Friends of the Woodwards 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: ""Resist and Survive the Cuts to Disability!"" (on the reapplication process and the organization of a Disability Forum), ""Give It or Guard It!"" (on a national social housing campaign), ""Casework Action: APC Makes Court Injunction Threat to Ministry of Human Resources"" (on the threat of violence against women due to Ministry's family maintenance process), ""Campaign Against the Cuts to Women's Services"" (on mobilizing on women's issues), ""BCFRA: We Will Fight You All the Way"" (on the BC Restaurant and Foodservices Association's advocating for the training wage), ""APC Actions: APC Goes to the Police Board"" (on questioning the police violence at the Woodward's squat and the Britannia police riot), ""Other Actions: APC Goes to City Hall"" (on the sale of the Woodward's building), ""Tents in the Heart of the City: An Update on the Woodward's Squat"" (on the city injunction against the squat and the continued struggle for social housing in the building), ""Other News: Woodward's 54 Update"" (on dropped charges against the 54 arrested squatters), ""Pivot Releases Damning Report of Police"" (on ""To Serve and Protect"" which describes Vancouver's police brutality), ""QUAK Attacks Liberals"" (on the actions of Queers United Against Kapitalism), ""Hands Off Iraq!"" (on a March for Peace demonstration) and ""Other News: APC Goes to Penticton"" (on a solidarity action). It also lists upcoming events, states their basis of unity, and ways to get involved through meetings and donations.

This is a newsletter of the Anti-Poverty Coalition (Apo) in Victoria, BC. Addressed in this issue are: the Woodwards squat, which provides information of its demands, evictions and arrests, and ways to support its fight for social housing; direct action that protested changes to welfare policy and disrupted Murray Coell (Minister of Human Resources) speech at the provincial Liberal's AGM; victories in Apo's advocacy with single mothers seeking welfare; and a story about Donna Ambers' protest against the illegal abduction of her granddaughter by the Ministry of Children and Family Development. It announces weekly panhandling for poor families. It also provides Apo's mission statement.

This is a pamphlet for the Woodwards Social Housing Coalition, which outlines its strategy for a community model for the development of the Woodwards site. It describes the recent history of community mobilization around Woodwards and social housing, and a community based process of consultation, building community, and economic development. It calls for people's support in this struggle for human rights.

This is a poster for a reading at the Kootney School of Writing by Taum Danberger, a member of the Woodwards 54.