http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/old/taxonomy/term/2238/0 fr http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/housing-and-homelessness-downtown-eastside/7651 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week IV </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/1st_july_-_patricia_d._haram.jpg" alt="" title="Patricia D. Haram. Photo by Murray Bush // Flux Photo" width="450" height="301" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>In 2006, I found myself going around in circles for six months trying to find work. Shortly thereafter I became homeless and my health issues deteriorated and I had chronic pain. I had spent three months couch-surfing on my brother&rsquo;s couch and all my belongings were in storage. I was constantly anxious about how I was going to pay for the next month&rsquo;s rent for storage.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/housing-and-homelessness-downtown-eastside/7651" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/housing-and-homelessness-downtown-eastside/7651#comments DTES Power of Women Group Patricia D. Haram Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:28:30 +0000 dawn 7651 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/shelter-hopping-my-son/7624 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week IV </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/29th_-_pearly_may.jpg" alt="" title="Pearly May. Photo by Murray Bush // Flux Photo" width="450" height="252" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>When my son Ulrich was born, his father Patrick and I were renting a basement suite in Patrick&rsquo;s father&rsquo;s house. The birth of my son did not change Patrick. Patrick kept partying in the DTES while I was on E. I.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/shelter-hopping-my-son/7624" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/shelter-hopping-my-son/7624#comments DTES Power of Women Group Pearly May Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:25:06 +0000 dawn 7624 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/homelessness-and-police-brutality/7603 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week IV </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/27th_-_karen_lahey.jpg" alt="" title="Karen Lahey. Photo by Murray Bush // Flux Photo" width="450" height="297" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>In the winter of 2000, I was co-managing a 4 bedroom house in Walley, BC. My co-manager and I became friends, but eventually he wanted to have a relationship. When I refused, he started to become verbally abusive and controlling with me. I took the abuse for a while, until I started to get incredibly stressed. I decided to leave in the spring of 2001.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/homelessness-and-police-brutality/7603" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/homelessness-and-police-brutality/7603#comments DTES Power of Women Group Karen Lahey Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:36:21 +0000 dawn 7603 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/daily-struggle-and-resistance-downtown-eastside/7581 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week III </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/24th_-_joan_morelli.jpg" alt="" title="Joan Morelli. Photo by Murray Bush // Flux Photo" width="450" height="302" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>I could not help wondering what life would have been like if I had stayed back East, as I walked on Hastings and Main Street on a gray, rainy, rather typical Vancouver day. My reverie was broken by an ugly sight before me near Pigeon Park. A man and a woman were walking just in front of me and appeared to be having a casual conversation.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/daily-struggle-and-resistance-downtown-eastside/7581" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/daily-struggle-and-resistance-downtown-eastside/7581#comments DTES Power of Women Group Joan Morelli Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:37:37 +0000 dawn 7581 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/kingdom-hastings-and-main/7567 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week III </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/22nd_-_charlene.jpg" alt="" title="Charlene in the DTES. Photo by Murray Bush - Flux Photo" width="450" height="305" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>In the fall of 2008, I lost my sister to brain cancer. Only one month later, I lost one of my lifetime friends to a heart attack. A few months after that, I lost another close friend to lung cancer. All these deaths happened in a five-month period. In March 2009, the mother of a good friend of mine passed away. Together these losses led me to decide to retire on my 60th birthday.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/kingdom-hastings-and-main/7567" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/kingdom-hastings-and-main/7567#comments Charlene DTES Power of Women Group Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:12:40 +0000 dawn 7567 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/being-addict-and-working-streets-skid-row/7534 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week III </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/20th_june_-_diane_photo_by_tre_lan_cc2.0.jpg" alt="" title="Photo by Tre Lan CC 2.0" width="450" height="328" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>When I was about 15 years old I ran away from my parent&rsquo;s home in Burnaby. My parents were alcoholics and there was a lot of abusive behaviour and yelling in our home.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/being-addict-and-working-streets-skid-row/7534" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/being-addict-and-working-streets-skid-row/7534#comments Diane DTES Power of Women Group Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:59:35 +0000 dawn 7534 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/foster-home-system-damaged-me/7514 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week II </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/17th_-_debbie_v..jpg" alt="" title="Image credit: MURRAY BUSH, FLUX PHOTO" width="450" height="295" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p class="western">I was born in 1957 and in my early years I lived in a cabin with my mother and six siblings in Quesnel B.C. When I was eight years old, our mother took off and left us alone for three days. My younger siblings had no diapers and we were eating dry oatmeal.