whuh

A few years ago a callout was made against me. It exploded my entire life. I have said since the beginning that I did cause harm and I have worked to address that, but that it shouldn't have been a public matter and the things said about me are exaggerated and violent. As a result of the callout, several people close to me basically lost their community and their housing. Not immediately, but over the course of months or years because they refused to let me be completely isolated they were targeted for isolation themselves. Did these people deserve it? Some of the people who perpetuate callouts would say yes, but they didn't.

With all the local organising I've been doing against the mass evictions recently, I haven't really talked about what's going on with the local renters' union. Someone on the committee of my local branch took issue with me being there and had their friends file a formal complaint which they then upheld and had me banned. This was months before the mass evictions started, but the union is still in the process of trying to mediate this conflict. It's taken hours of union time that would have been better spent helping vulnerable people, and I've said at every turn that I'm open to talking things out with these people who, to be clear, I've never met. When the new landlord bought the estate I said something was fishy and that I wanted to take it to the union, but I only had one point of contact there who basically told me to just do things myself. I was only able yo convince the union to get involved after several families had already been driven out of their homes. Did those families deserve it? I think if that complaint hadn't been upheld those people would still be in their homes. Was that justice? Did it help the people I hurt? Did it protect anyone?