Setting up for today's Christie Pits Riot Memorial Barbeque.

Noon until 8pm.
At Christie Pits, of course.
(Down the baseball diamond. )

#TorontoActions #TorontoHistory

Presser is about to start.

No more deaths in custody.
At the Solicitor General's office.

#PrisonersRights #TorontoActions #CommunityDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #Abolitionists

Up tomorrow:

Prisoners Justice Day 2023 Press Conference

Demand improvements of healthcare in prison; demand action on Jan 2023 Coroners Report regarding rights of those incarcerated in Ontario Jails

August 10, 2023
12:00 pm - 13:00 pm

Solicitor Generals Office
25 Grosvenor Street

#TorontoActions #PrisonersRights

Saturday, July 29, 2023
11 am - 1pm
Christie Pits
Toronto Street Medics
Meet & Greet

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Free event open to anyone interested in healing justice, collective care, and building community—if you or anyone else you know is curious about TSM and street medic-ing, this is a great time to come meet some TSM members and chat about our work!
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In order to ensure we have enough food for everyone, please RSVP and encourage others who are planning to attend to RSVP as well!
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tsm-park-hang-zine-launch-tickets-67882032887

#CommunityDefence
#TorontoActions #TorontoActivists

Here with my team at the Disability Pride March.

#LOLife #TorontoActions

Up tomorrow:
Disability Pride March

July 15th, 2023
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m..

Marching 1.8 km from Queen's Park (110 Wellesley) to the TMU Quad at 50 Gold Street. Accessible van and ASL interpreters will be available.

Virtual live feed available on Facebook and Instagram at @TorontoDisabilityPrideMarch.

All disabled people and allies are welcome!
Please wear a mask!

#DisabilityPrideMonth
#TorontoActions

Summer in the city.

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It's #STFUFriday so remember:

WE DON'T TALK TO COPS.

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Also, if you are planning an action in the GTA
and it is being coordinated by a group or individual that is working to create progressive social change and which operates under basic anti-racist and anti-oppression principles:

you can request legal support from the Movement Defence Committee of the Law Union of Ontario by visiting our website and filling out the reqest form.

https://movementdefence.org/

It's best to give us as much notice as you can, ideally 2 weeks, but even a last minute request might at least get phone support.

#TorontoActions #TorontoActivists #LegalObservers

Up Sunday:
Celebrating Black Life
Presented by ARTiculating Survival

2 to 5 pm
Kensington Market (Baldwin at Spadina)

#TorontoActions #BlackArt #ARTiculatingSurvival #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

Up Sunday:
Abolitionist and Antifascist Pride
1 PM • Grange Park

#TorontoActions #PrideWasARiot #Pride2023 #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

Mounted units from the get-go.
Shitshow it is.

#TorontoActions

In case anyone was wondering whether #NadsMcKneely learned anything about menacing women, especially those who are smaller than he is.

#CreepySpouseInDaHouse needs to be kept far away from leftist spaces.

Along with his paramour, #CarymaNgo

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#FashWatch #FashWatchCanada #DragDefence #Narcs #narcissists #TorontoActions

Absolutely on board with the return of the post-action legal team cheesy bread!

#TorontoActions #LegalObserver #LOLife

On my way to a long day of legal observing.

✅️ Ice cold water
✅️ Big hat
✅️ Comfy shoes for marching

Time to bust out the summer LO gear/indicators. I guess my stalker is going to have to make an investment in the seasonal change. 😄

#TorontoActions #PrideMonth #NoPrideInPolicing

Sorting through my footage from this last action and realizing I missed getting Banerjee's hypeman Al declaring, "Satan is your daddy," even though he said it MULTIPLE times.

It's almost like we can set up a fash Bingo card.

🔸️Nico rants about the earth being flat.

🔸️Lee films someone's shoes.

🔸️Caryma masquerades as an MDC Legal Observer.

What I DIDN'T have on mine was Nazi salutes and beheading threats.

#ProtestBingo #TorontoActions

⚖️ • ⚖️ • ⚖️ • ⚖️
Lawyers, legal scholars, legal allies, legal professionals, law students, and advocates:
⚖️ • ⚖️ • ⚖️ • ⚖️

THIS SATURDAY: Join us for a powerful and transformative interactive abolitionist art exhibit

We will OCCUPY a Toronto courtroom
and UPLIFT the voices of Black, Indigenous, racialized incarcerated men
on what is needed for REAL COMMUNITY SAFETY

The City of Toronto prioritizes carceral responses to harm, funding increased policing and prisons, despite evidence of their racist and violent nature causing more harm.

