Join the Carnegie Community Action Project at the Together: public film screening and panel featuring our very own Carnegie African Descent Group organizer, Lama Mugabo and Chinatown Concern Group organizer, King-mong Chan on the panel. *Due to demand, we’ve settled on the largest theater, 1900 Fletcher Challenge Theatre, at SFU HC as the venue. With […]
Vancouver, BC, Unceded Coast Salish Territories – The Vancouver book launch of best-selling book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (Fernwood Publishing) will take place on March 1st at 6 pm at SFU Harbour Center. Black feminist author Robyn Maynard will launch her book with Cecilia Point from Musqueam, Black Lives […]
By Jenn McDermid In the last four years, the reliable inaction of our provincial government has caused irreversible damage. Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberal’s have denied facts, overlooked major environmental, health and social crises, made vulnerable communities suffer, and stood behind inequitable policies. Their legacy is one that is marked by significant hardship for […]
The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) is looking for an administrator and community organizer to work with their volunteers to help low-income Downtown Eastside residents implement their Community Vision for Change. This includes working for more and better housing, higher welfare rates and to stop gentrification. This is a 3 day per week position for […]
“The manager bullied me and said “sign or you leave,” Humberto Macias-Carracas told people at a news conference in front of the Ross House on Alexander St. on New Year’s day. “I can’t see, I don’t even know what I am signing. I have nowhere to go, I am going blind, I don’t know what […]
On Thursday, October 27th, the City of Vancouver hosted a housing affordability summit with experts and so-called “thought leaders” from across the world. With an entrance fee set at $370, which Victoria Bull, from the Raise the Rates Coalition explained is the same as the shelter component of welfare, the summit excludes and marginalizes the […]
Actions against slumlords on East Hastings heated up today as tenants and community supporters led a picket line in front of the Brandiz Hotel (122 E Hastings) today. This is the latest in a series of escalating actions against “the Sahotas,” owners of several notorious Downtown Eastside slum hotels including the Regent, Balmoral, Cobalt and […]
On Aug. 2nd at a packed meeting in the Carnegie Theatre, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson finally agreed to the minium demand of the Our Homes Can’t Wait campaign: that the city-owned lot at 58 W. Hastings in the Downtown Eastside should have social housing with 100% welfare/pension rents. The commitment to 100% welfare rate social […]
Vancouver’s Tent City has gotten a lot of attention from the media, and recently from City Hall. It all began on July 9th with the Housing Justice Day of Action. The Housing Justice March was attended by approximately 250 people, ending at 58 West Hastings. As community members gave speeches, and volunteers prepared for the […]
On June 15, the city presented its 2016 Homeless Count, which found that 1,847 people were homeless in the City, 1308 in shelters and 539 on the street. This is the highest number since the counts began in 2005. This year, we also saw the biggest surge in new homeless people since the begininng of […]