Meow everyone. My readers already know that I have been monitoring the black lives matters organization here in Toronto, where, I have already shown that they are connected to the muslim brotherhood terrorist organization, were one of the head organizers and founders of this organization has proven herself to be a out right racist , very much along the lines of Adolf Hitler. and his Nazi party. However, in this article, I am going to show just deeply flawed this organization is, by way of what they deliberately leave OUT in their diatribe of hate and race baiting.
One of the things that this organization was all over was the death of a criminal named Jermaine Carby . Now, there is no question that he was shot and killed by a police officer . However, what black lives matters kind of, sort of , FORGOT to share was the important facts about this little monster. So, I will fill in the omitions of black lives matters in relation to Carby .
” … The Peel police officer who fatally shot Jermaine Carby in 2014 told a coroner’s inquest Friday that he would change nothing about how he handled the confrontation.
Const. Ryan Reid shot Carby three times in September 2014 when police say a routine traffic stop in Brampton escalated into a heated encounter involving a knife.
“I would not do anything differently,” Reid told the inquest Friday.
Reid testified that his partner had told him there was a warrant out for Carby’s arrest and he had previously attempted “suicide by police.” It was revealed Thursday that Carby had sought treatment for depression days before his death.
Police previously testified that the incident escalated when officers asked the 33-year-old for his name and identification and found outstanding warrants for his arrest in British Columbia.
Reid said that’s when Carby became agitated, pulled a knife from the waistband of his pants and shouted: “Shoot me, shoot me.” A video displayed in court showed police saying: “Drop the knife, drop the knife,” before shots were fired.
Reid demonstrated for those in the courtroom how Carby stood when confronting police.
“I have to live with this every single day of my life,” he told the inquest, adding he was convinced he and his partner’s lives were at risk.
Reid testified he was left with no other choice but to fire his weapon and would repeat his actions under the same circumstances.
‘I wanted to stop the threat’
In other inquests into police shootings, it has been revealed that police officers are trained to use lethal force when facing a threat.
“The last thing I wanted to do was kill Mr. Carby,” the constable said. “I wanted to stop the threat.”
Outside the Brampton courthouse, Carby’s mother expressed frustration with what she heard Friday.
“Even a dog or a cat, you don’t kill like that,” she told reporters. “How are you going to say that you would have not changed anything?”
The Special Investigations Unit cleared the officers involved in the shooting of any wrongdoing in July 2015.
The inquest will continue with testimony from forensic experts to reveal more details on Carby’s wounds and evidence related to the knife. … “
So, Carby was stopped, pulled a knife, was order to drop it and refused.
So what was C arby actually wanted for out in BC with these outstanding arrest warrants ? These warrants that black lives matters Toronto fails to make even the most minute mention of ? Well, anyone with even a single function brain cell can find that answer .. anyone but black lives matters Toronto. Fear not, I will share it here in the hopes that even the most stupid of that bunch will be able to find someone with enough intelligence to read it to them .
Accused killer preyed on Downtown Eastside women: Vancouver police
Hmmm, so he is an accused murderer.
” … VANCOUVER — A violent drug trafficker charged with killing a man and beating two women may have many more victims, police say.
A violent drug trafficker who killed a person … possible more victims
Vancouver Police Insp. Brad Desmarais appealed today to people in the Downtown Eastside to come forward if they have been victimized by Jermaine Anthony Carby.
Carby was charged with manslaughter Sept. 9 in the stabbing death Gerald Haakmat in Oppenheimer Park June 1.
Was also previously charged with killing a person
But the VPD investigation has shown he has terrorized others for drug debts, Desmarais said.
Previously terrorized other over drug debts .. enforcer
“This past Monday, Jermaine Carby was also charged for allegedly assaulting two women in the Downtown Eastside in late August,” he said.
Has assaulted at least two other women
“We believe there are more victims out there who are too afraid to come forward, so today we are taking the extraordinary step of releasing a photograph of Jermaine Carby and making an appeal to the community to bring forward information about him to police.”
Desmarais said Carby uses several different street names, “so we know that by releasing his photograph we will have a better chance of learning valuable information that will help move forward additional ongoing investigations.”
In typical criminal fashion, he used aliases
He said Carby has a criminal record dating back to 2000 in Ontario and has had over 100 contacts with VPD since then.
Lengthy criminal record
“Despite the fact that Jermaine Carby has a residential address in Surrey, he is one of the most well known street level enforcers in the Downtown Eastside, with a long history of violence, drug trafficking and drug possession,” Desmarais said, adding that Carby has been charged 28 times in the past.
Long history of violence , drug trafficking, enforcer
“It has long been known that people living in the Downtown Eastside fear reprisal for talking to the police. Sadly, violence against women here often goes unreported and remains underground, with many suffering at the hands of ruthless drug dealers, he said.
“Violent drug dealers can exist with impunity in this community and commit violent acts against women and men alike, because they know people are too afraid to talk to police.”
Desmarais said that because Carby is now locked up, it is safe for people to come forward.
“Now is the time for the community to have a voice, and fight back against the fear and intimidation that these drug dealers thrive on,” Desmarais said.
“Information can be reported through 9-1-1, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or the Sister Watch Tip Line at 604-215-4777.” … “
Oh yes, he was a good little boy , cops clearly had no reason to fear for their safety … NOT .
So, Tanya, ya, you can go on all day about how the cops shot him, but why don’t you share these important details as well ? Oh , right, you want to fuel a race war and these convenient omissions would sway many away from your pathetic movement. I am curious though. With this guys obvious love of violence , especially violence against women , were are all of you pathetic social justice warriors and why are you not condeming this piece of garbage criminals actions against women? Or, is violence against women OK when it involves a black guy because, he is already ” oppressed ” ?
One of the things that the black lives matters Toronto group refuses to speak of , or even acknowledge is black on black violence . We don’t need to look very far to see this, as, our poster boy for this pathetic organization , Jermaine Carby , was wanted for MURDER.. murdering a black man. So, if black lives really do matter to this group, why then are they making a murdering , stab happy, woman beating, drug dealer , drug dealer enforcer their poster boy? Why are they not even saying so much a peep about this black man he MURDERED ?
Here is a video of the recent black lives matters occupation at police HQ that clearly shows the level of stupidity of this organization :
and another :
People, you cant buy, or make up this level of stupidity up, yet, these guys and this group will provide it to you for free, and in abundance .
Here is a video of Tanya Grant , a relative of Carby who goes in a long winded diatribe about how evil the cops were , but she sort of forgets to point out her cousins somewhat lengthy criminal record, and the fact that we was wanted for MURDER out in BC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbpFCE-Zzl8
Here is a video of jani khan telling you about what was taking place in Toronto, only , that is NOT what actually happened. :
Is the black lives matter movement a dangerous one ? Yes, it is because it clearly states what are obvious lies, tries to distort obvious facts and fails to address the real issues of black on black violence. This article is a very good that speaks to my point . If black lives matters was really legitimate about black people and crimes, ask yourself these questions : Why are they very silent about black on black crimes where people are often murdered over drug deals ? Why are they silent when in, for example, drive by shootings, rouge bulluts strike and kill totally innocent bystanders . If black lives matters is really interested to black people and crimes, why did they say NOTING when Jane Creba was murdered on Yonge street in an open gang war in the middle of a busy street ? Where was black lives matters during the Eaton Center shootings ? Where was black lives matter during the Muzik nightclub shootout? ALL of these shooting involved black males , yet, not a peep from black lives matters > No, Black lives matters wants a race war, plain and simple, and white people are the targets.
