Matthew Behrens
@matthewbehrens.bsky.social
The arc of the moral universe only bends toward justice when we make that happen. Rights for refugees, abolition of War Dept, prisons and police, fund a caring economy.
Sad but unsurprising from institution that for the first time invoked national security secrecy to silence a survivor and protect an abuser in May 2025. Please sign/share to ban use of state security secrecy in cases of male violence against women: c.org/bfVCLQvZtF
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Sad but unsurprising from institution that for the first time invoked national security secrecy to silence a survivor and protect an abuser in May 2025. Please sign/share to ban use of state security secrecy in cases of male violence against women: c.org/bfVCLQvZtF
White supremacy is so insidious. This from the home page of the Weather Network.
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
White supremacy is so insidious. This from the home page of the Weather Network.
Mark Carney Anita Anand Gary Anandasangaree That's how long Canadian Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria. Also held for years are 19 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign & share to bring them home: chng.it/C5tc5vHN
October 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Mark Carney Anita Anand Gary Anandasangaree That's how long Canadian Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria. Also held for years are 19 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign & share to bring them home: chng.it/C5tc5vHN
These kids simply want to go to school but they can't because they are among over 2,500 Palestinians trapped in Egypt waiting up to 20 months for Canadian visas. Ukrainians waiting only two weeks for visa approval. What's the holdup for these kids and so many others?
September 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
These kids simply want to go to school but they can't because they are among over 2,500 Palestinians trapped in Egypt waiting up to 20 months for Canadian visas. Ukrainians waiting only two weeks for visa approval. What's the holdup for these kids and so many others?
Today is Day Two of the Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification to end Canada's None is Too Many Palestinian visa policy (fewer than 2% of 5,000 applicants have been directly evacuated by Canada in 20 months). Bring them all here now! Thanks Sharen Craig for fasting today!
September 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Today is Day Two of the Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification to end Canada's None is Too Many Palestinian visa policy (fewer than 2% of 5,000 applicants have been directly evacuated by Canada in 20 months). Bring them all here now! Thanks Sharen Craig for fasting today!
España, te amo. On left, Spanish crowds cheer the International Brigades resisting 1930s fascism. On the right, people of Spain cheering on an international group of freedom riders/sailors heading out on the huge Samud flotilla to break the siege of Gaza and end Israeli fascism.
September 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
España, te amo. On left, Spanish crowds cheer the International Brigades resisting 1930s fascism. On the right, people of Spain cheering on an international group of freedom riders/sailors heading out on the huge Samud flotilla to break the siege of Gaza and end Israeli fascism.
Today begins a Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification for immediate evacuation corridor for 3500+ applicants in Gaza and those stranded in Egypt. Kicking off the fast today: Kim Leblanc of Toronto and Eric Unger of Winnipeg. Join the fast at rrrncanada.blogspot.com/2025/08/chai...
September 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Today begins a Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification for immediate evacuation corridor for 3500+ applicants in Gaza and those stranded in Egypt. Kicking off the fast today: Kim Leblanc of Toronto and Eric Unger of Winnipeg. Join the fast at rrrncanada.blogspot.com/2025/08/chai...
We cannot, we must not, look away. Canada must evacuate Mamdouh. His story is one we bring to our weekly Wednesday vigil (11 am-1 pm) at Immigration HQ in Ottawa, 300 Slater (at Kent) August. We demand immediate evacuation corridor for all Gaza-Canada visa applicants, waiting & dying for 19 months
August 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We cannot, we must not, look away. Canada must evacuate Mamdouh. His story is one we bring to our weekly Wednesday vigil (11 am-1 pm) at Immigration HQ in Ottawa, 300 Slater (at Kent) August. We demand immediate evacuation corridor for all Gaza-Canada visa applicants, waiting & dying for 19 months
Mark Carney Anita Anand: will you call for the release of these hostages taken by the Israeli apartheid regime? They were kidnapped in international waters by a state committing genocide.
July 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Mark Carney Anita Anand: will you call for the release of these hostages taken by the Israeli apartheid regime? They were kidnapped in international waters by a state committing genocide.
"Wildfires" makes them sound like freaks of nature & disappears the oil companies & political arsonists responsible for them. How about "capitalist flames"?
July 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Wildfires" makes them sound like freaks of nature & disappears the oil companies & political arsonists responsible for them. How about "capitalist flames"?
TACO meets CACO
July 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
TACO meets CACO
King Carney is such a disaster for people in this country. We need social investments, not massive handouts to corporate war profiteers. We really need to raise our voices and say not a penny more for war. The whole point of defeating Poilievre was not to adopt his agenda!
June 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
King Carney is such a disaster for people in this country. We need social investments, not massive handouts to corporate war profiteers. We really need to raise our voices and say not a penny more for war. The whole point of defeating Poilievre was not to adopt his agenda!
To the shameful Olivia Chow & all those who voted for a Trump-style crackdown on dissent in Toronto with your new bubble law (rooted in anti-Palestinian racism), challenges are coming. We are emptying out stores for the biggest bubbles protests you have ever seen. Bubbles Against Genocide.
