It's a really good time to revisit

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40 Ways to Fight Fascists:
Street-Legal Tactics For Community Activists
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By @spencersunshine

Multiple formats are available for handing out, postering, or sharing online at:
https://spencersunshine.com/2020/08/27/fortyways/

#CommunityDefence #WhoKeepsUsSafe #WeKeepUsSafe
#FashWatch #FashWatchCanada #FortyWays #FuckFascism

Okay, I totally meant to do this sooner but my phone has been non-stop ringing.

But probably not as bad as the one at 55 Division¹. 😄
I think they would like you to stop calling now [image 1].

As I said in my statement² to @joemorin73 who took the time to help spread the word, even though he was sick:

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We all know my politics. We all know how I feel about cops — including and ESPECIALLY the cops themselves.

I spend my own time at actions protecting marginalized people from them. I will rearrange my work schedule for this purpose when needed.

But sometimes we have to work within the fucked up system that we have to fix what the system fucked up.

So thank you TikTok, Mastodon, Twitter, Instagram for pulling together and making this happen.

Believe me when I tell you it's IMPORTANT.
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What I want to add is that part of the system is social media.

I want to point out that I got the results I did because I have a shit ton of privilege, even though I'm Black.

This system is designed to lock people who look like me out, and it did its damnedest.

I walked WITH POLICE from 55 Division, went into THEIR police station, and then waited outside that same police station for six and a half hours COVERED IN LATEX PAINT. And they were weirdly uncurious about it.

I even made pointed remarks to them, starting at the time of the initial arrests.

Part of my privilege involves knowing what to look for when I'm dealing with cops, because I TRAIN PEOPLE to look for this shit, like the numbers on the police car [image 2]. The first two digits tell you what division they are from.

I am also surrounded by leftist lawyers. Lawyers in the family. Lawyers as friends. MDC lawyers.

I work in tech and know how the game is played.

But not everyone has these advantages.

Okay, now I need to rein it in. I'm an anarchist, and like all political anarchists, I can go on about this shit for hours. Hell, the server has a 10,000 character limit per post, that's how bad we are about expounding.

Victims of crime (and I am still not considering myself a "victim" per se, just a very pissed off Black woman who one very thoughtless white man gave a soapbox) are expected to endure. The system wants you to preserve the evidence until they are good and ready to deal with you.

Imagine what that means for those who have experienced sexual assault.

Victims Services, by the way, doesn't kick in until you are already in the system as a victim.

At 7178 chars there. Must stop typing.

I just want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who called, retooted, told a friend, and in any way got the work done.

#WhoKeepsUsSafe
#WeKeepUsSafe

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¹ I note that the press release erroneously has his court date as August 3rd. Given their astronomical budget, it would in no way to surprise me to discover that Toronto Police Services has a time machine, and can take him back to that date.
They're certainly not spending the budget on a proper system to log reports.

² https://fxtwitter.com/joemorin73/status/1694036452118556757

O. M. G.
I love you all so much.

And I fully know that it is the most fucked up thing in the universe that I, an abolitionist, are thanking you for making the police do their fucking job.

I cannot say why this is important because of my role at MDC, but this is one of those situations where one arrest, the proper arrest, means correcting two wrong arrests.

If this asshole hadn't tried to escalate what HE HIMSELF had done TO THE COPS, there's no way in hell I would even have gone to the police station, even covered in paint.

More momentarily.

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #WhoKeepsUsSafe

I'm not sure what a "fuck tonne of antifascists" looks like but I'm pretty sure I'll find out on August 20th, at the 90th anniversary of the Christie Pits Riot.

Noon - 8pm; unsurprisingly at Christie Pits.

Food. T-shirts. Antifascist Arts & Crafts. Fox40 whistles will definitely be present.

Community members welcome.
No fash or fash-adjacent.
Feel free to share with relevant people.

#AlertaAlertaAntifascista #TorontoActivists #WhoKeepsUsSafe

Speaking of backfiring:
I wonder what would happen if I told people I have stalkers and they didn't turn up.

It might be embarrassing (though probably not, given all the footage I already have), but we're absolutely never going to find out.

All it does is make more and more people defensive of me, so, congrats I guess 😄

#CommunityDefence #WhoKeepsUsSafe #CarymaNgo #CreepySpouseInDaHouse

1/🧵 on 🏳️‍🌈 month

"Can't happen here," you say?

"This flag is inclusive enough," you say? Oh, YOU didn't say that? That was this asshole yesterday [ image 1 ], so probably for the best you NOT say that.

You might want to check the #DragDefence hashtag (with the C in "defence" because: Canada) for the sheer volume of it happening here.

And the results?
I'm going to do them one by one because they deserve not to be buried in this preamble.

#AlertaAlertaAntifascista

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

Get some sleep, #Ottawa

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You've got #TerrorTots and #ProtestProfiteers attacking people's rights again bright and early.

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

#SaveCanadaFash #OttPoli
#CarymaNgo #CreepySpouseInDaHouse

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

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

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

Our new MDC identifiers!
Testing them out, but they're going to have LEGAL SUPPORT printed on the front and MDC on the back.

(I should have taken a photo of Ira and Charles who were covering the ARTiculating Survival action in Kensington when I got here 😔)

WHO KEEPS US SAFE?
#WeKeepUsSafe
#CommunityDefence
#LegalObservers #AbolitionistPride

#PrideWasARiot
#FuckHomophobes #FuckHomophobia #FuckTransphobia
#WhoKeepsUsSafe #FashWatch #FashWatchCanada #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

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

Of COURSE the motherfuckers did. But not at High Park Library, where I am chilling with about 90 of my closest pals.

And now Gila Munster is out safely.
So toodles.

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

Thx to all for the support and some useful answers. If anyone in Melbourne needs volunteers to assist with resistance to anti-trans clowns, let me know.
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #DragDefence #DragDefense #DragStoryTime #DragDefenders #WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence #FashWatch
Remember, likes are great, boosts are what we need to get connected. Thx all 🥰

@thistimeforsure No problem.

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #DragDefence #DragDefense #DragStoryTime #DragDefenders #WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence #FashWatch

"And I would have got away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddlesome kids!"

Ajax today.
Motherfucking #WLM Nazis.

If you know this asshole's employer, you might want to give them a call and let them know what this fucker does for fun.

BONUS!
Good time for a lesson for shitlibs like Tanya Fasco 🥾👅:

These assholes don't want to be unmasked because their neighbours and employers will ostracize them.

Leftists don't want to be unmasked because this garbage will come to their houses

You're doing fascist work, Fusco.
Congrats, you disgusting piece of shit.

#narc #WhiteWomening #KarensGottaKaren #BootLicker

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

One of the people attacked by chuds in #Ottawa today was MPP Joel Harden¹.

This is where we are, Canada.
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¹ https://twitter.com/joelhardenondp/status/1667253869934522368?s=61&t=37BsafuiFNp8nv5n0pW3Ug

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

Fascists are kicking and punching #CommunityDefence

Fucking hell these streams are bleak.

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

Oh damn, #Ottawa

Fash on your six!!
This is gonna get ugly.

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

Yikes, #Ottawa
You have a bad case of #ProtestParasites

#CreepySpouseInDaHouse creeping as always.

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

📣 #AlertaAlertaAntifascista 📣
#Newfoundland

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Show up to support the 2SLGBTQ+ community and trans kids!
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TOMORROW!
Friday, June 9 ▪︎ 12:00 PM ⬅️
Confederation Building
St. John's, NL

Note that there has been a time change! ⬅️
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#NoSpaceForHate

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