[van-announce] Thurs Nov 13 STANDING AGAINST OLYMPIC GENTRIFICATION

[Ian Beeching]

*Forward Widely*
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STANDING AGAINST OLYMPIC GENTRIFICATION
lessons from the past for struggles today
Thurs Nov 13
7pm
YWCA Hotel Meeting Room
(733 Beatty St, off Robson)
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A free public discussion with-
-WENDY PEDERSEN (Carnegie Community Action Project - CCAP)
on the current housing / gentrification crisis in the DRES, based on hotel to hotel research done by CCAP as documented in their report _Disappearing Homes_
-JEFF SOMMERS (Veteran of the anti-Expo wars, cultural geography researcher PHD)
"If we see the kind of evictions we saw at Expo it will mean people will have no place to go and there will be more deaths" (J. Sommers)
-CHRIS SHAW (No Games 2010 Coalition, UBC Prof, Author of "Five Ring Circus")
on the Olympics as engine of gentrification in the DTES, and how the movement against the Olympics factors into the fight for the DTES.
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Organized by Vancouver Socialist Forum
778-554-2730


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