[Image ID: Photo depicting highly militarized Vancouver Police. Screenshot taken from recent VPD Recruitment video.]
Participants and supporters of Vancouver For All are invited to learn about how we can work to build a movement to Defund the VPD and reallocate money to public services and community-led safety initiatives.
Date and time:
Mar. 19, Noon online.
Guest presentation by Meenakshi Mannoe of Defund604.
Vancouver For All is a grassroots, participatory platform, initiated by the DSOV, for the municipal election taking place in October 2022. Sign on to support our 10-point program: https://www.democraticsocialistsyvr.ca/our-platform
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DSOV recognizes we live, work and organize on unceded territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamism and Musqueam nations, and seek to advance decolonization in everything we do.
About the Speakers
Meenakshi Mannoe is a settler living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples since 2006. Her parents are both immigrants to Canada, and she was born and raised on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, on land protected by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum agreement and territory included in the Upper Canada Treaties, colonially-known as small town Ontario. This relationship to host nations and Indigenous people across so-called Canada demands accountability and interrogations of social justice work and praxis.
In her role at Pivot, Meenakshi works alongside her colleagues to envision intersectional approaches to ending the harms of policing and criminalization. She values Pivot’s uncompromising commitment to the expertise and vision of people with lived and living experience. Her work relates to the impact of policing on all aspects of Pivot’s campaigns. Meenakshi’s work includes producing public legal education materials, policy analysis, community engagement, and speaking engagements.