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Remake of the COPE E-lert

Publication type: 
Letter / Correspondence
Author(s): 
Leyden, Jim
Date: 
2003-08-22
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Friends of the Woodwards Squat
Summary: 
This is a circulated letter to the COPE city council written by the CRAB Park Squatters. It describes the relationship between the City Council, Parks Board, and the CRAB Park Squatters, as well as the actions taken by COPE in regards to housing and advocacy for the poor locally and provincially. It states the need for citizen involvement and consultation with the squatters to address issues of homelessness and housing, rather than increased policing and an injunction against the squatters. It also poses questions about COPE's lack of consultation, lack of solidarity in campaigning for government policy on homelessness, and their perpetuation of marginalization. It asks for a formal meeting between COPE and the CRAB Park Squatters.
Keywords: 
COPE; squatters; community consultation; Parks Board; homelessness; urban aboriginal people; housing; government; City bylaws; Crab Park

Update of Regional Homelessness Plan for Greater Vancouver, 'Kitchen Table' Focus Groups - Aboriginal Focus Group

Publication type: 
Miscellaneous
Author(s): 
Woodwards Social Housing Coalition Project
Pages: 
6
Collections: 
Friends of the Woodwards Squat
Summary: 
This provides the questions and responses of a focus group of aboriginal people hosted at the Stanley New Fountain Housing on housing and homelessness in the greater Vancouver area. It reports on housing, including emergency shelters, transition houses for women fleeing abuse, second stage/transitional or supportive housing, and shelters; supportive services like drop-in centres, outreach workers, addiction treatment services, mental health services, and prevention. Themes include the need for support workers to have better training, 24 hour support and shelter services, life skills training, and economic self-sustainability.
Keywords: 
housing; community consultation; homelessness; Downtown Eastside (DTES);

Welfare Workings

Publication type: 
Poster
Date: 
2004-04-20
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Friends of the Woodwards Squat
Summary: 
This is a poster for an information session on welfare and disability applications held at the Stanley.
Keywords: 
welfare policy; Portland Hotel Society

Rally for the Squat

Publication type: 
Poster
Date: 
2002-11-25
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Friends of the Woodwards Squat
Summary: 
This is a poster that announces a rally for the Woodwards squat in response to a court ordered injunction to remove the squatters from the building. It asks for people to witness possible police actions and calls for a peaceful resolution.
Keywords: 
Woodwards; Woodsquat; squatting; legal issues

Anti-Poverty Committee Newsletter Issue 24

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2005-06-24
Pages: 
8
Collections: 
Friends of the Woodwards Squat
Summary: 
This is a newsletter of the Anti-Poverty Committee, an anti-capitalist and anti-oppression organization fighting for the rights of poor and working people in Vancouver, BC. This issue includes the articles: ""Another Four Years? Hell No!"" (on a march celebrating organized resistance against the BC Liberals), ""Raise the Rates!"" (on mobilizing against welfare cuts), ""Four Arrested at Class War Demo"" (on a protest against Campbell at a BC School Trustees meeting), ""People's Inquiries into Police Violence"" (on APC's forum on systemic police brutality in Vancouver and demonstrations against the Safe Street Act), ""Sun Peaks Arrests"" (on the sentencing of six Secwepemc Nationals who had set up a roadblock at the Sun Peaks Ski Resort, Skwelkwek'welt), ""Seven Questions"" (an interview with Jill Malliga Chettiar on recent work of the APC), and ""The City and Homelessness"" (on the shutting down of Single Room Occupancy (SROs) and lack of tenancy rights for poor people perpetuated by the City of Vancouver). It also states their basis of unity and ways to get involved.
Keywords: 
community mobilization; solidarity; income assistance; colonialism; Vancouver Police Department (VPD); education; eviction

Press Statement

Publication type: 
Media Release
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2002-11-01
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Friends of the Woodwards Squat
Summary: 
This is a press release from the Anti-Poverty Committee that responds to Campbell's description of the group as 'thugs' and 'agitators'. It discusses the national 'Give it or Guard it' campaign for converting empty buildings into housing, changes to the Residential Tenancy Act, and APC's organization of a fight back starting with the training wage and a demonstration at the Gala Awards for the BC Restaurant and Food Services Association.
Keywords: 
homelessness; poor; BC Liberals; Residential Tenancy Act; community mobilization; minimum wage

Safe Injection Site

Publication type: 
Poster
Date: 
2003
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Friends of the Woodwards Squat
Summary: 
This is a poster for a safe injection site. It outlines the services available.
Keywords: 
safe injection site

Time for COPE to THINK Democracy - Democracy under attack by COPE

Publication type: 
Letter / Correspondence
Author(s): 
Leyden, Jim
Date: 
2003-08-22
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Friends of the Woodwards Squat
Summary: 
This is a letter condemning the non-democratic actions by the COPE city council in its relationship with the CRAB Park Squatters. It discusses the respectful use of the park by homeless aboriginal squatters and the pursuit of an injunction against the squat by the Parks Board. It criticizes COPE for their lack of consultation and denying legal council for the squatters. It compares COPES actions with those of the previous NPA city council. It asks people to write COPE in support of the CRAB Park Squatters.
Keywords: 
COPE; squatters; urban aboriginal people; community consultation; social housing; Crab Park; Parks Board; City bylaws; homelessness; legal issues

Kick Off the 'Home for Christmas' Campaign

Publication type: 
Poster
Author(s): 
Woodwards Social Housing Coalition
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Friends of the Woodwards Squat
Summary: 
This is a poster for a Christmas card making session with the resulting cards being sent to Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals as part of the 'Home for Christmas' campaign.
Keywords: 
Gordon Campbell; housing; Woodsquat; BC Liberals; community mobilization; Woodwards

Hair Day!

Publication type: 
Poster
Date: 
2004-02-03
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Friends of the Woodwards Squat
Summary: 
This is a poster for a hair day to be held at the Stanley.
Keywords: 
Portland Hotel Society

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