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PHOTOGRAPHY about Housingposted on February 12, 2011 by isaac

Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing

by Isaac Oommen and Lily Loncar

Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Below the ongoing epicentre of gentrification known as the Woodwards building
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
One of the sites tartgeted by the Ten Cities campaign
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Bob Rennie stand-in gets pelted outside the Millenium Waters office
Cop defending an impatient driver that almost ploughed through the crowd
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing
Ten Sites at a Time: Rally to Reclaim Housing

A rainy day did not stop a group of housing activists from holding a walking rally that started outside the site of last year's tent city, through several sites that needed to be converted to social housing, ending finally at the Athlete's Village. At the endpoint, the group of 75 people took the rally right into the Village community center, interrupting the Olympic nostalgia-fest going on inside.

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