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About 30 Amazon workers in Cicero walked out around 5am this morning demanding better pay, shorter shifts, and bonuses that were promised but not delivered. They are not unionized and were threatened with retaliation.
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A new public library in my area has these work stations for caregivers with babies! Maybe these are common in other places but Ive never seen anything like this before.
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Community means being accountable.
Thank you @SarahJama_ and @bolshevikbaddie for insisting on this value and practice.
Joint statement with @SarahJama_ about why we left @BLM_TO.
We know that liberation comes from the power of the people and not through institutions or organizations that are complicit. We will continue to organize on the ground and with people who are the most impacted.
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Spending $8,000,000 on a physical building seems like a poor decision for a grassroots movement seeking justice & advancing #BlackLivesMatter objectives in communities.
#CdnPoli
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love, solidarity, and gratitude to these two courageous organizers for sharing their experiences with BLM-TO/BLM Canada
what started as a challenge to power has become co-opted by power. we hate to see it, but the truth needs to be told nitter.gq/bolshevikbaddie/status…
Joint statement with @SarahJama_ about why we left @BLM_TO.
We know that liberation comes from the power of the people and not through institutions or organizations that are complicit. We will continue to organize on the ground and with people who are the most impacted.
✊🏾💜
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Please read this statement from @bolshevikbaddie and @SarahJama_ - thank you for sharing your story. More need to be aware of the lack of transparency going on
Joint statement with @SarahJama_ about why we left @BLM_TO.
We know that liberation comes from the power of the people and not through institutions or organizations that are complicit. We will continue to organize on the ground and with people who are the most impacted.
✊🏾💜
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How that's working out.
This is why you can't be grassroots or radical, while accepting money from politicians and corporations.
It was never going to be good.
nitter.gq/SarahJama_/status/1483…
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A lot of us have known about the rot in this tree for many years. The bill really came due on this one.
Hoping that community activists in Toronto can reclaim this important and powerful movement.
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☕ I sympathize with the gaslighting and denial, it's been years of me discussing this and getting these responses. I have stories but I'll leave it at this: BLMTO is rampant with toxicity, narcissism & exclusivism. I'm glad it's FINALLY coming out
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Not being able to ethically decide which corporate donations to reject, so instead accepting them all is horrendously representative of BLM global/Canada/TOs true intentions.
Joint statement with @SarahJama_ about why we left @BLM_TO.
We know that liberation comes from the power of the people and not through institutions or organizations that are complicit. We will continue to organize on the ground and with people who are the most impacted.
✊🏾💜
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BLM Network is still out here disrupting local movement work, causing harm to communities and sowing discord between organizers across the nation.
Ask why.
Ask why the BLM Network consistently uses the language of government intelligence to describe vulnerable organizers.
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Activists call out BLM Toronto. BLMTO got 8 million and made activists sign NDAs. Tiny compared to M4BL. The slogan "BLM" is a far cry from org community bureaucrats getting rich off of Black death then sold the movt to the capitalists/political parties. @left_voice @DJ_Blues
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NDAs are anti communist (counter revolutionary)
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Exactly. The 'network' is a handful of people subdividing into different organizations every couple of years. They represent their own interest, which is largely to be seen as leaders of the movement. Too many chapters have the same story
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faux are everywhere & BLMTO, are also “consultants” now, some of them, recommending management positions of Diversity, Inclusion & Equity for every department at my workplace, as the main tool, and response, for dealing with systemic racist, classist abuse at work, the TNG
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An update in regards to the ‘Imagining a Police-Free UofT’ speaker series and political education sessions:
Joint statement with @SarahJama_ about why we left @BLM_TO.
We know that liberation comes from the power of the people and not through institutions or organizations that are complicit. We will continue to organize on the ground and with people who are the most impacted.
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🤮.. masterclass in liberal co-optation, non profit trainings on social change, and the deathscape of incrementalism.
Plus, we all know public policy is not "the art of compromise," it is the result of the unflinching, strategic, visionary, confrontational power of movements.
Public policy is about the art of compromise.
I am an activist. I was and I still am an activist, but I am now the minister of environment and climate change for all Canadians.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/co…
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Last panel happening at 3:30pm you do not want to miss!!
m.youtube.com/channel/UCiyqM…
There are few works published in the past 20 years that have had as profound and generative an influence on diverse audiences as Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return. Join us on our last day and check the schedule here: maptothedoorat20.com/schedul…
