Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories
Annual Women’s Housing March and DTES Block Party to Block Condos!
1:30pm
Saturday September 17 2011
Sep 17: Annual Women’s Housing March and DTES Block Party to Block Condos
- mark the date and do read below on ways to support -
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 2011:
ANNUAL WOMEN’S HOUSING MARCH
immediately followed by a
DTES BLOCK PARTY TO BLOCK CONDOS
Link: http://dtesnotfordevelopers.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/womens-housing-march-block-party/
RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272871019394832
Spread the word! Click here for poster and here for leaflet
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5th ANNUAL WOMEN’S HOUSING MARCH
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Sat. Sep 17 @ 1:30 pm
Starts at Cordova and Columbia, just west of Main St.
Unceded Coast Salish Territories
On Saturday Sep 17 at 1:30 pm, join the Downtown Eastside Women Centre Power of Women Group* in the 5th Annual March for Women’s Housing and March Against Poverty.
We invite groups to bring their banners and anything else for our festive march and ‘GentriFucation Tour’. All genders are welcome and celebrated. Please bring your drums and regalia. This march is child-friendly and there will be a rest-vehicle for elders. Spread the word!
This year, we celebrate the recent victory that has forced the provincial government to commit funding to a 24-hour low barrier shelter for women as a result of our collective efforts. We also continue to march for:
- Social Housing, Childcare, and Healthcare for all!
- No more Evictions and No more Gentrification in the Downtown Eastside!
- Stop Criminalizing the Poor!
Email: project@dewc.ca or Phone: 778 885 0040 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 778 885 0040 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 778 885 0040 end_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting
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Immediately followed by A DTES BLOCK PARTY!
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BLOCK PARTY TO BLOCK CONDOS ON THE 100 BLOCK
Sat. Sep 17 at around 4 pm
Music, food, and the last bit of summer sun!
Marc Williams wants to build condos at the old Pantages Site in the Downtown Eastside. Condos in the heart of the neighbourhood will cause higher property values, higher rents in single-room occupancies, displacement of current residents, increased policing, and low-income residents feeling unwelcome in their own neighbourhood.
We are getting the neighbourhood and all our allies together to protect the site for 100% social housing for low-income residents. The DTES is not for developers to make millions, it is for our vibrant and vital low-income community!
HOW TO SUPPORT:
* If you are a group, endorse the DTES Community Resolution: http://dtesnotfordevelopers.wordpress.com/savepantages/
* If you are an individual, sign the online petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/nocondos/petition.html
* If you work in the DTES, sign the Boycott Statement:
http://dtesnotfordevelopers.wordpress.com/dtes-workers-boycott/
* If you are a social housing provider, don’t collaborate with Sequel 138:
http://dtesnotfordevelopers.wordpress.com/social-housing-provider-boycott/
Organized by Stop Pantages Condos Coalition: Aboriginal Front Door, Carnegie Community Action Project, Citywide Housing Coalition, DTES Neighbourhood Council, DTES Power of Women Group, Gallery Gachet, Streams of Justice, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.
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* About the DTES Power of Women Group organizing the Annual Women’s Housing March:
The DTES Power of Women Group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/?sk=group_95044879752
Stories from “In Our Own Voices” Power of Women Writing Project on Vancouver Media Co-op: http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group
Watch a short film Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside: http://vimeo.com/19877895
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