Disability Justice Network of Ontario

12 Feb 2025

DJNO, @DisabilityPM, @ODSPAction & disabled organizers from around Ontario have put together a new post-election platform: EndAusterity.ca. Friends, this is bigger than any election. Enough is enough—30 years of austerity & social murder of disabled people needs to end.

3 Apr

Join Terre on April 16th on Zoom at 6pm in exploring Indigenous futurisms as a valid direction for creating justice. We will explore what is an Indigenous futurism and work together to build ideas and actions that lead towards permanent overhaul of systems that affect social justice. 1/2

3 Apr

Terre is an Omámi Ininiwak (Algonquins of Ontario), French, and Welsh land based educator who brings a diverse background in storytelling, theatre, visual arts, photography, technology, and science into deep learning about the land Registration link in our Linktree 2/2

At DJNO we often hear from loved ones and support workers about the criminalization of disabled people who experience impulsivity, psychosis, executive dys/function, aggression, and complex trauma responses. 1/4

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This workshop will offer abolitionist care planning strategies and tools for disabled people and/or their allies, who may be, or have been criminalized, psychiatrized or institutionalized. Join Megan Linton on Zoom on Thursday, April 9th at 6pm. Registration link in bio 2/4

24 Mar

Join Sam, Dreddz, and Sid on April 2nd at 6pm on Zoom to learn about Voices 4 Unhoused Liberation, community building, and transformative justice. Register via our Linktree

13 Mar

Join us with Aurra Startup | Community Justice Initiatives on Thursday, March 26th at 6 PM on Zoom. 1/2

13 Mar

The session will cover a Restorative Justice 101 overview, introduce survivor-centred practices and open discussion about the realities of working within funded systems, as well as the possibilities of earlier intervention and restorative approaches beyond the criminal legal system. 2/2

Join Rania El Mugammar on March 19th at 6 PM on Zoom for In Our Own Hands: Tools for Talking Transformative Justice and Abolition with Little Ones. 1/4

Participants will explore foundational questions, tools and exercises to challenge police propaganda (copaganda) and narratives that frame policing and prisons as safety-making. 3/4

The session will also introduce practices and principles from transformative justice frameworks to better equip both adults and children in navigating conflict and harm. 4/4

Join Rania El Mugammar on March 19th at 6 PM on Zoom for In Our Own Hands: Tools for Talking Transformative Justice and Abolition with Little Ones. 1/4

In Our Own Hands is for family members, caregivers, educators, guardians, organizers and all those interested in equipping little ones in our communities to better understand the role of prisons and policing in our society, and to imagine more just alternatives. 2/4

4 Mar

Join us on Thursday, March 12th with Elene Lam of Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) on Zoom at 6 PM. 1/3

4 Mar

She will share about the stigma, issues, and risks faced by migrant sex workers (e.g. targeting by police, conflation of sex work with human trafficking) and how folx transition from "we can't call the police" to "we don't have to call the police" to keep each other safe. 2/3

4 Mar

Elene Lam is an activist, community organizer, educator, and human rights defender. She has devoted herself to defending the rights of and empowering marginalized communities: particularly sex workers, migrants, and precarious workers for over 20 years. 3/3

20 Feb

Join us on Thursday, March 5th on Zoom with Dr. Moyo Mutamba for a participatory workshop to build both the mindsets and skill sets needed to navigate interpersonal conflict with greater awareness, confidence, and care. Moyo is a therapist, mediator, and equity and conflict transformation 1/3

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20 Feb

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20 Feb

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Our placement student, David, is gathering reports, zines, flyers, toolkits, statements, and research from community groups across Hamilton to help create a 2025 State of the City report. Please share and send literature to david@djno.ca 1/2

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Join us on Zoom on Thursday, February 26th at 6 PM to 8 PM with Amy Smoke! Registration link in bio. Amy speaks of police-free, helping spaces for Indigenous, Black, Racialized and Queer (GNC) community. Drawing from their own experiences in carceral and colonial systems, 1/7

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Amy Smoke (they/them) is Kanienkeha'ka, Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan, of the Six Nations of the Grand River. They are an Indigiqueer parent and one of the co-founders of Land Back Camp and are one of the co-directors of Willow River Centre, 4/7

the first and only 2S IndigiQueer led organization in Waterloo Region. Amy is an instructor at the University of Waterloo in the BSW and MSW programs, where they teach about decolonization in social work. Amy is Istah to Skye and Jaci, and kin to many cuzzins and niblings. 5/7

