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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

Last night's disruption at the Landlord Awards Ceremony (ridiculous fucking idea) at the MTCC, was masterful.

Landlords don't "create" housing.
They steal it.

Imagine a bunch of parasites patting themselves on the backs for doing that.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR4bXGVkWMP/

#HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow #Toronto #TorontoActions

Queens Park is the destination for multiple protests today. We are followed by the group from Cycle Toronto, another group was already here.

#NationalHousingDay #HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow #Toronto #TorontoActions

Well that chant at least elicited some giggles.

When I say "fuck," you say "Ford".
FUCK. Ford.
FUCK. Ford.

#NationalHousingDay #HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow #TorontoActions #Toronto

Bubbles and Chang.
My least favourite combo.

#Toronto #TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow

The fact they're doing this METRES AWAY FROM THE LITERAL HOMELESS MEMORIAL is disgusting as shit.

In about 15 mins I have to dip briefly for a protest (there are 2 other LOs here rn), but the residents have approved the callout for more bodies on the ground for the pending clearing that the motherfuckers absolutely confirmed is happening.

Unfriendly reminder that at St Stephen's, the motherfuckers waited us out and didn't do THAT clearing until night.

Apparently, the City needs the park empty to "repair the grass and fix the paving stones".

Fuck everything.

#HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingForAll #HousingNow #CommunityDefence #TorontoActions #LOLife

A long day of #CommunityDefence is about half over.

Encampment support with the City threatening to clear tents at Holy Trinity. Love those tactical nurses! 🖕🏾

Court support for comrades.
(Standing room only!)

Two more community actions today.

#Toronto #TorontoActions #TorontoActivists #FreePalestine #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #WhoKeepsUsSafe

This is a busy weekend in activist spaces. Can't make it out to do foodserve tomorrow, so doing food prep tonight with community around Claudette Beals.

Prepping 500 meals for the community to be served at Allan Gardens, in Regis Korchinski-Paquet's name.

#JusticeForRegis

#CommunityDefence #TorontoActions #HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow