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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹

@derrickokeefe.bsky.social

741 followers 459 following 150 posts

Vancouver-based writer, editor, non-profit worker & volunteer, community advocate, dad ... and candidate for Vancouver School Board with COPE. #323 on the ballot

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The first advance voting day is October 3rd, the date Ken Sim declared Chip Wilson Day in Vancouver. Plan ahead to celebrate Chip Wilson Day: vancouver.ca/election/202...

Ken Sim, Summer and Chip Wilson, Peter Meiszner. Chip is holding the official City proclamation.

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's still dog days of summer. The People's Primary is just getting going here...

New York City 2025 Democratic Primary poll tracking charted. Primary winner Zohran Mamdani shown polling in single digits in early polls.

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thinking about pitching @lrb.co.uk a piece on how classic books can in fact be adapted with significant changes into compelling films. Thx @pfbvan.bsky.social for this great summer read.

Book cover: First Blood, by David Morrell.

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Today I'm reminded of the passage in Mark Carney's book "Value(s)" in which he reflects on touring the vaults of gold bars beneath the Bank of England with climate activist Greta Thunberg.

“That gilded hoard, nominally of great value, lying inert in a basement mocked the earlier conversation about the resources needed to fight climate change. With her, you are always conscious of misplaced priorities, of the time slipping away, of the need to rearrange national priorities and act. Now…

Greta Thunberg and the movement she represents give hope that society won’t settle. It won’t settle for worthy statements followed by futile gestures. It won’t settle for countries having plans for 2.8C of warming that they then don’t even meet. It won’t settle for companies that preach green but don’t manage their carbon footprints. It won’t settle for financial institutions who can’t tell whether their investments and loans are on the right or wrong side of climate history.”

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Even Ken Sim's denials are damning. We need leaders who read, write, and think for themselves rather than incuriously worshipping the corporate algorithms and regurgitating their logic.

Sim says he used AI technology for personal learning, scanning news, tracking global and financial events, following “thought leaders,” and dietary planning.

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Back from a family trip to Chile. Last stop was the general cemetary in Santiago, to pay respects to the memory of Salvador Allende. "Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free people will walk to build a better society."

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Recommended reading, against the Donroe Doctrine... Finally finished Greg Grandin's latest doorstopper last week, an ambitious history and deep dive on Latin America's contributions to the development of international law in opposition to empire(s).

America, America: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Having volunteered on and helped run socialist campaigns at the municipal level a few times here in Vancouver, what a joy it is to see the bar raised so spectacularly. May Zohran Mamdani's historic win inspire us all to continue and to scale-up our political courage & the audacity of our efforts.

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

THE GOOD CANADIAN premieres today on CBC & APTN, also available on CBC Gem & APTN Lumi. I hope you will take the time to watch this important movie that connects the dots between the injustices faced by Indigenous people. Proud to have been a researcher on this project. #truthandreconciliation

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Beautiful new courts at Britannia. Great work by local community in collab with the non-profit Buckets and Borders. Imagine if we properly invested in social infrastructure in Vancouver: every school and public park could have courts/art like this!

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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