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“Don’t agonize, organize.” -Florynce Kennedy

[perceive-me-not @housingfirstpgh]

Tell Allegheny County: No Collaboration with ICE https://t.co/D3Usy1LZOP

[amiyah 🪶🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇲🚩 @amithecommie]

I dont think people understand how big it is that a general strike, even for 1 day, is gaining as much steam as it it, to the point where the Minnesota AFL-CIO is endorsing and participating.

[perceive-me-not @housingfirstpgh]

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[perceive-me-not @housingfirstpgh]

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[perceive-me-not @housingfirstpgh]

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[perceive-me-not @housingfirstpgh]

Join housing justice advocates 9/10 at 2pm to demand affordable housing policy NOW https://t.co/4TxoGe5Equ

[perceive-me-not @housingfirstpgh]

Mark Masterson: How much longer does Pittsburgh have to wait for inclusionary zoning? | https://t.co/QMRBLzwBTA https://t.co/P0ZvN0p3rp

[That radical social work chick @sandinistaoliva]

7 more days before the Allegheny County primary. DO NOT FOLLOW THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE SLATE. These are the 8 candidates that have been properly vetted by local organizations and criminal justice advocates who have decades of experience. Remember the Justice Slate of Eight!!!

[Tanisha Long @Tanishaevonne]

Mayor Ed Gainey spent his Friday with us feeding unhoused and formerly incarcerated people.

He wasn’t campaigning. He rolled up his sleeves and pitched in because he cares about Pittsburgh.

@gainey_ed will always have my vote because he does the work.

[Nichole Remmert @nicholeaileen]

Corey doesn't care about working people bc he's never had to work a real job a day in his life. But he'll lie to anybody about anything to get elected https://t.co/fpfRb7O90z

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Palestine is the rock on which the West will break itself.

Put yourself in the shoes of people in the global South. For nearly two years they have watched how Western leaders, who love to talk about human rights and the rule of law, are happy to shred all these values in the most spectacular displays of hypocrisy in order to prop up their military proxy-state as it openly conducts genocide and ethnic cleansing against an occupied people, even in the face of *overwhelming* international condemnation.

What do you think people in the South are supposed to conclude from this? What would *you* conclude from this in their position? Decades of Western propaganda have been shattered, this time in full technicolour. Western governments have made it clear that they do not care about human rights and the rule of law when it comes to people of colour, the global majority. They spit on humanity. 500 years on from the beginning of the European colonial project and they have hardly changed in this regard.

If you think people will be willing to tolerate this going forward, you are mistaken. As Southern states begin to develop the capacity to reject Western hegemony, they will not hesitate to do so. In the 21st century, the West will find itself isolated from the world majority, and the world will move on without them. If Western governments had any sense they would realise this fact, work to re-establish the rule of law, and try to establish the moral basis for mutual respect and cooperation with the rest of the world.

[Tanisha Long @Tanishaevonne]

People talk so much shit on the people who actually do the work but what I witnessed tonight was a full theater of unhoused people and allies sitting together watching a film on solving homelessness and sharing a meal.

Thank you @bethanyhallam and MAN E

[Emilia Winter Rowland @EmiliaWinterRo]

For those wondering, the “scheduling conflict” that caused Corey to dip out of the Housing forum — despite the fact that housing continues to be the #1 issue for Pittsburgh voters — was a fundraiser.

[Chuds of Pittsburgh @SensiblePGH]

Corey O’Connor left a forum on public housing to go meet the CEO of RE360

A Pittsburgh University slumlord who is quite a legend on Reddit forums for students.

[perceive-me-not @housingfirstpgh]

@KanoTodd @RossTedder No, it’s because he’s mediocre.

[That radical social work chick @sandinistaoliva]

Social worker here. Let’s fact check this.

Gainey hired 78 clinicians/community engagement specialists to cover ROOTS, and it’s been pretty successful in decreasing psychiatric hospitalization. Have you actually talked to any of us who do this stuff for a living?

[perceive-me-not @housingfirstpgh]

Gainey also highlighted his admin’s strong collaboration with Allegheny County Human Services and homeless advocacy groups to move people living in encampments into safe, affordable homes, increase access to social services, and improve successful use of Housing Choice Vouchers.

[perceive-me-not @housingfirstpgh]

At last night’s Mayoral Housing Forum, Mayor Gainey was the only candidate to articulate concrete steps and policies his admin is implementing / will implement to comprehensively address our region’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis. Notably, O’Connor left early.

[perceive-me-not @housingfirstpgh]

Housing-related accomplishments highlighted by Gainey included working with state legislators to get over 160 City land bank properties back on the market, investing in preservation loan funding through the URA, and preventing several affordability covenants from lapsing.