Mama Bear was a founder of Maple Ridge’s last tent city across the bypass from Anita Place on Cliff Avenue, which lasted for nearly 6 months in the middle of 2015.
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Anita Place Tent City
Making Anita Place
May 2nd marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Anita Place Tent City in Maple Ridge.
One, two, many tent cities
On Monday March 12th a group of homeless activists started a camp on the lawn of Nanaimo City Hall in order to…
Defend tent city! Our survival is our togetherness in the street
Anita Place Tent City sends our solidarity and offers our support to the residents of the former tent city on the…
Ten Year and Anita Place Tent Cities: Security for the homeless, sites of struggle…
For those who are evicted and displaced, tent cities have become spaces of survival and also of resistance. By…
Anita Place tent city forging a new anti-poverty politics in Maple Ridge
Housed and homeless Maple Ridge residents marching together for housing and against hate
On Thursday May…
Rally calls for Maple Ridge to lift eachother up and reject bullying,…
A call to reject anti-homeless hate and come together to end homelessness
By Stephen Milner
My friends I want…
Founding Declaration of Anita Place Tent City, Maple Ridge 2017
We, the street population, are the heart and soul of Maple Ridge. We are taking unused City-owned land to…
Homelessness, poverty, and the police state: Anti-election week of action exposes…
In the week before the 2017 BC election, Alliance Against Displacement (AAD) staged an “anti-election week of…
BC’s real housing crisis revealed in Maple Ridge: Standing in solidarity with…
On Thursday May 4, I went to visit a tent city in Maple Ridge, which was erected a week before the BC election.…