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ESN is dissolving & our Patreon is closing on Feb 1 2022—but the work isn't over! Pls read our latest newsletter (https://t.co/Y7pvKh8hyb) for an update on each committee's activities, their plans for the future, and how you can follow & support these efforts post-dissolution. /1
Fri Dec 24 2021
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Winter is coming - just like last year, the city has no plan. SHJN has a plan: https://t.co/9PwzEj17lm
Thu Oct 14 2021
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Crucial thread -please read https://t.co/tjMRUnmK0N
Fri Sep 24 2021
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“The millions of dollars they’ve been spending to push people out [of encampments], they know that they can use that to house people. They’re choosing not to.” https://t.co/vGw0yOk90t
Thu Sep 23 2021
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To clarify, Thursday's Drop the Charges presser at Tory's condo wasn't organized by ESN alone, it was a coalition of encampment residents & supporters who showed up to evictions, particularly those who were arrested and/or seriously injured… 1/2
Sat Sep 18 2021
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350 Dovercourt Rd
Thu Sep 16 2021
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The most recent person who was arrested is being released from 14 Division. Our presence is effective but we need more people to come down to make sure the other two are released. Vibe is calm.
Thu Sep 16 2021
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Phone zap in support for Skylar who is currently being held at 14 division https://t.co/8P3khY1mRj
Thu Sep 16 2021
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If you’re photo is in the press release DO NOT COME. We want you safe https://t.co/s0xR4czKkl
Thu Sep 16 2021
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UPDATE: THE POLICE HAVE PUT OUT A PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING THEIR INTENTION TO PRESS CHARGES AGAINST SKYLER AND OTHERS. THEY’VE INCLUDED PHOTOS OF SPECIFIC PEOPLE THEY’RE INTENDING TO TARGET
Thu Sep 16 2021
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IMMEDIATE CALL TO JOIN PEACEFUL JAIL SUPPORT AT DIV 14 ****TWO MORE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED WHILE LEAVING THE PRESS CONFERENCE, ALONGSIDE SYLER WILLIAMS. PLEASE COME DOWN TO DIVISION 14 (350 Dovercourt Rd) — BUDDY UP IF YOU CAN. WE ARE STANDING PEACEFULLY IN SUPPORT. ****
Thu Sep 16 2021
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Another person was arrested outside of the press conference. If you’re travelling to and from 14 division don’t travel alone
Thu Sep 16 2021
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We call on the public to show up immediately. We demand an end to the ongoing criminalization of unhoused people, Indigenous people and their supporters. We will not leave until he is released.
Thu Sep 16 2021
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Immediately after he spoke, he was grabbed by two plainclothes officers and shoved into an unmarked vehicle which sped away to an unknown location. We believe he is being held at 14 division (350 Dovercourt Road).
Thu Sep 16 2021
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CALL FOR RAPID RESPONSE Skyler Williams, land defender from 1492 Landback Lane, and our first speaker today, was just arrested outside John Tory's condominium. A press conference was being held against this exact kind of targeting of organizing.
Thu Sep 16 2021
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“There’s a photo of the police officer who assaulted me and gave me a concussion laughing maniacally with his mask down” Jade, supporter and resident of Trinity Bellwoods area https://t.co/NljisfoNFJ
Thu Sep 16 2021
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“I was charged with possession of a weapon for holding a bottle of milk. Despite the actions of that day I feel more compelled to speak out against the harm to encampment residents” Kelsey, supporter and Parkdale resident
Thu Sep 16 2021
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For those at the Drop the Charges event, please make sure you leave with a buddy. Police are out.
Thu Sep 16 2021
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“Streets to Homes told me they have permanent housing available but I don’t know anyone who has received it yet. I text them every week.” Jack from Moss Park
Thu Sep 16 2021
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During evictions many were arrested. 34 arrests were made at Lamport alone. Another 11 people were criminally charged that day. 50 of us were charged with trespass or questionable criminal charges from the clearings of these parks. 45 people have elected to fight their charges
Thu Sep 16 2021
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“I want to make sure that it’s very clear to the mayor and City that when our people are hurting we are going to be there to support them. These are our people.” Skyler Williams from Land Back Lane https://t.co/P3mRLTfHxa
Thu Sep 16 2021
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Weird move to bring out the horse cops to this https://t.co/snH5kyfUII
Thu Sep 16 2021
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Join us at One Bedford now #StopEncampmentEvictions #DropTheCharges #RollOutPermanentHousing #StopDropRolloutHousing https://t.co/NzCT532PzU
Thu Sep 16 2021
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Sept 16 @ 10 AM, come to a press conference at John Tory's condo to support the 50+ encampment residents & defenders ticketed/charged for standing up against the City’s brutal evictions. Let Tory hear demands loud & clear: #StopEvictions #DropAllCharges #RollOutPermanentHousing https://t.co/Hh1lal75PG
Tue Sep 14 2021
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-175+ square feet with room for shelves, stacks of boxes and other items -Ideally main floor or minimal stairs -Location: west end, ideally not too far from dundas and dufferin (but this is flexible) Please email: report.on.toronto@gmail.com with subject line: DONATIONS SPACE
Sat Aug 21 2021
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-Accessible to volunteers each morning in order to load supplies into vehicles. Good vehicle access for loading and unloading heavy / bulky items -Independent access to the space by volunteers most days of the week, mostly (but not exclusively) at scheduled times
Sat Aug 21 2021
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This could be some floor space in a commercial/industrial unit, a garage, a spare room, or anything that meets most of the requirements below:
Sat Aug 21 2021
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ESN is looking for a new Donations Space Do you have one? Read on… We are looking for a new space to store and access the supplies that ESN volunteers distribute daily. https://t.co/4TA1JO3kMw
Sat Aug 21 2021
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Another edition of the #ToryFence report - do read. https://t.co/Yd8PqUyBUu
Thu Aug 19 2021
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Support former encampment resident Dom and his quest for a Service Dog https://t.co/wS84lgV27w
Wed Aug 11 2021
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Read the statement in full here: https://t.co/hE9UGuIq6G
Thu Jul 29 2021
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These people at FactCheck TO are delivering the truth. Help them pay for FOI requests. https://t.co/bZDuqI0b8J
Tue Jul 27 2021
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Once you've read our list of demands, please email parkdaleesn@gmail.com to sign onto the letter as an organization or individual.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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FULL STATEMENT + SIGNATORIES: https://t.co/6fTAVQPnNG
Mon Jul 26 2021
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22/22 *Drop the provincial and criminal charges against everyone arrested at encampment evictions, including at Lamport Stadium, and in the aftermath outside 14 division on July 21st, 2021.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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21/22 *End encampment evictions: repeal the bylaws criminalizing people who reside in parks until they leave on their own terms to permanent housing they deem safe and accessible;
Mon Jul 26 2021
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20/22 Our demands: *John Tory’s immediate resignation for the violence he has inflicted on working class people in this city; *Adopt the recommendations made by the Toronto Drop-In Network in “A Path Forward”;
Mon Jul 26 2021
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19/22 Shoving homeless people from park to park is not a solution. Hiring security to guard the grass is not a solution. Toronto should be run for the people who live here, not the real estate investors who force us out. John Tory must resign now.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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18/22 Meanwhile, Tory is also refusing to intervene in one of the worst mass residential eviction crises the city has ever seen. His mayoralty threatens the safety of communities across every ward.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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17/22 Tory has compared what happened at Lamport to the previous day’s eviction at Alexandra Park, saying the former was only violent because of the presence of protesters. This ignores the reality that forced displacement is in itself violent.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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16/22 John Tory says the City clears encampments because they are unsafe. But at evictions across Toronto, they have shown that safety is the least of their concerns. They are brutalizing people indiscriminately, including the residents of encampments.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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15/22 They claim to make housing offers, even though almost no one is getting housed. They claim to store residents’ belongings, but then people find their possessions in a dumpster.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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14/22 The City of Toronto has tried to hide the truth by limiting press access and by attacking and arresting reporters at clearings. They call the evictions “reasonable, firm, but compassionate.”
Mon Jul 26 2021
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13/22 Instead, the City seriously injured and psychologically traumatized scores of people, displaced encampment residents, and destroyed thousands of dollars worth of tents, bikes, phones, furniture, medical supplies, and other personal possessions.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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12/22 We wrote a public letter that detailed the human rights abuses in the City’s approach to encampments, and laid out a humane alternative framework.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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11/22 We have hosted City officials in encampments to speak with residents. We have made phone calls, sent emails, signed petitions, and given deputations at City Council meetings.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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10/22 People at Lamport wanted permanent housing. The City had none to offer.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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9/22 Some encampment residents wanted to move into shelters, but the City’s own data shows it doesn’t have enough beds to meet the demand. Many others have recently lived in the shelter system, but they returned to sleeping outside because they felt safer in encampments.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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8/22 At least 24 people lived at the Lamport encampment before the eviction. Almost all are still living outside, scattered to other parks in the city.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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7/22 Encampment residents and their supporters were peacefully standing their ground that day, painting signs and having a barbeque. Residents refused to leave because they had nowhere else to go.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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6/22 Two people are now in casts and will require further X-rays to determine if bones were broken. Police punched, kicked, clubbed, and pepper-sprayed dozens of other people, and arrested 34.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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5/22 They hit someone in the face, breaking their nose and splitting open their forehead and lips. They slammed someone else’s head into the pavement, leaving them with a concussion. They choked and tossed another person by their neck.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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4/22 As a drone hovered overhead, security guards warned people to leave or face arrest for trespassing. Then, brandishing steel batons, police moved in.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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3/22 During the early hours of Wednesday, July 21st, hundreds of police officers descended on Lamport Stadium Park. City workers proceeded to fence in encampment residents and their supporters.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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2/22 ..an end to these violent encampment evictions, that all charges laid against community members be dropped, and that Mayor John Tory resign immediately.
Mon Jul 26 2021
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1/22 Joint Statement on the Lamport Stadium Encampment Clearing (link below) In the aftermath of the City of Toronto’s brutal assault on the Lamport Stadium encampment, we, the undersigned organizations, advocates, and encampment residents, demand:
Mon Jul 26 2021
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More detailed statement to come. FOLLOW https://t.co/eG84s7CjrB
Sun Jul 25 2021
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As of the evening of July 23rd, all have been released. We’re following up and working to see that all charges are dropped.
Sun Jul 25 2021
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In all of these evictions we’ve seen encampment residents more violently arrested, detained for longer, and released under more punitive conditions than supporters.
Sun Jul 25 2021
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A diabetic person was denied a blood sugar test at the site of their arrest.
Sun Jul 25 2021
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Many of those arrested have reported being treated badly by the police, including a person who uses a wheelchair who was detained and released only after police determined that their facilities were not accessible.
Sun Jul 25 2021
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Many were released on the condition that they don’t set foot in either Alexandra Park, Trinity Bellwoods, Lamport Stadium and Moss Park, ostensibly to prevent them from showing up to a future eviction.
Sun Jul 25 2021
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Most of the people detained at 14 Division were held into the night, with some released the following day.
Sun Jul 25 2021
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The rest were either criminally charged at Lamport and detained at 14 Division, or arrested and charged while they gathered outside the station to demand the release of those detained.
Sun Jul 25 2021
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31 ppl (*correction*) were arrested at Lamport Stadium encampment on July 21st while defending the community from displacement. 24 were taken to 11 Division and held for roughly 3 hours where they were denied access to a lawyer and not given any information about their charges.
Sun Jul 25 2021
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Update on Lamport Stadium arrests from ESN Parkdale: https://t.co/D8jU1vVoFm
Sun Jul 25 2021
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Today hundreds of people showed up to Lamport Stadium to show what ‘we take care of us’ means in practice. Neighbours standing up for what’s right. We’re going to need this support again - the fight is not over
Thu Jul 22 2021
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4 people still here, we are waiting for them. 14 Division NOW.
Wed Jul 21 2021
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SUPPORT NEEDED NOW: outside 14 division (350 Dovercourt) to demand the release of the 25+ violently arrested by police at Lamport today https://t.co/bmjmazQFwV
Wed Jul 21 2021
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Several people have been arrested. We’re waiting to hear where they’ve been taken to. They will need your support
Wed Jul 21 2021
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People just got beaten, pepper sprayed, kettled and violently arrested at Lamport. Will update
Wed Jul 21 2021
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Police are lining up on the south side of the encampment https://t.co/ECEBDUrLvx
Wed Jul 21 2021
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Thank you for the donations to residents and supporters at Lamport Stadium encampment today. For those asking, you can etransfer to cahayleysmith@gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 2021
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This can only last so long, as they have several tactical squads ready to move in, who are staged off site, out of the view of media. Drop everything and come!! (Or send donations / tell friends to come, if you cannot 🙏🏻)
Wed Jul 21 2021
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🚨URGENT CALL FOR PPL TO COME DOWN TO LAMPORT STADIUM🚨 We are fenced in and we need people to gather outside of the fence who are ready for anything. The only reason they haven’t cleared us so far is because our critical mass has held them off 1/2
Wed Jul 21 2021
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When asked why, officer I. Bernardo said: “imagine if someone posing as media came in here and stabbed a cop”
Wed Jul 21 2021
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UPDATE: The cops are planning to remove all media from inside the fence. After it is determined “safe,” only 1 video crew & 1 photographer (CP24 & Toronto Star) will be allowed back in.
Wed Jul 21 2021
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UPDATE: please meet at KING & FRASER. The old meeting spot is now fenced off. We’re almost closed in, your unhoused neighbours need your support NOW https://t.co/yzkm35XhCs
Wed Jul 21 2021
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Fences are going up at Lamport Stadium. We need people down here now https://t.co/8tisYy9qze
Wed Jul 21 2021
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Please share widely. Residents are asking for as many people as possible ASAP
Wed Jul 21 2021
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URGENT call for support🚨pylons are going up at Lamport stadium. We need people at 74 Fraser NOW https://t.co/dv4WDIpuSy
Wed Jul 21 2021
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URGENT CALL FROM ESN PARKDALE: Today the City of Toronto & Police got to work early and quickly to forcibly displace encampment residents at Alexandra Park. We need supporters to show up at Lamport Stadium tmrw (7/21) at 5 AM to defend people’s homes. https://t.co/lIKAUsTEjT
Wed Jul 21 2021
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Aesthetic progressives. Can’t show up for the community they leverage in word. https://t.co/YqndswfQMh
Wed Jul 21 2021
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The city CHOSE this approach to dealing with homeless people. without housing, these are people's only options. FLOOD mayor Tory's email & phone line, and also brad ross, and Cressy, and other city councillors - whether you're downtown or not. let them know what you think.
