There was a big one here, shut down last year - it was a big NIMBY issue with locals worried about property values in the nearby neighbourhood (but a lot of locals also supported it) - and a recent newer one in a different location. I know there is at least one in Vancouver, and another in Nanaimo. The residents are resolute. It is an effort, both to live in community and solidarity...and to protest poverty and homelessness. Yes, of course they have had problems in these camps because they are humans, living crammed together in makeshift city encampments...overall I understand and empathize with why people are doing it.
Yesterday - I just saw this and have not been following more local news too closely lately - a group with ties to white supremacist groups in Europe, had threatened to tear down the encampment, but didn’t show up. They said “Just trolled ya.” Not funny.
This stuff is getting too real, too close to home...and the attacks and the threats of attacks on the poor and marginalized are getting worse. I really don’t think it is something that can be just ignored and it’ll go away...and it doesn’t just live on the internet. This is really bad. Too far. They claim to be embassadors of goodwill...and not affiliated with the European groups, which analysts claim is false. Besides, why would an unaffiliated group who doesn’t want to be associated with the same ideology, take up the same name? Sounds to me like they are trying to fool people.
Soldiers of Odin fail to show up at Nanaimo's tent city Sunday
People need to take a principled stand against poverty, and against this skinhead crap...through peaceful protest and some bold policy change that makes a real difference to lives of people living in poverty.
Yesterday - I just saw this and have not been following more local news too closely lately - a group with ties to white supremacist groups in Europe, had threatened to tear down the encampment, but didn’t show up. They said “Just trolled ya.” Not funny.
This stuff is getting too real, too close to home...and the attacks and the threats of attacks on the poor and marginalized are getting worse. I really don’t think it is something that can be just ignored and it’ll go away...and it doesn’t just live on the internet. This is really bad. Too far. They claim to be embassadors of goodwill...and not affiliated with the European groups, which analysts claim is false. Besides, why would an unaffiliated group who doesn’t want to be associated with the same ideology, take up the same name? Sounds to me like they are trying to fool people.
Soldiers of Odin fail to show up at Nanaimo's tent city Sunday
People need to take a principled stand against poverty, and against this skinhead crap...through peaceful protest and some bold policy change that makes a real difference to lives of people living in poverty.
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