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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley

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The Freedom from War Coalition is a Vancouver Island organisation aspiring to end war - moved over from that other place for some more congruent values.

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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
FFWC will be holding a Peace Demonstration at CFMETR on Remembrance Day, stand with us
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Everyone is welcome, please join us! facebook.com/events/s/mov...
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Movie Night - Palestine Is Still The Issue
Event in Duncan, BC by Freedom from War Coalition on Saturday, November 1 2025
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Freedom from War is collaborating with Revolve and other organizing groups to bring Draw the Line to Cowichan Stand with us on Sept 20
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Camas Books in Victoria is hosting a pro Palestine pro Trans discussion on Saturday. Join in the discourse, join in solidarity
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Join us in remembrance of the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima nuclear massacre In honor of the lives lost, we will be making paper cranes Demand an end to militarization and the threat of nuclear war
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Freedom from War Coalition is working to draw more people into our efforts – not only do we feel deeply that we must all stand against what is occurring in Gaza, we also know there is foundational work that must be done to oppose the doctrines of war.
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
It was a beautiful day marching in solidarity with our queer and trans comrades in Cowichan Down with the cis-tem that seeks to oppress us, we must stand and march in the fight for all our human rights #pride #loveconquersall #freegaza
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Please join us at the overpass on Saturday for our banner drop
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
www.facebook.com/share/1HhkwD... Happening tomorrow, please join us!
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Join us! There is strength in our numbers
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Stand with us in opposition to US naval weapons testing in Nanoose. We can't turn away from the threat our would be occupiers pose from within our borders
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Please join us in democratic opposition to US Navy weapons testing in Nanoose Bay. Held on June 15, the inaugural day of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis facebook.com/events/s/occ...
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The Israeli government has abandoned all pretenses for its goal of ethnically cleansing of all Palestinians from their land, accelerating its genocide in Gaza and engineering the largest land theft in the occupied West Bank in over thirty years.
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The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined. Our new report outlines the costs of war to journalists – and the journalism we all rely on. [THREAD, 1/8] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 02/04/2025
NEW: With all eyes on the shock-and-awe tariffs, Canadian mining corporation Equinox Gold is quietly clamping down on the land and rights of the Carrizalillo community in Mexico. We can't let it go unnoticed. IPS fellow Jen Moore in @canadiandimension.bsky.social:
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The hazardous machinations of Canada’s mining elite
As the dangers that mining-affected communities and environment defenders continue to mount in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and other countries, Canadian mining companies such as Equinox Gold confirm the...
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Jane Kilthei @janekilthei.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The callousness of capitalist economies...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is a test. Not like a test as not the real thing like a fire drill, but the real thing itself: a test as in all of us are being tested, as in "these are times that try men's souls" and everyone's principles. Who will stand up to the coup/constitutional crisis? Who has already surrendered?
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People Have the Power: Week Whatever of the Stupid Coup and the Pushback
I wrote the following early yesterday before the big news of the Wisconsin election in which Elon Musk's estimated $20 million and illicit bribes to voters did not net a win for his candidate and may ...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Trump’s tariff policies might not be born out of ignorance, but cold-blooded tactics designed to advance the interests of those best positioned to take advantage of economic chaos.
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Trump’s quest for a new Gilded Age
The Wall Street Journal warns that Trump’s “dumbest trade war in history” could lead to recession. But, as McGill University professor Daniel Cere explains, his policies might not be born out of ignor...
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
A group of students holding signs saying Jews against ice and free Mahmoud now sitting inside a university gateA close-up of a student whose hands are changed to a gate. Next to a sign that says release Mahmoud Khalil nowStudents holding signs that say “Jews against ICE”
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 02/04/2025
Israeli settlers attacked this Palestinian village — then came back in army uniform - www.972mag.com/jinba-pogrom-israeli…
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Israeli settlers attacked Jinba — then came back in army uniform
After their brutal pogrom, settler-soldiers returned to the West Bank village the same night, destroying everything in their path.
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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Israeli forces killed 8 medics, 6 first responders & a UN staff member in Gaza. The 15 bodies were found in a mass grave. Via @unocha.org: "We're digging them out with uniforms, with their gloves on...Their vehicles...are crushed and dumped, covered in sand next to us." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Gaza: Red Cross outraged over killing of medics by Israeli forces
Six Civil Defence first responders and a UN employee were also killed in the incident in Rafah on 23 March.
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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 02/04/2025
From “walking while trans” arrests to bathroom bans, the criminalization of trans lives is nothing new — it’s a legacy of state control and gender-based policing. What happened to Marcy is part of that legacy. FL lawmakers: We see you. We won't back down.
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Trans Woman Arrested, Sent to Men’s Jail For Entering Florida Capitol Bathroom
“I’m not a political activist,” she maintained. “I’m just a normal college student who thinks this law is wrong.”
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Veterans For Peace Delegation Visits Nicaragua - PopularResistance.Org
In a powerful demonstration of international solidarity, seven members of Veterans For Peace (VFP) visited Nicaragua in mid-to-late March as an official VFP delegation. Veterans from five U.S. states ...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Attorney: 'This Is The McCarthy Era All Over Again' - PopularResistance.Org
A federal judge in New Jersey will soon issue a ruling on where the deportation case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student who led the student encampment at Columbia University last year, can be li...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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The New Face Of Christian Zionism - PopularResistance.Org
On October 12, 2024, tens of thousands of people thronged outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., for what organizers called the ​“A Million Women” rally. The event was staged by a clut...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Ecuador: Luisa González Signs Unity Pact To Counter Neoliberalism - PopularResistance.Org
