[news] CKUT Radio: Vancouver - The Downtown Eastside

[Stefan Christoff]

CKUT Radio: Vancouver - The Downtown Eastside

This radio documentary, explores a variety of issues directly relating to
life and death in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Featuring interviews
recorded in February 2004, with community organizers, which focus on a
various issues, from police brutality, homelessness, indigenous
self-determination, poverty, safe injection sites for drug users, the
human rights of sex workers and many other issues directly relating to
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, from the perspective of the neighborhoods
residents.

This documentary features interviews with community organizers active in
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, focusing on voices from the Anti-Poverty
Committee and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). The
Downtown Eastside is one of Canada's most impoverished and destitute urban
neighborhoods, often marked as the poorest postal code in Canada. Home to
an estimated 5000 injection drug users, the Downtown Eastside of
Vancouver, suffers from one of the worst urban epidemics of HIV / AIDS in
the world.

To listen to and download the documentary on-line visit:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=9110

For more information about the Anti-Poverty Committee visit:
http://apc.resist.ca

For more information on the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users visit:
http://vandu.org

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