AAD Statement on the involuntary decampment of DTES homeless encampment This morning at 7:00am, Tuesday December 19, 2017, Sugar Mountain Tent City was finally crushed. Originating in Ten Year Ten City, the seven and a half month protest represented the political struggle of homeless communities to form their own centers of survival. Today, the Canadian […]
Alliance Against Displacement is raising funds to help tent city residents stay alive. As winter conditions set in, there is an urgent need for survival supplies such as tents, tarps, ropes and sleeping bags. Warm and dry clothes are also needed, including handwarmers, gloves, rain jackets, and wool socks. Campers have been staying in cheap […]
What: Emergency rally When: 5PM, Tuesday, June 27th Where: 950 Main Street (Access to site via Station Street), unceded coast salish territories The courts will not support us but the people will! On Monday June 26th the Ten Year Tent City goes to court again. Unlike the previous notice in May which was issued by the City […]
Supreme court decision affirms the value of homeless people lives over the City’s property rights On May 17th, a group of residents from the Ten Year Tent City trekked to the Supreme Court to defend their charter rights against the City’s application for emergency injunction, a court-order to displace the camp with police force. Homeless […]
When: 4pm, Saturday, May 20th What: Rally, Potluck BBQ & Music (We will have some food there but please bring along some food or drinks if you are able to.) Where: At the Ten Year Tent City (close to 1005 Station St.), unceded coast salish territories The 2017 BC election took place during the heights of a housing […]
Volunteers are greatly needed at the Ten Year Tent City on an ongoing basis. Sign up at http://signup.com/go/YYCJbSf for shifts.. Supporters are asked to be present at site on Monday morning and every morning following (until further notice) at 8:30am as the police are expected to show up at any time and evict the residents. Residents are […]
At 9am on Friday April 28th, one week before the 2017 BC election and two weeks after the release of the highest homeless count in Vancouver history, a dozen homeless people and a group of supporters took over a city owned empty lot, founding a new tent city. Dubbed the “10 Year Tent City” because […]
What: Press conference launching a new tent city When: 10am, Friday April 28th Where: 950 Main Street (enter from Station Street) What you can do: Come out to support! Follow @stopdisplacemnt on twitter for updates! This morning more than a dozen homeless people and supporters started a tent city at the city-owned site at 950 […]