Homeless Till Green Farm For Shelter

BOSTON — It seems like an unlikely spot for farming, but Boston Harbor’s Long Island farm — the city’s only certified organic farm — is producing another bumper crop.
NewsCenter 5’s David Brown reported that the 2 ½-acre farm produces 25,000 to 30,000 pounds of produce each year.

Details needed on Ellice Park shelter plan

Times Colonist
Burnside Gorge residents have sent a useful message to Victoria city council, even though their petition against a homeless shelter fell far short of the signatures required to force a referendum on the project.
The opponents collected about 3,000 signatures, about half the number required to send the project to referendum. (B.C. law requires signatures [...]

Olympia: City Councilman’s Business Shitbombed

-from infoshop news
Dear Jeff Kingsbury and other really bad people,
On the night of June 6th, a bunch of us kids traveled to the port-a-potty behind the Salvation Army. We filled 5 light bulbs with shit, carried them over to Jeff Kingsbury’s Capital Playhouse, and covered his marquee in human feces.
We felt it was appropriate to [...]

Panhandler Lends Helping Hand

As soon as Jen Ferris reached out to touch the car window, she knew her Braille note-taker was gone. Her fingers felt only the cool touch of air and Ferris and her “seeing eye” guide dog Clipper were standing on crunchy broken glass.
The Braille note-taker had everything stored in it: years of notes from the [...]

Homeless People from Outer Space

Law, government, and every class but the bottom does their very best to ignore these aliens on our streets.
by Tavis W Dodds
People of Earth, we have you surrounded. More than 10 000 of our forces are in each of your major cities.
The people of your world are joining us at an incredible rate; as [...]

Why we need tent cities

It’s a fact that many people in Victoria would rather not acknowledge.
Homeless people are about to house themselves in something other than the usual homeless shelter. Tent city is returning, and this time it’s going to stay aroiund for awhile.
How long have we had a homeless problem in this country? Long enough in my opinion [...]

Victoria:Tent City Call To Action

In preparation for the tent city that will be raised in opposition to Victoria’s disregard for the rights and wellbeing of the homeless, we are asking for donations of any new or used tents, tarps, rope, bedding, first aid supplies, and anything else that could be of use in the establishment and preservation of our [...]

Homeland Food Security Alert: Food liberated and available

Under the cover of darkness, on the night of June 26, 2008, operatives working with Homeland Food Security liberated several boxes of food from their unjust imprisonment in a supermarket dumpster.
This food has been left out in front of Camas books at Quadra and Kings, available for the use of all.
This is not the first [...]

Up to 15,000 B.C.ers homeless: NDP

John Bermingham, The Province
For as many as 15,000 B.C.ers, this land is not their land.
They’re the homeless, sleeping on streets and in shelters, not only in Vancouver and Victoria, but all over the province.
And on Friday, the B.C. New Democrats outlined the scale of B.C.’s homelessness problem in a new report, while issuing a dozen [...]

Pivot Legal Society lawyer opposes ticketing homeless

By Carlito Pablo
Remember Darrell Mickasko? He was the homeless man who died of burn injuries days after his clothing caught fire as he used a stove to keep himself warm one cold evening last winter. He was sleeping behind a Dumpster near a Vancouver homeless shelter that was full.
Writing in his blog on February 4, [...]