The investment-based economies and social program cuts of neoliberal austerity regimes create crises within working class communities. To maintain this social order, that crisis needs to be managed lest it give rise to unmanageable resistance. Layered policing is an efficient, even necessary, means…
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Does Discontent City’s court defeat mean the end of legal fights for…
Friday's decision in Nanaimo and the earlier decision in Saanich means that the courts have joined the politically…
“They broke the camp site but not the movement”: Namegans homeless outmaneuver the…
On the day of their court-ordered displacement, residents, organizers, and supporters of Camp Namegans tent…
A loss for Camp Namegans tent city in court signifies a new period of homelessness…
Friday, September 7th marks a turning point for homelessness in BC. Supreme Court Justice Ward Branch issued an…
BC NDP escalate war on the homeless, displacing Namegans Nation tent city in…
After losing the injunction, campers relocated from Regina Park to Ravine Way, where they were hit with a trespass…
Moral Panic and Racist Anxieties: Entrenching Police Power through Surrey’s…
On July 3rd, almost nine months after it was formed, the City of Surrey’s Task Force on Gang Violence Prevention…
Another Day In Court: Pharmaceuticals, Prohibition & Passing The Buck
When the BC Government recently announced it would sue over 40 opioid manufacturers (including Purdue) for their…
“We’re not eggs in an omelette, we are people”: Burnaby finally embraces…
The vacuum that Mayor Corrigan and Mayoral candidate Hurley are jostling to appear to fill is between the NDP’s…
Take to the streets to fight the far right
The last decade has seen the rise of far right, anti-immigrant, white supremacists groups across the world, from…
Homes not Nazis!
This weekend, in Portland Oregon and Nanaimo British Columbia, the descendants of the worst relics of history’s…