundreds of us gathered at the Eaton’s Centre to sing for an end to the genocide in Palestine. How can it be that singing in a mall is seen as a threat while our gov't continues to pay for the bombs falling, homes destroyed, & lives extinguished in Palestine?
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We are at 52 division where three peaceful
@BLM_TO
protestors are being held after a peaceful art action calling to defund the police.
Over 14 cop cars, bikes, 24+ police officers were part of the arrest of 3 peaceful citizens.
#DefundThePolice
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Toronto! We wanna see you out there!
All out Nov 4: National Day of Action for Palestine!
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Shame on
@MaritStiles
and the NDP for ejecting Sara Jama for speaking up about Palestine!
#WeStandWithSarahJama
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Our friends at TOparks: Housing Not Violence made some corrections to the City’s park signage at Trinity Bellwoods!🤩Scan the QR code or visit to learn more.
#TOparks
#HousingNotViolence
#NoEncampmentEvictions
Photos courtesy of Martin Reis
@BikeLaneDiary
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Shameful that TPL has bent to the will of these right wing fear mongers. Refaat’s poem has become a rallying point for this movement because it rightly so glorifies life and resistance
B’nai Brith Canada was recently made aware of a display at Toronto's Main Street Library titled "Israel-Palestine Conflict," which presented a biased and unbalanced anti-Israel perspective. The display also inappropriately included a poem titled "If I Must Die," which glorifies
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How many millions of dollars does this image represent????
These police could each be a supportive housing unit.
@JohnTory
@joe_cressy
@anabailaoTO
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This is truly horrendous behaviour from
@HorseshoeTavern
This place cancelled a fundraiser and is now sending emails like these.
Donate now:
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There has been a global call to
#ShutItDown4Palestine
on Nov 8th and 9th. Come learn about how one can plan and execute creative and disruptive actions!
We’ll see you on MONDAY to
#SkillUp
, and we’ll see you this afternoon in the streets!
Link to join is in our bio!
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SOLIDARITY with teachers’ work refusals at Thorncliffe Public School!
SOLIDARITY with all workers resisting unsafe working conditions!
NO teacher, worker or student should be trapped in a COVID-unsafe space!
#NoOneIsDisposable
#NoOneLeftBehind
#COVIDzero
#SuppressTheVirusNow
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This is what community looks like
BREAKING: At USC’s Gaza solidarity encampment, protestors surround an LAPD car and successful de-arrest a student. Brutal crackdown by police is ongoing but the students are undeterred
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From Sudan to Palestine, occupation is a crime
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Members of the
@TorontoPolice
in *uniform* canvassing with Faith Goldy, best known as an anti-Semitic, white nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-Black mouthpiece for the modern white supremacist movement.
@TorontoPolice
our tax dollars sure as hell aren't going to this.
#TOpoli
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Happening tomorrow! SPREAD THE WORD! Newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers have been sleeping on the sidewalks for WEEKS. Join us in demanding URGENT ACTION to address this crisis. Shelter and services for refugees NOW! Housing for all NOW!
Register:
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Kristyn... you didn't see this coming when you spoke out in support of encampment clearings and forcing people away from the 4 downtown parks?
#ToPoli
We need dialogue and de-escalation, not riot police. The police presence is excessive and why neutral observers should be allowed to stay to record what happens next.
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Right now in Toronto
#AllOutForPalestine
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
#FreePalestine
#FreeGaza
#EndTheOccupation
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So much respect for the integrity of Sarah Jama
@DavideMastracci
Difficult = unwilling to read a statement crafted by staff with an apology in it during the censure debate 🤠🤠
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Join us for a conversation about the dangers of police involvement in mental health crises, and what community safety can look like without police.
Speakers: Desmond Cole, Jane Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP), and The Family of Taresh Bobby Ramroop
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Donate to the Community Defence Fund to support those criminalized in Toronto for their Palestinian activism
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This is what
@TorontoPolice
need more money for? To ignore Islamophobia and then condemn imaginary acts of antisemitism?
🚨 TORONTO WOMAN ASSAULTS PRO-PALESTINE DEMONSTRATOR
Can anyone identify her so we can notify
@TorontoPolice
?
