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Housing Across Canada: A Webinar on Resisting Eviction and More

A virtual seminar on resisting eviction and housing across Canada. Hosted on Zoom via Fernwood Publishing on January 29th, 2024 at 7 pm EST. Featuring: Andrew Crosby, Vince Tao, Ricardo Tranjan & AJ Withers To learn more about Andrew Crosby's book (Resisting Eviction, published Fall 2023) inspiring this event, visit our website: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/re... We have a discount available on Andy's book inspiring this event. Use the code HOUSING20 until February 2nd, 2024 to get 20% off the paperback copy on our website. About the speakers: Andy Crosby is a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Geography at Carleton University, on unceded Algonquin land. He is author of Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing and co-author of Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State. Ricardo Tranjan, Ph.D., is a political economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and author of the national bestseller The Tenant Class (Between the Lines, 2023). Vince Tao was born in Scarborough, Ontario and lives in Vancouver, BC. He works as a community organizer at the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. Prior to this, he worked as a labour organizer at Simon Fraser University and as an educator and librarian in Vancouver's Chinatown. Tao is also a member of the Our Homes Can't Wait Coalition and #StopTheSweeps Vancouver. A. J. Withers organized with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty for over 20 years, including as a paid organizer. They are the author of Fight to Win: Inside Poor People’s Organizing, A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working (with Chris Chapman) and numerous other articles and book chapters. They are the Ruth Wynn Woodward Jr. Chair in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. A transcript of this event can be found here: https://bit.ly/3Ix9L4F