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mastodon 4.6.6Commercial and portrait photographer in Edmonton, Canada. See https://cyclopsphoto.com
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One of our beloved Alberta activists, Mikayla Resists, came to a public event called the Premier's Pancake Breakfast, and asked Premier Danielle Smith why she used her position to platform the alt-right extremist and Alberta Separatist, Alberta Proud Dad. This line of questioning made the authoritarian Premier uncomfortable so Alberta Sheriffs were brought in to drag her away, leading her to scream out to the Premier, "Fuck your fascist pancakes!" This has now become the rallying call for progressive Albertans.
#abpoli #ableg #fascistpancakes
“The lands and resources being targeted for development and investment are within the treaty territories of the Anishinabek First Nations around the Great Lakes region,” said Grand Council Chief Linda Debassige in a statement.
“As with the first European contact, the Governments of Canada and Ontario, along with investors, continue to fail to recognize our Nation’s sovereignty over lands and resources.”
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/anishinabek-nation-tells-carney-summit-resources-are-not-theirs-to-give/
#cdnpoli #indigenous
As much as Ms. Rachel is an American national treasure, Mandy Patinkin is our Canadian national treasure! <3
#cdnpoli #uspol #racism #xenophobia #islamophobia #hate #HateSpeech
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"Grow a spine and stand up for Palestine!" ended up rolling off the tongue nicer than I realized. I will have to say that more often. :D
#freepalestine
We need a Green New Deal!!
"This trade war should jolt us out of our reliance on volatile fossil fuels and accelerate our transition to clean, secure and reliable energy.
Last year, China and India installed so much solar power that it exceeded all new demand for the first time: in other words, fossil fuel use has stopped growing for the two biggest populations on earth.
This year, the IEA predicts that global investments in renewables will hit $2.2 trillion. Twice as much as fossil fuels.
The global economy is in the midst of a renewable energy revolution and here in Canada we are buying a new pipeline for an industry making record profits.
Make it make sense.
The only energy sovereignty lies in clean energy: no war can cut off supply, no bully can threaten or tariff it, the inputs are free forever.
Canada, let’s get to work building true energy independence."
- @avilewis@mstdn.ca, leader of Canada's NDP
#cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #climate #Environment #green #energy #GreenEnergy #elbowsup #yegbike #biketooter #urbanism
In case this has eluded you, Meta's natural gas powered $13 billion AI data centre in Sturgeon Country north of Edmonton uses up nearly as much power each day as the entire city of Calgary (1.1B GW) or Edmonton (1.2B GW).
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #yeg #ai #climate #climatechange #climatejustice #gas
"The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States for the seventh time won the war that wasn’t a war, so the United States can open the Strait of Hormuz that was open before the not war.
The not war that started to get the uranium that was completely obliterated, so that the Iranians can’t build the nuclear bomb that they weren’t building for the not war that the United States started.
Then the United States which has nuclear weapons threatening to use nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons because having nuclear weapons is dangerous.
If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States."
"We have enough parking for one entire family!" sounds like a weird flex (for a family facility) until you realize that this is 3x the micromobility parking afforded by most facilities. It also amounts to about 3/4ths of the space used by the single pickup truck in the background. Which could fit an entire family if used for such, but most often is not.
This is just an uneventful weekday. During family events the bikes are just strewn all over this area with no place to lock up.
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer."
(One People, One Nation, One Leader.)
- Nazi slogan
Even moreso for Canada, which in my day was taught as a "patchwork" of cultures as opposed to the US "melting pot" of assimilation. Yet certain (right-wing) politicians continue to claim Whiteness as "Canadian values". Note: In my travels I have found the US to be just as culturally diverse as Canada, but I'm just repeating what we were taught as kids in the 80's, and how the differemce in our natiom's approach was desceibed; that open diversity, not assimilation, is what makes us Canadian and gives us our "Canadian identity".
Fuck the likes of Don Cherry, Stephen Harper, Pierre Poilievre, and Danielle Smith who set us up with Nationalist White/Christian suprremacy.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #uspol #racism #xenophobia #islamophobia
Are they making things easier for us? No, they're reeling at the blowback from how incredibly difficult they have made things for us. Voter suppression is working for them.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #fascism #votersuppression
via "We Stand with Francesca Albanese":
Why did the Ertzaintza act as if they were receiving prisoners at Loiu Airport?
Last Saturday, images from Bilbao Airport went around the world.
Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, who were returning after being intercepted and detained by Israel, were received with unusual harshness by the Ertzaintza.
