Press release: People’s Park transitions to resident-run system
Press release: After nearly 40 days, a 24-hour volunteer-run vigil at Meagher Park in Halifax is coming to an end.
Halifax Regional Police
Thrown out of Peace and Friendship, a poem by Thibault Jacquot-Paratte
In the morning,
the police came;
although we were outside
rent was due
A stunning poem about the violent evictions of unhoused people by Halifax police on August 18.
Dignity now! Rally calls for moratorium on evictions
Some 200 people gathered in front of Halifax City Hall this morning to demand a moratorium on the evictions of unhoused people all across urban HRM.
News brief: Push back against brute force police evictions continues
The brutal evictions of unhoused people initiated by Halifax police on August 18 are slowly disappearing from the headlines, and from the general public’s minds. Thankfully, the push back continues.
Judy Haiven on the evictions debacle : If
Judy Haiven on the hot mess that came about after the city decided to evict unhoused people from their modest shelters on August 18.
The Board of Police Commissioners has more power than chair Lindell Smith thinks
Last week Councillor Lindell Smith, the current chair of the Board of Police Commissioners, told the Chronicle Herald that the Board can do very little about the horrible evictions of unhoused people by Halifax police on August 18. Thankfully, Smith is wrong.
Martyn Williams: Police violence last Wednesday endangered pedestrians, including children
Martyn Williams: “By initiating violence against a protesting but unprotected crowd in a public area, police did not acknowledge their responsibility to ensure events didn’t escalate harmfully in a way that ultimately endangered everyone in this central pedestrian area including children, seniors and people with disabilities.”
For immediate release: P.A.D.S. Community Network in People’s Park (Chebucto and Dublin) calls for an immediate end to evictions of unhoused people until permanent housing can be provided
Media release: P.A.D.S. Community Network is a group of unhoused people, community members, and volunteers sharing space at Chebucto and Dublin Streets (at the space formerly known as Meagher Park now renamed People’s Park).
PSA: Equity Watch statement on police misconduct at the old Halifax central library
Equity Watch: The most violent police conduct occurred in the front yard of the former (now empty) Halifax public library on Spring Garden Road. The library, which has been vacant for more than five years, could be home to scores of Haligonians without homes.
PSA: Coverdale statement on the events on August 18th, 2021
PSA: As an agency providing housing and support to those involved in the justice system—we are troubled by a response to homelessness that employed punitive strategies which were harmful and traumatizing.