Canada's largest private sector union is slamming the Ford government over a proposed plan to reduce statutory holidays for front-line retail workers.

In response to the ongoing violence and harassment in our communities around the world, this site offers several contact tools to help you call upon your local representatives to defund the police with just a few clicks. This way you have more time to take action in other meaningful ways.

Economic activity at the Port of Oakland came to a halt on Friday as thousands of workers and supporters gathered on Middle Harbor Road to protest police brutality and racism in the United States.

The demonstration, organized by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, coincided with demonstrations planned today at 28 other seaports in California, Oregon and Washington.

Juneteenth 2020 in Canada

The U.S. military’s budget, like so many police department budgets, is bloated, and diverts our tax dollars into forces of domination and violence.

BLMTO Juneteenth Demonstration - Using our voices through Art.

On Wednesday, Los Angeles county sheriff’s deputies also shot dead Terron Jammal Boone, 31, who the department said was “the half-brother of Robert Fuller, who [was] discovered hanging from a tree on 10 June 2020 and is currently the subject of a death investigation”.

"From Minneapolis to Buffalo, Homeland Security officials dispatched drones, helicopters and airplanes to monitor Black Lives Matter protests."

"Some of the most controversial cop unions are unaffiliated with national groups, while large and progressive unions include an influential police presence. ... Police unions, compared to others within organized labor, tend to be more rigidly ideological and are adept at organizing. That combination means police unions can often pull their coalition partners — particularly in corrections, probation, and the building trades — to the right on issues that go beyond strict policing concerns."

Black Lives Matter day of action on College Street in Toronto right now.

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members are painting the message “Defund the Police” in bright pink paint outside of Toronto Police Headquarters. #CBC #torontopolice #BlackLivesMatter

The fiscal response to the crisis has been vast but many measures for low-income families could be withdrawn

The Star's Laura Armstrong is on the scene at Bay and College Streets where scores of people have gathered outside Toronto police headquarters.

The Intercept’s security director shows how to safeguard a secondary Android phone for an anti-police protest.