Merna Schmidt
@actionsforgood.bsky.social
Leftist, activist, halfway between a vegan and a vegetarian, total dog lover, and traveler to new cultures where everything is different. Believer that the world can be a better place.
Transformational Coach/Consultant/Speaker
https://merna-schmidt.kit.com
Transformational Coach/Consultant/Speaker
https://merna-schmidt.kit.com
Shady crypto 💸 transfers are a threat to our democracy: keep them out of 🇨🇦 politics! Speak up - write your MP today! openmedia.org/CryptoBanCA-... @openmedia.org
Keep crypto corruption out of Canada
Shady crypto 💸 transfers are a threat to our democracy: keep them out of 🇨🇦 politics! Speak up - write your MP today! https://openmedia.org/CryptoBanCA
openmedia.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Shady crypto 💸 transfers are a threat to our democracy: keep them out of 🇨🇦 politics! Speak up - write your MP today! openmedia.org/CryptoBanCA-... @openmedia.org
Trump's America is not a “safe” country for anyone.
That's why Canada must to end the Safe Third Country agreement, and reopen legal pathways for those who seek asylum at our borders. Sign the petition now:
you.leadnow.ca/petitions/st...
That's why Canada must to end the Safe Third Country agreement, and reopen legal pathways for those who seek asylum at our borders. Sign the petition now:
you.leadnow.ca/petitions/st...
Stand up to Trump: End the Safe Third Country Agreement
Sign the petition calling on Canada to end the Safe Third Country agreement, and reopen legal pathways for those who seek asylum at our borders.
you.leadnow.ca
January 29, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Trump's America is not a “safe” country for anyone.
That's why Canada must to end the Safe Third Country agreement, and reopen legal pathways for those who seek asylum at our borders. Sign the petition now:
you.leadnow.ca/petitions/st...
That's why Canada must to end the Safe Third Country agreement, and reopen legal pathways for those who seek asylum at our borders. Sign the petition now:
you.leadnow.ca/petitions/st...
Report Details Trump's Rapid Escalation Toward Authoritarianism in First Year of Second Term -
and outlines steps that can and must be taken to halt Trump’s attacks on immigrants and refugees, the press, protesters, and his political opponents. www.commondreams.org/news/trumps-...
and outlines steps that can and must be taken to halt Trump’s attacks on immigrants and refugees, the press, protesters, and his political opponents. www.commondreams.org/news/trumps-...
Report Details Trump's Rapid Escalation Toward Authoritarianism in First Year of Second Term | Common Dreams
A year into Trump's second term, Amnesty International warns of escalating authoritarian practices in the US. Will we stand by as human rights are eroded, or will we take action to protect our democra...
www.commondreams.org
January 20, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Report Details Trump's Rapid Escalation Toward Authoritarianism in First Year of Second Term -
and outlines steps that can and must be taken to halt Trump’s attacks on immigrants and refugees, the press, protesters, and his political opponents. www.commondreams.org/news/trumps-...
and outlines steps that can and must be taken to halt Trump’s attacks on immigrants and refugees, the press, protesters, and his political opponents. www.commondreams.org/news/trumps-...
100 Days Into 'Ceasefire,' Israel Still Deliberately Depriving Gazans of Water, Other Essential Aid: Oxfam www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-st...
100 Days Into 'Ceasefire,' Israel Still Deliberately Depriving Gazans of Water, Other Essential Aid: Oxfam | Common Dreams
Despite a ceasefire agreement, Israel continues to block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, leaving 1.1 million people in urgent need of assistance. Oxfam is working tirelessly to restore water well...
www.commondreams.org
January 15, 2026 at 12:29 AM
100 Days Into 'Ceasefire,' Israel Still Deliberately Depriving Gazans of Water, Other Essential Aid: Oxfam www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-st...
New research from Stand.earth has uncovered shocking truth: Drax, the coal giant-turned-“sustainable energy” company, is purchasing old growth in B.C, Canada and turning trees into wood pellets to fuel power plants overseas. Sign this petition to protect old growth act.stand.earth/page/90486/p...
Stand.earth - For the people and places you love
For more than twenty years, we’ve been utilizing cutting-edge research, building equitable power with frontline communities, and leveraging mass movements to make a real impact on the health and wellb...
Stand.earth
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
New research from Stand.earth has uncovered shocking truth: Drax, the coal giant-turned-“sustainable energy” company, is purchasing old growth in B.C, Canada and turning trees into wood pellets to fuel power plants overseas. Sign this petition to protect old growth act.stand.earth/page/90486/p...
Tell Carney no dome for Canada! Please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/no...
No Golden Dome for Canada
The Golden Dome purports to defend North America against incoming missiles by placing interceptors in space, but the technical challenges are enormous, the costs astronomical, and the strategic risks ...
you.leadnow.ca
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tell Carney no dome for Canada! Please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/no...
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Global Sumud Flotilla website is down. Please watch the YouTube livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
The Yulara and Aurora might be boarded soon. All eyes on this!
