URGENT CALL FOR MOBILIZATION: IF YOU LIVE IN NYC COME TO THE NEW SCHOOL RIGHT NOW. WE NEED ALL HANDS ON DECK. NYPD IS IN THE BUILDING AND THE STUDENTS NEED NUMBERS ON THE OUTSIDE. ADMIN IS RELYING ON THE FACT THAT THE CROWD IS MOBILIZED AT NYU/COLUMBIA.

In 2020, three police officers fired their guns into a car whose driver was fleeing from them. They killed a 33-year-old man, and his 18-month-old baby, Jameson Shapiro

Today, Crown prosecutors dropped all the charges against the cops cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

“Some of my best enemies are feminists” - read Sophie Lewis’s characteristically brilliant essay on Zionist Feminism.

salvage.zone/some-of-my-bes…

its fucked up that this needs to be said.

but it does. keep saying it. drug users are human people. more than twenty human people in Canada who use drugs will die today. and tomorrow. the day after that too. nobody should die from using unregulated drugs.

read this

Cops love to push 'evidence-based policing' when it comes to increasing their budgets, not when it comes to presenting the numbers of people they kill each year.

Coercive control is produced by carcerality in settler colonialism and the by the ‘white possessive logic’ of capitalist societies. If we want to tackle it, we need to tackle settler colonial systems & the capitalist violence they produce.

On #Mar3 International #sexworkers rightsday we raise awareness of the constant erasure of #sexworkers from bars & streets of Ville de Montréal. @QDS_Mtl has systematically coopted our red light symbols. #Sexworkers are the real heart of this city. #ISWRD Valérie Plante Projet Montréal

The recent closures of safe injection sites in so-called Ottawa have left a significant gap in harm reduction services, posing a grave risk to PWUD in our community. 1/3

WINNIPEG - Here's the info for this year's International Day Against Police Brutality (IDAPB) action!

WHAT: Rally & march
WHEN: 5 pm on Friday, March 15
WHERE: Starting at City Hall
BRING: Flags, signs, keffiyehs, masks

ASL interpreting will be provided

aboli.sh/brutality

A community member reached out to every service provider mentioned by Stéphanie Plante 🇨🇦🇨🇭. This was in response to the pushback Plante received for her harmful suggestions advocating for fear-based 'prevention' through voyeurism tours to encampments and safe consumption sites. /1

The impact of an unsanctioned compassion club on non-fatal overdose by Jeremy Kalicum, Eris Nyx, Mary Clare Kennedy, PhD, & Thomas Kerr in International Journal of Drug Policy.

Amazing novel research folks! Drug User Liberation Front saved the lives of many people, it’s absurd that they got shut down.

Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Don’t want to send love letters to violence workers? Send SherriLRollins an email demanding an apology for mocking police violence. Police are violent abusers who kill & gaslight. Conversations about safety cannot be had w/cops, they need to be had about how cops make us unsafe.

'It is all the more urgent, then, to understand that “anti-hate” is counter-insurgency. Hate laws, hate crime units, and the very frame of “hate” itself are state ploys for our trust, promising protection in exchange for assimilation.

#AltTextPalestine

Emergency Protest - Ottawa

Hands off Rafah [image of buildings being bombed]

Monday February 12 at 4:30 p.m. at the Prime Minister's Office — 80 Wellington Street

We spoke with Carrie Blaydon, who was with Dustin Hatcher when he was shot and killed by the WPS late last year. She explains what actually happened, in contrast to many police lies.

Please read and share this Q&A, and demand #JusticeForDustinHatcher !

winnipegpolicecauseharm.org/blog/im-tellin…

A thorough review of the trial so far by Dogwood. It contains full quotes of RCMP misogny, racism + ableism revealed in court, logics of police violence explained + the problem at the heart of the trial: how did the injunction trump Indigenous title?

tinyurl.com/2rcj6tus

created this in early november, still desperately relevant:

NEW: Former councillor Jan Harder lobbied Mark Sutcliffe and other officials months after leaving office despite a new bylaw that came into effect a month after her departure from city hall that restricts the lobbying of former councillors.

More here:

horizonottawa.ca/press_release_…

The great irony is that policymakers only listen to the criminologists whose work reinforces the status quo. You're taken 'seriously' because you're not a threat to their power. You are complicit in oppression & you're proud of it because it's based on 'solid empirical evidence'.

We attended most of the recent hearings of the inquest into the WPS killings of five men that happened in 2018 and 2019: Matthew Fosseneuve, Patrick Gagnon, Michael Bagot, Sean Thompson and Randy Cochrane.

Here are six key things that we learned from it.

winnipegpolicecauseharm.org/blog/what-we-l…