concernedcitizen's videos

Speaking out on homelessness and questioning why the government wont secure proper social housing in the Downtown Eastside..

Brody Willams runs a SMART (Self Management and Recovery Training) program out of 49 W. Cordova Street in Vancouver, on Wednesday evenings. Drop by for more information.

J.Puff, Madeline, Joan, Wendy and many others left this morning from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Womens Centre, for Victoria. They’re on a mission to find the $250 MILLON that the government has stashed away in an endowment fund. Hearty pirates on their way to liberate the treasure for the people! Best of luck!

Carnegie Action Project and the dtes community have collected over 12000 endorsing letters asking for the Olympic Housing Promises. Jenny Kwan will be taking the letters to the House.

Today's RALLY to BUILD 3200 HOMES NOW at the Union of BC Municipalities_Convention at Canada_Place...was a lot of fun!

people can see how it happens from the drawing board to the finished plants, and maybe even become interested enough to get involved. ...and the next meeting is a clean-up session at the site on tuesday, august 21 from 9:30 a.m. DEYAS (Downtown Eastside Youth Activities Society) is going to be there as well to help out.

Nathan, Gary and Jules speak out at the Insite for Community Safety's, Portland Hotel Society's, Lifeskills Centre's and Downtown Eastside residents and community members' very cool, very fun, BBQ last Sunday, on the dire importance of keeping Insite open! DOA was there to show their support and rock the hood.

Downtown Eastside residents kept Insite open last fall by collecting more than 4000 letters to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. For Insite to keep saving lives this year thousands of letters need to be sent again. The sad truth is that 100s of people could die if the safe injection site closes.

Tell Prime Minister Stephen Harper to keep supervised injection site open!

For more information: http://www.communityinsite.ca/ & http://www.vch.ca/sis/

Speak Out 2 from Civil City Slam.
Micheal Vonn, Policy Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association
Andy Yan, Carnegie Community Action Project

Background info: Tuesday, May 22, at 7 pm at First United Church 320 E. Hastings St, at Gore Ave.

Mayor Sam Sullivan wants to tackle crime, public disorder and social issues via his Project Civil City initiative. But there’s a problem. It targets our most vulnerable residents.
Civil City Slam is a forum chaired by Libby Davies, MP for Vancouver East, where the people most targeted by Project Civil City can speak out to their elected representatives at all levels of government - about the impact of this project on themselves and their communities. Libby and other progressive electeds are monitoring the progress of the impacts of Project Civil City. There will be an open mike after the speakers.

SPEAKERS:
Bernie Willams, Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
David Eby, Pivot Society
Cynthia Low, Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Micheal Vonn, Policy Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association
Andy Yan, Carnegie Community Action Project
Sara Kendall, Youth Worker
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)

This will be the first entry from last tuesday May 22's Civil City Slam. Intro and welcoming from Bernie Willams followed by Cynthia Low from the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre.

“Shame!” and “BOOH!” from the crowd drowned out Premier Campbell’s speech last Monday during the unveiling of Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic Countdown Clock. Concerned citizens were there to address the real issues…homelessness, poverty and cutbacks to social funding, all of which will increase as money gets poured into more government game playing.

Why are we at the Tourism Vancouver office?