VIDEO about Direct ActionHousingPolice/PrisonsSolidarity posted on March 2, 2011 by stephlaw
Tent City won't be silenced
A rally with over 200 protestors marched from Pantages Theatre in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, to Olympic Village in False Creek.
The rally was the kick-off to the Olympic Village Tent City 2011. The tent city had three demands:
1. Resident-controlled 100% social housing for ALL unsold units at the Olympic Village.
2. The purchase of a minimum 10 sites per year in the Downtown Eastside, and the creation of resident controlled 100% social housing on all those sites.
3. An END to the criminalization of poverty by immediately abolishing Project Civil City, overturning anti-street vending by-laws and all anti-poor discriminatory legislation and by raising welfare rates.
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Comments
Thanks a lot for the video!
Great footage :)
Nice job Steph!
So great!
Considering the weather and such.
Too bad I was not there. I was in Edmonton (oh joy) on court business fighting my oldest jerk brother.
It was only -35 regularly. When I left - that night (after I left - thankfully) it was -44c. WOWZA!
Looking forward to the next action and hopefully I will be MC. Whixh mean I will not be covering it.
Oh..and fuck the police!'
Great job as usual Stephanie!!! Tis an honor to work with you in the VMC girl
Keepin' it real.
Hugs / love
Tami Starlight - VMC femininja & editorial collective