[Dnfd_announce] REMINDER: Women's Housing March this Saturday September 15

[Ivan Drury]

Hello DTES Not for Developers and Stop Pantages Condos supporters,

We hope you can attend and spread the word about this important annual
demonstration this weekend organized by the DTES Power of Women group.

Our coalition is involved in a couple of actions within this march; a
surprise street theatre performance along the route, and a  paint-in at the
newly cleaned-up and neatly boarded-up Pantages lot after the march is
finished. So come ready to rally, ready to march, and ready to paint
afterwards.

See you there!

~ DTES Not for Developers coalition


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*6th ANNUAL WOMEN’S HOUSING MARCH*

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 *Sat. Sep 15 @ 1:30 pm
Starts at Cordova and Columbia, just west of Main St.*
*Unceded Coast Salish Territories *

 * Homes for People, not Profit for Real Estate!
* No Slumlords, No Evictions and No Gentrification!
* Rent Control not Social Control!
* Homes not Jails!
* Homes not Pipelines!
* Housing, Childcare, and Healthcare for All!

 FB RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/368896053180255/
Download posters: http://www.dewc.ca
Videos and photos from last year: http://is.gd/DQ5j8h

 On Saturday Sep 15 at 1:30 pm, join the Downtown Eastside Women Centre
Power of Women Group in the 6th Annual March for Women’s Housing and March
Against Poverty.

 This year we continue to march for housing, childcare, and healthcare
forall low-income residents in the
DTES. We want no more evictions, no more displacement, and no more
gentrification in our neighourhood. We know that the growing number of cops
and condos in the DTES is part of a larger pattern to destroy and privatize
neighourboods, communities, and the land. We want to live free: free from
BC Housing controls, free from violence against women, and free from this
system that is hurting and killing us.

 We invite groups to bring their banners and anything else for our festive
march. All genders are welcome and celebrated. Please bring your drums and
regalia. This march is child-friendly and there will be a rest-vehicle
forelders. Spread the word!

 Email: project at dewc.ca or Phone: 778 885 0040

 *The DTES Power of Women Group is a group of women (we are an inclusive
group) from all walks of life who are either on social assistance, working
poor, or homeless; but we are all living in extreme poverty in and around
the DTES. Our aim is to empower ourselves through our experiences and to
raise awareness from our own perspectives about the social issues affecting
the neighbourhood. Many of us are single mothers or have had our children
apprehended due to poverty; most of us have chronic physical or mental
health issues for example HIV and Hepatitis C; many have drug or alcohol
addictions; and a majority have experienced and survived sexual violence
and mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional abuse. For indigenous women,
we are affected by a legacy of the effects of residential schools and a
history of colonization and racism. *
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