Black lives matters CLAIMS to be concerned over the deaths through violence of black people. ALL deaths, especially when violence is the cause is something that needs to be addressed . However, I cannot help but notice some very obvious silence of deaths of THESE black people . This young lady who was expecting a child was SHOT and killed . WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ?
The point of the above noted stories with links is to show just how utterly hypocritical and rediculous these black lives matters protesters really are. In ALL of these cases, either a black person was killed , or a black person was the killer, yet, this group has NOTHING to say about these actions. They focus on black people getting killed in Toronto by police , which , yes, very sadly, this has happened. However, dozens more black people are murdered in Toronto by gang members, over drugs, guns, old drug debts, yet this black on black violence does not even get a mention within this group.
To this group, black lives actually DON’T matter, their inactions to the very obvious above mentions occurrences clearly shows this. What they want, ALL they want is to create a race war were they name their enemy, the police , an organization that has done the LEAST about of harm to this community. Black lives matters Toronto doesn’t care if you are black and get shot in a gang war because it was not the cops that shot you. They don’t care about your living conditions because they are wealthy and live very well. They don’t care about whether you die of drug use , because the cops didn’t give them the drugs. To black lives matters Toronto, if you are black, successful, and have not been killed by a cop, YOU DON’T MATTER. …… if you did, ask this group then, why they stay silent over the deaths of other black persons?
Meow everyone . In my last short, direct to the point article, i showed very clearly how, one of the head organizers of the black lives matters organization here in Toronto is nothing but a terrorist organization who wants a race war and would love to kill males and white people. The article can be seen here . Just to refresh the memories of my readers, here is proved once and for all that this is indeed the case:
In addition to the link to my last short article, I also recently published a series on student radicalization where students from Canadian Federation of Students affiliated university student unions get involved in and with highly questionable organizations that can lead to far more serious activities other than simple protest. That series can be found here .
Another superior source that I want my readers to read with respects to this story is right here .
I want to step back a little bit to when this group was still at police hq , a place they turned into a filthy ghetto, literally over night. We already know that this illegal occupation was organized by famous G20 convicted criminal Leah Henderson as seen here :
… as well as fellow convicted G20 criminal Alex Hundert as seen here ( far left ) :
Now, to be fair, Alex and I have had many an interaction over the years, some leading to minor physical altercations which Alex started. However, during this occupation, Alex himself stated that he did not wish any physical altercations, indeed, he was not agressive with me in any way, actually even asking a question towards the end of the day in a respectful manor. So, while we have our differences, I still thank him for his show of respect and desire to keep things peaceful.
As proof that Alex was one of the other key organizers of this occupation, and the ” go to guy ” when things had to be addressed, I present this video where, on one of the days towards the end of the occupation, Police officers arrived on site to issue a ticket for noise violations . Officers needed to issue it to a person in charge , and as clearly seen and heard in this video, Alex was named as the person in charge. Here is that video, as shot by occupy torontos own pirated who walked a few too planks and missed a few too many showers , Giovanni Sampangano :
Here is that video :
Student radicalization has many forms , taking up ” causes ” is one of the big ones. Black lives matters is just such a ” cause ” . However, this ” cause ” has a rather dark and very dangerous connection to islamic terrorism and terrorists ….. RIGHT HERE IN CANADA . Here is a superior article that clearly proves this :
“Black Lives Matter” working with Islamist Group in Canada
The Muslim Students Association and “Black Lives Matter” had their display tables set side by side at the recent University of Ottawa “Islam Awareness Week.” During the full week of 07 March 2015, the two groups handed out books to students and staff at the university and spread their ideology.
The Muslim Students Association (MSA), was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood as one of its front groups with an eye towards recruitment and education.[1]
All of those from the MSA seemed to be Sunni Muslim. None were Ahmadiyya, Ismaili or Shia. An individual asked about the lack of representation of other Muslim groups stated they did not know why this was occurring.
Multiple books were handed out. One was the Qur’an in English, while two others explained that all the scientific progress in modern civilization is to be found in the Quran and the Sunnah.
The third book handed out was on ISIS and essentially tried to explain that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam. When questioned, an individual at one of the booths stated that the West and the media are the ones who make a bad image of Islam. When pushed, this individual said there were no internal contradictions or problems within the faith.
The presence of a “Black Lives Matter” booth is consistent with the efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood front groups in North America. Attempts by Islamist groups to exploit the black community to their advantage are not new. The most recent examples were seen in Ferguson Missouri when CAIR USA (Council on American Islamic Relations) made repeated attempts to inject itself and the Islamist ideology into events there.[2]
CAIR USA itself is a listed terrorist group in the United Arab Emirates[3] as well as being identified as a front group for HAMAS, itself a Muslim Brotherhood entity.
Ironically, the second most influential person in the Muslim Brotherhood (Sayed Qutb) spent two years in the United States and made incredibly racist statement about blacks. The most infamous one was:
Jazz – This is that music that the Negroes invented to satisfy their primitive inclinations, as well as their desire to be noisy on the one hand and to excite bestial tendencies on the other. The American’s intoxication in “jazz” music does not reach its full completion until the music is accompanied by singing that is just as coarse and obnoxious as the music itself. Meanwhile, the noise of the instruments and the voices mounts, and it rings in the ears to an unbearable degree….[4]
The University of Ottawa
The University of Ottawa is famous, or perhaps infamous, for its list of alumni who have gone on to become jihadist fighters and other major players in the Islamist world. This includes Al Qaeda financier and Human Concern International board member Ahmed Said Khadr from the 1980s and John (Yahya) Maguire who did a propaganda film for ISIS in 2015. Both were radicalized while associated to the Muslim Student Association at the University of Ottawa. As noted by Michelle Sheppard of the Toronto Star on her history of Omar Khadr (Ahmed’s son), the Muslim Student Association was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood.[5]
The University of Ottawa Prayer Room
The University of Ottawa should probably close its common prayer room. The Quilliam Foundation, the world’s leading de-radicalization organization, has stated that Islamist Muslims tend to try to take over common area prayer rooms and create ‘Muslim-only’ areas. Rather, these rooms should allow for other faith adherents to use these facilities.
The Quilliam Foundation also notes that university authorities should ensure prayer rooms do not become an Islamist underworld, a centre for Muslim students to withdraw between lessons and thus avoid extra-curricular interaction with other students. The result of this form of activity is that Wahhabbist and Salafist literature then tends to dominate, the ideology spreads and there is the attempted exclusion of others.[6]
At the University of Ottawa prayer room, students report that Muslim students tell them they cannot enter the room with their shoes on, even if the event is non-Muslim. They also report that they cannot find out how to book the room and their efforts are blocked.
It is not clear who controls the room. The Community Services office (3rd floor) normally controls all bookings for common rooms. They, however, appear to indicate this is the one room they do not control. Their suggestion is to go to the Student Federation, which also claims to not know. However, they suggest that the VP Social of the Student Federation (Hadi Wess) might be responsible, but that cannot be confirmed.
