In 2007 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, commonly referred to as UNDRIP, after watering down the declaration drafted in 1994 by Indigenous nations globally into a version that could be acceptable to European-style Westphalian…
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April 2021
“Preparing for a hurricane”: Strathcona tent city braces for displacement
On the morning of Wednesday April 21st dozens of city workers showed up at Strathcona Park’s tent city with…
Tenants picket landlord’s mansion after he locks them out of their homes
For the past two and half months tenants at 6659 Dow Avenue have been calling on their developer-landlord,…
Warehousing Is Not Housing
VTAG in Solidarity with Unhoused People against Displacement and Warehousing
In May 2020, the City of Victoria…
A tale of two slumlords
Last Tuesday, I spent the afternoon walking around Whalley, a low-income neighbourhood in downtown Surrey,…
RTB orders ‘intimi-victions’ landlord to apologize, stop intimidating tenant
Last year, investor-landlords Bill Mitsui and Tyler Zhang purchased a low-rise apartment building in Maple Ridge…
Tracking Violence against Trans People in Formal and Informal Institutions
Bread, Roses & Hormones, a trans liberationist group affiliated with Red Braid Alliance for Decolonial…
Defining terms in Marxist Center
On the first weekend of March, Marxist Center, a network of socialist and anarchist organizations mostly based in…
The shipwreck of the singular: On the future of the Marxist Center
Red Braid members made two presentations at the Marxist Center's 2021 Convention: on “basebuilding,” a unifying…
Basebuilding means making revolutionary politics relevant
Red Braid members made two presentations at the Marxist Center's 2021 Convention: on “basebuilding,” a unifying…