Red Braid members do the great majority of our organizing work out of the public eye, in the spaces of community struggles. We refer to this work as supporting the struggles of our social base. We have met groups in the US who refer to this sort of organizational strategy as “basebuilding.”
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Yearly Archives
2020
Tenants Fear a “Return to Normal”: Resisting Evictions during and after the…
As governments announce the roll-out of vaccines in the new year, both politicians and corporations are promising…
Immigrant Self Defence: Only the struggle will give us documents
The following article is a translation of a statement put out by the Black Vests in France. The Black Vests say…
Victims of police murder on trial: How BC’s IIO uses “mental…
In the span of one month, BC's police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Office (IIO), cleared RCMP officers…
Nanaimo “Wesley Warriors” fight back against the police displacement of their long…
On Thursday December 3rd, a fire broke out in the long standing unhoused people’s encampment along both sidewalks…
Sanctuary Tent City isn’t gone, it’s layered in the earth
Mel Forster was a founding member of Sanctuary Tent City, a camp in a wooded area off of King George Boulevard in…
A Surrey tenant’s fight against a slumlord
Johnathan has been living in his suite since 2014. In seven years, his landlord has only come to mow the lawn,…
Bowing to protest, Coast Mental Health drops its unlawful guest ban in Maple Ridge…
On Wednesday December 2nd, a group of residents of Coast Mental Health-run supportive housing buildings held a…
Publishing as a weapon
The news tells nothing but hate for the poor. According to the right-wing media, poor people are sick or bad and…
Lying cops, abusive staff, and needed housing: Life in and out of Surrey’s…
BC Housing is planning to close down 46 units of low-income housing this week, as COVID-19 rates surge and…