Statements by Alliance Against Displacement
You can find significant statements, reflections, press releases, and other documents written by Alliance Against Displacement on this page.
- We fight for Wet’suwet’en sovereignty, the extinction of fossil fuel capitalism, and the defeat of Canada
January 10, 2020
On the morning of Sunday January 5th 2020, all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en nation called for solidarity actions to support their decision to evict Coastal Gaslink from their territories. This eviction action is a direct challenge to the - Nosotros la sangre nos hierve: Defend Bolivians rising up against the right wing, anti-Indigenous coup
November 20, 2019
Alliance Against Displacement stands united with Indigenous, campesino, and working class Bolivians! In the week since the anti-socialist, anti-Indigenous coup in Bolivia, thousands of Indigenous people, campesinos, and working class people have - Alliance Against Displacement stands in solidarity with the Black Vests
July 15, 2019
From Paris, France to Surrey, BC, Migrant and Homeless Displaced People Unite! The Black Vests are a group of undocumented immigrants living in shelters and the streets across Paris Region. Inspired by the militancy of the Yellow Vests movement, the - Defund Vancouver Rape Relief: AAD’s presentation to Vancouver City Council
March 16, 2019
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 - The frontlines of struggle against colonialism are everywhere: Alliance Against Displacement statement in unity with the Wet’suwet’en
January 8, 2019
On Monday, January 7th the RCMP and the office of Canada’s Prime Minister, began enforcing a Supreme Court injunction and started an invasion of the sovereign territory of the Gitdumt’en and Unist’ot’en Clans of the Wet’suwet’en nation, - Homeless people rising: Solidarity with Oakland’s homeless movement, The Village
November 10, 2018
Alliance Against Displacement extends solidarity to The Village, a self-organized homeless camp in East Oakland (Ohlone territory) that is facing an eviction today. Their story is all too familiar to homeless people and their allies in British - They get elected, we get evicted: Going beyond the inoffensive reforms of progressive political parties and the politics of the professional managerial class
October 17, 2018
AAD’s position on the 2018 municipal elections in British Columbia The 2018 municipal elections in British Columbia are significant in two ways: one, they are dominated by “the housing crisis,” a term that refers both to the frustrations - Discontent City under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!
October 9, 2018
Update on the Schoolhouse Squat and BC Housing’s new announcement about housing and the destiny of Discontent City Two big things happened on the Friday of the Thanks-taking weekend: the Provincial government made an announcement about Discontent - No Unity with Transmisogynists or Sex Work Prohibitionists: AAD’s position on Vancouver Rape Relief
July 3, 2018
Alliance Against Displacement’s position on Vancouver Rape Relief. Vancouver Rape Relief enacts violence against trans women Vancouver Rape Relief (VRR) refuses to affirm trans women as women, but rather than explicitly make the claim that - Trans women and sex workers’ struggles are not secondary in anti-poverty and housing movements
July 3, 2018
Alliance Against Displacement responds to Chinatown Action Group’s open letter aligning themselves with Rape Relief On May 1st, Vancouver’s Chinatown Action Group (CAG) released a public statementdefending Yuly Chan, one of their central - Banning camping will not end homelessness: And addressing other myths about homelessness in Victoria
February 21, 2018
Alliance Against Displacement statement against motion to ban camping in Reeson Park and Quadra Park in Victoria. On Thursday, Mayor Lisa Helps and Councillor Margaret Lucas will bring forward a motion to ban overnight sheltering in two City parks - All settlers are foreigners: Leaflet from counter-protest against the “Rally for Housing Affordability”
February 18, 2018
Two dozen counter protestors made their arguments heard at the Affordability Action Hub’s rally today. Within moments of unrolling our banner, one of the rally’s organizers demanded that we leave the plaza and threatened us by contacting - Smash Prisons to Liberate our Imaginations: AAD Statement of Solidarity with Operation PUSH
February 12, 2018
In December 2017, prisoners in Florida announced their plan to carry out a month-long strike, beginning on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 15th, 2018). Their main demands are an end to unpaid labor, an end to outrageously high canteen prices, - AAD statement on the North East False Creek Plan | The Janus Faced Plan
January 31, 2018
The North East False Creek Plan is a reparation for yesterday’s dispossessed Black community while continuing today’s liquidation of multiracial working-class Vancouver. Janus was the Roman god with two faces. One looked forward, and the other - “Legitimate” and “Illegitimate” Violence: the double-standard of colonial and capitalist exploitation
January 1, 2018
AAD STATEMENT DECEMBER 28, 2017 A common complaint directed at homeless people, especially when they form visible communities, is that they produce criminal activity. Criminalization is a method of social regulation that disproportionately targets - A People’s Plan for Metrotown
August 11, 2017
The People’s Plan is a radical re-envisioning of what a community plan truly needs to be. The People’s Plan is much more than a plan for city zoning laws; it also outlines what a community must do to protect vulnerable community members - Against the Dakota Access Pipeline from the Concrete Guts of the Real Estate Snake: Alliance Against Displacement Standing Rock Solidarity Statement
November 30, 2016
Over the past few weeks, as Alliance Against Displacement worked on this collective statement in solidarity with the camps and struggle at #NODAPL, the camps came under violent, militarized assault by police. The mainstream media has not covered - AAD response to Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver Nov 19, 2016 Stop Kinder Morgan rally
November 30, 2016
Alliance Against Displacement sent the following letter to Climate Convergence organizers on November 24, 2016. Our intention for this open letter is to better unite movements against displacement and for climate justice. We believe that our - F*ck The Experts: Build Our Homes Now
October 27, 2016
F*CK THE EXPERTS BUILD OUR HOMES NOW Why we’re disrupting the Re:Address Int’l Housing Summit Alliance Against Displacement is disrupting Mayor Gregor Robertson’s Re:Address housing summit because we have nothing to discuss with the experts - No Mental Health Cops – Letter to Victoria City Council
August 1, 2016
Subject: Refuse the police budget increase – Defund the police to build homes and community controlled social programs To: Victoria City Council and Police Board From: Alliance Against Displacement February 11, 2016 We are writing this - You can’t vote against the free market – Lessons from the Greek struggle against austerity
August 1, 2016
October 13, 3015 By Ivan Drury Originally published in The Volcano newspaper In September the Alliance Against Displacement (formerly Social Housing Alliance) began a discussion group series about austerity; the first discussion in the series - Occupiers evicted by police call out to continue the fight against demovictions
July 20, 2016
Statement from the Metrotown Demoviction occupation post-eviction Wednesday July 20, 2016 We began this occupation one week ago as part of a broader day of action for housing justice. In the Downtown Eastside more than 50 people are now seeking - End the Foreign Investor Myth!
