March 27 Action Blast!
💥Take Action Today💥
🔊This Saturday: All Out for Land Day🔊
Image: Graphic art featuring the words “Toronto, 2pm, Yonge & Dundas, LAND DAY” in white font and “March 30” in yellow font on top of a red background with an illustrative drawing of four Palestinian people with linked arms dancing on the land, with tree roots coming out of their feet.
Land Day is a day to remember and honour six Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces on March 30, 1976, after uniting in protest against the theft of their lands. This day is commemorated each year to mobilize against further theft of Palestinian land and to reassert the unequivocal right of return for Palestinians to their lands. Join the masses this Saturday March 30 at 2 p.m. at Yonge & Dundas square!
🌍 April 6 & 11: Fossil Fools Day Events 🌍
Image: Land Back Graphic for Fossil Fools Day happening on Saturday April 6, 2024. Find an action in your community! Image of a heart with the words “LAND BACK” in the middle with illustrated animals surrounding the heart, on top of logs with a river and forestry in the background. Graphic is by Rose Skead of Mishkeegogamang First Nation.
Image: Collage-style graphic that combines an protest photograph featuring an anti-RBC banner, a colourful graphic design and text that reads “Royal Bank of Canada, so-called Canada’s #1 fossil fuel financier is having their Annual General Meeting April 11, 2014 in Toronto.
April 6 - Take part in a coordinated international day of action on April 6 to hold RBC accountable for their role in financing genocide and climate chaos. Stand in solidarity with a growing, global movement to support Indigenous Land Defenders by attending an event or hosting your own. View the Leadnow action map to register for an action near you. Follow Leadnow and Indigenous Climate Action and Yintah Access on Instagram to stay updated.
April 11 - Stand in solidarity with Indigenous Land Defenders on Thursday April 11 to resist projects funded by climate villain RBC by joining the rally outside RBC’s AGM in Etobicoke. Specific location and details will be shared soon. RSVP here to stay up-to-date on details as they become available.
📚 More Actions and Resources💻
Act:
Ontario education workers, and supporters, are invited to anonymously endorse this open letter to Ontario’s education decision makers to amplify the demands from Palestinian family groups. Demands include acknowledging the harm caused by the erasure of Palestinian suffering, combating anti-Palestinian racism, among many others. Add your voice today.
Five public sector pensions, one in B.C. and four in Ontario have over $2 billion dollars invested in companies that the UN has indicated are complicit with war crimes. Use this Action Network letter template to write to the CEO’s of the 5 major pension plans and urge them to divest from the companies arming Israel in their genocidal campaign.
Apply to the Toronto Community Justice Fund if you are in Toronto and facing recent or ongoing legal costs stemming from arrest or criminalization due to your solidarity actions or organizing efforts for Palestinian liberation. The fund continues to accept much-needed donations as well!
Watch/Listen/Attend:
On Saturday, March 30 at 11 a.m. join a Land Day Vigil at Yonge and Dundas Square to commemorate Palestinian martyrs who gave their lives to defend their land. Follow Jewish Anti-Zionist Collective TO for up-to-date details as they become available.
The TTC is holding a series of consultation meetings and an online survey about the “Family of Services” for Wheel-Trans users on April 10, 16, and 18. Have your say about TTC safety for Wheel-Trans users by attending these upcoming meetings.
ISRAELISM, the timely documentary released in 2023 explores how Jewish attitudes towards Israel are changing dramatically, with massive consequences now available to rent for $5. Visit their website to watch.
Read:
Download for free the PDF version of Angela Davis’ Freedom Is A Constant Struggle. Free download available here.
Read Zakaria Amara’s new book, The Boy and His Sandcastle: A Journey of Redemption, a memoir about his experience of radicalization as a vulnerable youth and 17-year imprisonment for terrorism that followed. The subsequent, painful surrendering of those radical beliefs through poetry and a commitment to peace is a redemptive story that offers hope even in the most dire circumstances. Buy the book here.
Check out this great summary on Instagram by World Beyond War Canada’s Instagram to learn what the campaign for an arms embargo on Israel has and has not achieved, and next steps.
James Clark reflects in this Spring Mag article on the significance of the NDP’s Palestine Motion win and how movement organizing played a key role, and where we go from here.
