Friends of the Woodwards Squat

This is a newsletter from the Woodwards Squat. This issue reports three statements presented to Vancouver City Council by Shannon Bundock, Beverly Jones, and Aaron Vidaver. These discuss the need for immediate social housing, outline the police's misconduct in relation to the squat, and provide a list of demands, which include: information on the destroyed and stolen items from the squat during the police evictions, disciplinary action against the Chief of the Vancouver Police Department and ceasing police harassment of the squat, and recognition and action on the demands of the squatters and their supporters previously given to the Council.

This is a newsletter from the Woodwards Squat. This issue contains three set of overlapping demands from the Woodwards Social Housing Coalition, the Anti-Poverty Committee, and the Friends of the Woodsquat to the Government of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, and the Government of Canada. These include the increasing social housing and other social services, legislating anti-vacancy bylaws, providing funding and support for aboriginal peoples in the Downtown Eastside, ceasing police harassment, providing immediate and adequate shelter for the squatters, and disciplining the Vancouver Police Chief for unreasonable use of force at the Britannia Riots (also see W.O.O.D.S.Q.U.A.T. Newsletter #2). It also provides a list of contacts.

This is a newsletter from the Woodwards Squat. This issue provides three updates from squats in Halifax, which are part of the 'Give It or Guard It' national housing campaign (see W.O.O.D.S.Q.U.A.T. Newsletter #18). There is also a list other social housing actions in Guelph, Montreal, Sudbury, Ottawa, and Toronto. It is announced that the clocks are turning back that night.

This is a newsletter from the Woodwards Squat. This issue presents a statement from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) for a 'National Call: Give It Or Guard It' and an open letter to governments on upcoming actions against homelessness in Toronto. There is also a copy of a 'Buy It or Lose It' municipal bylaw for the conversion of empty buildings into social housing. There is a call for national action on housing.