Author(s):
Friends of the Woodwards Squat; The Woodwards Social Housing Coalition; The Anti-Poverty Committee
Series:
W.O.O.D.S.Q.U.A.T. Newsletter
Summary:
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.
Keywords:
Woodsquat; social housing; Woodwards; squatters; community mobilization; Downtown Eastside; police brutality; homelessness; housing demands; government; Anti-Poverty Committee; tactics; funding cuts