It is easy to say whether the home-ownership and home-less housing crises are the same. They are not. It is more difficult to say whether homeless and evicted people can (strategically) share a social movement for housing justice with those who want to own homes.
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No One Grows Up Wanting
All should have to live the life
That we were forced to do
For just a little while at least
To…
from *prison industrial complex explodes*
A poem from Mercedes Eng's forthcoming and second book of poetry, prison industrial complex explodes.
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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…
The veil of whiteness – notes on the Black revolts in Charlotte and El Cajon…
On September 20th in Charlotte, North Carolina Keith Lamont Scott was fatally shot by the police. Scott was a…
Looking beyond apology for the Komagata Maru tragedy
In May of this year Prime Minister Justin Trudeau created history by making an official apology in the House of…
Urban farming fight exposes gentrification, displacement, and colonization at core…
This summer, the City of Victoria wanted to change the Official Community Plan (OCP) to undermine urban…
Supporting the fight of Chinese seniors against gentrification – an…
Tell us a little about yourself
I'm Beverly Ho and I've been volunteering in Chinatown for a little over a year.…