Stay at home dog dad. Writer + PhD student @ SFU Geography working on ecological crisis and social movements
Mar 12 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A 35yo Canadian woman, Jasmine Mooney, from Whitehorse, Yukon has been detained by ICE at the US-Mexico border since March 3rd. On March 9th, she was listed as released, but was actually disappeared along with 30 other prisoners into a new detention center 1/3
Her family has since learned that she is being held at the San Luis Detention Center in Arizona in a single cell with the other prisoners she was transferred with, reportedly with no mattresses or blankets and "limited bathroom facilities" 2/3
Apr 25, 2024 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
In 2019, it felt like the climate movement was really gaining steam in US + Canada. Mass mobilizations, a political environment where endorsing further fossil fuel development was increasingly toxic, etc. But all of that discursive progress seems to have been completely lost 1/
The pandemic is obviously one reason. But the Ukraine war, and more importantly, the deployment of a new story tying western militarism to domestic petro-nationalism, completely changed the game. 2/
Jul 28, 2022 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
The @globeandmail just published an editorial responding to the government's sectoral emissions cap proposal and claiming that reducing oil and gas production in Canada is not an option. It may seem that they're admonishing the liberals here, but it's actually more subtle. 1/
The Liberal government's emissions cap proposal is already deliberately being designed to avoid cutting oil and gas production. Hell, Guilbeault just made a statement about "flexibility" for oil companies and his colleague Jonathan Wilkinson is full steam ahead on new projects 2/