Friends of the Woodwards Squat

This is a newsletter from the Woodwards Squat. This issue presents a statement from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) for a 'National Call: Give It Or Guard It' and an open letter to governments on upcoming actions against homelessness in Toronto. There is also a copy of a 'Buy It or Lose It' municipal bylaw for the conversion of empty buildings into social housing. There is a call for national action on housing.

This is a newsletter from the Woodwards Squat. This issue contains a legal update of the 'Britannia Police Riot'. There is also information on how to support the squatters.

This is the first newsletter of Woodwards Squat, which seeks to provide a voice for the squatters and support for the community. This issue includes a press release, entitled 'Woodwards Squatters denounce Police Threats'. It also provides a chronological history of the Woodwards building since it closure in 1993, outlining various owners of the building and the plans for redevelopment, which includes social housing, condos, SFU's School for Contemporary Arts, and co-operative housing. It also describes the decade long struggle between the Downtown Eastside community, the developers, and the government in the building's redevelopment, which heighten after the Liberal provincial government was elected in 2001.

This is a newsletter from the Woodwards Squat. This issue includes a letter to BC Housing, the BC Government, City of Vancouver, and Vancouver Police by the Friends of the Woodwards Squat and four addresses made at Victory Square on September 23rd, 2002 by Jim Leyden, Bev Meslo, Ivan Drury, and Christopher Livingstone in response to the police evictions of the Woodwards Squat.