Amina
@ayasinvan.bsky.social
Former WNBA player•anti-imperialist Pan-African•BAP•former Vancouver Planning Commissioner #newwest
🏗️cities are capitalisms playground for race-class struggle, and yet I love public housing, parks, trains, libraries, bike lanes & benches when we get them
🏗️cities are capitalisms playground for race-class struggle, and yet I love public housing, parks, trains, libraries, bike lanes & benches when we get them
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Amina
@ayasinvan.bsky.social
· Sep 14
Life is 1/3 exciting, 1/3 boring, 1/3 a nightmare, do with that what you can.
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42% of residents and 37% of businesses surveyed supported a 5% property tax increase in order to maintain the current level of services in the city of Vancouver
but wait there’s more
a lot more
1/?
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/doc...
but wait there’s more
a lot more
1/?
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/doc...
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
42% of residents and 37% of businesses surveyed supported a 5% property tax increase in order to maintain the current level of services in the city of Vancouver
but wait there’s more
a lot more
1/?
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/doc...
but wait there’s more
a lot more
1/?
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/doc...
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if LOTS of people sign up to speak and go to city hall starting Wednesday, that will prevent council from making decisions on the budget
since they are required to hear all the registered speakers first
Sign up here
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/spe...
since they are required to hear all the registered speakers first
Sign up here
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/spe...
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
if LOTS of people sign up to speak and go to city hall starting Wednesday, that will prevent council from making decisions on the budget
since they are required to hear all the registered speakers first
Sign up here
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/spe...
since they are required to hear all the registered speakers first
Sign up here
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/spe...
Ken Sims has never worked for the people of Vancouver, he works for those who hate the city and who want to gut it of all of its social services, its defining wins around sustainability and wants to turn the city over to those who are exorbitantly wealthy and only care about sustaining their wealth.
Vancouver has spent decades building up a now well-earned reputation for leadership on environmental sustainability.
Apparently, the mayor and ABC majority don't see the value in it.
Hard to imagine a better way to damage the city's brand.
Apparently, the mayor and ABC majority don't see the value in it.
Hard to imagine a better way to damage the city's brand.
NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Ken Sims has never worked for the people of Vancouver, he works for those who hate the city and who want to gut it of all of its social services, its defining wins around sustainability and wants to turn the city over to those who are exorbitantly wealthy and only care about sustaining their wealth.
This is precisely the sort of journalism we need much more of. The Pacific North West -Vancouver has traditionally, historically and clearly currently had a serious problem with white chauvinist nationalism, often hidden within “wellness and outdoor culture.” For those of us familiar it’s palpable!
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is precisely the sort of journalism we need much more of. The Pacific North West -Vancouver has traditionally, historically and clearly currently had a serious problem with white chauvinist nationalism, often hidden within “wellness and outdoor culture.” For those of us familiar it’s palpable!
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There is a street dance festival happening in #NewWest and #Vancouver at the end of this week. Tickets are on sale now with partial proceeds going to UNYA - Urban Native Youth Association, Hogan's Alley Society, and Pivot Legal Society.
OUROFEST International Street Dance Festival
OUROFEST street dance festival presents five days of performance, music, and culture November 13–17, 2025 in Vancouver and New Westminster.
miss604.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
There is a street dance festival happening in #NewWest and #Vancouver at the end of this week. Tickets are on sale now with partial proceeds going to UNYA - Urban Native Youth Association, Hogan's Alley Society, and Pivot Legal Society.
How the oppressed became oppressors for racial capitalism:
"There is nothing sadder to people struggling against oppression in Ireland than to see our own people being used to oppress Black people." -Bernadette Devlin
This has occurred in Canada, the U.S, in Israel & Liberia and we must be aware.
"There is nothing sadder to people struggling against oppression in Ireland than to see our own people being used to oppress Black people." -Bernadette Devlin
This has occurred in Canada, the U.S, in Israel & Liberia and we must be aware.
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
How the oppressed became oppressors for racial capitalism:
"There is nothing sadder to people struggling against oppression in Ireland than to see our own people being used to oppress Black people." -Bernadette Devlin
This has occurred in Canada, the U.S, in Israel & Liberia and we must be aware.
"There is nothing sadder to people struggling against oppression in Ireland than to see our own people being used to oppress Black people." -Bernadette Devlin
This has occurred in Canada, the U.S, in Israel & Liberia and we must be aware.
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“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Look at these performative bastards.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Look at these performative bastards.
The coziest Sunday is sinking into the couch and watching the psychological reality competition, the Traitors, the British version. This show is too good!
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The coziest Sunday is sinking into the couch and watching the psychological reality competition, the Traitors, the British version. This show is too good!
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Robert Held Witnesses Chilling Testimony in Chicago Lawsuit Against ICE
ICE is terrorizing and traumatizing Chicago
ICE is terrorizing and traumatizing Chicago
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Robert Held Witnesses Chilling Testimony in Chicago Lawsuit Against ICE
ICE is terrorizing and traumatizing Chicago
ICE is terrorizing and traumatizing Chicago
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The Budget Announcement giveth,
The small print taketh away.
😐🚌🚊🚎😐
The small print taketh away.
