The Social Commons (2019)

A now-retired account for the Fall 2019 lecture and symposium. Check out our new account for more: @SocialCommonsCa

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

Thank you to all who have supported the SocialCommons project since the Fall 2019 lecture and symposium. As such, we invite everyone to check out our new account @SocialCommonsCa here on Twitter, as this account is inactive on the timeline.

[ausma malik @ausmalik]

Thrilled to be in such wonderful company to share a conversation with Anita, @ricardo_tranjan and @ErinHayward1993 about what we heard at @socialcommons19 today that will continue to inform, enrich and energize our collective commitment to a more just world. #socialcommons

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

“It’s not ‘humans and the environment.’ Humans are the environment,” says @ErinHayward1993. #SocialCommons

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

“The Commons has to embrace decent work and the workplace has to be treated as a commons,” says @ausmalik. #SocialCommons

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

Who’s included and who has been historically excluded from the idea of the commons? @leilasarangi examines how child poverty is mapped across Canada. #SocialCommons #ChildPoverty #CanPoli

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“We need to critically re-examine the high school education system,” says @ErinHayward1993. Give young people a way to understand their relationships in the environment, connect to their food, everyday practices. #SocialCommond

[Social Planning Toronto @planningtoronto]

SPT’s executive director @devikashah speaks about the intersections of social and environmental justice at the @socialcommons19 Symposium. #SocialCommons

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

“We don’t need to free people from labour; we need to free labour from a capitalist logic.” — @FMestrum #SocialCommons #Labour

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

.@FMestrum: we are talking about social commons with a rights framework, social protections with human rights — a horizontal structure of solidarity. #SocialCommons

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

From the preamble to the International Labour Organization’s constitution (from 1919), @FMestrum reminds us: “Peace is not possible without social justice.” #SocialCommons #SocialJustice

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

.@FMestrum “Commons go beyond states and markets, but not without states and markets.” #SocialCommons

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

Today’s #SocialCommons Symposium is held in honour of Marvyn Novick (1940-2016), a leading thinker and contributor to social policy in Canada. #socialpolicy #canpoli

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

Excited to begin the Social Commons Policy & Social Change Symposium! #SocialCommons

[David Hulchanski @Hulchanski]

#SocialCommons arose from World Social Forum 2013 as a framework for rethinking social policies in a transformative & participative way to achieve social & environmental justice. It is grounded in a critique of the existing international social & economic order @socialcommons19

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.@kofi_hope: We must emphasize the importance of values in this work, particularly as they are shared through storytelling. #SocialCommons

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

.@joemihevc: “We cannot build private islands of happiness in communal oceans of despair.” #SocialCommons

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

.@bravo_alej: “Place is a thing that binds people” and we must draw from movement history as a resource to inspire future resistance. #SocialCommons #Place

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

Important point from @kofi_hope & @bravo_alej: we can acknowledge the gains of the welfare state but we must not idealize it & ignore all the people who it left out — racialized people, Indigenous peoples. #SocialCommons #WelfareState

[The Social Commons (2019) @socialcommons19]

.@joemihevc: “The individualization of everything has gone too far... what are the experiences that are going to bring us together and experience one another in solidarity?” #SocialCommons

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.@bravo_alej: “Beyond the floor of #socialprotection we must also talk about a ceiling on #accumulation.” #SocialCommons