Of current interest, it should be noted that the same problem is occurring at Montreal’s Maisonneuve College. Students who are sympathizers of ISIS have attempted to take over some sections of the library and had done the same to the prayer room/common space, resulting in its closure. Students at Maisonneuve had reported they were afraid of Muslim students in those areas. Violence has occurred during the course of the attempted takeovers and the staff at the college fear for their safety.[7] This is occurring in Canada this year!
Other universities have already closed prayers for reasons of Islamist extremism such as the Technical University of Berlin, the Technical University of Dortmund and the University of Essen Duisburg in Germany.[8]
University of Ottawa and the Muslim Brotherhood
A number of individuals at the university have close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. While some can be found in the engineering faculty, the most interesting may be Dr. Aliaa Dakroury, who was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication from 2008 to 2012; at Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication from 2005 to 2010; and Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and Law from 2008 to 2011. She is now an Associate Professor and School Director of the Social Communications Program at Saint Paul’s University in Ottawa. Dr. Dakroury is the managing editor of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS).[9]
What is not noted, however, is that the AJISS is the official journal of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). The IIIT is the think tank of the Muslim Brotherhood[10] and was created as such in 1981, ironically enough by a Canadian of Palestinian origin. Ismail al-Faruqui left Montreal Canada in about 1978 and created the IIIT in 1980. The organization was founded following an international conference of “major Muslim Brotherhood figures, including Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf Al Qaradawi, in Lugano, Switzerland in 1977. The conference was held under the auspices of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists’, itself a spinoff of the Muslim Student Association, the Muslim Brotherhoods first public front group in North America.[11]
Dr. Faruqui was stabbed to death, along with his wife, in 1986 by Joseph L. Young (aka Yusuf Abdul Ali). The IIIT and others have attempted to pass off this murder as a Zionist or CIA plot, but the criminal investigation and trial showed that the murderer, Mr. Young, was a Black Muslim convert. He claimed, with some evidence, that he killed Faruqui and his wife due to his poor treatment within the organization, despite having converted to Islam. Racism may have been a factor.
The Closing of the Prayer Room
Should the University of Ottawa consider closing its common prayer room? Given the problems at the University of Ottawa, as well as those observed at Algonquin College, Maisonneuve College and many others, this is a question worth considering.
The logo of the Muslim Brotherhood and its founder Hassan al-Banna
Photo of Sayed Qutb, the second most influential Muslim Brotherhood leader. His views on blacks were incredibly racist.
After reading the above article , it should therefore , come as absolutely no surprise that the black lives matters group right here in Toronto is right in line with these terrorist aspirations. One of the head organizers has gone on record as to looking to get strength fro her Allah to not kill males and white people.
After her post about hoping that she does not go on a killing rampage where she would target ,males and white people , obviously, the media wanted to get their hands on her to grasp the stupidity of what she said. Like the pathetic coward she is, she hide from the media , until she was given a voice by a sympathetic newspaper , to allow her to somehow rationalize and justify this comment . Her is the utter bullshit that she spewed as a justification for voicing her desire to not go on that murderous rampage in the name of her terrorist god allah. Story scourced from here :
I was vilified for telling the truth about racism in Toronto
A co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto considers why the controversy over a months-old tweet she wrote has drowned out the accomplishments of her movement
Lucas Oleniuk / Toronto Star Order this photo
Yusra Khogali leads protestors in song at a Black Lives Matter demonstration at Ontario’s Parliament building, Monday April 4, 2016.
By: Yusra Khogali Published on Sun Apr 10 2016
” … To be a black Muslim woman in Toronto is to feel deep isolation, the result of omnipresent systemic anti-black, patriarchal and Islamophobic discrimination. It is to be under constant attack. To see bodies like mine ignored in the news when they suffer, when they disappear and when they die, unjustly.
Evidently some do not believe this is true. During Black History Month, I was bombarded by tweets from white men asking me to prove that racism, Islamophobia and misogyny exist. Why should I have to prove the existence of the forces that torment me and members of my community to people who don’t believe they exist and, worse, who perpetuate them? And so two months ago I tweeted, “Plz Allah give me strength not to cuss/kill these men and white folks out here today.” I put my rage and trauma into words, not action, not threat. Faced with hate, I sought restraint from god and support from my online community.
Fast forward to now. Black Lives Matter Toronto, a movement I cofounded, camped outside the police headquarters for two weeks through incredibly difficult weather conditions fighting for justice against the attack on black life in Toronto. The protest was prompted by the police shooting of Andrew Loku, a man armed only with a hammer, and the lack of transparency that followed. We have been calling for an end to anti-black racism in all institutions, from the racist practice of carding to the lack of accountability, transparency and oversight of police officers who kill black people in this city. And we got results. In two weeks, we convinced city councillors to pass a motion at city hall to investigate the lack of transparency and anti-black structures of the Toronto police’s Special Investigations Unit. Afro-fest was restored to two days. And Premier Kathleen Wynne committed to having a public meeting with us.
As the movement gained traction, I became increasingly visible and increasingly the target of those who oppose our cause. Jerry Agar, a Toronto Sun columnist with a long, well-documented record of enmity to our anti-racist goals, attempted to use my visibility to discredit me. A day after the conclusion of #BLMTOtentcity, he cited the aforementioned tweet in an attempt to delegitimize an entire movement, and to position my community as undeserving of justice.
I am not a public official. I am not a police officer. The state does not entrust me with violent weaponry. I have never contributed to the mass targeting of a community. All I have done is used a turn of phrase, a rhetorical flourish, to voice my frustration and dared to be a person calling for justice.
To date, I have directly received many disturbing death threats from white supremacists across the country. Somehow a tweet I wrote out of anger months before our protest began has become a bigger media story than our protest’s many and profound accomplishments. The noise surrounding this tweet has also drowned out the discussion we sought to spark about the black lives of those who have died at the guns of police in this country. Journalists have incessantly harassed me, desperate to get a comment on the tweet. Where were they during the entire two weeks of #BLMTOtentcity? The media is part and parcel of how anti-black racism works. Too often black people are ignored or vilified when we speak the truth about our condition.
To be black in Toronto is to have been or know somebody who has been brutalized, violated or battered by the Toronto police. Our lives are plagued by institutional and individual anti-black racism that compromises our access to safety, economic freedom, proper health care, food, housing, employment, education and culturally restorative support services. To be black in this city is to fight to survive.
Mayor John Tory responded to reports of my tweet less than 24 hours after they emerged. Yet for the more than two weeks black people fought for our humanity in protest outside of police headquarters, he ignored us. That is something everyone in this city should be concerned about. Despite all the violence we endure when we resist, we can never lose sight of the issues; we must continue to seek justice and accountability for our community. We only have more work to do, and this is only the beginning. Black lives matter, here as everywhere, and they always will.
Yusra Khogali, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto, is a community organizer, anti-racism educator and black feminist poet. She is also a graduate student at the University of Toronto pursuing a master’s in Social Justice Education. … “
NO you pathetic Psychopath, you were exposed as a racist scum bag , but ya, go ahead and continue to play the victim card.
