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Today's protest is coordinated by Labour for Palestine.
The focus is on Israeli wines.
The counter consists of two men, one of whom just keeps yelling, "Asshole!" at people. 🤦🏾♀️
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence
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It's a hell of a thing that people need to request legal observers for a May Day picnic.
The cops are busy defending Patriots Square 🚻.
#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe
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I swear, the cops let instigators harass protests so they can justify their presence, and THEN pen them to pretend like they're doing something productive.
#TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #CreepySpouseInDaBigHouse
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I swear, the cops let instigators harass protests so they can justify their presence, and THEN pen them to pretend like they're doing something productive.
#TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #CreepySpouseInDaBigHouse
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I swear, the cops let instigators harass protests so they can justify their presence, and THEN pen them to pretend like they're doing something productive.
#TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #CreepySpouseInDaBigHouse
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I swear, the cops let instigators harass protests so they can justify their presence, and THEN pen them to pretend like they're doing something productive.
#TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #CreepySpouseInDaBigHouse
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I swear, the cops let instigators harass protests so they can justify their presence, and THEN pen them to pretend like they're doing something productive.
#TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #CreepySpouseInDaBigHouse
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Goodness!
They correctly reported them as belonging to the counter-protestor group.❝
During one incident, it’s alleged a man participating in the counter-demonstration confronted a participant in the Al-Quds demonstration who was holding a stick with an Islamic Republic of Iran flag attached.Police say the accused began swinging his arms and fists at the victim, breaking the stick and causing pieces of it to strike the victim in the head.
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Police allege that in a second incident, another man participating in the counter-demonstration followed a participant who was wearing an Islamic Republic of Iran flag on their back.
Investigators say the accused “spat on the victim and ripped the flag off their back” before returning to the crowd.
❞Given how many cops were there yesterday, I think we can adequately close the book on whether cops prevent anything from happening.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime
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Goodness!
They correctly reported them as belonging to the counter-protestor group.❝
During one incident, it’s alleged a man participating in the counter-demonstration confronted a participant in the Al-Quds demonstration who was holding a stick with an Islamic Republic of Iran flag attached.Police say the accused began swinging his arms and fists at the victim, breaking the stick and causing pieces of it to strike the victim in the head.
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Police allege that in a second incident, another man participating in the counter-demonstration followed a participant who was wearing an Islamic Republic of Iran flag on their back.
Investigators say the accused “spat on the victim and ripped the flag off their back” before returning to the crowd.
❞Given how many cops were there yesterday, I think we can adequately close the book on whether cops prevent anything from happening.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime
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Goodness!
They correctly reported them as belonging to the counter-protestor group.❝
During one incident, it’s alleged a man participating in the counter-demonstration confronted a participant in the Al-Quds demonstration who was holding a stick with an Islamic Republic of Iran flag attached.Police say the accused began swinging his arms and fists at the victim, breaking the stick and causing pieces of it to strike the victim in the head.
{{ snip }}
Police allege that in a second incident, another man participating in the counter-demonstration followed a participant who was wearing an Islamic Republic of Iran flag on their back.
Investigators say the accused “spat on the victim and ripped the flag off their back” before returning to the crowd.
❞Given how many cops were there yesterday, I think we can adequately close the book on whether cops prevent anything from happening.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime
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Goodness!
They correctly reported them as belonging to the counter-protestor group.❝
During one incident, it’s alleged a man participating in the counter-demonstration confronted a participant in the Al-Quds demonstration who was holding a stick with an Islamic Republic of Iran flag attached.Police say the accused began swinging his arms and fists at the victim, breaking the stick and causing pieces of it to strike the victim in the head.
{{ snip }}
Police allege that in a second incident, another man participating in the counter-demonstration followed a participant who was wearing an Islamic Republic of Iran flag on their back.
Investigators say the accused “spat on the victim and ripped the flag off their back” before returning to the crowd.
❞Given how many cops were there yesterday, I think we can adequately close the book on whether cops prevent anything from happening.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime
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Goodness!
