Raise the Rates

A coalition of groups & orgs concerned with the level of poverty & homelessness in BC. The welfare rates are below the poverty line, we need to Raise the Rates!

[Raise the Rates @RaisetheRates]

@kennedystewart I appreciate that you included the most vulnerable in this tweet. I feel that increased sanitation, peer based sanitizing of the DTES (and other areas that are entrenched in poverty) (people can be paid by peer funding)), and a way to escape street life to have a hot shower.

[Raise the Rates @RaisetheRates]

Elli Taylor here, looking forward to working at this in a Coordinator role! I wanted to introduce myself. I have worked managing and assisting with non-profit projects for over ten years. I have a passion for social justice and I am already working hard on this initiative!

[Jean Swanson @JeanSwanson_]

Highest homeless count ever!! 2223 and its an undercount!!

[karen ward @kwardvancouver]

um homelessness is costing unhoused people their existence but sure
#vanpoli #dtes #EVERYTHINGISFINE

[Raise the Rates @RaisetheRates]

sing it with us now "if you don't provide upstream solutions/you lose money! if you don't provide/what will stop people from dying/ if you don't provide upstream solutions, it costs you money!" also...sick of human LIVES being measured only by how many $$ can be saved :|

[Carlito Pablo @carlitopablo]

How homelessness is costing Vancouver taxpayers at least $8.5 million per year https://t.co/r6VUYqHLQd @stopdisplacemnt @JeanSwanson_ @FIVRE604 @CCAPdtes @VANDUpeople #homeless #DTES #Vancouver #vanpoli

[Red Braid Alliance for Decolonial Socialism @stopdisplacemnt]

But they're not hiding anymore. The Tri-Cities homeless community is coming together to say WE EXIST! Join the rally on June 13th to say no to police harassment, no to social isolation and overdose death, and yes to homeless power and homes for all! https://t.co/pYnXsR9odl

[MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaINDIGENA]

Case closed: the question now is whether the Settler imagination is even capable of contemplating Canada's genocidal foundations and a shared, negotiated path out of it.

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Canada is built on genocide: "Continuous policy w/shifting expressed motives but ultimately steady intention, to destroy Indigenous peoples physically, biologically & as social units, thereby fulfilling required specific intent element"

#MMIWG #MMIWG2S

https://t.co/SaGkDMehtd

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Holding close all #MMIWG2s whose spirits live within us. For their families & loved ones.

fellow settlers (especially white ppl) in relation, in struggle, in service to Indigenous Peoples, we must be unequivocal - Gendered colonial violence is genocide. Canada is genocide.

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

No more leftism that isnt structurally anti-colonial

"Genocide driven by disproportionate level of violence faced by Indigenous women and girls occurred in Canada through state actions and inactions rooted in colonialism."

#MMIW #MMIWG2S #cdnpoli #vanre
https://t.co/N6fMlr5OI7

[Katherine Scott @kjscott.bsky.social @ScottKatherineJ]

Public services have been found to reduce income inequality by an average of 20%. We've been talking about universal basic incomes. What about universal basic services? Check out new @NEF report

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

One of the richest men in Canada. This billionaire's wealth is built on exploitation of migrant farmworking women.

“Mr. Aquilini told them if they don’t work and bring 15 pounds of blueberries, he wouldn’t let them have water."

#cdnpoli #canlab #Canucks
https://t.co/i2bccQqkCV

[Raise the Rates @RaisetheRates]

@yvrairport @KellyRipa sucks about all that contract flipping though...

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Revolution is collective care.

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

New data shows that the number of active white supremacist groups in Canada has DOUBLED over the last three years.

Enough of single-issue organizing; anti-racism is not a side or secondary or wedge issue. We need to make it *central* and relevant to all our work.

#cdnpoli

[Raise the Rates @RaisetheRates]

@leerathje @PovReductionBC How about at this link?? https://t.co/O0saKE11h3

[Raise the Rates @RaisetheRates]

THINK SYSTEM CHANGE!!!

[BC Poverty Reduction Coalition @PovReductionBC]

"Is 'left over' food for 'left behind' people really the best we can do?" @RaisetheRates https://t.co/TkzoAfeekv #bcpoli

[BC Poverty Reduction Coalition @PovReductionBC]

Only a couple more hours!