Tue Jul 20 2021
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From ESN Scadding: Meet at Ryerson and Queen for a demonstration in support of encampment residents being evicted ASAP
Tue Jul 20 2021
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Check out this amazing website - thanks to the rag tag group of researchers - the ESN explainers committee, for their dedication to making this project happen. https://t.co/wRKZAbz0Wc
Thu Jul 15 2021
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Despite your investment announcements offers for permanent housing are available on the ground now are few. Shelter is not housing. Militarized evictions aren’t compassionate acts. Have the integrity to speak out against militarized evictions or admit you condone them.
Wed Jul 14 2021
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Where’s the new housing mr. Vaughan? Show us the substantial, affordable rent geared to income housing in the community. https://t.co/EEDRm6s2QK
Wed Jul 14 2021
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John Tory and City Council: Add 'A Path Forward' to City Council's agenda, and adopt it as policy! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/7QPxY6s4Ao
Tue Jul 13 2021
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Urgent call to action: ESN has signed onto this letter. We need you to voice your opposition to encampment evictions by contacting John Tory and city councillors today. How? Check out our updated #NoEncampmentEvictions toolkit : https://t.co/ioGZLvsxXs https://t.co/QKIL6GFc9F
Sun Jul 11 2021
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So many methods of coercion. https://t.co/PGbTo3Kdx2
Thu Jul 08 2021
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‘Cassie, another Moss Park resident, said encampments can be difficult places for single women but moving people around is not a solution. "I have been moved around so much — I'm tired of it. Nobody is removing me from here," she said. https://t.co/ZuSatiGnr7
Thu Jul 01 2021
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"All the money that was spent on security guards and police officers, none of that was put towards people that actually need it. All of that was put towards taking people's homes away," - Babie https://t.co/ZuSatioMzz
Thu Jul 01 2021
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Anyway you can watch it here: https://t.co/MnPfE2B8Qm
Thu Jul 01 2021
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Moss Park encampment residents held a great press conference. When there’s violence enacted on people in encampments by a militarized police force journalists show up to get the shots, but when encampment residents speak out at a press conference so few journalists show up. Why? https://t.co/ZsoAZdv5hL
Thu Jul 01 2021
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Star Security keeps guarding the fence ⭐️ same security guard company that works at the shelter hotel. https://t.co/pwCUs6o1AP
Wed Jun 30 2021
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The City’s commitment to clearing encampments isn’t about safety and care for residents. It is, and has always been, about invisibilizing poverty. Full statement in our linktree. (24/24)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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We are in contact with displaced residents (all safe) and will continue to put pressure on the City to keep the promises they made. (23)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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Despite City claims that encampments must be cleared because they are “unsafe,” Tuesday’s violence makes clear that City officials don’t care if houseless people live or die, as long as they do so out of sight of homeowners, tourists and developers. (22)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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Instead, the City chooses to spend its money and resources building a brutal and expensive infrastructure of displacement — as part of a continuum of the colonial violence foundational to so-called “Canada” itself. We will continue to resist it. (21)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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The City of Toronto signed a $22.5 million contract with Star Security, the company hired to guard the fences at the Trinity Bellwoods eviction. These funds alone could cover the annual cost of social housing for over 3,000 households. (20)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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The City’s decision to unleash 100s of cops, private security guards, and city workers on two dozen unhoused members of the Trinity Bellwoods community cost taxpayers over $100,000 according to some estimates. (19)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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And we take responsibility for the violence that occurred after the clearing, targeting mostly Indigenous peoples tending to the sacred fire. That violence may have been mitigated if the crowd of supporters had stayed. (18)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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We also take responsibility for the fact that residents may not have been fully consulted, as much of the information they were relying on was from the police - who, we know, lie. (17)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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We take complete responsibility for the fact that this strategic error/communication issues leading up to it resulted in a dangerous situation for residents, Indigenous elders and supporters as well as for ESN and ALAB volunteers still inside the South Park encampment gates (16)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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The decision to call off defence was influenced by fears that violent removal was imminent and that this would reduce that harm. Ultimately, the decision to leave put many at risk. (15)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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The police then reneged and entered the encampment in full force, separating one resident from her belongings, kettling and pushing out community defenders, and stamping out and arresting Indigenous supporters in ceremony around a sacred fire. (14)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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Police and the City stated that the police would not move into South Park if supporters left. They also said that some ESN members could stay to help residents pack. A few ESN members, with permission from residents, decided to call for supporters to disperse. (13)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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In the early evening, police told ESN that they would immediately move into the South Park encampment and violently displace anyone who remained unless the large crowd of supporters within the fence left the park. (12)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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By the afternoon, 100 officers lined the path in front of the park's community centre. Beyond the fence, police pepper sprayed supporters and horse cops aggressively made their way through crowds of community members observing the enforcement. (11)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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In South Park some residents requested ESN/community supporters protect their belongings and/or hold their ground to stay in the park. Through community defense police were held off for over 10 hours. We're eternally grateful to everyone who heeded residents call for support (10)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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As police closed in, residents asked for 45 minutes to pack up their belongings. Police gave them five. Police destroyed residents' belongings after having promised to store them. (9)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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Some residents of Bruce Lee City asked supporters to help defend their belongings. They desired nonviolence, and wanted time to leave peacefully. But a wall of over 50 riot cops descended, assaulting and arresting two residents, a supporter, and a photo-journalist. (8)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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The City’s eviction began at 4am when police began circling the park. At 8am city workers guarded by private security erected fencing around the two main encampments: the North (‘Bruce Lee City’) and the South (‘South Park’), “kettling” them inside (7)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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We also know that had community not been there, the City would not have felt pressure to offer indoor space to residents who were standing their ground. 6 am police mobilization and clearing makes it clear that the City would have tried to enact its violence in secrecy. (6)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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Over 500 neighbours came out to support in response to a call from residents and ESN. Without the community, we know that the City would have further targeted encampment residents, especially those resisting eviction. (5)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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Toronto’s temporary indoor shelter spaces also are not often the “safer alternatives” that the City claims they are. (4)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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They came to violently disperse the dozens of people that lived there. 11 people were arrested and many more were assaulted. The City cleared and destroyed residents’ belongings. (2)
Tue Jun 29 2021
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Come out Tomorrow: Wednesday June 30 at 4pm ~ press conference organized by Moss Park encampment residents and ESN Moss Park. Hear from the people. #NoEncampmentEvictions https://t.co/J5eWOVibEu
Tue Jun 29 2021
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This was not a “peaceful resolution” - any news outlets reporting that are patently false. Encampment residents were forcefully evicted from their homes today. Statement to come.
Tue Jun 22 2021
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Please bring charges battery packs and charging cords to Trinity Bellwoods.
Tue Jun 22 2021
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Please come, have a seat and picnic in peace outside the perimeter that the police have erected. We need a strong peaceful presence here. Check in at 180 Shaw for details.
Tue Jun 22 2021
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Legal observers and press not allowed in the gates on the south side.
Tue Jun 22 2021
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Residents who are asking for support have been surrounded by security and a fence. We do need you to come.
Tue Jun 22 2021
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If you ever said you were in support of encampment residents now is the time. Show up for your unhoused neighbors. They are erecting fences around the park to block people in. https://t.co/ttJLT4y3mw
Tue Jun 22 2021
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Ok this is what they did to Shaw https://t.co/xayPnXgNmk
Tue Jun 22 2021
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“So they will move me by force which means I will be getting arrested thank you for not answering my question.” https://t.co/WveuZHOyyT
Tue Jun 22 2021
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Read it! See what the city has not agreed to. We’ve been asking for meaningful and ongoing consultation with residents since June 2020. https://t.co/g3GjR2TzQw
Mon Jun 21 2021
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Can’t get the real mayor to talk to encampment residents sooo…. https://t.co/fGN1kCKwuP
Thu Jun 17 2021
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City s2h workers can’t describe whether the Fort York program is a congregate setting or not.
Thu Jun 17 2021
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City S2H workers are out today are calling 311 to get people spots - can’t say how many indoor spaces there are. Seems like there are no spaces in the shelter hotel program.
Thu Jun 17 2021
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Crucial read - city cites safety as why they must clear encampments, but let’s look at how safe the “safe indoor space” people are being forced to go is. https://t.co/y06Aw4WhRv
Tue Jun 15 2021
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Link to full statement in our linktree: https://t.co/m3gY4OgIHZ
Mon Jun 14 2021
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#NoEncampmentEvictions
Mon Jun 14 2021
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Basic needs can be met, people can live in community. Instead, the City allows housing to be an investment game, choosing to spend its $ building an infrastructure of displacement and continuing colonial violence foundational to “Canada” itself. We’re here to resist it (11/11)
Mon Jun 14 2021
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When the police were brutalizing unhoused community members at Lamport, you either remained silent, or issued vague statements being careful not to pick a side. None of you have condemned this latest threat of state violence (10/11)
Mon Jun 14 2021
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Encampment residents who stand their ground for reasons like: community they’ve built in the park, lack of privacy/autonomy of institutionalization, carceral and residential school trauma, higher chance of dying in a City shelter, will need an even greater mobilization (8/11)
Mon Jun 14 2021
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The last time an encampment eviction was attempted (May 19th at Lamport), in an incredible force of solidarity between community members & their unhoused neighbours, the City only managed to clear roughly 10% but used an absurd amount of violence to do so (6/11)
Mon Jun 14 2021
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The City's eviction of encampment residents is not about safety and care for its residents. It is, and has always been, about the invisibilization of homelessness and poverty (5/11)
Mon Jun 14 2021
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Encampment residents are well aware of the deadly conditions in shelters: in a City-run survey, the number one response for not accessing shelter space was “lack of safety.” Many who initially accepted spaces have since returned to sleeping outside (4/11)
Mon Jun 14 2021
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While the situation in encampments is not ideal, it unfortunately remains the safer option for many. At least 36 people died preventable deaths in City shelters in the first four months of 2021 alone (3/11)
Mon Jun 14 2021
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These notices position the City’s temporary indoor shelter spaces as safer alternatives - places that subject people to intrusive bed checks and restrictions, lack harm-reduction and overdose prevention supports, and have been the site of frequent COVID-19 outbreaks (2/11)
Mon Jun 14 2021
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Just the mayor and his henchman discussing how to clear encampments on the patio. #EvictionTO https://t.co/OGD9yxmknw
Sat Jun 12 2021
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More to come...stay tuned.
Sat Jun 12 2021
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On Thursday I talked to a woman who he been approached by s2h in February and been waiting for follow up since. She’d thought they’d put her on a waiting list. On their return in June she wasn’t on it. Imagine offers for shelter were as thorough as these eviction notices. https://t.co/acv32hijI3
Sat Jun 12 2021
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One thing that’s missing from the letter is Many ppl have accepted indoor shelter hotel space only to leave due to being unsafe or being kicked out. Trying to get a spot in a shelter hotel remains elusive for many people on the ground. System is a labyrinth and inconsistent.
Sat Jun 12 2021
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While on June 8, city council renewed their commitment to a (neoliberal) Housing First approach in a city with no adequate supply of RGI housing, on June 12 they posted trespass notices at both Alexandra Park and Trinity Bellwoods. https://t.co/JKBbvCxqoD
Sat Jun 12 2021
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the full statement can be found on our linktree: https://t.co/m3gY4OgIHZ (13/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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The encampment still stands. Just as the City remains hellbent on clearing the Lamport encampment and others across the city, we remain steadfast in our commitment to supporting our neighbours who live under the constant threat of forcible displacement (12/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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What occurred was a spectacular example of the ongoing state violence encampment residents endure on a regular basis. It is also a stark reminder of the brutal lengths that the City will go to in order to intimidate, criminalize, and ultimately invisibilize homelessness. (11/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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When mounted police moved in on a shelter, a resident stepped in to defend and was punched in the face, forced to the ground, trampled and shoved into a court services truck. He was released on the absurd condition that he cannot return to Lamport Stadium, where he lives (10/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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By now many have seen the images and videos of the tense standoff and disturbing police crackdown on the community at Lamport Stadium. Two community supporters were arrested while trying to create a buffer between dwellings and police (9/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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Lamport residents have told us they were proud to have fought back against the city and have asked for an even greater community response next time (8/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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that the city refuses to provide. We were there to stand with those who chose to defend their homes against the City. We also sought to make sure that others could preserve their belongings as they prepared to move to shelter spaces on their own terms (7/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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Community supporters have been painted as “outside agitators” by Mayor Tory and others, implying that we acted against residents wishes - to be clear, our response flows from relationships made with Lamport residents over the course of a year of delivering humanitarian aid (6/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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Contrary to the City’s statement, no residents were offered actual housing. After offers of temporary accommodation, City staff informed ESN Parkdale that clearing was not only imminent, but that those who had not accepted shelter hotel spots would be removed by force (5/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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The City offered temporary shelter, not housing. On the morning of the scheduled clearing, Streets to Homes offered residents spots at four different temporary shelter hotels scattered across the city (4/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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~ 60 corporate security guards and police (including 8 on horseback), several city workers (4 in Hazmat suits), 2 "claw” heavy excavators and 3 dump trucks were only able to clear 1 tent and 2 wooden shelters (~10% of the encampment) after trying for most of the day (3/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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Much of the media coverage so far highlights extreme state violence enacted against residents, community members, and advocates. What the coverage largely overlooks is that residents and community supporters successfully defended the vast majority of encampment dwellings (2/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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Statement on the attempted clearing of the Lamport Stadium encampment (thread): On Wednesday May 19th, the City of Toronto sent a massive force to clear the Lamport Stadium encampment and displace the people living there (1/13)
Sun May 23 2021
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He has been released!
Wed May 19 2021
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Come one come all right now. Police are holding a man who was defending his home. come down to 14 division ~ we are not leaving till they let the man they arrested out.
