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“If they break up this camp they’ll put us back out to get beat on more”
On July 16th, Discontent City will appear in BC Supreme Court to oppose the City of Nanaimo’s application for…
“The City towed my van and it’s all I have in the world”
The homeless count for 2018 reported that there are 350 people living on the streets in Nanaimo. This…
Turning walls into banners
Editors’ note: A statement by Stop Demovictions Burnaby was distributed at the July 1st paint-in in order to…
Trans women and sex workers’ struggles are not secondary in anti-poverty and…
On May 1st, Vancouver’s Chinatown Action Group (CAG) released a public statement defending Yuly Chan, one of…
Urban Indigenous women lead the fight against colonization and capitalism in BC’s…
Canada’s housing crisis exposes and carries on colonial legacies by disproportionately impacting Indigenous…
Surrey preparing to “make homelessness illegal” after shuttling the 135A Strip…
Politicians are celebrating the news that the 135A “Surrey Strip” is going indoors as social workers have begun…
Gentrification & Displacement
Turning walls into banners
Editors’ note: A statement by Stop Demovictions Burnaby was distributed at the July 1st paint-in in order to…
Public Protest for Housing Justice in the Downtown Eastside
On Tuesday May 1st, members of Our Homes Can't Wait (OHCW) coalition staged a public protest by blocking entrances…
Indigenous Sovereignty
We have been bombarded by the propaganda of Justin Trudeau’s Federal and Rachel Notley's Alberta governments that the Kinder Morgan pipeline is in Canada’s “national interest.” When Kinder Morgan pulled out of the project at the end of May, Ottawa immediately stepped in with a $4.2 billion offer…
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Urban Indigenous women lead the fight against colonization and capitalism in BC’s…
Canada’s housing crisis exposes and carries on colonial legacies by disproportionately impacting Indigenous…
Legacies: Nakba and Global Imperial Power
May 15th 2018 marked the 70th year of Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestinian land, which the Indigenous…
Breaking private property and the challenge of fighting colonialism
In May of 2017 the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or Landless Workers Movement (MST) published a…
The disappearance of urban Indigenous communities
Whose Land Is It Anyway: A Manual for Decolonization, edited by Peter McFarlane and Nicole Schabus. Federation of…
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations defend the coast, and their sovereignty
Transcripts of a press conference held by Khelsilem (Squamish Nation Council) and Ta’ah (Amy George, Tsleil-Waututh…
“There’s definitely an anti-Indigenous energy in the police here”
This morning three Indigenous defenders of the land appeared in court for the first time.
Police & Criminalization
Policing Poverty: An Interview with Laura-Lin of the Surrey Strip
Interview by Dave Diewert and Lenée Son
Written by Isabel Krupp and Zoe Luba
Poor and Indigenous people are…
Sex Worker Rights
Trans women and sex workers’ struggles are not secondary in anti-poverty and…
On May 1st, Vancouver’s Chinatown Action Group (CAG) released a public statement defending Yuly Chan, one of…
No Unity with Transmisogynists or Sex Work Prohibitionists
Vancouver Rape Relief enacts violence against trans women
Vancouver Rape Relief (VRR) refuses to affirm trans…
Trans Liberation
On May 1st, Vancouver’s Chinatown Action Group (CAG) released a public statement defending Yuly Chan, one of their central leaders, against critiques that she holds political positions that are oppressive to trans women and sex workers. CAG is an anti-capitalist activist organization that…
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No Unity with Transmisogynists or Sex Work Prohibitionists
Vancouver Rape Relief enacts violence against trans women
Vancouver Rape Relief (VRR) refuses to affirm trans…
Finding Community and Trans Elders – bringing trans people and sex work…
Trans women and sex worker communities are no strangers to the death and disappearance of our friends and comrades.…
Trans women and sex worker communities are no strangers to the death and disappearance of our friends and comrades. Motivated by the recent pain of losing yet another of our trans sisters, who was found dead behind the Patricia Pub after being missing for a year, working class trans women in the…
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We Suffer as Women, We Struggle as Women
This article is focused on the particular position of trans women within the global working class.
Our Language – Transmisogyny / Transantagonism
Trans women experience misogyny from the same patriarchal system that oppresses cis women.
Migrant Justice
Sanctuary Health presents Access Without Fear audit
On the morning of Wednesday, May 23rd, grassroots migrant justice group Sanctuary Health presented the results…
Anti-Racism
The Volcano launches a podcast!
The first monthly podcast of The Volcano focuses on critiques of the foreign investment myth.
Pacific Rim Anti-Chinese Nativism and the Safeguarding of the Liberal World Order
An article is based on a talk given by Alliance Against Displacement member listen chen (陳聽春) at the “All…
Interviews
From Apartment Renoviction to Anita Place Tent City
I met Libby when I knocked on her door in an apartment building up the street from Anita Place Tent City.
Homelessness and the Overdose Crisis are Designed this Way
Dwayne always tells me that he didn’t like me when he first met me. He says he couldn’t figure out what my angle…
“Pigs are not our friends”
Joe was one of the first people to move into Anita Place. He is a builder.
What’s the use in staying in housing if I can’t have the person I love there?
Mama Bear was a founder of Maple Ridge’s last tent city across the bypass from Anita Place on Cliff Avenue, which…
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