Vancouver

Second Weekly Olympic Village Sales Disruption

Guard the Broken Promises Picket Line! Reclaim the Village for All!

12:00pm
Saturday March 12 2011

Bring:  Noise-makers, instruments, and anti-Olympic poetry!

Last week, picketers engaged with prospective condo buyers at the Olympic Village sales centre, causing many shoppers to question purchasing 'broken promise' units, and some to explicitly denounce the social housing sell-off.

This Saturday, March 12, the community will return to the site of the social housing sell-off at the Olympic Village. We will again establish a broken promises picket-line at the Olympic Village sales centre, asking that citizens of conscience refrain from purchasing the 'broken promise' units until:

1) Olympic housing promises are secured, and 2) Questions are answered about the Millennium bail-out.

We will also present a cheque for $400m, as requested by City Councilor Suzanne Anton, drawn from the City's $3 billion Property Endowment Fund. The money will help accomplish housing promises by immediately providing affordable housing to the poor and working class people who work for the rich day by day. The City has bailed out billionaire Millennium and has mismanaged the project by failing to reclaim their loan, either in cash or from Millennium's assets. It is not and never has been the taxpayers' responsibility to pay out-of-pocket for this whole project. In spite of the Mayor's rhetoric of "empty drawers," the City of Vancouver has sources of revenue for promised housing, including basic revenue lost from hosting a global tax haven. Vancouver has the lowest corporate taxes in the world. Enough is enough. Yesterday was too late — Reclaim Housing now!