The women’s committee of APC will be having a demonstration and direct action tomorrow to demand the provincial government spend their $2 billion surplus on housing for women, and immediately reinstate all funding to women and children’s organizations that have been cut [...]

Monday December 18th
12pm from Pigeon Park (Hastings & Carrall)
- free food and transportation to and from demo -
The fight for decent housing is heating up this winter. Join the APC in presenting our People’s Budget to local Liberal MLA Lorne Mancourt and demanding that the $2 [...]

December 11th
MONDAY @ 11am
The Anti-Poverty Committee has launched our anti-Liberal housing campaign with a bang!
A march of over a hundred protesters made our way to an empty building on the corner of Hastings and Gore that is owned by the BC Liberals. Our intention was to force our way into the building but the police [...]

Sun Dec. 10th
2pm @ Pigeon Park
(Carrall & Hastings)
Continuing our successes in making the government build social housing the APC will takeover a provincially owned building and turn it over to the people!
On December 10th we will celebrate the International Day of Human Rights by providing poor people with their most basic right of shelter.
Leading [...]

WOMEN’S HOUSING NOW!
* New time and location *
Please come rally at 5pm out front of the DTES Women’s Center (302 Colombia) that is currently being occupied by women demanding that it be open 24 hours to provide safe shelter.
We will march from there to the Library and [...]

The Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre Elders Council, the women at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, and supporters are currently maintaining the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre as a 24-hour space for women’s housing. The women, predominantly indigenous women, are demanding that the city respond to the crisis in women’s housing and provide housing for women immediately.
The [...]

Sunday Nov. 19th @ 5pm
DTES Women’s Centre
(302 Columbia St.)
Hey folks,
The Elders Council and the women at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Center are calling on allies and supporters to come down and support the occupation for the right to women’s housing. The center will be occupied [...]

DINNER WITH THE MAYOR!
2 W. Hastings (corner of Carrall)
Wednesday Nov. 8th 5:30
Join the Sam Sullivan soup line and demand social housing, rent control, squatters rights and the end of policing homelessness. As mayor and chair of the police board Sam can do these things, but only if we make him!

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
5:00pm (earlier for those who are able)
Support Rally
2530 Cambie Street (near Cambie & Broadway)

This morning, Kim Kerr and Thomas Malenfant were arrested and charged with obstruction while attempting to get essential supplies inside the occupied building. Since the building was surrounded by police yesterday afternoon, they have not allowed anything or anyone [...]

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 | 4:45 PM
CBC News
A group of advocates for the homeless has taken over another abandoned building in Vancouver, this time just a block from city hall.
About 20 protesters occupied the boarded-up, two-storey building at Cambie Street and West Broadway on Tuesday afternoon and say they plan to stay.
The Anti-Poverty [...]