Tent cities provide a place to be for people who don’t have housing or shelter, either because there are not enough homes or shelter beds or because they are excluded from the homes and shelters that do exist for reasons like that homes are too expensive or that many shelters don’t allow couples or…
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Founding statement of Discontent City’s Schoolhouse Squat
We acknowledge that the Schoolhouse Squat is on the territory of the Snuneymuxw nation, treatied in the 1854…
17 Hours of Freedom! Voices of collective power from Nanaimo’s Schoolhouse Squat
“I’ve been chased around, I can’t be in the streets, I can’t be in the shelters. My only option is to go somewhere…
The eviction of Nanaimo’s Discontent City will be slower and less prisoncampified,…
Rather than a sudden break, where the 300 to 400 people living in the camp would be uprooted and scattered across…
Namegans Nation tent city evicted five times in two months
Despite constant attacks by the police, the public, and multiple levels of government, Namegans Nation has shown an…
Who destroyed Rutherford Elementary? Separating myth from fact about Nanaimo’s…
Apart from the doors knocked in by police battering rams, the dozen or so nails hammered into the roof to hang…
“You idiots, we’re fighting for you!”: Homeless people as revolutionary…
The second, deeper basis of Dwayne's point is that in a political landscape dominated by right wing austerity…
They get elected, we get evicted: Going beyond the inoffensive reforms of…
The 2018 municipal elections in British Columbia are significant in two ways: one, they are dominated by “the…
From Camp Namegans to marching as one
On Saturday September 29th, the community that has been marching and fighting alongside the Namegans homeless in…
Does Discontent City’s court defeat mean the end of legal fights for…
Friday's decision in Nanaimo and the earlier decision in Saanich means that the courts have joined the politically…