Lisa Wright

.doctoral candidate @cuLegalStudies studying the legality and practices of harm reduction
.settler living on Algonquin territory
.she/her

[Lisa Wright @lisa_k_wright]

@OttawaMorning listening to the traffic report and wondering if, on the ottawa side, part of the lull is that it’s the third week that construction workers are on strike

[Commit to Change WA @Commit2ChangeWA]

Getting thrown in jail and saddled with a criminal record for drug use creates barriers for people seeking jobs and places to live.

It’s time for change.

[Lisa Wright @lisa_k_wright]

@superbatgirl44 Aw!! Thanks so much!!

[Roadie 🍉🇵🇸 @djavenue613]

Some #ottawa. The estimated $785,000-$800,000 per day cost of the @OttawaPolice's management of the occupation is equal to 2.5-3 years of @kindspaceca operating budget. Right now Kind Space is in desparate need of financial support before March 7th - https://t.co/NQ3981OviD

[Robyn Maynard @policingblack]

30 ppl arrested today, many more brutalized, and mass amounts of people pepper-sprayed. some folks haven’t yet spoken to lawyers. Shame on @JohnTory and all political class not actively opposing this mass criminalization

[Coalition Against More Surveillance @CAMSOttawa]

On June 25, Steve Kanellakos awarded #OttCity's Human Needs Task Force a City Manager award for "collaboration and relationship building." This task force hosts the Unsheltered Task Force, a subgroup, with NO unhoused people at the table, that coordinates dismantling encampments.

[BR⚢KE @BabblingBrookeA]

How come it’s always “never use alone” and never “here’s a safe supply”

[Black Lives Matter — Toronto @BLM_TO]

2/ If you're in Ottawa, come through. If you're not, then tune in on the live stream here to hear what the families have to say: https://t.co/2BnXMVYrJ2 #cndpoli #DefundThePolice #BlackLivesMatter

[Black Lives Matter — Toronto @BLM_TO]

1/ On June 19, we're bringing together Black & Indigenous families affected by police violence for a family led press conference.

We'll be joined by families of Anthony Aust Regis Korchinski-Paquet Abdirahman Abdi Jamal Francique Jermaine Carby Eishia Hudson Chantel Moore & more

[Amanda Pfeffer @onthebeat1]

All #Ontario jail oversite boards quietly disbanded after not publishing any of their annual reports since current govt elected in 2018--CBC is publishing all those reports obtained via @CPEPgroup FOI requests (only won on appeal) #onpoli https://t.co/v1QtDF5m8L

[Lisa Wright @lisa_k_wright]

“All levels of government have the power to enact change that would save lives. No more passing the blame. No more studies or statistics. No more excuses.” @AttarLeila on the urgent need to decrim https://t.co/3w1X3WdZ8n

[CPEP Group @CPEPgroup]

Check-out our online workshops tonight!

6pm "#KnowYourRights: for people at risk of criminalization"
https://t.co/xpKSBJbYDe

7:30pm "#PrisonLaw 101: for legal advocates supporting prisoners" https://t.co/bC2MTklSgr

[Coalition Against More Surveillance @CAMSOttawa]

Hey @MeehanCarolAnne - if you want a new building in your ward could you maybe advocate for more affordable housing and not a new cop shop?

*Housing* is one of the six priorities in the Community Safety and Well-Being Plan.

#NoPoliceExpansion

[OPO #BLM @odpreventionott]

and colleagues. Give us a few days to move through this anger and into enough compassion to communicate more effectively how devastating her delegation was today. If you have that energy already, consider contacting her?
ed@ottawachinatown .ca 2/2 https://t.co/5FIFx405CO

[OPO #BLM @odpreventionott]

Here is what we know about Carl- he would be MORTIFIED hearing Grace Xin from the Chinatown BIA speak to OPS today using his death to validate and call for increased policing. The rest of us are gutted and truthfully disgusted at the disrespect to him, to his grieving friends 1/

[OPO #BLM @odpreventionott]

We cannot express enough how important it would be for Carl that we extend love and compassion for the young man who is now being charged with homicide. He has a familly who are now in horrific crisis, he has an entire community who love him deeply. He has a future. 1/

[Leilani Farha 🍉 @leilanifarha]

@CAMSOttawa @ottawacity @NCC_CCN @OttawaPolice @cmckenney @tobi_nussbaum I assume these are voluntary displacements, that they were consulted and had a hand in fashioning a short and long term solution? Otherwise @ottawacity and @NCC_CCN would be contravening human rights law and the federal govts housing policy which recognizes #humanrights.

[Coalition Against More Surveillance @CAMSOttawa]

The solution is in giving *accurate* details to unhoused people so that they can make informed decisions about their lives and their safety.

Stop destroying encampments and start working towards REAL solutions.

#HousingEmergency

@ottawacity @NCC_CCN @leilanifarha @cmckenney

[Coalition Against More Surveillance @CAMSOttawa]

The solution is in dismantling the unnecessary bureaucracy that keeps people unhoused in #OttCity.

The solution is investing in affordable housing instead of police (let's start by scrapping the $81 million South Facility, @dianedeans).

[Coalition Against More Surveillance @CAMSOttawa]

Destroying encampments is not the solution!!!

Partnerships between the police and service providers that result in the displacement of unhoused people from one area of the city to another are not the solution!!! (Looking at you @Salvation_Army and @CHRC_Ottawa)