“as an agency of experts, we were not really prepared to contend with people who so ready to forsake science and sometimes even logic. And you know, we were not prepared to defend, or to explain Ebola to somebody who believed that it was a scam.”
Swap Ebola for harm reduction and you’ve got Alberta.
Non profits lack of intersectionality
Carter Spivak-Villeneuve’s memorial bench: gofund.me/18f170612 and just overall anti-Indigenous racism in the women’s, Queer, and disability non profits.
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It has shown the ways police created suspicion around the organization’s activities using unchecked powers, then fed that back into government to set in motion a chain of events leading to the defunding and destruction of the organization. 2/
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So far, this series has connected the efforts inside government (part 1) and police (part 2) to criminalize harm reduction activities of a grassroots nonprofit.
It has unearthed a playbook of surveillance, coordinated internal briefings, and media leaks. 1/
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What a headline. If they were conservatives, would the headline read “Respected MLA’s Announce Retirement” because once upon a time in Canada, all elected officials were given respect, regardless of the genocidal policies they supported.
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If you’re more committed to tone policing a Dene woman than the message of anti Indigenous racism, I’m not the content for you. Lots of settler based places for you instead.