Baton blows, people being dragged, and a deployment that looked more like the reception of dangerous prisoners than that of peaceful activists returning home.
This behavior does not seem coincidental.
An Israeli-origin business group has a key presence in the security of Loiu Airport.
The company I-SEC Aviation Security, a subsidiary of the Israeli-capital group ICTS International, is responsible for a significant part of the security services at Bilbao Airport.
In turn, I-SEC has maintained relevant contracts with Basque institutions for years.
These include security and surveillance at the Ertzaintza supercuartel in Oiartzun and security services at the Basque Police and Emergencies Academy in Arkaute.
It also holds contracts with Metro Bilbao and the Basque Health Service.
The president of ICTS, Menachem J. Atzmon, was convicted in Israel in 1996 for fraud in the financing of electoral campaigns when he was treasurer of the Likud party.
Correlation, not causation.
It is impossible not to notice a correlation between the treatment the activists received in Israel and the treatment they received in Euskadi.
The same harshness, the same logic of strict control, the same image of “enemy” rather than citizen.
The fact that an Israeli company with historical links in the world of Israeli security has sensitive contracts with the Ertzaintza and with the airport where the events occurred invites, at the very least, reflection.
Does Israeli security doctrine influence the way certain conflicts are managed in the Basque Country?
No one claims that a direct order exists. But when the styles are so similar, and when the business and historical connections are on the table, it is legitimate to ask to what extent a model of managing dissent is being imported.
What happened in Loiu not only shames the Ertzaintza. It also forces us to take a closer look at security relations and the contracts signed in Euskadi with foreign companies, especially when it comes to a conflict as sensitive as that of Palestine.
References
El Salto. (2024, October 18). El Departamento de Salud ocultó al Parlamento Vasco dos contratos públicos adjudicados a la israelí I-Sec.
Gobierno Vasco. (2020). Servicio de vigilancia y seguridad en la central de la Ertzaintza en Oiartzun.
I-SEC. (n.d.). Aena adjudica a I-SEC los servicios de seguridad de 14 aeropuertos españoles.
#freepalestine #gaza #flotilla
Gee, whatever could it possibly be?
Hint: It's Climate Change.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-weather-summer-rainfall-9.7271555
#yeg #yegbike #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
Meanwhile, Zionists chase me around with a pickup truck just or wearing a keffiyeh...
"When we say there's a material difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe, this is exactly what we mean.
Mayim Bialik saw a man wearing a "Zionism is Racism" shirt in the parking lot of her favourite vegan restaurant—
and immediately imagined a violent attack that never happened.
No one touched her. No one threatened her. No one harmed her children.
A grown, five-foot-four mother saw a political message she didn't like, and her immediate instinct was to broadcast her hypothetical, imagined trauma to the world as though she had survived a war zone.
Zionists have been so culturally protected that many genuinely cannot distinguish between having their politics challenged and being physically unsafe.
A political t-shirt becomes an existential threat. A stranger in a parking lot becomes a near-traumatic event.
Meanwhile, Palestinians don't have to imagine the violence being inflicted on them.
The bombs are real. The starvation is real. The displacement is real.
Yet somehow, the woman with the podcast microphone, the celebrity platform, and every institutional protection imaginable-- is still asking us to centre the chill that ran down her spine because she saw a piece of cotton she didn't like.
Nothing happened, Mayim.
Your children witnessed nothing...except political dissent.
Nobody threatened you. Nobody hurt you. Nobody touched you.
You saw a political message you didn't like, imagined the rest, and now expect the world to participate in your performance of victimhood while Palestinians endure horrors that require no imagination whatsoever.
The narcissism -- and the immense harm it causes -- are absolutely off the charts..."
- Gur Tsabar
I never noticed before that LEMONS upsidedown is SNOW37.
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This was also at the Israel pavillion. The tourist map is "Greater Israel", which includes all of Gaza and West Bank, erasing all Palestine. I didn't get a personal look myself, but I imagine it included southern Lebanon as well, in their usual definition of "Greater Israel".
If anybody has a more closeup photo, I would like to see it.
