Happy Day Before We Have To Read Earth Day Posts From Politicians Who Spend The Other 364 Days A Year Subsidizing Fossil Fuels And Approving Old-Growth Logging to all those who observe
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📣 HAPPENING NOW: Toronto has been at the heart of Palestinian advocacy in North America and today is no different. We will keep showing up till our demands are met 🇵🇸

BREAKING: Israel is intensely bombing Rafah, where more than 1.7 million Palestinians are trapped, in the middle of the night, targeting residential homes and killing civilians, including children.

Don’t look away.

Since this triggers B'nai Brith Canada so much, here's Brian Cox reading Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸's poem

I presented the 9th largest petition in Canadian Parliamentary history this week. Over 82,000 Canadians are calling on the Canadian gov’t to take action to save lives & end potential complicity in war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

ndp.ca/news/ndp-calls…

Your 'foreign policy' is enabling a holocaust in #Gaza Secretary Antony Blinken Mélanie Joly

Triplexes, fourplexes, and family-friendly sized apartments are hundreds of thousands of dollars cheaper than semi-detached and detached single-family homes. Yet, the current rules in Ontario make it more expensive, time-consuming, and risky to sever or stratify a property and

An utterly historic victory for the working class. Tennessee is shining bright tonight. We are in a new era.

Congratulations to the courageous workers in Chattanooga and the entire UAW. Absolutely heroic.

Solidarity IS the strategy - across the South, and all over the country.

The world's fifth-largest economy now regularly generates more renewable energy than it needs.

'On 34 of the 42 days to April 18, the US state saw periods where wind, solar and hydro output exceeded total electricity demand'

theprogressplaybook.com/2024/04/19/in-… Nick Hedley The Progress Playbook

Meanwhile in #Gaza the targeting of basic aid that is keeping civilians alive goes on.

Tonight at Columbia Jewish students led a full Shabbat service at the Gaza solidarity encampment. Minutes later Muslim students had their evening prayer service. All surrounded by love.

Please do let the world know: there are ways to live that aren’t being a paranoid bigot.

I just signed this petition calling on Doug Ford to keep his hands off the OEB, because Ontarians want afforable, green heating. Will you join me?
ForOurKids_Ottawa For Our Kids TO Seniors for Climate Action Now! (SCAN!) GASP4Change @TOfor shorturl.at/zBFUX you.leadnow.ca/petitions/supp…? via Leadnow

These brave young people are suing the biggest polluter in the world -- but they’re being silenced! Join our call urging President Biden to let these young people tell their stories in court. #YouthvGov secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/sa…

Moment of disruption, where #Onted teachers of conscience SHUT DOWN last night's Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan AGM for its complicity in profiting from Palestinian death.

A protestor reads aloud Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah who centres children & nature while condemning the manufacture & sale of arms 🇵🇸

Nothing to see here... just Chrystia Freeland meeting with the Pathways Alliance a month before she released a budget that does very little on climate

For folks in the “West” still on the fence or silent — they would do this to any one of us, any of our family, our children, friends, loved ones, if it meant maintaining power. This should horrify *all* of us.

Great campaign by World BEYOND War Canada and Ontario teachers who don't want their pensions invested in killing machines. #BDS is on the rise. Oh, and #ArmsEmbargoNow

ACT NOW: It's time for affordable co-ownership housinghttps://nmshr.io/s/twitter/ZBU0CznEH_TpQW2kJ7A=/r

In one of only known cases in N America, someone is facing deportation for climate activism.

On Earth Day, 23-yr old student Zain Ul-Haq who led campus fossil fuel divestment will face deportation from Canada to Pakistan.

insideclimatenews.org/news/16042024/…

Act now stopzainsdeportation.ca

Excellent read on progressive organizing in Toronto right now.
'The power of organized local groups cannot be underestimated, and has to keep growing and deepening the connections between issues for a more humane political agenda to emerge.'
TCAN (Toronto Climate Action Network) Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) ClimateFast