From a member of the Feminist NDP Facebook Group:

I’m sharing this information about the Chan / Sullivan decisions in hopes of clarifying some misinformation before this gets out of hand: Friends, a lot of you are very angry about this news. And you’d be right to… if any of it were true. 

This is an example of outrageously unethical reporting by CP24, because this headline is NOT AT ALL what the Court of Appeal decision says. Intoxication is not a defense to violence. It wasn’t before, and this doesn’t change that. Both the Chan & Sullivan decisions are about situations where someone became intoxicated in a way that was not their fault (one guy took some prescription meds that affected him in a bad way, causing him to attack his family).

If you sexually assault someone while drunk, you’re still criminally responsible. This has not changed. The fact that CP24 makes it sound like this has somehow changed is an effort to make activists angry about something that isn’t even true. It’s wildly irresponsible reporting. (Shout-out to Windsor grad @Sara Little for her succinct tweets).

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Submitted by @fortress-mind

How you can help fight anti-Black racism and police brutality here in Canada too.

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Submitted by @renquise

Tagging @allthecanadianpolitics

#BlackLivesMatter

Resources for Canada:

Resources for America:

Resources for biologists and naturalists:

Resources for the arts:

Feel free to add to this!

Resource is from victoriaalxndr on Twitter!

This account posted the same IG Live I posted that proved we got attacked at the protest for no reason. Translation:

“THIS IS PROOF THAT THE POLICE ATTACKED FIRST WITHOUT ANY REASON.

“WE ON THE FRONT WERE TRYING TO SPEAK TO THE POLICE OFFICERS WHO CLAIMED TO UNDERSTAND OUR CAUSE; WE ASKED THEM POLITELY TO KNEEL ON THE FLOOR AT THE SAME TIME AS US SO THEY COULD PROVE THEY WERE TRULY WITH US; UNFORTUNATELY, THEY REFUSED; THEY THEN PUT THEIR KNEES ON THE FLOOR; THEN WE CELEBRATED THEN WE RECEIVED TEAR GAS BOMBS; WE HAD IN NO WAY ATTACKED THE POLICE, WE WERE ATTACKED BY THEM, AND THE MEDIA HIDES IT, WE WANT PEACE AND ONLY PEACE.”

Please share this. Please don’t let Canadian and specifically Montreal police forces’ violence hide.

@allthecanadianpolitics ​

HOW TO DONATE TO BLM WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY

a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity

please, please reblog. for people who don’t have money to spare, this is incredibly important information to have.

ways to help protestors if you are unable to protest

everybody has to do their part. as a reference, this was posted on 1 june 2020. if any links are broken or direct to a place they should not, please feel free to add on with corrections. if there is new information with better knowledge, please feel free to share. thank you.

1. donate

BAIL FUNDS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER; NOT A COMPREHENSIVE LIST)

MORE PLACES TO DONATE

2. educate yourself

it isn’t enough to sign petitions and reblog/retweet/etc. nonblack people, including people of color, owe it to black people to educate themselves and correct themselves and the people around them on anti-blackness.

3. give out supplies to protestors

people need supplies to protest safely, and even if they bring supplies with them, they can often run out. if you’re able, stock up and hand them out to people protesting. for more supplies to donate, see the “george floyd action” google docs link in section 5.

IMPORTANT: KNOWING FIRST AID

tear gas: if you’re hit, get out as fast and as soon as you can. take anyone you can with you. the longer you’re in the gas, the harder it will be for you to see, and it can irritate your airways, making it hard to breathe. if you’re hit, don’t run; it’ll only make things worse on your lungs. when you leave the area, take a cold shower. don’t use hot water (it will only reactivate the agent); don’t bathe (it will only spread the CS around). (source 1) (source 2) (cdc fact sheet on tear gas)

bullet wounds: the most important thing is to stop the bleeding. be sure to check for an exit wound and cover that as well. treat both wounds, but treat the worse one first.

miscellaneous

4. be a source of information

be responsible with this. people’s lives are at stake. that being said, the media is a fucking joke and the best way to get accurate information in a grassroots rebellion is amongst ourselves. record everything, but if you are going to share any information at all, be sure to blur people’s faces.

NUMBERS TO CALL FOR ARRESTED PROTESTORS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER; SOURCES LINKED TO THE NUMBER)

remember to keep phones OFF unless absolutely necessary. cell phone towers, stingrays, location notifs can all be used to track you and other protestors. don’t fuck around. if your phone must be on, keep it on airplane mode as often as possible and only communicate using encrypted methods. no, snapchat doesn’t count. (a twitter thread on stingrays, for those interested)

5. miscellaneous links and links for protestors

While people are inclined to whip out their phones and film when they see something alarming happening, those videos are not always recorded in a way that can be used as evidence in a legal proceeding or to support advocacy tactics.

