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Chapter 14. Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction
Solidarity with Indigenous Encampment Residents
From: Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)
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The text examines the organization’s formation during the pandemic, driven by institutional neglect and service closures within specific urban neighborhoods facing isolation. It analyzes state-enforced displacement through police evictions and restrictions on public spaces utilized for cultural structures like teepees in parks. Finally, it connects housing insecurity to historical trauma and population removal while investigating criminalized Indigeneity and advocating abolitionist frameworks prioritizing treaty relationships over welfare mechanisms for structural change.
Contributors
Brianna Pitawanakwat Olson
Craig Fortieris a Tkaronto/Toronto based scholar and community organizer. They have worked as a social worker in housing, youth organizing, and non-profit funding organizations while also organizing with migrant justice, queer/trans*, anti-capitalist, and Indigenous solidarity movements. Currently, they are an associate professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo) and are the author of Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism.