Incidentally, if you haven't all seen the movie "Israelism", I strongly suggest you do. It shows you how this version of "Greater Israel" is taught in Jewish schools here in North America as "geography", and students are taught how to "counter" anti-Zionism without ever learning that occupation and apartheid exists.
https://youtu.be/Iq6J7Q6L0yw?si=rSsb3CvJmf9OeKen
#freepalestine #FreeLebanon #yeg #abpoli #ableg #islamophobia #genocide #racism
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@Lstn2urmama4@zeroes.ca We DO all pay for the roads, equally. No, they are not paid by fuel taxes or vehicle registration (which only pays for its own administration). Road infrastructure is paid for through property taxes, and that is paid by both owners and renters through rental income. But while we all pay equally, we do not benefit equally. Unsustainable passenger automobiles account for nearly all the costs of maintenance, cycling infrastructure gets half a percent of the municipal budget, and motorists feel the entitlement to physically and dangerously force cyclists off the road.
Now do you see how the argument that cyclists should pay their own way is no different than the argument that immigrants should pay for their own healthcare and education? We are all paying the same taxes, but the ones who are claiming others aren't paying, are the ones who are drawing the most benefit from the funding that we all pay.
Cycling infrastructure helps everybody, not just cyclists. Motorists create all the traffic, all the danger, and all the costs. Giving motorists OPTIONS to end their dependency is the only way to sustainably grow as a municipality. While not everybody can take those options, they benefit from the decreased traffic from those who can. Dependency on the most inefficient form of transportation (passenger automobiles) also clogs up the roads and increases the costs and access of trucking and emergency services, and anybody else who "needs" to drive themselves. It also makes everything dangerous. Safe alternatives to driving never takes away from those who drive, despite bad faith arguments like those of Devin Dreeshen or Doug Ford who claim they "create gridlock", which is only created by too many cars.
This isn't just about bikes, and in fact properly funded mass transit is best positioned to take the most cars off the road. Active transportation stands in solidarity with ALL options and alternatives. I don't just want a bike lane to get myself to work, I want parents to stop driving their cars a couple blocks to school in the same district to drop off their kid, so that my kids are unable to safely cross the road to walk to school!
Viable transit options would reach these goals faster than more bike lanes, but more bike lanes are just as important, and life saving.
I should also mention that I was a licensed driving instructor in Alberta for half a dozen years, and I observe who breaks the traffic laws and who doesn't. The rage-baits on social media claiming that "cyclists never obey the law" actually does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. Numerous studies have shown that motorists self-identify as breaking the laws at least as much as cyclists, but cyclists only break the law for the purpose of personal safety, since the laws are car-centric and do not protect them, while motorists break the laws, putting human lives (and "property") in mortal danger for no reason but IMPATIENCE, the belief that breaking laws will save them time (which it rarely does).
This is when they KNOW that they are breaking traffic laws. Most of the time they are not even aware.
Meanwhile, I watch motorists break traffic laws all the time, and by both listening to their excuses and hearing their interpretations, I have learned that most of the time it is occuring because they do not understand traffic laws, or they do not understand how traffic laws apply to other vehicles on the road, such as lane sharing right-of-way, the need to check all ways for smaller vehicles, cyclists going straight through from a turn lane due to other municipal bylaws which require them to "stay right", or that a bicycle is a vehicle like their own and cyclists are not required to dismount and use a crosswalk. Or that crosswalks exist at all sidewalk junctions and do not need to be marked before pedestrians have the right-of-way. Or what a hand signal even means, even though it was in their written drivers' exam.
While I see some cyclists who do not know or observe the rules of the road, this is much more rare than motorists who don't, and usually comes to no harm. Motorists who don't know the rules of the road kill people. Cyclists who don't know the rules of the road just look bad.
But many who drive don't even want to. They feel they HAVE to, because of the infrastructure that's hostile to others. This has been largely fueled by multi billions put into lobbying for the automotive industry, which demonizes and criminalizes those who don't drive.
Just look at jaywalking laws, which are often misinterpreted in ignorance as exempting only marked crosswalks.
We don't need rage-bait to continue demonizing those who don't drive. It's extremely harmful, and takes a serious mental toll on those who are simply doing the right thing. We certainly should not be putting up even more barriers. We need to be encouraging active transportation, making it safe and viable for all.
#urbanism #biketooter #yegbike
The Alberta Legislature on Canada Day. This is MY Canada, so diverse and inclusive! All the people I keep hearing "don't belong" are here donning red and maple leaf motifs, speaking many languages which I don't need to undersrand, wearing the trappings of many cultures and religious practices.
This October 19th, your Alberta government wants you to vote on referendum questions to strip many of these people (all of the non-colonial immigrant groups) of their place in Alberta, and the supports they need to survive here, even public healthcare and education!
Vote NO to DISCRIMINATI0N this October 19th! Happy Canada Day to ALL!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #inclusion #racism #canadaday
(As it is in a cult...)
