Sanctuary Tent City was catapulted into the headlines in early July, 2019, after the City of Surrey threatened to displace the homeless camp. Tent city residents responded with a press conference announcing plans to resist the displacement of their home and community. Wanda Stopa, a longtime…
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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…
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…