I had a professor tell me I have huge potential to be a shit disturber. so here I am! (BSc in Earth & Enviro & English)
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Just Kortnee retweeted
I'm sorry everyone, I hate being so stark and it takes a lot out of me, but this IS what the process of losing essentially everything looks like and feels like. We need to end fossil fuels as though our lives depend on it, because they do, and shift into climate emergency mode.
Just Kortnee retweeted
📣BREAKING NEWS: City of #Toronto's secret encampment eviction plans revealed: lies about fires, intentionally excluding/misleading media, violent displacements & more: #TOpoli
NEW: Freedom of Information documents show the City of Toronto’s efforts to control the media narrative around encampment evictions last summer – inflating the number of fires in encampments and using media exclusion zones.
By @TheAJWithers and @amietwo: briarpatchmagazine.com/artic…
Just Kortnee retweeted
You may have noticed that some genuinely insane things are happening at the bottom of the world:
-Temp 70F (40C) above normal in Antarctica
-Temp 50F (30C) above normal in the Arctic
-Collapsing ice shelves in East Antarctica
This is unprecedented!
Let’s discuss. 🧵
Just Kortnee retweeted
Pat Gallagher and 'The Heavy toll of winter' for Toronto's Homeless. With @liamdevlincasey bit.ly/34wtmkZ
Just Kortnee retweeted
today there are big rigs, propane tanks & so many ppl more gathered. the cops have not used pepper spray, no batons & have only made 17 arrests.
i don't support police violence. i am 100% for defunding the police.
but the difference between the two responses can't be ignored.
Just Kortnee retweeted
i can't stop thinking about the violence i witnessed the police display when we stood with encampment residents - homeless ppl with nowhere else to go.
they had backpacks, cigarettes, tents, art, clothes.
police used their batons, pepper spray, made many quick arrests.
Just Kortnee retweeted
Even if todays reaction to this occupation were identical in every way to the violence visited upon the 4 encampment protests of last summer, there's the question of timing
Police have been completely hands-off for 21 days with this
They had us cleared out each time within 15hrs
Just Kortnee retweeted
TMX is a criminal enterprise. From the suppliers of the pipe straight to the politicians. Corruption. Here is the evidence in this essay celovsky.com/2021/12/19/the-…
Just Kortnee retweeted
In case you thought #DontLookUp was just about US politics, Trudeau’s still telling Canadians we need the comet money to stop the comet 🥴
Just Kortnee retweeted
3/ NONE OF IT IS WORKING! From advocacy to government- there may be a small victory here and there, but homelessness continues to get worse, and that’s not going to change if we keep doing the same shit over and over. If you think what you are doing works, you don’t see reality!
Just Kortnee retweeted
2/ the public believes homeless people choose to be homeless. The public believes homeless people are addicts and criminals. THE PUBLIC DOES NOT CARE HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE IN THE RAIN. The public doesn’t care homeless people die outside! THE PUBLIC JUST WANTS HOMELESS PEOPLE GONE!
Just Kortnee retweeted
I have been working to solve homelessness for 13 years. Before that, I was homeless for 7 years. It’s the same shit every year screaming about homeless people in the rain, yet homelessness continues to grow, and there’s less support for people who desperately need help. WTF?!!
Just Kortnee retweeted
This is a difficult and important watch.
If you truly want to understand Toronto's housing crisis and the encampment clearings this past summer, watch this.
#TorontoActions #HousingForAll
Settle in for a 👀, longish (36min) film documentary read on encampment clearings this Summer by Mayor @JohnTory @cityoftoronto & brutish @TorontoPolice
by @juliawttmnn @AlykhanPabani @theurbangeog
Feat. many incl @Wyld_Wych @Gruesomebrat @landbackskyler
youtube.com/watch?v=J3-_AJGQ…
