COVID AWARE ORGANIZING

If we're going to build accessible, safe spaces to organize, that needs to include ways to reduce COVID transmissions amongst our comrades. Shira Lurie, a COVID aware activist with Protect our Province Nova Scotia (POPNS) and Mask for Mask Queers, joins host Jessa McLean to give easy, affordable precautions we can incorporate into our organizing and event planning.

Filling in the gaps where our governments have failed to protect us isn't new to progressives. Neither is having to buck popular trends, or create new ones. So why the resistance to masking and other initiatives around air quality? We unpack that and how we can start to bring more people along, even after five years.

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Resources:

• COVID Conscious Under Capitalism - Blueprints of Disruption
• Rabble Rants: Mask Bans (podcast episode)
• Need a Mask? Can you Donate a Mask? DonateMask.ca
• How to build your own Corsi-Rosenthal Box - Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation
• Guest: Shira Lurie

Canada recently adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which is nothing but unmasked anti-Palestinian racism that looks to criminalize criticisms of Israeli State. The Ontario Progressive Conservatives are going to pay organizations like CIJA $550 million to teach that definition in schools. Our hosts remind us all of this is coming at a time where the Canadian state is spending unprecedented resources on weaponizing the legal system against activists. The repercussions are already being felt.

Within days of the adoption of the IHRA, the Crown dropped charges against a woman, not because she didn't commit the violence she was accused of, but because it was justified by the mere mention of a Free Palestine.

Why is Canada so invested in defending Israel's occupation and genocide of Palestinians? People may not like the answer....

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Resources:

• CBC: Hijab Assault Charges Withdrawn
• CBC: Ontario expands Holocaust education in schools to combat rise in antisemitism
• Harsha Walia: Colonialism, racism and the IHRA | The Monitor

We will remember this 5th of November. A bonus Rabble Rants for the Blueprints of Disruption audience in response to the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.

While some blame voters and activists, our hosts examine how the DNC is to blame and what the results mean for the movements we feature on the show.

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