The City of Nanaimo set the morning of Tuesday May 29th as the deadline to obey a trespass order they served to homeless campers at Discontent City. A statement issued with the order from Nanaimo City Council proclaimed that police would use “progressive action” to pressure homeless people to…
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The End of Mayor Corrigan’s Laughter: As Burnaby Council votes to demovict another…
At 11:30 pm on Tuesday May 29th 2018, immediately after Mayor Corrigan’s Burnaby City Council unanimously…
Housing and health self-determination not re-institutionalization
On the evening of Tuesday, May 29, Maple Ridge City Council lined up with the mob of anti-homeless Ridgeilantes and…
Anita Place Tent City vision for self-determined homes and health care
200 Homeless People Need 200 Apartments to Decamp Anita Place
Maple Ridge Tent City announces negotiations with…
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. "
Tenants in Hamilton challenge the international capitalist class
On May 1st, International Workers Day, tenants in an apartment complex in Hamilton, Ontario, started a rent strike…
Public Protest for Housing Justice in the Downtown Eastside
On Tuesday May 1st, members of Our Homes Can't Wait (OHCW) coalition staged a public protest by blocking entrances…
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.