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'A Jewish professor being fired for showing a film made by American Jews about the American Jewish experience is absolutely insane'
- Erin Axelman, Israelism co-director
"#Socialmedia is the main pathway for the consumption of #antisemitic and violent extremist content, be it via popular rhetoric available from mainstream providers, or via influencers who actively convey antisemitic content or #conspiracy theories," says the report. "The narratives encourage #hatecrimes, violence and terrorism."
The report says the continual increase in incidents targeting the #Jewish community will normalize #antisemitism in mainstream #Canadian society and will likely be exacerbated by the conflict in the #MiddleEast.
It also says pro-#Palestinian #protests and university #encampments "are unlikely to lead to or be staging grounds for violent extremist acts."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csis-antisemitism-violent-extremists-1.7463398
“Aiding & Abetting” https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/02/fremont-ordinance-aid-abet/
At the root of the #workershortage – which advocates say is really a shortage of good jobs – is #lowwages. Most #homeless services frontline workers get $16 and $18 an hour, far too little for the grueling labor, not enough to live in expensive #California cities.
https://calmatters.org/economy/2022/01/california-homeless-worker-shortage/
#Fremont #encampments #evictions #solidarity
#HousingCrisis #landlords #rent #FoodNotBombs #MutualAid
If you are camping to avoid the perceived dangers of shelters, what do you do when government officials send armed people to destroy + discard your last belongings, including ID?
#unhoused #TheDispossessed #Papers #Documents #Identity #USPol #homeless #VanLife #CarCamping
#encampments
#rousting
#Civics #Cities #Urban #nimbyism #catch22
Toronto has been clearing the parks of unhoused people again. This time it's because they want the city to look good for the Taylor Swift concerts. Out of curiosity, I looked up the cost of tickets. Some of them are selling in excess of $22,000. Seriously? Talk about a divide between the haves and the have-nots. Hey Taylor. How about you give that ticket money to the people being displaced. You're a billionaire. You can afford it. #unhoused #toronto #TaylorSwift #homeless #encampments #billionaires #PoliceBrutality
The LA District Attorney has charged Eyal Shalom, aka #MaroonHoodie, along with Malachi Joshua Marlan-Librett, in connection with the five hour mob attack on April 30 at the UCLA encampment.
Next the DA should charge the campus police who stood by and watched.
#UCLA #Encampments #Universities #StudentProtests
Weaponized environmentalism is a tried and true colonial practice.
Easy to find examples in both Canada and US. And in a great example of international cooperation 
, the Stephen Harper Hula Valley Bird Santuary in Israel.
The coward resigned rather than face the music in September. Every university president who called the cops on their peaceful students protesting a genocide should do the same.
May Macklemore's anthem "Hind's Hall" ring in Shafik's ears for the rest of her miserable life..
All proceeds to #UNRWA
It’s mayhem and craziness':
Californians react to Gavin #Newsom’s 
order to remove #homeless #encampments
Local officials and advocates are divided over how to respond to 
the directive, which has left homeless people without a clear idea where they will wind up.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled that punishing homeless people for sleeping on public property does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
According to an assessment provided to Congress last year by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, there were about 180,000 homeless people across the state,
making California’s homeless population one of the highest in the nation along with New York’s, Florida’s and Washington’s.
In an effort to address the rising levels of homelessness, Newsom, a Democrat, ordered state agencies to adopt plans to remove homeless encampments across the state
— one of the most direct reactions to the Supreme Court’s decision and a path other states could soon follow.
While local governments are not forced to comply, Newsom said in a press conference on Thursday that he will withhold funding from cities and counties for not clearing encampments next year.
Newsom has pointed out that his administration has invested billions across multiple state agencies to provide services to homeless people,
including more than $9 billion for programs aimed at helping local governments move them out of camps and into housing.
Newsome said the investments
— as well as the new authority that the Supreme Court gave to cities
— will provide the tools needed to carry out the order
But members of the homeless community say they have nowhere to go.
“It’s absolute mayhem and craziness,” said Jeni Shurley, a member of the homeless community in Los Angeles.
“I honestly feel like I need to leave the country, because I have so desperately searched the entire country trying to find some kind of a solution, literally gone coast to coast,” she added.