May 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
To the shameful Olivia Chow & all those who voted for a Trump-style crackdown on dissent in Toronto with your new bubble law (rooted in anti-Palestinian racism), challenges are coming. We are emptying out stores for the biggest bubbles protests you have ever seen. Bubbles Against Genocide.
@MarkJCarney
@AnitaAnandMP
This was 2024, it is worse now. 14,000 babies at risk of death in next 48 hours. What are you waiting for? Where is the concrete action you promised? (Sources: Wiener Holocaust Library, Oxfam)
@AnitaAnandMP
This was 2024, it is worse now. 14,000 babies at risk of death in next 48 hours. What are you waiting for? Where is the concrete action you promised? (Sources: Wiener Holocaust Library, Oxfam)
May 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
@MarkJCarney
@AnitaAnandMP
This was 2024, it is worse now. 14,000 babies at risk of death in next 48 hours. What are you waiting for? Where is the concrete action you promised? (Sources: Wiener Holocaust Library, Oxfam)
@AnitaAnandMP
This was 2024, it is worse now. 14,000 babies at risk of death in next 48 hours. What are you waiting for? Where is the concrete action you promised? (Sources: Wiener Holocaust Library, Oxfam)
That's how long Canadian Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria. Also held for years are 19 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign and share to bring them home: chng.it/C5tc5vHN
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
That's how long Canadian Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria. Also held for years are 19 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign and share to bring them home: chng.it/C5tc5vHN
OK Mark Carney, you've said you will take immediate action on the war crimes being committed. What more do you need? Immediate sanctions, two-way arms embargo, expel the apartheid embassy, cancel the free-trade agreement, honour ICJ arrest warrants.
May 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
OK Mark Carney, you've said you will take immediate action on the war crimes being committed. What more do you need? Immediate sanctions, two-way arms embargo, expel the apartheid embassy, cancel the free-trade agreement, honour ICJ arrest warrants.
That's how long Canadian Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria. Also held for years are 19 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign and share to bring them home: chng.it/C5tc5vHN
May 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
That's how long Canadian Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria. Also held for years are 19 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign and share to bring them home: chng.it/C5tc5vHN
“In the Depardieu trial, the judge went further. Setting a legal precedent, he ruled Depardieu’s defence lawyer, Jérémie Assous, had been so “excessively harsh” to the 2 women in court that they must be compensated for “secondary victimisation”.
May 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“In the Depardieu trial, the judge went further. Setting a legal precedent, he ruled Depardieu’s defence lawyer, Jérémie Assous, had been so “excessively harsh” to the 2 women in court that they must be compensated for “secondary victimisation”.
Phil Ochs lyrics always meet the violence of our cruel system. (There But For Fortune)
Show me the country where the bombs had to fall
Show me the ruins of the buildings once so tall
And I'll show you a young lad with so many reasons why
And there but for fortune may go you or I
Show me the country where the bombs had to fall
Show me the ruins of the buildings once so tall
And I'll show you a young lad with so many reasons why
And there but for fortune may go you or I
May 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Phil Ochs lyrics always meet the violence of our cruel system. (There But For Fortune)
Show me the country where the bombs had to fall
Show me the ruins of the buildings once so tall
And I'll show you a young lad with so many reasons why
And there but for fortune may go you or I
Show me the country where the bombs had to fall
Show me the ruins of the buildings once so tall
And I'll show you a young lad with so many reasons why
And there but for fortune may go you or I
@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social & Gary Anandasangaree hold the key to freeing Sally Lane's son & other Canadians illegally detained 8+ years in NE Syria under conditions akin to torture. Look into this courageous mother's eyes and help her keep the promise to see her son again. chng.it/TyxSfz2HxY
May 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social & Gary Anandasangaree hold the key to freeing Sally Lane's son & other Canadians illegally detained 8+ years in NE Syria under conditions akin to torture. Look into this courageous mother's eyes and help her keep the promise to see her son again. chng.it/TyxSfz2HxY
They've been there as EM is been persecuted in the London sexual assault trial for 5 male hockey players. They believe EM. They believe survivors. They recognize the pandemic of male violence against women and girls. They recognize the need to take action and stand in solidarity.
May 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
They've been there as EM is been persecuted in the London sexual assault trial for 5 male hockey players. They believe EM. They believe survivors. They recognize the pandemic of male violence against women and girls. They recognize the need to take action and stand in solidarity.
“It is really a sad state of affairs when you have the whole world mobilised for one soldier. Everyone knows him by name, knows his family, where he was born, that he’s 21 years old. And they turn their back on millions of Palestinians after 18 months of a devastating genocide."
May 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“It is really a sad state of affairs when you have the whole world mobilised for one soldier. Everyone knows him by name, knows his family, where he was born, that he’s 21 years old. And they turn their back on millions of Palestinians after 18 months of a devastating genocide."