I woke up the morning of September 11th 2001 to a man shouting from a dirt road near the shack I had built on Haida Gwaii. He was driving back and forth so every dirty hippie mushroom picker could get the news. I had to wait until he circled around again to catch what he was saying. “They bombed the…
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Emergency call to action to save 3,000 units of rental housing in Metrotown
This Saturday November 12th marchers will take the streets around Metrotown to protest against the city…
Common Language, Common Struggle – Defining the Terms of Our Times
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Abolish private property – How to bridge the home-ownership and home-less…
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Reading Rosa
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Metrotown residents speak out against yet another Corrigan demoviction
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Trudeau’s “new” housing strategy revealed as same old neoliberalism at Vancouver…
On Wednesday September 14 the Trudeau Liberals held a consultation meeting in Vancouver for a “new national…
BC Supreme Court backs developer’s private property rights over homeless peoples’…
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