We can learn a great deal from the state responses to Super InTent City (SIC). In contracting the Portland Hotel Society (PHS) in April 2016 to “manage” the camp after losing their first injunction application, the provincial government showed that when it is unable to use police against homeless…
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Inside the jail of supportive housing
Since Canada’s federal government cut regular social housing construction in 1993, homelessness has become the…
Violence on the Surrey Strip is rooted in criminalization and dehumanization
Over the last month, Alliance Against Displacement (AAD) has been holding organizing meetings on 135A Street in…
Chinatown and the collective struggle against displacement: By Jannie Leung 梁泳詩,…
Chinese Translation here: Translated by Godfrey Tang
The gentrification of Chinatown is a continuation of its…
唐人街和对被取代的集体斗争: By Jannie Leung 梁泳詩, Chinatown Action Group 華埠行動小組
English translation here: Translated by Godfrey Tang
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Trudeau just gave the go-ahead to the next Oka – Frontline Salmon Warrior…
The day after the Federal government approved the Pacific Northwest LNG project on Lelu Island, Chief Yahaan of…
Abolish private property – How to bridge the home-ownership and home-less…
It is easy to say whether the home-ownership and home-less housing crises are the same. They are not. It…
The ceremony of birth and Kanien’kehá:ka Mohawk ancestral wisdom
The role of motherhood in Kanien’kehá:ka Mohawk and Haudenosaunee societies
Imagining Turtle…
The global crisis of displacement is intensifying
According to the United Nations there are more than 65 million forcibly displaced people in the world. While the…
Resisting Policies, Changing Politics – Lessons from Oaxaca’s Teacher…
B.C.’s Minister of Education Mike Bernier recently fired the Vancouver School Board arguing that it…