"Dear MAGA Americans [and MapleMAGA Canadians],
I was a devoted member of MAGA nation for seven years; it made me feel I was part of something important: a movement that was trying to save American democracy.
But starting in 2021, I realized I had been mistaken. It took me a full year to finally break away. During that time, I came to understand that MAGA is sustained by a series of myths that are intended to create perpetual feelings of desperation and panic.
Succumbing to these predatory myths does not mean you are unintelligent, weak, or lack good character and morals. I have a Bachelor’s degree; have been a working professional my entire life; am a family man; and consider myself a relatively honest and intelligent person. I think the same about you.
I understand the reasons you have for supporting MAGA. And I know many of us traveled different paths to get there. I gravitated to Donald Trump because I have always been suspicious of our two-party system, and I saw him as the right man at the right time.
I have a sense that some of you have quietly left MAGA already, or are increasingly regretful, confused and scared. All of this can be doubly upsetting, since some of your sincerely-held beliefs may have alienated you from friends and family. That certainly happened to me.
It’s perfectly OK to feel this way; leaving MAGA was a tumultuous roller coaster of a process for me. It may be one of the most difficult endeavors you embark upon. In the end, it brought me an inner peace, and a newfound clarity about what is happening in our beloved country.
I founded this organization, Leaving MAGA, because I wanted to create a safe, non-judgmental community for those who leave MAGA, as well as for those who are having doubts about, or remorse over, their devotion to Trump and MAGA.
Our Leaving MAGA community will celebrate how acknowledging mistakes empowers you and America.
It’s difficult for a democracy to function well when millions are estranged from those closest to them.
You do not deserve to have your anxieties about change exploited. You deserve to know the truth. And with Leaving MAGA, you don’t have to feel you would be alone if you leave the movement.
Leaving MAGA is possible. Recognizing that we were wrong, and acting on that knowledge, makes us all more invested in democracy and in the continued work of perfecting our union. Contact us here if you want to talk.
Sincerely, and humbly yours,
Rich"
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And of course this came up on my other social newsfeed right after posting this...
Your solidarity with Palestine is accused of anti-semitism? Like your feminism is accused of misandry/man-hating? Like your anti-racism is accused of reverse racism? Like your workers rights’ unionism is accused of treachery? Like your protests are accused of vandalism?
The oppressor will always find ways to appropriate, co-opt and manipulate the language of the oppressed to claim victimhood and to justify their violence as self-defense.
#freepalestine #islamophobia #racism #hate #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
This is what drivers in Edmonton think of speed limits, empowered by an Alberta government and MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION of all people, who feel.the same way about speed limits (fitst restricting enforcement, then raising limits). This playground zone is of course where MY children play. I can't wait until we have a government who represents the vulnerable population, not selfish interests!
#yeg #yegbike #biketooter #urbanism #abpoli #ableg
There is an initiative called "Week Without Driving" which asks elected officials to stop driving for 1 week to learn what mobility in the city is like for 1/3rd of the population, so they can make better infrastructure choices: https://weekwithoutdriving.org/
#yeg #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #urbanism #yegbike #biketooter
My 5 year old son is obsessed with Petula Clark's Downtown. He asked me, "Where did you find this?" My sweet child....it was very popular, and I had this single on vinyl.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zx06XNfDvk0&pp=0gcJCWQCo7VqN5tD
Equality isn't something dreamt up in a lab. For me, it's a lifestyle. Every day I wear roughly the same amount of stuff in each pocket, balanced in proportion and weight. Don't just believe in it: Live it! #EqualWeights4All
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@fullywoolly@mastodon.social @Lstn2urmama4@zeroes.ca
Yeah, the equal amounts of law breakage was when they self-identified. So when you add how many motorists aren't aware of breaking laws, that number explodes. Plus the motives and the way the laws are broken are vitally important. A cyclist not stopping at a stop sign because it's his turn, he's moving slow enough to see everything, and stopping would put him dangerously into the mix with cars as well as take away his momentum to maneuver away, is nowhere near comparable to a motorist running a stop, accelerating through at dangerous speeds that could take out a slow-moving pedestrian they "didn't see", just because he thinks it will save him a second. That reasoning was also indicated in the study.
Sad, but not surprising. B'nai Brith is a hateful zionist organization, not a respectable Jewish organization. We fought long and hard to end housing discrimination over half a century ago. In the 60's there were still many places which would not rent to Blacks or Jews, with entire "No Jews" neighbourhoods. Never Again means Never Again for Anyone.