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/foster-home-system-damaged-me/7514" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/foster-home-system-damaged-me/7514#comments Debbie V DTES Power of Women Group Éducation Santé Logement Pauvreté foster homes Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:32:39 +0000 isaac 7514 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/intergenerational-impact-child-apprehension/7483 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week II </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/15th_-_courtney_photo_courtesy_facebook.jpg" alt="" title="Courtney - photo courtesy Facebook" width="450" height="600" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p class="western">At the age of 12 years old is when the abuse in my parents&rsquo; home started. My siblings and I were subjected to physical and emotional abuse and violence by my parents.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/intergenerational-impact-child-apprehension/7483" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/intergenerational-impact-child-apprehension/7483#comments Courtney DTES Power of Women Group Santé Pauvreté child apprehension Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:19:41 +0000 isaac 7483 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/my-story-domestic-violence-and-child-apprehension/7467 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week II </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/13th_-_b._photo_by_joe_philipson_cc2.0.jpg" alt="" title="B. Photo by Joe Philipson" width="450" height="348" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>I was abused by my ex partner, who is also my children&rsquo;s father, for ten and a half years. I had four children with him - Angela, Rosalie, Mike, and Jackson. I was beat all throughout my first pregnancy, and as a result my girl Angela was born a month early. She did not develop properly and was born with her heart on the right side of her body.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/my-story-domestic-violence-and-child-apprehension/7467" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/my-story-domestic-violence-and-child-apprehension/7467#comments B. DTES Power of Women Group Santé Autochtones Pauvreté child apprehension Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:04:04 +0000 isaac 7467 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/mental-health-and-police-violence/7450 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week I </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/10th_-_shurli_chan.jpg" alt="" title="Credit: Murray Bush, Flux Photo" width="450" height="278" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>The heart of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) is home to survivors of the war on terror: the terror of poverty, physical and spiritual abuse, child apprehension, addictions, and residential schools - all of which quietly destroy the human spirit. Yet in spite of its image as the poorest urban postal code in the country, the DTES has the highest number of art galleries per capita in the country.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/mental-health-and-police-violence/7450" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/mental-health-and-police-violence/7450#comments DTES Power of Women Group Shurli Chan Santé Police et prisons Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:45:58 +0000 isaac 7450 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/residential-schools-and-my-journey-downtown-eastside/7441 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week I </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/8th_-_stella_photo_by_luca_argalia_cc2.0.jpg" alt="" title="Credit: Luca Argalia" width="450" height="299" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>I was 6 years old when I was taken away from my parents and grandparents in Ahousat BC and forced into a residential school. The Department of Indian Affairs came to our reserve every year in the 1950&rsquo;s, taking Native children away and placing them in residential schools to learn the White way of life.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/residential-schools-and-my-journey-downtown-eastside/7441" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/residential-schools-and-my-journey-downtown-eastside/7441#comments By Stella August DTES Power of Women Group Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:04:17 +0000 isaac 7441 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/childhood-abuse-brought-me-downtown-eastside/7424 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week I </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/6th_-_madeline_a.jpg" alt="" title="Image credit: MURRAY BUSH, FLUX PHOTO" width="450" height="282" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>In 1954, when I was six years old, I came to Canada from Germany. Ever since then I have lived in Vancouver. When I was growing up, my father abused me physically, mentally, and sexually. My mother did nothing to protect me.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/childhood-abuse-brought-me-downtown-eastside/7424" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/childhood-abuse-brought-me-downtown-eastside/7424#comments By Madeline A DTES Power of Women Group Santé Logement Pauvreté Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:55:23 +0000 isaac 7424 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/newsrelease/7375 <p>The Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group is launching the <em>In Our Own Voices</em> writing project in June 2011. After a six-week period of intensive writing, we are ready to share our stories about hope, struggle, love and resistance in the Downtown Eastside.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/newsrelease/7375" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/newsrelease/7375#comments DTES Power of Women Group Genre Autochtones Pauvreté Mon, 30 May 2011 15:45:58 +0000 dawn 7375 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/newsrelease/7116 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Police, City of Vancouver, and BC Housing Force the Closing of Emergency Homeless Shelter </div> </div> </div> <p align="center"><strong>UPDATE: POLICE ARREST EIGHT HOUSING ACTIVISTS, CITY OF VANCOUVER AND BC HOUSING FORCE THE CLOSURE OF FRASER STREET SHELTER</strong></p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/newsrelease/7116" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/newsrelease/7116#comments DTES Power of Women Group Action directe Logement Police et prisons Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:10:34 +0000 zozi 7116 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/newsrelease/7101 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Rally and Actions Planned at Final Shelter Closure Friday </div> </div> </div> <p><strong>RALLY AND ACTIONS PLANNED AT FINAL SHELTER CLOSING FRIDAY</strong></p> <p>What:&nbsp; Media conference &amp; rally</p> <p>When:&nbsp; Friday, April 29, 2011 at 11 am</p> <p>Where:&nbsp; Fraser Street Shelter, 677 E Broadway in the parking lot behind the shelter</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/newsrelease/7101" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/newsrelease/7101#comments DTES Power of Women Group Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:39:32 +0000 Harsha W. 7101 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca