Dwayne always tells me that he didn’t like me when he first met me. He says he couldn’t figure out what my angle was.
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“Pigs are not our friends”
Joe was one of the first people to move into Anita Place. He is a builder.
What’s the use in staying in housing if I can’t have the person I love there?
Mama Bear was a founder of Maple Ridge’s last tent city across the bypass from Anita Place on Cliff Avenue, which…
Making Anita Place
May 2nd marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Anita Place Tent City in Maple Ridge.
Either version of the NDP’s proposed Tenancy Act reforms will continue the mass…
On April 12th the NDP government in Victoria introduced a Bill to reform the widely criticized Residential Tenancy…
The Volcano launches a podcast!
The first monthly podcast of The Volcano focuses on critiques of the foreign investment myth.
One, two, many tent cities
On Monday March 12th a group of homeless activists started a camp on the lawn of Nanaimo City Hall in order to…
Anita Place tent city forging a new anti-poverty politics in Maple Ridge
Housed and homeless Maple Ridge residents marching together for housing and against hate
On Thursday May…
The BC Liberal new-normal – A brief history of how we got in this mess
In the two decades after World War 2, Canada and the United States, alongside Britain and other Western European…
After the Fightback – Remobilizing labour and anti-capitalist resistance in…
When Gordon Campbell was elected to the BC Premier’s office I was a young activist, and an anarchist more by…