Class Issues in Waterloo Region
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Exploring issues of social class in Waterloo Region, working to enable change by understanding our local context through a class-based lens.
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New Editorial—Gaza has been failed by silence and impunity tinyurl.com/58a4yn5t
Gaza has been failed by silence and impunity
Gaza is on the brink of famine. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification,
a multistakeholder global initiative aimed at enhancing food security and nutrition
analysis, reports that the entire...
tinyurl.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
New Editorial—Gaza has been failed by silence and impunity tinyurl.com/58a4yn5t
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Go do local mutual aid in your community.
March 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Go do local mutual aid in your community.
Keep forgetting this app exists lmao
February 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Keep forgetting this app exists lmao
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Just in time for the Ontario election! #onpoli
Copies of this timely gem of a book started arriving today! Big recommend to everybody interested in Ford (or anti democratic city politics and austerity, which my chapter covers).
fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/against...
fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/against...
January 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Just in time for the Ontario election! #onpoli
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Welcome to Walking Eagle News: Journalism so deeply and utterly Indigenous, our articles smell like sweetgrass.
[Wolf howls hauntingly in distance]
[Wolf howls hauntingly in distance]
January 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Welcome to Walking Eagle News: Journalism so deeply and utterly Indigenous, our articles smell like sweetgrass.
[Wolf howls hauntingly in distance]
[Wolf howls hauntingly in distance]
Please sign
(and get involved with local class-based organizing or mutual aid networks if you aren't already - I can recommend some depending on your interests/abilities)
(and get involved with local class-based organizing or mutual aid networks if you aren't already - I can recommend some depending on your interests/abilities)
"We urge you to implement any available measures to support those at risk during this crisis as quickly as able."
Find the petition here too, where you can add your name to this same relay in support!
#Unsheltered #ExtremeWeather #Community #TogetherWeCan #WaterlooRegion #Grassroots
Find the petition here too, where you can add your name to this same relay in support!
#Unsheltered #ExtremeWeather #Community #TogetherWeCan #WaterlooRegion #Grassroots
Open Letter: Seeking aid for Unsheltered in face of current Extreme Weather Crisis
As sent by email January 29. 2025 (PM/After Office Hours)
www.mymothernamedmesunshine.ca
January 30, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Please sign
(and get involved with local class-based organizing or mutual aid networks if you aren't already - I can recommend some depending on your interests/abilities)
(and get involved with local class-based organizing or mutual aid networks if you aren't already - I can recommend some depending on your interests/abilities)
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get some materialism into your analysis!!!
If we want to challenge the power of major tech companies, we need to know how they work and be able to properly assess the consequences of their products.
This week @jathansadowski.com joins @parismarx.com to explain how to see tech as a Luddite.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/259_...
This week @jathansadowski.com joins @parismarx.com to explain how to see tech as a Luddite.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/259_...
January 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
get some materialism into your analysis!!!
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“Change is possible,” he said. “It’s not inevitable that people end up being homeless.” www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
Toronto can end tents in parks: Here’s a city that solved street homelessness — and how we can do it too
Helsinki started with a big homelessness problem and they've effectively solved it. Experts say their model could be adapted for Canada's largest city, if we're ready to be bold.
www.thestar.com
January 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“Change is possible,” he said. “It’s not inevitable that people end up being homeless.” www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
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Another great piece from @nolore.bsky.social - truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trudeau Coasted on Progressive Vibes, But Served the Interests of Corporations
Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”…
truthout.org
January 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Another great piece from @nolore.bsky.social - truthout.org/articles/tru...
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Sure. Or we could, you know, take year-round sidewalk accessibility as seriously as we take driving accessibility (i.e. roads), and demand that the city take responsibility for clearing sidewalks. #SnowbilityWR www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
January 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Sure. Or we could, you know, take year-round sidewalk accessibility as seriously as we take driving accessibility (i.e. roads), and demand that the city take responsibility for clearing sidewalks. #SnowbilityWR www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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Higher grocery chain markups have cost Canadians $18 billion since 2020.
