Wanda Stopa was a leader of the tent city on 135A Street, known as the Surrey Strip. She organized events and actions, including a rally and march against bylaw theft and a memorial for residents of the Strip who passed away. In June 2018, the City of Surrey dismantled the Surrey Strip as part of a…
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Yearly Archives
2019
Busting Police Myths about the Clearance of the 135A Strip and Homelessness Today…
The truth about Surrey homelessness one year after the clearing of the 135A Strip is that homeless people and…
Whose 1919? David Lester’s Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike and the…
As I finish writing this review, sore from a workday ferrying documents here and there for the bourgeois juridical…
Sovereign Forever, Never Surrender! Vancouver rally continues the long legacy of…
On Monday May 27th, a “Rally 4 Indigenous Rights” event was organized outside the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) on…
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…
Gallery Gachet celebrates mental health and diversity in their new exhibit, “Mad…
As a part of an international Mad Pride movement, this particular exhibit that runs at Vancouver’s Gallery Gachet…
BC NDP orders RCMP to shut down Ridge Meadows Overdose Prevention Site
In BC, the rapid expansion of harm reduction services has prevented more than 3,000 possible overdose deaths…
“We’re always under suspicion”: Surrey youth contend with their…
Anti-Police Power Surrey's (APPS) high school workshop, A Thin Blue Line? Thinking Critically About Policing,…
Possibilities emerging beyond a “Real Estate State”
Academics and housing activists meet in Vancouver for a discussion of the limits and potentials of urban planning…
Infiltrating the imaginations of children at RCMP Surrey’s “Police Week” 2019
On Saturday May 11th, the RCMP held an open house at their Surrey headquarters to launch “police week,” an annual…