Friends of the Woodwards Squat

These are notes chronicling the Woodward's squat as provided by Ivan Drury. It discusses the start and end of the squat, the relationship between actors in and outside the squat, issues and concerns within the squat. It comments on goals, strategies and obstacles during the squat.

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: ""Fight! Fight! Fight! Welfare is a Right! APC Welfare Demo a Success"" (on a demonstration and building solidarity against changes to welfare assistance), ""Fight Gordon Campbell's Training Wage!"" (on the BC Liberal's attack on workers and their organizing against it), ""What is Direct Action Casework?"" (on APC's role as an advocate for social assistance and disability benefits, fighting against evictions, among others), and ""Poverty in Palestine: An International Analysis"" (on chronic malnutrition and poverty caused by the US backed Israeli occupation of Palestine). It also reports on Other News - ""Housing Action Committee,"" ""Racist Attacks in Vancouver,"" ""Needle Exchange Open Again,"" and ""Pope Squat,"" and Fighting back! - ""Queers Shame the Liberals,"" ""Direct Action on the Coquilhalla,"" and ""Women Walkout on Stephens."" It announces upcoming actions, describes its basis of unity, and lists ways to get involved through meetings and donations.

This is a drawing of a Woodward's redevelopment proposal.

This is a letter requesting participation in a single night count of homeless persons living in Vancouver, which came out of the forum on social housing and poverty organized by the Woodwards Social Housing Coalition. It asks for the cooperation of the facility manager and provides a rationale for the research and its potential use.