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Union Maid in BC

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(she/they) solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong 💪 Comrade on unceded Coast Salish territories. find me on tiktok @unionmaid22

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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026
incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time
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weird little whale guy @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So the name Lake Ontarí'io is older than the United States and Canada
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 25/08/2026
#OtD 25 Aug 1921 the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed rebellion in the US since the civil war, began. 10,000 striking West Virginia coal miners battled with armed strikebreakers following the killing of miners, until disarmed by federal troops workingclasshistory.com/2018/06/09/w...
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Workers at Fairfield Inn & Four Points Times Square just won a historic union contract! Immediate $20-$35k a year increases, a $50,000 backpay check, full paid family health care and then some! THIS IS WHY WE ORGANIZE!
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
J6er leads charge against anti-ICE heroes after campaign of AI fueled surveillance targeted labor unions, church groups, and veterans organizations who mobilized against ICE terrorism.
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Chocobone💀Skare🎺Paradie🪦 @chocoboskaparadise.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Bluesky is dying, people are moving on, it's unpopular" Sweetie, I still listen to ska
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My interview with director/writer John Sayles looking back on Matewan www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice
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Nick Felker @felker.dev · 20/07/2026
Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Southern BC, NW Washington, there is a lot of VERY bad air coming in the next couple of days. Hunker down in clean air and wait it out if you can. Check on neighbours and take care of outdoor workers! This is very bad pollution and no, your pets don't want to go out in it either. #BCwildfire
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Union Maid in BC @unionmaid22.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Today I learned Ben Mulroney has me blocked on tiktok #themoreyouknow
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 17/07/2026
I need the Americans to know that the forest fires in Canada are the result of our own horrible capitalist politicians supporting the fossil fuel industry for decades. Don't believe the lies you've been sold about us, Canada is three oil companies in a settler colonial trenchcoat
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Ahead of an apocalyptic wildfire season, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government made CUTS to the very teams who help prevent the worst outcomes: experts who map wildfires and issue warnings and risk assessments that communities rely on. The union representing these workers sent me the details:
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
AND WE'RE SPENDING IT ON A U.S. DEFENCE CONTRACTOR DGKJHSLZRKGUHERALOGUNLARDFNGLZDRGNK www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Globe and Mail headline reads: Canada to buy nearly $2 billion in armoured vehicles from US defence contractor
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It’s one of the true pleasures of the job - historians get to skip the whole “this isn’t the time” commentary and have at it. Graham was a plague on the Senate, a chickenhawk, and one of the most accomplished hypocrites in this country’s recent history.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Union Maid in BC @unionmaid22.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Messaging my sleeping friends whenever misfortune befalls a conservative like
An illustration of Paul Revere on horseback shouting
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Union Maid in BC @unionmaid22.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
That meme where the grim reaper is at a claw machine, desperately trying to get mitch, except this time he got lindsay and says "close enough" (saying it before anyone has the chance to make it)
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
07-07-1983 CANADA: British Columbia introduces 26 bills to cut public services and limit union rights. Operation Solidarity launches a province-wide mobilization, supported by a Solidarity Coalition. This takes the province to the verge of a general strike. www.communitystories.ca/v2/solidarit...
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Chapter 3 - Budget Day, or "Black Thursday" | Solidarity: The Largest Political Protest in British Columbia’s History
Budget Day came on July 7th, 1983 – what some British Columbians later called “Black Thursday”. One by one, ministers rose in the legislature to introduce a new […]
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Union Maid in BC @unionmaid22.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I live 5 mins from the US border and it sounded like my neighborhood was under air assault for like 30 mins from the fireworks 😐
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
03-07-1979 CANADA: Longshoremen in Saint John refuse to load heavy water for the military dictatorship in Argentina. The celebrated No Candu/Hot Cargo protest brings attention to the abuse of human rights and secures the release of several political prisoners. archives.gnb.ca/lhtnb/Catego...
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LHTNB.CA - Labour History in New Brunswick [Provincial Solidarities]
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Union Maid in BC @unionmaid22.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The best part of being "the younger one" in all your friendships is you can ragebait everybody on your birthday by declaring that you're old now. Follow me for more fun tips
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Charlottesville Tomorrow @cvilletomorrow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Strewn along roadways throughout Ruckersville, dozens of abandoned vehicles sat empty Tuesday as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Greene County Sheriff’s deputies stopped motorists and made arrests across the community. Here's what we know:
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ICE and Greene County Sheriff's deputies arrest numerous people in Ruckersville operation
"What will haunt me is that there were so many empty vans and cars on the side of the road from people that they had taken," said attorney Andrew Wilder Young. "That's going to stick with me for the…
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“Wanna form a union?”
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
EUROPE: And When They Had Money, They Had Power: 50 years of fighting for sex workers' rights www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtp_...
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And When They Had Money, They Had Power: 50 years of fighting for sex workers' rights
YouTube video by ESWA - European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance
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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” - OCTAVIA BUTLER, born on this day in 1947 in Pasadena, California
A paperback copy of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
19-06-1914 CANADA: A coal mine explosion in the Crowsnest Pass at Hillcrest, Alberta takes the lives of 189 men, mostly immigrants. Canada's worst coal mine disaster leaves 90 widows and more than 250 orphans. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillcre...
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Hillcrest mine disaster - Wikipedia
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
19-06-1938 CANADA: On Bloody Sunday in Vancouver, British Columbia, hundreds of unemployed workers are violently evicted from government buildings, including the post office and art gallery, after weeks of sit-ins to protest cutbacks in relief projects. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_...
