r/canadaleft • u/rbdk01 ACAB • Mar 10 '21
Sub Announcement State of the Left: March 10th to 17th, 2021
As Canadians rise against the injustices of capitalism, there are many opportunities to connect with comrades to provide material support through time, money, and general solidarity. Please comment with events or tasks below for promotion and support, or DM the mods to be included in this or future posts
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🚧 ONTARIO: The Land Defenders of 1492 Land Back Lane stopped a housing development project to raise awareness of the Ontario government's aggressive development of Indigenous land. The Land Defenders have faced continued assaults and harassment by the OPP and are regularly in need of goods which you can find on their Twitter page, and funding to support their legal defense here.
🍊 DAVENPORT, ONTARIO: Socialist organizer of Davenport Mutual Aid, Nahum Mann, will be attempting to take the Liberal's most flippable seat in Davenport and will need your help to do it. Team Nahum is looking to train 10 comrades at http://www.nahum.ca to not just run his campaign, but build templates and tools for all socialist campaigns moving forward.
🏨 VANCOUVER, BC: Unite Here 40 is defending workers facing off against a hotel industry trying to fire long-time workers instead of having to recall them at their old wages. This is a tactic that will be tried across the country and we need to build defenses against it. Volunteer shifts are short and easy, only 2-4 hours a week of simple tasks you can do online. Please DM the poster for contact info.
Featured Leftist:
📺 Sweater Weather is a video and audio podcast about Canadian culture, politics, and economics from a socialist perspective, hosted and produced by Aaron Giovannone (Jacobin, Maclean's, Passage, etc.).
The List (A Work in Progress):
📺 = Media | 👨👧👧 = Meeting | 🤝 = Mutual Aid | 📞 = Phone Zap | ✊ = Rally
National:
👨👧👧 On Friday, March 12th at 7:30pm ET join a conversation with Harsha Walia and Souheil Benslimane on how can we work toward prison abolishment and ask: What role does mutual aid play in meeting the immediate needs of those who’ve been imprisoned? and how we can take on the racist and increasingly authoritarian injustice system?
👨👧👧 On Monday, March 15th at 7pm ET join Spring Magazine for a discussion on how we can better support the decent work movement and fight the bosses.
✊ On Friday, March 19th join Fridays for Future and thousands (maybe millions) others in a climate strike to demand climate justice.
👨👧👧 On Friday, March 19th at 530pm ET join Beyond the Police state: a conversation with Desmond Cole and Robyn Maynard.
👨👧👧 On Saturday, March 20th at 1pm ET join Jeremy Corbyn & Niki Ashton live in conversation as they discuss how can we build a strong progressive politics.
📞 On Saturday March 27 at 2pm ET join leaders from Grassy Narrows to kickoff a virtual campaign: https://freegrassy.net/compensation-for-all-virtual-campaign-launch
Quebec:
✊ On Monday, March 15 at 5pm ET join the 25th International Day Against Police Brutality demonstration in Montreal
Alberta:
🤝 Mutual Aid Edmonton is building tiny homes for unhoused folk in Edmonton, please support them with your time or money however possible.
BC:
👨👧👧 On Sunday, March 14th The Vancouver Tenants Union will be hosting a General Meeting. Please join one of the most powerful tenant unions in Canada to be sent the link and details of the meeting.
Is something missing? Please let us know.
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u/rbdk01 ACAB Mar 10 '21
Hope for these weekly posts to have resources and events for communities, and will be adding in mutual aid, tenant unions, and other resources asap.
Doesn't seem like there's many org databases out there, just random lists run by random orgs.
Please holla if there's anything youd like to see or know of any central listings that would make compiling this list easier.
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