Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Elon Musk owns Twitter.
When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
Today, #Vancouver City Council debates a motion to allow VPD to install CCTV cameras within our city. This motion will have serious and significant consequences to marginalized and racialized community members while doing little to address public safety concerns. Thread:
Do you know what statistically increases violence against Indigenous women and girls?
A workcamp.
Do you know what FortisBC wants to put right behind a unversity in #Squamish ?
A workcamp.
Make it easier for groups of people to form & finance co-ops. Build co-ops everywhere. The City can do more w/ the tools it has, and council can put more pressure on higher levels of govt to fund & finance this form of housing. It'll take a movement. #bcpoli#vanpoli#HomesForAll
I've got a video showing that the RCMP / Chris Manseau are lying about what happened on Saturday Aug 21, 2021 @ Fairy Creek. @CBCStephenQuinn - Your duty to journalism, humanity, and reality is to share this truth. #FairyCreek#PoliceBrutality#CdnPoli
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I’ve had a beautiful community showing up for me as I recover from (another) neurosurgery. I am so appreciative for the support and love giving it back and forward 💜
If I knew my siblings would all abandon me after having a mental breakdown and being officially diagnosed with mental illness I probably would have been more cynical writing about family and love in my book. It's painful to read parts of it now. Ableism is so cruel.
@WordsandGuitar and she said that she realized that what she wants is a relationship with me, so in order to have that, she had to start believing what I said was true and supporting me. I see this as finally not having to debate my dignity.
BREAKING: Human rights complaint has been filed against BMO and the Vancouver Police Department after an Indigenous man and his granddaughter were arrested while trying to open an account at a Vancouver branch of the bank last year.
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