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The typical “7k marathon” day of a homeless woman in Nanaimo
I was talking to a friend of mine who does outreach the other day and we both came up with the same word to…
Nanaimo “Wesley Warriors” fight back against the police displacement of their long…
On Thursday December 3rd, a fire broke out in the long standing unhoused people’s encampment along both sidewalks…
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…
The eviction of Nanaimo’s Discontent City will be slower and less prisoncampified,…
Rather than a sudden break, where the 300 to 400 people living in the camp would be uprooted and scattered across…
Who destroyed Rutherford Elementary? Separating myth from fact about Nanaimo’s…
Apart from the doors knocked in by police battering rams, the dozen or so nails hammered into the roof to hang…
“You idiots, we’re fighting for you!”: Homeless people as revolutionary…
The second, deeper basis of Dwayne's point is that in a political landscape dominated by right wing austerity…
They get elected, we get evicted: Going beyond the inoffensive reforms of…
The 2018 municipal elections in British Columbia are significant in two ways: one, they are dominated by “the…
Does Discontent City’s court defeat mean the end of legal fights for…
Friday's decision in Nanaimo and the earlier decision in Saanich means that the courts have joined the politically…