Wed May 19 2021
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Thanks for speaking out . This is a massive human rights abuse. https://t.co/x5FMyywle6
Wed May 19 2021
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Bring signs. Support your neighbours who live in tents.
Wed May 19 2021
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Support needed at 14 Division. An encampment resident who was defending his home was badly beaten and arrested. He is being charged with assault police. Please go down to support.
Wed May 19 2021
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4 arrests so far at Lamport stadium encampment. One person bleeding violently thrown into this court services vehicle. https://t.co/hYawVIjPfZ
Wed May 19 2021
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Come defend lamport stadium encampment - west side
Wed May 19 2021
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Cops block a claw that is coming for a person’s worldly goods . https://t.co/9WLiqEFnmY
Wed May 19 2021
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There is a stand off right nod as residents at Lamport stadium hold their ground and refuse to be displaced.
Wed May 19 2021
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The hazmat team has arrived https://t.co/dLj2hRn7vv
Wed May 19 2021
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Residents keep removing the tape, city workers keep putting it back up https://t.co/O8IYL7wjSR
Wed May 19 2021
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Starting to tape the premises and police have been called. People do not want to leave. This is forced displacement. https://t.co/NeW3bV0kjB
Wed May 19 2021
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RIGHT NOW - pylons have been set up on Fraser. City is preparing to clear the nearby encampment https://t.co/xPgJxD0hxV
Wed May 19 2021
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For guidance, check out the #NoEncampmentEvictions Tool Kit in our linktree. https://t.co/m3gY4OgIHZ We’ll keep you posted on what’s next. 13/13
Sun May 16 2021
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Tell Mayor John Tory and your councillor (especially if it’s Spadina-Fort York’s Joe Cressy) that you don’t think people who can’t afford housing should have to submit to an endless cycle of displacement into temporary, unsafe and often retraumatizing living spaces. 12/13
Sun May 16 2021
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We have no doubt about their intention to do the same in other encampments, and to use physical aggression if people don’t comply. We need you to speak up... 11/13
Sun May 16 2021
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Last Wednesday, the City brought 25 security guards to clear 3 smaller encampments: George Hislop Park, Barbara Hall & the University Ave median. Some people declined the City’s offers and were forcibly displaced to unknown locations. The city fenced off the areas. 10/13
Sun May 16 2021
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Earlier this year, one of St. Felix’s own staff members died of an overdose inside the respite bathroom. Because of the failure of institutions to value and protect their lives, residents have created alternative structures of care and support in encampments instead. 9/13
Sun May 16 2021
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Also, St. Felix is operated by nuns under a strict no drugs policy. There’s no overdose prevention on site, so people have to leave the respite to use safely, or use secretly inside. This puts peoples’ lives at risk. 8/13
Sun May 16 2021
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As we always say, shelter hotels work for some people and not for others. We also know ppl are evicted from the shelter system and wind up back on the street. 7/13
Sun May 16 2021
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We’re seeing lots of ppl who initially accepted shelter hotel spots (often under coercion) return to encampments, with no belongings. If ppl would rather sleep on the ground in a park than your alternatives, what does that say about the “suitability" of those alternatives? 6/13
Sun May 16 2021
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There are currently 133 reported COVID cases in the shelter system, including 6 of the hotel shelters. Remember that the City didn’t clear encampments after the April 6th notices of trespass, cuz of a COVID outbreak in the Novotel shelter hotel weeks after it opened. 5/13
Sun May 16 2021
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But since COVID, the respite—which is just one big open space with cots—reduced their # of beds by half. And yet, we know many people who tested positive for COVID after prolonged stays inside the respite and other shelters over the winter months. COVID is airborne. 4/13
Sun May 16 2021
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Respites are low barrier shelter options meant to be temporary options. However many people live there permanently because the shelter system is full & there is so little RGI (geared to income) housing in Toronto. Learn more: https://t.co/vTEMtDW0Ed 3/13
Sun May 16 2021
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One of the main reasons Lamport encampment exists is because it’s adjacent to the St. Felix respite, where some have beds, and people can access food and shower facilities occasionally. 2/13 https://t.co/zv961GF0rX
Sun May 16 2021
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Thread about new evictions: On Friday May 14th, The City posted a new Notice of Trespass at Lamport Stadium encampment in Parkdale. We expect they’ll forcibly evict residents as soon as Monday. If residents don’t leave, they can be arrested and fined up to $10,000. 1/13 https://t.co/6vbK8ZEv6S
Sun May 16 2021
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crucial thread about the evictions that happened yesterday. https://t.co/3s9f0TmhY1
Thu May 13 2021
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FACT: the city of toronto puts out facts and then these people check em. https://t.co/Zf67idi20I
Fri Apr 30 2021
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Order a sign - fill out the form: https://t.co/nhzjGepEF2 https://t.co/wVwna6aM06
Sat Apr 24 2021
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Over the past 10 months ESN has witnessed the city invest in an infrastructure of displacement. Despite CDC recommendations, peoples treaty rights & shelter capacity, the city is intent on clearing encampments. Parks Ambassadors are part of this. https://t.co/9cbtvoKEAd
Sat Apr 24 2021
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First hand account from a shelter hotel resident at the Novotel - have a read. https://t.co/RLEiHzUhGL
Mon Apr 12 2021
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If you want one - we'll deliver. Check out our Linktree and fill out the form! https://t.co/I97NcLfRfE
Mon Apr 12 2021
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Crucial thread about outbreaks at the respite in Liberty Village and how it had gone unreported. https://t.co/WycArGTja1
Sun Apr 11 2021
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the city has yet to revoke the Notices Of Trespass in parks across the city. Imagine that. It hangs over the heads of encampment residents’ heads lending more uncertainty to already uncertain lives. That’s why we demand that the city revoke the notices of trespass.
Fri Apr 09 2021
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Amazing to see these health providers of conscience speak out. To hear the city councillors talk smack on the Ford gov't's unscientific approach to COVID & then turn around & deny the health providers' recommendations when it comes to encampment residents is flumoxxing. https://t.co/mk9nNWekl3
Mon Apr 05 2021
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Please read our update on Encampment Evictions from April 4. Evictions have been stalled due to the COVID outbreak in the Novotel This is not a victory. Revoke the Notices of Trespass Repeal the by-laws that criminalize encampments in public parks https://t.co/NdDeHQYKS7
Mon Apr 05 2021
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We find this constantly- the city says something about how institutions are run or encampments are dealt with, but the people living in them have a very different experience. It’s important that journalists fact check.
Sun Apr 04 2021
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“homeless advocates would like to see another recovery hotel added downtown.” https://t.co/1xIGmKN7W4
Sat Apr 03 2021
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The same city so concerned for ppl's safety and proud of the depth of their "engagement" with encampment residents somehow needs to threaten people with Special Constables under the trespass to property act? What do we believe?
Fri Apr 02 2021
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City’s PR : “the notice posted in parks in March identified a date of April 6 to guide peoples’ decision making regarding offers of shelter, housing and other supports being offered.” So you threaten ppl w/ criminalization if they don't do what you say? https://t.co/cO4Lhf1YXh
Fri Apr 02 2021
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Sure, some people need supports. But this obsession with Supportive Housing, rather than RGI housing in peoples neighborhood's of choice ignores the reality that many people in encampments are simply unhoused because they CAN'T AFFORD THE RENT. https://t.co/og1loDXQqt
Fri Apr 02 2021
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Will city councillors and SSHA go down to the encampments and tell the residents that you aren’t going to enforce the Notices of Trespass? Revoke them? Will you acknowledge the psychological terror that these trespasses cause for people living in encampments & apologize for it. https://t.co/IDMMOe3O6P
Fri Apr 02 2021
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Let’s get everyone donating to this to write their elected officials and opposing the forced displacement of people living in encampments on April 6 - check out our tool kit in our linktree https://t.co/0EarGGsZ1n
Thu Apr 01 2021
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Status of Covid-19 cases in toronto shelter system as of march 30 at 2:00 pm https://t.co/bzQcOK4wvY
Thu Apr 01 2021
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Oh yeah our toolkit is in our linktree in our bioooooo
Thu Apr 01 2021
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We have 5 days to get these notices of trespass repealed & a full apology from the city for threatening unhoused people with force and criminalization. Get into our toolkit. https://t.co/b8iazSfx90
Thu Apr 01 2021
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Yes . And there are COViD outbreaks in the shelters. https://t.co/1iTQYxW5M5
Thu Apr 01 2021
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Do read please.#NoEncampmentEvictions https://t.co/mlA0uSDV4D
Wed Mar 31 2021
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After months of form responses from city councillors full of hearsay and fictional talking points from SSHA, they’re gonna respond like this to a concerned public? https://t.co/yycowTeMN6
Wed Mar 31 2021
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Well this is terrible news. The Novotel (45 Esplanade) - the shelter hotel being offered through the Pathways Inside Program has a Covid outbreak. This is one of the reasons why people haven’t wanted to go there. Sending love to our friends who have moved there. https://t.co/Ve61eTDSra
Wed Mar 31 2021
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CRUCIAL THREAD This is what we've been seeing all year. https://t.co/nv48d8AizS
Wed Mar 31 2021
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We have six days to stop encampment evictions and to refuse a Toronto where unhoused people are criminalized by the city for making a home where they can. The city posted these notices of trespass in many encampments - not just Moss Park, Alexandra Park, Lamport and Trinity. https://t.co/J2JiopmQE5
Wed Mar 31 2021
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The impact of security guards posting the notices of trespass on peoples homes has instilled so much fear. It’s psychological terror. What is this deadline for? If the “social workers” the city has on the ground are so connected, why do they need to threaten law enforcement? https://t.co/PLBZVn53OV
Wed Mar 31 2021
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We have 7 days to stop encampment evictions and to refuse a Toronto where unhoused ppl are chased around the city by police and private security. Get into our Tool Kit https://t.co/zV86MSTNhH https://t.co/KOHcGpili7
Tue Mar 30 2021
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You all know we have a youtube channel with all these great speeches from encampment residents. Please watch- hear from them directly. Here is Dom who grew up in the Alexandra Park neighborhood and now lives in the park https://t.co/hlRr6rn3gE
Tue Mar 30 2021
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"When the city came they made it seem like it was gonna be a big help to transition to being in proper housing....I'm actually still traumatized by my time at the Better Living Centre."
Mon Mar 29 2021
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From March 21, 2021 anti-eviction press conference- Anthony speaks out about the conditions at the Better Living Centre respite and getting threatened with getting kicked out for bringing water and food into the glass cubicles. https://t.co/DUfL7zbWhP
Mon Mar 29 2021
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Do you want to live in a Toronto where unhoused people are chased around and criminalized by private security and police just for being unhoused? If NO, push back against the Notices of Trespasses issued to encampments. Use our toolkit. https://t.co/m3gY4OgIHZ https://t.co/v6yuHV3Onl
Sun Mar 28 2021
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Ok for real this is an anti-eviction protest and show of community support but also people all over the park were hanging out like this so whatever. Wish that the shelter outbreaks could inspire such ire. #EvictionTO https://t.co/hPUYef8ttT
Sun Mar 28 2021
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Do you want to live in a city where unhoused people are chased around and criminalized by private security and police just for being unhoused? If no, check out our #NoEncampmentEvictions toolkit https://t.co/OQc0iDoQrS
Sun Mar 28 2021
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Yes - If you want to show your support for encampment residents, please check out our toolkit - https://t.co/UBmTnsFH9I https://t.co/JVZhiwlnFP
Fri Mar 26 2021
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Can't they ruling class just recede into their NFT's please? https://t.co/pAxdsIrIW4
Fri Mar 26 2021
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This is not just in the 4 "priority" encampments targeted by Pathways Inside. These notices have been posted all over the place. We don't accept a city where people are policed aggressively and chased around from place to place because they are unhoused. Do you? https://t.co/8aXnpo5v0t
Fri Mar 26 2021
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Also a lot of people just need actually affordable rent geared to income in their communities, close to their services, families, and supports.
Thu Mar 25 2021
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Listen to another phone call between an ESN outreach volunteer and the City of Toronto. Following the directives posted in encampments (See pics below) ESN volunteer tries to contact Streets to Homes to help someone get into a shelter hotel. https://t.co/WzLef6RYrt https://t.co/LCkbYvNmTZ
Wed Mar 24 2021
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From our March 21 2021 Anti-Eviction Press Conference: Hear Alexandra Park encampment resident Domenico Saxeida talks about what it's like living in the park facing the City of Toronto's Notice of Trespass. https://t.co/hlRr6rn3gE
Wed Mar 24 2021
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... high rise roof. Police stations, hospitals, schools, condominiums, projects like this behind me. The government could build projects like this in a year, so imagine if they got ten of them going how many people they could house in 2 years."
Wed Mar 24 2021
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Resident Domenico Saxeida talks about his experience living at Alexandra Park "It's like they're trying to herd everyone of a lower income out of the downtown core. I was born and raised 3 blocks form here. I worked construction 22 years.... https://t.co/hlRr6rn3gE
Wed Mar 24 2021
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If you missed our press conference on Sunday March 21, we're posting speeches as they come up. Here's the opening of the day, with Les Harper and Gabe Gaudet of the Bear Creek Singers. https://t.co/GMsK79bCtQ
Wed Mar 24 2021
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PEOPLE WILL NOT BE EVICTED OR INTIMIDATED #NoEncampmentEvictions
Tue Mar 23 2021
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Agencies, please stop treating us like an agency. you got funding for harm reduction outreach? Send them out there, talk to residents, see what they need. Harm reduction agencies should speak up about harm being done by the city. don't sit idly by watching pathway to prison
Mon Mar 22 2021
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While the city is bragging about having enough space for people in the 45 Esplanade Shelter Hotel for encampment residents who don't want to go, here's what happens when you try to get someone who actually wants a space into one: https://t.co/abqi3zHuW5
Mon Mar 22 2021
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that's right. Stop the Evictions. Tell the municipal government. https://t.co/NBiggEoOGj
Mon Mar 22 2021
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People aren't symbols of the housing crisis. They are real people who are being harrassed and criminalized. People need to show up for them and tell the city to stop these notices of trespass.
