On Wednesday April 28th the Surrey Street Council held a “ceremony of stolen lives” for friends, family, and members of the community who, in the words of organizer Isabel Krupp, “died before their time, killed by an unjust system.” Through the evening fifty people came to hold candles, share…
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Whose 1919? David Lester’s Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike and the…
As I finish writing this review, sore from a workday ferrying documents here and there for the bourgeois juridical…
The Idea of May Day on the March: By Rosa Luxemburg
For this month’s Our Legacies column, we are publishing an article that revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg wrote,…
From Apartment Renoviction to Anita Place Tent City
I met Libby when I knocked on her door in an apartment building up the street from Anita Place Tent City.
Homelessness and the Overdose Crisis are Designed this Way
Dwayne always tells me that he didn’t like me when he first met me. He says he couldn’t figure out what my angle…
“Pigs are not our friends”
Joe was one of the first people to move into Anita Place. He is a builder.
What’s the use in staying in housing if I can’t have the person I love there?
Mama Bear was a founder of Maple Ridge’s last tent city across the bypass from Anita Place on Cliff Avenue, which…
Making Anita Place
May 2nd marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Anita Place Tent City in Maple Ridge.
Just Imagine! Rest, music, and the richness of life in the Downtown Eastside…
Just Imagine…. For thousands of years, right up to relatively recent times, what we now know as Vancouver’s…
Sun Peaks to Geneva – Playgrounds and Fortresses
Excerpted with permission from Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief…