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 [...]

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 [...]

‘The Battle for the Commons’:More about tent-city charter challenge

Right of homeless to camp in parks is focus of landmark Victoria court case.
By Andrew MacLeod, TheTyee.ca
Much has changed for Natalie Adams since the Victoria police dismantled a short-lived tent city a few blocks from the provincial legislature in 2005. She’s off drugs, she has a place to live and a job helping other people [...]

Victoria Homeless Charter Challenge Update

Charter arguments against Victoria homeless bylaw end, judge reserves decision
VICTORIA — A lawyer representing homeless advocates in the British Columbia capital hopes a decision regarding her constitutional challenge to a city bylaw comes long before next winter.
“It’s the first time this issue has been decided in Canada and it could take a significant amount of [...]

Seattle Homeless to build own Nickelsville

Danny Westneat, Seattle Times staff columnist
This Wednesday, a group of four men plan to pile into a car in Pioneer Square and head off on a unique Seattle real-estate tour.
They will be shopping for some of the largest undeveloped lots left in the city. Their wish list: flat, vacant, hopefully remote.They aren’t looking to buy. [...]

Victoria bylaws unconstitutional, court told

(I’m still on the road, but today I was able to squeeze in a few minutes internet access, and of course I wish I were home in Victoria watching these events unfold, but luckily I get reports. Dave Johnston has passed along that the city is arguing we’re wrecking endangered plants by sleeping on them. [...]

Homeless challenge park sleeping ban

Mayor defends rule, says it has implications for other municipalities
Petti Fong, Toronto Star
Victoria–Alyamanda Wawia sleeps outdoors and even in Canada’s most temperate city in the middle of June, there is no escaping the damp and cold.
To Wawia, 40, who has been homeless for years, tarp is a fancy word for a piece of plastic to [...]

Lawyer says ‘tent cities’ are likely without bylaw

Jeff Bell, Times Colonist
Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Without a proper bylaw, the City of Victoria could face more homeless encampments or “tent cities” like the one that sprang up at Cridge Park in 2005, city lawyer Guy McDannold told a B.C. Supreme Court hearing yesterday.
McDannold was speaking on the second of five scheduled court days [...]

Homeless campout at Portland City Hall Update

ALL of the westside under-bridge areas now have “illegal camping” notices. People on the street are reporting that both the west and east sides are being swept, as well as downtown doorways in the middle of the night. I met three people last night who had lost their blankets and belongings to the popo in [...]