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Pedal to Petal: Sustainable Business Opportunities in Local Backyards
By Steve Carey, Momentum Magazine
In early 2008, Victoria activist Chris Johnson was homeless and looking for work, but he couldn’t find a job that fit his environmental values. At the time, the Capital Regional District was piloting a service where trucks picked up compostable waste and drove [...]

Blast From The Past: Woodwards Squat 2002

Langford Planner Won’t Apologize for Legal Threats

-by Zoe Blunt Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network
Last week, the BC Supreme Court upheld our right to criticize the government. But Langford officials apparently didn’t get the memo.
In February and March, newspapers and TV cameras showed Langford’s mayor berating local residents at a public hearing for the South Skirt Mountain mega-development. Now a [...]

One year later, RCMP investigator questions tree sit raid

by Zoe Blunt, submedia.tv
Complaints to the RCMP have triggered an investigation into a military-style police raid on a small protest camp in Langford last year. In January 2009, former RCMP internal investigator Curt Acheson met with half a dozen community members and promised full disclosure about the February 13, 2008 operation, which involved at least [...]

Squatters ordered out of Mayfair

BBC
Squatters who took over a £22.5m house in Mayfair have been ordered by a court to leave the property.
Bailiffs are set to clear the building on Wednesday after an order was granted to owners Timekeeper Limited.
The owner’s lawyer confirmed that the order to vacate was issued for the two linked buildings in Charles Street and [...]

Homes Not Jails!

By Novella Carpenter, Special to SF Gate
Three guys dressed in black sit with me on the steps of the Basilica of Mission Dolores in San Francisco’s Mission district. It’s past midnight on a clear winter night, and the stone stairs are numbingly cold. I suggest we go to a cafe, but Tim, Sasha and Steve [...]

Wild Bison Update

It pains me greatly to read of a January in West Yellowstone where BFC volunteers don’t get to see the last wild bison up close every day. Not for the sake of those of us who have been lucky enough to experience that, but for the horrible, horrible implication of their absence.
In terms of issues [...]

Travellers can move to “tent city”

(In the UK, the term Travellers refers to a cultural group, similar to ‘gypsys’)
by Jon Austin
COUNCIL chiefs admit if travellers are evicted they could be able to move a few hundred metres to a “tent city” – and stay for a month.
A year ago the Echo exclusively revealed hundreds of travellers faced with eviction from [...]

Opening of Seattle’s first public squat

-infoshopnews
On January 1st, 2009, a new squat will be opening up in Seattle. A rally of homeless residents from the U-District’s Tent City, which the community simply calls “Nickelsville” after Seattle’s Mayor Greg Nickels, will have live music and speakers giving talks on the need for free housing for the homeless and impoverished.
At 12:30 in [...]

Good People, Food Not Bombs

-News10abc
SACRAMENTO, CA – In these tough economic times, life can be even harder for those without a place to stay and don’t know when they will eat their next meal. This week’s Good People are a group of local volunteers who make sure that those less fortunate don’t spend their Sundays with an empty stomach.
They [...]