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.
On January 20th, CBC Radio’s Early…
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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…