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Building Community Power for Housing as a Human Right - Part 3

If BC is to implement provincial tenancy laws, those protections must be afforded to all renters, and courts must be attuned to the adverse impacts of carving out whole communities from tenancy rights that they are legally entitled to.
By Simone Akyianu Simone Akyianu | Sep 28, 2023 | Blog, Homes For All

Tenancy Rights Amidst BC’s Housing Crisis - Part 2

This fall PIVOT & OHCW will be at BCCA intervening in a case that will impact the applicability of RTA on people residing in non-profit, “supportive” housing. Learn more about this case by reading second part of a three-part blog series.
By Simone Akyianu Simone Akyianu | Sep 13, 2023 | Blog, ICYMI, Homes For All

Fighting for Tenancy Rights and Housing Justice Through Coalition-Building - Part 1

Pivot and OHCW will be at the BC Court of Appeal this fall intervening in an appeal of a judicial review of an RTB decision that found a tenant’s rental housing building, operated by Elizabeth Fry Society, to be transitional housing and therefore exempt from BC’s Residential Tenancy Act (RTA) – leaving the tenant without any legal protections under provincial tenancy laws We know that racialized communities, people on social assistance, sex workers, drug users and other marginalized communities, already face systemic barriers in accessing and maintaining permanent housing, and being carved out of the RTA’s protections would negatively impact housing and tenancy rights for marginalized groups
By Simone Akyianu Simone Akyianu | Aug 18, 2023 | Blog, ICYMI, Homes For All

Pivot Legal Society Annual Report 2022

Pivot's 2022 Annual Report - with thanks to Peer experts, community organizers and groups, funders, and supporters, who are all a critical part of our work which at its heart, involves creating space for and learning from, people directly impacted by poverty and criminalization. To all who have stood alongside us on the streets and in the courts; to all who have sent emails and showed up to serve food; to all who have spent countless hours collaborating with us and to all those who have opened your doors for us, we thank you! Your trust and generosity have allowed us to fight back against discriminatory and deadly laws and policies while striving for healthier and stronger communities. In solidarity, Staff - Pivot Legal Society
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Jul 27, 2023 | Blog, Annual Reports

Members of a Violence-Prone Department brutally killed Myles Gray

Members of a Violence-Prone Department brutally killed Myles Gray - The coroner’s inquest jury classified this death as homicide.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | May 02, 2023 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Situating Pivot’s sex workers’ rights campaign within its colonial roots and possibilities for new directions

A human rights-based, intersectional approach to sex work advocacy is an invitation to rethink the ways in which we approach systemic advocacy that supports the rights of sex workers. This will necessarily involve recentering the lived experiences and voices of sex workers, particularly Black, Indigenous and Asian migrant sex worker communities whose work is traditionally erased from public and organizing around sex workers’ rights. Stay tuned for ways to get involved in our upcoming human rights work!
By Simone Akyianu Simone Akyianu | Apr 28, 2023 | Sex Workers' Rights, Blog

Today, on International Day Against Police Brutality

Honour Their Names, an art exhibit and organizing space presented by #JusticeForJared returns to Gallery Gachet, opening on March 15, International Day Against police Brutality, and runs until March 24, 2023. #DefundThePolice #JusticeForJared
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Mar 15, 2023 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Reflecting on the City of Vancouver’s 2023 Budget

Just 10 years ago, the VPD budget was $219.8 million. In the last decade, the VPD’s budget has almost doubled, with little to show in terms of “public safety.”
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Mar 07, 2023 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Police out of Politics - Response to City of Vancouver budget 2023

Continuing to overfund the VPD, while people’s most basic needs are not met, amounts to a tacit approval of the havoc the police are wreaking on those made vulnerable by a discriminatory system. #PoliceOutOfPolitics #PoliceOutOfEverything
By Tonye Aganaba Tonye Aganaba | Feb 24, 2023 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Pivot to Challenge City of Campbell River’s Anti-Drug User Bylaws at the BC Supreme Court

On February 10, 2023, Pivot Legal Society filed a petition at the BC Supreme Court to challenge the City of Campbell River’s newly adopted bylaws. The bylaws, which directly undermine BC’s new decriminalization policy, were illegally passed and fall outside the scope of local government powers.
By Caitlin Shane Caitlin Shane | Feb 13, 2023 | Blog, Drug Policy Reform
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Pivot Legal Society is located on stolen lands of the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). We are grateful to Indigenous Peoples for their continuous relationship with their lands and are committed to learning to work in solidarity as accomplices in shifting the colonial default. 

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