We acknowledge that the Schoolhouse Squat is on the territory of the Snuneymuxw nation, treatied in the 1854 “Douglas” Treaty, which guarantees Snuneymuxw sovereignty over their lands and waters, and which Canada does not honour. The Schoolhouse Squat is not making a claim to title or ownership of…
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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…
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…
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…
Take to the streets to fight the far right
The last decade has seen the rise of far right, anti-immigrant, white supremacists groups across the world, from…
Homes not Nazis!
This weekend, in Portland Oregon and Nanaimo British Columbia, the descendants of the worst relics of history’s…
How I Celebrated Pride: Fighting fascism in British Columbia’s peripheral cities
On Sunday August 5th, 2018 the 40th annual Vancouver Pride march took place. At the same time, the fascist…