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The fact that police are announcing that they do not care about provincial orders only demonstrates that a) They probably feel the same when the prov has ordered less policing in past, and b) their job is incredibly arbitrary and up to individual officers' discretion.
#OnPoli
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Support LEGAL COSTS for Javier Davila to CLEAR HIS NAME
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We forgot alt text! Photo 1: two police officers talking to two people in a classroom in front of a projection that says: The Palestinian Struggle for Liberation: Aspirations for a Decolonial Life
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Just more and more
@TorontoPolice
showing up at
#TrinityBellwoods
now. Do they have nothing else to do? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 This peaceful showing of solidarity with encampment residents requires hundreds of police and private security? They want to keep justifying their budget?
#ToPoli
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Join us on March 6th from 6-8PM for a webinar where we imagine what Toronto could be like if we invest in systems of care as we divest from systems of harm
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There is so much to mourn about this brutal genocide. Join Jews who say
#NotInOurName
as we mourn the more than 20,000 lost in Gaza. Jewish led action. All are welcome.
#FreePalestine
#EndIsraeliOccupation
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As a group of white people for racial justice, this is a gross misrepresentation of the thousands of people from all backgrounds who are not ok with this video.
@CityNewsTO
this is shoddy journalism
A van was driving around Toronto showing images of Muslims praying and writing “Canada is under siege” and “Wakeup Canada” and here is the
@CityNewsTO
headline.
👉 Canada has the highest number of violent DEADLY attacks on Muslims than any other G7 country.
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Join us Jan 7 for a conversation with
@DesmondCole
, Idil Abdillahi &
@JFAAP
on defunding the police to invest in communities & working towards abolitionist futures in
#Toronto
Learn about the context, vision & action needed.
Register:
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Keep up the pressure!
Your emails are working! Thousands have emailed CUPE. Fred will fight this -- now we need to turn up the pressure.
Share the link & email
@cupenat
now!
#CanLab
#onpoli
#cdnpoli
#FreePalestine
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You may remember the disturbing image of
@TorontoPolice
vet. detective CHOKING this Black man. For allegedly not paying a TTC fare.
Video proves he did. This is on
@TTChelps
driver as well. Anti-Black racism is systemic.
How often must this happen...
#CityofTO
#TTC
#DefundTPS
After all this -- bus surveillance video we obtained from the court shows Richards DID pay his fare.
'I paid on the bus—I got choked': Black TTC rider testifies in Toronto officer’s assault trial
via
@CTVToronto
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Iqaluit saw its largest turnout in solidarity with Palestine this morning, on the global day of action + march for Rafah 🇵🇸 another screening and virtual discussion planned in the city’s local cafe this evening
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At Nathan Phillips Square to join the enormous demonstration in solidarity with
#Palestine
and
#Palestinians
under Israeli occupation and bombardment.
Canada must end colonial violence at home and abroad.
#FromTurtleIslandToPalestine
#CdnPoli
#SaveGaza
#FreePalestine
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Join us for an in-depth discussion with a panel of activists and community organizers on the front lines of the movement to defund the police.
Register here:
*ASL interpretation will be available*
*Free*
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#ShutDownCanada2020
happening NOW at Yonge and Dundas where Indigenous youth and climate justice activists from
@CJusticeTO
and
@TOforFuture
are leading us in occupying the intersection in solidarity with Indigenous land defenders!
Join NOW to hold the space!
#LandBack
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A great time for all orgs and activists to be taking security culture seriously
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Don’t be intimidated out of your solidarity!
#FreePalestine
Sending love to all who defend & exercise the right to protest today & every day!
While we’ve heard from many people that they are scared to attend Palestinian protests in our city because of heavy police presence, Freedom of Expression & Assembly are protected Charter rights.
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Please don't allow a single journalist interact with
@JohnTory
this morning without grilling him on yesterday's police violence.
@jpags
@dmrider
@GraphicMatt
@TorontoStar
@CP24
@CityNews
@globalnewsto
@CTVToronto
@CBCToronto
#CityofTO
#ToPoli
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