Russell Maynard
@rusmaynard
I've worked in Community, Harm Reduction, Housing and Health for over 20 years. Opinions are my own and not those of the organizations I work with.
This holds for the @liberal_party of Canada and most Western countries. If they won't - we MUST. Pressure the political class - they love stasis. This is how Apartheid in South Africa was dismantled.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.forward.com/opinion/757549…
Reasonable measures to prevent genocide in Gaza. ✅Arms embargo ✅Economic sanctions ✅Diplomatic sanctions ✅Suspend formal partnerships ✅Arrest CDN IDF personnel suspected of war crimes ❌Formal statements ❌Tweets ❌Inaction, silence, handwringing etc.
Today I spoke with Minister Gideon Saar. I underlined the urgent need for Israel to unblock humanitarian aid immediately, of which Canada has committed over $300 million, and to end the unnecessary humanitarian crisis in Gaza. I also reiterated Canada’s ongoing support for an…
This woman is a damn hero 💞 Outside a Home Depot in Encinitas. “If you’re doing something right, take your *%#£|*% mask off!”
This clip with @PeterBeinart will become historic. A voice of conscience in an era of inhumanity and insanity. "The blood is on our hands as Americans because it is our weapons that are responsible for those children starving to death."
You are complicit.
The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible.
It’s genocide Carney!
Carney condemns Israel over ‘humanitarian disaster’ in Gaza theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
"Food is a right, not a weapon." Writing in @TheHillTimes, @Glia_Intl's @Dotty_dot_dot and I implore @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP to act. IMMEDIATELY. "Our legal, political and moral credibility hangs in the balance." #Gaza hilltimes.com/story/2025/07/…
.@CBC panelist & @globeandmail columnist @acoyne has had the 🇮🇱 flag in his X profile over the course of 🇮🇱’s genocidal annihilation of Gaza, which he’s proudly backed. He’s unsurprisingly silent as 🇮🇱 enacts its final solution on the people of Gaza. A deeply complicit individual
The final solution is upon us. If you are still waving an Israeli flag you are announcing support for starving to death 2 million Palestinians.
As of this moment BDS is disrupting 3 military shipments to genocidal Israel. The BDS movement calls on supporters to peacefully and courageously #BlockTheBoat. End maritime military and dual-use transfers to Israel for use its genocide. Stop the #GenocideFleet
Israeli cabinet minister: “The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out … all Gaza will be Jewish.” timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…
BREAKING: The NDP calls on Canada to Recognize the Palestinian State Time to be a leader instead of a Netanyahu lackey, @MarkJCarney
Having already killed or wounded 200,000 Palestinians, the extremist Israeli government is using mass starvation to engineer the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Despite these crimes, the US has provided $22 billion to Israeli military operations since the war began. Enough is enough.
Liberal MPs call for Canada to join France in recognizing Palestinian state ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…
Good but missing 2 key elements: 1️⃣ what will 🇨🇦 do if Israel ignores demands to end the intentional starvation of Gaza? 2️⃣ will 🇨🇦 back down on pressuring states to not recognize Palestine? History will judge states who didn’t do all they could to end the slaughter in Gaza.
“Stop the war! Our children are dying from starvation, malnutrition, dehydration, lack of food, strikes, and dying from fear and destruction. Enough, Hamas! Enough, Israel! Enough, world!” theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…
Nuts. It’s the 21st C. 25% of the way through the 21st C. Humans travel to the moon. Space travel is beginning to commercialize. Probes exploring the galaxy. And then there is theocracy…
I’m 40 years old, and for most of my life, I had no idea these people were this bad. I actually felt sympathy for them. Waking up to yet another lie just shows how deeply the system has manipulated us—history, health, money, biology, everything. It’s scary as hell.
BREAKING: 🚨 IDF whistleblower EXPOSES that aid from 1,000 trucks was BURIED in pits or burned. The IDF dug pits and buried or burned the aid and then they blamed Hamas! Just let that sink in.
🚨NEW: Former U.S. Green Beret Anthony Aguilar says he routinely witnessed Israeli forces (IDF) firing artillery tank rounds and mortar rounds into crowds of unarmed, starving Palestinians at GHF aid sites in Gaza. “I witnessed war crimes,” the GHF security contractor told the…
NDP calls on Canada to recognize the State of Palestine today Full statement here: ndp.ca/news/ndp-calls…
Yes!! Speak up on the Right side of History Canada!
NDP calls on Canada to recognize the State of Palestine today Full statement here: ndp.ca/news/ndp-calls…