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@safderr.bsky.social

vancouver paramedic ๐Ÿš‘ ex-engineer/tech bro ๐Ÿคฎ from techno-optimism to class consciousness land back | free palestine | tax the rich

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers canโ€™t find them and theyโ€™ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

23.09.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31550    ๐Ÿ” 19087    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1193    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1747
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I literally spent 10 min translating Lulaโ€™s speech about Palestine to English. I just need every single one of my gringo friends to listen to this man in order to maybe restore their faith in politics. This right here is a politician. This is why we voted for him. And personally, Iโ€™ll do it again.

23.09.2025 17:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3795    ๐Ÿ” 1452    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54    ๐Ÿ“Œ 81
ABC VOTES TO KEEP YOU STUCK ON NOISY, BUSY STREETS

Governing party votes to bury motion that would have unlocked thousands of family-friendly homes on quiet streets

ABC VOTES TO KEEP YOU STUCK ON NOISY, BUSY STREETS Governing party votes to bury motion that would have unlocked thousands of family-friendly homes on quiet streets

Ken Sim and ABC have voted to bury Lucy Maloneyโ€™s motion that would have brought six floors and corner stores to side streets across Vancouver, unlocking thousands of family-friendly homes.

18.09.2025 01:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Motion 7. Improving the Empty Homes Tax. 

In favour: Fry, Orr, Maloney. Opposed: Ken Sim and ABC.

Motion 7. Improving the Empty Homes Tax. In favour: Fry, Orr, Maloney. Opposed: Ken Sim and ABC.

JUST IN FROM CITY HALL:

ABC has voted down a motion to strengthen the Empty Homes Tax to curb speculation.

We can't have good things in Vancouver until we defeat the power of the billionaires and the super-rich at City Hall.

This is why we're going to Evict Ken Sim and ABC next year. #vanpoli

18.09.2025 01:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

coates is genuinely a generational writer

17.09.2025 04:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10741    ๐Ÿ” 2608    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 75    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36
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Nav Pillay: "The Genocide Convention was born out of humanitys darkest chapters. Today we witness in real time how the promise of never again is broken and tested in the eyes of the world. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a moral outrage and a legal emergency"

16.09.2025 08:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 205    ๐Ÿ” 123    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Israel's military says its long-threatened ground offensive into Gaza City began overnight, with a goal of occupying and displacing remaining residents from the Gaza Strip's largest urban center. This comes after weeks of heavy bombardment that leveled many buildings still standing in Gaza City.

16.09.2025 11:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 122    ๐Ÿ” 81    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

BC just approved Ksi Lisims LNG. This project threatens ecosystems and human health, locks us into decades of expanded fracking and burning of fossil fuels, and ignores Indigenous consent.

16.09.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why does BC have an $11B deficit? Tax cuts.

Tax cuts, largely for the rich, have decreased government revenue by about $9B/year plus $1.5B lost from scraping the carbon tax.

16.09.2025 16:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Annual downstream GHG emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to HALF BC's total annual emissions, and about 1/20th of Canada's total annual emissions.

An environmental assessment process that can't take that into account is broken.

16.09.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Vancouver too pls

10.09.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The expected result of forcing people to leave their centres of community and resources

09.09.2025 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Harry Potterโ„ข: A Forbidden Forest Experience coming this fall to Stanley Park

September 3 2025 โ€“ The Vancouver Park Board is pleased to announce that a new special event is coming to Stanley Park this fall. For the first time in Canada, Harry Potter Fansโ„ข of all ages will have an opportunity to explore a spellbinding illuminated trail inspired by the iconic Forbidden Forest.

Harry Potterโ„ข: A Forbidden Forest Experience coming this fall to Stanley Park September 3 2025 โ€“ The Vancouver Park Board is pleased to announce that a new special event is coming to Stanley Park this fall. For the first time in Canada, Harry Potter Fansโ„ข of all ages will have an opportunity to explore a spellbinding illuminated trail inspired by the iconic Forbidden Forest.

I support a democratically elected park board. Part of democracy is ensuring that the governmentโ€™s decisions match the cityโ€™s values.

Vancouver is a city for all its people. Trans people included. I am calling on the Park Board to rethink this event and make this right.

08.09.2025 16:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 210    ๐Ÿ” 57    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
Act Now: Stop Ken Sim's Cuts to Public Services! 

Participate in the 2026 Vancouver Budget Survey.

Act Now: Stop Ken Sim's Cuts to Public Services! Participate in the 2026 Vancouver Budget Survey.

COPE's Top Priorities
2026 budget survey

#1) Stop ABC's Handout to the Wealthy: Mayor Ken Sim is seeking a property tax increase as low as 0% for 2026. This handout to the rich will mean cuts to services, austerity, increased user fees, and neglected infrastructure. 

#2) Protect Public Services, Staff & Infrastructure: Sim's tax gimmick will mean cuts to public services, infrastructure, and the unionized staff that make the city work for people. 

#3) Boost Library Funding & Increase Hours: 

Under ABC, library hours are already being cut. A previous COPE motion to support libraries is going to be on the chopping block if there are new cuts. Vancouver must library users and library workers.

