I've worked in Community, Harm Reduction, Housing and Health for over 20 years. Opinions are my own and not those of the organizations I work with.

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This holds for the @liberal_party of Canada and most Western countries. If they won't - we MUST. Pressure the political class - they love stasis. This is how Apartheid in South Africa was dismantled.
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That's nice. Canadians don't want American dairy products any more than we want American healthcare. 🇨🇦🥛😏
Replying to @guyfelicella
In the US, we are also buying local. Keep your dairy products.
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Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38. His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.
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Any news agency that launders claims Israel is simply 'fighting Hezbollah' is manufacturing genocidal consent. Everyday Israel is slaughtering people in Lebanon.
🔴Lebanese Ministry of Health: 3798 civilians killed and 11, 781 injured in Israeli attacks since March 2nd. Report from Tebnine hospital.
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F$&K @Israel!
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been exposed. This video shows three young men trying to help an injured person, but Israel bombs them with a missile, killing them all. A moment the world must never forget.
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Brilliant words from Tim Crossland outside today’s Palestine Action court case (courtesy of Crispin Flintoff): “This is a self-defeating judgement from the state today. All we have to do is sit down with our signs saying ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.’”
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There you have it. Anthropic's CEO said it: The murder of more than 100 schoolgirls in Minab targeted by Anthropic's CLAUDE "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines." Time to rise up against these technofeudal war criminals.
CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei awkwardly smiles through his answer to a question about why Claude AI directly contributed to the US Military bombing of the elementary school in Minab.
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China revoked 12,200 degree programs between 2021 and 2025 because they stopped leading to jobs, and replaced them with around 10,200 new ones built for the AI era. Fields like photography and design were folded into AI-integrated degrees so graduates could move with the economy instead of falling behind it. American colleges did neither, raising the cost of a degree as much as 45% over two decades while selling the same stale credentials. Students carry the difference, an average of nearly $40,000 each, out of the $1.64 trillion Americans now owe.
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Israeli doctors took active part in the genocide! Israeli doctors strongly encouraged the bombing & destruction of Gaza's hospitals & mass killing of thousands of patients! Israeli doctors tortured Palestinian hostages at Sde Teiman, sent interns to experiment on them, operated on them without anesthesia, denied them medicines & treatment! If you weren't outraged by any of this, you betray the Hippocratic oath & don't deserve to be a doctor in the first place!
1/5 An open letter to @TheLancet from an Iranian-Jewish cardiologist. Today, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals published a campaign to suspend the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association — the body founded after WWII to ensure physicians would never again be weaponized by political ideology. I'm a cardiologist. I'm an Iranian Jew who grew up under a regime where medicine was subjugated to the state. What The Lancet just did is a disgrace to my profession. Here's what they published — and what they deliberately left out.
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UK: Terrorist sentence for Palestine Action marks ‘dangerous’ move against right to protest “It is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for criminal damage as if they were terrorists," says @AmnestyUK's Kerry Moscogiuri amn.st/6016BD1Ed0
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I watched the whole judgement. It is abundantly clear that the court has decided that the rights of an 'israeli' weapons company which is directly providing weapons to a military committing genocide were favored over the rights of British citizens of lawful assembly and free speech. To justify this, Elbit were repositioned as 'the public', or 'the community' that need protection from Palestine Action on several occasions. Once again this shows how our institutions work for Zionism, not citizens. Most important, at no stage of course were the rights of Palestinians to be protected from genocide even considered by the court. This is yet another example of how the right of the Jewish state to commit genocide is placed above everyone else's rights.
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Israel killed all these Palestinian journalists. Targeting journalists isn't self-defense.

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One of these people is an 83 year old Priest who held up a sign expressing her right to free speech. The other has decapitated his political enemies with a knife. Guess which the UK government calls a terrorist, and which gets invited to number 10 for dinner.
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A wonderful sentiment but one that must recognize the fraying effects caused by poverty and the tensions that poverty feeds. Canada MUST develop a robust non-market Housing Sector to stabilize the economy in the 21st C. @MarkJCarney
Carney: Canada is a mosaic, not a melting pot. And this is the distinction that matters. Because a mosaic doesn't dissolve or blend its pieces. Each is stitched to each and all the pieces hold all. And the beauty is in the arrangement, not in the blending.
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Free the Hostages! @Israel holds thousands of Palestinian Hostages. With zero recourse to base line rights such as Habeas Corpus! @CIJAinfo @MarkJCarney
Hussam Ebu Safieh, "İsrail'in rehineler için ölüm cezası" ile öldürülecek olan Filistinli doktorlardan biridir (diğer 95 doktor arasında). Onu öldürmelerine izin verme. Bunu yeniden yayınlayın.
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The ICJ made clear: ALL states have an obligation to work to end the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. That means holding accountable companies that lubricate Israeli operations in the West Bank while lining their pockets. My latest justiceinconflict.org/2026/0… #bizhumanrights
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Every fight for freedom and rights is always a struggle that contains violence born from frustration and the ignorance of Power. The question is the scale and proportion.
The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.
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BDS Now!
A leaked memo shows the European Union has known since 2017 that it had the legal right to freeze Israel's trade deal due to Israel's persistent violations of international law in the occupied West Bank. trib.al/QDiFA7I
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Short - must listen. How is this still the case 25yrs into the 21st C? Colonialism and its barbarity MUST evolve into equal Human Rights for all! instagram.com/reel/DZLCqiPM6…
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Settler products from occupied Palestine sold as Israeli. Shipments mislabelled to bolster economy This will always be the case: same shit, new pile. BDS Now! The @Israel economy - not simply the illegal Occupied Territories of Palestine theguardian.com/world/2026/j…
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