The Volcano

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[The Volcano @volc8o]

Metrotown tenants march against demovictions and home demolitions in Palestine, ending by bringing solidarity to locked out hotel workers
https://t.co/3Z3bMBSCa2

[The Volcano @volc8o]

On June 1st, 24 RCMP officers along with bylaw officers & private security encircled a small protest encampment set up in Maple Ridge's city hall park and tore apart tents, seized belongings, and arrested four activists in an attack of police repression
https://t.co/40Fm4x3s1E

[Red Braid Alliance for Decolonial Socialism @stopdisplacemnt]

Ali Colligan, an Anishnaabe single mother, is fighting for justice for her daughter and all foster children.

“It goes back to residential schools. They keep doing what they’ve done for generations,” Ali says. "It’s time to start healing our community.”
https://t.co/R015W6HtU7

[The Volcano @volc8o]

On June 1st, 24 RCMP officers along with bylaw officers & private security encircled a small protest encampment set up in Maple Ridge's city hall park and tore apart tents, seized belongings, and arrested four activists in an attack of police repression
https://t.co/40Fm4x3s1E

[The Volcano @volc8o]

Metrotown tenants march against demovictions and home demolitions in Palestine, ending by bringing solidarity to locked out hotel workers
https://t.co/3Z3bMBSCa2

[Red Braid Alliance for Decolonial Socialism @stopdisplacemnt]

“We are rallying to demand justice for the babies in foster care who never made it home, and to bring my daughter home. May the rest follow to be returned to families.” – Ali Colligan (Anishnaabe) https://t.co/GYUnAJ5zh9

[Red Braid Alliance for Decolonial Socialism @stopdisplacemnt]

Ali Colligan is an Anishnaabe leader from the Whalley street community. She is a founder of the Whalley People's Resource Centre and an organizer of an ongoing memorial at Holland Park. See photos here: https://t.co/E0qU1Zi0mm

[The Volcano @volc8o]

At a rally against Olympia's "scattered sites" plan, Mamma Jade, a resident leader in Wheeler Camp said: “We don’t come into your home and tell you how to raise your children. Please, with all due respect, don’t come into our home and raze our village."
https://t.co/mPtkQF68pR

[The Volcano @volc8o]

"Calls for complex care are gaining traction in BC with the rationale that there are some living on the streets that are just too “mentally ill” for regular housing who require an “involuntary” approach to care" | Vital statement from @TAGVictoriaBC
https://t.co/xwJKmZ8iqG

[The Volcano @volc8o]

"Calls for complex care are gaining traction in BC with the rationale that there are some living on the streets that are just too “mentally ill” for regular housing who require an “involuntary” approach to care" | Vital statement from @TAGVictoriaBC
https://t.co/xwJKmZ8iqG

[Christopher Cheung ✍️ (Find me on Bluesky!) @bychrischeung]

The pandemic isn't over, but Vancouver has begun clearing streets where people are living in vehicles.

Soon-to-be-displaced residents on Slocan talk poo, popo, a fatal fire, a run in with the Grand Chief, and, of course, the housing crisis. @thetyee
https://t.co/L7J6YWFfXn

[Tilly @matildakumih]

Justice for Georgia: An Indigenous mother’s fight against child apprehension @volc8o https://t.co/jEoaLx66Ny

[The Volcano @volc8o]

Support the Slocan RV-city! Defence rally, Wednesday May 26th at 4 pm, and email ([email protected]) or call Taryn Scollard (604-873-7789) demanding that the city stop displacing people who live in vehicles
https://t.co/jx36GJ7mKq

[The Volcano @volc8o]

Listen to the interview here and subscribe to Groundings https://t.co/zJEWRAiiiO

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"Maybe liberation is within reach": We are grateful to be publishing an edited transcript of the Groundings Podcast interview with Mohammed el-Kurd about the Palestinian resistance against Israeli settler colonialism @HalfAtlanta
https://t.co/w8X8QYY7OV

[Carlito Pablo @carlitopablo]

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, co-op neighbours ask City of Vancouver not to evict RV encampment https://t.co/NdQGxbrJgc @stopdisplacemnt @sqwabb @JeanSwanson_ @UBCIC @MarlaGilsig @jakking49 @CityHallWchVAN @VancouverEye @GrandviewWAC #homeless #housing #homelessness #Vancouver

[The Volcano @volc8o]

"East Van RV-City" residents prepare their resistance against the City's unjust displacement order, prepare Wednesday May 26th rally
https://t.co/jx36GJ7mKq

[Ashley Burr @AshleyBurr_]

Where are they supposed to go? That’s the question on the minds of at least two dozen people living at a makeshift RV camp in #EastVancouver, as the city tells them in 1 week they need to be gone. @CityNewsVAN @NEWS1130

[The Volcano @volc8o]

Rally this Friday, May 21st at 2pm, to demand justice for Georgia and all children in foster care, and to call for an end to Indigenous child apprehension and abuse!
https://t.co/Jo4u4YXCLn

[The Volcano @volc8o]

“98 kids dead. This is why I keep going,” Ali said, referring to a report that found 98 children died in foster care in BC in less than a year. Of the 98 deaths, 35 were Indigenous. “I don’t want Georgia to be the thirty-sixth." https://t.co/Bz5eqSap7a

[The Volcano @volc8o]

And if you are similarly interested in overthrowing the rule of property, consider donating to the Schoolhouse Squat Legal Defence fund! https://t.co/p7t99ooqzd

[The Volcano @volc8o]

In 2018 residents of Discontent City and their supporters launched the Schoolhouse Squat in Nanaimo. Read about the wrap-up of the criminal case and @stopdisplacemnt's legal strategy.
https://t.co/p4UsWZbgwv