#christie pits

[antifainternational]

Canada marks the 90th anniversary of its most infamous race riot with a play about the event, performed on the very site where the riot took place.

[teledyn]

My instructions had been: call time 4:30pm at Christie Pits, bring your banjo, dress code is blacks… and spooky.

Evil enough?

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Swastika Feud Battles in Toronto Injure 4, Fists, Boots, Piping Used in Bloor Street War," Toronto Globe. August 17, 1933. Page 1 & 2. ---- "Hail Hitler" Is Youth's Cry; City in Turmoil ---- Trucks Loaded With Jews and Italians Rush to Scene ---- POLICE ARE CALLED --- Willowvale Park Fracas Spreads to Bloor and Clinton ---- "Hail Hitler" - the taunt shouted by an unknown youth, waving a Swastika flag, on the banks of Willow-vale Park about 10.30 o'clock last evening precipitated Toronto's first Swastika riots, and sent four youths, three Jews and one Gentile lad, to the Western Hospital.While there are known to have been more injured in the pitched battle, fought with fists, boots, piping, and other weapons, and surging along Bloor Street from Willowvale Park (Christie Street) to Clinton Street, these are the youths who were taken to hospital:

DAVID FISCHER, AGED 21, 46 SPADINA AVENUE, abrasions about the head and face, struck by a piece of pipe at Christie and Bloor Streets.

AL ECKLER, AGED 23, 112 BRUNSWICK AVENUE, lacerations of the back and cut on head, struck by a baseball bat near the Park.

JOE BROWN, AGED 22, 118 EUCLID AVENUE, knocked down at Clinton and Bloor Streets, kicked in the face, and taken to hospital with badly cut face and lips.

JOE GOLDSTEIN, AGED 17, BELLWOODS AVENUE, struck with a baseball bat at Willowvale Park, sustained two cuts on the head which required several stitches.

Battle in Park. The Bloor Street battle followed earlier, but less serious trouble at Willowvale Park, and occurred after police believed they had squelched all the incipient fireworks. Who the youth was who waved the Swastika and shouted the "Hail, Hitler" challenge no one knows, but he was immediately rushed by a group of Jewish youths and reputedly knocked cold.

The assault upon the swastika wielder was the signal for a general inrush of Christian youths. who piled baseball bats and fists in a wild riot. By the time.police reserves arrived the battle had gradually moved over to Bloor and Clinton Streets, where some serious casualties occurred, and where, it is alleged, bottles for the first time became legitimate weapons. From this battlefront, it is said, many injured limped away or were assisted to their various homes.

Boys on a bicycle carried the news of the Christian-Jewish pitched battle down into the Brunswick-Spadina Avenue district, largely populated by Jews, and where there was a large gathering of Jewish people. The rumor was spread that a Jewish boy had been killed. Immediately. it is said, the Jews began to assemble motor trucks and passenger cars for assault upon the, Bloor Street sector, and, it is reported, they were joined by a carload of Italians.

Truckloads Assembled. These truckloads of Jews and Italians raced up to Bloor Street to participate in the fights, but were halted or sidetracked by police. who had arrived in the interval. Jewish lads hanging on the running-boards of the vehicles, however, were pulled off by Christian lads, and some of them reputedly injured.

The police seized two of the trucks and one passenger car and took them with their drivers to Ossington Avenue Police Station. They were soon released, however, after the drivers had given their names and addresses In one of the trucks was found a piece of two by four inch scantling, seven feet long, with a long spike driven in one end of it - - a potent weapon for any argument.

College Street, from Brunswick to Spadina Avenue, was thronged. by Jews late last evening, awaiting to hear the news, and exchanging what seemed to be wildly exaggerated rumors of the seriousness of the affair. Police estimated that 5,000 Jews surged College Street in this section.

Threats of impending reprisals were said to be plentiful among the College Street throngs of Jews.

