Chris Bevacqua

2010 Photo Lens: Olympic Tent City - Day 1

nofutureface — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:07:47 +0000

February 15th 2010 marked Day One of the Olympic Tent City Campaign under the slogan "No More Empty Talk, No More Empty Lots". Housing, poverty and First Nations activists gathered at PIgeon Park in Vancouver's downtown eastside to protest the lack of affordable/social housing, gentrification, the criminalization of the poor and No Olympics On Stolen Native Land in Vancouver, BC.

19th Annual Missing Women's Memorial March

nofutureface — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:46:36 +0000

The 19th Annual Missing Women's Memorial March took place February 14th in Vancouver's Downtown East side. Most of the women who have passed were either First Nations, mis-using substances or working the streets of this community at the time of their disappearance. Numbers were estimated at around five thousand for the march, the largest turnout in its 19 year history.

2010 Photo Lens: Heart Attack!!

nofutureface — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:45:22 +0000

2010 Heart Attack was an Anti-Olympic march that wound its way through Vancouver's downtown eastside to downtown.

2010 Photo Lens: Take Back the City!

nofutureface — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:52:33 +0000

Vancouverites and concerned citizens from all over BC and beyond showed up and took to the streets today in full force to protest the 2010 Winter Games. The marched from the Vancouver Art Gallery all the way to BC Place where the opening ceremonies were taking place.

2010 Photo Lens: Olympic Torch Diverted on Commercial Drive

nofutureface — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:18:39 +0000

On the opening day of the 2010 WInter Olympic Games, protesters took to the streets of the Commercial Drive neighbourhood and successfully diverted the Olympic torch.

View the slideshow for photography of todays resistance:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofutureface/sets/72157623297691301/

See ya on the streets,

nofutureface