On Friday February 8th, BC Supreme Court Justice Grauer released his judgement on the City of Maple Ridge’s application for an injunction against the nearly two-year old Anita Place Tent City. Justice Grauer granted the City of Maple Ridge most of what it asked for: enforcement power for two fire…
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Defend the Schoolhouse Four and break the back of property rights!
Alliance Against Displacement statement about dropped and remaining criminal charges from the Nanaimo Schoolhouse…
Burnaby’s Housing Task Farce: A developer-heavy housing task force won’t…
In his neighbourhood of Metrotown, Alaidjah sees lots of homes being built, “but not affordable homes”. At a press…
Politics are happening in the streets not in city hall: Lessons from Burnaby’s…
The following is based on Cecile Revaux's talk at Alliance Against Displacement's panel on BC's municipal…
Vancouver’s referendum on Sinophobia: Another “socialism of fools” in the shadow…
This article is part of The Volcano's primer on Metro Vancouver's 2018 civic elections.
A tweet from a…
Anti-Chinese racism at the root of Vancouver’s progressive City Hall: White race…
The following is based on Listen Chen's talk at Alliance Against Displacement's panel on BC's municipal elections,…
The City of Maple Ridge argues at Supreme Court for the power to demolish homes at…
The City of Maple Ridge has chosen January, when the rains and winds of the west coast winter are at their worst,…
Tent cities and the right to be awake
Tent cities provide a place to be for people who don’t have housing or shelter, either because there are not enough…
Founding statement of Discontent City’s Schoolhouse Squat
We acknowledge that the Schoolhouse Squat is on the territory of the Snuneymuxw nation, treatied in the 1854…
17 Hours of Freedom! Voices of collective power from Nanaimo’s Schoolhouse Squat
“I’ve been chased around, I can’t be in the streets, I can’t be in the shelters. My only option is to go somewhere…