Competition Bureau study on grocery chains strengthens case for windfall tax in Canada
The Competition Bureau’s study is just the latest in a string of evidence that corporate profiteering has cost Canadians gravely. Ottawa has now been given a range of policy options to address the pro...
canadiandimension.com
January 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Higher grocery chain markups have cost Canadians $18 billion since 2020.
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Under Meta's relaxed hate speech rules, users can now post "I'm a proud racist" or "Black people are more violent than whites."
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
interc.pt
January 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Under Meta's relaxed hate speech rules, users can now post "I'm a proud racist" or "Black people are more violent than whites."
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Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”
Trudeau Coasted on Progressive Vibes, But Served the Interests of Corporations
Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”…
truthout.org
January 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”
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Read this well written and informative run down of JTs term as PM if you want to know who he is behind the progressive image. Hint: he ain't fucking progressive. #CdnPoli
Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”
Trudeau Coasted on Progressive Vibes, But Served the Interests of Corporations
Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”…
truthout.org
January 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Read this well written and informative run down of JTs term as PM if you want to know who he is behind the progressive image. Hint: he ain't fucking progressive. #CdnPoli
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Why would he? If he had that tendency, he would not have this job!
David cochrane interviewed a billionaire running for Liberal Party leadership and didn’t ask a single question about his money
January 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Why would he? If he had that tendency, he would not have this job!
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We've got Harris' wee piggy in office now, protecting the Harris family investments.
Minister of Red Tape Reduction, turnips.
Minister of Red Tape Reduction, turnips.
January 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We've got Harris' wee piggy in office now, protecting the Harris family investments.
Minister of Red Tape Reduction, turnips.
Minister of Red Tape Reduction, turnips.
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Bill 124 was written to undermine public hospitals while making the owners of healthcare staffing agencies rich.
Mike Harris' wife, Lauren, happens to own one.
Harris pulled the same grift - made private LTC legal and then chaired the board of one of the worst.
www.corruptario.ca/bill-124-was...
Mike Harris' wife, Lauren, happens to own one.
Harris pulled the same grift - made private LTC legal and then chaired the board of one of the worst.
www.corruptario.ca/bill-124-was...
January 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Bill 124 was written to undermine public hospitals while making the owners of healthcare staffing agencies rich.
Mike Harris' wife, Lauren, happens to own one.
Harris pulled the same grift - made private LTC legal and then chaired the board of one of the worst.
www.corruptario.ca/bill-124-was...
Mike Harris' wife, Lauren, happens to own one.
Harris pulled the same grift - made private LTC legal and then chaired the board of one of the worst.
www.corruptario.ca/bill-124-was...
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Once the majority realizes that legacy media has zero credibility, owning legacy media will be worthless.
You see the same billionaires and their cling-ons out starting up "independent" platforms and publications these days. To get you again.
Ownership matters. Know who owns what you consume.
You see the same billionaires and their cling-ons out starting up "independent" platforms and publications these days. To get you again.
Ownership matters. Know who owns what you consume.
“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
January 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Once the majority realizes that legacy media has zero credibility, owning legacy media will be worthless.
You see the same billionaires and their cling-ons out starting up "independent" platforms and publications these days. To get you again.
Ownership matters. Know who owns what you consume.
You see the same billionaires and their cling-ons out starting up "independent" platforms and publications these days. To get you again.
Ownership matters. Know who owns what you consume.
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Reminder that Canada has a significant TB problem and isn't doing anything to end it.
What a cool study and a powerful demonstration that Tuberculosis is largely a disease of poverty. In Brazil a large scale intervention which provided cash monthly to families living in poverty led to profound reductions in TB cases. Up to 50% among the poorest groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Effects of conditional cash transfers on tuberculosis incidence and mortality according to race, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort - Nature Medicine
Participation in Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in the world, was associated with large reductions in tuberculosis incidence and mortality among ...
www.nature.com
January 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Reminder that Canada has a significant TB problem and isn't doing anything to end it.
I found this a very helpful book for learning about sustaining radical organizing, both as an individual & as a collective. I think it is useful for any anticapitalist organizers, from anarchists to communists.
It's also available at Kitchener Public Library & some Little Free Libraries.
It's also available at Kitchener Public Library & some Little Free Libraries.
By the way, Let This Radicalize You is 40% off right now if you buy it through @haymarketbooks.org.