Sequel to Ball Game. Swazis and Jews tangled in a more or less anticipated free-for-all, which climaxed the second game of the St. Peter-Harbord series at Willowvale Park. Precautionary measures and prompt action on the part of the police cut short active hostilities, und the large crowd of onlookers and luke-warm partisans was easily dispersed by a half dozen mounted men and a few motorcycle police. But two people received injuries before the brawl was stopped.

Last night's activities were apparently linked up with minor disturbances said to have taken place at the first game of the series, which was played on Monday evening. The two teams which are fighting in the junior semi-finals for the city softball championship are made up almost entirely of Jews in the case of the Harbord team, and ot non-Semetics in the St. Peter's line-up. Although both teams have officially disassociated themselves from any Swazi-Semitic controversy. partisans and onlookers have made the games an occasion for demonstrations.

Trouble began in a group seated on the rising ground above the north-west diamond, on which the game was being played. According to bystanders. there as an interchange of abusive remarks, followed by fisticuffs and a show of bats and sticks. The approach of a constable cut the fracas short, and the participants took night over the hill and out of the park by way of Barton Avenue.

Trouble During Game. Although the game was only in the second inning, the managers agreed to call off the contest in case of any further trouble. No disturbances developed, but the crowd of spectators increased as the other games in the park were finished, until a complete square of onlookers, in some places two and three deep, surrounded the outfield. In this group, and in the crowd seated on the hillside, were stationed a detail of constables from the Ossington Avenue Station and a sprinkling of plainclothesmen.

The game continued its regular routine, and, although no trouble appear-ed. there was a general quiet comment on the first fight, and the possibilities of further trouble. It was almost dark when the St. Peter's team ensured its 6-5 victory by catching a fly from the last Harbord batsman.

And at the same time some one could be distinguished laying a huge banner, apparently bearing a swastika,on a little mound just north of the park limits on Bloor Street. A group of 100 boys and young men streamed across the length of the park as fast as they could run. Some one hurriedly picked up the banner and ran south just as the van of the attackers reach-ed the mound. This group, now swell-ed to several hundred, chased the bearer of the Hitlerite insignia across Bloor Street and down Montrose Avenue, apparently cornering him in anextension of Bickford Ravine.

Traffic Is Stopped. A few minutes later several hundred surged back Montrose headed by a group of young Jews carrying what was left of the Swastika. As they reached Bloor Street, the police marched into the centre of the mix-up, laid hands on the banner and the 21-year-old Jew, who was carrying it. and began to disperse the crowd of several thousand which had practically stopped all Bloor Street traffic.

With the assistance of six mounted police, who were greeted with a slight burst of booing, the constables soon re-established traffic on Bloor Street, and by this means divided the crowd. The latter, made up for the most part of neutral spectators, dispersed into the park and neighborhood in short order. Two motorcycle police drove down into the playing fields and patrolled these for some time occasionally letting the fumes fly from their exhaust but apparently without serious purpose.

Reserves Called Out. Police arrangements were in charge of Patrol Sergeant Robert Reid of the Ossington Avenue Station. After traffic was stopped on Bloor Street, reserves were called in from the Dundas West, the North Toronto and the Davenport Road Stations, under Inspector Robert Anderson and Acting Inspectors Fenwick and Evans.

In a statement to the press last night the managers of both teams united with S. A. Sansone in declaring that the members of their teams were in no way connected with the disturbance. Some of the opposing players, according to the managers had played together on other teams and there has been, and there is no hard feeling between them. They expressed the hope that the Toronto Amateur Softball Association would see fit to schedule the remaining games of the series in a closed park where admission could be in some way restricted.

