The Refugee Welcoming Center in Vancouver BC (tags)
Hope like the immigrant is an interruption leading to new priorities and policies.
On Health Care and So Much More, the Nordics Show that Equality Works (tags)
Forget the Noprdic diet. Try the Nordic tax plan. French, Japanese, and Scandinavian people don't live longer because they eat more nutritious food. They live longer because they live in more equal societies. The 26 community centers in Vancouver B.C. make all the difference.
The Failure of the Block the Boat tactic (tags)
Block the Boat. Bested by a bug.
Vancou9ver Coluncil opposes Tesoro oil terminal (tags)
Close to 700 people attended a Vancouver City Council meeting Monday, and a majority of speakers urged councilors to fight an oil-handling facility at the Port of Vancouver.
City (Vancouver BC) announces rent bank for vulnerable residents (tags)
to read Barbara Ehrenreich's "The poor always with us, necessarily not us" published in: The Guardian, click on http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/mar/15/the-poor-always-with-us/print
US State Dept Orders Special Review of Keystone XL Pipeline (tags)
12,000 surrounded the White House on Nov 6 to urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. Trust begins when government is more than an errand boy for the banks and a rubber stamp for profiteering corporations.
MOXIE?s Poster Boys at Diversionary: Funny ? and More (tags)
Poster Boys, now playing in a MOXIE/Diversionary Theatre co-production at 4545 Park Boulevard in University Heights, is typical MOXIE fare: a great script (having its U.S. premiere) that makes sly, insinuating comments on sexual orientation, religion, advertising and the (lack of) integrity associated with it, and the ways major corporations try to whitewash (or greenwash) their images and seem more progressive than they are to attract our business. It runs through July 31; see it.
The Olymptics' Shady Side (tags)
Before the official games in Vancouver, downtown and unemployed groups called attention to social injustices.
Indymedia dispatch from Vancouver 2010 games resistance. (tags)
Indymedia dispatch from Vancouver 2010 games resistance.
British Columbia's Premier Takes His Environmental Hypocrisy to Los Angeles (tags)
The Premier of British Columbia is in California today for the Governors' summit on Climate Action, even though his record at home is one of environmental hypocrisy. Campbell has been pushing for coastal drilling for oil and gas, and campaigning to open up crude oil tanker traffic along the coastline of the Great Bear Rainforest.
Biking Gets Easier and Safer (tags)
Time to learn from O Canada! We are more than spectators to the "car-tastrophe." (Scoop Nisker on KPFA in Berkeley).
Indymedia On Air for Aug 11, 2008 (part 2) (tags)
Former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg talks about civil rights; the Vancouver Sun sues Palestine activists over a newspaper parody
Indymedia On Air for Aug 11, 2008 (part 1) (tags)
Former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg talks about civil rights; the Vancouver Sun sues Palestine activists over a newspaper parody
Civil Society by Stephen Hume (tags)
Improvements in people's lives often have come about when society listened to voices on the periphery, not just the political and economic elites.
Local Filipinos protest Philippine Labor Secretary visit and B.C. government’s recruitment (tags)
Around 20 local progressive Filipinos and their supporters rallied last night outside an exclusive dinner for Philippine Secretary of Labour and Employment, Arturo Brion hosted by the Philippines-Canada Trade Council. Brion was in Vancouver to sign a new agreement with the B.C. government which seeks to attract 30,000 workers per year with specific skills from outside B.C.
Five New Community Centers in Vancouver B.C. (tags)
The new community centers came about through the diehard advocates in Vancouver. Architects love to do public buildings. There's more of a chance to create community spirit. Community centers are infrastructure investments with multiplier effects in public spirit and counseling.
Community Centers: Learning from O Canada! (tags)
The mosaic works in Vancouver, B. C. Community centers provide a buffer and cushion from the brutal and commodifying market. In happier days before Reagan and market fundamentalism, the Carnegie Center was bursting with activity, counseling, classes and circles.
Plans for Brothel in Vancouver (tags)
The mayor of Vancouver, some persons and groups favorable to the decriminalization of prostitution, pimps and johns, the New Democratic Party’s deputy and some other neoliberals support a project to create a brothel, legal and administered by women in prostitution, for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.
