Derrick O'Keefe 🌹

We're very excited to see Council make this investment in Car Free Days.

Let's go one step further and think about long-term sustainability and a way to reduce permit and event related costs. So many important events are struggling!

Here’s @seanorr.bsky.social’s GoFundMe link: gofund.me/5127d2fa9

Donate to Sean Orr is Suing Ken Sim – Help Fund the Fight, organized by Vyas Saran My name is Sean Orr, and I’m a Vancouver City Councillor with COPE. On Febr… Vyas Saran needs your support for Sean Orr is Suing Ken Sim – Help Fund the Fight

Sean Orr is suing Ken Sim.

Chip in to fund his fight.

www.gofundme.com/f/sean-orr-i...

This is what ecocide looks like.

ANALYSIS | SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here's how that could impact us here on Earth | CBC News Scientists are deeply concerned about SpaceX's recent proposal to launch one million satellites into orbit around Earth. Their concerns range from a loss of the natural night sky and our access to spa...

“Recent studies have shown that when satellites reach the end of their lives and burn up upon reentry, they leave behind metals like aluminum and lithium.

The consequences of this are not yet known. But that's [only one thing that] concerns scientists…”

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

SÍ al feminismo, NO a la guerra. #8Marzo

America, America: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin

Recommended reading, against the Donroe Doctrine...

Finally finished Greg Grandin's latest doorstopper last week, an ambitious history and deep dive on Latin America's contributions to the development of international law in opposition to empire(s).

Don Davies has been solid of late responding to US gangster-imperialism. Need more MPs & leaders who take international solidarity seriously.

Back in 2011 Don partnered w/ Vancouver's local anti-war coalition and international law experts to call on Canada to bar entry to war criminal Dick Cheney.

Mamdani is showing that the real 'pragmatic' approach to left politics is a radical & aggressive push to deliver material gains for the working classes.

The centrists can't get it done, but too many still act like elections are just for the professional class to play West Wing.

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

Thanks for putting me on your hypothetical slate, but I am not running for Council :)

Vancouver deserves better than Sim’s lies The readiness of Mayor Ken Sim and Coun. Lenny Zhou to slander a colleague is far worse than any harebrained policy they might propose or past controversial decisions they have made.

Politicians like Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim and Coun. Lenny Zhou who spread lies about a colleague for political gain undermine trust in our political system. They don't deserve our respect or votes, @adriennetanner.bsky.social writes.

I didn't think Ken Sim could stoop any lower than he already had. I was so incredibly wrong. #notmymayor #evictkensim

People really missed that his Davos speech was not a moral condemnation of this system.

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

Great to hear, and great to hear from you!

Today’s attack on Iran by the United States and Israel is a serious violation of international law.

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"The Labour leadership are addicted to ‘hippie-punching’ because it makes them feel better about their own abandonment of political principle and their tenuous working-class credentials."

I'm not sure I've read anything by Dan Fumano this scathing.

A clinical summary of the mayor's Trumpian lies and bizarre evasions.

Ken Sim is an embarrassment to Vancouver.

trying to watch this is making me feel like i'm watching a Nathan For You skit dude holy moly. cannot commend the reporters there enough for all the follow-up questions

My SOAPBOX SOCIAL commentary on Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim starting a false claim about Vancouver City Councillor Sean Orr.

Dancing Green: Who is Hannah Spencer, the plumber turned MP who raved to victory in the Gorton by-election? Ms Spencer, who at one point danced on the street in the constituency, gained the seat for the Green Party with a strong personal performance during her campaign

More on the winner of the historic by-election in the UK here: ca.news.yahoo.com/hannah-spenc...

Every plumber can govern.

Amazing win for hope and for democracy, in the face of vicious attacks by the racist far-right and the morally and intellectually bankrupt political establishment.

Ken Sim and everyone associated with ABC needs to be voted out of office in this year's Vancouver election.

Election Day, Oct 17th, can't come soon enough.

Trumpian level disinformation and character assassination that in my opinion meets the threshold of criminal defamation.

Say "NO" to ICE in Vancouver — COPE Vancouver

Vancouver locals:

please sign/send a letter in support of the motion by @seanorr.bsky.social & Pete Fry to ban ICE from coming to our home during FIFA.

www.votecope.ca/no-ice

Trump is fuelling a humanitarian crisis in Cuba, with an oil blockade that is leading to devastating power outages and rationing. This administration is determined to dominate the hemisphere with brute force and naked impunity.

Did you know that climate change isn't a required part of BC's public school curriculum? Let's change that! Please send an email to Minister Beare and share - www.forourkids.ca/email_minist... @sethdklein.bsky.social

People power works. Thanks to everyone who came together to force Pattison’s hand this week. #bcpoli

Canada will require refugees and asylum seekers to co-pay for health care starting in May They will have to pay 30 per cent of the costs of services such as dental, optometry and physiotherapy and a $4 flat rate on each prescription.

This came in the same budget that axed a luxury tax on yachts. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...