This Sunday, March 30, as the electoral campaign for Ecuador’s presidential elections on April 13 progresses, Luisa González, candidate of the leftist Citizen Revolution movement, participated in the ...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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‘Every arrest that ICE has made is a political one’: How immigrant rights activists are fighting attacks on the Palestine movement
“This is about Palestine and this is not about Palestine,” said New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice director Amy Torres at a recent rally in support of Mahmoud Khalil. “This is about this admini...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Susan Abulhawa’s response to PEN America’s complicity with genocide
Read Susan Abulhawa’s scorching letter to the head of PEN America where she takes a blowtorch to the organization’s continued complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law
The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institut...
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Vancouver friends! Super excited to be doing this event with my sister Naomi next month, April 26, at UBC's Chan Centre 👇 The New Shock Doctrine: Charting Canada’s Path in a Time of Crisis...
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Bad Boy 🔻 of Mandalore 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇷 @dindjarinsway.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Ireland stands with Palestine. #VivaPalestina #IzrahellIsATerr0r1stState
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 29/03/2025
We had just begun rebuilding our lives when Israel shattered the Gaza ceasefire. Now we are once again on the edge of death and I can only ask, Why are we not allowed to survive? mondoweiss.net/2025/03/why-... #Palestine #Israel
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Why are Palestinians not allowed to survive?
We had just begun rebuilding our lives when Israel shattered the Gaza ceasefire. Now we are once again on the edge of death and I can only ask, Why are we not allowed to survive?
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Israel’s war on Gaza was never about Hamas
The voices of Palestinians who protested against Hamas in Gaza are not only a reminder of the unbearable suffering that has been inflicted upon them, but also of the fact that those subjected to that ...
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This cause is close to our hearts - US friends please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
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Democrats: This isn't business as usual, we need you to fight!
We are in an overwhelming crisis. After just over two weeks in office, the Trump administration has unleashed wave after wave of catastrophic attacks—even going so far as cutting off critical funding ...
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World BEYOND War @world-beyond-war.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The death toll in Gaza is only 50,000—if you ignore 350,000 more who “don’t count” because they died under rubble, of starvation, or without insulin.
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The Vast Gaza Death Undercount– Undermines Civic, Diplomatic and Political Pressures - World BEYOND War
Numbers matter in wars and natural disasters. They matter in the intensity behind the civic, political, and diplomatic efforts worldwide to stop the killing, secure a permanent ceasefire.…
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Weekly Briefing: Colonial violence is on display from Gaza to U.S. universities
Israel escalates attacks on Gaza and the West Bank as Trump intensifies crackdown on Palestine activism and free speech.
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
"Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank is being accepted by the international community because it has already allowed genocide in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians since 1948. But there is hope a new world is being born," writes Qassam Muaddi for Mondoweiss
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Four Reasons Why Ethnic Cleansing Of The West Bank Is Being Accepted - PopularResistance.Org
Earlier this week, while Israeli warplanes were resuming their carpet bombing campaign in Gaza, Israel also expanded its offensive on the West Bank, this time reaching the al-Ain refugee camp west of ...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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Imperialist genocide of Gaza resumes
Israel’s murderous attack on Gaza on Monday was driven both by Netanyahu’s parliamentary problems and the US’s imperial agenda, argues Michael Lavalette Israel restarted its genocidal slaughter in ...
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...
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Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights!
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Now is the time to act! For concrete steps and links: jvp.org/wiretwitter Monday night, the Israeli military dramatically escalated its attacks, carpet-bombing the captive population of Gaza and killing over 400 Palestinians, many of them children. This is a campaign of extermination.
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The Wire, by JVP
Every week, we cover important news from Palestine, the United States, and the Palestine solidarity movement — and provide ways to take action.
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Why United States imperialism and militarism is causing climate change, explained. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYu_...
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Why the United States Is Killing the World
YouTube video by Our Changing Climate
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 19/03/2025
"My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night." a letter from Mahmoud Khalil in ICE detention mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...
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Letter from Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student activist being faced with deportation, writes from an ICE detention facility: “The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppres...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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'Censoring Palestine' film is being censored - and the irony shouldn't be lost
A number of screenings of the film 'Censoring Palestine' have been dropped at short notice following “back-door pressure"
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Freedom from War Coalition - Cowichan Valley @freedomfrwar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Our Monthly Jewish Fast for Gaza - gather tomorrow, March 19th, noon, Duncan City Square. Israel has broken the ceasefire, is blocking food, supplies, and intensely bombing Gaza. Join us to stand with and mourn for the Palestinian people.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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LIVE from EMERGENCY STOP GAZA GENOCIDE Protest in NYC as Israel Restarts Assault
YouTube video by Status Coup News
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We speak with Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed in Deir al-Balah, who says the civilian population and the medical system cannot handle more war. I “People have not yet recovered from the endless trauma they have been through during the past 15 months.” www.democracynow.org/2025/3/18/ga...
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“Endless Trauma”: Israeli Strikes Shatter Gaza Ceasefire as Blockade Starves Palestinian Population
We speak with Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed in Deir al-Balah, who says the civilian population and the medical system cannot handle more war. Israel launched a massive wave of airstrikes overni...
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Leadnow @leadnowca.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
URGENT: Israel has ended the ceasefire deal killing over 400 Palestinians, including children. This comes after they shut down electricity and blocked food from entering Gaza. Send a message to @mark-carney.bsky.social & MPs demanding an #ArmsEmbargo now: leadnow.ca/campaigns/ca... #FreePalestine
Urgent action needed

Israel has ended the ceasefire deal and is bombing Gaza again.

Over 400 killed
At least 174 are children
Over 500 injured

This is genocide.

PRIME MINISTER CARNEY, MINISTER JOLY, AND MPS:

End Canada’s complicity. Implement an immediate two-way arms embargo against Israel.

Send a message
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