Community members came together in Victoria on Saturday to honour the life and legacy of Shea Smith, an outspoken housing justice advocate who was killed at the cross-sections of the drug poisoning crisis and bylaw policies that criminalize homelessness.
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Shea’s death could have been avoided were it not for bylaw’s intensifying displacement efforts, said harm reduction scholar Bernie Pauly.
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“We need housed people out here with us fighting side by side with us,” he said, adding it makes bylaw “a lot less likely to do the things that they’ve been doing to us.”
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Gaarth Mullen, host of @crackdownpod.bsky.social, said Shea’s legacy will live on.
“Where once his strong voice crackled, we now hear radio silence. But the revolutionary never dies b/c we carry on his work. See you on the other side, brother.”