Shurley, 48, said she has been homeless for the decade, holding down a string of temporary and itinerant jobs in one location or another in Oregon, Colorado, Louisiana, Missouri, Washington, D.C., and now California, while also suffering serious health problems.
After Newsom announced his executive order on July 25, Shurley said she considered moving to another country because she didn’t want to be criminalized for being homeless.
“I have done everything I can, every program that’s been offered,” she said.
“I’ve taken up on it, and I haven’t gotten any assistance that I need whatsoever. I feel like I’m just a rock in the river full of money and I can’t touch $1 of it.”
Last year, the state had about 71,000 shelter beds available
— less than half of the more than 180,000 beds needed to shelter the state’s homeless population, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think thank, citing the HUD report. 
️This shortage makes Newsom’s order that much more challenging for localities.
Homeless shelters across the state will have to extend their services to accommodate the influx of people coming off the streets, but many say they don’t have adequate resources, even with the state’s investments.
Nomination for best Toronto garden:
The Twenty Stones Crushing St Stephen garden (“The Crushing Garden”) is a highly symbolic contemplative garden situated on the west side of St Stephen in the Fields church at 103 Bellevue Ave in Toronto.
#Toronto #HousingIsAHumanRight #Housing #HostileArchitecture #Encampments
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about California Governor Gavin Newsom taking advantage of a morally unconscionable ruling by a 6-3 fascist high U.S. Supreme Court that criminalizes unhoused people, to push his own executive order authorizing the removal of homeless encampments and incentivizing municipalities in the state to do the same; you can find a link to that blog in the comments below.
Fresh on the heels of that order, and fueled by NIMBY rage, San Francisco Mayor London Breed gleefully sprang into action and ordered local police to begin aggressive sweeps of unhoused people in her jurisdiction. This move was celebrated by "concerned citizens" and Very Serious PeopleTM in both local media and the city's business community. As it turns out however, actually having to watch murderpigs carry out the brutal and inhumane targeting of unhoused people in their own neighborhoods is causing many supporters of the sweep strategy to have second thoughts.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2024/08/07/homeless-sweeps-cruelty/
San Franciscans awaken to the cruelty — and futility — of homeless sweeps
"Last week, however, as the public witnessed the rollout of Breed and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new policies to push those experiencing homelessness out of view, many didn’t like what they saw.
“Inhumane” was the word used by one small-business owner, Adam Mesnick, who has been a vocal advocate of sweeps, describing one scene captured on video by the San Francisco Standard. The clip shows a man having his tent pulled from his hands while a police officer tells him that the mayor and governor said homeless encampments are “no more.” The man, visibly in distress, seems to be trying to retrieve belongings that had been thrown like trash into the back of a Department of Public Works truck. Another story, in the San Francisco Chronicle, depicts a man placed in handcuffs while his belongings, including tent, blankets and clothing, are tossed in the back of a truck."
I said it then, and I'll say it again now; despite all the dehumanizing rhetoric and false promises, unhoused people are first and foremost people and targeting them with police violence while stripping away their belongings does absolutely nothing to solve a crisis caused by a lack of affordable housing in our communities. Treating marginalized people, and there are few people more marginalized than the unhoused, like rubbish to be "swept" off our streets is at its very root, a fascist solution to a problem that is created by capitalist speculation on something that shouldn't be a commodity in the first place; the human right to have someplace to simply exist. This isn't news to monsters like Newsom and Breed, but apparently it was to the fine people of San Francisco - and now that they've seen that "solution" in action, they don't like what enacting it forces them to condone.
I'm not going to lie, it is difficult for me to civilly convey the level of disgust and outrage I feel watching Democrat politicians, purporting to "oppose fascism," use dystopian reactionary rulings from a corrupt, 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court, to enact their very own objectively fascist policies.
In today's example we find California Governor, (D) Gavin Newsom using an executive order to shut down homeless encampments on state property, while actively incentivizing California municipalities to enact the same policies locally.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/california-homeless-encampments
'Cowardice': Homeless Advocates Condemn Newsom Order to Remove Encampments
"The order marks the first notable state policy shift to result from a momentous U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 28, decided 6-3 on ideological lines, that the liberal dissenting justices argued criminalized homelessness.
