On Thursday, May 17, 2018, a new tent city emerged in an unused city lot on the port lands above the railway tracks in Vancouver Island’s second largest city of Nanaimo.
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Police & Criminalization
“Pigs are not our friends”
Joe was one of the first people to move into Anita Place. He is a builder.
Policing Poverty: An Interview with Laura-Lin of the Surrey Strip
Interview by Dave Diewert and Lenée Son
Written by Isabel Krupp and Zoe Luba
Poor and Indigenous people are…
Killing Time – Addressing the Use of Segregation in Canadian Prisons
Prisons are built to deprive people of their humanity in order to punish them.
Made to Kill – The History and Role of Policing and Lethal Force in Canada
Police kill. That is what they are formed and organized to do, and what they are tasked with doing by the state.
City of Victoria Pledges Millions More to Cops not Homes
In the last three years crime rates have been decreasing, especially rates of violent crime, by as much as 10% for…
“There’s definitely an anti-Indigenous energy in the police here”
This morning three Indigenous defenders of the land appeared in court for the first time.
Back to the War on Drugs
The fentanyl overdose epidemic is a front in the escalating war between the State and the poor in western Canada.
“A white man’s freedom is more important than an Indigenous person’s…
On February 9, 2018 a jury in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan acquitted Gerald Stanley of the murder of 22-year-old Cree…
Continuing the fight for Homes Not Jails
The political power of homeless people at Super InTent City won hundreds of new transitional and permanent…