Mexicans find a rough welcome mat in Canada (tags)
Mexicans find a rough welcome mat in Canada Tourists, being denied entry in increasing numbers, report harsh, insensitive, even racist treatment by Canadian border officials
Moret & Webre: 9/11 War Crimes Tribunal (tags)
Nine-eleven, as we’ve said…. had multiple reasons for it. It was to provide the pretext for a genocidal and ecocidal invasion using low-level nuclear war, using Depleted Uranium against central Asia - in other words, Afghanistan and Iraq and Lebanon and other areas. It provided the pretext to impose a terror-driven national security state… in North America, Europe, Asia and all throughout the world.
Police break down door after woman's 9-1-1 goof (tags)
When Marget Lieder accidentally dialed 9-1-1, while meaning to dial 4-1-1 for information, she thought nothing of simply hanging up and dialing again – but that was before a group of officers broke down her door and arrested her and her partner.
Sept 24: Vancouver Canada 900 Rally and March Against War and Occupation! (tags)
September 24th 2005 saw hundreds of thousands of people across the globe come to the streets to echo the demands of the Iraqi people for an end to war and occupation. Over 900 people joined Vancouver’s antiwar coalition, Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) to demand: “US/UK OUT OF IRAQ! CANADA OUT OF AFGHANISTAN!”
Vancouver Canada Bus Riders Union Oppose Fair Increase (tags)
Vancouver Jan 7, 2005: Bus Riders Union Members Opposes Lower Mainland Fare Increase. This is a short photo documentary about how the Bus Riders Union used the Dec 8, 2004 Translink Meeting to voice ther oppoisition to increase fares. The link for the documentary is below.
Victoria Indymedia Facing Shutdown in Hostile takeover (tags)
Vic-IMC's server is being shut down by its host in Vancouver. The collective is unsure why this decision was made, and how it will be implemented. It appears to be the decision of a former member of Vancouver-IMC.
Vancouver IMC ; we are calling it quits! (tags)
Vancouver IMC goes dark
Seven Oaks publishes 8th issue (tags)
VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada -- Seven Oaks, a new political and cultural magazine, published its eighth issue today. The weekly magazine is available for free online at http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/.
Why the U.S. must invade Canada -- now (tags)
It didn't support the war, it's soft on pot and gays, its economy is rolling and U.S. troops are bored. Anyway, reasons to invade countries are no longer needed!
wto in montreal in july (tags)
read montreal and vancouver indymedia. then, send your activists to montreal in july
Driver Runs Down Protestors in Vancouver (tags)
Direct Action Goes Ahead Despite Road Rage Attack on Protest
PSG Statement on Israel's Detention of Jaggi Singh (tags)
Israel Denies Entry to Activist from Canada
ALF Press Officer Court Update (tags)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - The spokesman for a radical animal rights group asked a judge to throw out a search warrant that allowed Canada's anti-terrorism squad to raid his house on behalf of U.S. authorities. David Barbarash, spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, claims the July raid on his Vancouver Island home by nine members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team amounted to harassment.
Guns And Roses Fans Riot in Vancouver, Canada (tags)
Thousands of Guns And Roses fans rioted Thursday night, November 7, 2002, after an announcement outside GM Place in Vancouver that the show had been canceled.
"How can indigenous people be considered terrorists on our own homeland?" (tags)
This story starts with planes flying into buildings on the other coast, in another country. It was just over a year ago, and in the heady months that followed, our elected representatives in Ottawa rushed to approve anti-terrorism legislation intended to protect Canada's national security. In recent months, two Vancouver Island activists found themselves on the wrong side of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police unit created to enforce that legislation.
Canada's "Woodwards 54" Legal Defense Fund (tags)
A legal defense fund has been established to raise support for the defense of the 54 people charged with civil contempt of a Supreme Court order, at the Woodwards building in Vancouver, Canada, on Sept. 21/02.
Vancouver Radical History Webpage (tags)
The Keeping Time website, a radical history of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, has been updated with new info, pictures, and links. Strikes, riots, occupations, squatting, and more.
"Civil Society sounds kind of like a tea party..." (tags)
Come check out the the Civicus youth media team's thoughts on civil society.
UPDATE ON PNWER PROTESTS IN WHISTLER, BC CANADA!!!! (tags)
This protest has been called a run up for next years G* summit in Alberta, Canada - read here for a concise first hand account of our marvellous canadian protestors!
UPDATE ON THE PNWER PROTESTS IN WHISTLER, BC CANADA!!!! (tags)
This protest has been called a run up for next years G* summit in Alberta, Canada - read here for a concise first hand account of our marvellous canadian protestors!
Vancouver Stops Water Privatization Scheme (tags)
Read below.