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...
tvanouvelles.ca
Robyn Maynard
@policingblack.bsky.social
New on here. Author of Policing Black Lives (Fernwood/Duke University Press, 2025) and co-author of Rehearsals for Living (Haymarket 2023). More at www.robynmaynard.com
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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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
Fighting State Repression –– On Both Sides of the U.S.-Canada Border! 💥
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“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
Fighting State Repression –– On Both Sides of the U.S.-Canada Border! 💥
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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...
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"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
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
Cutting VPs who are crucial to school functioning, yet the province has tens of millions allocated in the new budget to forcibly return police back to schools, reversing the decisions taken by school boards to remove them when they were deemed ineffective and harmful. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tds...
TDSB is cutting 40 vice-principals — so some schools will have to share
The Toronto District School Board, currently under provincial supervision, said 28 of the roles were tied to pandemic-era funding that expired.
thestar.com
In Toronto, the first community policing model began in 1967, introduced in two neighborhoods with large Black communities. By 1970, it had expanded citywide, with a 1973 creation of the Ethnic Relations Unit, and a “Black section” in 1975. 1/3 briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...
Community policing: expanding the carceral web
Excerpt from Policing Black Lives: Revised and Expanded – In a revised and expanded version of Policing Black Lives, Robyn Maynard documents how half a centre of police reforms, including community po...
briarpatchmagazine.com
"If I hear the phrase ‘forgotten’ with respect to Sudan one more time, I might scream" My latest on Sudan: thecontrapuntal.com/sudan-war-ya...
Yassmin Abdel-Magied on Sudan: “If I Hear ‘Forgotten’ One More Time, I Might Scream” - The Contrapuntal
For Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Sudan emerges beyond war’s shadow and reductive narratives, challenging apathy, confronting historical amnesia, and insisting on deeply human storytelling.
thecontrapuntal.com
A Tamil refugee claimant is set to be deported—even though he risks jail and torture back in Sri Lanka The minister overseeing the deportation, himself a Tamil refugee and longtime advocate for Tamil asylum seekers, is silent My latest for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/tamil-refuge...
He spent years defending Tamil refugees. As Minister, he’s refusing to stop a deportation back to danger in Sri Lanka ⋆ The Breach
Kumar Thuraisinkam is facing deportation—but the minister who once decried the treatment of his community isn’t stepping in to stop it
breachmedia.ca
Major Canadian banks and pension funds provided ***tens of billions of dollars ***to American contractors for ICE toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/30/c...
Canadian banks, pension funds have poured billions into ICE contractors
OTTAWA — Major Canadian banks and pension funds provided tens of billions of dollars to American contractors for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, an investigation by the non-profit...
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