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Letters & Statements

Decampment of Topaz Park and Pandora Avenue Corridor

BC government’s rapid and enforcement-based decampment plan for Oppenheimer Park, Topaz Park, and the Pandora Avenue Corridor is creating a level of harm that is preventable. Read Pivot's letter and the statements from the ground.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | May 15, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Drug Decriminalization: A Necessary Response to COVID-19

Pivot joins the call to immediately decriminalize the possession of illicit drugs in response to the twin crises of opioid overdoses and the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | May 14, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Pivot Legal joins calls to prevent halfway house on prison grounds

Halfway homes don't belong on prison grounds! Pivot Legal joins advocates in the Yukon to urge respect for residents’ rights.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | May 04, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Premier Horgan urged to deploy a public health response to housing not enforcement

Reports of a potential Provincial order of enforcement against unsheltered people who do not access temporary accommodations made available to them during COVID-19 has spread amongst unsheltered people in Vancouver.
By Anna Cooper Anna Cooper | Apr 24, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Call for Immediate Action to use Emergency Powers to House all Unhoused BC Residents

We call on BC and Vancouver officials to urgently exercise their respective authorities in full, pursuant to emergency legislation, to rapidly house every BC resident without housing.
By Anna Cooper Anna Cooper | Apr 09, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Calls for Vancouver Police to stop undermining public health in the DTES

By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Apr 02, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Statement of Support for Hothouse Squat amid COVID-19

By Anna Cooper Anna Cooper | Apr 01, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Letter to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society Regarding "Client Re-Registration" Policy Changes

By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Apr 01, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Call for donations to Unist'ot'en Legal Fund

A letter to our legal colleagues calling for financial contributions to the Unist'ot'en Legal Fund in support and defence of Wet'suwet'en people's rights and title to their territories.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jan 23, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Letters requesting warming options at Oppenheimer Park

Pivot urges Vancouver City and Fire & Rescue to work with Oppenheimer Park residents to come up with a solution for a serious health and safety risks faced by camp residents.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jan 16, 2020 | Homes For All, 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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