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Do Valentine’s Day right and support local business while you’re at it! THIS WEEKEND!!! #shoplocal #EastEndMagic #SmallBusiness

The first time we met, in September, Ann Poochareon was with us. Despite the fact that she was mid-chemo-treatment, she was full of excitement about an idea she... had for how women entrepreneurs could support each other through covid. Tomorrow night we’ll be meeting again. Heartbreakingly, we have lost Ann. But along with talking about mutual support in the middle of the 2nd lockdown, we’ll be planning ways to honour Ann. Please join us. RSVP for link. Women, transfeminine, nonbinary entrepreneurs all welcome

Strange Fruit: Nooses are Hate Crimes One element of systemic anti-Black racism is that someone can hang nooses on a construction site and receive only a charge... of mischief in return When nooses are a clear sign of white power, terror, and death. Help us ask the attorney general to strengthen hate crimes legislation so that hate crimes are prosecuted as hate crimes. Details on how to participate here: https://fb.me/e/cZM36sOR2

Happening today! Even as we watch covid devastate BIPOC communities, far right hate is rising and organizing and governments aren’t doing nearly enough to to stop it. Looking forward to this important conversation: thanks for putting it together, Toronto East Anti-hate Mobilization -TEAM!

Community heartbreak; community grieving It feels so wrong not to be able to gather in grief So we leave flowers... We mourn online We visit alone We cry alone We wish to hold each other and we long for better days See more