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Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>It's wild having other people send me screenshots telling me what I am apparently up to. </p><p>I thought I had been doing unspecified* <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> this afternoon, but apparently I was in a whole second place "coordinating harassment" or some shite.</p><p>Not only am I the "anarchist in charge of everything", I can teleport? bilocate? what?</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NarcissistLogic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NarcissistLogic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RealityChallenged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RealityChallenged</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarymaNgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarymaNgo</span></a> </p><p>______</p><p>*unspecified because: stalkers will harass the people I was there to help were I to specify, and fuck knows, they don't need that on top of everything else.</p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>Today in Jesus fucking Christ I hope your house burns to the ground:</p><p>The house residence around this encampment apparently came up with a suggestion to down all the trees in this park so that the unhoused people had no shade and would have to leave.</p><p>Up early doing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> which doesn't involve arson.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingIsAHumanRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingIsAHumanRight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingNow</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>Got up way too early this morning because yesterday Toronto Police Service thought it would be hilarious to, hmm joke? I guess they thought it was funny, that they were coming to clear a park of unhoused residents this morning, despite the official paperwork saying Monday.</p><p>When they tell you that "the cruelty is the point," this is what they mean.<br>They want to burn you out and make it impossible for you to continue resisting the brutality of the state.</p><p>So now I'm going eat strawberries, garden, and put my soul back together after an incredibly long day yesterday.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>I had to make a choice between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> And vengeance.</p><p>And then I thought of a way to do both.</p><p>So I'm going to continue supporting this encampment that's being threatened with clearing tomorrow.</p><p>And I'm going to let someone else do the vengeance.</p><p>Please enjoy the pending shit tsunami. It's out of my hands now.</p>
Maine Armed Tranny Syndicate<p>As we rapidly approach a violent war against fascism and climate disaster, the liberal Democrats are pushing to ban body armor for civilians (besides cops of course). Why? Because they are on the side of the fascists and always have been, and they want you to be easy to kill.</p><p>We know their priorities, We know their allegiance, We know their goals.</p><p>Vote with your bullets.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KillNazis</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>Also, if you're near Dufferin Grove Park, the City is up to its malicious mischief again.</p><p>Cat-snatching motherfuckers.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DJZeAtJNBLr/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">instagram.com/p/DJZeAtJNBLr/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Edit:<br>They have left.</p><p>Remind me to tell the original cat-snatching tale after we finish dealing with the latest round of cop bullshit.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingIsAHumanRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingIsAHumanRight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingNow</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>A day of hijinks!<br>Also <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> </p><p>And another stop at my home away from home. <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckYou52" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckYou52</span></a></p>
Maine Armed Tranny Syndicate<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RealJournalism</span></a></span> </p><p>As the police increasingly work with the Gestapo, it becomes less important to differentiate between them, and more important to run every time you see a pig and shoot back when you're shot at. </p><p>If you see the Gestapo kidnapping your neighbors, your comrades, or even a random stranger consider how you would want your community to react. Would you prefer they stand idly by with their camera and watch you get dragged off the the death camps, or would you like them to intervene?</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a></p>
Maine Armed Tranny Syndicate<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@AIF_Massachusetts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>AIF_Massachusetts</span></a></span> Meet them in the street with guns, drive them out. If they don't leave you open fire. Leave before the cops get there, wear quick changes, always wear a mask, hide all your tattoos, hide your hair.</p><p>They want to kill you, kill them first.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KillNazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRevenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransRevenge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transrevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transrevolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>Early mornings are not my thing.<br>Simultaneous important things are also not my thing.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> however, is my thing.</p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>The fact they're doing this METRES AWAY FROM THE LITERAL HOMELESS MEMORIAL is disgusting as shit.</p><p>In about 15 mins I have to dip briefly for a protest (there are 2 other LOs here rn), but the residents have approved the callout for more bodies on the ground for the pending clearing that the motherfuckers absolutely confirmed is happening.</p><p>Unfriendly reminder that at St Stephen's, the motherfuckers waited us out and didn't do THAT clearing until night.</p><p>Apparently, the City needs the park empty to "repair the grass and fix the paving stones".</p><p>Fuck everything.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingIsAHumanRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingIsAHumanRight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TorontoActions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TorontoActions</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LOLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LOLife</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>A long day of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> is about half over.