For Immediate ReleaseJune 4, 2019 UNCEDED KATZIE & KWANTLEN TERRITORY (MAPLE RIDGE): Homeless and low-income drug users are calling a press conference to demand Fraser Health immediately open an Overdose Prevention Site (OPS) in Maple Ridge. For over two years, Anita Place Tent City saved hundreds of lives as an unsanctioned, community-run OPS. Now closed […]
Thursday, June 13 | 1:00pmOutside the Port Coquitlam Courthouse | 2620 Mary Hill Road STOP POLICE HARASSMENT OF HOMELESS PEOPLE IN THE TRI-CITIES! BUILD HOMES NOW! Homeless people in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and Port Moody are pushed into hiding by the “Tri-Cities Model” of dealing with homelessness by disappearing homeless people. Police and bylaw officers […]
Join the Stop Demovictions Burnaby Townhall this Wednesday, June 5 2019, 6:30-8:30 PM, at the 3rd floor of the Burnaby Neighbourhood House, 4460 Beresford Street (across from Metrotown Skytrain Station) The City of Burnaby has been busy lately! On May 13th, the Mayor’s Task Force on Community Housing released its interim report that recommended 10 […]
Alliance Against Displacement’s Conditions of Struggle discussion series: Winter 2017 In late 2017, AAD decided to hold a reading series on Maoism. We used three points of reference in building the curriculum: Textbook overviews: Chapters from Elliot Liu’s Maoism and the Chinese Revolution and Rebecca Karl’s Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth Century World […]
Saturday, May 11, 20191:00 pm – 3:00 pmSurrey RCMP Main Detachment14355 57 Ave, Surrey Please invite your friends and share widely! You can count on the Surrey RCMP to show up at community events and festivals, take selfies, and hand out stickers to kids. This is part of a concerted effort to normalize the massive […]
SURREY, UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES: On March 29, Nona McEwan and Randy Crosson were killed during an alleged hostage taking and police standoff in Surrey, BC. The Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO) waited over a month, until May 2, to confirm that both deaths were the result of multiple shots fired by the RCMP. […]
Homes not hate! Homes for all!
Sunday April 14th, 1:00pm
Corner of Lougheed Hwy & Burnett Street, Maple Ridge
Rally and action on Saturday, April 6, 20192pm in front of Metrotown Skytrain Station, 4401 Beresford StreetMore information to come about the action next week! * We will hold a Townhall prior to this day on Wednesday, April 3rd! Join us at the Burnaby Neighbourhood House at 6.30pm to hear more about this call for action and […]
MAPLE RIDGE (Unceded Kwantlen & Katzie territories): This week, the Province announced that it will be pushing ahead with a new temporary, supportive modular housing project in Maple Ridge. While members of the homeless community in Maple Ridge welcome the gesture of a provincial intervention, they are disappointed that Minister Robinson’s solution is not permanent social housing, […]
The following statement was delivered by listen chen on behalf of Alliance Against Displacement at Vancouver City Hall on Wednesday, March 13, 2018, in response to Vancouver Rape Relief’s application for a Direct Social Services grant. The following day, City Council voted to divest from Vancouver Rape Relief, passing an amendment that the 2019 grant […]
