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comms pro & organizer // training to be a UU Minister // building Beloved Community for whatever lies ahead...

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

Whatever public conversation we have in the next few weeks, let's keep in mind that in this way - fighting to renew and re-establish our collective capacity to help *all* life flourish - we are all on the same side. /15FIN

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

I want to focus this on the wide-angle lens of our current animosity towards expanding the realm of the possible - while the Right has been fantastic at this, at pulling the entire spectrum towards them. What does this animosity serve? /14

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

There are lots of internal debates and private conversations that are worth having, but feeding the death machine of our constricted public imagination and its strangulating neoliberal ideology serves no-one. /13

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

Our policy on @AnjaliApp's campaign was written to support life over death. For people on the left who choose to represent that as radical, I invite you to question who benefits from that. /12

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

I feel this so poignantly when I imagine i.e. not having safe supply when my 4 y.o. reaches the age of experimentation. All 10k ppl who died from overdose were as deserving of love as my own child. And that's only the most blatant example of where policy could avert crisis. /11

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

What should be our North Star on progressive policy comes from @AnjaliApp: death should never be seen as a reasonable outcome of public policy. So we have to stay absolutely grounded in what will support life. /10

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

Like the YVR election, Anj's campaign is feeding the fight about moving left or right. My (maybe unexpected) take on that: that people can disagree and still be both ethical and reasonable. It's complicated, esp. in how we choose to represent ourselves to the mainstream /9

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

The idea that you could, as gov't, come to the table & offer what's fair, and be in collaborative relationship with labour is treated as unthinkable. So even "me too" clauses have become part of the mental architecture of neoliberalism that tells us we can't have nice things. /8

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

But "me too" & collective bargaining are crucial to the solidarity that makes working-class organizing function - how ironic that they are being used against critical fixes for workers in a crisis fuelled by burnout and lack of capacity. That's totally against their intent. /7

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

"Me too" clauses & collective bargaining were used as reasons not to move public sector nurses towards wage parity with private sector nurses (who are paid 50-100% more), or put a respiratory therapist in BC on par with a respiratory therapist in Alberta (who makes 23% more). /6

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

BUT it's absolutely NOT acceptable that we've been so mesmerized by neoliberalism that policy that is completely reasonable & necessary is treated as impossible & irresponsible. And this time around, that response came not just from the centre & the right but from the left too./5

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

I welcome the analyses focused on the BCNDP. But I'm focused instead on the larger cultural milieu. When we launched HP, HC, we knew the response would be "but we can't afford this!!!" It's expected and normalized that this is the response. /4

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

2. I wanted to create much-needed transformative policy, esp. for healthcare after my experience working in Spiritual Health at VGH. Anj brought together a truly world-class team to create smthg exceptional with "Healthy People, Healthy Communities" https://t.co/GYZvoWtZUs. /3

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

1. @AnjaliApp is a soulful human who approaches politics differently. When I engage with her, it feels relational not transactional. She has deep integrity & true clarity of vision, while always welcoming my constructive criticism. We need to support people like this. /2

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

I started supporting Anjali's campaign in mid-Sept, after the membership drive. I'm not normally bold enough for risky strategies, and I've entered ministry partly b/c of my aversion to how divisive and polarized politics is. But I supported her campaign for 2 reasons: 🧵/1

[Rob Shaw @RobShaw_BC]

Quite an interesting health care policy announcement from @AnjaliApp today.
Includes:
- Immediate 25% raise for RNs to stabilize staffing.
- Turning UPCCs into Community Health Centres with doctors, teams and better hours.
- Free counselling services across BC

[Reilly Y @reillyreads]

truth <3

[Anjali Appadurai @AnjaliApp]

I've answered the call of a movement. I've agreed to be the candidate and spokesperson. But this campaign belongs to you. JOIN: https://t.co/PARdGhFkdF #AnjaliForBC

[Justin Ling (Has Left) @Justin_Ling]

We, of course, ought to consider that a crowd of mostly-white folks got this light-touch treatment while homeless encampments and Indigenous occupations get systematically more aggressive and dangerous interventions. It's hard to ignore the stark difference.

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

Here's a graph you should be sick of seeing by now. It's been shared non-stop by media to show why we are where we are. ... .... It has been shared, right? This is something you've seen, right? This critical piece of the story is being referenced all the time ... right?

[Anjali Appadurai @AnjaliApp]

Campaigns with conscience attract people with conscience. People with conscience build campaigns with conscience. 🔁 And so on until we upset the boring incrementalist status quo. Proud to know you @clara_salter ❤️