Issue 5, Spring 2016

Cover art by Gord Hill, Kwakwaka’wakw

Features

Real Crisis, Fake Responses

By the Editors

When “rights” are not enough – Lessons from Tent City Resistance

By Ivan Drury and Ashley Mollison

“We Shall Not Be Moved” – Indigenous Land Defense on Lelu Island

By Dave Diewert

Overdose deaths provoke a public health emergency declaration but no action

By Volcano editors

No homelessness on stolen Native land? How demands for wealth redistribution can rely on colonial domination

By Natalie Knight and Ivan Drury

So much at stake at Madii Lii: An Interview with Richard Wright

By Sean Phipps

Guaranteed Annual Income – the good, the bad, and the ugly

By Sarah Sheridan and Jean Swanson

Canada Has Blood On Its Hands – Justice in Honduras Requires a U-Turn in Canadian Foreign Policy

By Mining Justice Watch

Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence

In Memory of Wolverine

By Karla Lottini

Occupy INAC – Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories

Group Statement

Caring Society vs Canada – foster care is modern day residential school for Indigenous people

By Natalie Knight

Revisiting the Tao of Deception in Canada’s colonial war on the poor

By Herb Varley

Prime Minister Trudeau and Reconciliation – The New Tokenism Is Still The Same As The Old Tokenism

By Brandon Gabriel, Kwelexwecten, Kwantlen First Nation Artist

Fracking poisons water, destroys fish, and causes global warming and earthquakes

By Harold Lavender

Homelessness & Displacement

Tent-in Protest Overcomes Barriers to Services in Campbell River

By Ivan Drury

Solidarity between tent cities strengthens their political threat

By Ivan Drury

Rent Supplements Subsidize Landlords

By Jean Swanson

Rental Housing Crisis in Victoria

By V. Adams

Learning from organizing against gentrification in San Francisco

Interview with Chanel Ly and Wendy Pedersen

Homeless on the Strip in Surrey

By Wanda

Grassroots “Demovictions” Report Warns of Metrotown’s Collision Course with Mass Displacement

By Ivan Drury

Federal Budget Dashes Housing Hopes

By Jean Swanson

DTES & Vancouver

Black Lives Matter from Vancouver to Toronto

By Natalie Knight

Access Without Fear

By Byron Cruz

La mission esta cumplida Lucia no era fantasma

Por Byron Cruz

CCAP working on “Community Vision for Mental Health”

By Harold Lavender

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside could become condo heaven with homeless on the streets

By Jean Swanson

New St. Paul’s hospital in the Downtown Eastside threatens to displace low-income residents

By Maria Wallstam and Sean Phipps

Lessons about “community inclusion” from the DTES Local Area Planning Process

By Trevor Wideman and Jeff Masuda

Jack Gates wins Residential Tenancy Branch compensation

By the Editors

Invisible Heroes: Aboriginal Stories from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

By the Editors

Homeless on the Stage

By Luisa Jojic and Priscillia Tait