CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Stand up for Canadian call centre workers

About 150 call centre employees at TELUS are facing a critical moment in their lives. TELUS is closing offices in Ontario and requiring these employees to attend an office in Montreal three times per week; otherwise, they must resign and take a severance package. This forces our members to make an impossible choice between their community, their friends, their families, and their jobs.

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Stand with Fred Hahn

Labour for Palestine calls on the CUPE National Executive Board to reverse its call for CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn’s resignation and urges them, and others within the labour movement, not to cave to zionist pressure.

Send an email directly to the members of CUPE’s National Executive Board and tell them to protect union democracy and stand with members that act in solidarity with Palestine!

The call for Hahn’s resignation is a dangerous attack on every member of the labour movement and a distraction from the current genocide in Gaza that has claimed over 50,000 lives.

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Cultural Intifada on Turtle Island

When: August 29 to 30th, 7:30pm
Where: The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen St. W
Tickets are PWYC $10 | $25 | $50
(August 30th, 2:30 pm; Teach-in is free)

Theatre Artists for Palestinian Voices presents Staging Palestine: A Cultural Intifada on Turtle Island, a powerful offering of performances, readings and music showcasing Palestinian artists while raising funds for Fragments Theatre, a cultural centre in the West Bank dedicated to children, women and youth.

Hosted by Monique Mojica and Roula Said, the night begins with an Indigenous-led opening ceremony and will feature work by playwrights from Nablus, Haifa, Gaza, Jerusalem and the diaspora, including Sami Ibrahim, Ameer Idreis, Rimah Jabr, Dalia Taha and Samah Sabawi. In solidarity with Indigenous theatre artists on Turtle Island, Staging Palestine highlights the rich diversity of Palestinian stories.

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Stop the Airshow!

When: August 31st, 11am
Where: Coronation Park, Toronto (south of Strachan, by the flagpole in the circle path)

From Israel’s incessant airstrikes on Gaza, to the ongoing attacks on Ukraine, in the past year we have seen hospitals shelled, homes reduced to rubble, and the bodies of thousands of children killed in bombings. We have been witnessing exactly what the warplanes being celebrated at the Toronto Air Show are designed to do. Despite this, the Canadian military blatantly uses the air show as an opportunity to sanitize war and recruit for the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Flyering will take place on Saturday, August 31st [10-12pm] at the Princess Gates; and Sunday Sept 1st [12-2pm] at the Dufferin Gates and Monday, Sept 4 [10am-12pm] during the Labour Day March.

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[Hamilton] “Union”

When: August 31st, 7pm (film at 8pm)
Where: 51 Stuart St, Hamilton

Wrap up the summer with an outdoor screening at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre! To celebrate Labour Day weekend, we are showing the award-winning documentary UNION directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing on August 31st in Custom House’s back garden.

UNION follows the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island — as they take on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize. Since its premiere earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Social Change, it has been on a successful festival run with showings around the world, and we are delighted to be hosting its Hamilton premiere.

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Gaza Square

When: Every Sunday, 11am to 1pm
Where: 371 Wallace Ave

We’ll be at Gaza square once again this Sunday morning with hot chocolate and coffee, buttons and posters, lawn signs and colourful chalk! Come say hi and meet your fellow neighbours/organizers as we make our presence known and continue to build safety in our community!

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Palestine Solidarity

When: Sept 2nd, 9am
Where: 17 Centre Ave, south of Dundas St W (Parade Section 10)

Join us as we stand with Palestine and highlight the crucial role that labour unions play in the fight for justice and liberation. Together, we’ll demonstrate that the struggle for a free Palestine is an essential part of the global workers’ movement.

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Weekly Phone-zap for Palestine

When: Mondays at 12pm

Week after week, we’re keeping the momentum going with our Monday lunchtime zaps.

Our collective action is making waves, but we need to ensure our elected officials continue to feel the pressure until real change happens.

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Canadian Foreign Policy Hour with Yves Engler

When: Mondays at 6pm

Join author Yves Engler on Mondays for a weekly news roundup and interactive discussion about Canada’s role abroad. This weekly session will delve into the latest developments on subjects ranging from military affairs and Canada’s role in Ukraine to its contribution to Palestinian dispossession, and the exploitation of African resources. Join Yves for a critical take on Canada’s foreign policy. Questions, comments, and criticisms are all welcome.

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Municipal Politics, Socialist Strategy

When: September 3rd, 7pm (doors open 6:30pm)
Where: CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst St

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is pleased to be presenting “Transforming the City,” a discussion of municipal politics, socialist strategy, and organizing to win.

From unprecedented Palestine solidarity actions and struggles against police violence to massive climate strikes and marches against healthcare privatization, recent years have seen a growing number of people taking to the streets, causing Toronto to re-emerge as a site of popular struggle.

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TWHP book club

When: September 4th, 7pm

Barnacle Love captures the story of a man from the Azores, who travels to Newfoundland on a fishing trawler and then finds himself raising a family in Little Portugal in Toronto.

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Low Income Neighbourhoods Fighting Back

When: Sept 5th, 6:30pm
Where: Regent Park (585 Dundas Street East)

Large developers have been buying up properties in Toronto’s low income neigbourhoods at an alarming rate over the last decade. On September 5th, organizations from a number of low-income communities will gather to talk about how they are organizing to fight back against the gentrification of their neighbourhoods.

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Scholasticide

By Henry A. Giroux

What sets Israel’s war on Gaza apart is not only its violent military operations, marked by the indiscriminate killing of women and children, but also its relentless assault on dissent, criticism, and even the mildest opposition to its internationally condemned human rights violations and war crimes. Israel’s ongoing and brutal military campaign, coupled with its “policies of extreme inhumanity against the Palestinian people,” is inextricably linked to a state-sanctioned effort to legitimize and normalize its actions in Gaza. This includes waging an ideological war of censorship and defamation against any challenge – no matter its source – to what Kenneth Roth, co-founder of Human Rights Watch, condemns as “Israel’s system of apartheid,” and what Aryeh Neier, Holocaust survivor and co-founder of Human Rights Watch, describes as “genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”

Source: The Bullet No. 3034