CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-VANCOUVER:

HISTORY OF THE FRANCIS STREET SQUAT:

The following item was taken from the "blogs" section of the Linchpin site. It is, of course, of historical rather than current events interest, but still rather interesting.

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Film on Vancouver squatting (1990) now online
The Beat of Frances Street: Squatting in East Vancouver (1990)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RZ1qSwo3kmE(in 5 parts)
or: download at http://www.mininova.org/tor/1415557

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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Street_Squats