The Yulara and Aurora might be boarded soon. All eyes on this!
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
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October 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Global Sumud Flotilla website is down. Please watch the YouTube livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
The Yulara and Aurora might be boarded soon. All eyes on this!
The Yulara and Aurora might be boarded soon. All eyes on this!
World Leaders: Protect the Global Sumud Flotilla Now action.eko.org/a/world-lead...
Everyone - please sign this!
Everyone - please sign this!
World Leaders: Protect the Sumud Flotilla Now
Right now, the Sumud Flotilla is a few nautical miles away from Gaza, carrying doctors, journalists, politicians, and activists - all risking their lives to break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza and de
action.eko.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
World Leaders: Protect the Global Sumud Flotilla Now action.eko.org/a/world-lead...
Everyone - please sign this!
Everyone - please sign this!
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You undermined the ICC once you rejected their findings of Israel committing ethnic cleansing. You continue to protect a war criminal. Your he hypocrisy is maddening
September 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Add your name now to urge the Government of Canada to rethink their priorities:
Cancel the $21.5B in cuts. Raise $22B in revenue from taxing the rich.
broadbentinstitute.ca/stop-the-cut...
Cancel the $21.5B in cuts. Raise $22B in revenue from taxing the rich.
broadbentinstitute.ca/stop-the-cut...
Stop public service cuts from weakening Canada - Broadbent Institute
The Government of Canada is choosing to reward the wealthiest while cutting the services families rely on. Add your name to help us fight back.
broadbentinstitute.ca
September 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Add your name now to urge the Government of Canada to rethink their priorities:
Cancel the $21.5B in cuts. Raise $22B in revenue from taxing the rich.
broadbentinstitute.ca/stop-the-cut...
Cancel the $21.5B in cuts. Raise $22B in revenue from taxing the rich.
broadbentinstitute.ca/stop-the-cut...
Prime Minister Carney’s government is preparing to rapidly scale up affordable housing in Canada, and they want to hear from us by this Fri. I just sent a message to Build Canada Homes calling for these homes to come w/ electric heat pumps–will you send a message too? act.stand.earth/page/87347/a...
We have 48 hours to call for affordable AND climate-friendly housing
Prime Minister Carney’s government is preparing to rapidly scale up affordable housing in Canada, and they want to hear from us by Friday. Send a message today calling for these homes to come with ele...
act.stand.earth
August 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Prime Minister Carney’s government is preparing to rapidly scale up affordable housing in Canada, and they want to hear from us by this Fri. I just sent a message to Build Canada Homes calling for these homes to come w/ electric heat pumps–will you send a message too? act.stand.earth/page/87347/a...
Keep our foods safe and our choices ours! GMOs must be labelled! Protect GMO safety regulations in the EU! action.eko.org/a/keep-gmo-l...
EU leaders: Protect GMO Labelling!
The EU is on the verge of handing a huge win to GMO (genetically modified organisms) giants like Bayer – by stripping away rules that require many genetically modified foods to be clearly labelled, te
action.eko.org
August 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Keep our foods safe and our choices ours! GMOs must be labelled! Protect GMO safety regulations in the EU! action.eko.org/a/keep-gmo-l...
Canada has been quieting transferring millions of dollars worth of weapons to Israel through the US, allowing companies based in Canada to profiteer off genocide. Will you join our movement to close the US loophole? Please sign!
nwmd.social/s/twitter/4A...
nwmd.social/s/twitter/4A...
Close the US Loophole
Join our campaign to stop Canadian-made arms flowing to Israel by closing the US loophole. Thousands have already joined our growing movement for truth and justice, and we need you too.
nwmd.social
August 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Canada has been quieting transferring millions of dollars worth of weapons to Israel through the US, allowing companies based in Canada to profiteer off genocide. Will you join our movement to close the US loophole? Please sign!
nwmd.social/s/twitter/4A...
nwmd.social/s/twitter/4A...
URGENT: The Israeli government has announced a complete invasion of the Gaza Strip, and last night the IDF murdered five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza including its most prominent reporter Anas Al Sharif.
No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW. action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW. action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
URGENT: No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW.
The Israeli government has announced a complete invasion of the Gaza Strip, and last night the IDF murdered five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza including its most prominent reporter, Anas al-Sharif. We are
action.eko.org
August 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
URGENT: The Israeli government has announced a complete invasion of the Gaza Strip, and last night the IDF murdered five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza including its most prominent reporter Anas Al Sharif.
No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW. action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW. action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
Children are starving to death in Gaza — and EU leaders want to wait until after their summer vacations to act? No way. We’ll bring the roar of justice to their holiday doorsteps. Join the fight and sign now: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
🔴EU: No summer holidays while Gaza starves
We’re bringing our roar of justice to the leaders’ holiday doorsteps.
secure.avaaz.org
July 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Children are starving to death in Gaza — and EU leaders want to wait until after their summer vacations to act? No way. We’ll bring the roar of justice to their holiday doorsteps. Join the fight and sign now: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Tell Brazil's President Lula: Stop the bill that would be the end of the Amazon! action.eko.org/a/lula-rejec...
