CSJ Newsletter
October 2, 2025
CALLS TO ACTION
Close the LoopholeAfter 21 months half-truths and empty promises from the Liberal government on arms to Israel, NDP MP Jenny Kwan has announced a new Private Member's Bill that would close the loophole that allows Canadian arms to flow to Israel through the United States.
For two years, the Liberal government has allowed arms manufacturers based in Canada to profit off genocide by sneaking weapons parts to Israel through the US, unregulated and unreported. These components are used to build full weapons systems like F-35s or Apache Attack Helicopters, which are then sent to Israel.
MP Jenny Kwan's new private member's bill, the No More Loopholes Act, aims to solve this problem in our legislation by amending Canada's Export and Import Permit Act and helping to end Canada's complicity in genocide.
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EVENTS
Toronto Palestine Film Festival
When: Sept 24 to Oct 3
This year's theme, designed by the talented Maham Momin, is focused on the displacement and forced migration of the Palestinian people. Inspired by Palestinian refugee camps and their persistent fight against injustice and exile, these camps are sites of resistance and resilience in the face of illegal occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
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College Support picket line
When: Thursday October 2nd, 7am-5pm
Where: 205 Humber College Blvd
College workers are on strike for job security to stabilize our public college system. Instead of bargaining, the Ford gov't & the employer announced closures and layoffs!
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Booklaunch: Leading from the Heart by Judy Darcy
When: October 2nd, 6:30pm
Where: 100 Front St W
I'm excited to invite you to the October 2nd Toronto launch of my new memoir,
Leading from the Heart - the Battles of a Feminist, Union Leader and Politician.
I hope you will join me and Julian Sher for readings from my book, lively conversation, refreshments - and a chance to buy a book and have it signed too!
Looking forward to seeing you. And please invite your friends!
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Protecting Labour Rights
When: October 2nd, 12pm
FIFA has a troubling history on labour and human rights and activists worldwide have been pushing for accountability. Join Canada's unions for a powerful webinar with four expert panelists sharing what FIFA events have meant for workers and communities, and how we can organize for change ahead of 2026.
zoom.us
Rally @Israeli Consulate
When: Every Friday, 3-6pm
Where: Bloor-Yonge
Come show your support for Palestinians every Friday between 3 pm and 6 pm. Come anytime for as long as you like. Most people come at 5 pm. The location is the Israel Consulate, located at 2 Bloor Street East, on the northeast corner of Yonge and Bloor Streets. Stand up for Human Rights. Raise your voice to say that the elimination of 50,000 people, including 18,000 children, is NOT okay. Will it only stop when another 2.2 million people are eradicated?
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Film: Gaza Doctors Under Attack
When: October 3rd, doors at 6pm, film at 7pm
Where: The Redwood Theatre, 1300 Gerrard St E
This event marks the launch of Paramedics for Palestine! We are a group of GTA Paramedics in solidarity with the Palestinian people especially the first responders and medical professionals providing care during occupation and genocide.
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Ontario Climate Summit
When: October 3rd to 5th
Hosted by the Urban Climate Alliance (UCA), the Ontario Climate Summit is a gathering of local climate action organizations from across the province to come together and work for stronger climate action in communities across Ontario.
In this 3-day summit, climate activists from across Ontario will connect, build skills, and collaborate to drive inclusive, effective, sustainable, and coordinated climate action in Ontario's municipalities.
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The Many vs The Money
When: October 4-5
Where: Fredericton, NB
New Brunswick has a strong activist community, many civil-society and community-based groups and organizations, and university faculty, students and staff committed to social justice. We have had many important wins. Yet we need to do it more collaboratively and strategically, especially at a time of economic upheaval when consequential decisions are being made on our behalf.
An event objective is to support conversations that move beyond criticism, to organize and develop more ways to engage with our neighbours, colleagues, and all New Brunswickers, to root ourselves in our living spaces, to develop bonds of trust with those around us, to foster community. These alliances will be necessary to fight against exploitation, protect our natural spaces, and build lively, livable neighbourhoods together.
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Activists Assembly
When: Saturday October 4th, 9am
Where: Toronto Don Valley Hotel, 175 Wynford Dr
Working people have had enough. Food costs, gas prices, rent and mortgage payments just keep rising. Meanwhile, our wages have not kept up. At every turn, government leaders have failed to stand up for us. But it's our work that keeps this country running.
Relentless corporate lobbying has led to weakened labour laws, increased privatization of our public services, and tax cuts for themselves. In the end it's cost us taxpayers more and sacrificed our good jobs.
