“We Shall Not Be Moved” – Indigenous Land Defense on Lelu Island
Since August, 2015, members of the Gitwilgyoots tribe of the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation have been re-occupying…
Fracking poisons water, destroys fish, and causes global warming and earthquakes
Huge fossil fuel corporations and their allies in government have tried to sell natural gas as a clean alternative…
Volcano Community Spotlight
At the rally for the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the tent city on Maple Ridge’s Cliff Avenue,…
Tent-in Protest Overcomes Barriers to Services in Campbell River
The tents set up on the lawn of the Campbell River City Hall looked like a tent city, and the space served as a…
Solidarity between tent cities strengthens their political threat
To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy: all well-housed people are alike; each homeless person is homeless in their own way.…
Rest in Power Brother Richard!
Richard David Cunningham 7 February 1961 - 23 December 2015
Richard was a member of Vancouver Area Network of…
Rent Supplements Subsidize Landlords
How can governments maintain the scarcity of housing, keep renters in crisis, and subsidize people who don’t need…
Rental Housing Crisis in Victoria
With a vacancy rate approaching zero, a fast dwindling rental housing stock, and low interest rates encouraging…
Overdose deaths provoke a public health emergency declaration but no action: By…
On April 14th 2016, after over a year and hundreds of overdose deaths, British Columbia’s provincial health officer…
No homelessness on stolen Native land? How demands for wealth redistribution can…
These days, a lot of thinking about how we organize our social movements is focused on the connections between…