We need to shift our priorities towards community-led solutions that centre the safety and well-being of all, particularly those most impacted by structural violence.

📣 • 📣 • 📣 • 📣
WHEN: Saturday, April 15th,
1:30pm - 3:30pm

WHERE: Courtroom
60 Queen St W
Toronto

WHO: Anyone in the "legal community" (see website below for more details)

REGISTER: Behind the Bars - Real Community Safety PWYC

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-toronto-mans-reflection-vol-3-behind-the-bars-tickets-593311158647
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#legal #LawMastodon #AbolitionIsTheAnswer #abolitionism #Art #Toronto #TorontoActions #TorontoActivists #ArtExhibitions #ThisWeekend

Got lots of money💰 for 🐖🐖🐖 though, eh?

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Emergency funding has dried up, and the head of Toronto’s shelter department says without $317 million, the city will have to shut more shelters
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— Why the homelessness crisis could get even worse
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/04/10/short-of-major-new-funding-torontos-homelessness-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse-city-hall-warns.html?

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Toronto is in the throes of a homelessness crisis that’s only getting worse, but new budgets from the federal and provincial governments have failed to offer a life raft, says the head of the city’s shelter system. Short of a major infusion of new funds, he’s warning that Toronto could see fast-tracked shelter closures and increasingly squeezed sites as early as the start of next year.

Gord Tanner, general manager of city hall’s shelter, support and housing administration division, delivered a plain-spoken warning to city councillors at their last meeting, then elaborated on it in an interview with the Star. The city is spending $317 million more than it has to operate shelters this year, he said. If that hole is not filled in January 2024, he fears the city will be forced to shut down more shelters than planned — despite the system often operating at capacity, with 72 people on average turned away from shelter each day in February.
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#HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow
#TOpoli #EggMan #EggManForMayor #TorontoMayorElection #Toronto
#WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence
#TorontoActions #AlertaAlertaAntifascista

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

25 minutes.

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#Environment #DivestUofT #ClimateChange #CommunityDefence #TheKidsAreAlright #TorontoActions #FuckThePolice

📣 TOMORROW: 📣
Emergency Rally & Petition Delivery:
No STCA! Status for All!

✨️ Petition Delivery
Tuesday, April 04, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Minister Marco Mendicino's Office
511 Lawrence West
Toronto, ON

✨️ Memorial for Those Who Have Died
Organized by the Toronto Refugee Rights Day organizing committee
4:30pm; same location.

✨️ Sign the Petition:
https://migrantrights.ca/take-action/nostca/

✨️ Background:

Refugees and other migrants were already dying crossing via Roxham Road because the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) and other immigration laws made it impossible to travel safely.

Now, with STCA expanded, both the US and Canada have legislated a policy of turning away migrants. Any refugee crossing over will be able to be deported without due process within the first 14 days of arrival.

This will force refugees to take even more dangerous routes and cause even more suffering and death.

Prime Minister Trudeau says Canada welcomes migrants, even as he is slamming the door shut and putting migrants in danger.

#NoOneIsIllegal #MigrantRights #TorontoActions #AlertaAlertaAntifascista #RefugeeRights #NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenLand

They always do shit like this on Fridays.

The report was released a week ago¹ Friday, and discussion² of the report magically didn't take place until — *dun dun dun* — Friday.

This is certainly an improvement over Burnside's performance³, and yet she could have stepped up to the plate to voted DIFFERENTLY on a number of motions.

Here's hoping Alejandra Bravo puts her money where her mouth is as we head into this year's season of state violence against the unhoused.

#EncampmentClearings #StateViolence
#LamportStadium #AlexandraPark #TrinityBellwoods #TOpoli #ONpoli #CanPoli

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¹ https://www.ombudsmantoronto.ca/Publications/News-Releases/News-Folder/Toronto-s-Ombudsman-says-City-Chose-Speed-over-Peo

² https://www.youtube.com/live/JHuVVO3kbZg?feature=share&t=23741

³ https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/110130402223422273

#HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow
#WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence
#TorontoActions
#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #ACAB #FTP

Jon Burnside (behind Matlow) really resents listenting to someone describe unhoused people as worthy of consideration.

He loves NOTHING more than to strip them of what little dignity and/or belongings they have.

He is, incidentally, a former cop and a complete monster at least partially responsible for the violence at the 2021 encampment clearings.

Oh wait, there's redundancy in there.

1/2
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#HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow
#WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence
#TorontoActions #AlertaAlertaAntifascista
#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #ACAB #FTP