1. What is happening in Rafah is NOT a 'limited operation'. AlMawasi is NOT a 'humanitarian' or 'safe' area. In fact, the war on Gaza is escalating dramatically. Here are a few thoughts on how and why this is the case. A short🧵

RIP 72 Pape randomly appearing everywhere

The 11:20pm boat to the city from Centre feels like a miracle it exists

No it isn’t

I built something that might be able to help out anyone looking for an independent grocery store in Toronto.

Head to hosergrocerytracker.ca/map and enter your address (put toronto at the end so it doesn't send you somewhere else). It'll show you the closest stores to your home

Repurposing the Scotiabank Ozempic stairwell for noarmsinthearts.com

Four days of counterprogramming remain - against Scotiabank, against Elbit, against artwashing, for a free Palestine

#hotdocs24

It’s a good time to re-read this article on anti-hate as the new justification for policing briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/…

Land acknowledgment.

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It’s funny how “public” spaces can easily become un-public should the public decide to genuinely engage with them. This is the exact tactic used to cage in and kettle organizers defending long-established encampments for the unhoused

The directors of Yintah call out @hotdocs sponsor at their Canadian premiere:

'While we are grateful for the opportunity to show this film, we refuse to allow this venue to whitewash Scotiabank's reputation at home and abroad.'

#Hotdocs24 #NoArmsintheArts

The directors of Yintah (amazing film about Wet'suwet'en resistance to the Coastal Gaslight pipeline) today called out Hot Docs' sponsor Scotiabank for financing the company that built the pipeline, TC Energy, and also Israeli weapons maker Elbit Systems. #HotDocs24

The new issue of The Grind is out!

Find it in the TTC and at nearly 300 locations around the GTA — it's at 260 now, getting to the rest in the coming days. Bookstores & record stores carrying copies are listed in this thread 🧵

Have other cities been engaged in a 16 year campaign of figuring out what a garbage can is? Or just us?

Big day: the first episode of Paydirt, the inside story of Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal, is out now!

Find it here The Narwhal, or on The Big Story Podcast’s feed wherever you listen to podcasts 🎧🌳💰🏠🔎

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TORONTO: Join us for the #noarmsinthearts festival, a counter program to Hot Docs from April 25 - May 5 including actions, film screenings and talks centering Palestinian liberation and calling on Scotiabank to divest from Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit System.

CALENDAR:

Toronto Police officers appear to have lied on the stand to try and get a man wrongly convicted of murder.

Feels like we have to talk about it now.

Tonight is Passover Eve. On this night in 1943, the Nazis entered the Warsaw Ghetto. They were met with molotov cocktails, gunfire, and grenades from the Jewish resistance.

B'nai Brith Canada 1. That’s not the Main St Library.
2. ‘if I must die’ certainly doesn’t ‘glorify martyrdom’.
3. Refaat Alareer was murdered by the barbarous genocidal regime you are defending.
4. His words will live on. You’ll have to justify defending genocide.
5. You do not speak in my name.

This poem is the “inappropriate content” B’nai Brith insisted—and apparently convinced Toronto Public Library—must be removed from the library.

Refaat was a beloved poet, scholar, teacher who was assassinated by Israel in Gaza alongside his family.

May his memory be a blessing.