A call to action - QuakeLab

We've been listening to conversations about defunding police for the safety of the people we at QuakeLab strive to serve. We've been learning from the activists, new and old, community organizations and grassroots orgs who have been saying this for years. 

Ottawa, a city ripe for progressive moves, has a municipal, provincial and federal government that is not moving in the right direction fast enough. So in the calls to action for mutual aid as a consistent system and not crisis response, we want to be part of this movement.

We will support the organizations that are doing the response work the police. should. not. be. doing. We want to support individuals in our community who are struggling because of the inequities and injustices that make up the building blocks of our society. 

For every contract we have (including multi-contracts with single clients), we’re donating a percentage of revenue to local organizations that are doing this necessary work. At the time of this post, we’ve donated CAD 2000 between Hit The Streets/ Ottawa Street Medics and the Iglulik food bank fire relief Go Fund Me. 

As a team made up of women of colour, this is personal and our work is political. It’s our move to revolt against a system that refuses to listen to the rallying cry of the most marginalized. We’re also calling on organizations, agencies, big and small, based on their capacity to do the same.