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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 54m

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 54m

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 7h

Write TODAY to MP #AnitaAnand @globalaffairs.canada.ca Minister.
MP DavidMcGuinty Minister of @canadianforces.bsky.social
& Canadian PM Mark Carney
to demand justice for abducted international #FreedomFlotilla volunteers & an END to the blockade of #Gaza.

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grahams55.bsky.social @grahams55.bsky.social · 8h

@mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
Got anything to say about the kidnapping of Canadians in international waters by another state? Or the illegal halting of aid to starving people?

canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 8h

Canadians #FreedomFlotilla volunteers on 'Conscience' have been illegally abducted by Israel.
youtube.com/shorts/TtlDz...
#EndGazaBlockade

🆘 Canadians #FreedomFlotilla volunteers on 'Conscience' have been illegally abducted by Israel.

YouTube video by CanadaBoatGaza

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 7h

Write TODAY to MP #AnitaAnand @globalaffairs.canada.ca Minister.
MP DavidMcGuinty Minister of @canadianforces.bsky.social
& Canadian PM Mark Carney
to demand justice for abducted international #FreedomFlotilla volunteers & an END to the blockade of #Gaza.

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 10h

Footage from the Israeli Occupation Forces assault on #Conscience, shortly before dawn. In international waters, close to Palestinian territorial waters. Another act of state piracy by the rogue, lawless Israeli occupation.
www.youtube.com/live/PSQcbIw...

Live from Conscience Boat to Gaza, FFC & TMTG (Live 3)

YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 8h

Canadians #FreedomFlotilla volunteers on 'Conscience' have been illegally abducted by Israel.
youtube.com/shorts/TtlDz...
#EndGazaBlockade

🆘 Canadians #FreedomFlotilla volunteers on 'Conscience' have been illegally abducted by Israel.

YouTube video by CanadaBoatGaza

youtube.com

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 10h

#VIDEO: Surgeon exposes horrific conditions in #Gaza
Will’s interview on #Conscience with orthopaedic surgeon Dr Mutaz Jadaan who has worked in dire conditions in Gaza & hopes the #flotilla breaks through Israel’s illegal blockade so he can work there again .
kiaoragaza.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/v...

VIDEO: Surgeon exposes horrific conditions in Gaza

Will’s interview on the Conscience with orthopaedic surgeon Dr Mutaz Jadaan who has worked in dire conditions in Gaza hospitals twice and hopes the flotilla breaks through Israel’s illegal blockade…

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11h

Following Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, organizers have vowed that they will continue “to sail until Gaza is free.” They’ve already announced that the next mission will send a thousand ships to Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/glob...

Global Sumud Flotilla vows to keep sailing ‘until Gaza is free’ following Israel’s interception of over 40 of its vessels

Following Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, organizers have vowed that they will continue “to sail until Gaza is free.” They’ve already announced that the next mission will send...

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15h

Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in Israel “plunged the region into a devastating war.”

That’s how an Associated Press article opens – one that some of Canada’s largest news outlets published today.

But Oct. 7 wasn’t the day this started.

Today, with @cjjpmedia.bsky.social, I'm giving a history lesson:

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 11h

Nearing #Gaza: message from on board the #Conscience, part of the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social #FreedomFlotilla
canadaboatgaza.org/2025/10/07/f...
#EndGazaBlockade #LetThemSail #SailToGaza

Nearing Gaza: message from on board the Conscience - Canadian Boat to Gaza

FREEDOM FLOTILLA NEARS GAZA New Flotilla Almost at Interception Point With MPs, Medics and Journalists Onboard Demands Safe Passage as Global Outrage Grows— Any Blockade a Diplomatic and Economic Risk...

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David #ArmsEmbargoNow! Heap @davidheap.bsky.social · 1d

No, like most sensible people I want the killing to stop.
#ArmsEmbargoNow!
An end to the genocide & access for aid unhindered by the occupying power.
armsembargonow.ca

Home - Arms Embargo Now

We’re coming together to demand the Canadian government impose a full, immediate arms embargo on Israel.

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Blueprints of Disruption Podcast @blueprints.bsky.social · 18h

Ep: 202

When I asked Mskwaasin if she had a message for her comrades back home in Toronto, she said:

"I hope they SHUT IT DOWN"

Activists on the front lines are fed up with taking all the risks while those in power weigh their safest options.

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pod.fo/e/338267

Blueprints of Disruption: Wave After Wave: Freedom Flotilla

The recent Freedom Flotilla ships seized in international waters by the IOF were not the first, nor the last to try to break the illegal naval blockade on the, now starving, population of Gaza.Mskw...

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 4d

#Gaza #FreedomFlotilla @freedomflotilla.bsky.social : The Freedom Riders of Our Time www.youtube.com/live/B-zTeMG...
2 Canadians on board Conscience interview with #DimitriLascaris via #YouTube
#BreakTheSeige #EndGazaBlockade #FreePalestine

Gaza Flotilla: The Freedom Riders of Our Time

YouTube video by Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

www.youtube.com

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Blueprints of Disruption Podcast @blueprints.bsky.social · 1d

Ep. 202

Hear from Mskwaasin Agnew, a Toronto based Dene/Cree harm reduction worker - now aboard the Conscience, yet another Freedom Flotilla ship bound for Gaza.

