Please send me any updates on exciting organizing documentation you are working on to combat the harms of criminalization across Canada. putting together the @interruptcrim.bsky.social fall newsletter and would love to share more work from across canada- especially in the prairies and East coast.

Canada is closing its door to Haitian asylum seekers- it changed the law to largely bar their crossing after Haitian and African asylum seekers sought refuge at the border ten years ago. This is a nation hostile to Black life. globalnews.ca/news/1199602...

Advocates brace for possible influx of Haitian asylum seekers as U.S. protections end | Globalnews.ca

TPS, which had allowed Haitians to live and work legally in the U.S. on a temporary basis, officially expired Monday.

globalnews.ca

Sold-out Policing Black Lives event in Vancouver organized by the brilliant folks at Weaving Our Worlds and the Vancouver Black Library but sharing in case you want to find a way to come say hi! www.weavingourworlds.ca/policing-bla...

I'm speaking at a Policing Black Lives event in Vancouver, hosted by the fabulous Weaving Our Worlds and Vancouver Black Library, and there is a prison book drive - please consider donating ! weavingourworlds.ca/book-list/

This is an important article from IC board member Robyn Maynard (@policingblack.bsky.social). In it, she discusses how today's border policing is steeped in historic efforts to control Black mobility, from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act.

Hunted and Banned

Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.

bostonreview.net

Montreal cops abusing Black and Arab populations and keeping Black folks hair and dreadlocks as “trophies.” The legacy of slavery is ongoing in this country. www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/06/12/s...

can anybody share a free template that makes quotes and images look good, easy to read for multiple generations? ideally with a bit of style?

"Grasping the full scale & scope of today’s border controls requires us to look at the history of the carceral governance of Black people, a project that started with trans-Atlantic slavery & continued through colonial rule in Africa & the Americas & Jim Crow in the US" - friend of IC Robyn Maynard

Hunted and Banned

Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.

bostonreview.net

In 2026, fascism in the US is rising while “the left” descends further into powerlessness, goofiness, and irrelevance—but, author @williamcson.bsky.social argues, it doesn’t have to stay that way.

The world is in crisis. William C. Anderson sees a way out

In 2026, fascism in the US is rising while “the left” descends further into powerlessness, goofiness, and irrelevance—but, author William C. Anderson argues, it doesn’t have to stay that way.

therealnews.com

Read this brilliant new piece by @harshawalia.bsky.social in Boston Review: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Not to Abolish ICE

What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?

bostonreview.net

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Check out the second IC Canada newsletter for news on fighting state repression—on both sides of the border: bit.ly/ICCanada2

the US is taking “unprecedented” measures to secure ownership over Canadian mines, turning Canada—and the First Nations from whose lands the minerals are sourced—into a US mining territory, the Canadian government is funding & fast-tracking these projects breachmedia.ca/elbows-up-ca...

Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines  ⋆ The Breach

By fast-tracking critical minerals, Canada is not simply building a green economy. It is being further integrated into the U.S. war industry

breachmedia.ca

Here is my second news round up on criminalization -and the work opposing its expansion- in Canada for @interruptcrim.bsky.social Please read, share, and send me pertinent info and updates at the address provided! bit.ly/ICCanada2

“San Diego is not unique. The full catalog of attacks on Muslims within the United States is only dwarfed by US imperialism’s library of brutality against Muslims, which begins with chattel slavery and is reinvigorated continuously through war.” - www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/san...

San Diego Über Alles — Parapraxis

Esmat Elhalaby

parapraxismagazine.com

Here is my second news round up on criminalization -and the work opposing its expansion- in Canada for @interruptcrim.bsky.social Please read, share, and send me pertinent info and updates at the address provided! bit.ly/ICCanada2

A few years ago, I wrote about how social scientists do not often receive training in our grad programs to trace the power elite’s activities. medium.com/datasociety-... For those who wanna level up, there are many upcoming free trainings from @mapthepower.bsky.social. littlesis.org/trainings/

“Power Structure” Is No Abstract Phrase

On methods for studying elites

medium.com

Side note: @policingblack.bsky.social writes a quarterly @interruptcrim.bsky.social Canada newsletter that is 🔥. Be sure to subscribe today so you can get it this week - because borders are bullshit & our struggle is across Turtle Island interruptingcriminalization.ourpowerbase.net/form/newslet...

"as border policing extends the state’s power to inflict racial violence abolitionism must reject the denial of that freedom wherever it takes place—from policing & incarceration to forced removal, immigration detention, & entry bans—with a firm insistence that no one be ripped from their community"

Also highlighting the reality that far from being the promised land Canada has colluded with colonial deportation regimes throughout history, incl. when it "passed an 1833 law meant to control the migration of Black runaways from the United States that enabled the extradition of “fugitive offenders”

Must read by @policingblack.bsky.social on why violent enforcement of migration & borders is a Black issue (and has *always been* from the foundation of the US & therefore will not be solved by only abolishing ICE), Black transportability & freedom of movement. www.bostonreview.net/articles/hun...

Hunted and Banned

Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.

bostonreview.net

If you care about Indigenous & Black feminist thought, abolition, environment, relationality, radical transformation, resistance, crisis, hope, or care - the world & its futures - you must read @biidaasamose.bsky.social @policingblack.bsky.social’s wonderful Rehearsals for Living. Thank you both!

No cop city anywhere - from atlanta to vancouver, cities are being militarized against their inhabitants. themainlander.com/2026/04/20/v...

Academy at Woodward's marks "tactical escalation" by Vancouver police, writes drug user education group

themainlander.com

No cop cities- from atlanta to vancouver. themainlander.com/2026/04/20/v...

Academy at Woodward's marks "tactical escalation" by Vancouver police, writes drug user education group

themainlander.com

Toronto: What we’re seeing now is that (police) are not even distinguishing between protests, academic events or cultural events. Any time there are Palestinians speaking about Palestine, they are viewed as potentially anti-semitic or promoting violence.” www.thegrindmag.ca/cops-keep-sh...

Cops keep showing up to arts events about Palestine. What can organizers do?

Toronto police showed up at a comedy fundraiser and at a film screening on the same night in April. Organizers describe how this fits into a broader pattern and what can be done to protect community…

thegrindmag.ca

Missing from the convo about rising “hate” in Toronto is that we don’t count the routine police beatings, dog maulings, home raids, and killings of Black and Indigenous folks as “hate crimes” because that would require a reckoning with the nature of policing in this country.

Toronto- “One investigation found more than a dozen errors when reading a vehicle licence plate or a lack of verification by officers, resulting in people who had not committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail or mauled by a police dog” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood

Rosedale residents considering car licence plate-scanning Flock system in bid to tackle property crime

theguardian.com

This is a sick civilization. An open call to genocide. It is clear that Gaza is how we got here- tolerating genocide in one space begets another. Generations of our ancestors have worked to build something different, toward the preservation of earthly life. I hope I live to see this re-orientation.

Webinar: Kill Bill C5: The Building Canada Act must be repealed 📅Date: April 7, 2025 🕑Time: 7 PM EST/ 6 PM CST/ 5 PM MST/ 4 PM PST 💻Zoom Registration: https://tinyurl.com/3baznxa7 Speakers: Moderator 🎙️Ellen Gabriel Sabaa Khan Donna Ashamok Ojistoh Horn

OMFG

Phil Christman@philipchristman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

his version of “teaching to transgress” is gonna be horrifying