Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley
@freedomfrwar.bsky.social
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The Freedom from War Coalition is a Vancouver Island organisation aspiring to end war - moved over from that other place for some more congruent values.
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Freedom from War is collaborating with Revolve and other organizing groups to bring Draw the Line to Cowichan
Stand with us on Sept 20
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Join us at Duncan City Square on Sept 20 at 4 pm. Tell all your friends!
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Camas Books in Victoria is hosting a pro Palestine pro Trans discussion on Saturday. Join in the discourse, join in solidarity
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Join us in remembrance of the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima nuclear massacre
In honor of the lives lost, we will be making paper cranes
Demand an end to militarization and the threat of nuclear war
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Freedom from War Coalition is working to draw more people into our efforts – not only do we feel deeply that we must all stand against what is occurring in Gaza, we also know there is foundational work that must be done to oppose the doctrines of war.
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It was a beautiful day marching in solidarity with our queer and trans comrades in Cowichan
Down with the cis-tem that seeks to oppress us, we must stand and march in the fight for all our human rights

#pride
#loveconquersall
#freegaza
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Please join us at the overpass on Saturday for our banner drop
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Stand with us in opposition to US naval weapons testing in Nanoose.
We can't turn away from the threat our would be occupiers pose from within our borders
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Please join us in democratic opposition to US Navy weapons testing in Nanoose Bay. Held on June 15, the inaugural day of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis

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The Israeli government has abandoned all pretenses for its goal of ethnically cleansing of all Palestinians from their land, accelerating its genocide in Gaza and engineering the largest land theft in the occupied West Bank in over thirty years.
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BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined.

Our new report outlines the costs of war to journalists – and the journalism we all rely on. [THREAD, 1/8] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
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NEW: With all eyes on the shock-and-awe tariffs, Canadian mining corporation Equinox Gold is quietly clamping down on the land and rights of the Carrizalillo community in Mexico. We can't let it go unnoticed.

IPS fellow Jen Moore in @canadiandimension.bsky.social:
The hazardous machinations of Canada’s mining elite
As the dangers that mining-affected communities and environment defenders continue to mount in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and other countries, Canadian mining companies such as Equinox Gold confirm the...
canadiandimension.com
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The callousness of capitalist economies...
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The world is on track for disastrous global heating – but this will create profits for some air conditioning companies, according to forecasts by leading Wall Street financial institutions.
US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive
Reports predict global heating will bring catastrophes and that air conditioning market could grow by 41%
buff.ly
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This is a test. Not like a test as not the real thing like a fire drill, but the real thing itself: a test as in all of us are being tested, as in "these are times that try men's souls" and everyone's principles. Who will stand up to the coup/constitutional crisis? Who has already surrendered?
People Have the Power: Week Whatever of the Stupid Coup and the Pushback
I wrote the following early yesterday before the big news of the Wisconsin election in which Elon Musk's estimated $20 million and illicit bribes to voters did not net a win for his candidate and may ...
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Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
A group of students holding signs saying Jews against ice and free Mahmoud now sitting inside a university gate A close-up of a student whose hands are changed to a gate. Next to a sign that says release Mahmoud Khalil now Students holding signs that say “Jews against ICE”
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Israeli forces killed 8 medics, 6 first responders & a UN staff member in Gaza. The 15 bodies were found in a mass grave.

Via @unocha.org: "We're digging them out with uniforms, with their gloves on...Their vehicles...are crushed and dumped, covered in sand next to us."

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Gaza: Red Cross outraged over killing of medics by Israeli forces
Six Civil Defence first responders and a UN employee were also killed in the incident in Rafah on 23 March.
www.bbc.com
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From “walking while trans” arrests to bathroom bans, the criminalization of trans lives is nothing new — it’s a legacy of state control and gender-based policing. What happened to Marcy is part of that legacy. FL lawmakers: We see you. We won't back down.
Trans Woman Arrested, Sent to Men’s Jail For Entering Florida Capitol Bathroom
“I’m not a political activist,” she maintained. “I’m just a normal college student who thinks this law is wrong.”
www.erininthemorning.com