Okay. Done for the day.
Guess I am throwing everything in the trash when I get home. 🤷🏾‍♀️

This was certainly a new one for me as a #LegalObserver.

#LOLife

It was SO NICE to have an entire weekend of #antifascist action without the wannabe microcelebutante and her creepy-assed goombah henchman/spouse filming everyone's fucking shoes and trying to make it all about herself.

🖕🏾 We chased off fash. (Today literally; yesterday they saw how badly they were outnumbered and fled of their own free will, a couple of them despite insisting they had the right to be there.)

💩 Assholes were told.

🥳 We partied with friends (I saw a good 90% of her Toronto targets in the past 2 days).

💕 We made new friends and got WORK done.

🤣 Nico Hines seems to have realized his usual crew are just a bunch of racist shitstains. (He's still a transphobic flat-Earther dickhead, though. Don't feel sorry for his ass — it had to be tossed out today.)

🎨 Finished it all with a lovely art show at Kensington Market Pedestrian Sunday.

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AND NO USELESS SHITLIBS WERE ENTERTAINED BY ANY OF IT.
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It'd be real sa'd if certain people never made it back to town.

#ARTiculatingSurvival #AbolitionistPride #Antifascism #CommunityDefence #LegalObserver #WhoKeepsUsSafe #FuckShitlibs #FuckThePolice

If you were wondering WHY activists request legal observers at actions, here are some of our testimonials.

If you've thought about becoming more active in supporting activists and activism in the GTA, but don't know where to start, keep an eye out here for our next training session details.

We hold trainings several times a year.

Hope to see you at one soon!
#LegalObserver #LOLife

Wondering about the Movement Defence Committee of the Law Union of Ontario (MDC) and what we do? Today we look at out most visible team: Legal Observers.

Legal Observers are the eyes and ears of the off-site legal team. We are there to document abuse by the state against progressive protestors.

We operate from the understanding that police in Canada have been used to advance the colonial project and displace Indigenous communities from the beginning, and took on the role of criminalizing and exerting control over Black people once slavery was abolished.

Police exist to defend private property and our capitalist system.¹

We exist to document the gap between your rights in law and the actual behaviour of the police, with regard to those rights. Too often rights are breached in the moment and only corrected later — and without proper support, sometimes not at all.
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¹ "To Protect and to Serve", the motto of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1963, subsequently adopted by many other police forces, was the result of a marketing contest.

#LegalObserver #ACAB #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

Off to coordinate legal observers at what is pretty much guaranteed to be a shitshow, WITH! *dun dun dun* a bonus "funnel cloud watch".

Who said legal observing wasn't a thrill-a-minute ride?

#LOLife #LegalObserver #tornadoes

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

#TorontoActions #LegalObserver #LOLife

@SpaceyDacey
I love when I am not coordinating the LOs at an action. It means I can lend my ex-cheerleader lungs to the chants.

I particularly ❤️ yelling FUCK YOU 52 after all the 2am sessions doing jail support there.

#LOLife #LegalObserver

Home now.
In summary:

1. #Antifascists - Good
2. Fascists - Bad
3. Transphobes - Monstrous
4. Teenagers - Exasperating
5. #CarymaNgo - Grifting; #ChrisSkyFash PR person
6. #NadsMcKneely, Human Milkbag - Creepy as all fuck

7. More people need to come defend community, even if it means shifting your work hours around.

8. If you see shit like in the images attached to the following toot, DM me.
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/110186481459125465

9. Contemplating nap. So much work to do.

10. Probably need more clothes that match that infernal orange #LegalObserver hat.

11. #PunchNazis #FuckThePolice #FuckHomophobia and #FuckTransphobia
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#DragDefence #DragDefense #DragStoryTime #DragDefenders #FuckHomophobes
#WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence #FashWatch #FashWatchCanada #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #AlertaAlertaAntifascista

Ya don't say?

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Toronto showed 'significant unfairness' in controversial encampment clearings, report finds¹
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Toronto showed "significant unfairness" when it cleared encampments in the summer of 2021 and chose to act quickly despite there being no urgency to do so, an investigation into the controversial moves has found.

In a report released Friday, Toronto Ombudsman Kwame Addo says the city chose "speed over people" when it forcefully cleared encampments in Trinity Bellwoods, Alexandra and Lamport Stadium parks.

"Our investigation found the City displayed insufficient regard for the people it moved out of the parks," Addo said.
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¹✨️ Link to Article

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/encampment-clearing-investigation-toronto-ombudsman-1.6789619
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#HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow
#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #ACAB #FTP
#WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence
#TorontoActions #LOLife #LegalObserver

📣 #AlertaAlertaAntifascista 📣
HOUSING ACTION TOMORROW
Thursday, March 23, 2023, 1 p.m.
60 York St, Toronto

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STRATHCONA RESIDENTS SPEAK OUT!
EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE

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🏘 The City and managers at Homes First Society are evicting residents of the Strathcona shelter hotel and forcibly transferring them to inappropriate congregate spaces with zero notice, zero consultation, and zero regard for the rights and wellbeing of residents.

🏘 This course of action by the shelter admin appears to have been planned with as little notice to residents as possible in order to prevent organizing in the community to hold the city to account.

🏘 From the time residents first received notice, in a matter of days, the city has already forced dozens of our friends at the Strathcona out to scattered congregate bunks.

🏘 The remaining Strathcona residents and comrades at ESN - Parkdale are organizing an emergency press conference and rally tomorrow (Thursday march 23rd) at 1PM at the Strathcona (60 York St).

🏘 Residents and Organizers are asking for support from ally organizations, co-strugglers, and our community members tomorrow to stand in solidarity and speak out against this ongoing injustice!

Background:
Residents were told in mid March that they were being evicted from the Strathcona and would have until April 12th to gather their belongings and shelter space to relocate to, but within just days of this notice dozens have been coerced into leaving, pushed into cabs without knowing anything about the isolated and divergent congregate shelters they’re being relocated to.

Many Strathcona residents are seniors, and people with disabilities ♿️ who had been living there for several years. Residents are standing their ground until they’re given actual housing and community members are standing in solidarity.

The press conference and rally will demand actual housing🏘, will demand a halt to the forced and harmful transfers being executed without any notice or consultation, and will raise awareness of the ongoing injustices taking place at the Strathcona and across this city’s discordant and inadequate shelter system.

Posts for more info:
https://twitter.com/esnparkdale/status/1638588333415620608?s=46&t=IgoZIJrilMhDD3YFHeEJ9g

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGb9Rfp3jY/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

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#HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingForAll #HousingNow #TorontoActivists #TorontoActions #WhoKeepsUsSafe #LOLife #LegalObserver