Thread by @Tony_Tracy

This is shocking from the @bccla, and complete cowardice.

Sandbagging @HarshaWalia over a tweet — one which is certainly within the realm of progressive discourse, now & always — is unbelievably terrible.

#IStandWithHarsha #IStandWithHarshaWalia #BCpoli #cdnpoli #VANpoli #BCCLA

https://twitter.com/bccla/status/1416185973709344773

For the @bccla to force @HarshaWalia, by far their best Executive Director and staffer in decades, bar none, to resign over a tweet is shocking.

The credibility of #BCCLA has been shaken to the core.

bccla.org/2021/07/announ…

#IStandWithHarsha #BCpoli #cdnpoli #VANpoli #BCCLA

As @MatthewGreenNDP aptly says: “Burn It All Down” is a call for decolonization, not arson… not an ignition of actual, literal fires... but burning down structures of injustice to create better futures.

#IStandWithHarsha #BCpoli #cdnpoli #VANpoli #BCCLA

https://twitter.com/matthewgreenndp/status/1415657556719063042

I agree with @garthmullins & countless others who speak both of the profoundly principled & progressive decades of community organizing that @HarshaWalia has done, as well as @bccla’s cowardly caving to clear racism & misogyny.

#IStandWithHarsha #BCpoli #cdnpoli #VANpoli #BCCLA

https://twitter.com/garthmullins/status/1416485501406568449

Two decades ago, my dear friend Erin (now Eliyanna) Kaiser was sued by the anti-choice “Genocide Awareness Project” — bigots who were represented by then @bccla President Craig Jones in #BCCLA capacity.

theglobeandmail.com/news/national/…

#IStandWithHarsha #BCpoli #cdnpoli #VANpoli #BCCLA

Former @bccla President Craig Jones also represented the anti-choice bigots in expulsion proceedings they launched against Kaiser at @UBC.

Jones, on behalf of #BCCLA, fought hard in hearings to expel a pro-choice young woman.

#IStandWithHarsha #BCpoli #cdnpoli #VANpoli #BCCLA

The @bccla’s history, two decades ago, of taking on legal cases (and internal @UBC student disciplinary cases) on behalf of anti-choice bigots, with the pro-bono support from former #BCCLA President Craig Jones, seems relevant.

#IStandWithHarsha #BCpoli #cdnpoli #VANpoli #BCCLA

There’s no question that @HarshaWalia’s hiring many months ago by @bccla was a radical departure from what I would hope most would agree was an embarrassing history of #BCCLA representing bigots & right wing crackpots.

Now?

I #IStandWithHarsha.

#BCpoli #cdnpoli #VANpoli #BCCLA

As always, @cultureofdefeat makes a salient point: the “free speech fetishists” of the far right are nowhere to be seen when @HarshaWalia is attacked & forced to resign for a single apt tweet.

#IStandWithHarsha #IStandWithHarshaWalia #BCpoli #cdnpoli #VANpoli #BCCLA #canlab #1u

https://twitter.com/cultureofdefeat/status/1416498471360733192

The real free speech struggles, day-to-day, are almost exclusively in workplaces & jobsites, where bad bosses fire workers for expressing opinions… like @bccla firing @HarshaWalia for a tweet.

#IStandWithHarsha #IStandWithHarshaWalia #BCpoli #cdnpoli #VANpoli #BCCLA #canlab #1u

https://twitter.com/cultureofdefeat/status/1416436032875245571