The situational morality of our leaders at home and aboard is not just worth noting, it is the very terrain on which we must launch our struggles for the remaking of this world. That means thinking differently about what constitutes living a life, what constitutes caring as a refusal of others’ marginalization, exclusion, death, and genocide.

As we bear witness to the multiple assaults on us once again, an assault that is coordinated, state and policy driven, and heading towards even more severe forms of violence, we know what we must do. In fact, we have only one option. It is our tradition now. We will fight back. We will also shoot back if that is what is required. And we will win. It is our destiny.

Peter Street is Canada’s version of a global tragedy in which Black people are every day told that they do not belong, that their lives do not matter, as the lands they are forced to flee are exploited and stripped of resources so that the wealthy West can carry on as if all the earth is its inheritance. The rest of the world, however, refuses to simply acquiesce to the proposition.

Corporate Pride is not about liberation but about keeping the potentially unruly in line. If Pride must maintain its corporate sponsorships, then I can only work to abolish it in the same vein as I work for police and prison abolition. This June I will be attending Abolition and Anti-Fascist Pride events for the second year in a row, where politics and a good party are intimate partners.

When I say Roxham Road is Canada’s unconscious, I mean Roxham Road is a reminder that Canada thinks of itself as a white nation and that Black people here are always understood to be too many already. As Rinaldo Walcott explains, Roxham Road and what it has come to represent in contemporary struggles around the freedom to move exposes this racist unconscious.

Trudeau’s non-interference strategy should give anyone serious about the deadly effects of Islamophobia second thoughts before accepting an appointment from him. The PM’s lack of leadership on Bill 21, played as a game to retain votes in Québec for the Liberal Party, is a terrible case of chicken for Muslims and other non-white people in that province and beyond.