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Today's theme:

Which of you who work forces, are the ones who burn crosses?

#Toronto #TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice

UPDATE! The motherfuckers have cancelled. Most excellent.
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Yo! #Toronto!

There's another #NaziRally this Sunday, on Yonge Street, no less.

Do you know the little parkette between Gerrard and Carlton? The one with the archway? That's the one.

Sunday. 2 pm.
White Lives Matter, Paul Fromm, Gus Stefanis.

This is what happens when you let the cops help them march through the streets: they get emboldened.

I'm going to need you to get off your ass and show up this time.

#FuckNazis #FuckFascism #FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #TorontoActions

And airport duty again.
Been a while since I've been on this duty, and fortunately, it's relatively rare.

Last night cops hassled the flotilla returnee. Tonight, who knows.

#LOLife #Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

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It was a long day yesterday.
(It's going to be another long day today, but at least I get some gardening time in before the shit show.)

Yesterday's event was a lovely part of the AAPI Heritage Month festivities, that had drumming and lion dancing, plus I got a knot in my upper back lessened.

But also the cops briefly turned up, justifying our presence.

It is amazing to me that Toronto Police Service has yet to figure out that we are asked to be present at an ever-widening array of events, precisely because someone is anticipating police malfeasance.

A certain someone has been saying that our refusal to pretend to be neutral means that we shouldn't be calling ourselves "legal observers", because there is an air of neutrality in the name.

I say that is an illusion.
Legal observers are requested specifically to watch and document POLICE malfeasance. Even the NLG with its policy of not chanting or participating in protests, are not there to document what the protestors do.

We at Orange Hats take the policy that as long as the police are not "malfeasing", we are free to do anything up to, but not including, civil disobedience while wearing the hat. (We can always take the hat off.)

Calling cops "fascist motherfuckers" is not civil disobedience. I'm sure they would love to arrest me for that, yet it's not illegal. Sucks being them.

Anyway, as anticipated, a clusterfuck of cops turned up to intimidate attendees at the Asian Massage Festival yesterday, an event put on by a community heavily over-policed, and so we had been asked to be present.

I (being me) had a "Tell Cersei" moment and walked down the stairs to a point where they could see me to snap a photo, which is when they noticed four other Orange Hats peering over the railing collecting their badge numbers. 😁

On their way out the door (having been invited to get the fuck out by facilities management) one of our favourites rambled some nonsense about OH being "anti-cop disruptors" and that people shouldn't want to be associated with us.

In that we *disrupted* their plans to force their way in and threaten people, I guess maybe we are. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Somehow, I don't think cops would like it better if we were called Police Malfeasance Observers and Documenters + Legal Support, which is technically what we are.

Also they should stop getting their ✌🏾"intel"✌🏾 from Caryma, and I would probably stop mockingly asking them if they "realize that intel is short for intelligence," and they should probably stop looking to a person who is fatally allergic to the concept for theirs.

#Toronto #TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice

I guess I'm a ✌🏾"celebrity"✌🏾 now.
Fucking weirdos.

Anyway, at the action by Rob Oliphant, MP's office with a group demanding he get off his ass and help a constituent kidnapped by Israel.

#AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #CreepySpouseInDaBigHouse #SnMitch

#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice

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I realized that I didn't swipe for you to read the background slide in the Instagram post. I'm tired. I've been up since ass o'clock.

So, I've included it here, but you'll have to pause the video to read it (though I will also put the text right here below).

In case you're wondering why it's a video this time, I've also included some of the fallout from the Australian rally that took place on August 31st, just in case you still don't believe me that it's Nazis, even if they think of THEMSELVES as the kinder, gentler Nazis.

If you're willing to march with Nazis, you're a fucking Nazi.

Text from the slide:

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Background.
Tommy Robinson was removed from
Canada for his hateful views. That's not
stopping his fanbase from following his
orders this Saturday.

A related rally in Australia mere days ago, ended with neo-Nazis attacking a group of Indigenous people, sending some to hospital.

Christie Pits Park already had a clash between locals and swastika clubs in 1933. Let's not revisit it nearly a century later.

Come take up space and show solidarity with immigrants and visible minorities,

Show the fascists that the Christie Pits
community doesn't support their bigoted
nonsense rally on September 13th.
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#AlertaAlertaAntifascista #FashWatch #Toronto #TorontoActions #WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence

We keep us safe.
#WhoKeepsUsSafe

#CommunityDefence
#TorontoActions #AlertaAlertaAntifascista #FuckHomophobes #FuckHomophobia #FuckTransphobia #FashWatch #FashWatchCanada #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

I was prepping my team in advance of tomorrow¹, and it occurs me it might be worthwhile just to point people to a good thread to get a feel for the shitshow expect.

The fash have once again picked a residential area, though there are only two schools this time not three.

I point you to Stu Bensons live tweeting of the activity: https://twitter.com/LeftHandStu/status/1667175435375984641?t=7JaGAA32Kw2qQ9AsE2BL6g&s=19

Of course, because Twitter no longer lets you read threaded things without an account, I will follow this post up with a list of links of every tweet in the thread.

#Toronto #TorontoActions
#FuckHomophobes #FuckHomophobia #FuckTransphobia
#WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence #FashWatch #FashWatchCanada #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe
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¹ https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/111060532163933978

Oh Christ.

Apparently #CarymaNgo is railing against straight white people coming out for #CommunityDefence and for helping block her fash-rimming ass from the 2SLGBTQI+ people she wants to target.

Well, I'm not white, but I am straight, and I stand in solidarity because I'm not narcissistic enough to think that allying with Nazis is magically going to buy me some sort of free pass later.

Recent events Stateside should have shown you what happens to tokens, if nothing else.

Also, you know that Niemöller poem? The "First they came for" one¹?

It skips over trans people, but holy shit do they belong on it².

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¹ This one https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they-came-by-pastor-martin-niemoller/

² https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/

#FuckHomophobes #FuckHomophobia #FuckTransphobia
#WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence #FashWatch #FashWatchCanada #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe
#TorontoActions #AlertaAlertaAntifascista