I had always wondered whether someone would create an #MDC, except for fash.

I guess I don't have to wonder anymore.

Can't wait to see what the legal observers look like.

#SubToot #LOLife #YoullSee

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

Why are we* here?
This police presence is for a PRESS CONFERENCE.

Local AND Provincial cops here to intimidate people.

*Specifically Legal Observers from the Movement Defence Committee.

#LOLife #LegalObservers #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PrisonersRights #PrisonersJusticeDay

I need coffee.

My cat is always weirded out when I get out of bed before 10am, but alas, fascists are morning people.

#LOLife

At the solidarity action for the Land Alliance as they tell Ford to respect Indigenous rights and protect their sources of life on their Territories!

Standing in solidarity and saying "no" to unwanted mining activity on their lands.

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI, or Big Trout Lake First Nation),
Wapekeka, Neskantaga, and
Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows)

#LandAlliance #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows #LandBack #LegalObservers #LOLife

Here with my team at the Disability Pride March.

#LOLife #TorontoActions

Amazing how much overlap there is between my camping gear and legal observing at this point.

Thick socks, hiking shoes, just need a bowie knife and and my shovel.

Didn't get to test it out on the whiner, who saw us and bailed. 🤷🏾‍♀️

#LOLife #ScootsWasHere

Looks like I attached the wrong image for the alt text on that first post.

I guess it gives me the chance to post a few more of my favourite moments.

#AbolitionistPride #MyPrideIsAbolitionist #LOLife #LegalObservers

Fucking fash.
Being shut down.

Should look familiar to some people.

#AlertaAlertaAntifascista #LOLife
#DragDefence #DragDefense #DragStoryTime #DragDefenders #FuckHomophobes #FuckHomophobia #FuckTransphobia
#WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence #FashWatch #FashWatchCanada #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

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

Never been so glad about a wrong weather report before.

https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/110544485286737448

#LOLife

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

Lunch in the Distillery District.

#LOLife

With my peeps training new legal observers at the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse as part of the Strategies of Critique Conference.

#LOLife #LegalObservers #CommunityDefence #WhoKeepsUsSafe

And he's out!

#LOLife #JailSupport #TorontoActivists

Community support rarely involves a dozen eggs, but it is fitting in this case.

#FuckThePolice #FuckShitlibs
#JailSupport #FuckYou52 #EggManForMayor #LOLife

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