[ziskeyt]

Christie Pits

Today is the 90th anniversary of the Christie Pits Riot. The largest race riot in Canada. Christie Pits is a park in Toronto, Ontario. It's pretty large, and these days is a very active park in the summer and a place for sledding and ice skating in the winter. On this day in 1933 the tensions between the Jews who lived in the neighbourhood around the Christie Pits park and the white Canadians who wished to ally with the nazis, who made up what they called Swasitka Clubs, came to a head during a baseball game. The Jews were joined in the fight by their immigrant neighbours, primarily Italians, who also had come head to head with the white nazis before. These hate-filled Canadians wished to restrict Jews from jobs, education, going to the beaches, owning property, and really, given their alignment with the nazis and proudly waving the swastika flag, we can be pretty sure they wanted us dead as well.

The Toronto Star paper noted that there were ten thousand people who ended up joining the fight.

This is the only photo that exists:

(ID in alt) Christie Pits resulted in one of the first prohibitions against hate speech with the Mayor of the time saying that he would prosecute any future displays of the swastika. If you'd like to read more, Jamie Michaels, who wrote the graphic novel Christie Pits published an article today about the riots:

There was an event today in the park to commemorate the anniversary. As well as a few in May and June, Jewish and Italian heritage months respectively. While I don't know the best way to commemorate a fight like this, remembering that it happened, and why it happened is incredibly important. We're in a time that is very reminiscent to what people were dealing with then; from money seemingly meaning less while everything costs more, to the wealthy flaunting their great discrepancy from the majority, to people walking off work to strike for better conditions. Times of turmoil are times when people will often turn to trying to find a reason for their uncertainty, and as history has taught us, this often leads people to explaining their misfortune by finding a scapegoat -- and that scapegoat is usually Jews. In today's world, there are those who are virulently antisemitic with their whole chests, and those people are easy to point to and say they are what they are. But, we're also in a time where there is a lot of coded antisemitism around, from age-old conspiracy theories, to various racist tropes finding rebirths in memes and "jokes", to character types and appropriation of Jewish culture to make something seem exotic and mystical. You as an individual have the responsibility to educate yourself about racist dogwhistles and coding so you don't go around parroting things you don't believe, and eventually find yourself falling down the rabbit hole of white supremacist rhetoric. They say those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it, but doom makes it sound like something that people aren't able to do anything about it. Learn history. Learn what hatred has looked like in the past and morphed into today. Learn history. You are not doomed and you are not helpless. You too can take part in stopping rising fascism by learning what it looks and sounds like. You have a responsibility to yourself and to the future to learn about where we came from to get to where we are today.

[william-nylander]

a much needed sunset

[uniqueartisanconnoisseur]

Lodging in Nature in Northeast Kansas!

Have you been to the beautiful countryside of northeast Kansas? This was a new experience for me! Traveling on a press trip hosted by Kansas Tourism‘s Kelsey Wendling, and Colby Sharples-Terry, I headed to the Sunflower State for some fun, fall outdoor adventure! Along the way, we three travel bloggers me, Jamie Ward of Cornfields and Highheels, and Michelle Marine of Simplify Live Love, stayed…

[immaculatasknight]

They haven't fooled anyone

[loverboybitch]

what it looks like to us and the words we use by ada limón.//.

[nando161mando]

"In #Toronto, come out on Sunday to commemorate the Christie Pits riots, where youth across ethnic and racial lines came together to fight against Nazi sympathizers who unfurled a swastika banner at a sporting event 90 years ago.

Bring your friends and fellow anti-fascists for a day of food, music, and fun. Vegan, Kosher, and Halal food will be available at the BBQ. Food. T-shirts. Antifascist Arts & Crafts."

https://www.facebook.com/events/814980983627607

https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/110917724115452410

[theswordmaiden]

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Gwensday in the bear pit!

Painted for @theswordmaiden

I wanted to make this one a little more illustrative :)

@gwenzone @weemssapphic @milforlife @leftoverenvy

[reasonsforhope]

"From south Texas comes the incredible story of how a TikTok content creator channeled his channel for good—rescuing a cat and a cat shelter by inspiring thousands in donations.

Broken by Victoria Lopez at My San Antonio, the story is a reminder of social media’s stunning potential to do good if it can just manage to capture enough people’s fleeting attention.

