🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿

🌎Ecosocialist
🌄Former NDP candidate in #VanGran
🏘️Housing is a human right
🐷Defund the Police
🌿She/ hers

[Blue Raspberry Grower @notthatkhalid]

Great system we have ~nobody~ gets to vote on who our next premier gets to be

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

@trawetsnagrom This all happened before the vote was taken, a few weeks before the convention.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

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[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

I fully believe that we were actively prevented from appearing on the ballot. This may have started as an administrative error, but their unwillingness to correct the error and accept our nominations shows that we were unwelcome on the ballot in the first place.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

@trawetsnagrom It was an acclamation, since all other potential candidates were disqualified for various reasons.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

Retweeting this thread as an explanation for why I am 0% surprised it happened to @AnjaliApp too. This party completely lacks internal democracy, and pretty much anyone involved will tell you so.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

In early November, I announced that I would be running for YND co-chair at the BCNDP convention alongside @notthatkhalid and a slate of climate-forward candidates. You may have noticed that neither of us appeared on the ballot.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

@dontgivearap Yeah I mean, fascism is the politics of fear right? Exaggerating or fabricating threats in order to provoke a population to vote for greater surveillance/ oversight is #1 in the playbook.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

Vancouverites are really so terrified of homeless people that they will elect a fascist government just to avoid having to look at them. Wild.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

@Melloadee Lol I would actually love to see Ken Sim down on his knees scrubbing pee off the streets but I have a feeling that's not how it will happen....

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

@JaredDapena Totally agree. Maybe we should have elected a city council that prioritizes it.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

@JaredDapena I totally agree, but Ken Sim has no solutions in that vein. Mental health resources require trained professionals. Trained professionals require schooling. Schooling requires people to have extra income and time to attend, and that all starts with accessible, affordable housing.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

@JaredDapena I have problems with rampant homelessness for sure, but I think housing is the best way to solve that, not rounding them up and putting them in jail. Come on now.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

The Right will be like "taxes are communist" "busses are communist" "pronouns are communist" but call a police state fascist and they lose their minds.

[Vote Socialist @socialist_vote]

We’re proud of all the work our candidates and volunteers have done since we launched May 1st.

Tonight’s results are devastating for the city. The work ahead must prioritize movement building and supporting those in harm’s way from austerity and over-policing. Onward. #vanpoli

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

Well that sucks.

[SEAN ORR @seanorr]

Admin reveal

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

Look at these fantastic volunteers out for @socialist_vote , what a beautiful day to Vote Socialist!

[Andrea Pinochet-Escudero @pinochet_andrea]

Hastings-Sunrise — our volunteers are amazing!! #VoteSocialist #vanelxn #vanelxn2022
#VancouverVotes

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

Appreciating this mic drop moment from @socialist_vote 's Facebook comment section.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

@Maddy69xo420 But that's the opportunity to be a taste-maker! People who really love your work because of what YOU put into it will love it no matter what, and maybe discover things they wouldn't otherwise have been interested in along the way.

[🌿Yvonne Hanson🌿 @YVR_Hanson]

@pinochet_andrea Love this photo so much!!!