author national bestseller Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the the present (2017) Vanier scholar @ University of Toronto WGSI
Feb 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Abolition requires a global lens: In 2022, thousands of Haitians took to the streets in Port-au-Prince to protest Canada and the United States for equipping the island nation’s police force with policing and military supplies, including tactical armoured vehicles. 1/4
Protesters described the presence of both nations as a colonial imposition and an impediment to Haiti’s liberation. As one said:“No to the Canadians, no to the Americans! You are monsters. You don’t make solutions. You are chaos. You are behind the gangsterization of crime.” 2/4
Apr 11, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
powerful stories from Black Nova Scotia:
"the community of North Preston has been organizing to get ready for the COVID-19 pandemic since February, way before most people took the threat seriously" 1/
"It did so without much support from the government.
Rather than blaming community members for the rate of infections, the premier would do well to recognize that fact, and better yet, offer tangible help so that the community can lift itself out of deep poverty, /2
