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Over 70 organizations have signed an open letter calling on the Vancouver Police Board and the Province of BC to immediately ban the racist and illegal practice of police street checks. #BanStreetChecks
Read the open letter here: bccla.org/news/2020/07/over-…
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To accompany Dr. Reece's (@rai_reece) Brief "Carceral Redlining: White Supremacy is Weapon Of Mass Incarceration for Indigenous & Black Peoples In Canada, Yumi Numata (@yumisasha) has produced this info-graphic series to help animate some of the data:
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PLEASE SIGN & SHARE OUR PETITION: ow.ly/UrAU50A8HxJ…/
We Call on @CityofVancouver to take immediate action to Redress the Displacement of the Black Community in the area known as #HogansAlley by making a commitment to our Proposal for a Non-profit Community Land Trust.
Defund protecting posh immigrants while marginalising poor immigrants
Documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation show the RCMP spent more than $50,000 on security for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for the few months they lived in B.C. bit.ly/2zyOU0I
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More BC overdose deaths in May (170) than COVID deaths since it started (167). Why don’t we shut down the province to stop ODs?
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Don’t displace homeless tenters next to CRAB park. They have nowhere else to go! We’re in the middle of two pandemics. Let them have some relief of not being pushed around every day.
"He heads BC’s largest city and its police board but pretends he can’t lead anti-racist change." thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/06/…
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I’m no longer in the business, but I want to express solidarity with journalists of colour speaking out about systemic racism and ignorance in Canadian media. It’s tough to do, considering many of us have had to submit to being nice and working hard as survival techniques.
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It’s so insane that Minneapolis stopped getting coverage after the fires died out.
The city hasn’t stopped protesting, at all.
This is the scene outside the police union headquarters right now. Thousands of people.
🎥: @Rebelutionary_Z
Check out this crowdfunding campaign to help bring positive change to the neighbourhood, through a new 'Smilin Buddha Community Center' and community services society at 109 Hastings. gofundme.com/f/smilin-buddha…
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News: the association that represents RCMP officers has issued a statement about the arrest of Chief Allan Adam. "The National Police Federation & its Membership are gravely concerned regarding the public vilification of the...RCMP Members involved in this incident."
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Want to know why it’s so hard for #cops to be ‘good apples’...
It was 2007 and I was assisting a call with an officer I’d never met before. He was from another team working overtime. Right in front of me he broke a kids nose with a punch. The septum was clearly deviated and
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This week on @NPRCodeSwitch we’re talking about the language and tactics that have long been used to try to discredit protests. And whether or not those same strategies going to work this time.
npr.org/2020/06/09/873592665…
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This is a powerful vid on how #GassyJack is connected to MMIWG2S
youtu.be/UwoQxOIQeTQ via @EndingViolence #RedWomenRising
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JUST IN: #COPS has officially been CANCELLED off @paramountnet after our conversation with them this week and after millions of our members raised their voices to say stop #NormalizingInjustice! hollywoodreporter.com/live-f…
Tea choice vindicated.
Please don't buy our tea again.
We're taking some time to educate ourselves and plan proper action before we post. We stand against racism.
#BlackLivesMatter
Four officers, no weapons, no charges: A Yukon First Nation’s solution for keeping the peace theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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