July 14, 2016
Our Problem is Free Market Investment as Housing Policy & Investors as a Global Social Class, Not “Foreign” Investors July 14, 2016 On the ground in contact with people displaced by the demoviction crisis, we’re seeing a - Homeless & Demovicted People Unite!
July 10, 2016
Joint call-out from the simultaneous Vancouver & Burnaby housing justice occupations July 10, 2016 The July 9th housing justice day of action called by Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users has spilled over from one day to two ongoing actions for - “Whiners” Occupying BC Housing Office Demand Social Housing Now and Hands Off Victoria’s Tent City!
July 7, 2016
July 7, 2016 VANCOUVER, UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES: This morning, Tuesday June 7th, activists with Alliance Against Displacement occupied the BC Housing office at Hastings and Gore with two demands for the BC Liberal government: 1) End
Statements from 2016
AAD response to Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver Nov 19, 2016 Stop Kinder Morgan rally
November 24, 2016
Open letter to Climate Convergence
Against The Dakota Access Pipeline From The Concrete Guts Of The Real Estate Snake
November 30, 2016
AAD solidarity statement with Standing Rock
F*ck The Experts: Build Our Homes Now
October 27, 2016
Statement on why AAD disrupted the Re:Address International Housing Summit
Together Against Displacement & Dispossession Summit Report Back
October 26, 2016
An 8-page pamphlet on unifying ideas and pledges that came out of the June 11-12, 2016 summit with residents of displaced communities across southern B.C.
Why AAD will not support the HALT rally against foreign investment in housing
September 16, 2016
Statement against the organizing politics of HALT (Housing Action by Local Taxpayers)
Open Statement to Canada’s Federal Housing Consultation
September 16, 2016
Letter to Ministers responsible for housing and homelessness
Occupiers Evicted By Police Call Out To Continue The Fight Against Demovictions
July 20, 2016
Statement from the Metrotown Demoviction occupation post-eviction
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
July 19, 2016
Re: Request for Urgent Appeal –Impending forced evictions in British Columbia, Canada
Are Foreigners To Blame For The Housing Crisis?
July 14, 2016
YouTube video of Maria Wallstam from Alliance Against Displacement speaking about the foreign investment myth
End The Foreign Investor Myth!
July 14, 2016
Our Problem is Free Market Investment as Housing Policy & Investors as a Global Social Class, Not “Foreign” Investors
Read the statement made at the Anti-Imperial Squat Rally on July 14, 2016 here.
Homeless & Demovicted People Unite!
July 10, 2016
Joint call-out from the simultaneous Vancouver & Burnaby housing justice occupations
“Whiners” Occupying BC Housing Office Demand Social Housing Now And Hands Off Victoria’s Tent City!
July 7, 2016
Statement from occupation of BC Housing office at Hastings & Gore, Vancouver
Historic summit unites local struggles into a movement against displacement
June 11-12, 2016
Report on the outcomes of Alliance Against Displacement’s spring 2016 organizing summit
End Homelessness, Not Tent Cities
May 25, 2016
An Open Letter to the Province of BC from over 100 Academics
Super InTent City Defense Rally Launches Three Principles For A Tent City Movement
March 7, 2016
The origins of three principles for a Tent City movement
No Mental Health Cops – Letter To Victoria City Council
February 11, 2016
Subject: Refuse the police budget increase – Defund the police to build homes and community controlled social programs
Statements from 2015
Designed to Displace: Burnaby’s 2015 Growth and Housing Policy Report Deflects, Denies, and Distorts City Council’s Responsibility for Demo-viction
November 12, 2015
Draft Op-Ed by the Stop Demovictions Burnaby campaign
You Can’t Vote Against The Free Market
October 13, 2015
Lessons from the Greek struggle against austerity
Metrotown Residents Call For City To Save The Homes Of Hundreds On Silver Avenue: Stop Demolitions
June 23, 2015
Press release by Stop Demovictions Burnaby campaign
Stop Demolitions In Burnaby: Save The Hundred Homes On Silver Avenue
June 23, 2015
Factsheet on Metrotown development plan and effects of demovictions
Statements from 2014
Report On SHA Housing Day Of Action At Burnaby Mountain
November 22, 2014
Social Housing Alliance joins Burnaby Mountain protection site for National Day of Action for housing
For Social Housing & Against Pipelines: Unite Struggles Against Displacement!
November 14, 2014
Statement in solidarity with Burnaby mountain land defenders
Letter To Vancouver City Council On Social Housing Definition
March 3, 2014
RE: The DTES Plan is an opportunity to define social housing as the housing homeless people need