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i had a really hard time making this work for some reason, so it's been cut down and parts got screwed up. I think Shawn's message still rings loud and clear.

Cheers,
KoLiN

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hey man it sucks to hear what's happenned to your guy's place it makes no sense your right. If the City isn't going to live up to their end of the bargain and get you guys places then it's just making you start all over again. We desperately need some kind of policy or law protecting self housing innitiatives like this one.

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It's right to Rebel!!
Nous Avons Raison de ce Révolter!!

I agree that self-housing is a PERMANENT solution.

However, in order to enact it, there must be *legislative* changes.

It's much more difficult for a 4-year politician to change legislation than it is to make promises of housing that the next politician doesn't enact.

We need to overturn camping bans and create squatting legislation. That's the only way we're ever going to have the legal right to house ourselves no matter what the economy or government is doing. We need to have the right to homestead on crown lands.

Everytime I bring this up all I hear from the activist community is "Canada is too nice to accept squatting. We'll build social housing."

Yeah and I will be dead before that happens. I'm almost 50 and the social housing has gone down every year I've been alive except for a bit of a surge in the 70's that didn't cover even half the people who needed housing.

And many will die while we wait for this idiocy that might never happen. There's nothing cruel or socially disparate about loosening up legislation and letting the poor house themselves at no expense to the taxpayer.

Concern about fires etc. is simply dealt with--show the squatters how to be safe and enforce that they do it. If squatters have their own council that oversees such safety concerns, that is simple enough. I saw enough idiots pouring gasoline into fires and without the sense to have a high enough ceiling for a woodstove with a safe under stone block under the stove.

I'm currently in discussions with some friends here in Montreal about trying to create a massive ''Urban homesteading'' Movement in Montreal. We don't want to call it squatting just because of the negative connotation it brings to the practise. Anyways just to say that I've been casing some buildings for a while now trying to get a feel for them and when the time is right we're hitting that shit.

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It's right to Rebel!!
Nous Avons Raison de ce Révolter!!

Check out the outtakes video in my profile, boring video (kinda funny actually if you just watch Raven's responses to my questions) anyways I adress the "camping by-laws" in Toronto, I've requested that they be repealed, and Streets To Homes get out of the eviction business (these recommendations were accepted and passed by the Homeless Advisory Committee to be passed on to more bureaucrats, while they're doing that) also I have been doing homework into Toronto's Streets to Homes policy and in there they make suggestions about the expropriation of buildings in every ward. During this election campaign I am pushing to put pressure on the city to actually keep their housing promises, every community in toronto should come together and pick an abandoned building in your ward and put pressure on your politicians to EXPROPRIATE NOW!! use it or lose it folx, and if they won't pay to use it they'll have to pay to guard it.

Cheers,
KoLiN

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I don't know how many times I've addressed that room full of self-righteous hypocrites. Total waste of time.

They're not going to give us shite.

I agree Kolin. Give it or guard it.

Expropriation will only work if they MUST give the housing up to social housing. Some greedy jackass will find a way to get around that if there's so much as a single loophole.
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[While walking through the capitol city, the newly invested Emperor Londo Mollari was struck by a rock thrown by a young teenage girl, who proceeded to upbraid him for his failings in defense of the Centauri people.]
Londo Mollari: You are quite brave, do you know that?"
[For a moment the girl seemed taken aback, and then she gathered herself.]
Girl: I'm not brave. I'm just too tired and hungry and angry to care anymore.
Londo Mollari: Perhaps they are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps bravery is simply apathy with delusions of grandeur.

I've said it before I think...yup, that was me; ADDING "Poverty & Homelessness" to the Human Rights Act would have the effect of IMMEDIATELY overturning such unGODly bylaws as; no-camping, busking without a license, sitting in the parks, not being allowed to use the bathroom in public restraunts without buying something...wait a minute...I'm starting to see a pattern forming here.
This would not only EXPOSE them as the heartless slave traders they are, but negate most of the B.S. they pass off as LEGAL dealings with poor people. I can SEE why they don't want it...I don't understand how you(collective, not personel) don't SEE how much you(again collective) NEED it.
This is NOT a band aid solution folks...this is OPEN HEART surgery to stop the NUMBER #1 killer of homeless people, and that is heartless people.
your humble servant,
Ancient Clown

According to the agreement Canada signed with NATO--housing IS a basic human right.

However, one can't legislate morality, only law. The law is a sledgehammer. In this case, that's how TCT won housing. It's a sledgehammer we need to pull out far more often....

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G’KAR: Reborn? I’ve already been born and quite sufficiently, I think.

According to the agreement Canada signed with NATO--housing IS a basic human right.

However, one can't legislate morality, only law. The law is a sledgehammer. In this case, that's how TCT won housing. It's a sledgehammer we need to pull out far more often....

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G’KAR: Reborn? I’ve already been born and quite sufficiently, I think.

Where's Dirty at. I can't e-mail ya on this site

Its Brandi i now live in a wicked house in a smal town called Midland i met a great guy named George in April i will have a baby right now i am 3 mounths going on four it has been almoust a year since we even said hello to each ohter i have been clean and in school since i left the city i hope for the best for everyone i know down in the city be safe buddy