Housed and homeless Maple Ridge residents marching together for housing and against hate
On Thursday May 11th the City of Maple Ridge staged an extra-legal attack on Anita Place Tent City. Bylaw officers backed by the RCMP sacked the camp, stealing about 10 tents unoccupied at the time they…
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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…
Four Principles for a Tent Cities Movement: Drafted at Super InTent City Victoria,…
Drafted by a convergence of homeless people from across southern BC who converged on Super InTent City Victoria,…
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.…
Open letter to John Horgan: Cut Anne Kang and stand with the People of Metrotown
Dear John Horgan, leader of the BC NDP,
On Tuesday April 11th, a group of housing justice activists with…
Community Spotlight – Jean Swanson, a life against poverty: By Sarah…
For our issue on the BC Liberal legacy, Volcano editors turned to our Community Spotlight on a legacy of our…
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…
It’s time to be moved to action against poverty
I can tell you all the facts you want to know about the state of poverty in our province. Over half a…