</p><p>Encampment support with the City threatening to clear tents at Holy Trinity. Love those tactical nurses! 🖕🏾</p><p>Court support for comrades.<br>(Standing room only!)</p><p>Two more community actions today.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TorontoActions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TorontoActions</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TorontoActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TorontoActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingIsAHumanRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingIsAHumanRight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceDontKeepUsSafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceDontKeepUsSafe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhoKeepsUsSafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhoKeepsUsSafe</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>Doing encampment support really drives home just how much those who have the least share the most.</p><p>Probably shouldn't be eating cake pops for breakfast, but what the hell.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingIsAHumanRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingIsAHumanRight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a></p>
the ??? mccoy🔻<p>why teen vogue doing better journalism than most proclaimed leftist outlets</p><p><a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-watch-programs-immigrants-how-to-start" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">teenvogue.com/story/ice-watch-</span><span class="invisible">programs-immigrants-how-to-start</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tacobelllabs.net/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://tacobelllabs.net/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://tacobelllabs.net/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://tacobelllabs.net/tags/NeighborhoodDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeighborhoodDefence</span></a> <a href="https://tacobelllabs.net/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>This time of year is really difficult to be unhoused, not that it's ever easy.</p><p>This is ALL THE RESULT OF POLICY CHOICES.</p><p>Anyway, I am blessed enough to have a warm bed to go to, and I am going to try not to go to it while raging at the sheer obstinate, disgusting, selfishness that is capitalism.</p><p>*Tip: Reflectix or the generic equivalent (the kind I have to drop off is "Resisto") is very helpful in reducing conductive heat loss when sleeping on the ground.</p><p>If you find some on sale, grab a roll and help a human being out.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingIsAHumanRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingIsAHumanRight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>I need a clone.</p><p>I have been up to a LOT of behind the scenes planning work, "day job" work, and the usual community defence tasks.</p><p>It's the first in the list that is making me feel stretched so thin. I love the last bit the most, as it is what make me feel fulfilled. Like: last night was Street Knit and I got to stock up on supplies to distribute to people who are cold and in need.</p><p>Migrating to the Movement Offence Committee has shifted my "duties" to an interesting mix of spending more time in cop shops being told that cops don't want to speak to me (I thought McCormick was going to have an aneurysm when I corrected his understanding of the law) and doing/creating different trainings.</p><p>Doing an Encampment Support training shortly, which seems timely given the clearing of the camp at Clarence Square a couple of days ago. In the winter.</p><p>But hey, shitlibs "got their park back".</p><p>Anyway, that's where I have been these past few weeks.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>I thought tonight's food and gear distro was going to be inside.</p><p>I am not dressed for spending so much time outside, thus I am wearing my unfinished knitting.</p><p>But the prepared knit gear is going fast this time.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TorontoActions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TorontoActions</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodIsARightNotAPrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodIsARightNotAPrivilege</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a></p>
Misuse Case<p>Remember how I said I am getting my neighbors into a Signal group where we can discuss and mobilize for political action? I wrote a little "mission statement" for it.</p><p>If you want to agitate, educate, organize, and mobilize your liberal neighbors into new (for them) forms of political action, you may find this helpful.</p><p><a href="https://twit.social/tags/mutualaid101" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mutualaid101</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/CommunityDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefense</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/LocalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalGovernment</span></a> </p><p>/1</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SylviaPankhurst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SylviaPankhurst</span></a> and her mother <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmmelinePankhurst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmmelinePankhurst</span></a> are part of my Women in History <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feminisms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feminisms</span></a> project for good reason. On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1913, Sylvia's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeoplesArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeoplesArmy</span></a> held its first <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> gun drill in London. The right of the oppressed to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SelfDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfDefence</span></a> is absolute.</p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>Want to change the world?<br>Stop pretending you can <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a> your way out of fascism, or that we're on the brink of violent revolution.<br>ORGANIZE. Build <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAid</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> groups. Set up adult education, child care, gardens, coöps, and new militant unions. Join the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a>.</p>