An antifascist haul

“Trump has made clear that U.S. restrictions on immigration visas, travel bans, and ongoing ICE kidnappings apply to World Cup fans and, in several cases, to athletes’ delegations as well,” Harsha Walia said.

CALLING all Burnaby Residents to urgently support supportive housing at 5389 Imperial Street! All Burnaby residents take 5 minutes to email decision makers this week using this easy template and then directly encourage others to do the same! ✍️✍️✍️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Book rec! While resisting ICE is an urgent focus, "Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism" by @harshawalia.bsky.social reveals a global system of border militarization & violent carceral governance that we need to confront. firestorm.coop/catalog/sect... 1/

Yesterday was powerful gathering against Apple exploitation and complicity in genocides in Congo & Palestine I was arrested & facing bogus charges Vancouver increased its police budget by 40% (!) over past three yrs. Effects are felt daily by targeted communities plus ⬆️ criminalization of dissent

Wild! Ppl throw away 80% of items purchased on Black Friday after few uses Black Friday deliveries also generate 429,000 tonnes of emissions Black Friday is built on exploited retail workers, migrant warehouse workers, garment workers in Bangladesh, forced labour in Congo Community > capitalism!!

Carney rode into power claiming nation-building project of pipelines & ports & profit for corporations. Canada-Alberta pipeline MOU today proves what nation-building on these lands always is - devastating colonial extraction on Indigenous lands without Indigenous consent No consent, no pipelines!

Breaking we have shut down Cbsa!

I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery? Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!! Here are 5 other things to know:

Breaking! Port of Vancouver being shut down. Join us! No more genocide. Shut it down.

Flash fundraiser closes today!! Any amount helps. Etransfer [email protected] With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective. All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma. www.weavingourworlds.ca/flash-fundra...

Next Saturday! Join the Sudanese community in a protest and vigil at Surrey City hall. Share widely!

We are the Surrey Detention Center in solidarity with detained migrants. Canada is expanding its deportation machinery, not one more detention, not one more deporation

"Israel is a fake state" "UAE is a fake state" Canada is a fake state" Let's bring that energy to.. literally ALL states! They are all man-made fake af, creations of a "post-colonial order" to maintain colonialism, manage capital, and discipline society into structures of belonging vs unbelonging

Join us for our next event! Mon Nov 10 Indigenous Love & Rage: Resistance to Settler Colonialism. Meal at 6 pm, childcare available, ASL-English confirmed, Masks required (we are all volunteer collective with no funding, email to get involved & help out!) www.weavingourworlds.ca/indigenous-l...

Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan. www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...

"The border is best understood as an elastic regime that extends and thickens across space and time." @harshawalia.bsky.social for @social.architectural-review.com: www.architectural-review.com/essays/keyno...

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters. We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster) #EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

Tony Blair heading up so-called Gaza International Transitional Authority is disgustingly apt for an imperial plan. Not only is he a war criminal who led UK invasion of Iraq, but he now heads Tony Blair Institute - a capitalist haven for security & global imperial governance in "fragile states."

Beautiful to see more support infrastructure joining the flotilla - much of which exists because they are responses to border violence. Life Support medical vessel now joining has been doing missions in Central Med - world's deadliest border, and has done over 3000 rescues. Freedom is intertwined.

"Why do you talk about genocide at parties" "Why do you talk about genocide with kids around" "Why do you talk about genocide during work calls" "Why do you talk about genocide with people who have their own shit going on" Why do you talk about genocide when... BECAUSE there is a GENOCIDE.

Recognition of State of Palestine by Canada, France, UK etc is not only performative it is dangerous. It doesnt commit to ending genocide or implementing arms embargo and sanctions. Plus, explicitly calls for demilitarization of Palestine and disarming resistance. Reviving Oslo is not an option!

"Capitalist plunder is, therefore, inextricable from racial dispossession and the unequal expropriation structuring state and social formation." —Harsha Walia "Border and Rule" 2021 @harshawalia.bsky.social

escalation of fascism around migration - w/ anti immigration protests from toronto to australia to UK - is not a coincidence. borders create false binaries of workers vs migrants; provides a convenient scapegoat for austerity, and reinforces racism. anti fascist, anti capitalist is pro-migrants!

especially wild to have hypocritical discussions about "political violence" today 9/11 for mourning political violence against Allende, Biko, Balbir Sodhi, Gustafsen Lake, Attica, Sabra & Shatilla, Somalia Today for the 4.5 million who died after 9/11 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan.

