Wanda Stopa was a leader of the tent city on 135A Street, known as the Surrey Strip. She organized events and actions, including a rally and march against bylaw theft and a memorial for residents of the Strip who passed away. In June 2018, the City of Surrey dismantled the Surrey Strip as part of a…
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Fear of a Tent City: The City of Coquitlam ordered the RCMP to break up ‘We Exist’…
On June 13th, Tri-Cities homeless activists and supporters launched the ‘We Exist’ tent city to create a space to…
The Legal Roots of Anti-Homeless Hate: Understanding the anti-homeless bias of…
In July 2018, Alliance Against Displacement held a panel in Nanaimo called "Poverty and Discontent: The Legal…
It’s no secret that they want us gone: Vigilante arsons follow on the heels…
Within a week of the City of Maple Ridge cutting power and heat to Anita Place tent city and deploying dozens of…
The City of Maple Ridge argues at Supreme Court for the power to demolish homes at…
The City of Maple Ridge has chosen January, when the rains and winds of the west coast winter are at their worst,…
Tent cities and the right to be awake
Tent cities provide a place to be for people who don’t have housing or shelter, either because there are not enough…
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…