We are an anonymous volunteer group in the HRM that is building small shelters in an effort to prevent deaths amidst an ongoing Housing Crisis in Nova Scotia.
Apr 26, 2022 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
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Halifax Mutual Aid volunteers were saddened to hear about the incident at Starr Park. We believe we know the individual who is in hospital. During the assembly of the crisis shelter at Starr Park & every day since, this individual has threatened volunteers & shelter occupants.
We also believe this individual is responsible for using power tools to cut a hole in the crisis shelter on Sunday. To emphasize the seriousness of his threats, he told volunteers that “someone is going to jail - and I don’t care if it’s me.”
Aug 25, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Looks like @hfxgov is doing forced evictions at night.
HMA supporters just witnessed 2 @HfxRegPolice officers threatening people on the Common who are in tents, telling them to be gone by 11pm. Nobody wants to have people with guns giving them ultimatums, so they’re packing up.
We’re NOT asking people to come down to Common and support. We just want everyone to be aware that @hfxgov has decided that the problem with their violent mass evictions was that people saw them do it. Shameful.
Jul 11, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Halifax Mutual Aid has heard many misrepresentations & outright lies originate from #Halifax Council. Some are so strange they’re funny. Most are just frustrating & disappointing. And a few have been so outrageously harmful & mean-spirited that we need to address them directly. 1
On Friday, our community learned about @hfxgov’s surprise removal & destruction of three crisis shelters, rewriting the timeline for removal that they committed to earlier in the week. Halifax Mutual Aid & numerous shelter occupants were taken by surprise. But there were clues. 2
