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Rima Berns-McGown Profile picture
@rimabernsm
Jul 21, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Terrible public policy. No one benefited today

People being pushed from one encampment to another (there were folks at Lamport today who were in tents at Trinity Bellwoods 2 weeks ago)

How does this solve homelessness? Or anything?

There is a better way…

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Sep 8, 2022
In case you’re unsure why cosplaying poverty is a terrible idea, here are just a few reasons🧵:

1-It’s always a bad idea to pretend you’re oppressed when you’re not. You can step out of the pretense anytime it gets too heavy. People whose cupboards & fridge are bare cannot;…
2-Equity is never achieved by pretending to be what you are not, & achieving equity should be the raison d’être that you were elected;

3-Amplify the voices of the thousands who ALREADY KNOW what it is like to be unable to afford housing &/or food. Don’t take up that space;…
4-Poverty is structural, especially extreme/intergenerational poverty, or the poverty that BIPOC folx or immigrants experience. A host of serious barriers, overt & covert, including racism, push ppl into & keep them in poverty. It requires a total strategy to fix;…
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Apr 6, 2022
I am Jewish. This morning I was subject to a vicious antisemitic attack by govt members — specifically @PaulCalandra, @WillBoumaBrant & @NatKusendova

I demand an apology.

Let me unpack what happened:

We were debating G88, the doublespeak-named “Working for Workers” bill.

1/…
Gig workers mostly hate the bill, because it creates a separate category of workers & continues to deny gig workers access to the protections of the Employment Standards Act.

2/… Image
I made the point that G88 creates a “gig ghetto” - a separate class of workers - and once that precedent is set, it becomes very difficult to take down those metaphorical walls

I referenced the history of the word “ghetto” - the 16thC foundry in Venice

3/…
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Jan 30, 2022
🧵 It is crucial that everyone make the connections revealing themselves in Ottawa

The dogwhistles & outright support from politicians WILL turn deadly. If not this weekend, then in the future.

Racist political speech inspired the Quebec mosque terrorist,… 1/5
…the New Zealand mosque terrorist, the terrorist who murdered the Afzaal #OurLondonFamily this past summer

It is especially important right now, right here, that every single elected official, political party & leader - without exception - act to root out antisemitism… 2/5
…anti-Black racism, Islamophobia, transphobia, homophobia - all of it. We need, collectively, to insist on it.

And we CANNOT make excuses for those who would downplay the actions of people who acted in concert w white supremacism, in whatever form, in the past… 3/5
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Jul 24, 2021
🧵The narrative that encampment clearings are part of a compassionate approach to housing obstinate people is a fairy tale

Housing workers who do not work for the City will telly there is nowhere for people to go: shelters & shelter-hotels are full (and dangerous) 1/
That is why many of the supporters of encampment residents are the same people who work to keep unhoused ppl safe & to find them housing. There are also doctors, healthcare workers, professors, lawyers…

They are not the random “protesters” that the mayor would like to blame 2/
They are ppl who understand how systemic racism & anti-Indigeneity work:

90% of urban Indigenous ppl live in poverty

38% of encampment residents identify as Indigenous

Pandemic evictions have forced mostly racialized ppl out of their housing

Shelters are bursting&dangerous 3/
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Nov 26, 2020
Thread:

The LTB is functioning as an eviction factory. I sat through a day of covid-related hearings yesterday. I was there to serve as a witness in support of the #EastYork50, who have brilliant legal & community backing

But for others, it was a nightmare...
The hearings are chaired by adjudicators who not all thoughtful or even necessarily fair, so tenants are at the mercy of the draw. Some are better (kinder, more willing to listen to tenants’ reasons for their inability to pay arrears) than others.

Some are downright cruel...
In one case yesterday, documented by @Peoples_Defence, a tenant was pressured into signing a repayment plan that he clearly didn’t understand. When a lawyer there for another matter offered to help him, the chair kicked the lawyer off the call instead of agreeing to the help...
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