February 28 Action Blast!
💥 Take Action Today 💥
🌿Healing Resistance with Kazu Haga Tonight!🌿
Image Description: Pale blue background with dark blue text that reads: SURJ Toronto Presents: Part 2 of our annual Anti-Racism Series Healing Resistance: Racial Healing in a time of Collapse with activist and author Kazu Haga. Wednesday Feb 28, 6-8PM. Online/Free/ASL Provided. Photo of Kazu Haga overlaid on top of graphic that includes faint white circular shapes. Lower bottom footer includes SURJ Toronto logo and Register today! tinyurl.com/Part2-HealingResistance
It’s not too late to register! Join SURJ Toronto tonight for Part 2 of our Intro to Anti-Racism Series, Healing Resistance. During this time of upheaval with social, ecological, economic and political systems on the brink of collapse, we are presented with an opportunity to shape a new future. Join us for a discussion on how these compounding crises impact our ability to engage in the work of racial healing.
This webinar is led by Kazu Haga, a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice. He works with incarcerated people, youth, and activists from around the country, has over 20 years of experience in nonviolence and social change work, and has been an active trainer since 2000. Kazu is a resident of the Canticle Farm community on Lisjan Ohlone land in Oakland California and is the author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm.
📣Toronto Folks- Know Your Rights!📣
Image Description: Toronto Know your Rights Workshop. Thursday February 29th. 6:30pm. RSVP for Location. Logos for Palestinian Youth Movement, SURJ Toronto and Community Justice Collective in a row at the bottom of the page. Text is superimposed over an image of a protestor shouting with a police officer standing behind them. Other protestors can be seen in the background of the image. A cartoon megaphone is also next to text.
TORONTO! Join us for a Know Your Rights workshop in collaboration with the Community Justice Collective, Palestinian Youth Movement, and SURJ Toronto tomorrow, February 29 at 6:30 p.m. In the last several months, we’ve seen an increased trend of police violence and suppression at actions for Palestine across the city and the country. From increased police presence and violence, to over 28 arrests in the city, it’s clear that the city of Toronto is using taxpayer money to crackdown on pro-Palestinian organizing and support. We know that we keep each other safe, and the state cannot intimidate us. Knowing our rights is essential in ensuring that all of us feel protected to continue our organizing work to end the Israeli genocide in Gaza, and to liberate Palestine, from the river to the sea.
In-person registrations at capacity but you can still register to attend virtually at the link below.
☀️Register Now to Reimagine Our Systems of Care in Toronto☀️
Image Description: Blue background with a graphic of a yellow house filling most of the page. A title at the top in black font reads: “Reimagining Systems (Of Care) By Us For Us”. Text in black font on a white circle over top of the yellow house reads: “Join us for a webinar imagining what Toronto could be like if we invest in systems of care as we divest from systems of harm”. Panelists listed include Desmond Cole, Butterfly GoPaul, Rebeena and moderated by Robyn Maynard. Across the bottom of the graphic in black text reads: WED MARCH 6, 6-8PM. Logos for Resource Movement, Jane & Finch Action Against Poverty and SURJ Toronto.
Mark your calendars for Wednesday March 6 from 6-8 p.m. We will imagine what Toronto would be like if we invest in systems of care and divest from systems that cause institutional harm. The Toronto City Budget has increased funding to the police yet again. The TTC has resumed deploying fare inspectors and special constables. Surveillance is expanding. What are the possibilities for a future that invests in people, our communities and each other? What could Toronto be like if we invest in systems of care?
This conversation is organized by Resource Movement, Jane & Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP) and SURJ Toronto. The evening will be moderated by Robyn Maynard and includes Desmond Cole, Butterfly GoPaul, and Rebeena as panelists.
📚More Actions and Resources💻
Act:
This week (week of February 26), simultaneous blockades and disruptions are happening at weapons manufacturers across the country! Follow World Beyond War to stay up-to-date on how you can get involved or amplify an action. Join in now to demand Canada stop arming genocide and impose an immediate arms embargo on Israel by also signing this petition.
Join the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network in disrupting the Mining Industry’s Biggest Gala on Tuesday March 5 at 5 p.m. at the Fairmont Royal York. RSVP on Facebook and learn more here.
Join the national organizing effort led by the Decolonial Solidarity campaign in support of Gidimt’en Checkpoint. Register now for a call with Wet’suwet’en Chief Na‘Moks, Eve Saint, Cedar George-Parker and Sarah Shamy on Sunday, March 10 from 4-6 p.m. EST to find out what you can do to support the Land Defenders and amp up pressure on RBC.
Mark your calendars for Migrant Spring, a coordinated weekend of action (March 16 and 17) in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver to hold Immigration Minister Marc Miller to his promise of bringing regularization to the Cabinet in the Spring. Take to the streets to ensure permanent resident status for all undocumented people, no exceptions.
Watch/Listen/Attend:
Kites for Palestine is a family-focused fundraising event in solidarity with the people of Gaza and simultaneous kite-flying supporters around the world. The event is taking place on Saturday, March 2 from 1- 4:30 p.m. at Major Abbas Ali Park, 180 McLevin Ave, Scarborough, ON, M1B 6H7. The event will consist of a kite-making workshop and a kite-flying event. Tickets start at $30 and kite rentals are $10. Register and purchase tickets here. More details on Instagram.
Learn how to move beyond allyship and become an accomplice at this free online Anti Racism 101 workshop with Selam Debs on Tuesday March 12 from 7- 8:30 p.m. Register here.
Read:
Read this interview with Sarah Jama in The Maple about her plans as an independent MPP.
Nas Al Sudan on Instagram highlights the racist disparity between Ukraine refugees and Sudanese refugees with this series of slides and calls to action.