Melissa Thiessen

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

"We do encourage our partners in the women’s rights, labour rights, migrant rights and anti-trafficking fields to engage with sex workers as part of... https://t.co/qfewApLHN2

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

'Reconciliation cannot be real until the poverty in Indigenous communities, caused by colonial policies and land dispossession, is addressed."
https://t.co/H9URkfPGgk https://t.co/H9URkfPGgk

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

"Global and systemic oppressions violate our rights, as womxn, trans and gender non-conforming people who use drugs, and situate us in multiple, interconnected, vulnerable... https://t.co/SmsW4Z2jVD

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

If you were planning to apply for the contract staff lawyer position at Pivot, mark your calendar: the deadline for applications is February 18th.

https://t.co/VvPs1qnVdh https://t.co/1MhQMpji4n

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

We must challenge this idea that we have an adequate warming plan for people who are unhoused. Vancouver’s Extreme Weather Response shelters are now closed because temperatures are higher than 0°C. People... https://t.co/Ep1bRM2giT

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

"We all want to end trafficking for sexual exploitation. Whatever our personal views on sex work in general, no one thinks one person forcing another to provide paid sexual services is acceptable."... https://t.co/ugTR6Pzp1u

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

The issues with #America's Human Trafficking Prevention Month: https://t.co/VX8VnVCVoK https://t.co/VX8VnVCVoK

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

“Rates for overdose deaths in Vancouver and across BC remain the highest in Canada. But without harm reduction, they would be far worse. And harm reduction may now be beginning to turn the tide.”

https://t.co/nKlRA3zYLu https://t.co/nKlRA3zYLu

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

"Harm reduction does not exist in a vacuum. It is constantly embroiled in and defined by sociopolitical contexts, laws, and policies. To what extent that... https://t.co/p4QHc7vejo

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

"The vast majority of these deaths were preventable... I consider the inaction by all three levels of government criminally negligent.” #Toronto
https://t.co/YidwS5ELro https://t.co/YidwS5ELro

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

Join us at this fundraiser! Pivot, along with others from the legal community in Vancouver, will be gathering in support of the Wet’suwet’en Nation by holding a “Know Your Rights” workshop. https://t.co/1cjhOxpOdX

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

Oppenheimer Park residents are still waiting for warming options: "Refusing to provide unsheltered people with a harm reduction based approach to heating themselves simply forces people—as a course of... https://t.co/Ep1bRM2giT

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

It is clear that the RCMP are not "impartial in this dispute" as they somehow claim to be.

https://t.co/AnkzE4q0wF https://t.co/AnkzE4q0wF

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

"Surely, he can see the shortcomings of an appointed police board chaired by a mayor who, on some occasions, appears to have become the chief... https://t.co/oqf1SxvnhO

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

Molly Wickham, a spokesperson for one of the five #Wet’suwet’en clans, "called the police checkpoint a violation of human rights and Indigenous rights."
https://t.co/e1EA5ksf62 https://t.co/e1EA5ksf62

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

https://t.co/xYb1ZJJZ6w

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

"We are ready and set up. We are not even asking for funding. We have three warming tents and they are sitting empty."
https://t.co/RpmtAlcu4O https://t.co/RpmtAlcu4O

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

Our friends at PACE Society are hiring a Co-Executive Director!

PACE is a peer-driven organization in Vancouver that seeks to reduce the harm and isolation associated with sex
work through education, support, and... https://t.co/TcAKovKmWt

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

Please join us in welcoming Emily as our new Operations & Finance Manager! We are excited to have her on the team!

ttp://www.pivotlegal.org/emily_capel-shyu https://t.co/pH5woOfMar

[Melissa Thiessen @msthiessen]

“Sex workers and survivors of human trafficking are asking for legislation that will make all of us safer. We are advocating for the full decriminalization of commercial sex work between... https://t.co/WUR4TabCHj