Squatters Face Jail After Rights Are Axed

A new law comes into effect this weekend which threatens squatters with jail if they enter an unoccupied residential property. Squatters who take up residence in property that does not belong to them now face...

Fire hits slum area in Makati, snarls traffic along EDSA

I was able to catch the billowing smoke on video, albeit actually far from the incident."Fire of still undetermined origin hit several houses inside a squatters' compound in Makati City and snarled traffic in the...

On Flag Day … It’s United We Stand :: MAXINE

"President Bush and those who are pushing to make legal the twelve to twenty million (depending on who is doing the estimating) squatters who continue to live openly flaunting our border, culture and our laws are...

Couch Surfing, New APC Olympic Event

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor APC (Anti Poverty Committee) malcontents always seeking to make the perfect wave, in the words of one jobless APC malcontent whose Olympian legal troubles began this...

Anti-Poverty Committee to Stage Halloween Protest at City Hall

 I was just reading on the Anti-Poverty Committee's website that they will be staging another protest at City hall on Halloween day. They will be sending buses from Pigeon Park at 1pm. Is there anyone who is planning to be there who can send in reports and photographs?...

Police evict Vancouver squatters

"Vancouver police have moved in and ousted a small group of homeless activists from an abandoned hotel in the city's Downtown Eastside. Police read a final warning before 20 officers entered the vacant North Star...

"Buy It or Guard It!"

There was a great exclusive from Dutchphoto on the squatter occupation in Vancouver's downtown eastside this weekend. Today there will be more classic Civil disobedience just a few steps away from NP...

Stanley Park squatters being evicted

"Vancouver park and fire officials are trying to evict the remaining handful of squatters who call Stanley Park their home, citing wildfire concerns. There were about two dozen people living in the woods last...

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