Red Braid (formerly Alliance Against Displacement) is a revolutionary working class & Indigenous organization. Tweets by Red Braid members.
Mar 23, 2020 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
Thread on the imperative for radicals and housing advocates in so-called British Columbia to support #rentstrike or #keepyourrent or #rentsuspension or whatever you want to call a spontaneous, mass refusal of rent payments to our bloodsucking landlords (1/22)
Today's BC NDP government announcement about "supports" to "vulnerable people" is a big middle finger to those of us most vulnerable to death by COVID-19. (2/22)
Feb 19, 2020 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
We're sitting in on a VDLC meeting where delegates are debating passing a motion declaring support for Wet'suwet'en. Two guests have voiced support, arguing that VDLC should also direct its members to treat Wet'suwet'en solidarity blockades as picket lines. #WetsuwetenStrong
An executive member - one of only two POC on the executive - suggests amendments strengthening the anticolonial politics of the statement. They're going through the amendments one by one.
Jan 19, 2020 • 29 tweets • 5 min read
We're about to cover a HK solidarity panel: Our Voices Under Oppression: Human Rights And The Authoritarian State. Main speaker is Anastasia Lin, who was denied entry to China in 2015 for speaking out about human rights, plus Uyghur, Tibetan, Taiwanese, & HK speakers.
We're curious how Canada will be portrayed in this panel. Other HK solidarity events breeze by the state's violences to prop it up as a benevolent patron of "human rights" whose rightful role is to defend its bourgeois & colonial values globally.