Sun Mar 21 2021
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We need permanent housing - but the fight this moment is against the imminent criminalization of people in their communities. Residents did not do the event today to instrumentalize their human lives toward the larger crisis. Ppl should not go to jail for living where they can. https://t.co/F77wp18atb
Sun Mar 21 2021
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Thank you for coming Paul- while the feds are responsible for the housing crisis the city is currently enforcing the displacement of ppl in parks. We need leaders to stand up to the city right now or we will see a lot of suffering & criminalization in the next weeks. https://t.co/TUz397MGeq
Sun Mar 21 2021
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Rose is 17 and grew up around Trinity Bellwood’s - talks about how good the community is there. “I love everyone who lives in the park. They’re artist and people who deserve their basic human rights. I’m really happy to live in this neighborhood where we can come together.” https://t.co/wrMaBi2Vgp
Sun Mar 21 2021
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“You can’t have food in the cots with you. Not even a glass of water. People shouldn’t be living like that.”
Sun Mar 21 2021
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“The shelter system in toronto is not what they want you to believe. It’s not a help. Anyone who has been to the BLC would never say it’s been a help”
Sun Mar 21 2021
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Anthony talks about his experience at Better Living Centre respite. “There’s no privacy, there’s no sense of security. There’s always a fear your stuff will get stolen. The staff don’t knock when you’re in the shower... https://t.co/ctP15zDKhn
Sun Mar 21 2021
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Mayor of Moss Park Derrick Black talks about standing his ground till he got permanent housing. https://t.co/1PdxzJmIfI
Sun Mar 21 2021
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J also says that the mayor should make the CN tower should be gold and chrome.
Sun Mar 21 2021
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J the letter speaks to life in Bruce Lee City and the loss of his friend from fentanyl. “We deserve a better option than shelters, respites and hotel shelters. We deserve housing.” https://t.co/WSi3CBCHDl
Sun Mar 21 2021
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Bri from Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction speaks now to how industrialization begat industrialized bodies that become disposal, and institutionalization. “60% of Indigenous people in this city live in poverty.” https://t.co/7XN4eds8i1
Sun Mar 21 2021
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Les Harper speaking to the people https://t.co/T62h5e7h5C
Sun Mar 21 2021
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Residents Demands posted next to notice of trespass from the city. Come down to Alexandra park. https://t.co/QPzt4hh70m
Sun Mar 21 2021
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If you would like to learn more about the city's Pathways Inside Project, we have provided you with an explainer for why these security guards are marching in parks handing out notices of trespass to people with nowhere else to go. See here: https://t.co/BSQBOgA8Ph https://t.co/axVWX496gm
Sat Mar 20 2021
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Sitting at home listening to their music and tweeting out lifestyle quotes. refusing to engage with reality. Towing the line that SSHA gives them, despite the community support they see from their constituents. It's sickening. They have blood on their hands. They don't care.
Sat Mar 20 2021
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But how is it reasonable that during a housing crisis 30 years in the making, people be withheld from the only space they have to go? There is no significant amount of housing being built this year. Shelter-hotels and the respites are not safe places for people.
Sat Mar 20 2021
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In the coming weeks we know that police presence and security guard presence in encampments will be ramped up. Not a new pattern - every time the city makes a push to evict, they try to make life more hellish for people by ramping up law enforcement presence.
Sat Mar 20 2021
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Notices of Trespass were posted all over the four major encampments yesterday, but not just there. We know now that encampments all over the city are getting these notices, and yet, they aren't included in this big announcement about shelter hotel space.
Sat Mar 20 2021
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We have confirmed that Khaleel Seivwright will be joining encampment residents to speak at this press conference tomorrow. 12 noon - Alexandra Park. Come with PPE and beautiful signs of support for your unhoused neighbors. City is posting eviction notices all over the place. https://t.co/qbPObWNJ4Y
Sat Mar 20 2021
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THIS SUNDAY MARCH 21 - 12 NOON PRESS CONFERENCE AT ALEXANDRA PARK "YOU CAN'T MOVE US, WE HAVE RIGHTS" show up and hear your unhoused neighbors speak out against the city's new eviction scheme wear PPE - keep physical distance https://t.co/sVML2LAVQf
Sat Mar 20 2021
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One of them is named Mitchell, and he has been working with Streets To Homes much of this year. Streets To Homes workers are the social workers that your city councillor has been telling you are engaging with encampment residents all year.
Sat Mar 20 2021
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We know they target the four biggest encampments because that's where residents have found solidarity with each other, and with housed neighbors. This is about inivisibilization and squashing support. People want permanent housing, not institutionalization.
Thu Mar 18 2021
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One big change since we started last May is that the City of Toronto needs to cloak their eviction notices as an act of care or "city program". This is because the solidarity of the public with encampment residents has been overwhelming. Keep it up. https://t.co/MhtBN8VdqX
Thu Mar 18 2021
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Like I get that politicians want to follow stay at home orders by example, but the excuse that you can't go around your community and visit encampments during the entire pandemic is bonkers.
Thu Mar 18 2021
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DONATE YE OLDE PHONES TO ENCAMPMENT RESIDENTS ASAP! Looking for -Working, unlocked & factory reset smartphones w/ chargers -Charging blocks & power banks Help your unhoused neighbours stay connected to their resources & loved ones! Drop off at: Pamenar Cafe, 307 Augusta Ave https://t.co/lEGJqfus1A
Thu Mar 18 2021
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Surely everyone living outside, riding the subway at night, who wants to go into a shelter hotel should be offered these spaces.
Wed Mar 17 2021
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Why are they priorities, Mr. Perks? https://t.co/Mpa4CfTWPM
Wed Mar 17 2021
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You are so deeply out of touch with actual people. Have you been talking to people staying at the city shelter hotel institutions? https://t.co/hvCMbp8yXQ
Tue Mar 16 2021
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We have been saying the same thing since the start: people have a right to live in their communities, close to their services and families Most people want permanent, dignified, housing, not institutionalization. The city knows that. This new "program" is just an eviction.
Tue Mar 16 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We're now aware of 2 fires at the city funded shelter hotel institutions that resulted in death & we're grieving the loss of people who died from preventable overdose death inside. When the city says it is safer for people inside, they really don’t have a leg to stand on.
Tue Mar 16 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We know many Indigenous people who want to live how they want to live on their own land, rather than face the violence of institutionalization. We know that many of the people working in these new shelter hotel institutions are not trained to support people.
Tue Mar 16 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
A lot of the people we meet and support in encampments have already gone inside, and those spaces have not worked for them - due to COVID outbreaks, incompetent harm reduction services, and heavy handed rules that deny people autonomy and dignity - so they’re back in the park.
Tue Mar 16 2021
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Across the parks, many residents are terrified. For the past many weeks they’ve noticed the influx of Parks Ambassadors showing up daily to surveil, and get the data to push them out of their homes. Now we’re seeing, that fear has been justified.
Tue Mar 16 2021
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Since May of last year, we’ve watched the city contort and change the name and process of evicting people every few months. Slapping a nice name on this “program” doesn’t mean it’s any less of an eviction - the threat of criminalization if people don’t comply still exists.
Tue Mar 16 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
This "Pathways Inside" program is not a "program" - this is a very specific taskforce to undertake the eviction aka clearing aka cleaning of specific encampments in the city’s most visible parks and strongest communities.
Tue Mar 16 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Big announcement from the city today. City renames "eviction" a "program". Sinister PR. (thread) https://t.co/E1kYMTLGAS
Tue Mar 16 2021
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THEY NEED COMMUNITY SCHOLARS OUT THERE PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING NOT PEOPLE JUST GETTING PAID TO SAY THEY KNOW https://t.co/m217JYpjlq
Tue Mar 16 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
IYFMI - Derrick Black in his own words! https://t.co/yXoiYnV457
Tue Mar 16 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We also send you action updates if you sign up for the newsletter https://t.co/Z4c7QELkUQ
Mon Mar 15 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Really worth comparing Derrick Black’s own words : https://t.co/yXoiYnV457 with the below thread from the City of Toronto PR https://t.co/itiTd9xeAR
Sat Mar 13 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
From the mouth of Derrick Black who held out for housing . As told to Anupa Mistry https://t.co/yXoiYnV457
Sat Mar 13 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Tomorrow 2pm - Healing Circle with Les Harper https://t.co/LfzHVPeDrO
Sat Mar 13 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
empty buildings should be housing https://t.co/KHPIwexqTF
Fri Mar 12 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Watch this press conference now please https://t.co/IP31fwuaFQ
Thu Mar 11 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
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Wed Mar 10 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
City of Toronto has refused to be clear about its protocol around clearings till now - with a journalist. After 9 months! How convenient.
Wed Mar 10 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
These clearings are part of a process intended to invisibilize homelessness in toronto. Throw people in institutions or chase them into the ravines. These clearings result in the loss of peoples' worldly possessions, safety, and shelter. This can result in death. We've seen it.
Wed Mar 10 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Different city departments refusing to build real relationships with encampment residents means that peoples stuff gets cleared and trashed. This has been the discussion we've been having with SSHA & Parks since May 2020, be it tents or wooden structures. https://t.co/3Ac9MGXXz5
Wed Mar 10 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Yes, we’ve had many meetings you architects who don’t want to compromise their status by coming up with pragmatic solutions to the crisis at hand. https://t.co/vYNGUOwVOt
Thu Mar 04 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
"How you make a playground for the rich? You have to push people out." -Samuel Nithiananthan at this talk to day
Wed Mar 03 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The city claims that they catalog and hold on to peoples possessions when they clear the park. But as far as we can see, they are clearly just disposing of it in what looks like a dump. Why can’t we just get straight answers, clear protocols, and some respect for the people? https://t.co/hIzDli8PPc
Wed Mar 03 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Crucial update from Khaleel #EvictTory #HousingNotLawsuits https://t.co/v02YUsqlOF
Tue Mar 02 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Today City Fire marshalls told ESN volunteers they can't give out fire extinguishers to people in encampments due to cost and liability. Counter to recommendations of the Faulkner report. How much does it cost to remove a tiny shelter? Who's liable when someone freezes outside?
Tue Mar 02 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
oh the city comes to the table to write affidavits... https://t.co/A6eBPdz16T
Mon Mar 01 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thanks for speaking out! Come to our action tomorrow. https://t.co/rGae6wPOJM
Sat Feb 27 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Crucial thread about developers in TO https://t.co/wYY33EPesr
Sat Feb 27 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Accessibility: closest accessible subway station - St. George We will have accessibility marshalls on hand. It's a short walk between Bloor Bedford Parkette & Mayor Tory’s Condo. We do not know how long you will have to wait to serve Tory but we will have some chairs available.
Sat Feb 27 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
This is a family-friendly event and we will be marshalling to ensure everyone keeps physical distance as we line up to serve John Tory. Pretend it’s HomeSense. Don’t congregate and linger. Wear PPE.
Sat Feb 27 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We’re inviting Mayor Tory to come down and meet us, but if he doesn’t we’ll have a proxy there for him. https://t.co/RCSnL29MPe
Sat Feb 27 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
How it works ✉️ Come to Bloor Bedford Parkette any time between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Volunteers will be present to provide you with a copy of our notice of action from the Superior Court of the People, which you can then sign and deliver to Mayor Tory at his place of residence.
Sat Feb 27 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
City's FAQ's say they are not suing Khaleel - Here's a legal expert.... https://t.co/mHzleC3ZRf
Sat Feb 27 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Today at Alexandra Park 3 Tiny Shelters were confiscated without consent from their owners. https://t.co/CtPNXORIGs
Sat Feb 27 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Imagine you are a housing advocate city councillor who is obsessed with saving a foundry and people are living in small boxes in the parks so as not to freeze to death and you refuse to condemn their confiscation and the targeting of the person who built them.
Sat Feb 27 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
When disagreeing w/ city staff about what should be done - whether it's parks workers, S2H, or the higher ups- it boils down to: Does a person have the right to decide what's best for them, and should our first concern be consulting with them? We say yes. They usually say no.
Fri Feb 26 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Please read. It was brutal. https://t.co/plUvWe9v1b
Fri Feb 26 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
People shouldn’t be casualties in the real estate game. Good governance means putting peoples lives over the profits of developers. City council’s refusal to expropriate buildings for housing is an indication of your priorities. #EvictTory #HousingNotLawsuits https://t.co/5HAfNgOw5d
Thu Feb 25 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Yep. That's what we're trying to do here. LGBTQ2S+ are overrepresented in the unhoused population. You think you and your pink shirt can speak out about the COVID outbreaks in the shelter system? What about the bullying at the hands of parks ambassadors and cops? https://t.co/tAYqXIAO4q
Wed Feb 24 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The problem is city council's policy choices that create homelessness. https://t.co/iVrb1W8Iuc
Wed Feb 24 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Wong-Tam did once go to Moss Park, but didn't talk to any one consistently. No relationship building or accountability to encampment residents. Perks, Cressy and Fletcher haven't. Seems like they're banking on their unhoused constituents no longer being their constituents. https://t.co/NyEe2NFeAL
Tue Feb 23 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
That's what the city has been doing since we started. $$ in parks ambassadors to harrass. $$ in parks workers to "clean" and throw out peoples belongings. Investment in police to criminalize people. Meanwhile S2H workers don't even have it in the budget to buy ppl coffees. https://t.co/ZQcnQiIRPw
Fri Feb 19 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The city will tell you there is enough indoor space for people to find shelter. It just isn't true. People are dying in shelter hotels all the time, but they don't shut down shelter hotels. People have house fires - they don't ban houses.