Lula: Reject the Devastation Bill
Brazil’s Congress just passed a bill that would be the death sentence for the Amazon – but President Lula has 14 days left to veto it! The bill, dubbed the “devastation bill”, will significantly weake
action.eko.org
July 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Tell Brazil's President Lula: Stop the bill that would be the end of the Amazon! action.eko.org/a/lula-rejec...
I just signed a letter: DON’T LET GENOCIDE SUPPORTERS HIJACK NDP LEADERSHIP RACE. Please join me in writing one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dont...
DON’T LET GENOCIDE SUPPORTERS HIJACK NDP LEADERSHIP RACE
As Israel corrals Palestinians into a concentration camp in Gaza, extremist former Jewish Defence League head Meir Weinstein, Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley and disgraced former BC NDP cabinet min...
actionnetwork.org
July 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I just signed a letter: DON’T LET GENOCIDE SUPPORTERS HIJACK NDP LEADERSHIP RACE. Please join me in writing one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dont...
"As people from across the world, we believe Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, and the doctors caring for people in Gaza deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for their work." Sign now and share!
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Nobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and the doctors of Gaza
Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Let’s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead!
secure.avaaz.org
July 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"As people from across the world, we believe Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, and the doctors caring for people in Gaza deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for their work." Sign now and share!
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
AMERICANS: Join an event Thursday, July 17th. Good Trouble (coined by civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis) lives on. www.fiftyfifty.one
50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement
Join the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.
www.fiftyfifty.one
July 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
AMERICANS: Join an event Thursday, July 17th. Good Trouble (coined by civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis) lives on. www.fiftyfifty.one
I just signed a letter to Cabinet: No Harper-style cuts to our public services. Canadians join me: actionnetwork.org/letters/no-c...
Tell Cabinet: No Harper-style cuts to our public services
Carney’s Liberals just announced plans to cut $25 billion from the federal budget. This means the public services we rely on—like hospitals, housing, child care, and employment insurance—are at risk. ...
actionnetwork.org
July 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I just signed a letter to Cabinet: No Harper-style cuts to our public services. Canadians join me: actionnetwork.org/letters/no-c...
How in the hell can this be allowed to happen?? 5,800+ Gaza Children Diagnosed With Malnutrition in June: UNICEF www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-ch...
5,800+ Gaza Children Diagnosed With Malnutrition in June: UNICEF | Common Dreams
"Children's bodies are wasting away," the agency said. "This is not just a nutrition crisis. It's a child survival emergency."
www.commondreams.org
July 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
How in the hell can this be allowed to happen?? 5,800+ Gaza Children Diagnosed With Malnutrition in June: UNICEF www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-ch...
2% Wealth Tax on Just 3,000 Billionaires Could Raise $250 Billion a Year: Nobel Economists www.commondreams.org/news/2-perce...
2% Wealth Tax on Just 3,000 Billionaires Could Raise $250 Billion a Year: Nobel Economists | Common Dreams
Seven Nobel laureates are calling for a 2% wealth tax on the ultrarich.
www.commondreams.org
July 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
2% Wealth Tax on Just 3,000 Billionaires Could Raise $250 Billion a Year: Nobel Economists www.commondreams.org/news/2-perce...
Amazing article with David Suzuki. He speaks with such candor, honesty, passion, and wisdom - definitely worth reading this and pondering!
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
www.ipolitics.ca
July 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Amazing article with David Suzuki. He speaks with such candor, honesty, passion, and wisdom - definitely worth reading this and pondering!
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
I just signed a petition to call on the Canadian federal gov't to build a 100% renewable East-West Electricity Grid! We need renewable & affordable energy Canada. Sign here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/gr... #cdnpoli
Build a 100% renewable East-West Electricity Grid - Leadnow
leadnow.ca
June 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I just signed a petition to call on the Canadian federal gov't to build a 100% renewable East-West Electricity Grid! We need renewable & affordable energy Canada. Sign here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/gr... #cdnpoli
Palestinians in Firing Zone 918 face imminent risk of demolition @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social take a stance against forced ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta @CanadaRepPA Graham Dettels, visit Masafer Yatta and speak out to #SaveMasaferYatta
actionnetwork.org/letters/9486...
actionnetwork.org/letters/9486...
Palestinians in Firing Zone 918 (Masafer Yatta) face imminent risk of demolition
Firing Zone 918, an area in Masafer Yatta which is home to twelve Palestinian villagers is at imminent risk of demolition and ethnic cleansing by Israel and the Israeli Army. The Israeli Supreme Plann...
actionnetwork.org
June 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Palestinians in Firing Zone 918 face imminent risk of demolition @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social take a stance against forced ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta @CanadaRepPA Graham Dettels, visit Masafer Yatta and speak out to #SaveMasaferYatta
actionnetwork.org/letters/9486...
actionnetwork.org/letters/9486...