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…
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…
“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…
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…
“They broke the camp site but not the movement”: Namegans homeless outmaneuver the…
On the day of their court-ordered displacement, residents, organizers, and supporters of Camp Namegans tent…
A loss for Camp Namegans tent city in court signifies a new period of homelessness…
Friday, September 7th marks a turning point for homelessness in BC. Supreme Court Justice Ward Branch issued an…
“The NDP needs to call off their bigots”
On Thursday September 20th the NDP-Green government of British Columbia agreed to a temporary halt to its 3-day…