Fri Feb 19 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
More than $$ we want you to call your city councillors and say how deeply horrific this kind of legal action against Khaleel is. Every day we talk to people who have been saved from freezing by living in the tiny shelters. https://t.co/XqRkh4OjeA
Fri Feb 19 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Please sign up for this defund the police phone zap. We get told there is no money for housing on the municipal level. Wait for the feds, wait for the useless province to give the city money. Meanwhile the police force grows and so does their budget. https://t.co/xskWgjHltd
Sun Feb 14 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
good questions in these slides. https://t.co/eaXT93Xqwo
Sun Jan 31 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
When we talk about stuff that impacts mental health like poverty, homelessness, police brutality, evictions, the government tells us to clam it. #BellLetsTalk https://t.co/vGmt2ObvuM
Thu Jan 28 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
And what have you learned about the mental health toll spurred by the municipal government's refusal to defund the police and use the money to house people instead? #BellLetsTalk https://t.co/KpaNSsqzLu
Thu Jan 28 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Toronto Tiny Shelters save lives https://t.co/QclBetbLCQ
Tue Jan 26 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Dom is featured in this CBC piece about changes worth keeping after the pandemic. Although we have yet to see the change worth keeping, which would be actually affordable housing for all. https://t.co/PJ7JtGNt2D
Tue Jan 26 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We've had people email us two months before christmas trying to make "appointments" to drop off socks or food on the day of. People are cold all the time. People are hungry all the time.
Fri Jan 22 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
it must be done it can be done this is next monday https://t.co/pTo9XqCweC
Fri Jan 22 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We heard from nurses last night is that they are seeing an increase in frostbite among unhoused people. One of the main reasons is that people often used McDonalds and Tim Hortons to stay warm and right now those places are closed. As it is, there are very few indoor spaces. https://t.co/IIkWm5mMNJ
Wed Jan 20 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thank you to great nurses Megan, Liz and Dana for giving ESN volunteers and park residents a workshop on frostbite. Wish people had housing to warm up in, but here we are! https://t.co/R4hQ3aii5Q
Tue Jan 19 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Certainly seems like the case when looking at Toronto's definitions of "affordable housing"... https://t.co/7nVdkEZun3
Sat Jan 16 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
"In Canada’s homeless encampments, two faces of state brutality are on display. One is the “organized abandonment” that has relegated hundreds of thousands across Canada to homelessness (at twice the rate as in the United States)..." https://t.co/1DEsNMDpfQ
Sat Jan 16 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
All love to those who loved Sasha, and to Sasha herself. https://t.co/lhWQepxHw0
Tue Jan 05 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
At least the settler-colony isn't pretending to celebrate anything other than organized death for profit! Ernie Eves and Mike Harris appointed to the Order of Ontario. REGAL. https://t.co/Et7ASbZdAn
Fri Jan 01 2021
Encampment Support Network Toronto
From ESN trinity Bellwood’s - good recommendations https://t.co/iZ4Q0QMyHT
Fri Dec 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Great to see people checking the city’s facts- great new website. https://t.co/jFrJjlFZIB
Wed Dec 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
One recurring theme in journalism about ESN and ESN initiatives, is that very few journalists are resourced to investigate the city. It takes a lot of our time to talk to you, and then you just quote city press releases so as not to get sued! Investigate.
Mon Dec 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Indeed- housing justice too https://t.co/A0W2aZfEKw
Sun Dec 20 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Ok we know you can do it. Build enough for 10,000 people ! https://t.co/NWi2aKsKuK
Sun Dec 20 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
What about homeless death due to... homelessness because the city won’t provide indoor space or housing as a human right?
Sat Dec 19 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Play into the city’s hand by quoting the number of encampment fires (which includes small cooking fires) because it’s an accessible number - but no numbers of people dying in shelter hotels from preventable OD, no numbers of COVID outbreaks in the shelter system.
Sat Dec 19 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The stories keep changing. Please read. https://t.co/RDXUXmfNjY
Thu Dec 17 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
A photo of a painting that Nanuuk made in his tiny shelter. https://t.co/2yoNLNDNBN
Wed Dec 16 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Streets To Homes was at Scadding Court Encampment today, offering no indoor space. They called Central Intake for a few residents and there was no indoor shelter. Shelters are full.
Tue Dec 15 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Where do estimates about the amount of people sleeping outside in Toronto come from? Have a read https://t.co/G7h2J36x5M
Wed Dec 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Call a moratorium on the eviction of people from the homes they've made for themselves in encampments the absence of the city providing housing as a basic human right. I wish that was all we had to say. https://t.co/ZpStXKC2OD
Sun Dec 06 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thank you med students! #NoEncampmentEvictions https://t.co/j4feE24jwW
Sat Dec 05 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
“I’m sure it will pass with a majority of a quorum...” https://t.co/9HPPhrgovN
Fri Dec 04 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
No wonder people do not want to go to the shelters. https://t.co/O9jgvuZ4IB
Thu Dec 03 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thank you for your public statements! Use the hashtag #NoEncampmentEvictions ;)
Thu Dec 03 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thank you Christine #NoEncampmentEvictions https://t.co/fUvbROfoGd
Wed Dec 02 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
You might get a letter from a city councillor or read a quote from Lyne Kyle that says that "There are no current plans for clearing encampments" to which the obvious answer is "Then why not call a moratorium on encampment evictions?"
Wed Dec 02 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Nothing ESN reports about S2H is to vilify the workers - we don't know their moral character. But the fact remains that they are not equipped to have meaningful conversations or consultations with encampment residents. There aren't enough of them, and their presence is spotty.
Tue Dec 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Since June, people have been getting form letter responses from City Councillors and the mayor about Streets To Homes undertaking meaningful consultation with encampment residents and it is frustrating. At some point you gotta get real.
Tue Dec 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Having conversations about people, rather than with them, so quickly descends into paternalism. It also means that those in charge don't have to look people they're impacting in the eye & explain, "yeah, you can't live in this wooden box because if you die someone might sue us."
Tue Dec 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
People living in encampments are whole people, with real concerns, and are experts in their own experiences. Bring them to the table as stakeholders in their own lives, not as liabilities or problems. The reason there are city councillors is to represent people in their wards.
Tue Dec 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
City Councillors should start visiting encampment regularly. Residents are not problems to be managed, they are your constituents. The discrepency between what SSHA and Parks say they're doing and what they actually do is substantial. You can't know if you don't go.
Tue Dec 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We know a lot of people don’t bother calling https://t.co/1kZSqCAI0t
Tue Dec 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
This campaign is young Email us and we'll tell you more #EndEncampmentEvictions https://t.co/iTI7nbZXCq
Mon Nov 30 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Wow 50+ legal academics back the demand for Toronto to declare an immediate moratorium on encampment evictions https://t.co/WCFCFndF5x
Mon Nov 30 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Yes! #NoEncampmentEvictions https://t.co/d4okBIt5ry
Mon Nov 30 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
#NoEncampmentEvictions thank you! https://t.co/tjrWc7GnWM
Mon Nov 30 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Where are people supposed to go? https://t.co/UEwXsNTd2K
Sat Nov 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thread. The city is creative. https://t.co/5GRYGopxae
Sat Nov 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thread. #NoEncampmentEvictions https://t.co/DnNcpkAoip
Sat Nov 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thank you! #NoEncampmentEvictions https://t.co/ajnabjDiCS
Fri Nov 27 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We call for a moratorium on encampment evictions. We've already been calling for by-laws that make encampments illegal to be repealed but city councillors won't even entertain that so far. The city should stop invisibilizing homelessness. That's all encampment evictions do. https://t.co/LytCFQcsbZ
Thu Nov 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
If the city can just stop making a precarious situation more precarious for people, if ppl can not be faced with the threat of evictions, then that's one less thing for people who are already dealing with a lot to deal with. Give people one break. One break.
Thu Nov 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
ESN wants to fight for permanent housing options in the downtown core, for more spaces and better conditions at shelter hotels. We take our direction from encampment residents. And right now, 2 threats they are dealing is the cold of winter & displacement by the city.
Thu Nov 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We demanded a better winter plan from the city. We wish there were better options for people. We wish the city's indoor options were good for everyone. They're not. Congregate settings and shelter hotels aren't on offer to everyone anyway, because there aren't enough spaces.
Thu Nov 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
To be kicked out of an encampment for many will mean they have nowhere to go. They'll lose their things. They might go to ravines or more hidden places & set up again with less access to community support.They might sleep in parking garages, or wander around evading authorities.
Thu Nov 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
To live in an encampment always open to the elements, to peoples scrutiny, the hatred of NIMBY's and city officials coming through to confiscate, police, and surveil is not easy. To live with the threat of being kicked out of the community you've found is harder.
Thu Nov 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Some people ask us, "Why do you want people living outside?" It feels harsh to be advocating for people to live in tiny shelters and foam domes, but for many people this is their only option. Let's talk about the impact of looming evictions on people's mind states....
Thu Nov 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Sign the petition to demand that the city allow Toronto Tiny Shelters (the ones Khaleel built) to remain in encampments, and that encampments not be cleared. https://t.co/8tOeWjtyVX
Wed Nov 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The City is planning mass evictions of encampments. We need people who've been donating to our aid efforts to get loud and tell city council, the Shelter Support and Housing Administration, and Parks not to clear people out of their communities. #NoEncampmentEvictions https://t.co/Sc4O5kuVvy
Tue Nov 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Explaining why shelter hotels aren't viable for many encampment residents who use drugs isn't easy when talking to people who've never been in an encampment, a shelter hotel or OPS. Unfortunately, those are the ppl backing encampment evictions. Brush up : https://t.co/mph02gYIBH
Tue Nov 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Where are they supposed to go? https://t.co/KgelKgB07i
Mon Nov 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Also - people should start their own encampment support groups! Support your neighbors! make relationships! counter the NIMBYs and anti-poor BIA's! There are awesome groups like ALAB @hownowinternet who have done it. We're not the only ones. https://t.co/srJGQrXK6K
Mon Nov 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We've been doing a 6 month durational action of delivering basic survival gear to encampments on thru this #NationalHousingDay Tents are sagging and poles are snapping under the weight of the snow. The action housing advocates took today was vital. https://t.co/EbUc8iRVxn
Mon Nov 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
See our full communique on the Foam Domes by clicking on this link: https://t.co/vfXXQN3eVO It's also in our linktree. It's four pages long. https://t.co/EwZ3IH7oFo
Sun Nov 22 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Read this thread. Fight like hell for the living. https://t.co/mxRK41wXKX
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We need a cartoonist that can draw a picture of the CN tower with John Tory's face on it and the CN Tower is saying "Go die somewhere else" to all of the non-millionaires of toronto. Except this is not funny stuff. https://t.co/YgmtiJAG4Y
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
ESN's full statement about the foam domes, is forthcoming. But we're not the only people building them anyway. Stay tuned. 18
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
And what we argue is that if people have been living in community outside, and KNOW that the BLC is not an option for them they should be supported with survival gear. This is actually a recommendation Ontario’s chief coroner in the Faulkner Inquest of 2018. 16
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
And let’s remember In case we get accused of “enabling” the fact remains even if we didn’t fight alongside the encampment residents to self determine, there are hundreds of people who won’t have an indoor space to stay this winter because the city doesn’t have space...15
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We are doing clothing drives and assisting people in finding ways to winterized their tents. We do builds of these pods - as Maudy details, ppl like them. They have CO monitors, vents, LED lights. They are not highly flammable and reduce the need for a flame or heater. 14 https://t.co/9EM3KZuDwY
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
There is a lot of grief and loss and we are fearful of what is to come. And it is because of this that we are helping prepare for winter because that’s what our neighbours outside ask for. They are the experts in their own experience. 13
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
And yes it’s grim. It doesn’t feel good staring down the barrel of winter and helping people to prepare to stay outside when we know there are indoor spaces, apartments the city could give people, rent subsidies. We see death due to OD & medical neglect all the time. 12
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
These are places where people in encampments have made their own communities. We always support the right of ppl to choose what works for them. Sometimes that means accepting the city’s offer & sometimes It means supporting encampment residents in winterizing their set ups. 11
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The encampments that the city targets for clearing are the ones that are visible, the ones in neighborhoods where housed ppl call 311- the ones in ppl’s communities, where gentrification has made it unaffordable to stay housed. Moss Park, Holy Trinity Church, Scadding, LNP.. 10
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Did not happen.... So let’s talk about why certain encampments are targeted for clearing. 9
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We have been asking the city to make an adequate plan for winter . Our demands for the city months ago were as follows. We deputed & talked & demonstrated. 8 https://t.co/9PCV3D5oLS
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
So the city’s plan is not expansive enough to give everyone an indoor space, even if they did want to take it. And surely there are ppl who do want the city’s option, but certain encampments are targeted for removal and displacement. We’ll talk about why later. 7
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
So the options are not suitable for some. A rly important thing that people don’t realize is that the city says there are around 500 ppl who are homeless. We know in encampments alone there are over 1000, and this doesn’t include ppl sleeping in stairwells, on grates, etc. 6
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
They would be far from their families, community, medical services (including life saving harm reduction services). Many people we know have moved into shelter hotels & have left or been kicked out. Ppl are all different but many say it reminds them of being in prison. 5
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The other option from the city is called the City Plaza shelter hotel and it’s at Jane & Wilson. It’s run by Costi. For many people in the encampments we serve it would take 1.5- 2 hours to get there from their current community by transit. 4
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We know people who have accepted that BLC offer and have returned to encampments because they couldn’t stand the conditions. Cold showers, lack of privacy, the chaos of a respite was not suitable for them. Those who refuse the BLC often cite COVID as the reason.
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The city’s winter plan accommodates space inside for 560 people. This includes congregate settings- a respite called the Better Living Centre which holds 100 people, at a time when we are told not to gather outside our households & COVID transmission through aerosol is proven. 2
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thread from ESN LNP member. https://t.co/N9kz0wSfq3
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
City seems hellbent on clearing encampments and pushing people out of the parks. Come lockdown, maybe all that #CafeTO space can be used for tents?
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Zoe fact check: these green insulated pods have a name. At Scadding they call them U-tubes At Moss Park they are called foam domes Been trying to call it the chrysalis but hasn't caught on... https://t.co/B4XesXGfD5
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
yes that's what it is. it is not highly flammable. https://t.co/SwredsdoFn
Sat Nov 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Please watch - every day our volunteers phone central intake to help people find shelter space. No space. This is how it works. https://t.co/22xbtNCW5J
Thu Nov 19 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Academics who publish about encampments should go to them. Putting it out there. Don't cite the city's websites when you're supposed to be holding them to account.
