Wanda Stopa was a founding member of Sanctuary Tent City, a camp in a wooded area off of King George Boulevard in Surrey. Sanctuary Tent City survived for almost a year, until the City of Surrey bulldozed the camp at the end of November 2019.
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Nanaimo “Wesley Warriors” fight back against the police displacement of their long…
On Thursday December 3rd, a fire broke out in the long standing unhoused people’s encampment along both sidewalks!-->…
Sanctuary Tent City isn’t gone, it’s layered in the earth
Mel Forster was a founding member of Sanctuary Tent City, a camp in a wooded area off of King George Boulevard in!-->…
Injunction hearing against Crab Park tent city begins, threatening 100 homeless…
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) has filed an injunction against a tent city set up in CRAB Park by!-->…
“This is our Sanctuary and we won’t let them take it from us”: Surrey homeless…
Sanctuary Tent City was catapulted into the headlines in early July, 2019, after the City of Surrey threatened to!-->…
The dead end of homeless nationalism: From refugee camps to tent cities, displaced…
At a rally supporting Anita Place tent city in the Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge in March 2019, supporters of!-->…
“I’m done hiding around corners and behind dumpsters”: Life on the streets after…
Wanda Stopa was a leader of the tent city on 135A Street, known as the Surrey Strip. She organized events and!-->…
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!-->…