East Van

4TH ANNUAL WOMEN'S HOUSING MARCH

2:00pm
Saturday October 2 2010

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Sat. Oct 2 @ 2 pm
Starts outside Downtown Eastside Women Centre
(302 Columbia - corner of Cordova, just west of Main)
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On Saturday Oct 2 at 2 pm, join women in the Downtown Eastside Women
Centre Power of Women Group in the 4th Annual March for Women's Housing
and March Against Poverty! Everyone (including men) welcome!

We are marching for:

- Social Housing, Childcare, and Healthcare for all!
- No more Evictions and No more Condos in the Downtown Eastside!
- Stop Criminalizing the Poor!

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The Power of Women Group is a group at the Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Women's Centre, located in the DTES of Vancouver (the poorest off-reserve
postal code in Canada). We are a group of women from all walks of life who
are either on social assistance, working poor, or homeless; but we are all
living in extreme poverty. Our aim is to empower ourselves through our
experiences and to raise awareness from our own perspectives about the
social issues affecting the neighbourhood.

Many of us are single mothers or have had our children apprehended due to
poverty; most of us have chronic physical or mental health issues for
example HIV and Hepatitis C; many have drug or alcohol addictions; and a
majority have experienced and survived sexual violence and mental,
physical, spiritual, and emotional abuse. For indigenous women, we are
affected by a legacy of the effects of residential schools and a history
of colonization and racism.

Contact: project@dewc.ca or 604 681 8480 x 234