Hello my name is Mark Lee. 我叫陳德聰 I am a community interpreter and translator who has been volunteering with Youth For Chinese Seniors since August 2015. I am here to support Chinatown seniors, low-income residents and the many other hardworking members of our community who have come here to be…
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Ten Year and Anita Place Tent Cities: Security for the homeless, sites of struggle…
For those who are evicted and displaced, tent cities have become spaces of survival and also of resistance. By…
Ten Year Tent City beats Vancouver in Court!
Supreme court decision affirms the value of homeless people lives over the City’s property rights
On May…
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…
Community Spotlight – Jean Swanson, a life against poverty: By Sarah…
For our issue on the BC Liberal legacy, Volcano editors turned to our Community Spotlight on a legacy of our…
Just Imagine! Rest, music, and the richness of life in the Downtown Eastside…
Just Imagine…. For thousands of years, right up to relatively recent times, what we now know as Vancouver’s…
“How To Remember” – Downtown Eastside art exhibit holds steadfast against…
At Gallery Gachet until May 7
In the earnest and thought provoking exhibition “How to Remember,” local artists…
Women supporting Women in the Downtown Eastside
This article originally appeared in the Downtown East newspaper – the precursor to The Volcano – in February…
Shelter residents: ‘Closing shelters is a human rights violation’
Originally published on the CCAP website: http://carnegieaction.org
While the City Council is discussing a new…
Inaction about Soldiers of Odin a Threat in Vancouver
The attack by Soldier Odin on anti-racist protesters on Sunday, March 26th to mark the International Day to…