[van-announce] ONE WEEK! Women's Annual Housing March on Sat June 13th

[Harsha Walia]

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* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyNC7fjLhT8

===> 3RD ANNUAL WOMEN'S HOUSING MARCH <===

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Sat June 13 @ 1:30 pm
Starts outside Downtown Eastside Women Centre
(302 Columbia- corner Cordova, just west of Main)
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On Saturday June 13 at 1:30 pm, join women in the Downtown Eastside Women
Centre Power of Women Group in the 3rd Annual March for Women's Housing
and March Against Poverty! Everyone welcome!

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!
- Stop Criminalizing the Poor!

Although we are still suffering in shelters and on the streets, we are not
yet defeated. We are making our voices heard, we are bringing empowerment
into our lives, we are fighting for positive change, and we are expressing
the humanity of our neighbourhood. We hope all of you will join us.

For more information contact project at dewc.ca or call 604-681-8480 x
234. We are also seeking endorsements, please contact us if you would are
interested in being added to a list of supporters.

On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=80841139629

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* Power & Perspectives: An Interview with Power to Women group
http://knollpaper.wordpress.com/current-issue/gender/power-perspectives/

* Election won’t change lives of Downtown Eastside women:
http://straight.com/article-216138/harsha-walia-and-andrea-pinochet-election-promises-won%3F%3Ft-change-lives-downtown-eastside-women

* Downtown Eastside Women Ask Politicians for Housing Swap
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/1286


The Power of Women Group is a group at the Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Women's Centre, located in the DTES of Vancouver (the poorest off-reserve
postal code in Canada). 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. Our aim is to empower ourselves through our
experiences and to raise awareness from our own perspectives about the
social issues affecting the neighbourhood.

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 alcohol addictions; and a
majority have experienced and survived sexual violence and mental,
physical, spiritual, 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.



*** Supporters of this march include: ***

2010 Watch
Alliance for People's Health
Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society
Battered Women Support Services Society
B.C. Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
BC Persons With AIDS Society
BC Poverty Reduction Coalition
Building Bridges Human Rights-Vancouver
Bulland Awaaz
Café Kathmandu
Carnegie Community Action Project
Carnegie Community Centre Association
Citywide Housing Coalition
Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Lenninist)
DTES Elders Council
DTES Neighbourhood House
Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance
Filipino Nurses Support Group
Fraser Valley Peace Council
Friends of Women in the Middle East Society
Grassroots Women
Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens' Association
Indigenous Action Movement
Industrial Workers of the World
International Iranian Federation of Refugees
La Surda Latin American Collective
Latin America Connexions
Lookout Society
No One Is Illegal
Olympics Resistance Network
Oxfam Canada
PACE Society
Philippine Women Centre of B.C.
PIVOT Legal Society
Portland Hotel Society
SIKLAB-B.C.
Rhizome Café
Salaam- Queer Muslim collective
Siraat
South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy
Stopwar.ca
Streams of Justice
Teaching Support Staff Union
The Global Education Center - BC
The Rational
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Vancouver Socialist Forum
Vancouver Status of Women
Walk 4 Justice
West Coast Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society
West Coast Women's Legal Education & Action Fund
WISH Drop-in Centre Society
Women Against Violence Against Women
Workless Party