Friends of the Woodwards Squat

This is a newsletter from the Woodwards Squat. This issue consists of three letters from A. Cameron Ward and Company, lawyers representing the squat, to Tom Zworski (of the City of Vancouver), George Abbott (Minister of Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services), and Premier Gordon Campbell and Vancouver Mayor Philip Owens. These letter address (respectively) the potential enforcement of City's Street and Traffic By-law, the publicly agreed upon meeting concerning the Downtown Eastside, and a meeting to address solutions to the housing crisis and poverty in Vancouver. There is also a statement by the Finance Committee and a list of upcoming events.

This is a newsletter from the Woodwards Squat. This issue contains two reports, one from the Woodwards Legal Defense Committee and the other from the Pivot Legal Society, concerning the charges of civil contempt against 54 Woodwards' squatters who were arrested and charged during the September evictions. These explain that the BC Housing Corporation dropped all charges and were order to pay the legal costs of the squatters and compensation. Further legal action is being pursued by the squatters in relation to the evictions.

This is a newsletter from the Woodwards Squat. This issue provides two updates of a housing squat in Victoria, BC (The Pandora Squat) and includes a list of demands calling for aboriginal housing, reversal of cuts to social welfare, liveable incomes, and bylaws to convert empty buildings into social housing.

This is a newsletter from the Woodwards Squat. This issue contains three letters of support of the squat. One is written from an independent journalist, another one in response to Chrystal's interview (see W.O.O.D.S.Q.U.A.T. Newsletter #14), and the last a copy of a letter to BC Housing and the Government of BC concerning the cancellation of the Third Annual Affordable Housing Week.