[van-announce] No One Is Illegal - Vancouver Supports the Tent City

[No One Is Illegal - Van]

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver Supports the Tent City
June 29, 2003

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver strongly supports the upcoming tent city 
organized by the Anti-Poverty Committee (APC) and Housing Action Committee 
(HAC). As an organization that fights for the rights of immigrants and 
refugees in Vancouver we recognize that the struggle of the poor and the 
homeless is also our struggle. We also acknowledge Vancouver as the 
traditional territory of the indigenous Coast Salish people.

Some of the first tent cities in Vancouver were constructed by Native and 
Chinese immigrant workers in the 1800's, between Pender Street and False 
Creek. After 10 years the city of Vancouver destroyed their tents and 
shacks, but by 1894 at least 380 tents and shacks had been rebuilt along 
False Creek and the Burrard Inlet. During the Great Depression of the 1930's 
there were hundreds of poor immigrant and Native workers living in four 
major tent cities across Vancouver.

We call on all progressive organizations to rally behind the upcoming tent 
city and the struggle for dignified housing for the poor.

Meet at Victory Square (Hastings and Cambie) at 6 pm on Wednesday, July 2nd. 
Open the tent city!

No One Is Illegal – Vancouver
noii_van at hotmail.com

Anti-Poverty Committee
108-119 West Pender Street,
Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory, "BC"
V6B 1S5
apc at resist.ca
http://apc.resist.ca
phone: 604-682-2726
fax: 604-682-2752
office open 10-5 weekdays, call us for help with housing and welfare.

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