Eric Tars, a policy director at the National Homelessness Law Center, told The New York Times that the executive order effectively blamed the victims of a systemic problem.
"The only way to end homeless encampments in California is to end the need for homeless encampments," he said. "California has an affordable housing crisis, and unless Newsom's executive order is coming with sufficient resources to address that, this new push isn't going to work."
Quite frankly, I don't think the outrage expressed by housing advocates in this piece goes far enough, and while their positions in polite society require them to moderate their reactions to Newsom's monstrous bullshit, I am under no such professional obligation.
Unhoused people are first and foremost people; human beings just like anyone else. Criminalizing whole groups of people's existence based on their ability to obtain and afford housing, which is the real purpose of the SCOTUS ruling in question, is objectively a fascist policy.
For Newsom, a Democrat who has offered plenty of big thoughts on opposing the fundie authoritarian GOP movement to transform America into an anti-democratic hellscape, to use that ruling to sweep away homeless encampments without providing unhoused people anywhere to go, is not only unfathomably cruel, but it's also actively collaborating with the GOP's fascist project, and the installation of such by unelected fascist judges. There is no "democratic" and "humane" way to erase unhoused people from our society via criminalization and state repression. Newsome is objectively doing fascism here.
Furthermore, Newsom himself is a powerful political actor in American life, who clearly has designs on achieving national office, and perhaps even the presidency of the United States one day. It is entirely possible, if not likely, that one day rank and file liberals are going to come to me and tell me to vote for Gavin Newsom to "stop fascism," and they will not understand or appreciate why I refuse to do so because Newsom himself is clearly a fascist. That's what fascists are, people who enact fascist policies; it's not a question of political style - fascists, are people who do fascism, and Newsom is using a fascist SCOTUS ruling, to enact fascist policies, to provide a fascist "solution" to a problem caused by reactionary capitalist structures - namely the existence of unhoused people. At the end of the road Newsom has chosen to travel here, lies jailing people for simply existing in a state of poverty and need that is not their fault, but rather purposely cultivated by a capitalist society that *depends* on artificial scarcity to profit from housing. You can't wave that away by telling me it's all good because he's not a Republican.
The next time you find yourself wondering why runaway reactionary capitalist ideology and literal fascist policies that criminalize the existence of marginalized people are destroying American society, stop and ask yourself for a moment if the reason might not be that no matter who the fuck we vote for, fascist policies and the repression of marginalized people under capitalism, become the law of the land regardless. In the meantime, enjoy your lattes and your campaign rallies while thanking the stars that the machine hasn't got around to erasing you just yet.
Universities, police spread ‘jaw-dropping’ misinformation about encampments
Internal emails, leaked recordings, and interviews at six universities reveal a pattern of misinformation targeting pro-Palestinian student encampments before and after crackdowns
by Brishti Basu, Savanna Craig & Athina Khalid
#FreePalestine #ceasefirenow #GazaGenocide #Canada #CanadianPolitcs #cdnpoli #StudentProtest #civilliberties #ACAB #propaganda #encampments #PalestineSolidarity
https://breachmedia.ca/universities-police-spread-jaw-dropping-misinformation-about-encampments/
Just to point out what you didn't have room to say: Iran finances Hamas.
They're not a neutral or even hostile country: they're backing the war that they paid for.
Folks probably remember the Tea Party, and how it was later learned that foreign money and influence were part of that movement.
Today, the "pro-Palestinian" efforts are shown to be paid for in large part by Iran, according to the US government.This explains their incredible co-ordination, funding, efficiency, and seeming uniformity.
Many of these "encampments" and "protests" are not grass roots efforts, but coordinated foreign efforts by Iran to harm Jews, sew disinformation, and to spread distrust in the community.
The left needs to wake to the fact that whatever they may think of the situation in Gaza, that they've been used by a country which considers the US, and the entire Western world its enemy.
Does that mean you need to stop caring about Gaza? No. But it does mean you need to take a hard look at who are organizing these efforts, and what exactly it is they're saying.
Day of 2 of the #OccupyUofT injunction hearing.
An interesting exchange was captured in a gorgeous sketch by an OccupyUofT student
"Judge interrupts to note that all social progress happens because of protest, because troublemakers disrupted the existing order."
C: Ish Adedronmu on X
and Irina Cerić on X
