[Wamvan] (Updated) Sat Sep 15 - Annual Women's Housing March in DTES

[Harsha W.]

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6th ANNUAL WOMEN’S HOUSING MARCH
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Sat. Sep 15 @ 1:30 pm
Starts at Cordova and Columbia, just west of Main St.
Unceded Coast Salish Territories

* Homes for People, not Profit for Real Estate!
* No Slumlords, No Evictions and No Gentrification!
* Rent Control not Social Control!
* Homes not Jails!
* Homes not Pipelines!
* Housing, Childcare, and Healthcare for All!

FB RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/368896053180255/
Download posters: http://www.dewc.ca
Videos and photos from last year: http://is.gd/DQ5j8h
Naomi Klein on gentrification in the DTES: http://is.gd/6LsQrS

On Saturday Sep 15 at 1:30 pm, join the Downtown Eastside Women Centre
Power of Women Group in the 6th Annual March for Women’s Housing and March
Against Poverty.

Come hear from strong women in the community!
* Opening prayer by elder Reta Blind
* MC: Priscillia Mays (Wet'suwet'en) and member of DTES POW Group
* Amanda Nahanee: Squamish nation on opposing tar sands pipelines and
tanker traffic
* Cecilia Point: Musqueam nation on protecting their burial grounds from
condo development
* Jean Swanson and Victoria Bull from Carnegie Community Action Project on
gentrification and its impacts
* Laura and Marlene from Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users on "Homes
not Jails"
* Members of the DTES Power of Women Group
* Mona Woodward and Annie Johnston: Aboriginal Front Door
* Paint-in at the Pantages
* Street theatre piece by the DTES is not for Developers Coalition

Join the "Homes Not Pipelines" contingent:
https://www.facebook.com/events/177833085686460/


This year we continue to march for housing, childcare, and healthcare for
all low-income residents in the DTES. We want no more evictions, no more
displacement, and no more gentrification in our neighourhood. We know that
the growing number of cops and condos in the DTES is part of a larger
pattern to destroy and privatize neighourboods, communities, and the land.
We want to live free: free from BC Housing controls, free from violence
against women, and free from this system that is hurting and killing us.

We invite groups to bring their banners and anything else for our festive
march. All genders are welcome and celebrated. Please bring your drums and
regalia. This march is child-friendly and there will be a rest-vehicle for
elders. Spread the word!

Email: project at dewc.ca or Phone: 778 885 0040
Join the FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/95044879752/?ref=ts


The DTES Power of Women Group is a group of women (we are an inclusive
group) from all walks of life who are either on social assistance, working
poor, or homeless; but we are all living in extreme poverty in and around
the DTES. 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.



-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group



-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group



-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group



-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group



-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group



-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group



-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group



-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group