On July 16th, Discontent City will appear in BC Supreme Court to oppose the City of Nanaimo’s application for an injunction to break up the tent city that has so quickly become home to more than 200 homeless people. The City’s arguments for a Court order to displace the camp are typical of…
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Urban Indigenous women lead the fight against colonization and capitalism in BC’s…
Canada’s housing crisis exposes and carries on colonial legacies by disproportionately impacting Indigenous…
Surrey preparing to “make homelessness illegal” after shuttling the 135A Strip…
Politicians are celebrating the news that the 135A “Surrey Strip” is going indoors as social workers have begun…
“We don’t have the right to be here but we have the power”
The City of Nanaimo set the morning of Tuesday May 29th as the deadline to obey a trespass order they served to…
Housing and health self-determination not re-institutionalization
On the evening of Tuesday, May 29, Maple Ridge City Council lined up with the mob of anti-homeless Ridgeilantes and…
Anita Place Tent City vision for self-determined homes and health care
200 Homeless People Need 200 Apartments to Decamp Anita Place
Maple Ridge Tent City announces negotiations with…
Arrests in Nanaimo as homeless campers resist an attempt by RCMP and the City to…
Five residents and supporters from Nanaimo’s DisconTent City were briefly arrested in the morning of Tuesday, May…
Discontent City’s space of resistance provides relief for homeless people besieged…
On Thursday, May 17, 2018, a new tent city emerged in an unused city lot on the port lands above the railway tracks…
DisconTent City Founding Declaration
"We homeless, low-income communities are the heart and soul of Nanaimo. "
From Apartment Renoviction to Anita Place Tent City
I met Libby when I knocked on her door in an apartment building up the street from Anita Place Tent City.