On Thursday, May 17, 2018, a new tent city emerged in an unused city lot on the port lands above the railway tracks in Vancouver Island’s second largest city of Nanaimo.
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Yearly Archives
2018
DisconTent City Founding Declaration
"We homeless, low-income communities are the heart and soul of Nanaimo. "
Tenants in Hamilton challenge the international capitalist class
On May 1st, International Workers Day, tenants in an apartment complex in Hamilton, Ontario, started a rent strike…
Life After Death – Getting Harm Reduction Activism Out Of The Grave
The news that March 2018 holds the second highest overdose fatalities in the history of British Columbia is…
“One of the Most Ferocious Days our People Have Witnessed”
On Sunday May 13th, senior members of the Donald Trump administration gathered in Jerusalem for the opening of the…
Lessons from Brazil’s Landless Worker’s Movement
In May of 2017 the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or Landless Workers Movement (MST) published a…
Public Protest for Housing Justice in the Downtown Eastside
On Tuesday May 1st, members of Our Homes Can't Wait (OHCW) coalition staged a public protest by blocking entrances…
We Suffer as Women, We Struggle as Women
This article is focused on the particular position of trans women within the global working class.
The disappearance of urban Indigenous communities
Whose Land Is It Anyway: A Manual for Decolonization, edited by Peter McFarlane and Nicole Schabus. Federation of…
The Idea of May Day on the March: By Rosa Luxemburg
For this month’s Our Legacies column, we are publishing an article that revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg wrote,…