Jean Swanson
@JeanSwanson_
Safe supply now, end poverty, climate justice, rent control, end homelessness and black and blueberry pie for all.
My article in The Tyee today about the city’s plan to gentrify the DTES: Downtown Eastside Residents Didn’t Ask for This Plan | The Tyee thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/0…
"When the Carnegie Housing Project asked residents what’s special about the DTES: it’s a community that takes care of each other; people are generous... the resources are stretched thin but the community never withholds from each other..." @JeanSwanson_ thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/0…
Really important to keep Afd funded.
Support the urgent call for extended funding to keep this critical and successful service FULLY operational in the DTES! CoV and Province of BC - there is no reasonable explanation for not keeping AFDS whole. Scroll down to sign the petition ➡️ abfrontdoor.org
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I'm surprised the @nytimes published this unvarnished piece. We can only hope this marks a turning point in an Israeli violence so coordinated and focused that it can only be compared to WW2 I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi…
A reminder: framing homelessness as a problem of mental illness or addiction has been politically manufactured to divert attention from its *actual* causes—skyrocketing rents, poverty wages, gutted social supports—and to justify the removal of homeless people from public space.
Definitely a great read if u want to know what’s happening at Vancouver counci.
It was a whirlwind final week before Council goes on break for August. Read all about it in the latest edition of The Orr Report: votecope.ca/news/closing-a… #vanpoli #FightForVancouver
1.) We live in a very trivial society here in Canada. With a very trivial media guarding our 4th Estate. This is why the 5th Estate is really the only option for news and insight. @CBCNews @globeandmail On July 24, 2025 here is the 'front page' of The Guardian:
Hope u will sign this.
Prime Minister Carney and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand follow through with their threat of sanctions, and impose an arms embargo on Israel now nwmd.social/s/twitter/4AqP… @CJPME #cdnpoli
I dedicate this picture to you: @AnitaAnandMP @MarkJCarney @JustinTrudeau @melaniejoly @MarcMillerVM @BobRae48 @DavidMcGuinty @BillBlair And all the staffers that showed up to work everyday & said nothing/supported your bosses at @CanadaFP @CanadaUN @GAC_Corporate @CanadianPM
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There are more ways that we can improve the TRPP for tenants in the future. This is just one step. Let's continue this work together and fight for tenants.
JUST IN: Sean Orr's motion to close an indentified loophole in the city-wide TRPP passes unanimously! Yes! This will mean that tenants in strata condos being treated as a rental buildings will be protect in the future.
ABC votes against Sean Orr's motion to protect modular homes in Vancouver. Doing this in the midst of a housing crisis is unconscionable. #vanpoli #bcpoli
Every speaker supported the motion and was quite passionate .Thanks to Sean Orr for trying facebook.com/share/p/1CVZJ8….
Hi @sarahkirby_yung, Can you please clear the air on why you felt the need to kill the resolutions put forward by the Arts & Culture Advisory Committee supported by @seanorr, @PtFry, etc at Council? #VanPoli instagram.com/reel/DMeBpJDS_…
JUST IN: Ken Sim and ABC just voted down a motion to call for an independent review of the cops-in-schools program. This motion was moved by Pete Fry based on the advocacy of the City’s own Racial and Ethno-Cultural Equity Advisory Committee. #vanpoli
Yet another awesome article from Amanda.
"The DTES is not, and never was, an 'experiment'. It is a neighbourhood with deep roots, hard histories, and human resilience. It is a place where people know each other’s names, share what little they have, and try to live with dignity against the odds." - @BurrowsAmanda
“This is not economics, this is — I don’t know what to call it" Well, I'll call it reckless and embarrassing. Public trust isn’t a game, and crypto hype isn’t a substitute for real policy that can actually end homelessness and increase affordability.
‘The mayor is talking about economics and doesn’t seem to understand what he’s talking about.’ #vanpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/2…
Boycott, Divest and Sanction! Now.
Words are meaningless when you continue to provide military and other support to Israel, @AnitaAnandMP. The level of depraved forced starvation in Gaza is unprecedented. No medical protocols exist to feed the starved under this level of siege. We will be here day after day.…
$412,000 could be spent on better things like recovery centres and housing.
Nanaimo considering 'robust' iron fence to protect city staff from chaos at nearby drug den westernstandard.news/news/66128/661…
I thank wholeheartedly the member states who are standing behind my work. In moment of pain and transition, comes the change. Together we can build a better system, and Palestine and the sacrifice of the Palestinian people cannot be in vain. No more empty words, may this be…
A cross-regional group of countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Iceland, Namibia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela, along with members of the OIC) sent a letter to @volker_turk regarding the sanctions imposed on @FranceskAlbs