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Press Releases

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 | Press Releases, Blog, Criminalization & Policing, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

1 Year, No Justice: Family & Friends Honour the Memory of Jared Lowndes

July 8, 2022, marks the 1 year anniversary of the execution of Jared Lowndes by the Campbell River RCMP. Jared Lowndes, a proud Wet’suweten man and member of the Laksilyu (Small Frog) Clan was murdered on the morning of July 8, 2021.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Jul 08, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Community Members respond to the Shuttering of Motion B3

The #StopTheSweeps Coalition denounces Vancouver City Council and its refusal to end the practice of street sweeps.
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Jun 22, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Coalition of Downtown Eastside residents and Organizations rally against City to End Street Sweeps

Community rally at Carrall and Hastings to protest the City of Vancouver’s brutal practice of street sweeps
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Jun 15, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Advocates Respond to the Final Report & Recommendations from the Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act

SCORPA was tasked with understanding the role of police with respect to complex social issues including mental health and wellness, addictions, and harm reduction. Community advocates have reviewed the report and its 11 recommendations, and have responded to the proposals for transforming policing and community safety in BC. 
By Asha Nygra Asha Nygra | Apr 29, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

We must defund the police to build safe, healthy, and sustainable communities

Defund 604 Network releases 6 demands to build safe, health and sustainable communities for all with release of results of the 2021 People’s Budget in advance of 2022 police budget deliberations.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Nov 22, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

BC’s decriminalization plan doesn’t go far enough

Members of the Province’s Core Planning Table express grave concerns that BC’s bid to decriminalize drugs leaves behind the most marginalized drug users
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Nov 01, 2021 | Press Releases, Drug Policy Reform

“They know people don’t know their rights”: Daily street sweeps displace & dispossess unhoused DTES residents

Street sweeps are conducted every morning in the DTES. We must end this dehumanizing practice!
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Oct 15, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases, Homes For All

Community groups sound the alarm on upcoming implementation of vaccine cards in BC

28 health and human rights groups say BC's vaccine card plans intensifies discriminations against already marginalized groups
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Sep 01, 2021 | Press Releases, ICYMI, Project Inclusion

Coalition Submits Complaint for the Cancellation of the VPD Trespass Prevention Program

Legal and community-based organizations submit a formal Service and Policy complaint regarding the Vancouver Police Department’s Trespass Prevention Program (TPP). Complainants are calling for the termination of the TPP and a public accounting of its operations to-date.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jun 15, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases
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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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