This ends now. This country is not for the wealthy few. It should be for us.
actionnetwork.org
BDS Leafletting
When: Every Saturday, 1-2pm
Where: Dufferin Mall, 900 Dufferin St (south entrance by Marshalls)
End the Occupation! Build the Boycott! This is your friendly reminder of D4P's weekly BDS leafleting taking place every Saturday from 1 to 2 pm at Dufferin Mall. Meet outside south entrance to mall, 900 Dufferin Street by Marshalls. No prior experience necessary! We can buddy you up if it's your first time.
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Block Party
When: October 4th, 1:30pm
Where: 230 Sherbourne St
Music, Food and Speakers
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Rise Up for Gaza
When: October 4th, 2pm
Where: Yonge and Dundas (Sankofa Square)
On October 4th, we will take the streets and shut it down. From wherever we are, we will make it clear: the people of the world stand with Gaza, and demand a total arms embargo and sanctions against Israel.
As we mark two years of genocide, we recall our responsibility to the people of Gaza, who have resisted an all-out war on their lives for over 700 days.
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Nuit Blanche
When: October 4th, 7pm - Oct 5th, 7am
Join in a free all-night celebration of contemporary art that transforms Toronto's public spaces into unexpected landscapes and animates cultural sites throughout the city. Featuring three exhibitions located in North York, Etobicoke and downtown and more than 85 works by local, national and international artists, the city becomes a living book created not just with words, but through sights, sounds, movements and shared spaces.
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Gaza Square
When: Every Sunday, 11am to 1pm
Where: 371 Wallace Ave
We'll be at Gaza square once again this Sunday morning with hot chocolate and coffee, buttons and posters, lawn signs and colourful chalk! Come say hi and meet your fellow neighbours/organizers as we make our presence known and continue to build safety in our community!
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Weekly Phone-zap for Palestine
When: Mondays at 12:30pm
Week after week, we're keeping the momentum going with our Monday lunchtime zaps.
Our collective action is making waves, but we need to ensure our elected officials continue to feel the pressure until real change happens.
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Canadian Foreign Policy Hour with Yves Engler
When: Mondays at 6pm
Join author Yves Engler on Mondays for a weekly news roundup and interactive discussion about Canada's role abroad. This weekly session will delve into the latest developments on subjects ranging from military affairs and Canada's role in Ukraine to its contribution to Palestinian dispossession, and the exploitation of African resources. Join Yves for a critical take on Canada's foreign policy. Questions, comments, and criticisms are all welcome.
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How We Won the Landmark Hudbay Minerals Lawsuits
When: October 6th, 7pm
Where: Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave
Join us in October for a conversation with Grahame Russell of Rights Action and Plaintiffs' lawyers Murray Klippenstein and Cory Wanless
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Wednesdays for Palestine
When: Every Wednesday, 5pm
Where: Danforth Ave. and Pape St.
Join thousands of Canadians across the country to protest Israel's genocidal violence and Canada's complicity.
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ARTICLES
Labour Leaders Must Advance BDS, or Step Aside
By Jessica Copley
In his
Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci invokes the “Fable of the Beaver” to critique the political failings of party leaders who compromise their obligation to represent the classes that raised them up in order to placate existing structures of State power. Today, some labour leaders are falling into the same trap with their compromised positions on Palestinian liberation. Like the beaver, they politically castrate themselves to assure their own political survival in the short term, thus compromising the collective reproduction of our movements in the long term.
Source:
The Bullet No. 3195
France's ‘Block Everything' Anti-Austerity Movement
By Emiliano Brancaccio
“Due to social unrest, the Musée d'Orsay is closed,” a sign might have read on Wednesday (Sept. 10), when tourists were not able to admire the works of Courbet. The great revolutionary painter would have surely looked on with sympathy at this shutdown laden with irony, and at the movement that paralyzed Paris on Wednesday with the rallying cry of “Let's block everything.”
Source:
The Bullet No. 3196
The Possibilities of Left Government in Europe
Is it possible to have a left government in Europe, today or is any attempt toward it going to fail: will political parties capitulate and end up implementing neoliberal policies? How is it possible to actually initiate a process of profound social transformation in an anticapitalist direction? Is it possible to combine government with forms of counter-power or even dual power from below? Is it possible to resist the systemic violence induced by capitalist globalisation and financial, monetary and institutional configurations such as those of the Eurozone?
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LeftStreamed
Climate Destruction – The Irresponsibility of Capitalist Societies
By Franz Garnreiter
Within a historically short period, capitalist society has generated enormous wealth but also caused profound ecological degradation and threats to survival. Yet the capitalist market economy is incapable of resolving the problems it has created or of securing a liveable environment. To understand the connection between economic activity and its impact on the environment, we must situate economic development within a much broader historical horizon than the usual few decades. Only this wider perspective reveals the destructive problems we have brought upon ourselves through the economic dynamics with which we are so familiar.
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The Bullet No. 3197