The investment-based economies and social program cuts of neoliberal austerity regimes create crises within working class communities. To maintain this social order, that crisis needs to be managed lest it give rise to unmanageable resistance. Layered policing is an efficient, even necessary, means…
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Moral Panic and Racist Anxieties: Entrenching Police Power through Surrey’s…
On July 3rd, almost nine months after it was formed, the City of Surrey’s Task Force on Gang Violence Prevention…
Fighting police power across Turtle Island: Lessons from Oakland’s Anti…
The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition based in Oakland…
Surrey preparing to “make homelessness illegal” after shuttling the 135A Strip…
Politicians are celebrating the news that the 135A “Surrey Strip” is going indoors as social workers have begun…
The Future Lives Here! AAD’s new Surrey office continues multi-region…
On May 1st, 2018 Alliance Against Displacement (AAD) signed a lease together with Migrant Worker's Dignity…
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…
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…
“It’s gotten creepy down here now” – Police Occupy the Strip in Surrey
In early December 2016, the City of Surrey and the RCMP launched a new surveillance and containment…
When we see racists getting organized, that’s a symptom – Anti-racist rally…
On Sunday, January 15, the Coalition Against Bigotry held an anti-racism rally in Surrey. The rally took up…
Violence on the Surrey Strip is rooted in criminalization and dehumanization
Over the last month, Alliance Against Displacement (AAD) has been holding organizing meetings on 135A Street in…