[Wamvan] Video Interview w/ Jean Swanson as part of Inheriting Resistance: A Community History Project]

[Harsha W.]

No One Is Illegal-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories presents an excerpt
of our interview with Jean Swanson.

Video link with closed captioning included:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NoOneIsIllegalVan


This interview with Jean was conducted as part of NOII's "Inheriting
Resistance: A Community History Project" to document the untold stories of
people in our communities who have been involved in and who have shaped a
diversity of social justice struggles on unceded Coast Salish Territories
over the past 20-40 years. We are committed to honouring the legacy of
those who have struggled before us – and in many cases, who still continue
to struggle alongside us – for social, economic, political, and
environmental justice.

Jean Swanson organizes with the Carnegie Community Action Project for more
and better housing, higher incomes, and to stop gentrification in the
Downtown Eastside. Previously she helped found and worked at a provincial
anti-poverty coalition, End Legislated Poverty, and in the 1970s, at the
Downtown Eastside Residents' Association. Jean has also worked to stop
free trade deals, and to help organise Vancouver's big peace marches in
the 1980s. She wrote a book called "Poor Bashing: The politics of
exclusion". For many of these years Jean was a single parent living in
poverty with her two children. In 1985 she met her partner, Sandy Cameron,
who worked with her in these struggles for social justice.


For more information on the Inheriting Resistance Project:
http://noii-van.resist.ca/?page_id=4225

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