😐🚌🚊🚎😐
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The Budget Announcement giveth,
The small print taketh away.
😐🚌🚊🚎😐
The small print taketh away.
😐🚌🚊🚎😐
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It's Halloween. Everyone post your scariest neighbourhood photos. A coffee shop across from a house. 😱
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's Halloween. Everyone post your scariest neighbourhood photos. A coffee shop across from a house. 😱
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Our grotesque split-screen:
starving the poor / gorging the ultrarich
"With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars to giant private-equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real-estate investors, and a variety of multinational corporations."
starving the poor / gorging the ultrarich
"With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars to giant private-equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real-estate investors, and a variety of multinational corporations."
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Our grotesque split-screen:
starving the poor / gorging the ultrarich
"With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars to giant private-equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real-estate investors, and a variety of multinational corporations."
starving the poor / gorging the ultrarich
"With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars to giant private-equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real-estate investors, and a variety of multinational corporations."
Americans often lament about “Russian foreign interference” and lately we Canadians have been wary of American influence, meanwhile far too many right-wing Canadians have been interfering and getting a lot of air time in American political and governance processes (i.e Musk, Peterson, Chen,O’Leary).
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Americans often lament about “Russian foreign interference” and lately we Canadians have been wary of American influence, meanwhile far too many right-wing Canadians have been interfering and getting a lot of air time in American political and governance processes (i.e Musk, Peterson, Chen,O’Leary).
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They knew. They knew it was genocide. And they helped Israel do it anyway.
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.
New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...
www.huffpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
They knew. They knew it was genocide. And they helped Israel do it anyway.
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
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An Illinois Department of Transportation employee was stopped by ICE agents while working on a Park Ridge construction project Friday morning — and questioned about incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani before being released.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Indian IDOT employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was 'aware' of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking out about the incident, which happened Friday morning, calling it another example of President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem "continuing to question U....
chicago.suntimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
An Illinois Department of Transportation employee was stopped by ICE agents while working on a Park Ridge construction project Friday morning — and questioned about incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani before being released.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
The crack in her little voice trying to hold it together, as she revealed her grief to LaRussell and the audience was heart wrenching. And what a beautiful offer of stability and care from LaRussell when he offered her lifelong free tickets saying, “for the rest of your life you can come see me." 🥹😭
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
The crack in her little voice trying to hold it together, as she revealed her grief to LaRussell and the audience was heart wrenching. And what a beautiful offer of stability and care from LaRussell when he offered her lifelong free tickets saying, “for the rest of your life you can come see me." 🥹😭
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Do the thing that you can do.
Whatever it is, wherever you are.
The thing you actually do, however small, is of infinite more value than the most grand perfect thing you imagine but do not do.
Whatever it is, wherever you are.
The thing you actually do, however small, is of infinite more value than the most grand perfect thing you imagine but do not do.
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Do the thing that you can do.
Whatever it is, wherever you are.
The thing you actually do, however small, is of infinite more value than the most grand perfect thing you imagine but do not do.
Whatever it is, wherever you are.
The thing you actually do, however small, is of infinite more value than the most grand perfect thing you imagine but do not do.
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It’s worse than you think. This is his lawyer Rita Glavin who has been paid tens of millions of dollars to smear me and the other women who came forward. She has led his taxpayer funded litigation abuse of us all.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It’s worse than you think. This is his lawyer Rita Glavin who has been paid tens of millions of dollars to smear me and the other women who came forward. She has led his taxpayer funded litigation abuse of us all.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
Elon Musk (re: Neuralink) is our modern day Josef Mengele, one of the Nazi era authorities in the field of ‘racial anthropology,’ who conducted inhumane and deadly medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. The major difference being that Musk is a billionaire with direct influence in government
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Elon Musk (re: Neuralink) is our modern day Josef Mengele, one of the Nazi era authorities in the field of ‘racial anthropology,’ who conducted inhumane and deadly medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. The major difference being that Musk is a billionaire with direct influence in government
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I'm begging journalists to look into this. I know first hand how many schools/religious institutions/restaurants/sport clubs etc. had fundraisers over the past 2 years for Gaza and handed big checks to multiple organizations. Millions and millions of dollars meant for the people of Gaza...
People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza
From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented support for UNRWA, the UN agency supplying a lifeline to two million Palestinians trapped in ...
news.un.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I'm begging journalists to look into this. I know first hand how many schools/religious institutions/restaurants/sport clubs etc. had fundraisers over the past 2 years for Gaza and handed big checks to multiple organizations. Millions and millions of dollars meant for the people of Gaza...
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The Vancouver Police Department has already gone $17 million over budget. Now they're asking for a $50 million increase. The park board, meanwhile, is bracing for $15 million in cuts. #vanpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Vancouver Police Board wants city to increase budget by $50M amid mayor's tax freeze promise | CBC News
The Vancouver Police Board has voted to approve a budget request of just over $497 million in 2026, a $50 million increase over 2025's final budget.
www.cbc.ca
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Vancouver Police Department has already gone $17 million over budget. Now they're asking for a $50 million increase. The park board, meanwhile, is bracing for $15 million in cuts. #vanpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...