However, this morons racist views are confined to this singular post. Far from it. In fact, she is full of race hate. Here, in her own words , she offers proof of her hate for anyone who is white. I dare say that what she spews here is not unlike words spewed by Adolf Hitler many decades ago . Behold :
Here is this racist idiot for all to see:
I will come back to this contemptible idiot in a moment. I want to share something that a member of the Toronto Police Service Board stated publicly in her blog as recently as April 07, 2016 : ” … I have reason to believe you sympathize with the Black Lives Matter movement … ” This comment was made by Shelly Carrol who has as her assistant, a dangerous, convicted and unrepentant criminal who hates Canada . You MUST read this article I wrote a short time ago about how the Police Service is doing its best to undermine our front line officers . In it , you will see CLEARLY as well that our newly discovered racist and wannabe Adolf Hitler , was actually on a panel discussion with them then head of the police service board . Shelly, did you have advance knowledge of this occupation , of the ideals that this group you clearly support? If so, why would you have with held this from YOUR EMPLOYERS, the city of Toronto, the People of Toronto, and Police Services Board where you are supposed to represent our Officers ?
Here is Shelly Carrol for those who really want to see what she looks like:
OK, back to our racist.
Yusra’s desire to enact violence or confrontation seems to be a well established pattern . Here , one student related how she was physically confronted by her :
Here , in another case, while she was a guest speaker at a York University course, this is what another student experienced from her :
Comment on CBC News’s post :
” … Name with held … Yusra Khogali was a guest speaker at one my classes at York university. She spoke regarding the issue of carding. However, she did not hesitate to show her real racist self. She told the entire class to F*** Toronto police as its a racist institution. She also said that I do not need any racist law to govern me as my community is enough, and will take care of me. She challenged the writ of the state, and had an extreme hate towards Canada and its attitude towards black minority. She claimed that Canada has institutional racism and she has no respect for the law.
She called me racist, when I pointed out how wrong she is by painting everyone with the same brush. She told me to shut up in front of everyone and did not let me speak in my own classroom. I was discriminated for having a different point of view, and not being of the same colour as her, meanwhile black students in the class were given ample opportunity to criticize Canada and its anti black “policies.” I being an international student was taken aback by her attitudes, as It was my the first time I that felt my life chances were reduced just because I did not belong to a specific race (racial discrimination), and the irony was it was done by a black person. I didn’t know how to react in such a situation, I decided to write an open letter and try to convince my professor to ban her from campus. I distributed the letter to my entire class, however, my professor, a staunch leftist refused to criticize her act nor did she agreed on never inviting her again … “
The class in question was : AP/COMN 3220 Organizing social movements with Dr. Kamilla Petrick.
Our racist idiot has other words of equal stupidity as her already well established racist actions and rants :
She even has lingo to target white people as seen here. Wypipo and Becky are slang terms for white people. The word “wypipo” is slang for “white people,” the word “Becky” is a racist slang word for white women :
Yusra has always wanted to stir up a race war and when the police can in on the first or second night to put out a fire these protesters started, she didn’t miss a step to outright lie about what happened. Here she makes a claim that officers can in with weapons drawn against them. After seeing and downloading many videos of that particular event, at NO TIME did officers even come close to drawing their weapons. Had even ONE OFFICER drawn their side arm, that would have been caught on video and the protesters would have made an enormous scene that night. So, not only is Yusra a nut case , she is also a total and complete liar .
You can read more about this contemptible idiot and jerk here .
Organizations such as black lives matter is an organization that creates ” professional victims ” . these ” victims ” very likely never had any sort of interaction with police officers, and had very good lives. However, black lives matters is run by the most radical of radicalized university students . These professional ” student leaders ” are very well experienced in how to indoctrinate students to movements these leaders are now protesting, to turn them into ” victims ” These leaders are very well paid, by your student money to indoctrinate you to THEIR causes , and make no mistake, they are connected to terrorist organizations either directly, or by extension . This nut case in question as the center of this article plays the victim card perfectly. Today she is the : victim ” of her so called anti black propaganda . Yesterday, she was the ” victim” of too hot a cup of coffee. Tomorrow she will be the ” victim ” of a red traffic light … all of these, she will blame white males for ” victimizing ” her . Her ” victimhood ” and the ” victimhood ” that professional protesters want you to ” experience is really based on the flavor of the month that the professional protesters cling onto to collect their pay checks.
If there was any question about the level of stupidity that exists within the professional protest movement , this video should put an end to that very quickly. This is a video I shot at the black lives matters protest occupation in Toronto:
The radical Muslim angle s one that has been constant throughout. These so called CFS affiliated student leaders, are all about being anti Israel , pro Palestine ( Hamas ) , pro communist and anti anything that is rational . It is not a stretch to think that we will at some point soon i fear, face a serious terrorist attack right here in Canada . Chances are very good that it will involve radicalized students from CFS affiliated universities . I think that our security services needs to be far more focused on these individuals and groups , if they are bot already are. I think as well that our same security serviced needs to start paying very close attention to those who have bee ring leaders in the past, for these people will be the ones doing much of the planning and organizing, simply because they are skilled and knowledgeable in that area.
If black lives matters was really and truly about advocating for and about their community, they would first address the really problem, black on black gun, gang and drug violence which is the major part of their communities crime problem.
Yusra Khogali and her racist rants are NO DIFFERENT than the garbage spewed out of the mouths of white supremists . The colors may be different, but the garbage is the same , the hate is the same . Her utterings are not unlike those used in the 1940’s by Adolf Hitler when he spewed his garbage against Jewish People , and anyone who was not of the ” pure German race ” as he called it . Josef Mengele would have been proud of her and her lunacy. She made her TRUE feelings perfectly clear in the hopes of advancing the race war she clearly wants, along with her fellow cohorts.
Meow everyone . Imagine .. you work for a large company or organization that has a very specific mandate . You go there day after day, year after year, expecting to fulfill this mandate . Your employer is a large city police force. You are there, as a sworn officer to serve and protect the community . I spent some time, many years ago, serving in the military. I can tell you that there is no greater level of satisfaction that serving your country / community , knowing that you are doing good. You get shot at, ridiculed, insulted, treated with contempt and disrespect , yet, you go back the following day to do this all over again. If this was just some company , like millions of other companies, one would walk away after the first day, if the employee were treated the way some of our officers are treated daily by the public. Now, what if you are that same officer, wanting to accomplish the same thing, but this time, its YOUR OWN civilian overseers who are stopping you, preventing you from doing the very job you have sworn to do ? This is the VERY REAL EVERYDAY occurrence our police officers have to deal with . Further to that , What would you say if I told you that the very civilian overseers who govern and dictate policies our officers must adhere to, are in fact sitting side by side KNOWN urban terrorists and eco terrorists ? Hmm, now I have gotten your attention didn’t I ? Well, this is not a hypothetical scenario , indeed, this is VERY REAL and has taken place.
Most people of are aware, that as in the military, in the police force , a rank structure exists, that with it, carries certain duties and responsibilities . Yes, the higher one rises through the ranks, the more political the position it can, or does become . At some point, if one rises through the ranks high enough, they may wear the police uniform , however, they do very little actually policing. rather, much of the time is spent on administrative and public relations duties and engagements.
