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Pipeline rally targets Kinder Morgan & TD Bank

flux — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 18:08:35 +0000

UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Anti-pipeline groups rallied outside a TD Bank and the Kinder Morgan Westbridge Marine Terminal yesterday. The TD was targeted for its investment in Texas-based KM's expansion of its TransMountain bitumen pipeline to the Pacific coast.

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Salmon protectors occupy BC A-G's office

flux — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:12:44 +0000

COAST SALISH TERRITORIES - Wild Salmon protectors occupied the office of BC Attorney-General David Eby today.

The protesters want the provincial NDP to withdraw fish farm permits from Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw and Namgis territory. The occupation was in solidarity at occupations at two fish farms.

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Thousands march against Kinder Morgan

flux — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 03:16:28 +0000

VANCOUVER - About 3,000 opponents of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion marched through downtown Vancouver today. Speakers at a waterside rally following the march called for renewed efforts to stop the twinning of the Kinder Morgan Transmountain pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands.

Chinatown: Up Against City Hall

flux — Tue, 23 May 2017 00:21:02 +0000

VANCOUVER - Chinatown residents met today In preparation for hearings tomorrow (Monday) at Vancouver City Hall on yet another luxury condo project in their beleagured neighbourhood. Up for approval is zoning for the Beedie Development Group's massive tower project at 105 Keefer

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Confronting slavery with Nevsun shareholders

flux — Wed, 03 May 2017 17:26:17 +0000

VANCOUVER - Protesters were on hand this morning outside the Nevsun Resources AGM. The Vancouver company is being sued in BC Supreme Court by three Eritrean workers for complicity in using slave labour at its Bisha copper mine in Eritrea.

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10 years later: new homeless camp, same site, same problem

flux — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:38:55 +0000

COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Homeless activists set up a new encampment in Downtown Vancouver today. The camp is on the same site where a homeless camp was held exactly 10 years ago.

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Fuck Trump: Vancouver welcomes Trump Tower

flux — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 01:16:49 +0000

Vancouver - Several hundred opponents of US leader Donald Trump gathered outside the garish new Trump Tower this morning. They were joined by a lot of Vancouver Police and a few trolls.

Inside, members of the Trump familty were offically opening the new luxury hotel, which many Vancouverites wish would change its name.

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Rally for 160 food workers axed by SFU

flux — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 05:44:14 +0000

BURNABY, BC - Unionized cafeteria workers at Simon Fraser University are fighting for their jobs and union representation. They held a support rally this afternoon that drew more than 150 members and supporters to the central mall at the university's main Burnaby Mountain campus.

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27th Annual March for Missing and Murdered Women

flux — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:25:35 +0000

Downtown Eastside - More than 4,000 people gathered in Vancouver yesterday in the 27th annual march for murdered and missing women. Healing ceremonies were held at several locations along the winding route through the neighbourhood where the mostly Indigneous women went missing or were found murdered. The march is held every year on Feb. 14.

Funeral focuses on DAPL funder TD Bank

flux — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 03:38:33 +0000

TD Rememberance Committee Release:

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Raising the Survivors' Totem Pole

flux — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 01:57:34 +0000

COAST SALISH TERRITORY - A monument to those who have fought racism and injustice was erected today in the heart of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

The nine-metre-long totem pole by revered Haida carver Skundaal (Bernie) Williams was carried down East Hastings Street and erected in Pigeon Park this afternoon as part of the Heart of The City Festival.

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Cops stymied - demoviction protesters demand talks with Burnaby Mayor

flux — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 23:17:06 +0000

BURNABY - The RCMP failed to talk demoviction protesters out of a vacant apartment building this afternoon. The activists have been occupying the site at 5025 Imperial in Burnaby for a week.

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Injunction served on Metrotown 'squatters'

flux — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 22:46:04 +0000

BURNABY - The owner of a vacant Burnaby apartment building was granted an injunction in BC Supreme Court today. A court representative posted the injunction on the building around 1:45 this afternoon.

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Vancouver rally denounces murder of Oaxaca teachers

flux — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 04:31:34 +0000

VANCOUVER - A rally outside the Mexican Consulate today condemned the Mexican government for its brutal repression of teachers in Oaxaca. The gathering came two days after police violence in Oaxaca that left an estimated 12 dead and as many as 100 wounded. Protesters in Vancouver vowed continued support for striking teachers and denounced the role of the Mexican government.

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Shareholders Shamed at Imperial Metals AGM

flux — Fri, 27 May 2016 20:40:06 +0000

RICHMOND - Imperial Metal shareholders gambled and lost today holding their AGM at the River Rock Casino. They were met with a noisy demonstration opposed to Imperial's catastrophic Mt. Polley Mine tailings spill - the largest mining disaster in British Columbia history.

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