Just Imagine…. For thousands of years, right up to relatively recent times, what we now know as Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) was part of an ancient forest filled with wild berries and edible roots. Wolf, elk, and bear roamed the vast land. The Coast Salish people - Musqueam,…
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“How To Remember” – Downtown Eastside art exhibit holds steadfast against…
At Gallery Gachet until May 7
In the earnest and thought provoking exhibition “How to Remember,” local artists…
Women supporting Women in the Downtown Eastside
This article originally appeared in the Downtown East newspaper – the precursor to The Volcano – in February…
Shelter residents: ‘Closing shelters is a human rights violation’
Originally published on the CCAP website: http://carnegieaction.org
While the City Council is discussing a new…
Out of Control: SRO hotel survey finds that market real estate development and…
Homelessness in the DTES is a humanitarian crisis. For the first time in recorded history, the number of…
“We are too poor to afford anything” – new report uncovers the…
Download the full pdf of this report here
In an area where over 13,000 people live in poverty having to survive…
Go ahead displace me, you’re going to have to kill me to get me to stop fighting
Well to be quite honest I only recently came to know what DISPLACEMENT means. Being displaced is first of all…
The only way to survive is to break the law – Vancouver’s DTES Economic…
Over 13,000 people are on social assistance in the Downtown Eastside. 5,803 are on disability, 3,068 are on welfare…
Homelessness is not a crime – Resistance to the criminalization of homeless…
In the week leading up to cheque day at the end of November, the Downtown Eastside had the highest number…
Announcement from the Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March Committee
The first women’s memorial march was held in 1991 in response to the murder of a Coast Salish woman on Powell…