Melissa Fong: Are the Anti-Gentrification Front protesters wrong to...
My facebook feed went crazy last night with my Vancouver friends posting about a stolen sandwich board. Why is this important? Context: Save-on-Meats is kind of an iconic butcher in Vancouver’s...
View ArticleMelissa Fong: Anarchy, the Anti-Gentrification Front and Violence
Now, I never passed Anarchy 101 and have never painted a haphazard “A” within a circle in red paint. Ever. Never even thought about it. But I’m going to take a stab at understanding the logic behing...
View ArticleMelissa Fong: Will new businesses help the DTES?: A much needed lesson on the...
Apparently it looks like this has become a series on Gentrification in the DTES: 1) Are the Anti-Gentrification Front protesters wrong to “vandalize” Save-on-Meats? 2) Anarchy, the Anti-Gentrification...
View ArticleMelissa Fong: Anti-Gentrification Pidgin Protesting: Bad Urban Planning but...
This is a fifth instalment to the gentrification series- discussing the Protests and pickets in Vancouver’s DTES Thus far I haven’t been too clear about where my commitments lie. I understand both...
View ArticleMelissa Fong: Once upon a time, there was a Vancouver Mayor who promised he’d...
Once upon a time… There was a handsome young prince named Gregor Angus Bethune Robertson. He was a much envied prince. He represented his fiefdom, Vancouver-Fairview, for years before he, […]
View ArticleMelissa Fong: RIP Bud Osborn
RIP Bud Osborn http://t.co/CrWrlN1PR7— Melissa Fong (@internationalmf) May 07, 2014 raise shit – a downtown eastside poem of resistance “the myth of the frontier is an invention that rationalizes […]
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