In Toronto, while the rank structure appears as the most obvious signs of leadership with the police force, the real decision making power appears to be the Toronto Police Services Board . The Toronto Police Services Board consists of 7 members composed of:
the Mayor or a Council Member as the Mayor’s designate who is appointed by City Council;
2 Council Members;
1 citizen member appointed by City Council; and
3 citizen members appointed by the Province of Ontario.
The Toronto Police Services Board’s mandate is legislated by the Police Services Act and can be summarized as the general management and setting of policing policy. Generally, the Board’s role in shaping the structure of policing is very broad, limited by legislation only in the realm of daily operations. So, as I stated above, its the board who creates the policies that our officers must adhere to .
Therein lays the first problem … you have board members making policies that THEY feel are the correct ones , however, these same board members are not out there on the streets to see what is really going on , they , by the boards own rules, can’s be out there .
Citizen members are ineligible for appointment to the Board if they fail to satisfy the eligibility requirements for appointment as set out in the City’s Public Appointments Policy.
Under the Police Services Act, persons are ineligible for appointment as members of the Board if they are:
a judge
a justice of the peace
a police officer, and
a person who practices criminal law as a defence counsel.
So, we have a board making rules and regulations but no actually, practical experience to actually see / know what is needed , what works , what will not work . Along with the civilian members on the board, the remaining members are politicians :
the Mayor or a Council Member as the Mayor’s designate who is appointed by City Council;
2 Council Members;
Once again, politicians are NOT cops out on the street. They sit in offices of meetings all day so how can they possibly have a clue as to what cops actually with daily , yet, they some how think that they are perfectly able to dictate to officers how to do their jobs and invent regulations dictating same. However, that is only the beginning. Because politicians are tied to one political party or another, they will of course dictate policy that falls within the spectrum of their own parties ideals . Former Mayor David Miller was the perfect example of what radical left leaning politicians can to to a perfectly good organization…. he destroyed the police department with his NDP brand of politics. I have always said that While Miller was our Mayor , we had an ongoing clown act in city hall. I think Crusty the Clown from the Simpsons would have made a better Mayor than the jack ass that Miller was .
After assuming office, Miller became involved in the long-standing and polarizing debates over Toronto’s police budget. Does this sound familiar ? We here today know that the radicals want to decimate the police budget as well . But wait, there is more . Miller was not in office very long but was quick to become involved in a labour dispute between the Police Services Board and the Toronto Police Association. The board, led by councillor Pam McConnell. Like Miller who was a member of the radical left NDP party , , McConnell had also maintained her membership in the NDP, however, and has become more active with the party since 2003. She has been a Miller ally since the election and was rewarded by being anointed, chair of the Toronto Police Services Board from 2004 to 2005.
McConnell is the very same useless and brain dead twit who once accused an other mayor, Rob Rod of bulldozing her to the ground during a heated session at a city council .
OK, so let me go backwards here for a little bit. I had shown about how radical left wing politicians were actively supporting other radical politicians to ensure that radical agendas were front and center. One of the names I made mention of was Olivia Chow. . Chow herself was a member of the police services board but her radical actions were made clear and was forced to resign as a result of her out right support for the terrorist activities of her friends, the people SHE allies with .
Have a look at these screen shots that show how Chow supported violent groups and their actions … WHILE SITTING ON THE POLICE SERVICES BOARD :
I have stated that the NDP is a highly radical political party and that they support criminal organizations . Here are screen shots to support this :
I have maintained on numerous occasions that OCAP is, in my opinion, a domestic terrorist organization. Well, I am clearly not the only person of this mind. Indeed heads of law enforcement feel this way as well :
So, to recap , a member of the Police Services Board is supportive of terrorists who are in the process of a terrorist act and asks cops to back off … Hmmm seems to me that she was there, using her position, to disrupt the police force , not help it .
The other person whom I made mention of as endorsing David Miller as mayor , was none other than Judy Rebbick . Rebbick love to remind those stupid enough to listen to her , how much of a shit disturbing protester she was ” back in the day ” . To my utter amazement, I cant believe that there are actually people out there who listen to her , and can do this without vomiting.
Rebbick is a professor at Ryerson University ( and not a very good one ) . She loves to give voices to convicted , violent criminals , especially those who are in fact court ordered not to make speeches or appearances. In fact, the more violent the criminal, the more of a voice she gives them. Case in point. She gave one of her long winded nausiating diatribes at Ryerson University some years where her special guest was Alex Hundert, the convicted G20 organizer who spent his prison time in solitary confinement because he was so dangerous. While he was out on bail ( I don’t know what the court was thinking at that moment ) he was ordered NOT to speak to media or make speeches of any kind. Well Rebbick, being the moron that she is , and Hundert, being the scum bag that he is, openly flaunted the law anyway.
Here is Rebbick below ( you are on your own with having to supply barf bags )
Here is the illegal speech that Rebbick knowingly allowed Hundert to make at one her events :
Have a look here and see for yourselves who were the ones who destroyed our city during the G20 .
So far, I have shown some historical evidence that radical left political influences were sitting on the Police Services Board and clearly had the intention of limiting the ability of officers from doing their duties, in one case, even wanting officer NOT to act against criminals who were throwing molitov cocktails at the Ontario Legislature building with complete disregard for those inside, or even those outside . However , the undermining , of the officers of the Toronto Police Service did not end with Chow and Company .
So far, I have shown you that politicians have meddled into the day to day activities of our officers, even going so far as to want them to NOT enforce the law, especially when the law breakers and the politicians share the exact same agendas . If that is not undermining our officers, I cant imagine what is . But wait, it gets worse … MUCH worse . Imagine having a sitting police services board member , a city counsel member who , as part of her staff, employs a convicted urban terrorist, one who is unappologetic for her actions and does not even recognize the laws of Canada. NO, IM NOT KIDDING . Now that is really over the top, but wait, it get even WORSE . Now, imagine the CHAIRMAN of the Police Services Board attending a conference and CO-speaking with not one, not even two, but THREE Terrorists. ….. One urban terrorist, and two eco-terrorists. People, I don’t make this stuff up . At this point, I am asking my readers to once again read very carefully, the graphic I posted above showing exactly who the G20 rioting organizers were , then, read the extensive list of panelists for a symposium and see you can find a match in names:
*This page will be updated frequently as new panelists confirm, so please check-in to see who we have lined up!*
Shelley Charles, MandawKwe
Shelley Charles is a member of the Chippewa’s of Georgina Island First Nation. She has worked extensively in First Nation communities across Canada and the US. She works with youth, teachers and aboriginal artists with a commitment to preserving cultural knowledge and language. Shelley is the Elder Advisor on Aboriginal Relations at Humber College. Her passion is to provide Aboriginal students with the support and guidance through their educational journey in a post-secondary environment. She has her Master’s Degree in Indigenous Philosophy.
“According to the teachings of the Midewewin faith keepers, the language of the Ojibway Anishinabe people is written on the land. All of the plants and the waters have names that reflect our human relationship to creation. Before every ceremony or gathering we send out our songs that carry our prayers of thanksgiving for our first mother, the Earth”.
Vanessa Gray
Vanessa Gray is a 23 year old Anishinaabe kwe from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, located in Canada’s Chemical Valley. Vanessa, a former youth Green Teens community organizer, has worked with community members to bring awareness to the health issues due to the toxic surroundings. She is an organizer with ASAP, Aamjiwnaang and Sarnia Against Pipelines and continues to raise awareness about environmental racism.