Sun Nov 15 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We aren’t a charity! But thank you. https://t.co/jtwiAJPVca
Fri Nov 13 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Listen to Dom speak at the Anti-Eviction Press Conference this past Saturday. "I choose to stay. I will not be dominated. I will not be intimidated by the police or the government. I'm not moving." https://t.co/pMrYKbrptB
Wed Nov 11 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Reminding you of this important initiative. Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction. Give generously. https://t.co/BxTopkYcis
Tue Nov 10 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Gonna say it again w/ the link to the article. There's a factual error in this article. The City hasn't been offering people in Alexandra Park shelter hotels for the past week. They have been offering spots in the Better Living Centre-a congregate setting respite w/ glass cages. https://t.co/bG7HYPOARL
Mon Nov 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Factual error with this article is it says that the city has been offering residents shelter hotel rooms this past week. City has been offering people glass cages at the Better Living Centre at the Ex. https://t.co/r3VsytFokA
Mon Nov 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Signs from the community are pictured below. The press conference was followed by a community build of the Chrysalis aka You Tubes (named by Dread). These are meant to give people more protection from the cold. An extra layer from the wind and insulation from the cold. 10/10 https://t.co/n7B6oQxGQ7
Mon Nov 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Charlene Lee, a housed community member of the Scadding Court neighborhood spoke to how deficient the government's response to homelessness has been. Expressed support for encampment residents. 8/10 https://t.co/UTzegHOKkD
Mon Nov 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Chilli, a shelter hotel resident spoke to the reality of the conditions there. Food is the same as in jail as is the surveillance & the disrespect. It's so important for neighbors to show recognition of ppl on the street and in encampments. 7/10 https://t.co/eCyOSUmKy0
Mon Nov 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Sue, encampment resident at Trinity Bellwoods, talked about renovictions and how hard it is for her and her daughter to find and keep housing. 5/10 https://t.co/mdrOVMQNTF
Mon Nov 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Dread, another resident of Scadding Court, gave a lesson on how ineffective the government's response to the housing crisis is. Talked about the gap between the experts who consult on homelessness & the lived experience of people who are unhoused. 3/10 https://t.co/Y6Byze9kGr
Mon Nov 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
[OK EVERYONE SAID A LOT AND SAID IT BRILLIANTLY SO 4 REAL THESE ARE CRUDE SUMMARIES.] As far as we know, the city will be moving to evict residents from Scadding Court if they don't accept the glass pods in the Better Living Centre respite. Where will they go? 1.5/10 https://t.co/DlBPUcQqaM
Mon Nov 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
This is today Sunday yes today https://t.co/EVH6LSGeaa
Sun Nov 08 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Mutual aid at Scadding Court encampment- Andrew set up boxes of clothes, snacks and naloxone for all to have. https://t.co/nt7DcZtNua
Sun Nov 08 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Tomorrow - 2PM - invitation and modified media advisory for Scadding Court Encampment Press Conference and Community Build https://t.co/tzCMYuqRhb
Sat Nov 07 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Tomorrow: Come support Scadding Court encampment residents who don't want to move into the city's congregate setting shelter (glass cages at the BLC) - Press Conference & Community Build November 8 at 2pm. Scadding Court Encampment. Dom speaks to it below. Wear PPE & phys dist https://t.co/xYgIAcNnGe
Sat Nov 07 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We’re announce the location soon! https://t.co/dGuiHKeFVj
Fri Nov 06 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
These people know how to do a drive. Always so great when all the clothes come nicely sorted and high quality. Really appreciate the initiative! https://t.co/mZSaGxPcgm
Fri Nov 06 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Alert alert ! People want homes not glass cages and Covid - action on this Sunday- save the date 2pm. Location TBA Better Living Centre is not Better Living.
Thu Nov 05 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
If ppl don't accept going into the Better Living Centre congregate setting shelter, they're threatened with eviction from parks. This is why we asked for the anti-camping by-law to be repealed. If ppl choose to live in tents in -8, it's because the BLC is not a better life.
Tue Nov 03 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Please read about the conditions at the city’s new congregate setting shelter at the cruelly named Better Living Centre. Crucial thread. https://t.co/wDv4vlB3Fe
Tue Nov 03 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Clothing table from last week at Scadding. Thanks for your donations! Well received. Still doing the boot drive... drop me off at capital espresso! https://t.co/ISXOnDhpe8
Mon Nov 02 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We are working hard with 12 encampments, but the truth is we can't ensure the well being of people who are living in tents. We can offer them basic survival gear, and divert wealth to purchase basic aid, but we can't offer ppl what they need, which is housing. The city could. https://t.co/01PQEbU5Pm
Mon Nov 02 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
This doesn't have to happen. https://t.co/hFGcb2PbwK
Thu Oct 29 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Well said. Change can’t happen in closed meetings. Hoping this means encampment residents get consulted about their own needs. https://t.co/MiE0p4KRGF
Wed Oct 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
@_adamswilson This is so convoluted. Where’s the plan?
Tue Oct 27 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thank you to SURJ for organizing this. https://t.co/qwfxiDMxeZ
Mon Oct 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Well- we are looking for a new space to store our donations because we’ve been using our friends’ porch for real. Freezing winter means freezing donations. Not ideal. Details in the graphic. Thank you for all your support https://t.co/uIbo03ktZM
Mon Oct 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Today at noon click the link and register https://t.co/TysHpIuRPc
Mon Oct 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
This is happening at noon on Monday - put your phone where your mouth is! We need you https://t.co/TysHpIuRPc
Mon Oct 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Yes join them Monday at noon! https://t.co/MCoRPiNpmn
Sun Oct 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Hence... this phone zap come Monday is timely. Please join. 12pm https://t.co/TysHpIuRPc
Sat Oct 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
ESN volunteers are appalled by the recent decision from Superior Court Judge Schabas denying an injunction that would have stopped the city from evicting encampment residents. We have fact checked his decision in the following 10 slides. Full doc also in our link tree in bio. https://t.co/RRRaRtWbfP
Sat Oct 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Please join these SURJ people who are helping us out! https://t.co/TysHpIuRPc
Fri Oct 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Wow it’s cool how #JackLayton drove around with Toronto Disaster Relief Committee back during tent city. I’d love it if council members were riding with us (physically distanced) to encampments. These are stills from the film Shelter From The Storm https://t.co/Dpoqk3xbE6 https://t.co/PDptJYcc42
Thu Oct 22 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
ESN Parkdale put together an eviction report regarding the city’s removal of people from Lamport Stadium encampment in late July/early august. You can read the abridged in the following slides, or click our link tree for the full thing! https://t.co/xAEKzTC5Wy
Wed Oct 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
ESN boot drive... drop off warm gently used or new winter boots in adult sizes at Capital Espresso (1349 Queen St. W) !! We’ll get them to encampment residents. https://t.co/l7RCfBEKNO
Tue Oct 20 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Donate to these great people - toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction. https://t.co/BxTopkYcis
Mon Oct 19 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We report on what’s happening in the six neighborhoods we serve. What we have seen is no survival gear being given to people all summer, a refusal to bring water trucks to the places that need it. This has gone unacknowledged publicly by council. https://t.co/E75egcTWdo
Thu Oct 15 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Skyler Williams to argue development constitutes ‘ongoing land theft and genocide’ during injunction hearing - APTN News https://t.co/VMjgAtAimJ
Mon Oct 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Many ppl want to volunteer with us to do encampment support in neighborhoods where we don’t have committees. All it takes is a group of trusted ppl & consent from ppl living in encampments to make your own committee. We can pass on our logistics if you wanna see how we do it.
Sun Oct 11 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
There’s been a lot of critique of the city’s winter plan for people in encampments. One thing we gotta say is Streets To Homes doesn’t regularly go by the 12 encampments we serve & when they do they do not bring water. It’s a lie. We ask daily. https://t.co/KxIBwJO4pi
Sat Oct 10 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Come on party people! At the rate city is working we basically are going to have to build our own housing in the next 6 weeks. City could save lives and open buildings or provide rent subsidy, but doesn’t seem like they even know how many people are homeless... https://t.co/1umARMaUN2
Fri Oct 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Please send an email with your rage to councillor_cressy@toronto.ca or call 416-392-4044 for a quick reply. Thank you so much.
Mon Oct 05 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Police destroyed Dom’s tent - part 2. This is at Scadding Court. https://t.co/yHduZIq8Ct
Mon Oct 05 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Police destroyed Dom’s tent - part 1 https://t.co/aOLYJSVURU
Mon Oct 05 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
City’s lawyer keeps saying that there are shelter beds in the system and that there are spaces- but he has clearly not been calling central intake. There are not enough spaces.
Thu Oct 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Watching the hearing from moss park https://t.co/iPK9ofCXlj
Thu Oct 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
As we watch this hearing about encampments it becomes apparent that people ruling on the right to live in an encampment should probably spend time in an encampment. They already know what it’s like to live in a house and hold power, so they have that bias.
Thu Oct 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
It's important for people who hold these likely more wide spread opinions to be as loud as the NIMBY's and address your city councillors. The NIMBY's are on 311 constantly. https://t.co/LlMO3uwfNh
Thu Oct 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Jeff and Charlotte from ESN moss park and ESN Scadding Court won the change makers awards on the Marilyn Denis show this week! Great to see these dedicated volunteers get a platform to talk about reality on TV. Thanks Marilyn! https://t.co/wFpH6A7HGw
Thu Oct 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Another community consultation from a Moss Park resident. This was projected on the WE buildings too at our Meal and March For Housing. "Without The People There Is No City" -Tony Global #TOpoli https://t.co/oqMUqL7WBe
Thu Oct 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Tomorrow - THURSDAY - the city of Toronto goes to court twice against people who are unhoused and advocates. One is about encampments. The other is about shelters. All these frontline workers and advocates wouldn't sue just for fun. Learn about the two cases in this thread:
Wed Sep 30 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The “reporter” who antagonized and instigated walked away. A close friend of the residents wrote this in response and asked us to post it here. It’s a few pages long. Do read. https://t.co/qVLiLV81a3
Wed Sep 30 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
After being asked to stop recording multiple times and refusing to, a “reporter” was bit by a resident’s dog at Bellwood’s a few weeks ago. 2 residents were arrested and charged with assault.... The Sun published this... https://t.co/wVOucsjau7
Wed Sep 30 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Some historical wisdom on how this has been going down in toronto. The Out Of The Cold program has been filling the winter gap for years and years. Rafi spells it out https://t.co/g5VbdQFMeT
Tue Sep 29 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Like.... do we have to run seasonal awareness campaign for city council so they remember that winter is like half of our year? Why not just house people in permanent housing that already exists? https://t.co/IbGnl9zcLp
Tue Sep 29 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Retweeting the Sun, hey? This article deeply misconstrues the reality of what’s on the ground. Someone should start a full website where all they do is fact check Sun reporting and the city. The very fact that every winter the city comes up with a new plan is part of the prob. https://t.co/1Gnef5p5Tm
Tue Sep 29 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
looking for journalists to investigate city numbers, police violence, evictions, things like that.
Mon Sep 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thank you to everyone who donated today. Tomorrow’s clothing drive is canceled because WE GOT tOoo much stuff to hang on to. Thank thank thank you https://t.co/AIXaF0weW2
Sat Sep 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
and more... People who are in smaller encampments around the city and who are visible from the big highways are often more vulnerable. https://t.co/evom3uFg0V
Sat Sep 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Part of a thread from today about an eviction at Parkside Drive and Lakeshore. Resident wanted to put it out there. Basically the city trashed his tent and took all his belongings including his ID. According to the Parks Ambassador attending, it was Troy Ford's order. https://t.co/3R287l5idz
Sat Sep 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Directly from the resident... https://t.co/lwNDbKgg7R
Sat Sep 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
City is gone for now. They may come back. Both tents still there are occupied. One resident has lost his tents and all his belongings to city trashing. Parks ambassadors blame their boss Troy Ford. Said they weren't the people to have the conversation with. They took off.
Fri Sep 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
"they took all my belongings, they took everything I own."
Fri Sep 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Parks ambassadors have just left now, because ESN member was there advocating.
Fri Sep 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
"i tried to get my stuff out of the tent and they wouldn't let me." - resident
Fri Sep 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
resident says that their tent was destroyed by parks ambassadors
Fri Sep 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
running tweets. on the line with someone who is down there https://t.co/Bm9AKZ4GKJ
Fri Sep 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
parks ambassadors directed by Troy Ford are trashing tents of residents
Fri Sep 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
It's their land. Colonial speculators go away. https://t.co/PuNRagu9ao
Fri Sep 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Unless you live in a tent. Hard cuz it’s getting dark and cold early. https://t.co/GtOHg7xm70
Fri Sep 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
oh yeah here are other demands put forward by SHJN, ESN, TOPS and HPAP. City's plan for the winter - not a plan. Nothing for the immediate needs of the encampment residents they've been ignoring since April. Write your reps. Stand with our demands. More coming 10/10 https://t.co/VQkdI7v7ON
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
People are rich because others are poor. It's not just the WE buildings, it's empty buildings all over Toronto. The timeline on the 3000 units of housing city council promises is 24 months. Toronto should move quickly to acquire unused buildings, and make RGI housing. 9/10 https://t.co/Krguw9E0m4
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We say The Housing Crisis Is a Real Estate Game, because ppl living in tents, waiting for a winter in which they may freeze, have to stare at empty buildings and think the speculator's game is worth more to the government than their life. 8/10 https://t.co/TSa2jyYB3W
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Anyway, because rich people hoard property (and in this case while brand themselves as Global Leaders and co-opt social justice education) people are homeless. The city should expropriate. Here's a Moss Park Resident projected on a building saying what he thinks: 7/10 https://t.co/51nAV2vwB2
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Of course (& this is irrelevant in many ways but u gotta lol) we might lose the "EMPATHEATRE." Hartley Richardson. & Richardson Foundation donated $30 million to the WE guys to build an imperialist "empatheatre" while gentrifying the neighborhood. https://t.co/dZngfmb4MF 6/10
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
THIRD FLOOR OF THE WE GLOBAL LEARNING CENTRE COULD BE ANOTHER 9 2 BEDROOMS!!! This is space for 50 people and so much common area. 5/10 https://t.co/jm9AykCf5T
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
SECOND FLOOR WE GLOBAL LEARNING CENTRE COULD BE 9 2 bedroom units 630 square feet each 4/10 https://t.co/F3ONJ1U0Z2
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Toronto is a city that you walk 5 minutes from an encampment where people are living in tents with no plans for the winter, who get told ther eis no room for them inside. but there is room inside. We got an architect to show how much. First floor. 3/10 https://t.co/jVfBL3gOLG
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
These properties Me To We Asset Holdings, Me to We Foundation, We Charity Holdings... 335-342 Queen St E. 319 Queen St. E. 323 Queen St.E 329 Queen St.E. 145 Berkeley St. & the WE Global Learning Centre. See the maps. They're not being used. 2/10 https://t.co/PhvmOjqt6T
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Last night we ended our march @ the WE buildings at Parliament & Queen. Craig, Mark & their different companies have been collecting a whole city block. It's empty. A 7 minute walk away people are living in tents, with no prospect of housing for the winter. Some facts: 1/10 https://t.co/WCfpNcMG1y
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
WE HAVE A CLOTHING DRIVE THIS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26 AND SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH. gently used but heavy duty, clean, warm clothing items. nothing you wouldn't want to wear yourself. bring them washed and nicely folded. https://t.co/gh24bfeFYD
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We believe people have the right to stay outside if they want. We believe people should not be institutionalized. But we also know people who want emergency shelter can't access it. This is why we say the city has no plan for the winter.
