On Tuesday Rafat and Nurs Abu Al-Kian, #Arab residents of the Negev with #Israel citizenship, made their way from their home to #Jerusalem, Dekal, Highway 60. Near the village of Khirbat Karma, soldiers stopped them and ordered them to get out of their vehicle while holding weapons to their heads, after which they were brutally beaten.
Rafat and Nurs shouted that they had blue ID cards, but the soldiers were not interested at any point. And when they asked to go from there to the Soroka hospital because they were wounded, one of the soldiers threatened that if they did so he would shoot them.
It's not an occupation, it's not an apartheid system, it's the only democracy in the region fighting to defend western values. It's their right to defend themselves.
The Alberta government tried to claim the electric utilities had asked for their idiotic and harmful moratorium on renewable energy, but the reverse was true. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-renewabl…
The CEO Mark Law who pushed back has now been forced out.
Before this moratorium which was followed by severe restrictions on solar and wind, Alberta was leading the country in renewable energy.
September 13 through 16, the Canadian Wildlife Federation hosts the first ever Great Canadian Bioblitz! Join Canadians coast to coast in tracking #biodiversity. Anybody can use the free iNaturalist app to make observations of all the wild flora and fauna they can find — from moss and fungi to the tiniest insect to birds, mammals, trees and more. #Canada Register your participation at cwf-fcf.org/en/explore/inatura…
VegFest (vegan and animal rights lifestyle, tables, food, and speakers) and the Peace and Unity Festival (tables, song, poems, dance from different ethnic groups and supporters of migrants). The latter was forced to shutdown in the middle of the original event back in June when the community league called police claiming that their Palestinian and non-Zionist Jewish contributers were "hate speech". Outrageous but got little notice. This time in a different community hall it went without incident. Some very moving performers.
#Lebanon: The Israeli enemy carried a wave of air strikes targeting the outskirts of a number of villages in the western sector (Tyre district), especially Zebqin forest
And the outskirts of: - Majdal Zun - Al-Jbeen - Sheheen - Alma al-Shaab - Hamoul - Wadi Hassan - Naqoura
The Israeli army has attacked a queue of people buying bread in front of a shelter for displaced Palestinians in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing at least five and injuring several others.
Labour4Palestine is calling on the CLC to honour its 2021 resolution to oppose Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Palestine, call on the Canadian government to end arms sales to Israel, and support divestment from companies complicit in the occupation.
Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario and a long-time supporter of Palestinian rights, has been slandered by pro-Israel groups and Canadian politicians as "antisemitic" following a post he made on social media criticizing the involvement of Israeli athletes who served in the Israeli army in the Paris Olympics.
Despite reiterating that his "intent was never to associate Jewish people with the violence enacted by the state of Israel," the CUPE National Executive Board has called for Hahn to resign from his position as VP.
Zionists are again trying to force CUPE to make Fred Hahn resign. Last October, thousands emailed & prevented that from happening. Send an email to CUPE now! #CanLab
On August 6, Capital Pride, the LGBTQ2S+ organization that organizes Ottawa's annual pride parade, released a statement expressing solidarity with Palestine.
Following their statement, Capital Pride was slandered by pro-Israel groups, who falsely claimed that the statement was exclusionary and antisemitic, making some in the community unwelcome.
Following their lead, the Liberal Party of Canada, the University of Ottawa, the Bank of Canada, and the Ottawa Hospital, among other institutions, have shamefully decided to withdraw their participation.
I'm not usually a fan of Sam Altman, but this is something cool he funded.
This study gave 1,000 people in Texas and Illinois $1,000/month over 3 years and collected large amounts of data on employment, health, housing, schooling, time use, entrepreneurship, and more.
The results are remarkable, a very strong argument for universal basic income.
Basic Income study: What was the effect of giving 1000 poor people in Texas and Illinois an extra $1000/month?
I'm not usually a fan of Sam Altman, but this is something cool he funded.
This study gave 1,000 people in Texas and Illinois $1,000/month over 3 years and collected large amounts of data on employment, health, housing, schooling, time use, entrepreneurship, and more.
The results are remarkable, a very strong argument for universal basic income.
Hey I found one place in a 10 km radius that *may have some! They close at 4pm, obviously, so can't go today... Will check it out tomorrow because, obviously, they are closed on Sundays :)
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Send a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and federal liberal MPs.
As Canadians standing for inclusivity and against hatred and discrimination, we are deeply concerned that you and the Liberal Party of Canada decided not to participate in the Ca…
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in reply to GM7077 • • •Rafat and Nurs shouted that they had blue ID cards, but the soldiers were not interested at any point. And when they asked to go from there to the Soroka hospital because they were wounded, one of the soldiers threatened that if they did so he would shoot them.
(The matter is under #IDF "investigation".)