We, the street population, are the heart and soul of Maple Ridge. We are taking unused City-owned land to protect ourselves against the hostility of the government and property owners because we experience safety in numbers, and to improve our lives and better contribute to the community we…
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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.…
The class anxiety of Ridgeilantes: Uncovering the shared roots of homelessness and…
For those anti-displacement activists who showed up to support the low-income community at a BC Liberal-organized…
Cancelling the promised Maple Ridge shelter is part of a broader anti-poor…
Anyone who has driven Highway 7 east of Coquitlam since the summer will be familiar with the Ridgeilante…
Cities alone cannot solve the housing crisis and it is misleading to say they can
While living in the Mission area in 2013 I regularly picked up hitchhikers travelling on Lougheed…
Maple Ridge homeless camp faces community hostility
There’s a grassy area and a forested ravine just next to the Cliff Ave cul-de-sac in Maple Ridge that has been…
Family of Humanity (Poem from the Maple Ridge Homeless Camp)
May 7, 2015
We walk the streets
day in and day out
We scrape to eat and survive
that’s what it’s all about…