[van-announce] Woodsquat Book Launch

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Woodsquat Book Launch

Where:
Abbott & Hastings Streets

When:
Saturday, 27th of March 2004 from 2:00 PM until approximately 4:00 PM

Cost: free

Woodsquat Book Launch
Saturday March 27th @ 2pm
At the former site of the Woodwards Squat
Abbott & Hastings Street in Vancouver
Coast Salish Territory

Featuring writers & orators from the book.

"Woodsquat" - a special issue of West Coast Line (240 pages, $12)

Who popped Woodwards on September 14th 2002? Why? What happened on the inside? 
Who were The Woodwards 54? How did they defend a street encampment for 92 days 
& nights in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver? Who stayed? Who left? 
Who ended it? What happened afterwards? Will Vancouver ever be 
business-as-usual again? Which buildings are next?

Writing & interviews on daily life at the squat. Poems, speeches, statements 
& reports by residents, witnesses & supporters. Call-outs from 
affinity groups & support organizations. Police reports & the 
confidential city government memo planning the quiet final eviction. 
Reproductions of video stills, posters, flyers, graffiti, linocuts,  
photographs & an 11-page comic. Critical essays on squatting as a tool, 
gentrification & social housing, electoral politics, addiction 
& class war, media distortion, legal strategies, the use of demands, 
and the ongoing struggle.

Contributors include Maxine Gadd, The Peoples Opposition, Shawn Millar, Chris Barton, 
Matthew Bonnetrouge, Nathan, Kaspar Learn, Skyy, Ivan Drury, Ricky 
Lavallie, Chris Livingstone, Craig Ballantyne, Zeus, Illara V Sunsurn, 
Anti-Poverty Committee, Chrystal Durocher, Taz, Ann Wilden, Tom, James 
Toews, Angel Williams, Murray Bush, James Dempster, Gary G. Gates, 
Toecutter, Chris Forth, Kara Sievewright, Lacey Rainer, Woodwards Legal 
Defense Committee, A Native Man, Claude Maurice, Insurgent-S, Roy 
Gladiator Archie, Mavis Brass, Nick Olsen, T. Forsythe, Betty Williams, 
Vanessa Louis, K Wester, Cadillac, Lyn Tooley, Tony Snakeskin, Adam 
Murray, Hidden in Dark Well, Ken Howard, Sky Wright, Determined Housing 
Affinity Group, Jason X, Taum Danberger, Megan Oleson, Kathy May Lee 
Rattlesnake, Hazel Hoyle, Elvis Ace Nelson, Trevor M, Lisa Wulwik, Jeff 
Sommers, Mike Krebs, Travis Livingstone, Doris Louis, Roger Rabbit, 
Shannon Bundock, Vancouver Police Department, Beverley Gladue, Bruce 
Gongola, Peter Z, Noah Quastel, Diana Leung, Angel, David Cunningham, City 
of Vancouver, Jewel C, Theresa D. Gray, Jim Leyden, Bev Meslo, Azad & 
Marwan, Friends of the Woodwards Squat, Debbie Krull, Coalition of 
Woodwards Squatters and Supporters, Shane Davis, Ron M, Woodwards Squat 
Emergency Response Team, Reverend Davin Ouimet, Western Aboriginal Harm 
Reduction Society and Dayl Scheltgen. Edited by Aaron Vidaver. Special 
thanks to Gregory Placonouris.

For more information:
launch at woodsquat.net
604-682-3269 ext. 7567
http://www.woodsquat.net

  




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