Post-doc at the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems @KwantlenU studying perennial ag systems. Former BC Greens Candidate.
Feb 4, 2022 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
As someone who's been involved in organizing disruptive direct action protests, watching the "freedom convoy" unfold brings up interesting things.
I'm not sympathetic to the cause, and am as disturbed by the movements' extremist elements as anyone.
And at the same time,
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We need to recognize that this movement has some elements of successful direct action that confronts power where it hurts
It's unapologetic, and has physically assembled at the nation's capital with illegal, nonviolent, and very disruptive force for many days in a row.
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May 17, 2021 • 26 tweets • 4 min read
I'm in mourning right now. The war going on in my other homeland of Israel/Palestine is bloody, unnecessary, and most depressingly, repetitive. The last iteration of this war was in 2014, when I was in Israel. The enormity of the sadness that it brings up is huge. Thread. 1/
Sadness for the innocent people killed as Israeli strikes hit Hamas military infrastructure in dense civilian areas, so many of whom are young Palestinians with no options for safety and nowhere to go. 2/
