[antiwar-van] Ot 24 - Housing Justice Panel

[Harsha]

HOUSING JUSTICE:
A panel on homelessness and systemic poverty

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Friday Oct 24th

Dinner served at 5 pm
Panel from 6-8 pm

DTES Women Centre: 302 Columbia
1 block west of Main, corner Cordova

All (including men) welcome!
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SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

* Nicholas Blomley: Nicholas is a professor in the Department of Geography
at SFU specializing in the politics of property and public space in the
DTES. His books include Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics
of Property and How Law Matters To Political Geography.

* Ayisha Faruk: Ayisha is a DTES activist, born on the continent of Black
People from the Lion Tribe. She is a performing and visual artist,
traditional African herbalist, and human rights activist born with
revolutionary blood in her veins.

* Carol Martin: Carol (Nisga'a Nation) is a member of the DTES Elders
Council, is a victim services worker in the DTES, and founder of the
Sweetgrass All Nations Healing Centre. She is a strong voice for those who
-like her- are survivors of abuse, addictions, and a legacy of
colonization.

* Jean Swanson: Jean has been an anti poverty advocate for over 30 years
and is currently working with the Carnegie Community Action Project. She
has worked with End Legislated Poverty and has authored the book Poor
Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion. She has been a single low-income
parent with two children.

* Member of the DEWC Power of Women Group.


Join us at the DTES Women Centre for a panel with some exceptional
speakers. We hope to contribute to the movement to eliminate homelessness
with a framework of housing justice that analyzes the roots causes of
poverty and forms of structural violence that impact poor communities, as
well as the global political and economic systems that create and
perpetuate poverty and lack of dignified housing.

This event is part of the two-month long series on Housing and
Gentrification which includes the "We Declare: Spaces of Housing" artist
exhibition featuring the DEWC Power of Women Group and talks hosted by
Vancouver Flying University.

For more information contact DEWC Power of Women Project at:
email project at dewc.ca or call 604 681 8480 x 234.

With the support of the DTES Elders Council, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver
Flying University, Carnegie Community Action Project, DTES Neighbourhood
House, VANDU, Vancouver Socialist Forum, and others.