Number 41/42, 37/2-3 Fall/Winter 2003/04

Woodsquat, Guest Edited by Aaron Vidaver

Intro & Acknowledgements (7)

Photograph of the Détournement of the “W” Tower – Marginalized Workers Action League (9)

Canada is All Native Land: Non-Natives are All Squatters – Theresa D. Gray (10)

THIS IS NOT A POEM – Maxine Gadd (11)

Squatting as an Organizing Tool – Lisa Wulwik (18)

Beyond the Collar of Blight – Jeff Sommers (20)

Rally to Resist the Cuts Flyer – People’s Opposition (29)

Community Actions Letter – Jim Leyden (30)

Bustin’ Into Woodwards – Shawn Millar (31)

Call for Support Demonstration – Anti-Poverty Committee (33)

We Will Not Submit to Corporate Domination – Nathan (34)

Four Updates – Azad & Marwan (35)

Call for Second Support Demo – Coalition of Woodwards Squatters and Supporters (37)

In The Courts or in The Streets – Kasper Learn (38)

Two Photographs of the Second Support Demonstration – Marwan (39)

Demands – Mike Krebs (41)

Squat the World – Skyy (45)

Megan Oleson & James Toews Arrest Video Stills – Vancouver Police Department (50)

The First Two Evictions of The Woodwards Squat – Ivan Drury (52)

The Woodwards 54: Summary Report – Friends of the Woodwards Squat (58)

Second Eviction Witness Statements – comp. Woodwards Legal Defense Committee 59

Preliminary List of Objects Destroyed – comp. Woodwards Legal Defense Committee (71)

Nighttime Woodwards Sidewalk Cleanup – City of Vancouver (75)

Victory Square Addresses – Jim Leyden, Bev Meslo, Chris Livingstone, Ivan Drury (79)

Photographs of Ivan Drury; Betty Williams & Mavis Brass – Illara V. Sunsurn (81)

Call for Third Support Demonstration – Anti-Poverty Committee (83)

Photograph of Ricky Lavallie Speaking & Singing at Third Demo – Vancouver Independent Media Centre (84)

Crime Surveillance Observations – Vancouver Police Department (85)

The Step by Step Process of Meetings and Common Terms – Debbie Krull (86)

Roughing it in The City – Craig Ballantyne (88)

I Arrived Completely By Accident – Ann Wilden (90)

The Queen Visits Woodwards – Murray Bush (91)

I Haven’t Met More Beautiful People in My Entire Life – Chrystal Durocher (92)

Points of Unity and Strategy of the Coalition – Coalition of Woodwards Squatters and Supporters (95)

Two Speeches at Victory Square – Toecutter & Zeus (96)

The Woodwards Squat December 1st – Peter Z (98)

From the Woodwards Squat to Widespread Social Overhaul – Chris Forth (99)

Graffiti Featuring Journalist Andrew Struthers – Anonymous (104)

I’m Still Here. I’m Still Breathing. Can’t Get Rid of Me That Easy. – Lacey Rainer (105)

Woodsquat – Trevor M (107)

They Think We’re Disposible But We’re Not: We’re Recyclable – A Native Man (118)

Photos of Chris Barton/Angel Williams & Nick Olsen/Matthew Bonnetrouge – Friends of the Woodwards Squat (122)

Until We Win – Hidden in Dark Well (124)

Report from the Police Board Meeting – Shane Davis (126)

Letter to Preempt Third Police Eviction – Coalition of Woodwards Squatters and Supporters (127)

Campbell is the WTO Virus – Claude Maurice (128)

Photograph of Ångel – Woodwards Squat Native Caucus (130)

Here is Home – Ångel (131)

Call for Emergency Mobilization and Action – Determined Housing Affinity Group (133)

Defend the Tent City – Kara Sievewright (134)

Squatter Threat: The Black Scare – Insurgent-S (135)

Letter to the City Engineer Delivered by Hand to City Hall – Coalition of Woodwards Squatters and Supporters (137)

Monster Liberal Hallowe’en Ball – Murray Bush (139)

This is It – Roy Gladiator Archie (140)

On the Politics, On Addiction, On Prisons and Pigs, On Class War – T. Forsythe (143)

Movement Tactics and Electoral Politics – Shannon Bundock (146)

Absolute Chaos – Adam Murray (148)

We Need to be Left Alone – Lyn Tooley (150)

City Announces Homeless Action Plan – Friends of the Woodwards Squat (152)

Photograph of November 25 Rally – Jason X (153)

Woodwards Squat Under Imminent Attack – Anti-Poverty Committee (154)

Stick Together! Power in Unity! We Will Win! – Woodwards Squat Emergency Response Team (155)

I’m Completely Distracted Within the First Seven Seconds – Taum Danberger (157)

We Belong Here – Kathy May Lee Rattlesnake (165)

Third Woodsquat Memorandum Excerpt – Vancouver City Manager (169)

Letter to Mayor and Council – Woodwards Legal Defense Committee (173)

Transcript of Negotiations Discussion – Rev. Davin Ouimet & Cameron Gray (175)

Tactical Situation at Woodwards – Vancouver Police Department (177)

Invitation to Premier Gordon Campbell – Dayl Scheltgen (181)

Eternal Turtle Island – Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (182)

Chain Reaction – Tony Snakeskin (183)

Squatter Portraits – Aaron Vidaver (186)

A Thousand Songs to Choose From – Elvis Ace Nelson (200)

Lily of the Valley – Hazel Hoyle (202)

Frances to Woody – Bruce Gongola (206)

Legal Strategies at the Woodwards Squat – Noah Quastel (208)

Two Versions of the September 20 Edition of The Sun – The Vancouver Sun (222)

Shallow Stories to Ill-Informed Public – Diana Leung (223)

Photograph of Doris Louis – Friends of the Woodwards Squat (229)

A Ghetto is No Community – David Cunningham (230)

Twelve Days of Squatting – Jewel C (236)

Notes on Contributors 238

Reviews:

David Carrigg in The Vancouver Courier (Sunday 28 March 2004): 18.

Sandy Cameron & Jean Swanson in The Rain Review of Books 2:3 (May/June 2004): 1; and The Carnegie Newsletter (1 June 2004): 9-10.

Tom Sandborn in The Columbia Journal 9:4 (September 2004): 13.

Rita Wong in XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 15/16 (2006).

Roger Farr in Perspectives on Anarchist Theory (forthcoming 2007).