The inoffensive reformers are preferable to the free market fundamentalists, even though neither are taking steps towards resolving the housing crisis in favour of working class and Indigenous communities who are experiencing it as violence against their bodies and communities. There are three good…
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October 2018
Part 4: Shining Vancouver’s Reconciliation Brand / City Versus Country
The Four Progressive parties also make some overtures to Indigenous peoples, some using language like…
Part 3: Inoffensive reforms for the servants of the Professional-Managerial Class
The version of the “housing crisis” that is dominating BC’s 2018 municipal election in urban centres is one that…
Part 2: Chasing moral panic votes
In Surrey the number one election issue is “crime,” which means politicians across the spectrum are making promises…
Part 1: Free market fundamentalism / Progressives compete on a narrow political…
Free market fundamentalism
In Vancouver the electoral right has a slough of pretenders that are competing for…
They get elected, we get evicted: Going beyond the inoffensive reforms of…
The 2018 municipal elections in British Columbia are significant in two ways: one, they are dominated by “the…
From Camp Namegans to marching as one
On Saturday September 29th, the community that has been marching and fighting alongside the Namegans homeless in…