Amy brings a lived experience lens to the classroom, board rooms, and local governance structures where they work to advocate for restorative justice, communal care, and mutual aid. They stand in solidarity with the communities who have less access to space, 2/7

funding, and culture, and with grassroots folks to organize rallies, protests, social justice events, NIPD, MMIWG2S, and defunding the police. Amy will share in circle why they do the work, what brought them to this point, and what they see for Indigenous futurism. 3/7

Join Thaila Dixon of the Collective of Child Welfare Survivors on Friday, February 20th at 6 PM to 8 PM for a workshop on child welfare and family policing. Register via Linktree @CollectiveOfCWS Alt: dark purple background with titles in black text on bright purple and 1/3

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Join Thalia Dixon of the Collective of Child Welfare Survivors on Friday, February 20th at 6 PM to 8 PM for a workshop on child welfare and family policing. Register via Linktree @CollectiveOfCWS Alt: dark purple background with titles in black text on bright purple and 1/3

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29 Jan

Join El Jones and Renford Farrier on February 12th 6-8 PM EST/ 7-9 PM AST for a discussion on Zoom on the costs and realities of prisons in so-called “canada." Register via our Linktree

21 Jan

Join Taylor McNallie on January 29th 6-8PM EST/4-6PM MST for a discussion on Zoom about Walls Down Collective's Community Care and Crisis Phone Line and the various efforts made to support it. Register via LinkTree @AbolishCopsCA @WallsDownCollective @MutualAidCanada

15 Jan

Join us on January 22nd at 6-8 PM EST for a brief,-non-exhaustive history of policing and prisons in "canada", the need for abolition, and some ways forward. Free registration via DJNO's Linktree

13 Jan

Stay tuned for posts about our upcoming abolition workshop series, virtual pub-ed showcasing people, groups, and resources that are divesting from policing and prisons. Let's learn how abolition can look like in practice and build capacity for a future centred on community care. 1/3

13 Jan

If you have a resource to share or are interested in facilitating, please email prisonprojectlead@djno.ca Alt: dark purple background with DJNO's logo in gold on the top left and Groundswell Community Justice Fund's logo is on the bottom right in light purple. 2/3

13 Jan

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5 Dec 2025

Announcing new prisoner support lines! Share with folx in custody to call us collect from any jail/prison in so-called ontario. Interested in volunteering? Visit our links in bio to learn more.

5 Dec 2025

Hamilton 905-631-4084 Kenora/North 807-548-4312 Kingston 613-881-0050 London/West 519-690-0836 Milton/GTA 416-775-7983 Niagara 905-227-5066 Ottawa/East 613-768-9951 Penetanguishene 705-797-7002 Sudbury 705-522 7136 Warkworth 705-270-8073

5 Dec 2025

Image description: DJNO and Enabling Justice logos featuring our 10 prisoner support lines in Open Dyslexic and Atkinson Hyperlegible Next fonts. QR codes for Enabling Justice and the prison project volunteer forms which are also available through our LinkTree.

Friends, the report on encampments in Southern Ontario is out and the recommendations reflect the demands of our communities. 1/6

-Support Indigenous + Migrant Unhoused Community Members. -Address gender-based, systemic violence. -Implement strategies/resources re: extreme weather year-round. -Protect + empower community organizations, ending retaliation/surveillance against service providers/advocates. 5/6

Read the full report at the link in bio or: tr.ee/l2BTAsl6qz (we're working on getting a more accessibly formatted copy of the report) 6/6

Friends, the report on encampments in Southern Ontario is out and the recommendations reflect the demands of our communities. 1/6

The purpose of the trip was to assess how federal, provincial, and municipal responses to encampments are impacting people’s lives and to monitor the implementation of federal investments. The Report is now live and makes critical recommendations to: 3/6

- Develop and maintain real federal investments. - End forced encampment evictions and the criminalization of homelessness. - Stop using coercive methods that force people to choose between the harms of an eviction and inadequate housing. 4/6

Friends, the report on encampments in Southern Ontario is out and the recommendations reflect the demands of our communities. 1/6