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Avi Lewis

@avilewis.ca

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Dad. Movement builder. NDP leadership candidate fighting for the 99%. Père. Organisateur. Candidat chefferie NPD pour les 99%. lewisforleader.ca / choisisavi.ca

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 26d

Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy.

I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.

We need a government that serves the many, not the money.

Join in. lewisforleader.ca/

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Why I’m running for NDP leader

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dianave.bsky.social @dianave.bsky.social · 22h

Affordable #groceries in #Canada? Here's how. #NDP @avilewis.ca act.lewisforleader.ca/stop-grocery...

Stop Grocery Gouging - Lewis for Leader - National

Butter for $10. That's not inflation, that's profiteering. Three grocery giants—Loblaws, Sobeys, and Metro—control our food system. They're price-fixing and colluding to keep prices sky-high, even as...

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Planting Seeds (she/her) @planting-seeds.bsky.social · 18h

Just got off the organizing call for @avilewis.ca, and this is the first time I’ve been excited about a politician since Jack Layton. Avi is the real deal and is bringing back the federal NDP to their roots. It’s about time #CdnPoli #NDPLeadershipRace #NDP #AviLewis

Flyer for mass organizing call for Avi Lewis October 14th, 8 pm ET. White text on orange background with pictures of speakers Naomi Klein and Anjali Appadurai. lewisforleader.ca/organizercall

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Lewis For Leader @lewisforleader.bsky.social · 1d

On Oct 14th (tomorrow!), the Lewis for Leader Campaign is hosting our first National Mass Organizing call—and you’re invited!

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social, Adel Iskandar, Nastaran Yadollahi & others to hear how you can get involved.

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Mass Organizing Call for Avi Lewis - with Naomi Klein, Anjali Appadurai, Adel Iskandar, and Nas Yadollahi. October 14th: 5pm PT, 6pm MT, 7pm CT, 8pm ET, 9pm AT, 9:30pm NT. Learn more at lewisforleader.ca/organizercall.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 3d

Any chance to talk climate with the great @drmelissalem.bsky.social is a gift.

Planetary health and personal health are bound together in the fabric of life on earth.

Oh yeah, and my brother @sethdklein.bsky.social will be there too!

Looking forward to this...

Melissa Lem @drmelissalem.bsky.social · 3d

Cannot wait to moderate the opening keynote of UBC CPD + @cape-acme.bsky.social's Climate Emergency Conference with @sethdklein.bsky.social + @avilewis.ca on Oct 25.
It's going to be a barn burner, everyone—don't miss it!
Join us for the watch party in Vancouver, or online: ubccpd.ca/learn/learni...

Screenshot of UBC CPD's "Planetary Health Emergency: The Health Benefits of Climate Action" conference webpage

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 4d

Shoutout to the Toronto crew from @lewisforleader.bsky.social - talking to neighbours about a public option for food!

We’re building this campaign with 21st century solutions & old fashioned organizing: one conversation at a time, laser-focused on the daily struggles of the 99%. lewisforleader.ca

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 5d

On Oct 14th, the Lewis for Leader Campaign is hosting our first National Mass Organizing call—and you’re invited!

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social and others to hear how you can get involved in our people-powered campaign.

RSVP: lewisforleader.ca/organizercall

Mass Organizing Call for Avi Lewis - with Naomi Klein and Anjali Appadurai. October 14th: 5pm PT, 6pm MT, 7pm CT, 8pm ET, 9pm AT, 9:30pm NT. Learn more at lewisforleader.ca/organizercall.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 5d

5/ They play with grit and heart, discipline and abandon. And they remind us of the joy of workers, doing what they do best, together.

Ok, I'm done. Now go throw a ball around in a public park!

And share your Rogers login with as many strangers as possible.

a group of blue jays baseball players hugging each other

Alt: a group of blue jays baseball players hugging each other

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 5d

4/ The underdogs and journeymen and also-rans who have been grinding it out in the minors, whose hopes of blinking in the bright lights of the big show were fading until now.

Ernie Clement, Davis Schneider, Addison Barger, Tyler Heineman, Nathan Lukes.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 5d

3/ This Jays team is a true collective, their secret is that it takes everyone to get it done.