They correctly reported them as belonging to the counter-protestor group.❝
During one incident, it’s alleged a man participating in the counter-demonstration confronted a participant in the Al-Quds demonstration who was holding a stick with an Islamic Republic of Iran flag attached.Police say the accused began swinging his arms and fists at the victim, breaking the stick and causing pieces of it to strike the victim in the head.
{{ snip }}
Police allege that in a second incident, another man participating in the counter-demonstration followed a participant who was wearing an Islamic Republic of Iran flag on their back.
Investigators say the accused “spat on the victim and ripped the flag off their back” before returning to the crowd.
❞Given how many cops were there yesterday, I think we can adequately close the book on whether cops prevent anything from happening.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime
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We're marching and somehow, I'm on flank.
I'm officially too old for flank.
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Submissions happening for the injunction against today's Jerusalem/Al Quds Day rally.
It's also the day before the International Day Against Police Brutality.
I'm kind of hoping TPS isn't going to give us a bunch more examples for our socials and actual media.
We already have enough.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice
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Submissions happening for the injunction against today's Jerusalem/Al Quds Day rally.
It's also the day before the International Day Against Police Brutality.
I'm kind of hoping TPS isn't going to give us a bunch more examples for our socials and actual media.
We already have enough.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice
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Submissions happening for the injunction against today's Jerusalem/Al Quds Day rally.
It's also the day before the International Day Against Police Brutality.
I'm kind of hoping TPS isn't going to give us a bunch more examples for our socials and actual media.
We already have enough.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice
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Submissions happening for the injunction against today's Jerusalem/Al Quds Day rally.
It's also the day before the International Day Against Police Brutality.
I'm kind of hoping TPS isn't going to give us a bunch more examples for our socials and actual media.
We already have enough.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice
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Submissions happening for the injunction against today's Jerusalem/Al Quds Day rally.
It's also the day before the International Day Against Police Brutality.
I'm kind of hoping TPS isn't going to give us a bunch more examples for our socials and actual media.
We already have enough.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice
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A really solid article about the state of Toronto protest policing.
It leverages the injury stats that we collect as Orange Hats, but it goes well beyond that.
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Policing institutions are highly organized, funded, and ideologically mobilized militant forces that serve the capitalist-colonial global paradigm — nothing they do is (or can be) done in an apolitical vacuum. For that reason, the surrounding social-political context helps us assess the material underpinnings of why the state behaves violently toward certain groups, but not others, even if they’re all racialized.The above Orange Hats report came just a few days before something seemingly unrelated happened. The official TPS Instagram account posted a now-viral reel in support of the United States-Israeli-backed Pahlavi regime change movement on February 2nd, and noted how there were “zero incidents” at a protest the day before.
The full caption of the Toronto Police reel that has amassed 4.3 million views and 200,000+ likes reads as such:
150,000 demonstrators and
zero incidents.Thanks to the meticulous
planning, effective on‑the‑ground
work, and professionalism of
our members and specialized
units [emphasis added],
yesterday’s event in the heart
of our city remained safe and
peaceful.When the police say there was ‘no incident’, all that usually means is no one was arrested. In a reality where fascists and neo-Nazis are protected to roam freely, while pro-Palestinian and Indigenous people get arrested after state thugs drive an unmarked car or ride horses into them, what exactly does Toronto Police claim ‘no incidents’ actually reveal?
❞Read the full article:
https://praxisarchives.substack.com/p/the-true-scale-of-toronto-police
#Toronto #TorontoActions #TorontoActivists #FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish
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I fail to see why people protecting Nazis should have an OUNCE of morale.
Cops were very upset to learn that people were being told that TPS was backing up Nazis, with one cop repeatedly telling people that they weren't obligated to take the flyers 😁
(Wait until next month.)It's not quite as pleasurable as the "I don't think we deserve to be berated" whining from last round of this shitshow, but the idea that they were not being seen as ✌🏾"the good guys"✌🏾 really REALLY bothered them.
That probably has more to do with the recent MULTIPLE arrests of dirty cops and the beating they're taking in the press, but holy shit they were a lot less aggressive after their false arrest of a legal observer at the very beginning and a reminder of the SIU investigation and how they acquired it.
Ima post bits and snippets from the day, including Caryma discovering TPS is onto her nonsense.
