Multiple UN Bodies Pass Motions Against Israel to No Avail

After rulings by the ICJ, and motions passed at the UN Security Council and Human Rights Council, Israel has continued its onslaught of Gaza and its many violations of human rights and international law.

Host Jessa McLean gives updates on the latest rulings and examines the history of the U.N., its failure to prevent other genocides and its true purpose.

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Street photograph Joshua Best has been front and centre for the escalation of police violence against protestors in the City of Toronto. He joins the hosts to talk about his his experience, his intriguing photography and what drives him to document disruption.

It's also a discussion about police brutality, the resultant radicalization of participants, of solidarity and street level battles for a better world.

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Liberals Announce Plans for a Renters' Bill of Rights

In an attempt to sway young voters, mostly renters, Trudeau and the Liberals have announced what they are calling a Renters' Bill of Rights. It includes some funding for legal aid, plans to tie rental payment history to credit scores and other measures aimed at the landlord/tenant relationship.

Host Jessa McLean goes through the plans, their viability and flags some of the ways these measures could actually harm tenants and their ability to push back against bad landlords and sky high rents.

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• Financial Post: Trudeau Pledges to Boost Renters Rights
• CBC: Renters' Bill of Rights
• 'Secret' RCMP report paints dark picture of Canada's future | CTV News
• Justin Trudeau's video announcement for Renters

The Social Justice Co-operative in St. John's Newfoundland/Labrador has a long as resilient history. Our interview with co-chair Kerri Claire tells of a personal political journey and an organizational one. Both of which have led to an impressive collective making a meaningful impact.

With limited resources, these folks are able to contribute to wide array of local initiatives. And most importantly, they do this in a way that value members' voices and set models for community care.

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• Referenced Article: Memorial University of N.L. board member suspended | CTV News
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• Social Justice Co-Op NL Linktree

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TOPIC: Liberals introduce caps and other policy changes related to temporary foreign residents.

In an attempt to further scapegoat immigrants for the 'affordability and housing crisis', federal Liberals in Canada have introduced caps on migrant workers, international students and asylum seekers.

We go over the details of the changes being made and the impact they'll have. We highlight the realities facing 'temporary residents' and the demands advocates have been fighting for, for years. Things like Status for All, an end to deportations and the regularization of undocumented people in Canada.

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• CBC: UN Special Rapporteur on Migrant Worker Program
• Referenced Action: Online Phone Zap: Unite Against Racism, Regularize All! - Migrant Workers Alliance for Change
• CBC: PEI Foreign Workers Investigation
• BBC: Canada to set first-ever cap on temporary residents

Our discussion with anarchist collective CrimethInc. participant 'B' was full of lessons for how we can better organize our movements. How to form true collectives that value each and every voice, not just symbolically, but in how they make decisions. B describes how there is a way to find harmony without requiring complete unity.

This episode helps to better define anarchism as it is in these times; a collective project for self-determination. It is completely compatible with the work we are already doing, and may hold key answers to the questions that hive stagnated many movements.

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United States Pledges to Build a Seaport in Gaza.

In his State of the Union Address, President Biden called for a six-week ceasefire and promised to build a seaport to deliver aid to Gaza.

The project will be lead by U.S. troops and a company no-one has heard of until now. Wait until you find out who runs that company and what their aims in the Middle East are.

We also discuss what all of this mean for the Israeli blockade on Gaza and geopolitics in general?

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Resources:

• Buried Secrets | The New Yorker
• Ottawa pauses non-lethal military export permits for Israel
• Video: Machinery entering Gaza
• Live updates on Gaza from Al Jazeera
• ABC: Biden Announces Emergency US Military Mission
• US military ship heading to Gaza to build port

Ontario ACORN just released a report on renovictions in the Province, and the findings are beyond alarming. The good news is there are plenty of people organizing around the issue, with some victories already under their belt.

Our hosts are joined by local ACORN organizers Lorne MacMillan (Hamilton) and Even Bury (Ottawa) to talk about the impact of renovictions on renters, the community and the housing market.

Tenant organizing is growing steadily in Canada, and it has been serving up victories for some time. Listen in for ways to resist renovictions and bad landlords.

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• Call to Action: Ontario Cities Need Renoviction Protections NOW! - ACORN Canada
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• Renovictions in Ontario - ACORN Canada REPORT

Direct actions work. The past two weeks have seen multiple Palestinian solidarity actions shut down Liberal fundraisers and galas with fascists. They have drawn attention to illegal land sales, Canadian companies arming Israel, and the racist violence of Zionists here in Canada.

Our hosts go over some of these actions, the tactics they used, the responses and the results.

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• CIA Handbook on Sabotage
• Referenced Episode: Courage Needed: Advocating for Palestine
• Referenced Episode: We Keep Us Safe - Blueprints of Disruption
• World Beyond War: Kraken Technology Action Statement
• Independent Jewish Voices Response Letter to Selina Robinson
• UPDATE: Aid Funding Restored
• CBC: Real Estate Events in Thornhill
• CBC: Trudeau Meloni Event Cancelled

Special Guest, John Clarke joins Host Jessa McLean to give a proper (hostile) send off to Brian Mulroney, Canada's Prime Minister from 1984 to 1993.

Frustrated by the Parliamentarian/respectability politics that saw the leader of the workers' party give a glowing tribute to a man that was a sworn enemy of the working class, they go through the true 'legacy' of the man who ushered in an unchecked era of heightened exploitation.

Throughout the episode the audience is also given a crash course in exactly what neoliberalism is and why its entrenchment in Canadian politics is nothing to honour.

Here is our previous episode with John Clarke, Making Mass Actions Count. December 2022.

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• CBC: Mulroney Tried to Cover Up Cash Payments
• Did Mulroney really ‘lead the fight’ against apartheid? – Canadian Dimension