Gray is an eco terrorist who has, on several occasions, engaged in acts of sabotage against a major oil pipeline, where on her last act, was criminally charged with endangering life. Is this the sort of event that a former head of a police service should be seen and sitting along side with on a panel ?
At the heart of transformative social change and transformative justice rests a deep and abiding commitment to being in relation and acting with others equally committed to a vision of society free of traditional systems of oppression. Our being together, however, can quickly become swamped in the drama that inevitably ensues when we come together to do this work. In our zeal to rid our social contexts of external forces of oppression, we often lose sight of our own inner demons. In this presentation, I will focus on the transformative learning that such work requires. As we focus our energies and lives on the work “out there”, we must also recognize and learn from the inner demons that this work can evoke. Discerning what is “out there” and “in here” represents an important focus of transformative learning in social justice work.
Sarah Scanlon
Sarah Scanlon is a queer feminist organizer based in Guelph, who has spent over a decade involved in gender based violence struggles within Ontario. Sarah’s involvement in the VAW (Violence Against Women) movement led her to working with the Children’s Aid Society as a Child Internet Exploitation Project Coordinator, as the Co-Coordinator for the I Know Someone Campaign, as the Community Mobilization Project Manager, and for OPIRG Guelph as the Coordinator of Organizational and Policy Development. Sarah deepened her analysis around alternative models to community healing and harm accountability in her role as the Public Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Sexual Assault Center of London. Her passion for working with boys and men, and the role they play in ending gender based violence, was fostered through her work as a group facilitator for Changing Ways Men’s Group and Youth Perpetrator Project. Sarah currently manages, and will be speaking about, the Gender Bullying Project focused on engaging boys with issues of masculinity and sexual violence through trans-formative justice and bystander intervention models.
Scanlon is an eco terrorist who has, on several occasions, engaged in acts of sabotage against a major oil pipeline, where on her last act, was criminally charged with endangering life. Is this the sort of event that a former head of a police service should be seen and sitting along side with on a panel ?
Dean Barnes
Dean Barnes is the Principal of T.A. Blakelock High School in Oakville Ontario. Dean has been a school admininstrator for 14 years and is a PhD graduate of the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His thesis was entitled: “Restorative Peacemaking Circles and other Conflict Management Efforts in Three Ontario High Schools” explored implementation approaches of pro-active and post-incident restorative circles. Dean’s leadership focuses on promoting high student achievement through healthy school-wide and classroom initiatives, such as increased physical activity and wellness, mindfulness, co-curricular activities, restorative practices, school-community partnerships, and relationship building interventions. He will speak about the impact of restorative justice circles in the classroom and the positive impact they have on the wellness of students.
Atiya Jaffar
Atiya Jaffar is a first generation immigrant from Pakistan who was driven to climate justice work after first hand experience seeing climate change impacts in the Global South. She is a digital organizer for 350.org and has been responsible for developing the digital strategy for 350’s operations in Canada. She was part of the team that organized the historic March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate this July. Atiya’s also a recent graduate from the University of Guelph where she completed a thesis that focused on the relationship between the Indigenous sovereignty and environmental movements. While at Guelph, she had the opportunity to work on the fossil fuel divestment campaign on campus. This December, Atiya will be raising a voice in support of climate justice as part of the Canadian Youth Delegation at the international climate negotiations in Paris.
Maria Shallard
Maria Shallard is Penelakut First Nation and European ancestry and grew up on Lil’wat territory in Pemberton, British Columbia. Currently, she is the Coordinator, Aboriginal Programs, Office of Intercultural Affairs in the Student Life Department at the University of Guelph and resides on the traditional land of the Attawanderon people. Maria holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Victoria with a double major in Environmental Studies and Canadian history with a minor in Indigenous Studies. Recently, she has finished a Master’s degree in Geography from the University of Guelph where she completed a thesis that focused on ocean governance, human well-being and Indigenous sovereignty. In past experience she has worked in First Nations communities with youth driven by a passion to provide opportunities to navigate between divergent worldviews through experiential and out of class room opportunities. While at Guelph she sits on a Truth and Reconciliation Committee and supports Indigenous advocacy and awareness through various community events. Her main focus is to ensure that there are a range of programs offered for Aboriginal students to learn, grow and experience on their academic journey. Maria believes in “nuts’a’maat shqwaluwun” (working together as one) (with one heart/mind).
Yusra Khogali Ali
Yusra is a Toronto based community organizer and activist, currently one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter Toronto chapter movement. She is a daughter of the sudanese diaspora by ancestry, born in nairobi, but a toronto bred and based black feminist spoken word poet who uses her art as a form of resistance to challenge various forms of Canadian state-sanctioned anti-blackness. She is also working on completing her masters of arts degree as a student in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Yusra believes in the self determination of black peoples lives globally and all her artistic resistance and activism, education and community organizing is dedicated to die fighting for this.
Black Lives Matter is a coalition of Black community members, students, artists, organizers, activists, and everything in between. We exist for the self-determination of all black people globally. Through Black-centric organizing, community mobilizing, and art, we are working to revolutionize social services, eliminate mass policing and incarceration, and decolonize our black communities. We work to destroy/dismantle anti-black racism and encourage the creation of new models of social organization through coalition-building, solidarity work, and a black-centric network. BLMTO is here to support healing justice, the liberation of our communities, families, and the freedom to love and self-determine. BLMTO also strongly believes in supporting Indigenous people as central to the struggle for liberation while working to unify an organize our families/communities, affirm black existence, support black healing, and liberate blackness so that we can freely be.
Black lives matters is a racist group bent on creating a race war and openly advocating MURDER of white people. Is this the sort of event that a former head of a police service should be seen and sitting along side with on a panel ?
Here as seen blow, black lives matter is offering a ” reward ” of half a million dollars for the murder of a prosecutor . Is this the sort of event that a former head of a police service should be seen and sitting along side with on a panel ?
Emily Duron
Emily Duron, BA, BEd is the Director/Founder of The ACE Approach (Awareness and Consciousness Education). After teaching in Toronto private schools for many years, she realized the importance of developing the Social and Emotional skills of students. Through transformative and reflective practices, The ACE Approach nurtures self-awareness, self-responsibility and peaceful problem solving by teaching students meditation, breathing techniques and emotional literacy. The ACE Approach offers a potent combination of three key educational methods that current research has proven are most supportive of student growth: Social and Emotional Learning, Mindfulness/Awareness and Inquiry-Based Experiential Education. The ACE Approach Classroom and Professional Development programs provide a full spectrum of practical tools to enable students and teachers to connect in healthy, communicative and peaceful ways. The inspiration of The ACE Approach has its roots in the teachings of Yogini Mangala Anshumati, creator of Hridaya Yoga – Yoga of the Heart and AHIMSA -Artistic Harmlessness in Mind Speech and Action. These two organizations are committed to teaching non-violence to people of all ages. Emily has been a student of Hridaya Yoga for 5 years and is devoted to a life of learning and self-discovery.
Alok Mukherjee
Alok Mukherjee is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University, Toronto. He served as Chair of the Toronto Police Services Board from 2005 to 2015. Police Boards, having served as its President. With his focus on promoting effective and affordable community-based policing under civilian oversight provincially and nationally, Dr. Mukherjee was actively involved in Ontario government’s Future of Policing Advisory Committee as well as in other police governance forums across Canada.
