She/her | @ynd_jnd Co-Chair 🌹 | Internationalist | Likes don't = support Socialism in our lifetime.
Waterloo, Ontario
Joined June 2016
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Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
The median annual household income in Laurier–Sainte-Marie is around $59k, 71% of the population are renters.
As CEO of Desjardins for 9 yrs, @liberal_party candidate Guy Cormier made $4.5 million a year.
This is the party thats supposed to be tackling the affordability crisis?
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
how about the government build affordable housing?
Housing won’t be affordable for decades. What can we do for young Canadians while they wait? theglobeandmail.com/investin…
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
The same guy who was caught fixing the price of bread for years now claims that the big grocers have no control over prices.
Give me a break.
Canadians aren’t stupid. We see Galen getting richer and richer as grocery costs skyrocket. We know we’re being ripped off.
It’s time to break up the Big Grocery Cartel and drive down costs with a national network of public grocery stores that Canadians can actually afford to shop at.
ALT Graphic of a headline from the Toronto Star: Loblaw chair Galen Weston says grocers 'cannot control prices', jokes he was 'traumatized' by public outrage.
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
NDP leader Avi Lewis has renewed his call for the federal government to nationalize Stelco in the face of the company laying off 500 unionized workers from its Hamilton plant.
buff.ly/OI5zT3f
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
Hamilton's steelworkers are at the heart of our economy, and we won’t stand by while a Trump-aligned CEO tries to wipe them out.
Yesterday, I rallied with Stelco workers to protest Cleveland-Cliffs' layoffs and their overt sabotage of our steel industry. Stelco’s owner has admitted that he bought the company to take out the competition for his US steel mills.
Once our steel industry is gone, it’s gone forever.
It's time for the government to act before it's too late. Nationalize Stelco. Save these good union jobs. Put the steel industry into public hands.
That's how we take back control of our economy and build a stronger Canada for everybody.
ALT Avi Lewis standing alongside union members at the Stelco rally.
ALT Avi Lewis speaking at the Stelco rally.
ALT Group of people at the Stelco rally. A woman is holding a sign that says: SAVE THEIR JOBS / HONOR YOUR PROMISES CLEVELAND-CLIFFS.
ALT The blue Stelco sign. A crowd of people holding union flags surrounds it.
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
(en/es/عر/it) DSA sends our solidarity to the dockworkers at 113+ ports in 22+ countries who today are on strike against war and in solidarity with Palestine. Your struggle inspires our own. Yesterday, DSA launched a national Arms Embargo campaign to break the supply chain of death fueling genocide. We look forward to joining hands in this next stage of struggle.
Desde DSA, enviamos nuestra solidaridad a los trabajadores portuarios de más de 113 puertos en más de 22 países, quienes hoy se encuentran en huelga contra la guerra y en solidaridad con Palestina. Su lucha inspira la nuestra. Ayer, DSA lanzó una campaña nacional por el embargo de armas, con el objetivo de romper la cadena de suministro que alimenta el genocidio. Esperamos unir fuerzas en esta nueva etapa de lucha.
حزب الاشتراكيين الديمقراطيين في أمريكا يُعرِب عن تضامنه مع عمّال الموانئ الذين يُضرِبون اليوم في ما لا يقلّ عن ١١٣ ميناءً في ٢٢ دولةً، رفضًا للحرب وتضامنًا مع فلسطين. نضالكم يُلهم نضالنا. وقد أطلقنا أمس حملةً وطنيةً لفرض حظرٍ على توريد الأسلحة، بهدف كسر سلسلة إمدادات القتل التي تُغذّي الإبادة. ونتطلّع إلى التكاتف معكم في هذه المرحلة المقبلة من النضال.
Come DSA, mandiamo la nostra solidarietà ai lavoratori portuali di oltre 113 porti in più di 22 paesi che oggi sono in sciopero contro la guerra e in solidarietà con la Palestina. La vostra lotta è di ispirazione per la nostra. Ieri, DSA ha lanciato una campagna nazionale per l'embargo sulle armi, volta a interrompere la catena di approvvigionamento che alimenta il genocidio. Siamo orgogliosi di unire le forze in questa nuova fase di lotta.
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
worth noting this is partly because DSA is also the most (& really only) trans political formation in the country
there are trans people, esp trans women, at all levels of leadership in DSA, don’t get that anywhere else
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
Avi Lewis on Stelco: "The CEO has admitted on CBC that he bought this company in order to take out the competition for his U.S. steel mills. And now he's violating the law by by laying off hundreds of workers potentially right before Christmas. This is obscene."
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
We're building worker power with the grassroots, and we want you to be a part of it! Join @avilewis and local labour leaders to talk about what's at stake for workers and how we're organizing together in solidarity.
RSVP for a town hall near you:
📍Hamilton Townhall: actionnetwork.org/events/joi…
📍Windsor Townhall: actionnetwork.org/events/joi…
📍Peel Region Townhall: actionnetwork.org/events/joi…
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
This is a great video by @avilewis: it showcases the real damage privatization and union-busting have on our communities and economy
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
Canada's unions passed a resolution calling on workers to refuse to handle weapons and military equipment destined for Israel.
We stand with Palestinian workers in their fight for peace, justice, and respect for international law.
canadianlabour.ca/clc-calls-…
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
I fully agree with the core argument here. Bradford was a serious contender and was backed by powerful interests, some of the best strategists and a united front with no vote splitting. Olivia's historic win is even more impressive given those factors.
To all the Chow supporters tempted to dunk on Bradford. Give the Mayor some credit! The story of last night is not that Bradford under-performed, it's that the Mayor over-performed.
Last night, @BradMBradford won 404,013 votes.
For context:
Rob Ford in 2010: 383,501
John Tory in 2014: 394,775
John Tory in 2018: 479,659
John Tory in 2022: 342,158
I know your entire identity is about hating anyone to the right of Fidel Castro but it's making you miss what is a very positive story for your team.
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
The American CEO who bought Stelco is openly admitting that he purchased the company to sabotage it.
This is why the Liberals should have never approved Stelco's sale in the first place. When you give away ownership of a critical industry like steel, your economy is forever under another's thumb.
There is only one solution that will save these jobs and put Canada back in the driver's seat: we need to nationalize Stelco.
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
More people voted for Olivia Chow to be mayor than Albertans voted to separate from Canada.
Noise on social media is just that: noise. These people get followers, RTs, but their genuine influence, the issues they complain about are not real.
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
I am incredibly inspired by so many incredible people who were elected, those too who challenged power but came up short, and volunteers, citizens who wore their hearts on their sleeves and dared to talk politics in their communities. We are better for it.
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
We could have had a they/them lesbian mayor 4 years ago and I think about that loss every single day.
Rosa 🍊🌹 retweeted
A socialist who's gone above and beyond for renters and families in our ward has just been elected in YSW! Congratulations @chipadovani!
