Harm reduction advocates have their work cut out for them in this current political climate that has Provincial governments targeting their services using dehumanization language and legislation. Ola Skudlarska, of the Leslieville Harm Reduction Coalition helps myth bust some of the commonly used narratives to criminalize and displace people who use drugs.

Safe consumption facilities have been the focal point of moral panic that is playing out in harmful legislation aiming to shut them down. Hear how people are coming together to defend these sites in their communities that provide support, connection, and a pathway to recovery for individuals who use drugs.

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Resources:

• Other Harm Reduction Resources
• Toronto Life: Safe Consumption Site Kensington Market
• Toronto Star: Supervised Consumption Site What its Really Like
• Leslieville Harm Reduction Coalition

230 Fightback has been battling over a crucial piece of real estate in downtown Toronto for a very long time. A real estate investment company, Kingsett Capital is who owns the building, but their fight has been just as hampered by Toronto City Hall.

Hear how the campaign persisted through organizational changes, set backs and discouragement from their own City Councilor.

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CALL TO ACTION:

• Contact KingSett Capital and Toronto City Councilor Chris Moise to protest against the redevelopment of 214-230 Sherbourne.

• History - 230 Fightback
• Rabble: Questions remain about eviction of 150 Toronto seniors 2019
• Tenant Power - a Podcast Playlist

Our hosts get personal with their lived experiences with ADHD.

Its a very candid discussion on how ADHD impacts their lives, the accommodations that help them thrive and the politics behind preventing us from realizing more inclusive spaces for neurodivergent folks.

The episode was largely left uncut to better demonstrate some of the very characteristics people associate with ADHD, but also to challenge the misconceptions that are out there.

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Resources:

• Referenced video: How to ADHD's Wall of Awful Part 1
• Related Episode: Autistic Resistance: The Foundations - Blueprints of Disruption

Hear a story of tenants forming a union to fight back against a slumlord, going on Rent Strike and winning!

Bruno, an organizer with York-South Weston Tenants Union is back to share a victory from an unlikely place, the Ontario Landlord Tenant Board. We previously heard from Bruno on one of our favourite episodes, Blueprints of a Rent Strike.

We don't just get the story - we get the blueprints of how they did it.

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Resources:

• The Tenant Class - Blueprints of Disruption | Podfollow
• Blueprints of Rent Strike
• Follow YSW Tenants Union on Twitter (X)

Canada's has deep ties to Haiti's current political dilemma, and deep pockets when it comes to meddling in their democracy. Since 2022, that is $300 million and counting.

Teacher and writer Travis Ross, of the Canada-Haiti Information Project gets us up to speed on what is happening on the ground in Haiti right now and how we got there. It includes a foreign policy discussion, but also explains from a local perspective the various coalitions and classes battling it out on the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

Learn more on this topic:

• Referenced Documentary: Another Vision (YouTube)
• Follow Travis Ross on Twitter (X)
• Global Fragility Act Statement - President Biden
• Canada announces $123 million in funding to improve security in Haiti - Canada.ca
• Latest News | The Canada-Haiti Information Project

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Alex Cosh, Managing Editor at The Maple joins us to talk about their work holding the powerful accountable. Their most recent story, ignored by Canadian media, is explosive, as it proves Trudeau has been lying about an arms embargo with Israel. There is lots to learn about the Canadian arms trade if we're going to shut it down.

We also talk about the importance of finding the truth and exposing it - especially as it related to the work of the movements to disarm Israel.

CALL TO ACTION: Get involved with #ArmsEmbargoNow

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Resources:

• Al Jazeera: Canada's Off the Record Arms Trade
• Appel and Cosh: Pierre Poilievre’s Incoming War On Support For Palestine
• The Maple: U.S. Names Quebec Contractor In Newly Approved Arms Sale To Israel
• Follow Alex Cosh on Twitter (X)
• The Maple

Not only does Unicorn Riot put out impressive, badly needed content that covers our movements - but they do it using a decentralized, non-hierarchal model that we could all learn from. A model that frees their members, pulls in as many people as possible and gets a lot done with little resources.

We get to talk to three members of Unicorn Riot about how they work with contributors from all over the globe to tell previously untold stories of resistance, state suppression and more. For example, they are the folks imbedded in the protests we're seeing around the Democratic National Convention (DNC).

They certainly do provide, Blueprints of Disruption.

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Resources:

• Unicorn Riot's Legal Defense Fund

Despite what they'll tell you, Scotiabank is feeling the heat from No Arms in the Arts, a coalition of cultural sector workers who have deftly weaponized the banks own PR machine to get them to divest from Israeli weapons manufacturers.

Aliya Pabani from Canlit Responds and Michael DeForge of Writers Against the War on Gaza (W.A.W.O.G) talk about how they were able to turn Scotiabank's sponsorships of things like the Giller Prize and Hot Docs into liabilities as a means of pressure.

Its also a discussion about creating, activating and structuring coalitions, encouraging folks to go beyond their craft and look beyond the typical leverage points.

Resources:

• Attention Required! | Cloudflare
• How the Giller Prize Became Associated with Genocide | The Walrus
• Canlit Responds
• Toronto Star: Scotiabank Divests

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