Talk:Frances Street Squats

Trimmed contents
Below are unreferenced, as well as some PR copy & paste based contents that I removed. Graywalls (talk) 18:00, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Going public
An early press release by the squatters stated: "We are some of the many squatters in Vancouver who are occupying several of the hundreds of habitable houses left vacant by developers. These houses have been slated for demolition and gentrification. In the face of unregulated rent increases, and out of necessity, we have chosen to squat as one of many viable means of protesting this atrocity. Housing is not a luxury, it is a right, and these houses are available now. New developments must be kept within an affordable price range for all people presently affected by the housing crisis. We are currently organizing various neighbourhood inclusive community events (potluck barbecues, daycare facilities, community gardening and recycling) in an effort to open up communication between squatters and paying tenants. We intend to defend these houses. We have been forced to go public at this time because we are in danger of losing our homes."

Demolition
After the eviction no weapons were found and the police action was subsequently dubbed "Operation Overkill" by the community. Two days later the city council, under then-mayor Gordon Campbell and with the full support of opposition members (including Libby Davies), declared the houses a "public nuisance" and granted a demolition permit.

The Beat of Frances Street
A 48-minute documentary, The Beat of Frances Street: Squatting in East Vancouver, was produced during the late and final stages of the squats. The first half of the film contains footage of everyday life in the houses and presents responses to the question "why do you squat?" by fourteen residents. The second half of the film focuses on internal arguments over the use of barricades against imminent police assault and documentation of the assault itself (including commercial news footage) and community response.

More sources
Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:19, 1 March 2021 (UTC)


 * That's a press release, which has zero contribution weight to notability and it generally shouldn't even be used in sources other than to support the very basic facts and only if it's about themselves with absolute certain authorship. I removed it, because I belive it's a questionable source Graywalls (talk) 05:47, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Which of them, The McGill Daily or Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed? They look like articles to me. There are WP:RSSM and WP:BIASED to consider, but that doesn't necessarily rule these out. If they were in the article before, I missed it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:33, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I just re-sectioned it. I got it mixed up with a different source that I trimmed, which showed up as "1" on the bottom because it wasn't setup as reflist-talk. Looking at the sources you provided, I think we have to look more than just seeing the word "journal" to regard it as a journal. At the end of that section, it said "this information is from Resistance, c/o Friends of Rurruti", so it seems to me more like letters to editors and different from academic journals despite the name "journal". The McGill paper, I believe would bundle together with already existing source The Ubyssey and only count as together combined per WP:SIRS which considers series of writing by same publication or journalist as one source and Cameron Graham is one of the Ubyssey writer., would you call that second source provided by a "journal"? You have strong interest on the anarchy topic and perhaps can comment more about that particular publication specializing in anarchy. Graywalls (talk) 07:52, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Why does it matter if you define it as a journal? Call it a magazine or whatever you like. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:07, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

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