Thu Sep 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We say we are 140 volunteers, but honestly, thats just neighborhood committees. There are 200+ people who help make this whole thing happen all the time. Thank you graphic designers, drivers, policy thinkers, lawyers, storage people, fundraisers, video editors.
Wed Sep 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Oh and because the city's plan is whack, and has no regard for the immediacy of peoples actual needs (how could they know? they don't visit) we have worked with a lot of other people who have long been fighting for justice to put together these demands. https://t.co/dfuPA5XlZ1
Wed Sep 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
In the coming week we'll release our deputations. They are available for you anyway, in the meeting notes. We have good recommendations. Thorough - unlike the city's plan. It's good we have a march today
Wed Sep 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
REcognizing us would be to recognize the complete abandonment of people in encampments by the government - we realize. But to not even be addressed - we hear politicians complain that we don't engage in their processes. When we do, they just ignore us?
Wed Sep 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The conversations we have with residents are THE things inform our list of recommendations and the feeling of urgency we experience in delivering them. There is no part of how the city has acted that makes us think we would be heard at a city council meeting.
Wed Sep 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We have reported on the city, how it's working, what encampment residents are experiencing for 14 weeks not because we're trying to be brats. But because we care about people living in encampments.
Wed Sep 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We don't work with a sense that we should be thanked for ESN's work. But it was astounding that after we gave our deputations and revealed $83,000.00 of donated money and 140 volunteers have been providing basic humanitarian aid to 12 encampments, not one councillor thanked us. https://t.co/2No62v1J7U
Wed Sep 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Let’s mobilize it- get some accountability from all the people adopting housing as a right in spirit while criminalizing encampment. Need a real bunch of people on the ground. https://t.co/5Qy7Yg2NPL
Wed Sep 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
🖤 Please don’t take pictures of encampment residents or their homes. 🖤 When we begin the march, follow the marshalls and do not flood around people’s tents. 🖤 Obviously keep physical distance.
Tue Sep 22 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Tents are people’s homes, and you’re in their front yard. sooo.... 🖤 Stay in the baseball diamond feast area for the duration of the meal. 🖤 Please don’t walk up to people’s homes.
Tue Sep 22 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
If you're coming to the meal & March tomorrow, please read our guidelines as to how to be respectful when visiting Moss Park encampment...... https://t.co/rRNRsz52oL
Tue Sep 22 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
just long term rent it for really cheap tho https://t.co/JQ6AElCPIM
Tue Sep 22 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
LIVE AND DIRECT FROM CHRISSY AND GUCCI !! JUST ANOTHER REMINDER OF THE MEAL AND MARCH FOR HOUSING TOMORROW - 5PM AT MOSS PARK https://t.co/VwvfwjpjxX
Tue Sep 22 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
there will be donuts at our meal component of our meal and march tomorrow. not this tim hortons kind, but fried! 5pm moss park. https://t.co/CrjQCpRTyx
Tue Sep 22 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Again, some questions: What's the exact timeline? According to that report it's 24 months. How many units will be available? How many units are needed to actually make a dent in the housing crisis? What will happen to people this winter? It's so hard to appraise this plan... https://t.co/t0GKF2QiMc
Mon Sep 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
How many of these spots were new to the shelter system? Aren’t these just to accommodate the requirement for social distancing. We just want the clear numbers: how many spots were lost due to Covid and how many spots were opened? https://t.co/CNm2IPEg1N
Mon Sep 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Ok so these motels and hotels are they the ones run by agencies? We prefer to call those shelter-hotels just to be clear that ppl don’t get the impression that people are being posted up at the Holiday Inn. That would be a great interim solution for some people though. https://t.co/4JY8GmC1bK
Mon Sep 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Two people known to ESN have died in the past 3 days. We need safe supply. We need to end prohibition. Love to everyone out there.
Sun Sep 20 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Shanah Tova! Thank you so much. https://t.co/mEYbnOlfwk
Sun Sep 20 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Live from Moss Park - a reminder of our meal and march from Housing happening next Wednesday the 23rd of September ! https://t.co/784IZ8FIE0
Fri Sep 18 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
NOT FAST ENOUGH!!! "In Toronto, one and two-bedroom rents are down 10% and 12%, to $2,070 and $2,630 respectively, from a year ago. From the month before, they slipped 1.4% and 0.8%." https://t.co/7FEY2kDCZZ
Fri Sep 18 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Ok now we want to know how these albums inspire your policies please. https://t.co/N0QFNJaVEn
Wed Sep 16 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
They’re doing it - why can’t we? https://t.co/9dNC8TrWzy
Wed Sep 16 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Sad to say that since the city has no plan for people in encampments this winter, we are launching a Patreon. We appreciate all your support and will continue to coordinate basic needs for people hardest hit by the Toronto housing market's brutal design. https://t.co/5RjuGvnmzF
Tue Sep 15 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
ok where is the policy buff who is going to explain why we can't call a moratorium on condo development until all people in toronto are housed?
Tue Sep 15 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Just a daily reminder - who is coming? https://t.co/X0twW6DJF5
Mon Sep 14 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
All out for housing. Meal and March Wednesday September 23rd. 5pm. Save the date. More info to come. https://t.co/ZiGvv8YIGs
Sun Sep 13 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
If only #EncampmentTOs were treated with the same care and foresight as #CafeTO https://t.co/UQtMIZXrL0
Thu Sep 10 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Moreover, we know that the lack of housing in the downtown core and sky rocketing rents are owed to development and gentrification against which she has in her successive terms, refused to fight and more often been amenable to.
Wed Sep 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The problem w/ social media is that politicians who make life brutal for ppl living in encampments (increased police, no water) can appear aligned by sharing the media that groups formed to counteract their neglect & violence create. Exhibit A:KWT's web page w. our explainer. https://t.co/LJ6Rwb899X
Wed Sep 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Moreover, we know that the lack of housing in the downtown core and sky rocketing rents are owed to development and gentrification against which she has in her successive terms, refused to fight and more often been amenable to.
Wed Sep 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
hey! where are the people into a just transition? who's actually doing that work on the ground in toronto, not in the think tank world but in reality? Time to move.
Wed Sep 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Don't think that anyone doing the math and looking at imminent evictions could say that the city's housing plan as it stands is ambitious or is going to bring an end to homelessness. Let's change it so that it is. https://t.co/9WWGUVFjM8
Wed Sep 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We see many people coming back to encampments from shelter hotels who have experienced the death of a friend or another shelter resident. After, it’s hard for people to stay. When the city doesn’t release the information, how can anyone be held accountable? https://t.co/38Iu7rnh8o
Tue Sep 08 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Had a great meal provided by This Way Up Collective yesterday at Scadding Court. Thank you! https://t.co/Ykzy0lkszB
Sun Sep 06 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
ESN Parkdale member, Gunjan organized acupuncture sessions and treated back pain, grief, insomnia, and stress, and also shared NADA ear acupuncture at the Lamport Stadium encampment this week. How beautiful. https://t.co/i6whO1847Y
Sun Sep 06 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Yard Sale in our honour today 451 Montrose Go get it
Sun Sep 06 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Anyway - what can a podcast do about it? Who knows. Heraclitus said “One can not step twice into the same encampment…” Communities are ever changing. Step once with a mic, though... Available wherever you listen https://t.co/B1lT8cRAGw
Fri Sep 04 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Successive Ontario governments have blamed poor ppl for poverty. NIMBY’s express that ppl living in encampments don’t deserve to live or be supported. Toronto municipal government’s refusal to provide basic sanitation & water to ppl reflects this attitude in action. (4/5)
Fri Sep 04 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
These are stories born of the municipal, provincial & federal policies. When the media & government don’t speak with ppl living in encampments, the solutions to the housing crisis prioritize the ppl least impacted (homeowners, developers). The crisis is reconfigured. (3/5)
Fri Sep 04 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The podcast was started because we noticed most media coverage focuses on the voices of NIMBY’s & confusing city PR. Why not talk to ppl in encampments? Lots of ppl want to talk. There are as many stories as people (if not more)... (2/5)
Fri Sep 04 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Actually what we meant so say is we need the government to expropriate all the office space that will never be used again in this city and turn it into housing? Tomorrow. https://t.co/ShvfkgucDk
Thu Sep 03 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
During a "Health & Safety Check" of 2 encampments we serve daily the city brought: -2 parks ambassadors -2 city parks -1 fire safety -3 Streets To Homes workers -2 corporate security They didn't bring water or anything to ppl who have been living in tents for 5 months.
Thu Sep 03 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
END PROHIBITION
Thu Sep 03 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Every day people ask for more tents We get emails from agencies who need tents for people People evicted from shelter hotels People being evicted People fleeing abuse All these people with no shelter options except tents. We need more tents
Wed Sep 02 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
From a group comprised of mostly artists : Spend it on housing https://t.co/4dN3Gsicbk
Tue Sep 01 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Good question - would be cool if a journalist asked this and reported on it. https://t.co/NuwZyd9CDo
Mon Aug 31 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Defund the police and the parks ambassadors while you're at it, Toronto.
Sun Aug 30 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Kindly, good people ESN is looking for you to donate your SLIGHTLY DAMAGED TENTS 4 person or bigger We can fix ✴️broken zippers ✴️a bit of a leak ✴️small holes NO BROKEN OR MISSING TENT POLES NO MOLD email : report.on.toronto@gmail.com w subject line: slightly damaged tents https://t.co/wb0gh6WJR0
Fri Aug 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
absolutely ridiculous. glad for the people the water is on, but why did this take forever? Now let's get water to the other encampments. https://t.co/FdcR7La87b
Fri Aug 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Just a late afternoon to say that the city is still not delivering water to people living in encampments! So we do. City also takes peoples generators away so they can't cook for themselves. Very messed!
Fri Aug 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
If you give people water, they will drink it. https://t.co/8VkotoA0UG
Fri Aug 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Yes the frustration of ESN volunteers is showing. Here ESN LNP member Nate goes at it in a thread. https://t.co/ETHrSo0SqG
Fri Aug 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
You know who still has no permanent housing? The man in the tent who is photographed- Derrick Black. You know who still isn’t even given temporary shelter? Hundreds of people we visit daily - and we only visit five neighborhoods. This dishonesty is murderous. https://t.co/6iocmsqnKn
Wed Aug 26 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
I think Sameer means “we” - also a driver! https://t.co/syq3BDgMWo
Sat Aug 22 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
In case you were wondering what the kind of person who throws dog shit at tents IRL looks like online, pretty sure this is it. Anyway, he’s definitely throwing misinformation which I guess is the problem when media depoliticizes our work. Shelters are full. https://t.co/7ebeUmqi9o
Sat Aug 22 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thanks for the profile! Something that we want to remind people is that we do this because the city councillors are refusing to provide water and sanitation to people hardest hit by the housing crisis for which the same government is responsible. It is murderous. People die. https://t.co/w8oEdRFPcS
Sat Aug 22 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
It’s the logic of disaster capitalism that allows a city to say it’s too expensive to house ppl living in tents during a global pandemic, to turn over million$ in leases to developers for short term shelter hotels, while evicting other people from their relatively stable houses.
Wed Aug 19 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Sign up for our newsletter using the form in the link in the bio https://t.co/1KT23jEpMn
Mon Aug 17 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
To be real, we've been asking for water for people living in encampments for months now. It's not the asking that's difficult It's the being ignored that's worst. https://t.co/2zaa65DOsn
Mon Aug 17 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
People comment on what we report from encampments (no water, no sanitation, NIMBY attacks, eggs and golf balls and paint and dog shit thrown at tents, people coerced and chased around the city by cops) is a "dystopian nightmare." It's actually just Toronto. It's colonialism.
Mon Aug 17 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
This article begins “Former wasted space under the Gardiner Expressway provides an ideal spot for a unique half-hour stroll” - people lived there. People could still live there. This space could be housing. This article is wasted. https://t.co/lVAwt3SyeH
Sun Aug 16 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We also delivered hot dogs and drinks and chips and ice to the Roehampton and Broadway. Nice day over all.
Sat Aug 15 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Neighborhood residents came through and said to us they were ashamed of the NIMBYs and that there really isn’t anything to complain about. They also learned about Naloxone.
Sat Aug 15 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We held a community care BBQ and hung out in a parkette, so people could drop by, eat dogs, listen to beautiful music, do yoga and learn about harm reduction. It was a beautiful day... https://t.co/7WQ1T2xefk
Sat Aug 15 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Today NIMBYS held a crusade and protested with Kathleen Wynne and Mammoliti in Toronto, just a block from the Roehampton, a shelter hotel where many people have moved to from encampments. Glad people organized a counter protest to this hateful crap. ESN did something different..: https://t.co/ckadYw5PIN
Sat Aug 15 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Mr. Cressy you don’t get to take credit for a collective COVID response. your government’s COVID response has refused water to unhoused people in encampments. Stop pretending like you’re managing this thing. https://t.co/wPd4PWe0vd
Fri Aug 14 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
It's wild now it's been 9 weeks of delivering water to ppl in encampments because the city won't. People treat us like an agency. We aren't one. We survive on donations to do what the city can and should do. Dehydrating ppl won't make them disappear, unless it kills them.
