Union Maid in BC
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(she/they) solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong 💪 Comrade on unceded Coast Salish territories. find me on tiktok @unionmaid22
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Union Maid in BC
@unionmaid22.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I'm an aggressively pro-union, queer, neurodivergent, nerdy, history-loving, leftist Canadian who posts labour news/education via silly internet memes and tiktok dances. I believe in #LandBack 🧡🍉 and #anticapitalism worldwide. If any of that sounds vaguely appealing, we should be friends!
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I know a lot of footage and commentary is swirling about today but it’s important to convey that the people who gathered outside that ICE garage in lower Manhattan were *so* ten toes down focused.
This person who gets maced and just calmly flips the bird & keeps going is *quintessential.*
This person who gets maced and just calmly flips the bird & keeps going is *quintessential.*
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I know a lot of footage and commentary is swirling about today but it’s important to convey that the people who gathered outside that ICE garage in lower Manhattan were *so* ten toes down focused.
This person who gets maced and just calmly flips the bird & keeps going is *quintessential.*
This person who gets maced and just calmly flips the bird & keeps going is *quintessential.*
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this would like change my life and FUCK DENTISTS TOOTH COPS ACAB
GIMME SOME CHEAP AS HELL TOOTH REGEN GEL
GIMME SOME CHEAP AS HELL TOOTH REGEN GEL
November 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
this would like change my life and FUCK DENTISTS TOOTH COPS ACAB
GIMME SOME CHEAP AS HELL TOOTH REGEN GEL
GIMME SOME CHEAP AS HELL TOOTH REGEN GEL
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Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
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There are multiple reports of cell phones exploding in Gaza.
It's like the repeat of the pager terror attacks.
#gaza #Genocide #Israel #Terrorism
It's like the repeat of the pager terror attacks.
#gaza #Genocide #Israel #Terrorism
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
There are multiple reports of cell phones exploding in Gaza.
It's like the repeat of the pager terror attacks.
#gaza #Genocide #Israel #Terrorism
It's like the repeat of the pager terror attacks.
#gaza #Genocide #Israel #Terrorism
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The Canadian government, it seems, is borrowing from the playbook of the UK Starmer regime’s oppressive tactics.
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Canadian police launch coordinated raids on Palestine activists
Police in Ontario, Canada, raid the homes of anti-war and anti-genocide activists — an assault on dissent and the right to resist
www.thecanary.co
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The Canadian government, it seems, is borrowing from the playbook of the UK Starmer regime’s oppressive tactics.
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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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!
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!
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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!
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!
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Remember when the oil companies were saying if they didn’t get their pipelines or w/e they were going to move their operations elsewhere (as if the oil wasn’t, you know, in a fixed location)? Well guess what it doesn’t make a diff where they are because they are just transferring money to the U.S.
“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
www.theenergymix.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Remember when the oil companies were saying if they didn’t get their pipelines or w/e they were going to move their operations elsewhere (as if the oil wasn’t, you know, in a fixed location)? Well guess what it doesn’t make a diff where they are because they are just transferring money to the U.S.
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"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
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This is nazi shit
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is nazi shit
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This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
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Available again! T-shirt design commemorating the 1st recorded use of the word "scab". It references a famous Jack London quote: “After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab." shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/dot...
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Available again! T-shirt design commemorating the 1st recorded use of the word "scab". It references a famous Jack London quote: “After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab." shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/dot...
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I love how Canadian provinces just have an option to go “Fuck the constitution, actually” for most things that’s constitutionally protected. Kinda makes our entire country a joke.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I love how Canadian provinces just have an option to go “Fuck the constitution, actually” for most things that’s constitutionally protected. Kinda makes our entire country a joke.
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Alert!!! Transgender kids in Alberta had their rights trampled on by the UCP today! I am calling in favors--I need YOU to spread the news. I need your help in fighting for these kids.
Mickey Amery, whose birth name is Qassim: "We’re prepared again to use every single legal and constitutional tool to make sure that the health and well-being of our children are protected."
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause to stop court challenges of transgender laws
The Alberta government has invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth and adults.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Alert!!! Transgender kids in Alberta had their rights trampled on by the UCP today! I am calling in favors--I need YOU to spread the news. I need your help in fighting for these kids.
Hasan only needs £100 to keep a roof over his family's head this month. They are so close, please help! ❤️🙏 He has managed to escape with his wife and two small children to Egypt, but they lost everything they owned and worked for in the last several years and need our solidarity to build new lives!
I never imagined I would reach this level of pressure…
We’re only £100 short to complete this month’s rent.
Please help me secure the roof under which my children can sleep safely…
So their tomorrow can be a little less frightening, and a little more peaceful. 💔
We’re only £100 short to complete this month’s rent.
Please help me secure the roof under which my children can sleep safely…
So their tomorrow can be a little less frightening, and a little more peaceful. 💔
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Hasan only needs £100 to keep a roof over his family's head this month. They are so close, please help! ❤️🙏 He has managed to escape with his wife and two small children to Egypt, but they lost everything they owned and worked for in the last several years and need our solidarity to build new lives!
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Workers in the late 1900’s and early 1900’s built the temples with money they raised themselves. They are built all over the place, but were especially prevalent through the PNW (including Canada) and California.
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Workers in the late 1900’s and early 1900’s built the temples with money they raised themselves. They are built all over the place, but were especially prevalent through the PNW (including Canada) and California.
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Later, especially during the Popular Front era of the mid‑1930s, the same spaces began to be marketed more broadly as “Maisons du peuple” (“Houses of the People”) or “Palais du peuple” (“The people’s palaces”) and eventually became known as “Union Halls”.
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Later, especially during the Popular Front era of the mid‑1930s, the same spaces began to be marketed more broadly as “Maisons du peuple” (“Houses of the People”) or “Palais du peuple” (“The people’s palaces”) and eventually became known as “Union Halls”.
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They were symbols of self‑management – embodying the libertarian‑socialist ideal that the working class could create its own cultural and educational institutions outside state or capitalist control. The global working class movement of the Industrial Revolution started with these buildings.
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
They were symbols of self‑management – embodying the libertarian‑socialist ideal that the working class could create its own cultural and educational institutions outside state or capitalist control. The global working class movement of the Industrial Revolution started with these buildings.
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These temples du travail were typically worker‑run venues that were managed collectively by the people who used them. They were used as multipurpose halls – hosting political meetings, lectures, concerts, cinema screenings, libraries, and cooperative cafés. They were the peoples “third place”.
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
These temples du travail were typically worker‑run venues that were managed collectively by the people who used them. They were used as multipurpose halls – hosting political meetings, lectures, concerts, cinema screenings, libraries, and cooperative cafés. They were the peoples “third place”.
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Yes! The PNW had them all over! We were VERY organized back then. Almost every city had one of these halls. They originated in France, in the early French labour‑movement tradition. The autonomous meeting places that were originally called “temples du travail” (literally “temples of work”)
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Yes! The PNW had them all over! We were VERY organized back then. Almost every city had one of these halls. They originated in France, in the early French labour‑movement tradition. The autonomous meeting places that were originally called “temples du travail” (literally “temples of work”)
Vancouver, BC, Canada also has a Labor Temple! (Yes, with the US spelling, which was common in Canadian labour at the time) Constructed 1911-12, it was the home of the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council along with union offices, and the site of a major clash during BC's general strike of 1918.
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Vancouver, BC, Canada also has a Labor Temple! (Yes, with the US spelling, which was common in Canadian labour at the time) Constructed 1911-12, it was the home of the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council along with union offices, and the site of a major clash during BC's general strike of 1918.
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The modern building today:
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The modern building today:
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"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”