On June 13th, Tri-Cities homeless activists and supporters launched the ‘We Exist’ tent city to create a space to be for homeless community and to fight for homes for all. The camp was immediately broken up by the RCMP, acting on a pre-existing encampment “operations” plan prepared in advance by…
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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…
From Camp Namegans to marching as one
On Saturday September 29th, the community that has been marching and fighting alongside the Namegans homeless in…