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Letters & Statements

Joint Statement Re: Vancouver Police Department 2021 Operating Budget

Last week, Vancouver City Council approved over $340 million in police funding and rejected a motion calling for a budget cut of $5 million. The failure to decisively defund the police – by both Council and the Police Board – enables the VPD to continue a longstanding pattern of interference, degradation, and harm in over-policed communities.
By Asha Nygra Asha Nygra | Dec 14, 2020 | Criminalization & Policing, Letters & Statements

Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users & Pivot Legal Society Joint Statement

Principally, we support full decriminalization. We do not support the use of administrative or other regimes to control, coerce, medicalize, pathologize, or penalize drug use.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Nov 19, 2020 | Drug Policy Reform, Letters & Statements

Freedom of Information Request to the Vancouver Police Department

In recognition of the October 22nd International Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and Criminalization, Pivot submitted an FOI request to the VPD.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Oct 22, 2020 | Criminalization & Policing, Letters & Statements

Pivot Writes to Provincial Party Leaders

Pivot writes to provincial party leaders, to urge them to enshrine dignity and equity within their respective platforms, party, and public discourse.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Oct 20, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Joint Letter Urging for the Approval of Lease for Prospective Yaletown OPS Site

Joint letter (Pivot, CDPC) urging the City Council and Mayor to approve the lease on a prospective overdose prevention site in Yaletown. The paramountcy of public health over community input in the approval process for harm reduction services is established in law and should be followed here.
By Asha Nygra Asha Nygra | Oct 09, 2020 | Drug Policy Reform, Letters & Statements

Joint letter to Vancouver Park Board on by-law amendment regarding sheltering in parks

Joint letter (BCCLA< UBCIC & Pivot) in response to Vancouver Park Board resolution concerning by-law amendment to temporarily sheltering in parks.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jul 27, 2020 | Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Joint Letter Regarding Temporary Shelter in Parks

By Asha Nygra Asha Nygra | Jul 23, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Letter to BC Ministers Urging Against Bill 22's Passage into Law

By Asha Nygra Asha Nygra | Jul 03, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Statement Urging Non-Enforcement Against 'Safe Supply' Health Services

By Asha Nygra Asha Nygra | Jun 23, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Support for "Police-Free Schools are Safer Schools" Petition

By Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell | Jun 19, 2020 | Letters & Statements
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Pivot Legal Society is located on stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. 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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