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Rally! All out to defend Woodwards Squatters!

Publication type: 
Poster
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2002-09-24
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This poster announces a demonstration at the Woodwards building in support of the squatters' demand for social housing. It describes the broken promises of social housing by the BC Liberals and the police violence against the squatters and homeless people in their fight against this crisis.
Keywords: 
demonstration; Woodwards; Woodsquat; squatters; community mobilization; social housing; police brutality; homelessness; BC Liberals

Support the Safe Site

Publication type: 
Poster
Author(s): 
Coalition for Harm Reduction
Date: 
2003-05-17
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a poster for a demonstration in support of the safe injection site, which also outlines its demands.
Keywords: 
safe injection site; demonstration; Four Pillars Approach; harm reduction

Stop City Council Erasing Low-Income Housing

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Author(s): 
Carnegie Community Action Project
Pages: 
2
Summary: 
This is a leaflet encouraging people to support the Hotel Conversion and Demolition Control By-law through putting pressure on the Vancouver City Council to enact it. It describes the by-law and states how it will help address homelessness.
Keywords: 
housing; Vancouver City Council; residential hotels; homelessness

Press Advisory

Publication type: 
Media Release
Author(s): 
Woodwards Social Housing Coalition
Date: 
2002-10-31
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a handwritten notice by the Woodwards Social Housing Coalition for a press conference to announce their incorporation and plan for actions on social housing.
Keywords: 
Woodwards; Woodsquat; social housing; government policy

Critique of Report Presented by the Woodwards Steering Committee to Vancouver City Council on July 8

Publication type: 
Miscellaneous
Author(s): 
Woodwards Social Housing Coalition
Date: 
2005-07-08
Pages: 
9
Summary: 
This is a critique of the Woodward's Steering Committee's report of the public consultation on Woodward's redevelopment by the Woodwards Social Housing Coalition (WSHC). It goes through the report section by section, addressing discrepancies and absences, in order to accurately inform the Vancouver City Council of the desires of the residents of the Downtown Eastside. It also provides two addenda - one, a letter from the WSHC that expresses broader concerns about the workshop and second, an excerpt from a community survey conducted by the WSHC that identifies the Downtown Eastside residents' priorities for the use of the Woodwards building. Overall, it is very critical of the report and the genuineness of the consultation process.
Keywords: 
Woodwards; community consultation; community mobilization; gentrification; housing; Vancouver City Council; community participation; Woodsquat; poverty; aboriginal people

Woodsquat Witnessing Shifts

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Date: 
2002
Pages: 
2
Summary: 
This outlines the role and responsibilities of a Woodsquat witness, such as observing police activity from a reasonable distance. It also provides a statement for police that describes the right to assemble, remain silent, and to speak to a lawyer, as well as lists an order of calls to make and location of payphones. The witness shifts are organized in response to potential enforcement of a city injunction against the squat.
Keywords: 
Woodwards; Woodsquat; legal issues; police; rights; community mobilization

Resist the Cuts

Publication type: 
Poster
Date: 
2002-09-14
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a poster for a rally and march on September 14th that begins a week of actions against the policies of Gordon Campbell's BC Liberals, which have included cuts to welfare, a freeze on social housing, and attacks aboriginal people. It calls for direct action.
Keywords: 
community mobilization; demonstration; Gordon Campbell; protest

Anti-Poverty Committee News #18

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2004-05
Pages: 
2
Summary: 
This is a newsletter of the Anti-Poverty Committee, an anti-capitalist and anti-oppression organization fighting for the rights of poor and working people in Vancouver, BC. This issue includes the articles: ""Hope Village Fights for the Right to Sleep in Peace"" (on the proposal for a legal tent city brought before COPE and the need for shelter and social housing), ""Safe Streets: Safe for Who?"" (on the Safe Streets Coalition's proposed legislation against panhandling and squeegeeing which are described as attacks on the poor and homeless), and ""Dissent Members and HEU Right IWA Local"" (on actions against the leader of an IWA Local that is not working on the behalf of the members but for the BC Liberals). It also states their basis of unity, lists ways to get involved through meetings and donations, and announces that their office has moved.
Keywords: 
BC Liberals; homelessness; Business Improvement Association; unions; tent city; social housing; aboriginal homelessness

Fight for Survival

Publication type: 
Poster
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a poster stating 'Fight for Survival'.
Keywords: 
Anti-Poverty Committee

The Real Impacts of Enforcement

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Pages: 
2
Summary: 
This presents information from scientific studies on the impact of enforcement on the health of drug users and the drug market. It presents local evidence from the Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study and from the British Columbia Centre for Excellence for HIV/AIDS. All suggest that increasing enforcement affects visibility of drug market, but does not decrease drug use or drug user's safety.
Keywords: 
drug use; police; drug safety; drug policy

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