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Bloody Sunday (1938) - Wikipedia
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
calling orcas
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Union Maid in BC @unionmaid22.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Might fuck around and join a cult for funsies
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 12/06/2026
"We’re publishing this blog post to explain our decision to refer to Delaney Hall as a “concentration camp” and clarify the term’s meaning." This is incredibly important. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...
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Why we’re calling Delaney Hall a “concentration camp” – The Jersey Bee
The term describes facilities where targeted groups are held without due process under inhumane conditions.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
You can go a little loopy if you begin thinking of yourself as a Political Operative simply because you post about politics. This is why it's so important to drop an occasional grounding post like "The brain is the ass of the head" to remind yourself that you are just some guy
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stephanie wilson | windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The GVRDEU workers who keep the Grouse Grind maintained & trail users safe have been without a contract since December 2024. How shameful, Metro Vancouver. Solidarity with GVRDEU ✊ There are many hikes to hike that don't involve crossing a picket line. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Grouse Grind behind picket line as Metro Vancouver workers escalate job action | CBC News
The union representing hundreds of Metro Vancouver outside workers urged the public to avoid the trail and two other regional parks as it escalated job action amid stalled contract talks with the regi...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It is day 13 of the hunger strike at Delaney Hall, a modern day concentration camp. Don’t let this story fade from the public eye.
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
and not be on fire all the damn time
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Hundreds inside an ICE concentration camp are on a work and hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and other hunger strikes have been announced in New Mexico and Southern California. In Tacoma, WA, over 100 detainees announced the formation of the 'Union of People Kidnapped by ICE.'
As people rally outside of Delaney Hall, detainees inside the facility push up against a window, their bodies and hands seen from the outside. Antifascist flag flies in front of Delaney Hall as people gather in protest.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/05/2026
"close Delaney Hall and free every person in there" is the demand, so direct that (in my experience) some people may miss it rather than accept it
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Immigrants at NJ Delaney Hall ICE detention center go on hunger, labor strike
Detainees have complained of deplorable conditions, including what they call physical and psychological torture from substandard food.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/05/2026
via @attackerman.bsky.social, who writes of such prisons, "It wants to operate as it does without attracting outrage. It wants to not be abolished, and so it attempts to mask what it does to deserve abolition.”
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
The meaning of the hunger and labor strike inside ICE's Delaney Hall detention center in Newark
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
(1/4) By now it’s unsurprising that Carney’s Liberals are openly anti-worker, repeatedly caving to corporate interests and violating the right to strike through Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Carney government eying curbs on right to strike, labour leaders warn
The Carney government is contemplating changes to Canadian labour law that several unions say aims to designate more workplaces as "essential services" and curb the right to strike while undermining
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Canadian Labour @canadianlabour.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🚫 NO two-tier health care. Activists at #CLC2026 stood united against Alberta’s push toward privatized, American-style health care and called on the federal government to uphold and enforce the Canada Health Act. Health care is a human right. canadianlabour.ca/canadas-unio...
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Canada’s unions ready to fight to protect public health care in Alberta | Canadian Labour Congress
WINNIPEG, MB — More than 2,000 delegates at the Canadian Labour Congress passed an emergency resolution to send a clear message to Premier Danielle Smith: No two-tier, American-style health care in…
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
12 Canadians aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla and Freedom Flotilla Coalition have been abducted by Israeli forces, including up to three British Columbians. SIGN PETITION FOR THEIR RELEASE: canadaboatgaza.org/petition/
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Happy May Day, my friends. Remember, we deserve more than a bite of the pie or a seat at the table. We deserve the world.
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Apple is shutting down its first store to unionize and preventing workers from transfer rights that are offered to non-union employees www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘It feels like a betrayal’: anger as Apple to close US’s first unionized store
Tech giant accused of ‘cynical attempt to bust the union’ in decision to shutter location in Towson, Maryland
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 27/04/2026
#OtD 27 Apr 1950 nearly 22,000 NYC high school students walked out of class and took to the streets in support of their teachers demanding a pay increase. Teachers' organisations denounced the kids. 10,000 took to the streets and clashed with police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7922...
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Ben Holt @beanjammin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Eby's time at Pivot and BCCLA is no different than Carney's as the UN Special Envoy on Climate Finance, a ploy to provide camouflage for hard right policies. We are being played.
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thediscourse.ca @thediscourse.ca · 20/04/2026
"The work of history is the work of retelling and revision," writes @kellyblack.ca who, in his latest piece, gets to the bottom of a decades-long mystery and explains the importance of fact-based storytelling in a world of AI slop. thediscourse.ca/cowichan-val...
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Revising Cowichan history: How Thomas Quamtany actually lost his arm – The Discourse.
Historian Kelly Black gets to the bottom of a persistent myth about a one-armed Hudson’s Bay Company employee.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue. The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points
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Union Maid in BC @unionmaid22.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I witnessed a severe car crash earlier this week and was one of the first responders until professionals arrived and I'm still processing a lot of it but one thing I feel like I need to share is just how many people immediately jumped in to help. People are good. Don't let the darkness fool you.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 05/04/2026
#OtD 5 Apr 1932 in Newfoundland, a crowd of 10k protested price increases and pension cuts at the central government building. Police attacked, but the mob fought back and searched for the PM, who was punched in the face. The govt later collapsed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1048...
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