(Formerly Ryerson) TMU Administration have pushed custodians and trades workers to verge of strike after abuse of power over their pension plan. A secret account, violation of faculty contract, see shocking details in CUPE-faculty bulletin #canlab #onpoli 233.cupe.ca/2023/04/06/cup…

#WaterIsLife is an urgent call for solidarity with Indigenous peoples fighting for safe drinking water and working to protect and heal water in their territories. Take the pledge! Listen, learn and act. cupe.ca/clean-water-fo…

An estimated 1500 students from Staley High School in Kansas City, Missouri took part in a march today for their schoolmate, Ralph Yarl, the 16-year-old who was shot after ringing the doorbell at the home of 84-year-old Andrew Lester. 🎥 KSHB 41 News

CUPE members don’t cross picket lines, we join them. Let’s show our #solidarity with PSAC-AFPC members in one of the best ways we can: if you encounter a PSAC picket line at your workplace, don't cross it! workerscantwait.ca

"Chiefs or elders and knowledge keepers, they say that there is no reconciliation without land back. So here we are having land back." #LandBack

"The harm of colonialism lies not so much that other people came and settled, or that the other people took some land and resources, but that they purported to take over, to bestow upon themselves some supreme right to rule it all..." Pretty amazing case! cbc.ca/news/canada/th…

The rights of nature: an idea whose time has come. AFNQL confers legal personhood to St. Lawrence River | CTV News montreal.ctvnews.ca/first-nations-…

I come back to this piece often, but especially during weeks like this one. “Wherever human beings are, we at least have a chance,” James Baldwin reminds us, “because we’re not only disasters; we’re also miracles.” medium.com/@YotamMarom/wh…

Friendly reminder, that we are all closer to being climate refugees than billionaires.

Indigenous rights are the solution to climate change! ✊🏽 #IndigenousRights #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice #AmplifyIndigenousVoices

Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police are using the same tactics on First Nations people that the USA and Canada use on their foes in war. It’s a war on First Nation water and land defenders. ricochet.media/en/3980/traini…

"The conversation we need to be tabling is how to reconcile with the end of capitalism for the world to survive instead of getting bogged down in how capitalism can survive the end of the world." ― Eriel Tchekwie Deranger #ClimateChange #IndigenousClimateAction #Capitalism

NEW: Six northern First Nations are taking the Ontario government to court for failing to consult them about mining claims in their territories: “The Mining Act in Ontario is racist, colonialist in very many ways, and it has to fall.” #onpoli via Emma McIntosh (same handle on the other app) thenarwhal.ca/ontario-indige…

See our new research today on the link between union coverage & wages for Black & racialized workers in 🇨🇦. Key finding: racialized workers earn 10% less per hour, and are less likely to be unionized (25% vs 33% for non-racialized wrkrs). Full report: centreforfuturework.ca/2024/08/13/the… /2

Racialized workers need stronger union protection. And unions need to build their membership among racialized workers (who will make up over 40% of labour force by 2040). The report makes several recommendations for how to do this. /4

Join Ase Community Foundation on Sep 23 for a virtual discussion on dementia in the Black community. Discuss research findings, share personal stories & explore available resources alongside experts, community leaders, and those with lived experiences. lu.ma/bolqc2q9 #CdnCaregiving

"International students in Canada are facing a nationalist backlash that is both contemporary and has its roots in the capitalist, colonial racism that founded the country." #migrantjustice #internationalstudents academicmatters.ca/international-…

30 Jewish organizations issue statement in support of UN Human Rights Rapporteur Albanese, who has been under relentless attack from politically motivated organizations waging toxic campaigns to silence her and undermine her human rights mandate. 🧵1/10 Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt Mehdi Hasan

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and

US elxn isn't in isolation - Trump, Bibi, Modi, Orbán, Meloni are tip of iceberg of growing fascism. Anti-migrant racism, wars of domination, transmisogyny, rising inflation are their glue. Defeating fascism requires defeating flaccid liberalism that keeps ceding ground to right.