About Nepal: 1. It's not about social media bans, it's about corruption, austerity (incl IMF-imposed) & jobs (~20% unemployment) 2. ~1/3 of economy relies on remittances 3. Biggest gap is not realizing this is ostensibly 'left' govt & context of Left struggles and splits in Nepal, & what's next

In the past 24 hours, Zionist entity has bombed Gaza, Tunisia, Qatar, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. Zionism is a settler-colonial death cult that be dismantled! And as we know, Palestine crystallizes everything - including contradictions like Israel bombing a staunch US ally. Globalize the intifada!

Extensive interview with Mahmoud Khalil on his vision of free Palestine, ICE terror and fleeing Assad regime. "What shocked me at very beginning, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria,” he says. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

".. capitalism has always required the social differentiation and hierarchization of race. [..] the social differentiation of race is not a secondary outcome of capitalism but, rather, the racial expropriation of land, labor, and life is innately constitutive of capitalism." @harshawalia.bsky.social

Both Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and BC NDP leader David Eby are calling for end to TFW program — blaming migrant worker programs for "filling up" shelters, food banks, schools & housing, and for causing "high youth unemployment". THIS IS RACIST, SHITTY and TRUMP-IAN argument. Here's why.

read this. this is a political analysis.

International Overdose Awareness Day brings people together against legislated violence of drug policy & militarizing, racial capitalist global war on drugs. DULF is facing protracted legal battle & prison time for harm reduction Join me in wage solidarity fundraiser: chuffed.org/project/dulf...

For a labour movement that understands the power of a strike.. For a labour movement that stands with, not against, Indigenous blockades For a labour movement that stops the flow of weapons & the whole world for Palestine For a labour movement with migrant workers, and against policing & borders

While most countries in the world honour May Day for working class & labour struggles, countries like US and Canada celebrate Labour Day as part of pacification (& anti-migrant) campaign bringing message of "coexistence" btwn capital and labour after Haymarket Massacre (1886) & Pullmam strike (1894)

Breaking! City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.

Carney & Canada's statements on Gaza are completely vacuous & shameless Gaza doesnt need Canada's pity. Canada is still arming Israel. Canada must implement full and immediate arms embargo. And sanction Israel. And suspend all military and trade agreements. Escalate to break imperialist consensus

If you haven't come to Weaving Our World's event yet, next one is tomorrow! All our monthly events are great place to meet comrades with food, childcare, ASL, masking. "Global Policing, Border Controls & Technofeudalism from Turtle Island to Palestine." www.weavingourworlds.ca/new-policing...

Today! Ottawa's Pride parade has been disrupted & cancelled! Queers for Palestine blocked the parade with the permission of the grand marshal, and demanding Ottawa Pride commit to ongoing cultural and academic boycott of Israel. "This is what a village looks like!" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Reading that UAE will be running services to concentration camp being built over the ruins of Rafah From starving Sudan & Yemen, migrant labour repression, building AI hubs, suppressing uprisings in Egypt & Tunisia, shaping global logistics economy & port expansion - WE DON'T HATE THE UAE ENOUGH!

Recent announcements by France, EU, Arab League, Canada is not them 'changing' - it is another two-state attempt at Oslo pacification and normalization. There can be NO "solution" that demands disarmament of the resistance, maintains apartheid & occupation, denies the right of return for refugees.

Palestine Action wins legal permission to challenge the ban! Court even references "chaos" created by 200 recent arrests in support. Fight for Palestine Action is global, as we face down the security-police state and draconian use of anti terror legislation everywhere. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Canada claims it's stopped sending weapons to Israel. But much like Canada's claims of peacekeeping & multiculturalism & reconciliation, it's all LIES. There's a continuous, massive pipeline of Canadian weapons flowing directly to Israel. Including 421,070 bullets. armsembargonow.ca/report/

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody. Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

La setmana vinent estarem per aquí amb @harshawalia.bsky.social can't wait!! 🔥

I cannot emphasize enough how important the book Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social is, if you are truly interested in understanding how we got to "Alligator Alcatraz" and what we'll need to do to dismantle the crimmigration complex www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1553-b...

briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie... Thanks @harshawalia.bsky.social for this reading list and thanks @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for all the excellent reads this week!

most hopeful thing about Zohran's win isn't even Zohran himself. only time will tell how he will play out, but what is undeniably incredible is that millions of people want a free palestine, public transit & childcare, rent freeze, higher wages... that's a horizon for all of us to keep building on

The occupation of Iraq was justified through same rhetoric we hear now about Iran: weapons of mass destruction, saving women & queers, clash of civilizations etc the task of anti-imperialist left is not to litigate the veracity of these allegations, but to refuse racist premise for imperialist war

Happening now! We are shutting down CBSA offices downtown. Today is World Refugee Day, and we are taking over Canada Border Services Agency offices and demanding the withdrawal of anti-refugee bill C-2. Join us at 300 W Georgia!