COPE's Top Priorities 2026 budget survey #1) Stop ABC's Handout to the Wealthy: Mayor Ken Sim is seeking a property tax increase as low as 0% for 2026. This handout to the rich will mean cuts to services, austerity, increased user fees, and neglected infrastructure. #2) Protect Public Services, Staff & Infrastructure: Sim's tax gimmick will mean cuts to public services, infrastructure, and the unionized staff that make the city work for people. #3) Boost Library Funding & Increase Hours: Under ABC, library hours are already being cut. A previous COPE motion to support libraries is going to be on the chopping block if there are new cuts. Vancouver must library users and library workers.

"Council Priorities" 

The survey pushes you to pick only 3 priorities, inappropriately pitting reconciliation, climate, housing and public services against each other. We've flagged priorities that relate to cuts.

"Council Priorities" The survey pushes you to pick only 3 priorities, inappropriately pitting reconciliation, climate, housing and public services against each other. We've flagged priorities that relate to cuts.

"Financial Pressures" 

Staff originally said 6-7% was needs for 2026, but the survey's maximum is 5%, likely meaning at least some cuts. It would be ideal if a significant contingent of survey respondents advocated for 6-7% in the 'other' box.

"Financial Pressures" Staff originally said 6-7% was needs for 2026, but the survey's maximum is 5%, likely meaning at least some cuts. It would be ideal if a significant contingent of survey respondents advocated for 6-7% in the 'other' box.

The Cityโ€™s 2026 Budget process is now open.

We're fighting against Ken Sim and ABC's austerity and threats to public services.

With your help, we can stop these cuts.

Take the survey by calling 311 or clicking here: www.shapeyourcity.ca/2026-budget

More info: www.votecope.ca/news/action-...

20.08.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 64    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

end times fascism

28.08.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 373    ๐Ÿ” 100    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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BC Government Quietly Cuts $20 Million School Affordability Fund | The Tyee โ€˜Transformativeโ€™ program had allowed schools to cut fees and provide supplies to vulnerable students.

NEW: The Tyee has learned a โ€œtransformativeโ€ $20-million fund that reduced costs for vulnerable kids and connected others with supplies, clothing and shoes has been quietly cut by the B.C. government.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

28.08.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 72    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Breaking!

City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.

We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.

27.08.2025 01:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 427    ๐Ÿ” 172    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.

26.08.2025 20:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 296    ๐Ÿ” 110    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Vancouverโ€™s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings

25.08.2025 04:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 405    ๐Ÿ” 153    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
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BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.

โ€œHow many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream pressโ€™s cowardly fever to break?โ€ asks โฆโ€ชPrem
Thakker,โ€ฌโฉ in the wake of Israelโ€™s killing of โฆโ€ชAnas al Sharif. โ€ฌโฉ

10.08.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3951    ๐Ÿ” 1362    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 138    ๐Ÿ“Œ 57
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How much of Gaza is left standing? Analysis by independent researchers reveals the scale of the destruction

โ€œThe studies imply estimated [Gaza] life expectancy has fallen by more than 35 years, to ~ half the pre-war figure. In percentage termsโ€ฆbigger thanโ€ฆduring Chinaโ€™s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocideโ€ www.economist.com/interactive/...

07.08.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 420    ๐Ÿ” 269    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Recent announcements by France, EU, Arab League, Canada is not them 'changing' - it is another two-state attempt at Oslo pacification and normalization.

There can be NO "solution" that demands disarmament of the resistance, maintains apartheid & occupation, denies the right of return for refugees.

30.07.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 187    ๐Ÿ” 62    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody.

Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

29.07.2025 03:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3204    ๐Ÿ” 1517    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 88

Itโ€™s worse than โ€œGaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.โ€ Itโ€™s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

22.07.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3132    ๐Ÿ” 1188    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 34
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BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.

๐Ÿ”ด LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq

19.07.2025 18:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1153    ๐Ÿ” 955    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73    ๐Ÿ“Œ 203
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"I Know It When I See Itโ€: Prof. Omer Bartov Says Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza We speak with leading Israeli American historian Omer Bartov about his latest essay for The New York Times, headlined โ€œIโ€™m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.โ€ Bartov cites the Unitedโ€ฆ

Genocide "doesnโ€™t mean that you have to kill everyone," says historian and renowned Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov. "It means that the group will be destroyed and that it will not be able to reconstitute itself as a group. And to my mind, this is precisely what Israel is trying to do."

19.07.2025 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 603    ๐Ÿ” 257    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19

every day israel is slaughtering more palestinians and you barely hear a peep from supposed western โ€œleadersโ€ who love to talk about human rights and international law whenever it comes to china, russia, or iran, but go mum about them when israel comes into the mix

19.07.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 286    ๐Ÿ” 96    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

conservatives: letโ€™s cut important crown corporations

liberals: letโ€™s have important crown corporations *cut themselves* we are much better

17.07.2025 02:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
BIGGER HOMES AND BETTER PLEXES

OneCity Vancouver

BIGGER HOMES AND BETTER PLEXES OneCity Vancouver

ABC's biggest housing move to date has been to implement Kennedy Stewart's multiplex plan - and they haven't even gotten that right.

That's why @lucymaloney.bsky.social is bringing a motion to Council to punch up our small-scale multi-unit housing program - so we can deliver the homes we need.

17.07.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Getting off US tech: a guide Iโ€™m in the process of dropping US tech services. Hereโ€™s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Silicon Valleyโ€™s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we canโ€™t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, Iโ€™ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

18.07.2025 16:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3418    ๐Ÿ” 1479    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 74    ๐Ÿ“Œ 136

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