[van-announce] Fri Oct 24: Housing Justice Panel

[Harsha]

HOUSING JUSTICE:
A panel on homelessness and sytemic poverty

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Friday Oct 24th

Dinner served at 5 pm
Panel from 6-8 pm

DTES Women Centre: 302 Columbia
1 block west of Main, corner Cordova

All (incluing men) welcome!
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SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

* Nicholas Blomley: Nicholas is a professor in the Department of Geography
at SFU specializing in the politics of property and public space in the
DTES. His books include Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics
of Property and How Law Matters To Political Geography.

* Carol Martin: Carol (Nisga’a Nation) is a member of the DTES Elders
Council, is a victim services worker in the DTES, and founder of the
Sweetgrass All Nations Healing Centre. She is a strong voice for those who
- like her- are survivors of abuse, addictions, and a legacy of
colonization.

* Jean Swanson: Jean is a long time anti poverty advocate currently
working with the Carnegie Community Action Project. She has worked with
End Legislated Poverty and has authored the book Poor Bashing: The
Politics of Exclusion. She has been a singe low-income parent with two
children for over 14 years.

* others TBC


Join us at the DTES Women Centre for a panel with some exceptional
speakers. We hope to contribute to the movement to eliminate homelessness
with a framework of housing justice that analyzes the roots causes of
poverty and forms of structural violence that impact poor communities, as
well as the global political and economic systems that create and
perpetuate poverty and lack of dignified housing.

This event is part of the two-month long series on Housing and
Gentrification which includes the "We Declare: Spaces of Housing"
exhibition featuring the DEWC Power of Women Group and talks hosted by 
Vancouver Flying University.

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