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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…
“I believe in the future”: A Black Indigenous woman’s struggle for home, family,…
Karen Juanita Lane is a long-time activist and resident of the DTES who reached out to Red Braid in March to ask…
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…
Kyaw Din’s family brings their demands for justice to the office of…
On February 20th, the family of Kyaw Din held a news conference and delivered a petition calling for “Justice for…
Inside the Hothouse Squat
It was a small walk from our meeting point to the squat, and we all walked in small groups to respect the COVID-19…
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…
Canada’s federal $107 billion COVID-19 aid package props up banks on the backs of…
Canada’s $107 billion “COVID-19 Aid Package”, passed on March 20, is a slap in the face to every working and…
#Squat2Survive! Homeless communities must take over vacant buildings to escape…
For our communities to survive, we need to do what the government refuses: house ourselves by taking over abandoned…
We fight for Wet’suwet’en sovereignty, the extinction of fossil fuel capitalism,…
Statement by Alliance Against Displacement
On the morning of Sunday January 5th 2020, all five clans of the…