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Danielle Smith’s pipeline will never happen, and we’ll make fucking sure of it.
Call your MP and demand they end this betrayal of British Columbians.
Call David Eby and demand he stands with the Nations and working people of BC who would be left with the wreckage of this disastrous project for generations.
Carney, Smith, and their oil billionaire donors will not hold our province hostage. #bcpoli
A helpful primer on how major soybean buyers like China are viewing the US's new penchant for trade wars.
Really appreciate the writers' commitment to breaking it down so a 5-year-old can understand it
https://asiatimes.com/2025/09/brazil-will-remain-chinas-preferred-soybean-supplier-not-the-us/
Today in Labor History October 1, 1964: The Free Speech Movement began on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, when activist Jack Weinberg was arrested for refusing to show his identification to the campus police while standing at an illegal political literature table. Thousands of students spontaneously surrounded the police car, which remained there for 32 hours, with Weinberg inside. Protesters used the car as a speaker's podium. The Free Speech Movement lasted for two years and was the first mass act of civil disobedience on an American college campus in the 1960s. Students were fighting for, and won, the right to have public political activities on campus, particularly in support of the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War Movements.
Famous for the Free Speech fight of the 1960s, UC Berkeley was also one of the birthplaces of the disability rights movement. If you haven’t seen the film Crip Camp yet, you should. It does a fantastic job portraying the history of this important civil rights movement.
Yet, today, the university is succumbing to pressure from the Trump administration and voluntarily handing over the names of over 150 professors and student for alleged antisemitism (i.e., for criticizing the Israeli Genocide in Gaza, or for showing solidarity with Palestine). Consequently, these individuals face job loss, expulsion (if they are students), doxxing by Zionist thugs, and even death threats.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #FreeSpeech #berkeley #police #MarioSavio #antiwar #vietnam #CivilRights #student #protest #CivilDisobedience #ableism #disability #genocide #gaza #censorship
What is CBS News doing promoting this fashy twit to senior editor?
She's Pro-Israel, anti-science on Covid so I guess it answers itself. The network is now owned by Larry Ellison's son David. https://nypost.com/2025/09/04/media/not-happy-at-all-cbs-news-staffers-apoplectic-over-bari-weiss/
Now that everyone knows who Bari Weiss is...
Remember when Vancouver Coastal Health's Comms Leader Deana Lancaster was retweeting Weiss' Covid skepticism? In this tweet Weiss promotes a roundtable with Vinay Prasad who had compared Covid measures to the Third Reich.
There is an oddly anti-science, anti-protective-measures bent inside public health. (Why no mask rule in healthcare even during current Covid spike?).
Why aren't we confronting resistance to science here? We've seen where it leads
The reason Democrats aren't taking this current fascist takeover seriously is because they have always treated politics like it is a friendly intramural sport, and truly believe they will get the sportsball back for a win.
They honestly do not think Trump wants to actually murder them.
And maybe he doesn't. Maybe he's just playing the same game, but by very new rules.
But no president has ever been this completely unhinged, threatening to destroy or kill anyone who annoys him in the slightest.
Emily Lowan (@emilylowan) has won the BC Green Party leadership.
She is supported by Grand Chief Stewart Philip, David Suzuki, and other people whose lives are dedicated to the public good, who have rallied behind as the best hope for provincial gov leadership in the near future.
Because of grassroots organizing to get her this leadership, the BC Greens now have more members than the official opposition!
Her acceptance speech: https://www.youtube.com/live/psZhiP6JsaQ?t=1323s
Coverage: https://www.vicnews.com/news/breaking-emily-lowan-named-new-leader-of-bc-greens-8271017
via https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/115260800076938292
and https://spore.social/@marcia/115260441276279711
Given the chance, I think her words could resonate in a Provincial election against both the David Eby #BCNDP and the Rustad #BCConservatives (and whatever other parties happen to pop into existence).
It was nice to see a leader actually genuinely congratulate and lift up her rivals in the contest. A rarity these days in too many party leadership races!
Key lines from her speech:
"take on this province's billionaires, largest corporations, and big oil... who take far more than they give.
"democracy is in retreat around the globe, but I am encouraged to see young people in BC fighting back.”
"the BC Green Party has solutions”
"the BC NDP.. are making decisions based on scarcity and fear”
"David Eby... rolling out the red carpet for Donald Trump's inner circle of oligarchs to buy and control even more of our province”.
"The NDP's big idea… to double down on raw resource exports.... no manufacturing, no innovation, no vision for a future beyond more foreign billionaires ripping and shipping our resources while families wait for the wealth to trickle down.”
“while workers wait for fair wages and homes we can afford, the BC NDP doubles down on MAGA backed fossil fuel projects, ignores the need to obtain consent, and refuses to care for our community members”
”The horrors that we are witnessing now are the death rattle of the old world.”
"it is up to us force a new world through”
"We can build a plan to take back the public wealth that has been looted with real taxation on the ultra wealthy”
"Build on our massive advantage of renewable energy… create thousands of jobs”
"will reclaim BC's economy for working people… together we can build a resilient thriving province that respects indigenous sovereignty and our planetary boundaries.”
“we are worthy of better, and worthy of hope. When we learn to believe that again, we can win.”
@emilylowan
#BCPoli #BCGreens #CanPoli #CdnPoli #RenewableEnergy
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