He is frequently called upon to speak and write on policing issues for a variety of audiences. He brings a unique perspective to law enforcement issues from his experiences in a highly multicultural and multiracial environment.
Dr. Mukherjee has worked as an educator and a consultant. He has written extensively in a variety of areas including diversity and inclusivity, employment equity for racially visible and aboriginal people, and anti-racist education.
Dr. Mukherjee has held several public appointments, including membership on the Toronto District School Board Safe and Compassionate School Taskforce and the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services, and has served as Vice Chair and Acting Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Dr. Mukherjee has received several awards for his volunteer activities and for his outstanding work at a professional and social level. He is a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Government of Ontario.
Margot Van Sluytman
Margot Van Sluytman is an award-winning expressive writing teacher, mentor, restorative justice advocate, and public speaker. She is invited to teach and give talks and workshops about how expressive writing is a rich process of healing and transformation, by reclaiming, respecting, and living our precious voice. Her books include: Sawbonna: I See You, A Real Life Restorative Justice Story; The Other Inmate: Mediating Justice-Mediating Hope, Poetry and Writing Workbook for Restorative Practices (English and French); Layers of Possibility: Healing Poetry from The Members of The National Association for Poetry Therapy, Foreword by Dr. Robert Carroll, NAPT; Dance With Your Healing: Tears Let Me Begin to Speak With My Pen; and, Wild Self Real Self: Write Your Voice of Healing and Strength. She has been interviewed by media around the world. Margot is the Founder of The Sawbonna Project for Living Justice and a Member of The National Association for Poetry Therapy.
Sunny Dhillon
Sunny Dhillon is a Researcher and Program Evaluator with the Centre of Research, Policy & Program Development. He joined the Centre in 2014. He is involved in the evaluation of a variety of local office programs, and provides support to current research projects. He has completed an MSc with Distinction in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research Methods at the University of Oxford, as well as an MA in Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. He has also worked as a Senior Statistics Officer for the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. During his graduate studies he focused on the operation of the criminal justice system, access to justice, and emerging methodologies in criminological research.
Sunny’s talk will be based on the recent report by the Centre titled: Unlocking Change: Decriminalizing Mental Health Issues in Ontario. This report chronicles how the criminal justice system has become a catchall for people whose mental health issues have gone untreated or undetected in the community. The Report calls on the province to stop relying on the justice system as a key responder to individuals who have mental health issues, and provides recommendations aimed at shifting Ontario toward prevention. Unlocking Change articulates a pressing need for a paradigm shift in Ontario toward – and investment in – proactive, preventative and inclusive approaches to mental health. A prevention-based approach would aim to help Ontarians with mental health issues beforethey become at risk – of homelessness, crisis, unemployment or conflict with the law. The talk will emphasize possible policy solutions as well as open a discussion among the panelists and attendees on promising solutions for the future.
Steve Wineman
Steve Wineman’s social change activism dates back to the 1960s. He has participated in efforts to achieve peace and disarmament, racial and gender equality, workplace democracy, and ecological sustainability. He retired at the end of 2013 after more than 30 years working in community mental health. Steve is the author of The Politics of Human Services and Power-Under: Trauma and Nonviolent Social Change.
Steve Wineman’s talk will focus on the complex, interacting dynamics of power and trauma. He will describe the continuum of objective power relations, ranging from dominance to shared power to subordination, as well as the continuum of subjective power experience ranging from full empowerment to the internalization of powerlessness that often accompanies trauma. To understand the full complexity of power, we need to recognize how the same person can be dominant on one dimension (such as class) and subordinate on another (such as gender). We also need to recognize that subjective power (or lack of power) often does not match people’s objective power positions, and that internalized powerlessness can lethally combine with objective dominance. Understanding the complexity of power dynamics, including the role of trauma, is critical to the development of effective strategies for transformative social change.
Cameron Reid
Cameron Reid is a community activist and recent graduate of Humber’s SSW program. He has served as the co-chair of the Toronto Harm Reduction Worker’s Union Organizing Committee (IWW 610), and is a member of the Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance, a local advocacy and activist organization.
His experiences living with clinical depression since his early teens and his later journey through self medication with drug use form the basis for his commitment to advocating for peer-driven solutions, community empowerment, and reformation of drug policy.
Leah Henderson
Leah is a queer-crip-femme-witch who spends a lot of time working, writing and thinking about community accountability and transformative justice. She supports and develops community accountability processes in her communities. She is a white, settler, who is a community organizer based on the stolen and colonized land of toronto, ontario, that has spent over a decade involved in struggles for justice within apartheid canada. Leah’s involvement in the environmental movement lead her to supporting Indigenous communities in the struggle for Sovereignty and Self-Determination. Leah has also been part of building communities that fight for justice for queer and trans people, women, low- income, disabled and racialized people. She has worked with groups across Turtle Island on fighting sexism, homophobia and transphobia and in solidarity with the movement for migrant justice.
And so we arrive at Ms. Henderson. She is employed at city hall, working for police services board member Shelly Carrol , yes, the same Ms Henderson who was one of the main organizers of the G20 riots , an act that several top law enforcement officials referred to as domestic terrorism. Her words to the court when she was sentenced were :
“… I stand here guilty of breaking your laws, not the laws of justice … ”
“… Ok so a bit about me. Today is not just my halfway point, but it is also the day that I became eligible for parole. I’ve waived my right to apply for parole. I’ve done this for a few reasons, one is that I feel no remorse for my organizing against the G8 & G20, and given another opportunity, I will continue to organize against them (and colonialism and capitalism more generally). The parole board looks for remorse, and for how you will not re-offend. I can only hope more of us reoffend this work more often… ”
Her full statement to the court prior to sentencing :
All you need to know about me is that I am a person of conscience, I came to this situation from a place of morality within myself, and I am a member of a community that shares that morality and a powerful vision for a future that is truly free.
I stand here guilty of breaking your laws, not the laws of justice.
The court has been told, “this prosecution is not political”, and that this has been done to protect society from danger.
The truth is this entire prosecution is born from the politics of fear. Fear of our ideas, fear of what we represent:
Freedom.
A Freedom that your jails will not confine.
I am not here for approval.
I am here because this is what stands for justice on this colonized land.
Though I stand here being judged by you, I am accountable to more, that is beyond these walls.
I am accountable to the indigenous communities whose lands we are on. To the earth who we’re daily assaulting with saws, and chemicals. To the elders in my life and to the generations yet to come.
The laws that govern our societies are not laws of community, or laws of consensus, they are laws of oppression. Laws that underpay and overwork mothers. That deport the poor and those of colour. Laws that rob Indigenous Nations of their traditions, their land, their childhoods. Laws that blame the unemployed and rewards those that get rich on their backs.
I have been deeply and profoundly affected by this process, but have not been changed by it. I have been moved by the incredible support that I have received, far beyond what I could have imagined. It has been made more clear to me through this process that this vision for the future is part of a groundswell.
I want to say thank you to everyone that has supported me, thank you to my friends, my family and my lawyer.
I submit to your jails because today you hold many of the weapons, and many people under your spell. A day is coming when that will not be so.