'I asked if Jews were prioritized or given exclusive access. They replied: “Before it was a priority, but recently, the landlord actually made it as a mandatory.”
I replied saying this was too bad, as I’m not Jewish. The agent added, “I know, but it’s the landlord that changed the policy.”
BB doesn’t state anywhere on its housing page that its apartment buildings are only or primarily for Jewish people. In contrast, the oldest of the two senior buildings is described in a 1989 Ottawa Citizen article as an “apartment building for seniors of all races and religions,” and a 1988 Toronto Star article stated the second senior building will “serve all faiths.”
...
The Ontario Human Rights Code states that every person has a right to equal treatment in housing without facing discrimination on protected grounds such as “ethnic origin” and “creed.”
A page about renters’ rights on the City of Toronto website states: “A landlord is not allowed to ask [...] your religion or ethnic background,” and, “A landlord must adhere to the Human Rights Code and cannot select or refuse tenants based on: [...] ethnic origin, religion.”'
(IOW, seniors-only housing is perfectly legal and common, but discriminating against non-Jews is not.)
https://www.readthemaple.com/bnai-brith-canada-wont-rent-to-non-jews-reps-say/
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Here are some clarifying points in response to the bigot I just blocked along with his personal server: I mentioned Jewism in this post and not Judaism because this is a post about ANTISEMITISM, NOT RELIGION!
Antisemitism is discrimination against cultural Jews, not just Judaism, and Jewism is included in the official definition. It just means "being Jewish".
Secondly, the Holy Land was not "important to Israel for a millenium" because Israel has not existed for a millenium. The Canaanite tribe of Israelites who shared the land with other Canaanites including those now known as Palestinians, are not the same as the state of Israel formed in 1948. Taking the name doesn't make it so.
But MUCH more important than that, I don't give a fuck if somebody else's homeland is "important to you", that does not give you the fucking right to murder them and take their land!
#freepalestine
Ever wonder why CPC leader, Pierre Poilievre, just makes sense? (Rheotrical question, btw.) Because, according to Mr. Poilievre, he speaks the language of white people. He doesn't use stupid ethnic words nobody gets.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/poilievre-faces-backlash-for-comments-on-jordan-peterson-podcast/
Btw, this is the same 100-minute podcast interview where Poilievre claims that racism only exists after it's been exposed, thus racism is only created by anti-racism, or in his words, "wokeism".
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/01/08/What-Pierre-Poilievre-Told-Jordan-Peterson/
#cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #racism #whiteNationalism
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And yes, on a more personal note... this includes threatening me for supporting Palestine by making me your natural enemy because you say, "I'm Jewish!"
Me wearing a keffiyeh does not make me antisemitic. You making me your enemy because you're Jewish, does. Educate yourselves and stop spreading antisemitic lies in the name of Jews.
"Not in our name" is a modern Jewish saying for this very reason.
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Yes, I meant me when I said you. Don't mock me for referring to myself in the third person. :p
No comment needed, although I will add that he is referencing I Samuel 15, which is the same in the Christian Old Testament as the Jewish Torah, but does not exist in the Muslim Quran (meaning it could not be verified). It's a blood feud between two sects of Canaanites, Amalekites and Israelites (which is not the same as Israeli). Palestinians are Canaanites too, but not related to Amalekites. Israel uses Amalekite as a metaphor for a completely different blood feud they started themselves when invading Palestinian homelands in the modern era. There is no historical or biblical connection except to say, "These are the people we now hate, and we have killed people before." God never told them to kill Palestinians, just like God never told anybody to kill queers. Also, Amalekites are described as a "barbaric" tribe which matches the slurs Israeli use for Palestinians, even though Palestinians are not actually barbarians. Like a radical preacher quoting scriptures that don't actually talk about what he's preaching, just to stir people up and weaponize religion for hate and division.
I've seen too much antisemitic hate in Canada too, against Jews who speak out against genocide, including but not limited to the new Federal NDP leader and his wife (much more so his wife, probably because of the intersectionality of being a woman as well as Jewish).
This is why I disagree when people say, "there is not a rise in antisemitism, just criticism of Israel". No, I do see a rise in antisemitism, but from those who are accusing others for speaking up.
Call out antisemitism loud and clear, but don't leave out where it comes from.
To dismiss the rise in antisemitism rather than flushing out the real causes, gives space for the racist theory that the cause is pro-Palestine activism, whenever antisemitism is seen.
(Which then leads to hateful anti-Palestine attacks like I've experienced.)
