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I am over here ruminating on this - wondering what it might take to create a unified body of social service workers/providers to speak as such in coalition. When I decided to speak out more publicly, I found that my peers (within my former agency/dept) did not... 1/ https://twitter.com/alexbobskers/status/1336150717074030592
step in to offer targeted solidarity but instead distanced themselves immediately and preferred to explicitly support and double down on collaboration with law enforcement. However - service providers from other agencies and orgs reached out immediately to show support. 2/
I feel badly that my hasty, emotional writing sometimes fails and I forget to make the distinctions in power and political location. I sometimes feel that the ways my experience has been traumatic causes me to speak from a reactionary, hurt place. But... 3/
it truly is my hope to connect build with folks invested in this work. And how powerful would it be?? To see a coalition of service providers that know intimately how the system fails our friends and families; that vision the kind of systems of care that should replace... 4/
the one that currently dominates. I hope that service providers do not only need to show up to protests or call in to council meetings as individuals pushing back - but that we can soon recognize a collective voice of ethics and principle and build power from that together. 5/
A corrupt, broken service system that relies on and enables criminalization cannot function without the cooperation of service providers that dedicate their love and labor to this field. 6/6
