Open letter to the City of Victoria Mayor & Council and Island Health
Editors note: In a disturbing trend toward community policing as a response to state-sanctioned…
In Memoriam: Mary Dawn Vickers
December 19, 1966 - November 4, 2016
Heiltsuk activist, parent, and contributor to many communities, Mary was…
Remembering Art Manuel, leader of an intergenerational struggle to unsettle Canada
Art Manuel, former Chief of the Neskonlith band of the Secwepemc nation, and lifelong fighter for Indigenous…
Sad Siren Song
My name is Tracey Morrison. I am an Ojibwe woman who resides in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, BC. I volunteer…
Under an unjust state, break unjust laws – A call to revisit our strategies…
Our protests for social justice usually shout out in one of two directions: we shout against the laws that police…
Go ahead displace me, you’re going to have to kill me to get me to stop fighting
Well to be quite honest I only recently came to know what DISPLACEMENT means. Being displaced is first of all…
The only way to survive is to break the law – Vancouver’s DTES Economic…
Over 13,000 people are on social assistance in the Downtown Eastside. 5,803 are on disability, 3,068 are on welfare…
Expanding our sovereignty, not Kinder Morgan’s pipelines – Kwantlen nation…
When Prime Minister Trudeau’s government approved the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, the Kwantlen…
Sex workers must break the laws that deny us protections as workers
Criminal codes around the world have long been useful tools for oppressors. There are many ways in which laws have…
Our veins run with water, not oil – fighting for our lives against…
In 1971, Eduardo Galeano published The Open Veins of Latin America. His iconic title refers to the colonial…