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.…
City of Duncan uses courts to displace tent city sending homelessness back into…
On Tuesday April 18th, the City of Duncan won an injunction against homeless residents who are camped at Charles…
Criminalization of homelessness continues as Thornton Park tent city forcibly…
Around 9:30 am on the morning of November 25, 2016, police arrested seven people at the new Thornton Park tent city…
Tent City Residents Displaced from 58 W Hastings Move to New Site
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
This evening, residents of the 58 W. Hastings tent city were ordered…
“We’re not going home and we’re not giving up” – 58…
On Saturday July 9th we set up a tent city at 58 W. Hastings in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. I'm one of…
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…
Voices from the Oppenheimer Tent City
It’s about 12:00 in the afternoon, on a sweltering day about 4 weeks into the encampment at Oppenheimer Park.…