Experiences from Alliance Against Displacement
On May 4th, 2019 the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users hosted a panel Imperialism, The Drug War, and the War on the Poor. The purpose of the panel was to explore how imperialism, the forced expansion of capitalist economy into the third world, is…
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Surrey
Should Surrey keep the RCMP or create a municipal police force? Neither.
The Surrey Board of Trade (SBOT), a business lobby group with a history of pushing for the criminalization of poor…
We can’t vote away police violence: Elections and policing in Surrey
The following is based on Lenee Son's talk, prepared in collaboration with Isabel Krupp, at Alliance Against…
Surrey Government Cuts Millions in Social Projects to Fund Police
On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 mayor Doug McCallum announced that Surrey is going ahead with creating a new municipal…
Surrey rallies against police power as a new abolitionist campaign takes to the…
“Communities Not Cops: Divest From Police, Invest In People” – this was the theme of a rally and march that…
Divest from Police, Invest in People: Organizing Against Police Power in Surrey
Anti-Police Power Surrey is organizing to push back against the relentless expansion of police power and calling…
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…
Cops Everywhere, Justice Nowhere: Layers of Policing in Surrey
The investment-based economies and social program cuts of neoliberal austerity regimes create crises within working…
Moral Panic and Racist Anxieties: Entrenching Police Power through Surrey’s…
On July 3rd, almost nine months after it was formed, the City of Surrey’s Task Force on Gang Violence…
Fighting police power across Turtle Island: Lessons from Oakland’s Anti…
The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition based in…