Atiya Jaffar
atiyactions.bsky.social
Atiya Jaffar
@atiyactions.bsky.social
Mom organizing for a more just world

Free Palestine, climate justice, Indigenous rights
The Poilievre campaign is not happy about @350canada.bsky.social putting up signs exposing Pierre's agenda in his own riding.

Rest assured, residents in Carleton are filing complaints with Elections Canada.
April 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Most of the world’s population is breathing polluted air, with only 7 countries meeting World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standards last year, according to a new report.

Read more: aje.io/mscv1o
March 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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"It was the Biden administration, it was the Democratic establishment, that has created the conditions that we are now seeing taken advantage of," Palestinian scholar Noura Erakat says of Mahmoud Khalil's arrest and the Trump administration's crackdown on dissent.
March 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The UN said relief agencies in Gaza are rationing all aid, including fuel, as Israel continues to block humanitarian supplies from entering the besieged enclave.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/46b27z
March 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Today, we launched the All of Us are Fed Up storytelling page.

Read extremely moving stories of Canadians confronting multiple crises. Thank you to everyone who took part.

Now, with an election around the corner, it's time for federal leaders to hear our voices and act. allofustogether.ca/fedup/
March 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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As Israel's ban on UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, takes effect, writer Muhammad Shehada warns that it could be "a death sentence to Gaza's population" that relies heavily on the organization for food, healthcare, education and more.
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January 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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BREAKING: Over 500,000 Palestinians have returned to north Gaza in 72 hours, says Gaza’s Government Media Office.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n1pqhk
January 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
ICYMI, I present the platform for LPC leadership candidate Ruby Dhalla who is best known for abusing migrant caregivers under her employment including by seizing their passports.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
January 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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“If Poland, or any other EU Member State, welcomes an ICC fugitive indicted for crimes against humanity, do we really expect others to take us seriously when we ask them to enforce the arrest warrant against Putin?”
Netanyahu Has an ICC Arrest Warrant. Poland’s Promise to Ignore It Would Be a “Grave Mistake.”
Poland has promised Netanyahu safe passage to an Auschwitz memorial service. Former and current EU officials are speaking out.
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January 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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If you are a federal employee, it is advised to set your social media accounts to private to prevent outside viewership, as reports suggest that loyalty screenings have begun.
January 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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The White House has instructed the US military to release a hold imposed by former US President Joe Biden’s administration on the supply of 2,000-pound (900kg) bombs to Israel, reports Axios, citing three Israeli officials.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/s3c9de
January 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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"People have very little water and food, while aid is being denied."

Conditions in north Gaza after 100 days of siege are “just simply unimaginable”, says Shaina Low, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Communications Adviser in Palestine.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/a74tsb
January 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The Ministry of Awqaf has condemned Israeli incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, stating that Israeli authorities have allowed settler groups to storm and defile the mosque compound, Wafa news agency reports.

🔴 LIVE Updates ⤵️
Eighth Gaza baby freezes to death as Israel kills 88 Palestinians in a day
Israeli forces launch over 100 attacks in three days as US proposes $8bn weapons sales amid ongoing ceasefire talks.
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January 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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The Gaza death toll has risen to more than 45,800 Palestinians amid Israel's continued bombardment of the besieged enclave since October 7, 2023, says the health ministry.

🔴 LIVE Updates: aje.io/s7v9hm
January 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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'I lost everything except my life and my daughter’s life'

A Palestinian mother recounts the moment an Israeli bombing destroyed her house, killing her mother and sisters.
December 5, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Israeli forces have surrounded a school-turned-shelter in the besieged northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya and are firing towards the building, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/zsq70j
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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An Israeli military vehicle ran over a 17-year-old Palestinian boy south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/a1e949
December 3, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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✊ RIGHT NOW: Activists from the Jews Say No to Genocide Coalition, including World BEYOND War, are occupying Parliament Hill in Ottawa, halting government operations to demand an end to #Canada’s complicity in Israel’s #genocide of Palestinians!

📢 NOT IN OUR NAME! #StopArmingIsrael
December 3, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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“With that many Palestinian students in our school, I would not be able to sit right with myself if, as a teacher, didn’t do anything while a genocide is happening.”
Three Teachers Tried to Give Palestinian Students a Safe Haven — and It Cost Them Their Jobs
The Philadelphia school ordered teachers to “stay neutral” on Israel’s war on Gaza, but they helped students make pro-Palestine posters.
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December 3, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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There are no ‘humanitarian zones’ or ‘evacuation orders’ in Gaza — #AJOpinion by Othman Moqbel ⤵️
There are no ‘humanitarian zones’ or ‘evacuation orders’ in Gaza
It is time the world starts using the correct terminology for Israel’s actions in Gaza: genocide.
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December 3, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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🚨New Campaign Alert! 🚨

The biggest companies in the world are making record profits while we pay the price. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

It’s time to tax their billions and build a future for #AllofUs.

Check it out: allofustogether.ca
All of Us Together
All of us deserve better
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November 28, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Creating a thread for apartheid free holiday shopping alternatives. #FreePalestine share your faves👇🏽
December 3, 2024 at 8:39 AM