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Defund the Toronto Police: City Budget Edition
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Join Showing Up for Racial Justice Toronto (SURJ TO) and community advocates on January 7 from 6-8:30 pm to learn more and plug into action building on the June 2020 call from Black Lives Matter Toronto to defund the Toronto Police Services by 50% in the 2021 City budget. Hear from Desmond Cole, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP), and Idil Abdillahi about working towards an abolitionist future.
The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is the single largest expense item in Toronto’s budget. That means the largest portion of municipal tax dollars are going to fu
Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward. The show uses conversations from the
Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast to serve as each episode s backbone. Trussell voices the lead character Clancy, a 20-something who lives in a technologically advanced universe. In every episode he travels to a new world using his malfunctioning multi-verse simulator, and because it s on the fritz, every place he goes is experiencing some sort of apocalypse. Visually, these animated worlds are something out of a fever dream. And at every stop on Clancy s journey, he gathers content for his spacecast, talking to anyone who is willing.
Released on Netflix on April 20, a show about a character travelling to apocalyptic dimensions felt somewhat fitting. With COVID-19, our world feels flipped upside down, as the majority of us have lost our sense of normalcy. Many of us feel uncertain about our future and maybe a little existential. Personally,
‘Courage And Truth:’ What Sandy Hudson And Ravyn Wngz Hope To See In 2021
The Black Lives Matter activists have a discussion on what needs to happen next after a devastating but also inspiring year. Sandy Hudson and Ravyn Wngz, Maclean s Updated
December 22, 2020 Ravyn Wngz (left) in Toronto and Sandy Hudson in LA. (Photograph by Dimitri Aspinall; Photograph by Nikk Rich)
Sandy Hudson is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto (BLM-TO) and a bestselling author and public intellectual who is currently living in Los Angeles. Ravyn Wngz is a Black Renaissance Movement storyteller and thought leader who was born in Bermuda, grew up in Atlanta and now lives in Toronto, where she is on BLM-TO’s steering committee. The two spoke on November 8 via Zoom about their hopes for next year.
‘Courage and truth’: What Sandy Hudson and Ravyn Wngz hope to see in 2021
The Black Lives Matter activists have a discussion on what needs to happen next after a devastating but also inspiring year By Sandy Hudson, Ravyn Wngz
December 17, 2020 Ravyn Wngz (left) in Toronto and Sandy Hudson in LA. (Photograph by Dimitri Aspinall; Photograph by Nikk Rich)
Sandy Hudson is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto (BLM-TO) and a bestselling author and public intellectual who is currently living in Los Angeles. Ravyn Wngz is a Black Renaissance Movement storyteller and thought leader who was born in Bermuda, grew up in Atlanta and now lives in Toronto, where she is on BLM-TO’s steering committee. The two spoke on Nov. 8 via Zoom about their hopes for next year.