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 ruling released on January 1st by Chief Justice Church of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, […]
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 marched into the capital La Paz chanting against the coup-leaders, “Mesa, Camucho, queremos sus cabezas!” (Mesa, Camucho, we want your heads!). This chant […]
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 Black Vests have been taking action to demand the end of deportations, the massive regularization […]
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 […]
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, located in the north-central part of so-called British Columbia. The RCMP is a paramilitary organization that was founded […]
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 Columbia: Namegans Nation in the Greater Victoria Region was evicted five times this fall, while Discontent City in […]
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 of members of the professional managerial class who feel entitled to owning a detached house with a […]
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 City, and a group of 24 camp residents and supporters started a squat at the abandoned Rutherford Elementary […]
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 are men, they dodge the question with tautologies like “trans women are trans women.” VRR excludes trans women […]
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 leaders, against critiques that she holds political positions that are oppressive to trans women and sex workers. CAG is an anti-capitalist activist organization […]