DTESresponse

started out of a pandemic to ensure this didn't disproportionately affect our communities. continuing until the drug overdose crisis ends

[Amanda Burrows @BurrowsAmanda]

@ryansudds This is not okay. We were on site witnessing and advocating for unhoused folks belongings and human rights.

This use of force is unacceptable. The amount of stress for community members is unacceptable. Everything about this is unacceptable.

[First United @FirstUnitedDTES]

"When there are no more shelter beds and items like tents and sleeping bags are taken and trashed, how does the city expect people to survive?"

Staff @BurrowsAmanda and @kkoncan1 question the city's priorities regarding decampment

https://t.co/akT6D4Wcc7

[Nathan Crompton @natecrompton]

Another mass eviction in Vancouver today, just in time for a below-freezing cold snap.

Enviro Canada has issued their Yellow Weather Notification & VCH has called to "prepare community-level interventions for cold weather"

Ken Sim & VPD clearly got the memo (they are sadists)

[Sarah Blyth - Gerszak @sarahblyth]

"People are being told to go to the parks, or just go somewhere else,” she said. “If you tell people to go somewhere else, they are going to go somewhere else where they don’t have services, where they are more at risk of dying.” #vanpoli https://t.co/H7x937184X

[Amanda Burrows @BurrowsAmanda]

Encampments are here to stay and growing across North American. Criminalizing homelessness by enforcing bylaws to clear them is clearly not working. We need more housing but housing that is actually affordable.

Housing is a human right and not a commodity. Period.

[First United @FirstUnitedDTES]

As a cold snap approaches this is inexcusable. These are essential, life-saving items.

[First United @FirstUnitedDTES]

Stop the sweeps at Oppenheimer. People need these belongings to stay warm, dry, and alive right now

[Stop the Sweeps Vancouver @stopsweepsvan]

Our friend packed down his tent. He was complying with the bylaw.

And then they stole all his belongings.

To repeat: he was COMPLYING WITH THE BYLAW.

[VANDU @VANDUpeople]

“Safe Supply or we die!”
And that’s a wrap:

[Emma Arkell @EmmaArkell7]

Jean Swanson gives a speech at the DULF support rally in the DTES #safesupply #dulf

[Crackdown podcast @crackdownpod]

Other speakers included @VANDUpeople’s @vince__tao, @garthmullins & Dean Wilson. Dean, famous for fighting for N. America’s first OPS @InsiteVan asked, “Have we learned nothing?!” Insite, now lauded by political elites, also began as an illegal endeavour to save drug user lives.

[Courtney Harrop @CourtneyPFB]

“"Groups like DULF have done exactly what the coroner's death review panel report requested," Ranger said.
"They assumed the biggest burden, and the biggest risk, to keep their communities safe, and to keep them alive."

[Nicholas Boyce @NickBoyce416]

“The recent attacks on @DULFBC are political.”

5 members of DULF’s Compassion Club pilot project wish to share the following statement

#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
#SafeSupply

@JM_Whiteside
@YaaraSaks
@_ArifVirani
@Dave_Eby

https://t.co/ibSaiefgQM

[Jennifer Howard @jenlouhoward]

Moms Stop the Harm supports DULF! Safe supply saves lives!

[🍊 餅 @driedpers1mmon]

thanks @dulfsolidarity & @VANDUpeople for organizing today's action and for all your tireless work in our beloved chinatown/dtes community

#DULFSavesLives #FreeDULF

[VANDU @VANDUpeople]

:')

[DTESresponse @DteSresponse]

Free Palestine.

[CityNews Vancouver @CityNewsVAN]

There are concerns a push from Vancouver City Council to ensure respectful dialogue from non-profit organizations seeking city grants could go too far.

https://t.co/dIaYCqhQ0L

[SEAN ORR @seanorr]

Listen to Montague question the concept of decolonization, asking about background checks for non-profit members, and "how acquirethey their clientele". You can see the direction they were going with this:
https://t.co/LUM84KWgPi

[VANDU @VANDUpeople]

Yarrow will continue to support and organize alongside low-income seniors and youth in Chinatown / the DTES.

We will continue to celebrate our community and struggle for drug user liberation.

Our movements and organizations were not created by the generosity of council.