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Wave After Wave: Freedom Flotilla

Mskwaasin Agnew, an Indigenous Harm Reduction worker and activist from Toronto, from aboard the Freedom Flotilla's the Conscience ship.

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Blueprints of Disruption Podcast @blueprints.bsky.social · 18h

Episode 202:

Call to Action:

We ask that you track Mskwaasin’s journey, and put pressure on Canadian authorities to intervene to ensure safe passage of the vessel and the immediate release of activists who have been kidnapped.

🎧 pod.fo/e/338267
👉 freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tmtg-con...

canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 2d

Tell the Canadian government & your MP that Israel must allow safe passage to #Gaza for humanitarian cargo & free the kidnapped @freedomflotilla.bsky.social @1kmadleenfr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy activists, now. Just click on this link, send & SHARE!
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

6 canadians standing in two rows on the deck of the Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla boat to break the blockade of Gaza.

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 11h

From the deck of Conscience, with some of the Thousand Madleens @1kmadleenfr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy boats in the background: From Turtle Island to Palestine.
⛵️⛵️⛵️ #FreedomFlotilla #BreakTheSiege

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 1d

As Israeli Forces Seize Final #Sumud Boat, Another #FreedomFlotilla Sails Toward #Gaza.
“As journalists and medical professionals, we carry the responsibility to speak truth and preserve life,” said an Italian surgeon.
www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-fr...

As Israeli Forces Seize Final Sumud Boat, Another Flotilla Sails Toward Gaza | Common Dreams

As Israeli forces captured the last remaining vessel from the Global Sumud Flotilla that aimed to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid, another group of boats was h...

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 2d

EXPOSED: Shipping records obtained by Mondoweiss show New York's JFK Airport is a key transit hub for U.S. weapons parts headed to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/expo...

Exposing JFK Airport’s hidden arms pipeline to Israel

Shipping records obtained by Mondoweiss show New York’s JFK Airport is a key transit hub for U.S. weapons parts headed to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 2d

Tell the Canadian government & your MP that Israel must allow safe passage to #Gaza for humanitarian cargo & free the kidnapped @freedomflotilla.bsky.social @1kmadleenfr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy activists, now. Just click on this link, send & SHARE!
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 2d

#Conscience, jour 6: "On compte sur vous pour assurer notre sécurité & pouvoir briser le siège de #Gaza." Écoutez & partagez ce message de #NimâMachouf www.facebook.com/reel/7853302...
"Contactez vos député·es pour faire pression sur Israël pour ne pas attaquer la @freedomflotilla.bsky.social

Conscience, jour 6: "On compte sur vous pour assurer notre sécurité et pour pouvoir briser le siège de Gaza." Écoutez et partagez ce message de Nima Machouf: La situation est grave à Gaza. N'attende...

Conscience, jour 6: "On compte sur vous pour assurer notre sécurité et pour pouvoir briser le siège de Gaza." Écoutez et partagez ce message de Nima Machouf: La situation est grave à Gaza....

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 2d

I never imagined my mission would be this painful: to write the stories of my neighbors, friends, and family erased in Gaza’s genocide.

mondoweiss.net/2025/10/nort...

#Palestine #Israel

‘North Gaza Massacres’: Telling the stories of the everyday heroes of Jabalia refugee camp

I never imagined my mission would be this painful: to write the stories of my neighbors, friends, and family erased in Gaza’s genocide.

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 4d

#Gaza #FreedomFlotilla @freedomflotilla.bsky.social : The Freedom Riders of Our Time www.youtube.com/live/B-zTeMG...
2 Canadians on board Conscience interview with #DimitriLascaris via #YouTube
#BreakTheSeige #EndGazaBlockade #FreePalestine

Gaza Flotilla: The Freedom Riders of Our Time

YouTube video by Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

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yipeng ge @yipengge.bsky.social · Nov 13

It was great to finally connect and chat with Dimitri Lascaris. We spoke about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, but also the anti-Palestinian racism in academic institutions, medical schools and workplaces in Canada.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4HT...

Zionist Doctors Defend The Destroyer Of Gaza's Medical System

YouTube video by Dimitri Lascaris

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Alice Rothchild, MD @alicerothchild.bsky.social · 4d

I will be moderating the next Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council webinar on Sunday Oct 19, 2025:

Severed-film screening and discussion

Severed is grounded in the story of Mohamad Saleh, a teenager from Gaza who has survived five major Israeli assaults.

bit.ly/4o0NkHD

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SEVERED: Film screening & discussion. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Severed tells the story of Mohamad Saleh, an 18-year-old from Gaza who has lived through five major assaults on the Gaza Strip. In those attacks, he lost his home, family members, his best friends,…

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