At the human rights organization WITNESS, where I work as the senior U.S. program coordinator, we’ve learned that video has a greater chance of making an impact when it’s filmed ethically and strategically, and released in coordination with advocacy and legal efforts. Using the camera in your pocket can be a valuable way to ensure the world bears witness to abusive policing and systemic racism, help hold authorities accountable, and advocate for the real safety of our communities.

Teen Vogue still hitting it out of the park, I see.

HOLY SHIT. This was extremely informative. Please everyone READ THIS!!!

I think the important thing for Non-Canadians to know about Trudeau’s SNC Lavalain Scandal

Is that it by itself would not be enough to seriously damage Trudeau’s brand. I know I see some Americans going on that this scandal seems tame by comparison to what Trump is doing.

This ignores context.

The reason this scandal is hitting Trudeau so hard is because it is the final straw for a lot of people (and particularly progressives who voted for him because he campaigned on the left in the 2015 election) who have felt continually betrayed by his government. This government explicitly ran on a campaign in 2015 of avoiding the corruption and cronyism of the previous Conservative government.

This SNC Scandal does not exist in a vacuum, and this is not the only bad thing Trudeau has been doing. Its just that the American media has rarely reported on anything controversial this man has done in power over these past 4 years.

Since 2015, Justin Trudeau has claimed to be a climate leader while approving and buying oil pipelines, he has claimed to be an ally to Indigenous people while suing them in court and steam rolling over their rights with industrial projects, he claimed to want to fix Canada’s electoral system then at the last moment decided partisan politics was more important to him than a major promise he made, he said he would be on the side of Organized Labour and then he legislated Canada Post workers back to work and ignored pensioners who lost everything when Sears folded, He has claimed to be supportive of Human Rights but has defended selling billions of weapons to Saudi Arabia, he said he would be the ‘anti-Harper’ candidate than he maintained the Harper Government’s mandatory minimums, health care transfer cuts and weak climate targets.

And now with this SNC scandal it throws his entire 2015 election pitch that he would run an open, democratic government that would avoid corruption and the influence of giant corporation’s ability to lobby government’s, as has plagued both the Liberal and Conservative governments over the past couple of decades.

People really need to see the big picture here. This scandal paints Trudeau as no better than Harper or Chretien when it comes to appeasing corporations and the 1% over working people, and when compacted with his other questionable decisions over these 4 years invalidates his entire reason he ran for office in 2015. He has become the cynical politician who he campaigned against.

Thor: Ragnarok (2017) dir. Taika Wakititi

My wife yelled “Piss off, ghost!” in her sleep this morning. I thought she was yelling at the cat (he makes little “whoo, whooop” noises and is not allowed in the bedroom) but apparently she was just yelling.

Continue Reading.

In a 1970s experiment, a Stanford psychologist and 7 other mentally healthy participants got themselves admitted to 12 different psychiatric hospitals across the US by pretending to hear voices. Once inside, they began acting normally, but all 12 hospitals diagnosed each of them with disorders, forced them to take drugs, and required them all to admit they had a disease before they could be released. Source Source 2

This was the study ‘being sane in insane places’ by David Rosenhan. The purpose of the study was to determine whether or not the staff of asylums could truly determine a person’s sanity after being admitted.

Rosenhan ans his colleagues did not pretend to hear voices, they pretended to hear a ‘hollow thud’- something with no basis in psychology. From the get go they were offering the doctors and nurses a chance to deny them entry, but despite the fact that the thing they were faking wasn’t even a real symptom, they were all admitted.

That very day, the moment of their admission, they went back to acting normal. They went about their day as normally as possible, and waited to see if the staff of each hospital they were in would notice. They stopped reporting hearing the noise that got them admitted.

The staff never noticed.

Some of the patients did.

Despite this, all of them were eventually released, but none were declared sane on release. Some were in the hospital for 2 weeks, one remained for over 50 days.

What the study proved was that it became impossible to establish sane from insane in the setting of a mental hospital. To retest, after Rosenhan came forward with his findings, he told asylums all over the nation that they’d be doing the experiment again, but with more participants this time. After a certain period, he would ask the head doctors of the ‘targeted’ asylums which patients they believed were faking it.

All of the hospitals reported at least one person.

No one was actually sent in.

This reiterated the original claim, proving for all that the perception of sanity is reliant on location and societal standards.