Congratulations to my sxəyəł Joan Phillip newly elected MLA for Vancouver - Mt Pleasant (NDP). Historic Night for my amazing relation! Joan’s late father and my late father were brothers ❤️🙏
UPDATE: Oppenheimer Park Warming Site closes at 6 PM today. We will be distributing donations & supplies until then. You can also distribute food/gear in streets & alleys in DTES & wherever you see folks sheltering.
Full ig post: https://t.co/ZDzfeIbfoH
Friends @DEWCVancouver were on site at decampment today to find out where unhoused women were moved to, only to be told City only had some shelter beds.
Important statement from DEWC and @EndingViolence about homelessness, criminalization, precarity and gender based violence.
@KenSimCity You are committing crimes against humanity! treating homeless people like they not human. sending city workers, vpd, fire department to throw out home ONLY belongings. shame on the you the city, vpd, fire dept this inhumane how you treat homeless with l real plan
Chris Livingstone, former WAHRS board member, VANDU leader, and COPE candidate for Park Board is turned away from Hastings along with other DTES residents.
"The block is closed."
The @CityofVancouver and @VancouverPD's escalating efforts to evict people sheltering in the Downtown Eastside, without offering adequate housing, amounts to cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment. https://t.co/bHlxfApI8J 1/5
@KenSimCity@VanPoliceBoard You all should be ashamed of yourselves. How you treat homeless people. you have no care no plan no safe space for HUMAN People! you will have to answer to creator (god)
canada and all the systems they built will always fail and mistreat indigenous. why-----> that what is built for. to Get rid of the so called Indian problem. we as indigenous are not the problem. it's a colonial problem. canada, policing, health, education all have problems.