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In January 2020, Walia was hired as the new executive director of the [[British Columbia Civil Liberties Association]]. In July 2021, Walia controversially tweeted "Burn it all down" following [[2021 Canadian church burnings|several church arson attacks]]. She claimed she was not calling for more arson, but said it was "a call to dismantle all structures of violence, including the state, settler-colonialism, empire, the border etc."<ref name="globalnews.ca">{{Cite web|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/8002314/bccla-church-fire-tweet/|title=Head of B.C. civil liberties group under fire over 'burn it all down' tweet|website=Global News}}</ref><ref name="Straight">{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Charlie |title=B.C. Civil Liberties Association executive director Harsha Walia at centre of social media firestorm |url=https://www.straight.com/news/bc-civil-liberties-association-executive-director-harsha-walia-at-centre-of-social-media |access-date=July 11, 2021 |work=The Georgia Straight |date=July 5, 2021}}</ref> She resigned on July 16, 2021.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lupick|first=Travis|url=https://www.straight.com/news/1343286/bc-civil-liberties-association-names-vancouver-activist-harsha-walia-its-new-executive|title=B.C. Civil Liberties Association names Vancouver activist Harsha Walia its new executive director|date=2020-01-06|work=The Georgia Straight|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref><ref name="CP16Jul21">{{cite web|url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bccla-leader-resignation-1.6106796|title= B.C. Civil Liberties Association leader resigns after controversial social media post|access-date= 17 July 2021|author= The Canadian Press|author-link= The Canadian Press|work= [[CBC News]]|date= 16 July 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210717125802/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bccla-leader-resignation-1.6106796|archive-date= 17 July 2021|url-status= live}}</ref>
Walia is the author of ''Undoing Border Imperialism'' (2013) and ''Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism'' (2021), co-author of ''Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration'' (2015), and ''Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside'' (2019).<ref name=":12">{{Cite news|last=MacLeod|first=Andrew|url=https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/01/10/Harsha-Walia-New-BCCLA-Head/|title=Harsha Walia: Looking Ahead with the New BCCLA Head|date=2020-01-10|work=The Tyee|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref>
==Early life==
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