Friends of the Woodwards Squat

This is a newsletter of the Anti-Poverty Committee. It describes their organization and publicizes upcoming demonstrations for Raise the Rates, The Canadian Refugee Camp, and Resist 2010 Olympics. It discusses their campaigns 'People's Inquiry into Policy Violence', which is an ongoing forum to analyze and discuss police brutality in Vancouver and 'Stop Deportations to Iran', which includes demands of the federal government to improve its immigration and refugee policies.

This is an announcement by the Anti-Poverty Committee of their active support of the Tent-City (despite claims to the contrary) and their solidarity with the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society in their expansion of a squat to Crab Park in response to further provincial government cuts.

This is a call for endorsements and donations to support a tent city being erected by the Anti-Poverty Committee and Housing Action Committee against the Vancouver bid for the 2010 Winter Olympics and in order to demand social housing and an end to the two year time limit for Income Assistance. It discusses these in the context of the effects of the BC Liberal's 'New Era' on the working poor.

This describes the racist actions of the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) in relation to poor people of colour in the Downtown Eastside (DTES), particularly Latinos who are targeted in VPD's drug actions, like 'Operation Torpedo'. It also announces that the Anti-Poverty Committee, along with other organizations, are organizing around police brutality and holding a series of fora called the "People's Inquiry into Police Violence and Compliance".