At 9:30pm on Tuesday June 1st, more than two dozen RCMP officers from at least two detachments, along with bylaw officers and Maple Ridge's contracted private security guards encircled a small protest encampment set up in Maple Ridge's city hall park and, without a word of warning, tore apart…
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Olympia tent city resist City’s “scattered sites” management…
In Washington State's capital city Olympia, which occupies the lands of the Chehalis, Nisqually, Squaxin,…
Vancouver RV camp refuses to obey City-ordered eviction
For two years, roughly twenty people living in RVs and other vehicles have called the "East Van RV City" home. But…
Schoolhouse Squat criminal case ends with conditional discharge
Donate to the Schoolhouse Squat legal defence fund by cheque, e-transfer, PayPal, or GoFundMe to help Red Braid…
Surrey’s Ceremony for Stolen Lives remembers the dead with a pledge to fight for…
On Wednesday April 28th the Surrey Street Council held a “ceremony of stolen lives” for friends, family, and…
“Preparing for a hurricane”: Strathcona tent city braces for displacement
On the morning of Wednesday April 21st dozens of city workers showed up at Strathcona Park’s tent city with…
Warehousing Is Not Housing
VTAG in Solidarity with Unhoused People against Displacement and Warehousing
In May 2020, the City of Victoria…
A tale of two slumlords
Last Tuesday, I spent the afternoon walking around Whalley, a low-income neighbourhood in downtown Surrey,…
Abolish “the homeless” from autonomous working class and Indigenous struggle
The Volcano is publishing a series of excerpts from documents prepared for Red Braid Alliance for Decolonial…
Editor’s response to letters about the “JJ Bean” article
We received an unusual lot of letters to the editor about Isabel Krupp’s article, “JJ Bean is waging war on the…