[Wamvan] Fwd: Naomi Klein joins DTES Residents in DTES not for Developers Campaign

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From: Carnegie Action <carnegie.action at shawlink.ca>
Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:38 PM
Subject: Naomi Klein joins DTES Residents in DTES not for Developers
Campaign
To: Carnegie Action <carnegie.action at shawlink.ca>


DTES Not For Developers Campaign Continues in DTES, Naomi Klein Lends
Support****

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Gathering and press conference: Thursday December 1st at 2 pm at Pantages***
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Site (150 East Hastings)****

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http://dtesnotfordevelopers.wordpress.com/****

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Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territory: On Tuesday November 29th at****

4pm, twenty four DTES residents and housing activists successfully****

occupied the Salient Group's Paris Annex condo development in the Downtown**
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Eastside. For over three hours, traffic all along Hastings Street was****

blocked as activists raised the issue of gentrification in the****

neighbourhood, and supporters managed to halt police attempts to enter the**
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occupied building by forming a people's blockade around the three****

entrances.****

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The banner flown from the building read "Occupy Condos", a nod to the****

international Occupy movement for economic justice, but the demand for a****

moratorium on all condo development in the DTES until the area's extreme****

housing and homelessness crisis is solved - is distinctly local.****

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"We told the city that condos are destroying the low-income housing in the**
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DTES by driving rents up and that they are killing our community with****

gentrification," says Laura Shaver, DTES SRO resident and board member****

with VANDU. "But City Hall is not listening. They are still****

permitting and giving kickbacks to developers to build condos in the****

DTES... and they're still not building social housing!"****

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On Thursday December 1st, international best-selling author of No Logo and**
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Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein will join the DTES Is Not For Developers****

campaign in a press conference and gathering at 2 pm in front of the****

Pantages site in the Downtown Eastside. Speakers will include****

representatives and DTES residents from the Aboriginal Front Door, DTES****

Neighbourhood Council, DTES Power of Women Group, and Vancouver Area****

Network of Drug Users.****

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Jen Allan, founder of the survival sex worker support group Jen's Kitchen***
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and Downtown Eastside Neighbhourhood Council board member says, "The city***
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talks about safety for women and for survival sex workers, but safety****

means safe and affordable housing for sex workers and their children.****

Condos in the DTES will not help survival sex workers, they will hurt****

them."****

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Beatrice Starr, member of the DTES Women Centre Power of Women Group and****

thirty-year resident of the neighbourhood is angry that the City and****

developers are complicit in escalating rents and gentrification. "The****

priority should be building social housing not condos. Marc Williams,****

Robert Fung's Salient Group and all other gentrifying developers, real****

estate speculators, and greedy investors, as well the corporate-controlled**
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City Council, should know that we will not abandon this fight," she says.***
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