Poverty

2400 Motel and Jericho Hostel

Joseph Jones — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 23:57:37 +0000

A Case of Vancouver ADD (Avoidance, Desperation, Disappearance)

Hot Potato Homelessness

Have you ever seen a hot potato blow up? Well, the City of Vancouver has a magical hot potato. A potato that goes kablooey over and over and over again.

Open Public Buildings To Homeless - Surrey Mayor Should Open "People's House" to Homeless People As Temperatures Drop

Roslyn Cassells — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:35:50 +0000

Death from exposure, hypothermia constant companions of homelesss people and companion animals

Open public buildings to homeless people and their companion animals, or they might freeze to death on the street, it's that simple.

Innovative Policies Set Surrey's GreenVote Apart!

Roslyn Cassells — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 02:30:35 +0000

GreenVote Policy Platform Leads in 2018 Municipal Election

Oct.

Homeless South of the Fraser - compassionate solutions

Roslyn Cassells — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:32:26 +0000

GreenVote Housing & Homelessness Policy - municipal election BC 2018

October 12, 2018 Hard times south of the Fraser River…Surrey is the second largest city in the province, with a large homeless population and even bigger population of people in core-housing need…living in housing they cannot afford, for which they are sacrificing other basic needs in order to remain housed.

Surrey's Silent Spring - BC ministry manufacturing consent for ecologically harmful North Surrey aerial spraying

Roslyn Cassells — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 03:28:14 +0000

Local residents oppose biotoxin spraying in working class North Surrey

SURREY'S SILENT SPRING

BC ministry manufacturing consent for ecologically harmful North Surrey aerial spraying

for immediate release - April 12, 2018 - North Surrey, BC

New Trespass Order Targets Ten Year Tent City

Joseph Jones — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 04:56:44 +0000

Call-Out for Support 7:00 am to 10:00 am on 16 June 2017

BREAKING: Ten Year Tent City receives new trespass order from a new property leaseholder as the City circumvents recent Supreme Court decision

What: Press conference
When: 9 am, Friday, June 16th
Where: Ten Year Tent City, just north of 1005 Station Street

Political Fear Drives 105 Keefer Decision

Joseph Jones — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 05:32:05 +0000

Unprecedented Rezoning Fail

It's a shitshow. — Houtan Rafii, Vice President of Residential Development at Beedie Development Group (1:51 PM on 13 June 2007 in Council Chamber at City Hall, a few minutes before meeting began)

GroundWire | May 8, 2017

GroundWire Production — Wed, 10 May 2017 03:25:48 +0000

Palestinian Dignity Strike, March for Science, Future of First Nations Métis and Inuit broadcasting

This episode of GroundWire was produced on Holmaco First Nations Territory by Volunteers at the Future of First Nations Mé

Ten Year Tent City to Defy Trespass Notice

Joseph Jones — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 03:28:46 +0000

Statement Issued at 5:00 PM on 28 April 2017 by Alliance Against Displacement

Campers pledge to defy trespass notice and demand City and VPD not displace women-focused “10 Year Tent City”

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.

Slave Labour in Eritrea: Picket Nevsun

flux — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:19:42 +0000

Subhead:

Vancouver, May 3, 8:30am

Wed May 3

city:

Vancouver

Venue:

Outside 4 Seasons Hotel

Address:

791 West Georgia St

Cost:

free

organizer contact:

Daniel Tseghay 778.227.8849 dtseghay@gmail.com

Space Accessibiity:

Street

Vancouver - On May 3rd, at 8:30 in the morning, members of the community will join Vancouver’s Mining Justice Alliance outside downtown Vancouver’s Four Seasons Hotel (791 W. Georgia Street, Vancouver), calling attention to a local company’s use of slave labour.

GroundWire | March 27, 2017 | Ceremony and healing for Indigenous youth suicides, 5 days for homelessness, and west coast pipelines

GroundWire Production — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 18:58:10 +0000

This episode of GroundWire was produced on Anishinabe territory in Thunder Bay part of the Robinson Superior Treaty and home of the Fort William First Nation by Carly Forbes.

Headlines

Community forum on police brutality in Montreal | CKUT News

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.

Criminalization of Homelessness Continues

Joseph Jones — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 20:10:40 +0000

Thornton Park Tent City Forcibly Displaced by Police on Nov 25, 2016

For Immediate Release:

Criminalization of homelessness continues as Thornton Park tent city forcibly displaced by police on November 25, 2016

Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories

Tent City Vancouver, #JusticeforAbdiRahman, CRTC dismissal of Commissioner Shoan

GroundWire Production — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:33:10 +0000

This ep