Let This Radicalize You
www.haymarketbooks.org
January 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I found this a very helpful book for learning about sustaining radical organizing, both as an individual & as a collective. I think it is useful for any anticapitalist organizers, from anarchists to communists.
It's also available at Kitchener Public Library & some Little Free Libraries.
It's also available at Kitchener Public Library & some Little Free Libraries.
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Again, I work at a housing not-for-profit that explicitly works on supporting unsheltered folks. Supporting them where they are at without judgement while advocating for more affordable housing and keeping people housed.
We are all closer to be unsheltered than we'd like to think.
We are all closer to be unsheltered than we'd like to think.
"If they are not coerced by a credible, ever-present fear of homelessness, or a lack of healthcare, or the specter of destitution more broadly, workers are more difficult to control... and they are, most importantly, less likely to accept lower wages."
An essential read by @ahjohnson.bsky.social:
An essential read by @ahjohnson.bsky.social:
Advocating internment camps for homeless people is increasingly mainstream. This should frighten us.
They aren’t calling them “internment camps,” but this is what they are—in effect and intent.
therealnews.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Again, I work at a housing not-for-profit that explicitly works on supporting unsheltered folks. Supporting them where they are at without judgement while advocating for more affordable housing and keeping people housed.
We are all closer to be unsheltered than we'd like to think.
We are all closer to be unsheltered than we'd like to think.
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Emily and the rest of the Caroline Co-operative team did an incredible job! We are happy to have played a very small part by sharing our experiences and reviewing plans.
The Caroline Co-operative will definitely be a model for other tenant communities across Ontario!
The Caroline Co-operative will definitely be a model for other tenant communities across Ontario!
Neat to see tenants banding together to buy out their rental building and turn it into a co-op
CBC Hamilton
Residents in a building in Hamilton's Durand neighbourhood celebrated the holidays this month with food in one unit and games in another — and it wasn't just the Christmas spirit that brought them together.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Residents in a building in Hamilton's Durand neighbourhood celebrated the holidays this month with food in one unit and games in another — and it wasn't just the Christmas spirit that brought them together.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
December 30, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Emily and the rest of the Caroline Co-operative team did an incredible job! We are happy to have played a very small part by sharing our experiences and reviewing plans.
The Caroline Co-operative will definitely be a model for other tenant communities across Ontario!
The Caroline Co-operative will definitely be a model for other tenant communities across Ontario!
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And the Toronto Star's headline reads that Israel "arrested" the top doctor there.
For Christmas Day, Israel went and bombed the last operating hospital in North Gaza. It persevered, so today Israel assaulted the building, all medical staff has been forced into concentration camps, and the hospital was set on fire. Israel's genocide can't have any survivors in Gaza.
December 29, 2024 at 6:31 PM
And the Toronto Star's headline reads that Israel "arrested" the top doctor there.
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Axel Springer is owned by one of Germany's richest women, a man whose son is chief of staff to Peter Thiel, an American private equity firm, and... the Canada Pension Plan.
Elon Musk’s pro-AfD commentary in German went online on Saturday ahead of being published on Sunday in the flagship paper of the Axel Springer media group, which also owns Politico. The editor of the German paper’s opinion section resigned in protest
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party
Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Axel Springer is owned by one of Germany's richest women, a man whose son is chief of staff to Peter Thiel, an American private equity firm, and... the Canada Pension Plan.
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Neat to see tenants banding together to buy out their rental building and turn it into a co-op
CBC Hamilton
Residents in a building in Hamilton's Durand neighbourhood celebrated the holidays this month with food in one unit and games in another — and it wasn't just the Christmas spirit that brought them together.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Residents in a building in Hamilton's Durand neighbourhood celebrated the holidays this month with food in one unit and games in another — and it wasn't just the Christmas spirit that brought them together.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
These Hamilton residents worked over a year to own this building, making 1st holidays as co-op especially nice | CBC News
Residents of a building in Hamilton recently celebrated the holidays with food in one unit and games in another — and it wasn't just the Christmas spirit that brought them together. In June, tenants a...
www.cbc.ca
December 28, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Neat to see tenants banding together to buy out their rental building and turn it into a co-op