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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 17h

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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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 9d

Tony Blair heading up so-called Gaza International Transitional Authority is disgustingly apt for an imperial plan.

Not only is he a war criminal who led UK invasion of Iraq, but he now heads Tony Blair Institute - a capitalist haven for security & global imperial governance in "fragile states."

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 10d

Beautiful to see more support infrastructure joining the flotilla - much of which exists because they are responses to border violence.

Life Support medical vessel now joining has been doing missions in Central Med - world's deadliest border, and has done over 3000 rescues.

Freedom is intertwined.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 11d

"Why do you talk about genocide at parties"

"Why do you talk about genocide with kids around"

"Why do you talk about genocide during work calls"

"Why do you talk about genocide with people who have their own shit going on"

Why do you talk about genocide when...

BECAUSE there is a GENOCIDE.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 17d

Recognition of State of Palestine by Canada, France, UK etc is not only performative it is dangerous.

It doesnt commit to ending genocide or implementing arms embargo and sanctions.

Plus, explicitly calls for demilitarization of Palestine and disarming resistance.

Reviving Oslo is not an option!

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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Capitalist plunder is, therefore, inextricable from racial dispossession and the unequal expropriation structuring state and social formation."

—Harsha Walia
"Border and Rule" 2021

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25d

To be anti fascist today is to abolish the border and be resolutely pro-migrant!!

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25d

As if ethnosupremacists and white nationalists emboldened by this care about your "citizenship status" or (your silly & false) "legal vs illegal" arguments - they will come for you too eventually!

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25d

And same for all the racialized people joining in and showing up for anti-immigration rallies - beyond being shameless, you literally are opening the door for racism to be directed against you too!

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25d

And so workers who join in anti-immigrant propaganda are making it harder for *any*, including *their own* struggle to win.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25d

All it does is make it easier for bosses to make migrants even more vulnerable thru worsening exploitative migrant work programs, or undocumented labour, or outsourcing. Capitalists wont deport migrants, they just want workers to be made vulnerable, to break solidarity, to make it harder to unionize

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25d

what most "citizen" workers who endorse anti immigrant rhetoric have to realize is that falling for this trap actually just entrenches capitalism. "Deporting migrants" isnt suddenly going to fix shitty wages or crappy schools!

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25d

borders create false binaries of workers vs migrants (as if migrants are not also workers!); provides a convenient scapegoat for austerity in the figure of "the migrant", and reinforces racial capitalism and racist citizenship.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25d

"The migrant", already a dehumanizing flattening word, comes to stand in and be scapegoated for the crises of capitalism, and anti immigration bs entrenches racism, capitalism & colonialism.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25d

escalation of fascism around migration - w/ anti immigration protests from toronto to australia to UK - is not a coincidence. borders create false binaries of workers vs migrants; provides a convenient scapegoat for austerity, and reinforces racism.

anti fascist, anti capitalist is pro-migrants!

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 27d

Hwalia8 at gmail

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 27d

especially wild to have hypocritical discussions about "political violence" today

9/11 for mourning political violence against Allende, Biko, Balbir Sodhi, Gustafsen Lake, Attica, Sabra & Shatilla, Somalia

Today for the 4.5 million who died after 9/11 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 28d

Since Maoist rebellions, been many "left" parties & splits. PM forced to resign was so-called communist with the CPN (UML). [*not* actual left party - opportunism, no land reforms, debt trap, casteist etc.] But resurgent monarchist right is falsely characterizing youth uprisings as anti-communist'

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29d

About Nepal:

1. It's not about social media bans, it's about corruption, austerity (incl IMF-imposed) & jobs (~20% unemployment)

2. ~1/3 of economy relies on remittances

3. Biggest gap is not realizing this is ostensibly 'left' govt & context of Left struggles and splits in Nepal, & what's next

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29d

In the past 24 hours, Zionist entity has bombed Gaza, Tunisia, Qatar, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. Zionism is a settler-colonial death cult that be dismantled!

And as we know, Palestine crystallizes everything - including contradictions like Israel bombing a staunch US ally.

Globalize the intifada!

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · Sep 8

Extensive interview with Mahmoud Khalil on his vision of free Palestine, ICE terror and fleeing Assad regime.

"What shocked me at very beginning, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria,” he says.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’

His grandparents survived the Nakba and he fled Assad’s Syria. Khalil is no stranger to political persecution, but not even Trump’s crackdown can silence him

www.theguardian.com

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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · Sep 7

".. capitalism has always required the social differentiation and hierarchization of race. [..] the social differentiation of race is not a secondary outcome of capitalism but, rather, the racial expropriation of land, labor, and life is innately constitutive of capitalism."
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · Sep 7

The call coming from politicians across the spectrum isnt about migrant justice or ending worker exploitation. That should be obvious. Its stoking anti migrant xenophobia. Very weird if you can't see that. If you are sincere about it, you should check out migrant rights network for more info.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thank you!

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · Sep 6

Migrant workers are not responsible for crushing impoverishment & despair; bosses and banks and borders and bomb-producing industries are.

Our common enemy arrives in a limousine, not a boat. Status for all, Abolish the border. Freedom to stay, to move, and to return.

PS - fuck David Eby.

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