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Letters & Statements

Hastings Tent City Residents Decamped While City Under Weather Warning

The City’s enforcement of this bylaw is constitutionally suspect, as it is being undertaken without due consideration of the human rights and social conditions of Hastings Tent City Residents.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Nov 29, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Anti-Stigma, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Winter Housing Plan for People Who Shelter in Public Space

We write as seasonal weather changes take place, to inquire about housing plans from the city, province, and federal government for people who shelter in public space, including for the residents of the Hastings Tent City. Members of Our Streets have worked with Block Stewards, leaders and organizers who reside in the Hastings Street Tent City, to develop demands that reflect their housing needs: • Hands off tent cities • A real public option for housing • Real fire safety • Make landlords fix buildings • Protect all tenants’ rights under the law • Power to the tenants • Housing now
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Nov 22, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Anti-Stigma, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

VPD Manufactured Disinformation

VPD's "Vancouver's Social Safety Net: Rebuilding the Broken" report is manufactured disinformation and a distraction from the critical, life-limiting conditions that profoundly affect the most vulnerable members of our communities, across Vancouver.
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Nov 10, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Anti-Stigma, Letters & Statements

Supporting the call to dismantle BC’s family policing system

Support the calls of West Coast Leaf, BC Association of Social Workers, YWCA Metro Vancouver, Raincity Housing, Parents Advocating Collectively for Kin (PACK) BC, and Keeping Families Together, to dismantle the family policing system, and #StopTearingFamiliesApart https://act.newmode.net/action/west-coast-leaf/stop-tearing-families-apart
By Nina Taghaddosi Nina Taghaddosi | Nov 09, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Anti-Stigma, Letters & Statements

Statement Regarding the 5th VPD Murder in 2022

We need a ceasefire from the VPD in the #DTES - Joint Statment Regarding the 5th VPD Murder in 2022
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Aug 25, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Letters & Statements

Hastings Tent City Residents Give City of Vancouver and Vancouver Fire Rescue Services an Overall "E" Grade

Hastings Tent City Residents give City of Vancouver and Vancouver Fire Rescue Services an overall "E" grade + Fact Sheet which highlight myths and misunderstandings created by City, VFRS and VPD.
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Aug 09, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases, Letters & Statements, Homes For All, Blog

Joint Letter RE: VPD and IIO actions in the Downtown Eastside - Saturday July 30, 2022

BCCLA, Justice for Jared & Pivot write to demand accountability for the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) actions on Saturday July 30 & about the Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO) actions on July 30. These actions included shooting a community member, pulling another community member to the ground and striking them repeatedly, and verbally abusing and intimidating onlookers. These incidents occurred in the middle of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) community, with no support provided afterwards, and during a heatwave and forcible decampment along Hastings Street.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Aug 05, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Letters & Statements

OUR STREETS - Statement on Hastings Street Tent City Fire Order

When Our Streets asked questions related to what kinds of housing options will be offered to tent city residents they were met with no response. No plan has been formulated by the city other than decamping the tent city, leaving residents with no place to go and violating the city’s MOU on decampment (“Support for Unsheltered Residents – Memorandum of Understanding between City of Vancouver, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, and Provincial Government”).
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Jul 27, 2022 | Anti-Stigma, Project Inclusion, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Targeted Violence Against Unhoused Neighbours in so-called Langley City and the Township of Langley

Today is truly a tragic reminder of the stigma that fuels the hatred and violence towards our most marginalized members of society. Our hearts are with unhoused individuals who are victimized through direct and political violence. We denounce the conditions that manufacture poverty and homelessness - including white supremacy, settler colonialism, anti-drug user and anti-homeless stigma.
By Nina Taghaddosi Nina Taghaddosi | Jul 25, 2022 | Anti-Stigma, Project Inclusion, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Joint letter in opposition to Vancouver City Council motion for CCTV cameras

Joint letter from 15 organizations expressing deep concern about Vancouver City Council motion for CCTV cameras.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Apr 26, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Letters & Statements
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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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