[van-announce] Updated: DTES Women's Housing March (Sat June 14th)

[Harsha]

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* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3mPOML_iLI
(it might say the video is unavailable, just keep trying)

* March endorsed by Anniversaries of Change, Association of Chinese
Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society,  Atira Women's Resource
Society, Battered Women Support Services, Building Bridges to Chiapas,
Café Rebelde Coordinating Committee, Canadian Arab Federation, Carnegie
Community Action Project, Citywide Housing Coalition, Coalition of South
Asian Women Against Violence, Downtown Eastside Elders Council, Downtown
Eastside Neighbourhood House, Downtown Eastside Women's Centre,
Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance, Filipino Nurses Support Group, Gallery
Gachet, Grassroots Women, Hospital Employees Union, Indigenous Action
Movement, Indigenous Free Skool, Industrial Workers of the World,
International Iranian Federation of Refugees, Justice for Girls, Latin
American Connexions, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, No One Is Illegal,
North Shore Women's Centre, PACE, Philippine Women Centre of B.C., PIVOT
Legal Society, Rhizome Café, SIKLAB-B.C. (Overseas Filipino Workers
Organization), South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, Streams
of Justice, Teaching Support Staff Union, Vancouver Catholic Worker,
Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society, West Coast Women's Legal
Education and Action Fund, WISH Drop-in Centre Society, Women Against
Violence Against Women


===> 2ND ANNUAL WOMEN'S HOUSING MARCH <===

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Sat June 14 @ 2 pm
Starts outside Downtown Eastside Women Centre
(302 Columbia- corner Cordova, just west of Main)
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On Saturday June 14 at 2 pm, join women in the Downtown Eastside Women
Centre Power of Women Group in the 2nd Annual March for Women's Housing
and March Against Poverty!

We are marching for:
- Social Housing, Childcare, and Healthcare for all!
- No more Evictions and No more Condos in the DTES!
- People Before Olympic Profits! No Olympics on Stolen Land!
- Stop Criminalizing the Poor and Scrap Civil City!
- End Global Hunger and Poverty!

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The Power of Women Group is a group at the Downtown Eastside Women's
Centre and we do education on social issues. We are a group of women from
all walks of life who are either on social assistance, working poor, or
homeless; but we are all living in extreme poverty.

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 alchohol addictions; and a
majority have experienced and survived sexual violence and mental,
physical, spriritual, 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.

For more information contact project at dewc.ca or call 604-681-8480 x 234