[van-announce] Reminder.. Stop Concord Pacific's "Discovery" of the DTES (Sat July 5)

[Harsha]

This a critical moment and this action requires your support -

"A-wake": A Procession to
STOP CONCORD PACIFIC'S "DISCOVERY" OF THE DTES

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Saturday July 5th
Meet at 2 pm
Pigeon Park (Hastings and Carrall)
EVERYONE WELCOME! COME OUT!
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58 West Hastings is the site of a new condominium development by Concord
Pacific. They are “discovering and developing” the DTES just like
colonizers. New luxury condos will replace low-income housing and more
poor people  will be displaced and homeless.

There are over 1500 market housing units planned for the DTES in the years
leading upto the 2010 Olympics, while around 1000 units of
low-income housing have been lost in the DTES due to closures, rent
increases, and slow conversions including for tourist use. According to
the City’s own reports, market housing is currently being built at a rate
of 3 units to every 1 unit of social housing in the DTES.

We demand no displacement, no evictions, and a moratorium on condo
development. Condo construction means community destruction.

Organized by an ad-hoc group of DTES residents along with Carnegie
Community Action Project, Vancour Area Network of Drug Users, DTES Women
Center Power of Women Project, Streams of Justice, Pivot Legal Society,
DTES Neighbourhood House, Citywide Housing Coalition, and others.

For information contact us at CCAP through wpedersen at look.ca or call DEWC
at 778 885 0040. Visit http://www.streamsofjustice.org for updates.


* BACKGROUND ON THE RECENT CAMPAIGN AGAINST CONCORD PACIFIC *

- Concord Pacific project in Downtown Eastside takes a beating
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/citystates/archive/2008/06/24/concord-pacific-project-in-downtown-eastside-takes-a-beating.aspx

- Professor of Urban Studies speech at Concord Development Permit
Hearing
http://ccapvancouver.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/dpb-hearing-for-58-west-hastings-elvins-speech/

- Downtown condo plan draws opposition
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080624/