Fly the Canadian Flag outside your house.
February 15 was declared National Flag of Canada Day in 1996. It marks the day in 1965 when our red and white maple leaf flag was first raised over Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and indeed, hundreds of communities across Canada. Red and white were designated as Canada's official colours in 1921 by His Majesty King George V. This is a perfect opportunity to celebrate our flag and what it stands for ' a Dominion that is the envy of the world.
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No More Empty Talk, No More Empty Lots.
At Pigeon Park (Carrall and Hastings, Downtown
Eastside of Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories).
- Rally with all our neighbours and supporters. Organized by DTES Power of Women Group with the DTES Justice for All Network. Visit:
http://dtesjustice.wordpress.com/
- Support the "Olympic Tent Village". Endorsed by Streams of Justice.
The upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics has escalated the homelessness crisis in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Greater Vancouver area. Since the
Olympic bid, homelessness has nearly tripled in the GVRD, while real estate and condominium development in the Downtown Eastside is outpacing
social housing by a rate of 3:1. Meanwhile, a heightened police presence has further criminalized those living in extreme material poverty in the poorest postal code in Canada.
- With the eyes of the world on Vancouver, residents of the Downtown Eastside and our supporters will be taking the streets to affirm our call for justice and dignity. We want:
1. Real action to end homelessness now
2. End condo development and displacement in the Downtown Eastside
3. End discriminatory ticketing, police harassment, and all forms of criminalization of poverty.
No more empty talk and no more empty lots.
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Alberni Valley Transition Town Society and Canada World Youth invite everyone to
"Water, Water Everywhere"
next in the AVTTS series of film nights five short plays by CWY film showing and discussion
Monday, February 15th
7 p.m.
Dogwood Room, Echo Centre, free of charge all welcome
information 250-723-8362
A little background about the plays:
- developed during a January weekend workshop in Theatre for Living technique.
- the workshop for Canada World Youth was led by Pamela Walker, who trained with David Diamond's Headlines Theatre in Vancouver
- Pamela's one-week training was sponsored by the Public Education Committee of Save Our Valley Alliance, as one aspect of their four-part initiative on water issues, "Mapping Our Legacy."
