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John Clarke
@johncke.bsky.social
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Former organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 8h
'..an #Israeli soldier from the Kfir Brigade posted a photo showing himself standing in front of burning wooden pallets. “On Friday, just before departure. Burning food so that it won’t reach the #Gazans, may their names be erased,” the caption reads.'
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Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement
Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 8h
Speaking out on #antisemitism.
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A short while ago, I put up a post that outlined three key ways in which antisemitism reverberates on the left. I focused on notions of undue Jewish influence, collective Jewish guilt for Israel's...
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 9h
'Shujaia emphasized that #Israel continues to withhold the bodies either in “cemeteries of numbers” or in refrigeration units, refusing to reveal the fate or locations of hundreds of the deceased, despite ongoing human rights appeals.'

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Israel detains the bodies of 1,500 Palestinians from Gaza
Hussein Shujaia, the coordinator of the campaign to retrieve the bodies of Palestinian martyrs, stated that the number of martyrs whose bodies are being held by Israeli authorities exceeds 1,500, incl...
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 10h
“We are in the worst food-security crisis I have seen. Our patients, our clients, are going through desperate measures to get food for their children.” #Nunavut

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Food-security expert: Nunavut in ‘worst hunger crisis’ she’s seen
Food-security researcher says Nunavut gripped by ‘worst hunger crisis’ she’s seen, from Iqaluit to communities in the Western Arctic
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 10h
#Trump and his allies are now labelling even the most mainstream and respectable expressions of opposition as forms of sedition that must be crushed. #NoKings
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GOP Leaders Smear Upcoming 'No Kings' Marches as 'Hate America Rallies' by ‘Terrorists’ | Common Dreams
Republican lawmakers smear upcoming "No Kings" rallies as "hate-America" events. Organizers vow peaceful protests against Trump administration.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 10h
A #Palestinian hostage.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 10h
'Understanding the positioning of the #farright and #fascists towards Israel and #Zionism is important.'
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What is the relationship between Zionism and the far right?
We need to build both the mass movement for Palestine and a mass anti-racist, anti-fascist movement in Britain
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 10h
#Sanctions are more deadly than bombs.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 10h
'Few public spaces in Canada have been the sight of so many, and so varied, displays of resistance and grievance.'
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Allan Gardens, Toronto: Protest and Public Space
For centuries, various Annishinaabe First Nations – among them the Mississauga, Ojibwe, and others – inhabited territories on the northern shores of Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes that constitut...
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 13h
There's much to support here but, rather than be sent to Hague, those who have committed #genocide, armed it or otherwise made it possible, should face justice before a court that is convened in a #freePalestine.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 1d
Broadview faces off against Illinois State PD.
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 21h
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 1d
Occasional reminder: if you are interested in the far right and their supporters, this bibliography runs to approximately 1,200 references www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-righ...
Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe
A bibliography of more than 1200 titles on the parties of the Extreme Right in Western Europe (aka the Populist Right, Radical Right, Anti-Immigrant Right)
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Extinction Rebellion London Actions MoM (Movement of Movements) @xrlondonactions.bsky.social · 13h
Trade unions supported yesterday's action for Palestine 🇵🇸
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 13h
12-10-1935 UK:78 Miners “Stay Down” @ Nine Mile Point colliery, South Wales against employment of scab union workers; other pits are also occupied.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h
This Is Fascism
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Jean Pocket @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 1d
CHICAGO !!! STILL GOING STRONG 🤩👏👏👏💙
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Maple Mama @maplemama20.bsky.social · 1d
The man @jollygoodginger.bsky.social is currently in Chicago. He's working with Pilsen defence & Access patrolling schools to try snd prevent ICE from kidnapping parents and children. Not all heros wear capes but anyone protecting kids is a hero in my book.
#VetsAgainstTrump
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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h
we need to abolish this shit
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 1d
“I call upon the prime minister to make this right and stop victimizing me and other #Inuit who were treated as lab rats for the benefit of an unexplained biological program. I am not a monkey.”
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Former premier of Nunavut calls on Carney to stop victimizing Inuit
Paul Quassa is among the Plaintiffs in a class action filed almost six years ago over biological experiments.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 1d
The warped concept of 'peace'.
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The 'King's Peace' emerged as a concept of order and stability in which the exploiting class could go about its business unhampered by the lower orders and their grievances. Today, the 'peace...
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 1d
#Carney plans to use the proceeds of a massive austerity drive to create a highly interventionist state structure that will boost military spending and grease the wheels for exploitation and profit making.
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‘We need bigger Canadian companies’: Joly unveils three-pronged industrial strategy to bolster key Canadian sectors
The federal government has a vision for bringing Canada into a new industrial era, Industry Minister Melanie Joly said Thursday, unveiling a new domestic strategy to save jobs, open new employment opp...
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 1d
The pariah state of #Israel faces ever greater levels of international exclusion.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 1d
'Together, we must disrupt all complicity in Israel’s “final solution” for the Indigenous people of #Palestine. Together we can dismantle #Israeli apartheid just as South African apartheid was dismantled. Anything less would be a failure of humanity.'
socialistproject.ca/2025/10/pale...
Palestinian Civil Society Reacts to the Trump-Netanyahu Genocidal Plan
In response to the so-called Trump Plan, a scheme primarily designed by Israel’s fascist government to save it from its unprecedented global isolation, in the midst of the ongoing, livestreamed US-Isr...
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