Our special sauce comes from the players you could almost call the working class of baseball.

The guys who were never meant to be here.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 5d

2/ I haven’t followed every season, but I’ve always been a fan. And I’ve never seen a Jays squad like this one.

[For my lefties: I know, I know, millionaires playing kid games, a tax on working people for the benefit of billionaires. But suspend your snark and just stay with me for a minute…]

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 5d

1/ My Blue Jays: A socialist reverie…

My Dad took me to the first Blue Jays game in 1977. It was so cold in Exhibition Stadium (“The Mistake by the Lake”) that asses were freezing to the aluminum bleachers.

It snowed, people left. We stayed, the Jays won!

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 5d

This excellent video builds out the case for public grocery stores.

This idea is landing super well with Canadians, who are tired of trading their paycheques for overpriced food so corporations can line their pockets.

It’s the kind of populist offer the NDP can win with! Join us: lewisforleader.ca

The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 6d

With grocery giants ripping off Canadians, it’s time for a bold alternative: public grocery stores.

Food analyst Aaron Vansintjan explains how a publicly-run grocery option could solve the crisis of skyrocketing food costs.

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Why Canada needs public grocery stores

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 5d

Liberals and Conservatives have let corporate grocers rip off Canadians for far too long.

Billions in profits for the Big 3 Grocers, while working-class people wonder how they’ll afford their next meal.

No more waiting for the market to fix itself. Canada needs a public option for grocery stores.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 7d

3/ “…and venture out to sea to break the siege of Gaza and bring the medical equipment we are transporting for the people of Gaza.”

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 7d

2/ “The work we are currently doing is something that governments should be doing, and since governments are not doing it, we, humanitarians, health personnel, and journalists, are obliged to do it…”

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 7d

1/ Proud of and scared for my friend Nimâ Machouf, who was taken by the Israeli military. I was talking about this with her in the summer:

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Canadian aboard intercepted Gaza flotilla calls on Ottawa to help stop Israel’s genocide ⋆ The Breach

In an interview conducted before her ship was seized, Quebec epidemiologist Nimâ Machouf explains why civilian activists are risking interception at sea to challenge Israel’s illegal 18-year blockade ...

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 7d

2/ Conservatives claim they'd make the damage harder, faster.

This is why we need the NDP.

We understand that economic independence means building our own economy of care and repair, not climate bombs or actual rockets.

Unfortunately PM Carney works for the money, not the many.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 7d

1/ Keystone XL died the first time because it was a climate catastrophe without a viable business case.

Now Carney wants to zombie it back to life to appease Trump.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 8d

Today I stood with @cupescfp.bsky.social and @canadianlabour.bsky.social leaders, flight attendants and other workers presenting my Bill C-247 to remove Section 107 from the Canada Labour Code.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 8d

I’m running for NDP leader because I believe the government *can* actually make people’s lives better— but only if we fight for it, together.

Join us: lewisforleader.ca

Lewis for Leader - Avi Lewis for NDP Leader

It's time for the NDP to return to our roots—fighting a system rigged for the rich that leaves the r

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 8d

Saskatchewan has more crown corporations than any other province. A bold idea for making life more affordable: public options at every single step of the supply chain that's ripping us off. #cdnpoli #NDP

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 8d

Proud to stand with Tanille Johnston and Rob Ashton at the Saskatchewan NDP convention. We're contesting the same job, but all working hard for this party. Join us, it can be yours too #cdnpoli #NDP

Tanille Johnston, Avi Lewis, and Rob Ashton standing together talking in a convention room.

Avi speaking to a crowd at the convention.

Avi and a man standing on the street in front of a restaurant, smiling.

Another angle of Avi speaking to a crowd at the convention.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 9d

4/ Thank you, @albertateachers.bsky.social, for standing up to this extremist government, for the sake of our collective future.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 9d

3/ "...when they have special needs, and can’t count on a healthy public system to be with them as they grow up.

And energized, hopeful and committed teachers have always been the ones to lead this struggle around the world."

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 9d

2/ "I don’t need to tell you, of all people, that robust, creative, fully funded and universal public education is the foundation on which democracy rests.

You understand that there can be no meaningful democracy in a place where children go to school hungry, don’t have resources available..."

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