[Wamvan] DNC monthly general meeting

[Tami Starlight]

Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council
http://dnchome.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/julygm/

DNC MONTHLY GENERAL MEETING
(and discussion on civil disobedience)
SATURDAY JULY 7
2:30PM FOOD
3-4:30PM MEETING
DODSON HALL
(25 E Hastings)

The focus of this meeting will be a civil disobedience workshop organized
by the DTES Not for Developers coalition. The rest of the meeting will
include presentations on the new federal law packages and their meanings
for our community and reports and discussions on our committee work.

The Downtown Eastside low-income community is pushing back against a lot of
pressure from condo developers, real estate investors, city council and
planners, boutique entrepreneurs, police, and the Provincial and Federal
governments. DNC members are in the middle of many of the campaigns to
defend the community. The street market keeps our public spaces open to
low-income people, our hotel tenant campaigns hold the landlords
accountable, the shelter committee works for our most basic and minimal
needs, the DTES Not for Developers coalition fights the condo invasion, the
police committee and copwatch protect us against police harassment and
brutality, and our community planning campaigns hold the planners and city
council's feet to the fire.

Through all this work it's clear that our strengths are in the organization
and cooperative efforts of our community. We will begin this meeting with a
discussion of why to consider non-violent civil disobedience, what it is,
and how we can do it safely and together as a community.

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DTES Neighbourhood Council
http://dnchome.wordpress.com
dtescouncil at gmail.com

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Miigwetch/Thank you/Merci
*Tami M. Starlight*
Unceded & occupied Coast Salish Territory
Vancouver, Canada
tamistarlight at gmail.com
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