CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Demand real action to sanction Israel

Demand your MP take real action to sanction Israel and impose a full and immediate arms embargo.

Help us make sure every MP’s inbox is flooded with this report’s damning data – hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets – and the Canadian government’s web of lies that has been concealing its role in arming genocide in Gaza.

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Urgent Movement Briefing

When: July 31st, 7pm

We’ve been saying that Canada is lying about its arms trade with Israel. Now we have the proof.

This Thursday join an urgent movement briefing to get up to speed on what we’ve discovered and plan our next steps as a movement.

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Underground Freedom Train

When: July 31st, 10:45pm
Where: Vaughan Metro Centre Station (ending at Union Station)

It’s one of the most thrilling commemorative events of Emancipation Day you’ll ever experience in Canada. Whether it will be your first time or you’ve joined us every year since its inception, come aboard the Freedom Train at 10:45pm at Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. We’ll journey to Union Station where together we will welcome in Emancipation Day, a time to honour Black freedom and resilience.

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Rally @Israeli Consulate

When: Friday August 1st, 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?

Watermelon Square

When: Saturday August 2nd, 11am
Where: Trinity Bellwoods Park, 790 Queen St W

Hello neighbours! A warm invitation to join us at Watermelon Square for some posters, coffee, and information about organizing!

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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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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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Philippine Society and Revolution Educational Workshop!

When: July 20 and August 3, 1-3PM
Where: Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor St W

Through our studies of Philippine Society, we grow closer to our roots and understand our revolutionary history as Filipino People. As Filipino youth abroad, we understand how the ties of imperialism (or foreign powers), bureacrat capitalism (or corrupt officials), and feudalism (or rampant landlordism in the hands of few) continue to impact our kababayans back home, as well as our kababayans all over the world.

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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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Online course: War, Peace and Law

When: Start Monday August 4th, continue for 6 weeks

War and peace are not only political struggles – they are legal constructs that shape global power, foreign and domestic policy, and everyday life. War is prohibited under international law, and numerous constitutions, treaties, and legal systems restrict, renounce, or seek to prevent it. Yet exceptions persist, enforcement is selective, and legal norms are routinely ignored, undermined, or exploited. The result is a world where war is illegal on paper but legitimized and normalized in practice.

This six-week online course explores how legal systems enable, constrain, and challenge war. Through case studies, legal texts, historical examples, and participatory discussions, you will examine how law has been used to justify war and violence, hold perpetrators accountable, and envision alternatives. Each module focuses on a distinct theme – whether conceptual, legal, political, or practical – and invites critical reflection on how legal norms are created, enforced, resisted, and reimagined.

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Booklaunch: Work and Labour

When: August 5th, 12pm

What does your pension fund have to do with rising housing costs?

Tom Fraser will discuss his new book, Invested in Crisis, Public Sector Pensions Against the Future with comments from Professor Priya Gupta, McGill University, and the Institute of Political Economy’s Financialization Research Lab Director, Kevin Skerrett, who are co-leading the “World’s Landlords” project.

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No Cops in Schools

When: August 5th, 6pm
Where: EarlyON Jane Finch Mall

Featured Speakers: Robyn Maynard and Andrea Vásquez Jiménez.

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Heatwaves: protecting health in a climate crisis

When: August 5th, 7pm

Canada is heating up twice as fast as the global average. Extreme heat is putting increasing strain on our health and health systems.

Join us to learn about ways to cope with heat and how better medicare could save lives. We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Melissa Lem and Dr. Monika Dutt to the panel, with Dr. Edward Xie moderating the discussion.

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80 years of the Nuclear Age

When: August 6th, 4:30pm
Where: Peace Gardens, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto City Hall

The world could be on the brink of a new era of nuclear weapons proliferation. All nine nuclear armed states are modernizing and expanding their nuclear arsenals and six non-nuclear states have signaled interest in developing their own nuclear weapons.

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How to Start a Divestment Campaign

When: August 6th, 7pm

Join Just Peace Advocates and organizers from Retired Teachers Divest, Queers for Palestine Toronto, Toronto Writers Against the War on Gaza, and the Coalition du Québec URGENCE Palestine to learn how to develop an impactful campaign!

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Critical Femininities Conference

When: August 15-17

This three-day virtual conference will bring together scholars, activists, and artists exploring femininities through critical lenses.

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Fighting To Win

A Ten-Week Course for Union and Community Activists Facilitated by John Clarke, Former Organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).

Unions and social movements today are operating in a very challenging situation. There is great economic uncertainty, the worsening impact of climate change and a global situation marked by the growing threat of conflict and war. When workers strike or communities under attack take to the streets, it seems that victories are much much harder to win, and past gains more difficult to defend.

This course will grapple with these questions by looking at the forms of exploitation and oppression that exist in society and the means by which the power structure acts to limit and contain our struggles. The course will move towards a discussion of how our movements can overcome the factors that hold them back and to fight to win!

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OHC Weekend Educational

When: September 12-14
Where: UNIFOR Family Education Centre, Port Elgin, Ontario

A special weekend to learn, make connections, be inspired and have fun. The location is extraordinary: the beautiful town of Port Elgin on the shore of Lake Huron. It is an exciting opportunity for Health Coalition members and supporters to come together and deepen our knowledge and effectiveness in all our work with the Coalition & in other organizations and movements.

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Workers’ Justice

When: Thursdays, September 18 to November 6th

Organized by the Jane Finch Education Action Group, Jane/Finch Centre and the Global Labour Research Centre at York University.

This is a free course for those who live or work in the Jane-Finch/Rexdale/Northwest Toronto communities. Participants will receive a certificate of completion from the Global Labour Research Centre at York University.

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Health Inequalities and Capitalism in Canada

By Arnel M. Borras

Drawing inspiration from Marx and Engels, and extending my own previous work, this piece explores health inequities – those preventable and unjust differences in health outcomes – through a critical political economy lens. This approach understands health inequities not as isolated problems or unfortunate outcomes, but as structural expressions of a capitalist system that organizes society through class rule and exploitative social relations.

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For an Eco-Communist Alternative to Degrowth and ‘Luxury’ Communism

In his new book, Rojo fuego. Reflexiones comunistas frente a la crisis ecológica (Fiery red: Communist reflections on the ecological crisis), Argentine Marxist Esteban Mercatante takes aim at capitalism as the root cause of the “multidimensional” ecological crisis, while engaging in important dialogues with ecological currents such as degrowth and ecomodernism. Against these, Mercatante argues for an “eco-communist” strategy, focused on labour as the agent of both its own emancipation and the qualitative transformation of society’s relationship with nature, as the only means to avoid disaster.

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Israel’s Crimes and Jewish People – A Clarification

By Suzanne Weiss

While the imperialists threaten us with a possible nuclear war and continue to devastate the environment, the Palestinian struggle for freedom from the US and Israeli oppressors is today at the crux of the struggle for human existence. Activists in the struggle to end the Palestinian genocide need to deepen their understanding of the history of Palestine and the Israeli aim of establishing a colonial settler state. Books such as A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappé (2024, Oneworld), and The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah (2014, Haymarket Books) offer a good starting point for further study.

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On The Front Lines of Ethnic Cleansing in Masafer Yatta

Amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza and continued Israeli attacks across the region, much of the world’s attention has been diverted away from the worsening situation in the West Bank. Palestinians across the West Bank have experienced increased violence, demolitions, and displacement from settlers and Israeli Occupation Forces. Toronto based activist Anna Lippman has recently returned from spending three months on the front lines of settler and State violence in Masafer Yatta, or the South Hebron Hills, in the occupied West Bank.

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