On the morning of Wednesday April 21st dozens of city workers showed up at Strathcona Park’s tent city with garbage trucks, backhoes, and blue fencing, chaperoned by police and park rangers. Sadie, who had been living at camp for two months, found out they were coming because another resident…
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Injunction hearing against Crab Park tent city begins, threatening 100 homeless…
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) has filed an injunction against a tent city set up in CRAB Park by…
“I believe in the future”: A Black Indigenous woman’s struggle for home, family,…
Karen Juanita Lane is a long-time activist and resident of the DTES who reached out to Red Braid in March to ask…
Justice For Vanesa Campos! France’s anti-sex work laws are killing migrant trans…
While Vanesa’s murder was committed by multiple men who were attempting to rob her client, her killing was not an…
Remembering Harold Lavender, founding editor of the Downtown East and Volcano…
Harold was committed to making radical politics real: they believed radical left and anti-colonial ideas are the…
Trans women and sex workers’ struggles are not secondary in anti-poverty and…
On May 1st, Vancouver’s Chinatown Action Group (CAG) released a public statement defending Yuly Chan, one of…
Public Protest for Housing Justice in the Downtown Eastside
On Tuesday May 1st, members of Our Homes Can't Wait (OHCW) coalition staged a public protest by blocking entrances…
No Pill For This Ill: The Downtown Eastside community launches a report and vision…
In mid-April 2018, the Downtown Eastside community in Vancouver, B.C. launched a report and vision for mental…
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…