After losing the injunction, campers relocated from Regina Park to Ravine Way, where they were hit with a trespass notice from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. The camp responded with a statement asserting that displacing them from the sanctuary of the site would violate their…
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Urban Indigenous women lead the fight against colonization and capitalism in BC’s…
Canada’s housing crisis exposes and carries on colonial legacies by disproportionately impacting Indigenous…
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…
Four Principles for a Tent Cities Movement: Drafted at Super InTent City Victoria,…
Drafted by a convergence of homeless people from across southern BC who converged on Super InTent City Victoria,…
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…
Continuing the fight for Homes Not Jails
The political power of homeless people at Super InTent City won hundreds of new transitional and permanent…
Stop Displacement! Save Whale Wall! Fighting gentrification-by-playground in…
On Tuesday, March 21st, activists interrupted a City of Victoria consultation process to protest the…
Open letter to the City of Victoria Mayor & Council and Island Health
Editors note: In a disturbing trend toward community policing as a response to state-sanctioned…
New Year, Same Fight – Resisting cops as mental health workers in Victoria
On January 9, acting Victoria Police (VicPD) Chief Del Manak requested that Victoria City Council add…
End the War on Drug Dealers
On July 16, 2015, the Victoria Police Department issued warrants for 16 suspected drug dealers accused of preying…