JJ Bean Coffee Roasters, a multimillion dollar corporation with 21 coffee shop locations throughout Metro Vancouver, has launched a campaign to extend the power of police and business-owners against the disorderly poor, in defense of its own profits.
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Two observations about the 2020 BC election
To hear the CBC coverage, you'd think the NDP victory in the recent BC election means a ringing mandate for a!-->…
Tenants Fear a “Return to Normal”: Resisting Evictions during and after the…
As governments announce the roll-out of vaccines in the new year, both politicians and corporations are promising!-->…
Victims of police murder on trial: How BC’s IIO uses “mental…
In the span of one month, BC's police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Office (IIO), cleared RCMP officers!-->…
The story of Cloud City and the problem with BC’s $300 welfare bonus
Once there existed two societies in a place called Cloud City: Upper and Lower. Upper was “enlightened”: learned!-->…
Poor women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside respond to Trudeau’s $40…
On April 4th, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $207 million COVID-19 aid package for homeless!-->…
Squat 2 Survive Bulletin, Number 2
Including articles: Bailouts for consumers, starvation for the poor; Poor women respond to Trudeau’s $40 million!-->…
Squat 2 Survive Bulletin, Number 1
Including articles: RCMP evict Surrey’s hothouse squat but cannot stop the #Squat2Survive movement; Founding!-->…
RCMP evict Surrey’s Hothouse Squat but cannot stop the #Squat2Survive…
On April 1st 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of poor and homeless people and supporters took!-->…
Gentrification and COVID-19: Fast-tracking the death of Surrey’s poor
When the City of Surrey forcibly dismantled the homeless camp along 135A Street in June 2018, only 160 people!-->…