Fri Aug 14 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
I dunno if these people know what a crusade is... but from reading their copy it seems like they do! Brutal! https://t.co/cF3sPJXF3S
Wed Aug 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Honestly, In the past two days ESN watched this man be pushed to the brink. Now he is being institutionalized. He had been taking care of his encampment neighbour. Every level of authority being paid to create “safety”- S2H, Private security & Police- caused this. Stark.
Wed Aug 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Even in conversation with advocates police said that they got called cuz S2H isn’t giving people housing, and that there aren’t enough mental health workers. #DefundPolice
Wed Aug 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Cops took him away under the mental health act, against his will. https://t.co/xFj5woF31z
Wed Aug 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Cops getting paid to harrass unhoused people. https://t.co/XjBRezv94l
Wed Aug 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Now tonight after all that the cops are harrassing one of them. How much can one man take?
Wed Aug 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Nimby’s from the building above the eviction cheered on as the men were harassed. Same men had eggs, ice and paint thrown at their tents in day’s prior.
Wed Aug 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
People in encampments on the waterfront are endlessly being subjected to harassment by nimbys and the police They call. Today private security and over a dozen police showed up to enforce the eviction of 2 men who were living in tents.
Wed Aug 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Cops are instigating, trying to bully him to move out of his location, but he has nowhere to go. He was already moved today.
Wed Aug 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
There’s an encampment resident being harrased by cops at the Power plant. Six cops to 2 people.
Wed Aug 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Everyone for real Follow this account https://t.co/3aWEiCEld3
Sun Aug 09 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
wish that was the effect of the progressive city councillors. but with them it's just a constant come down. https://t.co/vlwHcOGqCD
Fri Aug 07 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
"I'm fighting for everyone to have their own keys....all I want is for everybody to be free." - Derrick Black All power to him https://t.co/PJ453550nl
Tue Aug 04 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
during this squelching time with nary a drop from government no working fountain but for the public's generosity Sports Drink is the top drink in the encampments we buy in bulk now looking for business owners in west end to donate space to harbour our large supply https://t.co/d6kZVvPNnv
Tue Aug 04 2020
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Sign up for our newsletter using the link in our bio. https://t.co/qe6V7wJe5B
Sun Aug 02 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
@auntiecolonial We want to connect with other groups in the struggle.
Wed Jul 29 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
If you know of an encampment support group anywhere in the world, or a group of people living in tents advocating for their rights, please reply to this post with their twitter account.
Wed Jul 29 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Do you mean the kind of safe and healthy life that allows access to affordable permanent housing solutions, running water and basic sanitation? Or do you mean back to the normal where landlords just kick out tenants and you turn your back on them? Can't be both. https://t.co/vbm7JuSn3K
Wed Jul 29 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The housing crisis is a real estate game.
Tue Jul 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
“We have the spot with the number one view. That’s why they want us out of here. Never give up.” - David at the silos following a week of evictions. He’d like to stay in his home. https://t.co/J7vNlykzr7
Tue Jul 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Yes, or the money could be used to create housing https://t.co/JR1T1rFNlz
Tue Jul 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
also you can still just email us at report.on.toronto@gmail.com with subject line NEWSLETTER ... just trying it all, you know.
Tue Jul 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Sign up for our newsletter using this form: https://t.co/UW8mOg1GWt Once a week we will update you on what absolute hell is going on in terms of city activity in the encampments we visit, tell you what we're doing, and share what we're learning. https://t.co/9lUDDjqj4w
Tue Jul 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thread about the city’s new shelter hotels and a historical pattern of warehousing and displacing https://t.co/tSLOqvTdrH
Tue Jul 28 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Tried many a time to order this truck to the encampments. City won’t do it. https://t.co/jysSlgspot
Sat Jul 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
ESN parkdale brought an ice cream truck and food benders to Lamport stadium on the day 27 people were offered spots at a shelter hotel at 401 & Kennedy. Those people are no longer Joe Cressy’s constituents. Many people remain but we hear they will be offered shelter hotel spots https://t.co/bMkcw5M5LQ
Sat Jul 25 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
All artists who did projects with the Bentway have to take a long hard look at how precarity in the arts is actually just precarity in the economy. It motivates us to participate in ludicrous gentrification schemes. Check your affinities. Build a world with and for everyone. https://t.co/kpykEogc12
Fri Jul 24 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
@centeringpendu1 That’s what I was saying. Counts of people are hard to find. Many people move and many people return. City data is confusing (perhaps on purpose)
Thu Jul 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
It occurred to me the other day, as people in encampments get carted off to shelter hotels close to Markham and in Scarborough, that Tory conveniently divests from the constituents he has failed to serve. https://t.co/ZE094yI18m
Thu Jul 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Stand in the place where you live
Tue Jul 21 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Ok but can 211 get water to the encampments? https://t.co/mw3SpY5gC1
Sun Jul 19 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
ICYMI - this is an ongoing situation that may culminate this week. Please read the 9 part communique. The people most impacted are Jamaican men living in Moss Park. Black Lives Matter. https://t.co/y47AJlxdcZ
Sun Jul 19 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Honestly, we still need street nurses & doctors to organize around this disaster. The resources available are not meant to address the concerned of encampment residents. Roving wound care clinics would be incredible. Who can do this? https://t.co/zydYWn24mH
Sun Jul 19 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Lots of simple wounds and scrapes become infected because people can’t get basic first aid. ESN Scadding Court is looking for First Aid Kits & more- see below. Do follow the instructions and email us. https://t.co/ka9EglmREv
Sun Jul 19 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Part 1 of 9 Communique from Moss Park https://t.co/HCcWEAh32A
Sat Jul 18 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
This is a photo of Silos and as of 2 hours ago none of the people there have been housed, in case there is any confusion. police don’t even roll through with water let alone housing. https://t.co/eOiTaJ4edu
Sat Jul 18 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Parks ambassadors tell residents to work with Streets To Homes(S2H), but S2H hasn’t come by Bellwoods- we know because ESN volunteers have been in the parks everyday for 5 weeks & Bellwoods residents say they haven’t seen S2H once.
Sat Jul 18 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The city spends its money on Parks Ambassadors, police and Streets To Homes housing workers who have no housing to offer. We have never seen the city come through with water - they disturb people in their homes, count tents and take photos of them. It’s surveillance not safety. https://t.co/1df82yc51o
Sat Jul 18 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Some snaps of Parks Ambassadors at Scadding Court and Trinity Bellwoods doing ‘wellness checks’ AKA tent shaking. 1030 am and it’s 30 degrees and they have no water. They never have water. This is why ESN brings water and ice to encampments daily. https://t.co/eWgFpHlZw1
Sat Jul 18 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thread: These are Parks Ambassadors. We have a responsibility to speak about their practices as our volunteers watch them in action daily on their wellness checks. https://t.co/UjW0qGJRA4
Sat Jul 18 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Another Saturday with ESN Scadding & This Way Up Collective who have brought delicious Jerk Chicken for residents! Make these actual leaders city councillors. https://t.co/THjWLinXk9
Sat Jul 18 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
End the Drug War. defund the police https://t.co/tRAxygvGSF
Sat Jul 18 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thank you so much! We will get it to the people https://t.co/c42YeA13lY
Sat Jul 18 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Just to echo a sentiment: defund the police and spend it on housing https://t.co/bWhjQM6G9H
Fri Jul 17 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Over the past 3 months we have seen MANY 24 hour eviction notices!!! We even saw a 1hr eviction notice. Settler by-law officials breaking their own by-laws.
Thu Jul 16 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
The city received a letter re: this 24hr eviction notice from a lawyer stating that the notice is invalid and doesn’t comply w/ requirements of Municipal Code Chapter 608, which are that a minimum notice of 72 hours is required by law. Residents were given 24 hrs. https://t.co/3IH1wM2ydF
Thu Jul 16 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
crucial update about Moss Park eviction notice https://t.co/O9OJvoN7LV
Thu Jul 16 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
It’s actually so wild to listen to this parks ambassador’s tone of voice. As though he is a gym coach asking for a student to pay attention, not a man evicting another man from his home. https://t.co/RWyOQwT7N7
Thu Jul 16 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Thread from ESN LNP spokesperson Nathan Doucet https://t.co/SxJcGNxSzE
Thu Jul 16 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
This is what happened at Moss Park today. https://t.co/RtPly7nh5V
Wed Jul 15 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Listen to Greg. This guy knows. https://t.co/SDMafKtES3
Tue Jul 14 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Wait ok how do we commit to making this happen? Mr. Cressy tell us!!! https://t.co/cAYSY3UKuF
Mon Jul 13 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
In case there is confusion, we are ESN_TO and we do not get funding from the city or work with the city, but we do find ourselves providing things that the city should be providing for people living in encampments, including water. But we're not going to rebrand. FOTO https://t.co/1arHaDXQhH
Mon Jul 13 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Wow, this guy sounds like he works for the city. https://t.co/ScEoDvmbj2
Mon Jul 13 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
does 211 deliver water to encampments? https://t.co/LOzr7ZJj7h
Sun Jul 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Residents in Moss Park encampment share their experiences with the city's initiatives to move people into transitional housing. Just because the city's not asking people what their experience is doesn't mean they don't want to tell you. This is Jen. https://t.co/5p6fFGkkfH
Sun Jul 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Reports from our different daily neighborhood encampment visits show a lack of health care available to folks in encampments. People are turned away from hospitals. People are afraid to go. There is a need for intrepid street nurses to organize.
Sun Jul 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
This amazing youth crew This Way Up Collective connected with ESN Scadding Park and provided delicious meals to encampments residents. The city administration’s indifference can break your heart but people like this really restore the faith in humanity. https://t.co/70L40LSrGa
Sun Jul 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
We did get a lot of tarps today. They are being handed out by all our neighborhood committees. Thank you for coming through. Got some dry bags for people also.
Sun Jul 12 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
water water everywhere but not a drop to drink from the city if you're living in a tent in a park because there is no housing https://t.co/870JYmnICX
Sat Jul 11 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
ESN Scadding Court special project - a t-shirt commission and collaboration between Wooly pictured here and Artist Maddy Matthews. Coordinated by Ginger and Hally and printed by Hugh. Reads “I Make Homelessness Look Good”... https://t.co/S48bnq5ojb
Sat Jul 11 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Weird to repost wise cracks about Trump, Mr. Layton as slums are being normalized in the city you help govern. Who cares if you talk a better game when Toronto’s pandemic response for unhoused people displays the same profit over people logic as Trump. https://t.co/Bjo4Bquld3
Sat Jul 11 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Affordable for who? Stop trolling us https://t.co/L7i9WJ9WFK
Sat Jul 11 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
A Word From The Silos ~ First dispatch from ESN LNP neighborhood committee. An anonymous encampment resident and friend speaks to his experience with Streets To Homes. Streets To Homes workers have the impossible task of finding people affordable housing in this city of glass. https://t.co/7dRXauXqaE
Sat Jul 11 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Some residents at Lamport stadium rely on the nearby grocery store washrooms to relieve themselves. The store scrutinizes peoples' appearances when choosing to allow them in or not. Hard to get past security when you haven't had access to a shower.
Sat Jul 11 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
"It is time to develop real, lasting programs to cure our social wounds, to end poverty, homelessness, racism and other manifestations and drivers of deep inequality. And it is time to challenge the structures of institutions that reinforce social injustice." https://t.co/X3FhSIG39N
Fri Jul 10 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
KNOW YOUR ROLE!
Wed Jul 08 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Why doesn’t the city follow the Faulkner report’s recommendations? https://t.co/B06VjC8PO7
Tue Jul 07 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Why is the Faulkner Repoet relevant today? https://t.co/RqSvkj0PPI
Tue Jul 07 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
What did the Faulkner Report recommend? https://t.co/2KR3RqSR8d
Tue Jul 07 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
What is the Faulkner report ? https://t.co/XzFuy0qY0l
Tue Jul 07 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
lots of people asking who we are we're not an organization we're just organized email us at report.on.toronto@gmail.com to donate or do stuff
Tue Jul 07 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Write to report.on.toronto@gmail.com if you want to donate. https://t.co/ZVYMTp4Sk9
Mon Jul 06 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Would be cool if the city provided individual cooling centres for individual people. They could each have their own kitchen, washrooms, a place for a mattress. 24 hour access. Even your own keys. https://t.co/3p6Ij8628s
Mon Jul 06 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Word on the street...right from the mouths of Lil Man and Jen Jen from Moss Park. Hear about the city’s botched relocation plans (full clip on IG). https://t.co/uYUz0sF0s9
Sun Jul 05 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
There are 60+people living there enduring toronto heat and toronto logic. It’s great to be able to do something special
Sun Jul 05 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
ESN members work with TOPS and moss park Ops to bring some nice things to Moss Park today... https://t.co/NAn4S81lkn
Sun Jul 05 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Special collaboration between the ESN Scadding Court neighborhood committee and encampment residents. https://t.co/IUOEdYQymF
Sun Jul 05 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
OK WHO ARE WE RUNNING IN THE NEXT MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS?
Tue Jun 30 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
"Shelters are full - Got no place to go" When politicians tell people to get out of the parks, where do they expect them to go? https://t.co/S8N36joAfD
Tue Jun 30 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
What are the solutions? #housingcrisis #HousingForAll #topoli https://t.co/dJVyeqgA5h
Tue Jun 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
What's wrong with temporary housing? #topoli #torontohousingcrisis https://t.co/SUCwPxbPs2
Tue Jun 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
What happens at an eviction? #topoli https://t.co/ha5OsAvW7a
Tue Jun 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
What's happening right now in Toronto? #topoli https://t.co/N9H7sfW1aA
Tue Jun 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Why does the CDC recommend not moving encampments? #TOpoli #COVID__19 https://t.co/mOOIW7X9mk
Tue Jun 23 2020
Encampment Support Network Toronto
Why would someone live in an encampment? #HousingForAll #topoli https://t.co/RHQb7GLbW9
Tue Jun 23 2020