#racism #hate #HateSpeech #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #ukpol #freepalestine
I can attest that those who stand with Israel do not "love their neighbours", and I'm not just talking about Israel's neighbours (whom they invade and occupy), I'm talking about the violent hate they show to the neighbours on their own block in Edmonton or elsewhere in Canada. This hatred does not belong in our city, yet those who speak up against it are accused of "sowing division" by the very same people who think they can threaten their own neighbours with deadly force and chase them around with a pickup truck yelling "motherfucking asshole!" at them just for being seen wearing a keffiyeh in public.
These are the people who are accusing Michael Janz of "creating danger for Jewish communities" by criticizing Israel. So let's set the record straight. The only communities being put in danger are the ones victimized by these violent Zionists when nobody dares to stand up to them, and nobody dares to speak up for the victims. This is not conjecture, this is lived experience. If you don't speak up against Zionism and genocide, and protect Arab and Muslim communities from Islamophobia and Arab-hate spread by Zionist propaganda, and protect the Jewish communiies who recieve Antisemitic attacks and are told they are "not real Jews" by Zionists for not supporting Israel, then our marginalized communities are put in danger. IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBOURHOODS WHERE THE LIVE AND RAISE CHILDREN. Not just in Gaza or West Bank or Southern Lebanon, but here in suburban EDMONTON. It is absolutely the job of a city councillor to protect marginalized communities in Edmonton and not allow them to be SILENCED by the status quo, with physical violence, verbal violence, corrupt authority, and influence and power.
#yeg #freepalestine #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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I guess this is another way of looking at what was done to me? /s
What an entitlement, to be concerned over how I might treat him, when I have never treated anybody poorly and he just tried to lynch me. But he's just a "good 'ol boy", and I'm the outsider. Just two white men being overly concerned for each others' well being, making sure that the foreigner is treating them well.
Texted from a neighbour who urges me to "reconcile". How does that work, from the position of a victim who has not harmed anyone and has nothing to reconcile?
BTW, if you have any curiosity about what I've lived through, I'm living it right fucking now. In your neighbourhood. And none of it has ever caused me to commit hate crimes, or to consider committing hate crimes. Or war crimes. Or to spread racial hatred against any people.
But I guess I need to be the "better person" like the Israeli-Canadians who had to pull through the hard loss of a son that flew overseas just to murder people in the name of Ethnic Cleansing.
Recociliation to them wasn't saying, "Somebody radicalized my son into hate and that cost his life, so now I will break that cycle of hate and advocate for an end to war".
No, they just had to let it go because "he died doing what he had to do".
Meanwhile, I have had to bend over backwards to keep these attacks on me and others "in the name of" being Jewish, from creating any anti-semitic feelings because it was not the Jewish community who commited these acts of hate despite the perpetrators co-opting ther name.
But these Israelis are engaged in reconciliation by the act of their victims being understanding of their acts of hate, while their victims are a threat to the peace?
The peace of privileged white people to do whatever they want, to whomever they want, with impunity. "He just wants to colonize this neighbourhood without having to see people like you. Is that so much to ask?"
#racism #privilege #yeg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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Alberta, meet Tennesee. Tennessee, meet Alberta.
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/08/gop-memphis-tennessee-gerrymander-map-black-voters/
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@MaryTheKnife@mastodon.social
I wish this was an iaolated case, but I have seen this ideology too often to be surprised. :(
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
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And here are the clean and beautiful words of @avilewis@mstdn.ca, so you can get that crude tarsands gunk out of your head from both Danielle Smith and the ABNDP:
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #oil #energy #Environment #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
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@lukechairwalker@jasette.facil.services
Also, there is nothing "neutral" about the statement "I am appalled by the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The suffering and pain caused on both sides is a human tragedy..."
That is straight-up pro-Israel propaganda in the face of a genocide.
This statement was reposted from Variety by Jews Against Genocide, with the following statement:
Nope, Ed👎👎👎
Pathetic attempt to say nothing while siding effectively with the oppressor
Sheeran can still refuse to perform at these venues.
Oh, and he can say "Gaza genocide", instead of both-sidesing it.
This along with those who claim immigrants, both documented and undocumented, are a drain on public services. Guess what? They ALL pay taxes, and the undocumented ones can't even receive any benefits from it! If Danielle Smith's referendum questions are brought to pass, then even the documented ones will be cut off from public healthcare, education, and supports... all while paying taxes like the rest of us!
#biketooter #yegbike #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #urbanism #yeg