A day is coming where the distorted mirror that hides the lies of capitalism and colonialism will shatter. … ”
As most of you probably know by now, I have decided to plead guilty to the charge of counseling to commit mischief. Originally, I along with 20 others was charged with four counts of conspiracy in what was called the G20 main conspiracy group.
I am writing because the past year and a half of facing these charges and living under bail conditions has meant that I have not been able to talk as openly as I would have liked. My voice has been muzzled by the state, which has served as a powerful reminder of the many voices that are muzzled by the daily colonialism, patriarchy, racism and violence of the world. While the silencing of my voice has an end date, the work to hear the chorus of our grandmothers and the Indigenous Peoples whose land we stand on is ongoing.
I never considered that the people in power would see me, my community and our values as anything other than a threat — because we are a threat. We are working to tear this system down and to make space for life-centered systems that make the 1% irrelevant. Those who benefit from the status quo have always tried to crush that.
I want to tell you that I was arrested because I am seen as a threat. I want to tell you that you might be too. I want to tell you that this is something we need to prepare for. I want to tell you that the risk of incarceration alone should not determine our organizing.
My skills and experience — as a facilitator, as a trainer, as a legal professional and as someone linking different communities and movements –were all targeted in this case, with the state trying to depict me as a “brainwasher” and as a mastermind of mayhem, violence and destruction. During the week of the G8 & G20 summits, the police targeted legal observers, street medics and independent media. It is clear that the skills that make us strong, the alternatives that reduce our reliance on their systems and prefigure a new world, are the very things that they are most afraid of.
I organize openly as an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist anarchist. My organizing is focused on movement building, and this commitment to build skill sets and support other activists is another part of why the state has targeted me. However, this attempt to deter me has failed, just as it has failed to deter thousands of others similarly facing police brutality and jail. I am strengthened in my resolve to build communities of resistance. We are building the structures of a new kind of society in the midst of the old, and we cannot do that without a commitment to skill-sharing, mutual aid and collective liberation.
Since the G8 & G20 protests, Toronto (and beyond) has witnessed a wave of repression that has seen the justice system trap people and their communities in its jaws, using all of their time and energy to survive the resource-intensive and soul-sucking legal process. The state hoped that there would be no energy left to fight against them as they cut funding to essential services, ignored self-determination, and further criminalized poor people, migrants and people of colour.
They were wrong.
The awe-inspiring and humbling surprise in all of this is that we have refused to be crushed and, in fact, we have grown in strategy, strength and numbers: in Toronto, I’ve seen the anti-austerity movements grow with campaigns like “Stop the Cuts”; in Grassy Narrows, one day of powerful mobilization forced the government to listen to the community’s demands; globally, there has been a continued, intensified uprising that is showing collective dissatisfaction with the capitalist system and austerity agenda that the G8 & G20 per-petuate.
I took this plea willingly. I consented today to confine myself to a cage, away from the people, work and struggles that I am connected to. I did this for a reason.
As a group of accused, we come to organizing with different access to power. When the 17 of us found ourselves around a table facing a trial, continued disruption of our lives and livelihoods, possible convictions, jail sentences and deportations, it became essential that some of us plead guilty to ensure that the rest walk free.
It was a decision that could not be and was not taken lightly. I was inspired, along with the rest of the 17, by a proud history of political trials, where people have chosen to plead guilty to end the legal process? if it resulted in the best possible deal for all involved.
This plea is not a defeat. I am energized. I am hopeful knowing that we have each other’s back and will take care of each other, even if it means that some of us go to jail. I am proud. I hope you are too.
I am incredibly grateful for the people in my life who have been supporting me and who will continue to do so.
To the women who have carried me through this — you are my faeries with magick wands and combat boots; you’ve granted me wishes and kicked the crap out of anything I couldn’t handle. Your care and support is revolutionary. May it become less invisible to the world.
To my family — every day I am grateful for your unconditional love and support; that I chose you when I came into this world is perhaps the greatest gift I have given to myself.
To my community — you have grown and expanded with me since my arrest; this growth is a testament to our strength.
To my sureties — you took me out into the world when no one else could; you housed me, sat on absurdly uncomfortable court benches while pregnant and while waiting to see if your own child would be released from custody.
To the assistants, receptionists, lawyers, and legal workers that represented us — thank you for your dedication and commitment.
To my friends that stayed in to keep me company, moved me, brought me comfort and, most importantly, helped me to laugh and cry and rage-craft through this — I hope that I can give half as much to you as I have received.
To my co-evils (otherwise known as co-accused):
“While I can’t have you, I long for you… I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you.” – Jeannette Winterson
I’ve missed you, friends. After all this time, my heart still beats as one with yours. But things have changed, we have grown, my heartbeat sounds different — I’m sure yours does too. Since we became wrapped up in this together, I have carried you with me everywhere I go. I’m excited to begin new relationships with you that don’t have the state stuck in between us.
Thank you for all that you have been through this process: fierce, vulnerable, honest, inspiring, loving, strong, and deeply committed to working collectively, challenging oppression and building communities of resistance.
There is a complex combination of rage and inspiration that this experience has given me that cannot be summed up in one statement, let alone a lifetime of statements, but moving forward, I am energized and filled with hope that we will continue to struggle together in creative, supportive and inspiring ways.
I would say see you in the streets, but if you know me, you know that I’m more excited to see you in a meeting.
With love, rage and solidarity, Leah
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Leah Henderson c/o Vanier Centre for Women 655 Martin Street, Box 1040 Milton ON L9T 5E6 … ”
Mr. Alok Mukherjee Is this the sort of event that a former head of a police service should be seen and sitting along side with on a panel ?What kind of message are you, as head of a police service board sending to the very officers you and your board seemingly create policy for ?
I might understand attending such an event as a panelist and possibly having one questionable person as part of that panel. That might be a simple oversight . However, attending a panel along side three of the top terrorists in their field sir is, in my opinion, incompetence . One would think, and perhaps event expect that as former head of the largest law enforcement organization in the country, you would want to at least check out the back grounds of those with whom you are about to share a stage with .
Mr. Alok Mukherjee , your attendance and participation at this seminar along side these three people is , in my view, exactly the same as is the Director of the CIA or NSA where to attend a party hosted by ISIS or some other terrorist group. I doubt sir that if John Gotti the famous mobster , where to host a party or a seminar, the chief of police would sit at the table along side him as part of his panel , or attend a party know who was going to be there. So sir, I have to ask the rhetorical question of whether , during your tenure as Police Service Board Chairman , where you in fact there to undermine the efforts of officers attempts to enforce the law effectively , or , where you there to forward your own personal agenda ( if there was one ) ? I ask sir because under your tenure , you allowed the black live matter group to disrupt one of the board meetings , seemingly , freely. Under your tenure, officers were seemingly held back from stopping a major riot during the G20 that destroyed this city. I am NOT saying you were responsible for either, i just find it very odd that these events , these people you engaged with at this seminar are so closely tied together . It makes me question you leadership and soundness of judgement. Mr. Alok Mukherjee, I am not questioning your commitment to your duties, I AM questioning the soundness of your judgement with respects to whom you share a panel discussion table with … especially with even the most minimal research , you would have known who these people really are / where , and especially given your former position as head of a top law enforcement agency.
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