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Squat : solidarity : buy it or guard it : NPA your time is up! : homes not games

Flyer for demonstration held Sunday, October 22, 2006, at Pigeon Park, Hastings & Carrall. "Every night 1000's of poor people are forced to SQUAT in parks, alleys and abandoned buildings - anywhere hidden from the POLICE. One year ago the NPA were elected in Vancouver with the promise to purchase one building a year and convert it to social housing. We demand they do this IMMEDIATELY!. . . . "

Halloween bash at city hall

"On October 22nd the Anti-Poverty Committee occupied the former North Star Hotel in the Downtown Eastside to demand that the NPA fulfill their election promise of purchasing empty buildings and converting them into low-income housing. Join us this Hallowe'en as we take the struggle from the streets, alleys, and violent shelters up to City Hall and demand an immediate moratorium on SRA demolition."

Homes Now!

Homes Now! event at Victory Square advertising handout states "Less talk, more squats! Becuse the government refuses to give housing we will take it! help open an empty building and defend it! Direct action and political confrontation has made the homelessness catastrophe into a political crisis. With a year to go until the next municipal elections, now is the time to force the city into making social housing!...2010 homes now, anti-vacancy by-law, no olympics on stolen land"

Iraq Today

"Hear political analysis and first hand reports of how ordinary Iraqis are coping with the devastation of deteriorating infrastructure and impact of violence on their lives--analysis and reports not being covered by mainstream media." Speakers Nermin al-Mufti, Paul William Robert, and Rana M. Mustafa.

Slam the gate on the G8!

Promotional flyer for demonstration held Saturday, June 26th, 2010, at Grandview Park, Vancouver. "Come join us as we march in solidarity with the Toronto Community Mobilization Newtwork in protest against the G8/G20 Summits . . . ."

Protest war criminal Dick Cheney

"The misnamed 'Bon Mot Book Club' in Vancouver is hosting war criminal and unrepentant torture and war advocate Dick Cheney at the Vancouver Club . . . "

Leaflet for protest held Monday, September 26, 2011, at the Vancouver Club, 915 West Hastings Street.

Inspector Ken Edwards of city police tells members of Vancouver's Women's Caucus to leave Academy...

Inspector Ken Edwards of city police tells members of Vancouver's Women's Caucus to leave Academy of Medicine building

Item is a photograph showing Inspector Ken Edwards of city police telling members of Vancouver's women's Caucus to leave Academy of Medicine building. Caption from Vancouver Express: "Inspector Ken Evans of the city police warns members of Vancouver Woman's Caucus that they must not invade private premises and disturb the peace. The women entered the Academy of Medicine building Friday in an effort to take their case legal abortions to the council of the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons. They left after Evans warned he would have to arrest them if they stayed."

Riot equipped American police and youths from Blaine confront Canadian group at Peace Arch Park

Riot equipped American police and youths from Blaine confront Canadian group at Peace Arch Park

Item is a photograph showing riot equipped American police and youths from Blaine confronting Canadian group at Peace Arch Park. Caption from Vancouver Express: "Riot-equipped American policeman backed up by squad cars and paddy wagons stand behind youths from Blaine as they confront Canadian group at Peace Arch Park. Demonstration became violent when Canadians crossed the border in symbolic invasion. Fighting started when the Stars and Stripes was torn from a flag pole."

Riot damage, rubble and debris on the street

Riot damage, rubble and debris on the street

Item is a photograph of rubble and debris on the street as a result of a riot that occurred during demonstrations against the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam. The Hotel Majestic (ICSC headquarters) and the Hotel Gallieni were both damaged during the riots.

Riot damage, hotel lobby

Riot damage, hotel lobby

Item is a photograph of riot damage inside a hotel caused as a result of a riot that occurred during demonstrations against the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam. The Hotel Majestic (ICSC headquarters) and the Hotel Gallieni were both damaged during the riots.

Riot damage, hotel interior

Riot damage, hotel interior

Item is a photograph of damage inside a hotel as a result of a riot that occurred during demonstrations against the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam. The Hotel Majestic (ICSC headquarters) and the Hotel Gallieni were both damaged during the riots.

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