Stories of Textiles

@storiesoftextiles.bsky.social

Tufted fibre art, textiles, handmade clothes, craft, politics, people over profit, silliness. www.storiesoftextiles.com My name is Jess (she/her). Treaty One.

📷 URGENT ACTION NEEDED 📷 The Manitoba Government has run out of funding for the Canada-Manitoba Housing Benefit, closing intake as of March 3. 📷 Take action now: Manitoba Government: Support the Right to Housing Coalition's Recommendations for Budget 2025! - Action Network

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“On February 20, long-time Canadian Dimension columnist and contributor Yves Engler was arrested by Montréal police at the behest of pro-Israel media personality Dahlia Kurtz. In today’s Canada, offending Zionist influencers is apparently enough to land you behind bars.” #canada #cdnpoli #palestine

Free Yves Engler

Those who stand up for just social and economic causes have long faced repression by the Canadian state. In this moment, the struggle for Palestinian liberation is the most unifying cause for people w...

canadiandimension.com

Thanks to @bpincott.bsky.social for outlining these thoughts on yesterday's hearing. I'll be thinking about the experience for a while. The three words that keep circling in my head: process as violence. A slow and violent death where we choose parking over people, for eternity.

Brian Pincott@bpincott.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yeah, it was sadly predictable. The whole thing was predictable. #winnipeg #wpgpoli open.substack.com/pub/brianpin...

Do you curl at the Granite Curling Club, or know someone who does? Contact me if you'd like to sign the Granite members' letter IN SUPPORT of the proposed affordable housing development on the west side. People Over Parking! #mbpoli

Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · 2y ago

A concerned group of Granite Curling Club members are campaigning against a petition created by the club’s executive to stop the city’s plans for an affordable housing development in the parking lot adjacent to the facility.

Huge news! 🎉 Giller Prize, one of Canada's largest literary prizes, has cut ties with lead sponsor Scotiabank after one year of literary community protesting the bank’s ties to Elbit, Israeli arms manufacturer. BDS works! We have power wherever we are. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...

Giller Foundation, lead sponsor Scotiabank end partnership

The foundation that administers the Giller Prize didn’t say why the partnership ended, but the sponsorship has recently come under fire over a Scotiabank subsidiary’s investment in an Israeli arms com...

theglobeandmail.com

and, as always, some of the most targeted during resurgences of economic nationalism and economic protectionism are migrants (esp migrant workers and refugees). this is *exactly* what the stabilization of capitalism requires. because insourcing & outsourcing are flipsides of the same capitalist coin

There have to be other ways to talk about political community inside nation-states without invoking nationalism. How about collective responsibility to those whom we share nothing in common with beyond the sanctity of life and geography? Let’s take the opportunity to invent new social relations.