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Strategy Session Against Safe Streets Act

Publication type: 
Letter / Correspondence
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2004-09-01
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is an announcement of a strategy session organized by the Anti-Poverty Committee to discuss the proposed Safe Streets Act and the International Downtown Association meeting in Vancouver. It describes the effects the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) has had on the poor, particularly through the criminalization of panhandling and squeegeeing. It calls for groups and individuals to strategize and fight back against the DVBIA and its upcoming international meeting.
Keywords: 
Safe Streets Act; Business Improvement Association; poor bashing; Anti-Poverty Committee; strategy

David Cunningham, September 22, 2004

Publication type: 
Miscellaneous
Author(s): 
Cunningham, David
Date: 
2004-09-22
Pages: 
3
Summary: 
This is a rough draft that describes the work of the Anti-Poverty Committee (APC) and the Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA) to defend the rights of tenants being evicted from various buildings (i.e. Marr hotel, Passlin hotel, and Dunsmir house) in the Downtown Eastside. It attributes the evictions to gentrification, which is connected with the 2010 Winter Olympics and also charges the COPE city council with being complicit in these actions of class warfare.
Keywords: 
evictions; tenant rights; COPE; homelessness; development; gentrification; City bylaws; Olympics; residential hotels; Anti-Poverty Committee; poor

Benefit Concert for the Anti-Poverty Committee

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a leaflet for a benefit concert for the Anti-Poverty Committee at the W.I.S.E. Hall.
Keywords: 
Anti-Poverty Committee; welfare cuts

"Safe Streets" A Dead End

Publication type: 
Letter / Correspondence
Author(s): 
Cunningham, David
Date: 
2004-02-10
Pages: 
2
Summary: 
This document describes a mass 'pan-in' organized by the Housing Action Committee, the Anti-Poverty Committee, End Legislated Poverty, amongst others, where over 100 poor people demonstrated in Gastown protesting poor bashing by businesses and government and also the potential Safe Streets Act. It describes the negative consequences of a Safe Streets Act passed in Ontario and why it needs to be fought in BC.
Keywords: 
demonstration; poor; panhandling; poor-bashing; police; welfare cuts; Safe Streets Act

Safe Streets Act: A Dead End

Publication type: 
Media Release
Date: 
2004-03-10
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a media release concerning a potential Safe Streets Act in Vancouver being lobbied for by the Safe Streets Coalition, which is composed of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, Vancouver Board of Trade, and Tourism Vancouver. It describes a similar act passed in Ontario and the negative impacts it had for street workers, homeless people, and other people living in poverty. It also criticizes the government's attempt to resolve poverty through policing rather than social housing and welfare.
Keywords: 
poverty; poor bashing; police; Safe Streets Act

Victory Squat is Moving!

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Date: 
2003-07-26
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a leaflet announcing the move of the Victory Squat to an undisclosed location and also a rally and march against the BC Liberals. It outlines the demands for social housing and an end to the two year time limit on welfare.
Keywords: 
squatting; tent city; social housing; welfare cuts; BC Liberals

Victory Tent City Newsletter #2

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2003-10
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a newsletter for the Victory Tent City. It discusses the three month long squat and states its demands of social housing and ending the two year time limit on welfare. It describes BC Liberal's policy that create homelessness and also the supporters of the squat and the Anti-Poverty Committee.
Keywords: 
squatting; tent city; social housing; welfare cuts; government; BC Liberals; coalition building; community mobilization; homelessness

Victory Squat has Moved!

Publication type: 
Poster
Date: 
2003-07-26
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This poster announces the move of the Victory Squat to Thorton Park. It outlines the purpose of the squat, as exposing the brutality of the BC Liberals and demands social housing and an end to the two year time limit on welfare.
Keywords: 
squatting; tent city; BC Liberals; homelessness; welfare cuts; social housing

Support and solidarity needed for the Olympic Tent City!

Publication type: 
Media Release
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2003-06-17
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a call for support and solidarity with a tent city being erected by the Anti-Poverty Committee and Housing Action Committee in response to the Vancouver bid for the 2010 Winter Olympics and the concurrent crisis in social housing and the proposed two year welfare limit. It describes the policy of the BC Liberals and its effects on the working poor. It also describes the need to fightback.
Keywords: 
tent city; Olympics; Expo; BC Liberals; Woodwards; poor; social housing; welfare cuts; protest; community mobilization

Dear brothers and sisters:

Publication type: 
Letter / Correspondence
Author(s): 
Cunningham, David
Date: 
2003-06-19
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a call for endorsements and donations to support a tent city being erected by the Anti-Poverty Committee and Housing Action Committee against the Vancouver bid for the 2010 Winter Olympics and in order to demand social housing and an end to the two year time limit for Income Assistance. It discusses these in the context of the effects of the BC Liberal's 'New Era' on the working poor.
Keywords: 
BC Liberals; homelessness; tent city; Olympics; income assistance; social housing; welfare cuts; community mobilization

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