Spencer is the brains and motor behind the SB Mowing TikTok and YouTube channels, which document his hobby of finding people who can’t mow their lawns and doing it for them. With a combined following of 15 million people, it’s a great showing that kindness pays.

In Corpus Christi, Spencer was fighting back a terribly overgrown yard when he found a little tabby cat with puncture marks from a fight with a dog or another cat, which to Spencer’s mind seemed infected.

Spencer called rescue centers in the area to see if anyone would help the cat, who would later be named Esbee, and only one reached out: Edgar and Ivy’s Cat Sanctuary and Rescue.

Edgar and Ivy is run by Director Anissa Beal, who was falling into a growing financial pit attempting to fund the cat rescue center. She had vowed to call it quits at year’s end if she couldn’t manage to turn things around.

“I’ve never seen so much passion put into helping people and helping animals,” Spencer wrote, who gave them all the cash he had on hand as a thank-you for saving the animal when no one else would.

He explained to Beal he had a large social media following and that he would set up a GoFundMe to try to help them better fund operations; Beal thought little of the gesture.

But in a matter of days, the fundraiser shot up to $190,000 in private donations, catapulting Edgar and Ivy’s Cat Rescue Mission out of debt.

Then, in the days that followed, some of the other followers of SB Mowing who had decided to pay for supplies had their contributions recognized: when four truckloads of orders showed up at Edgar and Ivy’s front door.

“He saved us,” Beal told My San Antonio, referring to Spencer. “I kept praying that I’d get some sort of a sign if I should continue because I told myself if I couldn’t make it this year, I was going to end it. I was not going to continue this rescue.”

Beal decided to dedicate the mission’s new building to Spencer, who was given the opportunity to name it: The SB Mowing Wellness and Recovery Center (for cats). Esbee, who has received dozens of offers for adoption, is right at home.

“Esbee, no doubt would have—with the wounds he had—would have died within the next 48 hours from sepsis,” Beal said, adding that she would only accept in-person adoption offers from genuinely interested parties and “not just while he was in his 15 minutes of fame.”

Since this incredible act of charitable giving and compassion, Edgar and Ivy’s Mission has rescued 700 cats."

-via Good News Network, July 19, 2024

[sorcerersandskillusers]

Bungou stray dogs takes forgettable characters and turns them into flushed out fan favourites, without it seeming forced or rushed

This series can take completely random characters and in just a few panels/lines get me fully invested in there stories and lives.

There are so many examples of this

Tachihara: No one really cared about this guy at first, a lot of people (myself included) even got him confused with Tanizaki, he was the definition of forgettable.

Then boom, they reveal that not only is he a traitor, but he is also struggling with his identity and finding a place to truly belong, this inner conflict making him feel way more human and making him a fan favourite.

Rimbaud: During 'Dazai Chuuya 15' I just thought Rimbaud was a typical " I have to kill you for power and I'm evil bad guy" and I never thought I'd end up liking him.

But then in 'Stormbringer' with less then 10 pages worth of story, He was transformed into an incredibly tragic figure who desperately wanted save his partner from the pit of despair and loneliness he was falling into; but couldn't, and in the end had to give up his humanity to prove that he really loved him. and suddenly I'm crying over him.

Aya: When she was introduced I just thought she was purely motivation for Kunikida, she was kind of annoying and seemed like a very one off character.

But then they bring her back as one of the most important characters in the current conflict, and are showing us her backstory. which is a horrifyingly realistic case of child abuse, and a parent who loves the memory of his wife and daughter more then the real daughter still Infront of him. And now I just want to hug her and tell her that she is perfect the way she is.

There are loads more so here some rapid fire.

Higuchi: Wan gives her the chance to fully embrace the #girlfail lifestyle she has in the show, which made me like her a lot more

Gin: Seeing her have a life outside of the mafia, and that not taking away from how terrifying and competent she is as an assassin, expands her character and humanises the Port Mafia as a whole.

