Friends of the Woodwards Squat

This is a poster for an art class to be held at the Stanley.

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: ""APC One Year Later"" (reflecting on APC's first year organizing against Gordon Campbell's attacks on the poor), ""Against the War and Deportation!"" (on the exploitation and victimization of refugees and immigrants), ""Direct Action Casework Victory!"" (on the flying squad's direct action against BC Hydro), ""Disability Forum: Survive and Resist the Cuts"" (on forums to address changes and cuts to Disability Benefits), ""Woodward's Update: Historic Woodward's Struggle Continues..."" (on the end of the squat and continued struggles of the residents council). It also lists upcoming events, states their basis of unity, and ways to get involved through meetings and donations.

This is a newsletter (vol. 1, no. 5) of the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality - Vancouver that provides information, analysis, and critique of police actions locally, nationally, and internationally. This issue focuses on Vancouver's missing women, the election of COPE, and squatting. It includes articles on: recently elected mayor Larry Campbell, 'Why Anarchist Hate the Cops,' and an indigenous person's experience of police brutality. Other sections included are: 'Special reports' - on the Victoria Memorial Arena Squat, the national squatting movement, and homelessness; 'Local news' - on police attacks on Guns and Roses fans, sexist comments made by VPD officer and a RCMP officer, dropped charges against Woodwards squatters, privacy and the Public Safety Act, a Woodwards update, an attack against the safe injection site by US white house drug Czar, police negligence in terms of missing women, and community policing; 'National news' from Saskatoon, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, and Winnipeg; and 'International news' from USA, Nepal, Chile, China, Italy, Mongolia, India, UK, among others. It also includes a page of protest songs set to the tune of Christmas carols.

This is a letter to business people in the Downtown Eastside community to attend a workshop that will address social housing and poverty in BC, organized by the Woodwards Social Housing Coalition. It describes how provincial cuts to social assistance will affect everyone in the community and the need for a broad based coalition to challenge the proposed legislation.