Cluck. A representative of the Society for Poor, Marginalized, Homeless Chickens will crow at City Council on Thursday. SPMHC rep Robert Bonner will ask Council to expand the five freedoms for chickens to include poor, marginalized, homeless humans also. A report to Council says that chickens should have five freedoms, including freedom from thirst, hunger […]
Our neighbourhood is special. As Sandy Cameron and Terry Hunter wrote: “The DTES community has some powerful identifiers. One is sanctuary–the community as a place of sanctuary. Another is that it’s a place of resistance; it’s a place that fights for social rights. And it’s a place of radical possibilities, a place where new ideas […]
In January the city passed a motion saying “that a social impact study be conducted to assess the effect on the existing low-income community of new developments in the historic area and where opportunities for enhanced affordability and live-ability may be achieved.” OK, this may sound good, but what will the study look at exactly? […]
58 West Hastings, the giant empty lot across from Army and Navy, has seen a lot of action in the last few months. Not with bulldozers breaking ground for luxury condos that Concord Pacific plans to build on that site, but with tent cities. In February, homeless campers and their supporters set up a makeshift […]
For the last 2 years CCAP has been visioning, mapping and planning with low income DTES residents to figure out what they want for their community. It is almost complete. Watch for it on our blog next month. Meanwhile Jean and Wendy from CCAP, Gena from the Carnegie Association, Hugh from VANDU and Stacey from […]
Thanks to the nearly 100 volunteers of the 2010 Poverty Olympics. What a success! Volunteers pushed (and kayaked) the torch from Langley to Vancouver’s Poverty Olympics opening ceremonies, made placards, practiced and performed in skits, wrote scripts, made props, made buttons, wrote fact sheets about poverty, shopped for costumes, made sandwiches and a fantastic cockroach […]
More condos for the Downtown Eastside. That’s what City Council decided after hearing speakers until late at night on Jan 22. “I’m predicting that more people will be pushed out of hotels and become homeless, and that some of the good qualities of our low income community are now even more at risk,” said Wendy […]
While most people think the Olympics is about athletes from around the world competing with each other, I’m discovering that folks in the real estate business consider the Olympics to be a $6 billion marketing campaign designed to sell Vancouver homes and condos to rich foreigners. According to Bob Rennie, Vancouver’s Condo King, who sold […]
On January 17, a group of advocates and activists launched a Poverty Olympics Torch Relay at the Vancouver Art Gallery which will visit 18 communities around the province, mirroring the route of the official torch relay, until it reaches Vancouver on February 7 and makes its way to the opening ceremonies of the Poverty Olympics. […]