On November 4 2023, a small group of anti-colonial feminist organizers in Hamilton, Ontario dropped a banner over Highway 403 in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians who are experiencing the current genocidal peak of Israel’s violent settler-colonial state project.

Reading ‘FREE GAZA’, the banner was dropped in response to a call for a Day of Action across Turtle Island to put pressure on the Canadian settler-colonial state to end its support for the Israeli Zionist regime’s unfolding genocide in Gaza. The following day, November 5th, Hamilton’s downtown streets were filled with people mobilized in solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian struggle against Israeli Occupation.

Keep up the momentum! Keep up the pressure! CEASEFIRE NOW! END THE OCCUPATION!

Join us in #hamont on October 15! Running Down the Walls is an annual fundraiser – we’ll be splitting proceeds between the ABCF Warchest for Political Prisoners and Barton Prisoner Solidarity (BAPSOP). Run, walk, bike, roll or just hang out. We’ll be collecting donations at the Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair too.

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Making a ton of noise (“Bottoms! Tops! We all hate cops!”), we took Barton Street for a block and then turned back north to reach the abandoned city housing complex at James and Strachan and the tent city that has sprung up around its perimeter, where a person who lives in an encampment briefly addressed the crowd.

We then went down the hill to Bay Front Park, where the mainstream Pride event would happen. That event — with its fenced perimeter, its security guards, its bag searches, and its cops — really seems like a caricature of what happens if you don’t believe that queers have the ability to keep each other safe. Yes, past Pride celebrations in Hamilton have been shitshows, but they have been shitshows where queers fought and won.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5060059

I'm going to be honest, Bonnie Crombie throwing her hat into the ring convinced me to sign up to vote against her. Ontario does not need a Blue Liberal NIMBY today.

Using therapy dogs to put smiles on faces across senior residences, hospitals, schools and more, the Niagara Charity is now expanding to Hamilton.

Stewart Hill, the CEO of Therapy Tails Ontario, joined us this morning to talk more about the charity and their need for more teams within the area.

Here's a show from earlier this year to check out: https://youtu.be/R0w6dY7m6uQ

"An Ottawa courtroom heard today that Crosby knew there was a risk of an explosion when he stole two water heaters from two homes under construction and left a natural gas line open."

Due to the deteriorating conditions of its building on 85 Oak Knoll Dr. in Westdale, the aviary has been asked by the city to leave by Christmas, aviary board director Tom Priestly told CBC Hamilton.

The volunteer-run centre, which is managed by the city, is hoping to find a new home in an existing building in Hamilton or on land where they could build one.