March 13 Action Blast!
💥Take Action Today💥
✏️ Apply Now for Legal Support! ✏️
Image Description: Toronto Community Justice Fund. From Turtle Island to Palestine Occupation is a crime. Applications open March 1. Image of a slice of watermelon and seeds next to the text.
APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! If you are in Toronto, facing recent or ongoing legal costs stemming from arrest or criminalization due to your solidarity actions or organizing efforts for Palestinian liberation, the Toronto Community Justice Fund is for you, and we strongly encourage you to apply for support!
The fund will also continue accepting donations, you can make a huge difference by supporting community members affected legally and financially by their organizing efforts to bring justice for Palestine.
Applications close March 31st - donate or apply for funding by clicking below!
🌸 RSVP Now for Migrant Spring! 🌸
Image: Migrant Spring. March 16-17, 2024. Join & Organize Actions. #StatusforAll #UniteAgainstRacism. Graphic of spring flowers are on the image as well as a closed raised fist.
Spring is around the corner, and so is the launch of #MigrantSpring! Join Migrant Rights Network on March 16-17, 2024, as we take the next step in our fight for equality and status for all! Join actions in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver and organize one in your community. Together, we will sow the seeds of change and cultivate a future where everyone thrives.
☎️ Keep Up the Pressure for a Ceasefire! ☎️
Image Description: Toronto Zaps for Palestine! Weekly Virtual Action. Mondays in March, 12-1pm. Join neighbourhood movements across the GTA in calling, emailing or faxing our demands to local elected officials together! Register: tinyurl.com/Zap4Palestine. Logos for different neighbourhood groups for Palestine ceasefire are listed on the bottom just over the register link.
Image Description: Demand your MP Vote for a ceasefire and arms embargo. Will your MP Vote to end Canadian Complicity with Genocide? Urgent phone and email zaps! Thursday March 14 12pm and 7:30pm est. Links to register in bio! Logos of SURJ Toronto and Jews Say no to Genocide in bottom right corner. Image of people at a protest with a sign that says Jews for a Free Palestine in the background
Gather with community members virtually to phone, email, and fax representatives to demand our elected officials take action for a #FreePalestine. Join SURJ Toronto, Jews Say No To Genocide, and all of the neighbourhood groups calling for ceasefire at the phone and email zaps on Thursday March 14 at 12pm and 9pm EST, and every Monday in March at 12pm EST.
Every week, more neighborhood ridings join together, united, to make our collective voice heard. We won’t stop organizing until there is an immediate ceasefire, a lifting of the siege, an end to the occupation, end to arms sales to Israel, and a free and liberated Palestine!
Whether you’ve zapped before, or are just getting started, all are welcome in this weekly action! Guidance, script, and contacts provided. Invite your friends and register for one of the zaps below!
🌱 Tune in for ‘Indigenous Intersections in Disability and Climate Justice!’ 🌱
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Don’t miss Part 3 of this year's Intro to Anti-Racism Series! On Tuesday March 26 at 7pm EST SURJ Toronto will be hosting an online webinar led by Indigenous activists Audrey Huntley and Wanda Whitebird from No More Silence focusing on Indigenous Intersections in Disability and Climate Justice.
About the Series: For white folks, unlearning racism, and learning how to be anti-racist is life-long work and life-long learning. This can be hard work, but it is also amazingly rewarding. To help facilitate this learning, Showing Up for Racial Justice-Toronto (SURJ) is hosting our annual mini-series on anti-racism. These workshops are not the be-all and end-all of anti-racism; they are designed to provide a solid foundation for white people who are new to this kind of work, yet want to learn more and get more involved in the struggle for anti-racism and decolonization. No matter what stage you’re at in your learning, everyone is warmly welcome!
ASL interpretation will be available. These workshops are completely free, though donations to community-led BIPOC organizations will be requested.
📚 More Actions and Resources💻
Act:
Demand that your MP vote for a ceasefire now! Learn more and enter your information to write a letter to your local MP with this petition organized by Neighbours United for Palestine.
Intersections in Disability and Climate Justice Workshop! Facilitated by Indigenous activists Audrey Huntley and Wanda Whitebird from No More Silence. Register here!
Watch/Listen/Attend:
Register now to join the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) in this panel discussion on March 19, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET to hear and share water stories and to understand what it means to be a water protector. Speakers will include Bomgiizhik (Isaac Murdoch) from Serpent River First Nation, Melissa Mollen-Dupuis from the David Suzuki Foundation and Judy DaSilva, a longtime water protector from Grassy Narrows.
Check out this video of a YorkU faculty member speaking to repression on campus, linkages between collective liberation struggles, and threat of police presence to the safety of our pickets, as well as actions organized in solidarity with Palestinian, Black and Indigenous comrades.
Are you someone who holds wealth or class privilege and looking for a supportive space to learn and grow in unpacking and supporting justice movements? Check out Praxis - a virtual series facilitated by Resource Movement every second Tuesday evening from 4-6pm PT / 7-9pm ET from April 2 to July 9.
Read:
In his latest blog post, Andre Henry, best selling author of All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep, unpacks and challenges the problem of reducing Aaron Bushnell’s death to an outcome of mental illness.
Learn more about ‘How anti-Palestinian racism led to a ‘crisis’ at TMU’s law school’ in this opinion piece by Joshua Sealy-Harrington in Ricochet.
Ijeoma Oluo, best selling author of So You Want to Talk About Race, discusses different ways that white folks can organize, build community, and create spaces for enacting social change in this blog post.
Check out this interview with Vincent Bevins published in Jewish Currents by Alex Press on what the global mass protests of the 2010s can teach us about the current moment.
