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Momentum Grows to Fight Homelessness in Halifax

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Mon, 2010-04-12
Meeting tonight: plan for action

The Out of the Cold Emergency Winter Shelter will open its doors for the last time this season on the eve of April 30.

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Vancouver: HEAT Homeless Shelter to Close

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Sat, 2010-04-10

The Vancouver HEAT shelter at Main and Terminal houses more than 100 people per night, but is set to close on April 20. The City owns the building but says the province (BC Housing) must pay for running the facility. Other HEAT shelters are also scheduled to close.

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Save Point Breeze Campaign: Fighting Gentrification in South Philly

Syndicated from Defenstrator on Mon, 2010-03-22

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The Save Point Breeze Campaign, a part of the community organization Concerned Citizens of Point Breeze, is an anti-gentrification movement in South Philadelphia fighting to s

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Anti-cop march takes Commercial Drive

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Tue, 2010-03-16

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Chronicles of the Olympic Tent Village [Videos]

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Promoted by blackandred on Tue, 2010/03/02 - 11:45pm

By Harsha Walia - February 28, 2010

This started out as an attempt to update you all about the important developments that have transpired over the past 48-72 hours at the Tent Village. However it is impossible for one person or even a group of people to provide you with a complete picture of what has taken place, what will take place, or how we have arrived here together. So instead, this is a (hasty) letter of sorts; an attempt to document and share with you the birthing of the Village over the past two weeks, with those critical updates buried somewhere in there.

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2010 Photo Lens: Game Over!

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Sun, 2010-02-28

 "Game Over!" was held today in downtown Vancouver to mark the end of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Anti-Olympic activists made their way through Olympic crowds to Victory Square where they took over the intersection. The march eventually made its way to Tent City. 

To view the full set and slideshow, click the link below:

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Demonstration Against the Occupation of Britania Community Centre

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Sun, 2010-02-28
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Resistance Lives! March

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Sun, 2010-02-28

On the last day of the 2010 Winter Olympics, a mass of protest groups came together for one final wave goodbye to the Games.

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Tent-in at BC Housing

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Sat, 2010-02-27

Residents of the Olympic Tent Village in the downtown eastside and their allies on Friday, February 26 staged a tent-in at the BC Housing Offices at 2pm.

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2010 Olympic Homeless Tent Village

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Sat, 2010-02-27
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Building Blocs

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Promoted by blackandred on Mon, 2010/02/22 - 12:11pm

February 21, 2010

"We are here to join the Convergence and offer solidarity to the Indigenous people of Turtle Island," said a man dressed in black wearing sunglasses and a black balaclava covering his face from the nose down. He was the only person among his group of about six, similarly-clad, who was willing to talk to media. He said he would not identify himself.

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Olympic Tent Village Enters Week 2, NEEDS YOUR ONGOING SUPPORT!

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Mon, 2010-02-22

Since Feb 15, 2010 the Olympic Tent Village has been set up at 58 West
Hastings, an empty lot owned by notorious condo developer Concord Pacific,
currently being leased by VANOC as a parking lot for the Olympics. The
first few days at the Olympic Tent Village have gone strongly and
smoothly, thanks to the community effort to support and defend it.

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Balaclava! VMC Olympic Broadsheet Issue 6

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Promoted by blackandred on Sat, 2010/02/20 - 10:43pm

By Vancouver Media Co-op - February 15, 2010

The daily newspaper of the 2010 Anti-Olympic Convergence, a project of the Vancouver Media Co-op.

Download a pdf of the Balaclava! Broadsheet HERE!.

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Olympic Tent Village needs your ONGOING SUPPORT!

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Sat, 2010-02-20

Since Feb 15, 2010 the Olympic Tent Village has been set up at 58 West Hastings, an empty lot owned by notorious condo developer Concord Pacific, currently being leased by VANOC as a parking lot for  the Olympics.

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Balaclava! VMC Olympic Broadsheet Issue 4

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Promoted by blackandred on Wed, 2010/02/17 - 5:05pm

The daily newspaper of the 2010 Anti-Olympic Convergence, a project of the Vancouver Media Co-op.

Download a pdf of the Balaclava! Broadsheet HERE!.

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