Oh! And Bernardo taking one of the flyers which nearly killed me with laughter, which he TOPPED by trying to convince us that the arrest of Vorudi last weekend means they're doing a good job.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice
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Related:
HEY #TORONTO
There's another Nazi rally this weekend.Saturday, February 21 • 12:30pm
Sankofa Square
(Yonge and Dundas)Expect more police brutality and spurious arrests.
With any luck, I won't be forced to make an SIU investigation happen again.
#FuckNazis #FuckFascism #FuckThePolice
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #TorontoActions -
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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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The action wrapped when they gave a 10 minute warning.
We have too many fucking cops in this City.
Did we need 22 cops to spend 2 hours sitting/standing around watching people mourn? Absofuckinglutely not.MacDouche and co should fuck ALL THE WAY off and stop wasting money.
#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle
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As expected, every fash media asshole in this city is here, because they're disappointed that they missed last year's shit show.
Also, cops out the wazoo.
#LandDay #Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #EndTheSiege #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #FuckThePolice #LOLife #LegalObservers
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Very protesty day today.
US Consulate. Save our Sites. Bill Blair.
Looking forward to getting warm.
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This doesn't do justice to our ludicrous rear escort.
#TorontoActions #LOLife #LegalObservers #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe
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Oh will ya look at that!
Today in #ProtestsWork❝
In a separate e-mail to The Globe, Rabinovitch said that “following discussions, Scotiabank and The Giller Foundation agreed that the best path forward was an early end to the partnership.” She did not offer further reasons for the separation. Scotiabank declined to comment on the end of the partnership when contacted by the Globe.The Giller Prize has been under fire since late 2023, when protesters stormed the stage at its annual gala with signs that read “Scotiabank Funds Genocide.” Scotiabank subsidiary 1832 Asset Management was at that point the biggest international investor in Elbit Systems Ltd., Israel’s most prominent publicly traded arms company.
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About 2,000 people, many from the publishing industry, signed a letter in support of the demonstrators. Though the Scotiabank subsidiary has been gradually reducing its stake in Elbit Systems, it still holds a disproportionate amount compared to other Canadian banks, and the Giller Prize spent much of 2024 facing pushback over its ties to the bank.More than three dozen eligible authors withdrew their latest books for consideration for the 2024 Giller Prize. Alongside eight past nominees and winners, they called on the Giller Foundation in July to cut ties with numerous other organizations “who are directly invested in Israel’s occupation of Palestine.” Prize juror Dinaw Mengestu said that day that he would leave the jury.
❞https://archive.ph/XoKs0 without paywall.
Now #DropTheCharges
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This week's episode of Blueprints of Disruption contextualizes this morning's wildcat strike action at the #CUPW sorting plant.
https://blueprints-of-disruption.captivate.fm/
(Now I am wiped and want to crash, but it's only 7:30 pm, so I need to stay up until at least 10pm. I am not a fan of sunrises, no matter how late they are.)
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And thus ends my last LO gig.
Good night and good luck.See you in the streets.
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We're down to one ranty auntie (is that Bahira?) and a walk-through by Al SatanIsYourDaddy (Banerjee's weird sidekick/hypeman).
The cops left en masse, so I think it's time to call it and see if the cops are harassing Indigenous folks at their action.
#TorontoActions #Toronto #FuckTransphobia #WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence
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I feel like this song just needs to be played whenever pepper spraying happens.
#JailSupport #TorontoActions #LOLife #FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #DefundDisarmDismantle
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I did not get nearly enough sleep to deal with the fucking #JDL and their pal #CreepySpouseInDaHouse
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Days like today make me glad I upgraded my umbrella hat.
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Okay, well now I am just too pissed off to work on the thing I need to finish.
I really do not have time to get into the full range of 🐖 shenanigans vis-à-vis #TorontoActions and activists, including, but not limited to: arresting the wrong people when I had paint thrown on me by a racist asshole¹ and the current situation with the #Indigo11
Once upon a time, I could actually take on the role of Police Liaison at an action. Now, I'm just mama bear, and all the protesters are my cubs.
And the cops are trying to eat them.
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No, little one. You are NOT going to have a "friendly chat" with that officer.We. Do. Not. Talk. To. 🐖🐖🐖.
