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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 • working to build safer communities w/o the use of human cages

Unceded Algonquin Territory
Joined January 2013
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Five years after George Floyd and Regis Korchinski Paquet, the police have massively expanded their funding, power, and technologies of brutality. Border policing has become more fully entrenched and legitimized by all major parties. The demand was and remains: Abolition Now.
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For #MothersDay2025 please donate if you can to this grassroots fundraiser for Black & Indigenous mothers who have lost loved ones to the terror of policing in Canada. Unlike in 2020, there is now little support for crucial on the ground work like so your contribution matters!
FUNDRAISER: Mothers Coming Together, individuals who have lost sons, daughters, loved ones, and friends to police violence and the prison system, incl. the mother of #AnthonyAust and #RegisKorchinskiPaquet, raising $$ for travel to important gatherings gofundme.com/f/mothers-comin…
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Creepy weirdos Billboard Chris and Maxime Bernier plan to gather this Friday in front of our schools to spread transphobic hatred. Again. Let's show up and support community members who shouldn't have to deal with weird men harassing kids at school. #Ottawa
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Coming this July... the #HowToAbolishPrisons audio book! Glad to see our @haymarketbooks title will be available in a format that'll increase the accessibility of the insights prison abolitionists shared w/ Rachel Herzing & I. tantor.com/how-to-abolish-pr…
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Tomorrow. Access Through Information: FOI Best Practices in a Disability Justice Context TUES MAR 18, 12noon-130pm CST Megan Linton, Carleton University REGISTER HERE: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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KOKUMS OF SISTERS IN SPIRIT 2025 May 5th, 2025 ~ Algonquin Territory 12 noon to 1 pm. Parliament Hill ~ Ottawa. PRAYERS. SMUDGE. SONGS.
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"Where's Steve?" Incumbent MPP @SteveClarkPC has repeatedly ducked constituents opposed to the Kemptville prison plan. With an election just days away, MPP Clark wouldn’t even face his constituents at an all candidates debate on February 18. /1
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Replying to @TheBeaverton
This would be funny except that imprisoned people do in fact die in Ontario provincial jails because of so-called health care (or lack thereof) offered in those human caging sites. Health care in provincial jails should be transferred from 'correctional' to health authorities.
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2/3 Building on efforts to #SaveFarmland and #StopTheKemptvillePrison, CAPP (cappkemptville.ca) will soon launch the Coalition Against Proposed Prisons Ontario. Join forces with us. Email [email protected] to learn more. Together we will win!
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Replying to @fordnation
Why do you think it's a good idea to build a new prison on prime agricultural land w/ floodplain & a Rideau River watershed creek in a time of food insecurity & climate catastrophe? #StopTheKemptvillePrison | #SaveFarmland
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The big winners today on Turtle Island - the #PIC | prison-industrial-complex profiteers in the public and private sectors involved in surveilling, bordering, policing and caging in so-called Canada, Mexico and the United States. /1
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Thanks to the NDP for doing their homework and understanding that Dr. Diab is an innocent man and should be protected by the Canadian Govt.
NDP MPs @HMcPherson & @AMacGGregor4ML urge @viraniarif & @melaniejoly to waive privileged communications on extradition requests as government has done in the past & confirm that it will block any such request from France regarding Dr. Diab. Full letter: tinyurl.com/3hh6txpx
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"The Skin We're In" is officially five years old today It's still the most meaningful writing I've done, and I'm so grateful it was published and continues to be read The paperback, e-book, and audiobook (read by yours truly) are all available here: penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/…
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Firing 3,300 people at Immigration Canada is part of Trump-Conservative agenda, hurts workers and migrants. We need Status for All to ensure rights and protections for everyone. Find out more: MigrantRights.ca/RightsNotCu…
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1/6 Today, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) launched Volume 34, Number 1 (2025) – a special issue on “Emotions and the Affective Politics of Incarceration” edited by Jennifer M. Kilty, Rachel Fayter and @JustinPicheh. It is now available online at jpp.org
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Absolutely fucking devastating. This sort of thing doesnt happen by accident. It happens because our city continues to spend 100s of millions subsidizing P3 sports stadiums and horses for cops rather than affordable housing or community services. ottawa.ctvnews.ca/homeless-m…
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Started my Journey for Justice for my mom when I was 41 years old. For the past 2 decades we have done everything to bring awareness to MMIWGT2S. 13 days and counting. I will be 65 years old. WE ARE STILL HERE. birthday gifts accepted ❤️ EMT: [email protected]
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Also, congratulations are in order for one of the special issue editors, Dr. Rachel Fayter, who recently defended her PhD thesis entitled "Unbroken: Stories of Strength, Solidarity, and Resistance from Canadian Federal Prisons Designated for Women". 4/6
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*** Coming in January 2025 in print via @uOttawaPress and online via jpp.org 🧵*** Volume 34, Number 1 (2025) - is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on “Emotions and the Affective Politics of Incarceration”. 1/6
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It has been almost 8 years since Soleiman Faqiri’s beating death at the hands of correctional officers. Please join us virtually on Dec 15 at 6pm as as we remember our beloved ‘Soli’. You can join our vigil directly at the link below: us06web.zoom.us/j/8951807892…
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