Bram: Not just making him "I am the lord of darkness, who just wants to consume the whole world and destroy everything because evil"

But instead making him feel like as much of a victim as the agency in The Decays plot and letting him want a radio so he can listen to music.

There are loads more but you get the picture.

So if you ever feel like a character was completely waisted, or that they never had a satisfying arc, just give it time and have faith in Asagiri.

He takes his time sometimes but keeps surpassing my expectations.

Characters Im excited for in the future:

Margret Mitchell.

Agatha Christy.

Alexander Pushkin.

Q

[teledyn]

Listen to the Magpies!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Jews Seeking Peace," Toronto Star. August 18, 1933. Page 2. ---- Representative Jewish citizens of Toronto waited upon Mayor Stewart yesterday to assure him of their co-operation in preventing further rioting as a result of the displaying of swastika emblems. Jewish people are being requested, they said, if anything is done to offend them to accept it with forbearance and not with force.

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 17

The Valeyard told the Sixth Doctor that his Seventh incarnation was full of schemes in order to play a game that was never his to win and that his Eighth would never shake the shadow of death.

When separated from the TARDIS, the Doctor's memory usually begins to fail him.

Agatha Christie was a companion of the Eighth Doctor.

Tania Bell was placed in 107 Baker Street by Torchwood, her employer, to keep an eye out for the Doctor.

Rose was once turned into a vampire. She attacked the Ninth Doctor.

When the Eighth Doctor lies to his friends, it's obvious he's doing so because he gets a "terrified and guilty" expression on his face.

Handrel once said a single incarnation of a Time Lord can live for 10,000 years.

The Eighth Doctor once appeared on and won a television show called You Either Know It or You Don't.

The Curator likes pigeons.

The Seventh Doctor is sometimes terrified of the Third Doctor, particularly by the realization that the Leader of the British Republic in the Inferno universe is his counterpart.

In the Seventh Doctor’s mind, the First Doctor plays the role of the librarian and the keeper of the gardens. The Fourth Doctor is the ferryman. The Fifth Doctor represents the Doctor's conscience, but he is enchained in a pit in their mind. Ace eventually frees him though. He thoroughly locked the Sixth Doctor away due to Valeyard-related drama.

The Seventh Doctor manipulated Mel into leaving. This would allow him to go on as Time's Champion without her morality interfering.

Before Logopolis, the Fourth Doctor passed through a period of dense time, causing him to age rapidly. Even after restored, he remained greatly weakened and was unsure of if he would be able to regenerate. Because of this, Milady put in a request to the Department of Watchers to help him prepare for that regeneration. This weakness could potentially also explain why the Fourth Doctor regenerated after falling a shorter distance than the Tenth Doctor did when he jumped out of a spaceship.

The Fifth Doctor could "swim" through the time vortex.

K9 Mark I could not climb stairs, but K9 Mark II could.

The First Doctor helped design the Privy Gardens.

The Doctor speaks fluent dolphin.

The Master has been recorded to have 470 known incarnations in total.

The Master's personality has always been influenced by the Assemblage, an organic computer made by all those incarnations.

The First Doctor likely made Susan's wedding ring, having planned to get gold for it from Aristea.

The Fifth Doctor eventually realized he had mistreated Adric because the boy reminded him of his own self as a child, but this realization came after Adric was already gone.

Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

[door]

as one of Agatha Agate's new fans, can I ask how she got her name? (it's delightful and suits her very well)

oh, certainly! the shelter described her as “shy” (she’s not lol) and agatha christie was also notoriously shy (also not entirely true) so that’s where i got the idea! i’m a big classic mystery fan. also the idea of a tough looking little pittie with a very old-fashioned name tickled me (there’s a larger grey pit bull called henry who lives across the street from us, which makes it even better imo. the 2 fanciest muscle babies on the block.)

and i love agates and thought having an almost rhyming name would be funny. the humor really cinched it all, as you can see. and they do suit her, very well!