Not without a lawyer present.Even about the weather.
#YesAllCops #ACABday #FuckThePolice
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Poetry can be so powerful.
At the Read-In Against Indigo.❝
It is said:
We have more dead than names to call them.
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— Shams -
Okay kiddies, took me a while to get en route, but:
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IF YOU ARE HEADED TO 52 DIVISION:
📣 📣 📣 📣1️⃣ Bloc the fuck up.
Expect shitty streamers, influencers, and narcs in addition to 🐖🐖 to be capturing faces, shoes, and any other details for their "databases/archives".2️⃣ We don't talk to cops.
That's what lawyers are for and there are a LOT of them on it.3️⃣ We don't talk about upcoming actions.
Dude! You are standing outside a COP STATION. Don't give them intel!4️⃣ Lock your devices down.
Turn off lock screen notifications, biometrics, etc.5️⃣ Be LOUD.
Manoeuvres like this morning are designed to create fear and silence activists. Don't let it succeed.See you there.
#FuckYou52 #FuckThePolice #TorontoActions #TorontoActivists #JailSupport #AlertaAlertaAntifascista
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White people morality is something else.
It's okay to slaughter entire peoples, but don't block the traffic — and definitely don't interrupt a bunch of white people patting themselves on the back.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/14/pro-palestine-protesters-disrupt-canadian-book-prize
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Blocking Israel's War Machine
___Early on the morning of October 30th, a crowd descended on INKAS Armored, a Toronto-based defence contractor with ties to the Israeli Defence Forces.
Responding to a call from Palestinian trade unions for workers around the world to shut down exports to the Israeli military, the protesters set up picket lines to block access to the facility.The Israeli state is carrying out a massacre in Gaza with bombs, tanks and weapons manufactured in several countries in the so-called West.
As the world watches the unfolding situation in horror, one way of moving beyond vigils and rallies entails finding effective ways to target this supply of arms.
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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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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
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Presser is about to start.
No more deaths in custody.
At the Solicitor General's office.#PrisonersRights #TorontoActions #CommunityDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #Abolitionists #PrisonersJusticeDay
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Maybe the RBC staff is hoping to outwait the protestors. Maybe they should have checked out what the protestors are sporting.
#RBCoffCampus #DefundCoastalGaslink #stopCGL #environment #OffTheYintah #TorontoActions #RBCisKillingMe #RoyalBankofCanada
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Coordinating the Legal Observers for the U of T part of the RBC Off Campus Day of Action. There are also actions taking place at other universities, and we have an LO Team at the York action this afternoon.
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RBC is the number one funder of fossil fuels in Canada and the fifth largest funder in the world, having LED 262 billion dollars Canadian to fossil fuel projects since 2016.
RBC is also the lead financier of the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, which does not have the consent of the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs who are the rightful title holders of the land the pipeline will cross, and a lead funder of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which does not have consent from local First Nations including the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. By funding these projects, RBC is violating the principles of three, prior, and informed consent under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and ignoring direct calls from the front lines to drop the project.
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*snip*
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DEMANDS:
Thus, we call on the UTSU to cut ties with RBC and develop a pathway to end on-campus relationship by taking the following actions:1. Release a statement publicly, or sign on to a joint statement of student unions, condemning RBC's complacency in the climate crisis and ongoing involvement in projects that violate the rights and title of Indigenous people, like the CGL and TMX Pipelines.
2. Open a pilot account with Vancity or another credit union, and develop and release publicly a report investigating the process of a full transition away from banking with the RBC.
3. Develop a policy that prohibits banks' sponsorship of utsu events and activities, as well as booting in student union spaces (including club fairs, frosh week, and so on).
4. Disclose the details of the contract that the UTSU holds with the RBC On Campus branch.
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More at the petition:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3jOvED8a1z3QFMo_dQK-bcFUoeAtcs34Awh5pLgnHdFEP7g/viewform?usp=sf_link#Environment #TorontoActions #LOLife #RBCOffCampus #stopCGL #OffTheYintah
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Man, I am not a morning person, so I'm trying to force myself to crash soonish.
Long day of Legal Observing tomorrow.
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