On Mother Earth Day, Sunday April 22, 2012, the Occupy Vancouver Environmental Justice Group and the Council of Canadians Vancouver-Burnaby Chapter held a forum called Climate Crimes OR Real Solutions? Fracking, Tar Sands, Pipelines, Tankers Ben…
The following report was submitted by a member of an Occupy group that will remain anonymous. The process outlined may help occupations everywhere. IN HER RECENT article, “Mad, Passionate Love—And Violence”, Rebecca Solnit refers to…
Draft Position Paper on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and the Alberta Tar Sands, prepared for Occupy Vancouver Environmental Justice Working Group
Local filmmakers Arun Fryer, Drew Hutchinson, and Richard Neufeld have released their latest short #occupyvancity2, an ongoing doc series chronicling the Occupy Vancouver movement.
From its beginning on October 15th to this day in early January 2012, Occupy Vancouver has prompted many questions about its nature, aims, and practices.
Thoughts on building a world that works for all life, starting now.
Almost 2000 people showed up on a rainy Monday at noon to hear speakers from indigenous and activist communities.
As the Occupy movement transitions into its second six months, it is becoming more and more important to understand where, exactly, the movement came from, as we try to discover where we want the movement to go.
Worried about the robocall scandal? Stephen Harper comes clean in a poem.
The slogan “System change not climate change” is well known in Europe, and is becoming a central rallying cry in the growing global movement for climate justice.
Stephen Collis talking art, revolution, public space and Occupy at the VAG on February 4.
Big Aquaculture, like Big Oil, is using its government connections and the influence of its wealth to silence opposition and directly attack our freedom of speech—all in the name of short term profit.
So I took a week off Facebook, and more or less off Occupy. It was nice to have a rest, but it was eye opening too.
Sometimes the world of high finance and the centres of capitalist accumulation can seem a long way away from us here on this far-flung coast. Then, at other times, the world becomes very small.
Occupy Vancouver joins Occupy Wall Street in calling upon everyone who dreams of peace and a better world to join us for a candlelight vigil, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, at 7pm.
Between optimism and pessimism–between imagination and creation, and between construction and resistance–lies the space of dynamic tension.
Suresh Fernando explores what is has meant to become “occupied” by Occupy, delving into the deeper roots of why so many of us have, it seems, found our “calling” in this movement, at this moment.
What hurts you hurts me, and what heals you heals me. It’s time to let the healing begin.
~ Stephen Collis, Occupy OilWhat Occupy has put on the table is the very idea that the changes we need to make are drastic and sweeping—structural and systemic
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