Thousands of Torontonians took to the street on May 30,2020 to protest the latest fatalities in the continuing outrage of violence by established Canadian and American authorities against the racially oppressed, who are, not at all coincidentally, the economically disadvantaged. Both recent victims, George Floyd in the U.S.A. and Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Canada, have the sadly predictable features of racial and economic exclusion. The evidence has long been available to those who wish to see it. As always, the challenge is action and mass demonstrations like todays are important steps in the pressure to foment it. As one chant had it today, "this is not an accident, it was designed that way." Undesigning the mainstream economy is what TorontotheBetter is about and, as this recent report - https://evonomics.com/science-flow-says-extreme-inequality-causes-economic-collapse/ - confirms extreme inequality, like racism, causes economic collapse. There are many ways of turning back "pandemics", whether economic, environmental or biological, our challenge is to seize the moment before it (and we) are too late.
# posted by Taodhg @ 12:44 am
