Worse Than Prison: How Vancouver Detains Non-Citizens (Excerpts from post 9/11 Canada)
In post 9/11 Canada, it is legal to detain non-citizens—including children—without formal trial or criminal charges. Immigrants, International Students, Permanent Residents, Refugees, & Undocumented peoples can be subject to indefinite immigration detention (think incarceration but without a stated length of detention, no criminal trial, no judges or jury weighing in).
Space Campaign Update | Eviction Delayed | SFSS Rejects meeting with the Rotunda Community
December 13, 2018 Hello SOCA Followers and Supporters, We have some great news regarding our current space campaign. After multiple months of advocacy and campaigning against SFSS’ harmful decision to evict us on December 14, 2018, we have successfully got the eviction delayed to coincide with when the head lease of the current space ends. […]
Youth Demand Climate Justice Now!
We are a collective of young people from coast to coast who are concerned with how climate change is impacting people around the world, and what it means for our generation and future generations. With the upcoming United Nations climate negotiations in Poland, we are calling on the federal government to take real climate […]
Youth Hold Sit In for Climate Justice at Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Office
sḵwx̱wú7mesh, sel̓íl̓witulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Vancouver) – On Friday, a coalition of local youth groups, including members from UBCc350 and the UBC Social Justice Centre, held a sit in at Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould’s constituency office, as part of a cross-country youth action in anticipation of the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24), which […]
“Police don’t make us safe”: Surrey residents rally against skyrocketing police budgets
When: Saturday, Nov. 24 at 2:00pm Where: Surrey City Hall, 13450 104 Avenue Longtime Surrey resident and APPS member, Lenée Son, explains, “We’re told the police make us safe, but in our experience, they are a threat to our safety. They surveill and harass homeless people, enforce the catastrophic war on drugs, and terrorize racialized and […]
Collectively Speaking: A Teach-In On Free Speech
Title: Collectively Speaking: A Teach-In on Free Speech Date: October 31, 2018 Location: Outside the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Description: A gathering outside the Chan Centre, where the Free Speech Club hosted American conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro. While our event is not a direct protest against Shapiro, it is a logical civic […]
Social Trustice, The Struggles of Detangling
Anonymous wants to highlight their positionality as an economically privileged and financially dependent disabled settler of colour with other significant intersections; Anonymous uses all the pronouns, but prefers “he/they”. I’ll stand up to the white men the rich men the Old Boys and the new start a magazine and stop eating so many bloody […]
Community Eats
Community Eats, an offshoot of Sprouts, runs a weekly by-donation bring-your-own-container lunch and produce pick-up service currently taking place on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land in the Walter Gage Residence, Student Union Boulevard on Fridays from 11:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. We ask that you donate what you can and take what seems fair – individuals with significant […]
Unearthing: A Mining Justice Zine
Dear Readers, This zine is the collective effort of the 2018 iteration of the class: “Geography 495: Social Movements in the Americas: The politics of North-South solidarity in theory & practice” taught by Dr. Juanita Sundberg. As we moved through the class we learned about “extractivismo or the (re)turn to resource extraction as development and […]
