Yesterday, March 12th, The Vancouver Board of Trade had a luncheon featuring guest speaker Mayor Robertson at the Fairmont Hotel Ballroom, co-sponsoring the event was Concord Pacific. Mayor Robertson’s address was titled “BUILDING VANCOUVER”. The Vancouver Board of Trade has been integral in pushing the city government in its attack on poor people in the [...]

APC drops banner off Cambie bridge
Today, the Anti Poverty Committee dropped a banner off the Cambie Street Bridge stating: CIVIL CITY IS A HATE CRIME. Simultaneously members attended the monthly police board meeting to address the ongoing repression of poor people in the downtown eastside through mass ticketing, street sweeps and a project of criminalization.

APC [...]

And The Pig Of The Week Is… Badge #2060
Parks are for people, not PIG$!
In a further escalation of the Olympic gentrification in Vancouver, the Vancouver Police Department have been doing regular and consistent sweeps of the Downtown Eastside, ensuring no one feels safe in their own neighborhood. People scurry away from in front of the [...]

VANOC caught once more by surprise
On Thursday November the 20th during what is known as the Anti-Olympic Days of Action. The Canadian Tourism Commission, Tourism British Columbia, and Tourism Vancouver held an extravagant nighttime reception for the world press who were in town for a tour of the different services and facilities that would greet [...]

APC has moved offices. We have now bunkered down at 524 Main St.
Our new office is located one block south of the Carnegie center, between the blocks of Pender and Keefer on the East side of Main street (in Chinatown).
Unfortunately, at this time we are not wheelchair accessible (we are working on it!) . However, [...]

The police raided the former office of the Anti-Poverty Committee Thursday night, under the pretext of looking for the Olympic flag that was stolen by the Native Warrior Society nearly a month ago.
The office, located in a DERA building, has not been used by the APC for more than a year. The police arrived at [...]

The Anti-Poverty Committee successfully launched its VANOC eviction campaign by evicting Ken Dobell from his office located at the World Trade and Convention Centre in the Office of the Premiere. His belongings have been put into boxes and thrown into the hall.
The people have announced that Ken Dobell is the perfect mascot for the 2010 [...]

The women of the Anti-Poverty Committee (APC) successfully occupied the office of Finance Minister Carole Taylor on monday. At 10:00am five women locked down inside the office, with the support of 20 other APC members.
The APC Womens Committee made the following demands to Carole Taylor and [...]

NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT
INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT
NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT WARRIOR TARGETED & ARRESTED AT ANTI-OLYMPIC PROTEST IN VANCOUVER, BC, KKKANADA
“THE INDIAN WARS ARE NOT OVER”
(February 13, 2007, unsurrendered Squamish Territory (Vancouver, BC) Three Native Warriors were targeted and arrested yesterday during a protest against the 2010 Winter Olympic Games planned to [...]

The Anti-Poverty Committee demands that the BC Liberals spend their estimated 2 billion dollar surplus on immediate housing for all in need.
There is no such thing as a ‘housing crisis,’ there is only a political crisis. There is more than enough money to provide every poor working and unemployed person and family with decent housing. [...]