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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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…
Killing Time – Addressing the Use of Segregation in Canadian Prisons
Prisons are built to deprive people of their humanity in order to punish them.
Low-income residents and community groups turned out in force to oppose 105 Keefer…
The last week of May 2017 will be remembered as another “freeway fight” in Chinatown’s history. Many speakers who…
We would rather have a vacant lot than another condo development
We join Chinatown residents and groups in united opposition against Beedie Living’s proposed condo tower at the…
Building confidence and power in low-income elder women’s Chinatown
I’m going to address issues raised on the first day of the hearing and earlier today.
One point is cleaning…
Beedie’s 105 Keefer condo tower threatens the existence of Chinatown’s most…
Good evening, mayor and council, I would like to thank you for allowing me to speak tonight. I would also like…