[Wamvan] Sat: Annual Womens Housing March

[Harsha W.]

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7th ANNUAL WOMEN’S HOUSING MARCH
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Sat. Sep 28 @ 1:30 pm
Starts at Cordova and Columbia, just west of Main St.
Unceded Coast Salish Territories

On FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/194962550671741/

* Homes for Low-Income People, not Profit for Real Estate!
* Homes not Jails!
* Homes not Pipelines!
* Rent Control and Community Control not Social Control!
* Housing, Childcare, and Healthcare for All!

On Saturday September 28th at 1:30 pm, join the Downtown Eastside Women
Centre Power of Women Group in the 7th Annual March for Women’s Housing
and March Against Poverty.

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.
Meanwhile, women in the DTES continue to face the brunt of poverty,
displacement, violence and apprehension.

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

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. 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.



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Harsha Walia

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