Interview by Dave Diewert and Lenée Son
Written by Isabel Krupp and Zoe Luba
Poor and Indigenous people are surveilled, controlled, and punished by the Canadian state. Not only are we policed by officers in uniform, who represent the “hard” repressive power of the state, but our lives are also…
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Income Inequality & Struggles
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…
Why we have homelessness
You have to be old to remember this: we didn't always have a lot of homelessness in Canada.
When I worked at the…
“We are too poor to afford anything” – new report uncovers the…
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In an area where over 13,000 people live in poverty having to survive…
Under an unjust state, break unjust laws – A call to revisit our strategies…
Our protests for social justice usually shout out in one of two directions: we shout against the laws that police…
The only way to survive is to break the law – Vancouver’s DTES Economic…
Over 13,000 people are on social assistance in the Downtown Eastside. 5,803 are on disability, 3,068 are on welfare…
Portraits of Regions in Struggle
Abbotsford—Dignity Village
Nick, one of the attendees from Abbotsford, explained how “Multi-family crime-free…
Street market or flea market? Vancouver City Hall continues to politically…
The City is planning to relocate the popular Sunday Pigeon Park Street Market to 501 Powell Street (kitty…