On Thursday July 26th, campers and supporters responded to Nanaimo Fire Chief Karen Fry’s threats against the city’s two-month old homeless camp, called Discontent City, with a rally against the punitive and unreasonable fire order. Discontent City residents and supporters, including friends from…
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Is anti-homeless hate right wing extremism or government policy?
Since Discontent City opened on May 17th, there have been hundreds of vigilante threats made against the camp and…
Spontaneous Overdose Prevention is Not Enough
On June 27th, six weeks after the founding of Discontent City, we experienced an overdose related death.…
“If they break up this camp they’ll put us back out to get beat on more”
On July 16th, Discontent City will appear in BC Supreme Court to oppose the City of Nanaimo’s application for…
“The City towed my van and it’s all I have in the world”
The homeless count for 2018 reported that there are 350 people living on the streets in Nanaimo. This…
Women in Tent Cities are fighting back against patriarchy!
Women in tent cities are organizing themselves to band together and fight back against patriarchal violence. The…
“We don’t have the right to be here but we have the power”
The City of Nanaimo set the morning of Tuesday May 29th as the deadline to obey a trespass order they served to…
Arrests in Nanaimo as homeless campers resist an attempt by RCMP and the City to…
Five residents and supporters from Nanaimo’s DisconTent City were briefly arrested in the morning of Tuesday, May…
Discontent City’s space of resistance provides relief for homeless people besieged…
On Thursday, May 17, 2018, a new tent city emerged in an unused city lot on the port lands above the railway tracks…
DisconTent City Founding Declaration
"We homeless, low-income communities are the heart and soul of Nanaimo. "