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.

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…

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

On #Mar3 International #sexworkersrightsday 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

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

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

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.

“Some of my best enemies are feminists” - read Sophie Lewis’s characteristically brilliant essay on Zionist Feminism. salvage.zone/some-of-my-bes…

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…

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.

this is exactly why every struggle for love, freedom, and justice has to also be an abolitionist struggle: the cops will be called in against you. This is what it means to fund the police

New blog post: Contrary to claims that the new transit security force exists to improve "safety," early data shows some of its top responses involve displacing "sleepers" and "substance abusers," as well as conducting detentions, searches, and seizures winnipegpolicecauseharm.org/blog/transit-s…

One thing I'm left with at the end of UofT Occupy for Palestine: the failure of media to engage with what actually happened there, and the likely inability now to accurately summarize or thoughtfully reflect on what happened, because there was so little curiosity to begin with

Here are the organizations confirming their support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza and willing to withdraw their support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Ottawa as a result. Fixed it for you.

I just want people to understand that despite all the right-wing propaganda, literally NO ONE has died of an overdose at a safe consumption site in Canada because they do exactly what they're supposed to do - prevent overdose deaths. Without them, people will die.

🎭🎊 FESTIVAL DEFUND LA POLICE 2024 🎭🎊 22.09.2024 / 12h-19h / Parc Angrignon

reroot pride, a collective who feel Pride Winnipeg does not adequately represent who it claims to, is hosting a discussion and barbecue to reimagine what a pride that represents our communities could look like Dufferin Park Sun, Sept 8 4:30pm to 7:30 rerootpri.de/september-2024…

Heard that Michael Polowin is set to be appointed as a new member of the Ottawa Police Board. He is well known for conflating criticism of Israel as antisemitism (as can be seen below). He also notably served as the lawyer for Timbercreek during the Heron Gate mass evictions.

There's a lot of talk in Winnipeg about body cams, especially in the wake of the WPS killing of Jordan Charlie and the Manitoba RCMP's rollout of them. In this new blog post, we examine the evidence on body cams and present five reasons to oppose them. winnipegpolicecauseharm.org/blog/do-body-c…