Downtown Eastside Updates
[From Carnegie Community Action Project]
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MEDIA INTERVIEWS ABOUT GENTRIFICATION
Ivan interviewed on CBC On the Coast, February 18 www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/British+Columbia/On+The+Coast/ID/2336430599/
Ivan interviewed on the Phillip Till show, CKNW, February 21, 6am slot (select and scroll to 6:38am) http://www.cknw.com/news/audiovault/index.aspx
Jean interviewed on CBC Early Edition, February 25 (scroll to 2:11:15) http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/British+Columbia/The+Early+Edition/ID/2338565999/
Ivan interviewed on CBC “The 180,” Friday March 1 http://www.cbc.ca/the180/excerpts/2013/03/01/pidgin-restaurant-and-pigeon-park/
Ivan interviewed on Co-op radio "The Rational," March 4 (first interview) http://www.coopradio.org/content/rational-111
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NEWS ABOUT CHINATOWN CONDO REZONINGS
Jean Swanson, "Don't displace the soul of Vancouver." http://ccapvancouver.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/611_js/
Ivan Drury, "The lesson from Woodward's is that condos in Chinatown are a low-income extinguishment project" http://ccapvancouver.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/611_id/
Metro News, “Vancouver’s changing Chinatown” http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/577040/vancouvers-changing-chinatown-condos-culture-and-the-end-of-cheap-rent/
Globe and Mail, “Buildings to soar over Chinatown after Vancouver eases heights” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/buildings-to-soar-over-chinatown-after-vancouver-eases-height-restrictions/article9013895/
Georgia Straight, “Vancouver city council set to consider 16-storey development in Chinatown” http://www.straight.com/news/356131/vancouver-city-council-set-consider-16-storey-development-chinatown
CBC / Huffington Post, “Vancouver homeless advocate raps Chinatown development” http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/02/24/bc-gentrification-chinatown.html
Vancouver Sun, “17-storey mixed-use tower approved in heart of Vancouver’s historic Chinatown” http://www.vancouversun.com/life/fashion-beauty/storey+mixed+used+tower+approved+heart+Vancouver+Chinatown/8005011/story.html
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MEDIA COVERAGE ABOUT INCOME INEQUALITY
Georgia Straight, “BC NDP’s poverty platform still unclear.” http://www.straight.com/news/356641/bc-ndps-poverty-platform-still-unclear
Vancouver Sun, “Activists rally at Vancouver aquarium for higher welfare rates.” http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Activists+rally+Vancouver+Aquarium+higher+welfare+rates/7935112/story.html
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"PICKETING PIDGIN"
Downtown East, special issue March 2013
This special (half-size) issue of the Downtown East was published quick to answer some of the major media attacks on the Pidgin Picket and on the low-income community in the Downtown Eastside. The editorial collective of the Downtown East stands with the Pidgin picket for dignity, justice, and housing for low-income communities and for an end to the gentrification forces that threaten these communities.
Why Picket the Pidgin restaurant, Wendy Pedersen & Homeless Dave (HD)
http://downtowneast.net/2013/03/08/pedersen_hd/
The reasons and goals for the Pidgin Picket from the point of view of two of its organizers.
We need homes, Jean Swanson
http://downtowneast.net/2013/03/08/swanson2/
Low-income people in the Downtown Eastside is in the midst of the worst housing crisis they have ever experienced. The picket is broadcasting housing needs to the public.
Responding to media attacks, Kim Hearty
http://downtowneast.net/2013/03/09/hearty/
Since the picket started the major media has been bashing the picketers and criticizing the community? Why? Who are they representing?
Ada Dennis, evicted & replaced with condos and Pidgin restaurant, Ada Dennis
http://downtowneast.net/2013/03/08/ada-dennis-evicted-and-replaced-with-condos-and-pidgin-restaurant/
A speech from an Indigenous low-income resident evicted from the building that is now 21 Doors condos and Pidgin restaurant.
How do we know gentrification is pushing up hotel rents? Jean Swanson & CCAP
http://downtowneast.net/2013/03/08/swanson_ccap/
Excerpts from Carnegie Community Action Project’s 2012 study on rents in SRO hotels, including an argument that Woodward’s condos drove low-income housing and people out of the Western DTES.
Pigeon: a recent peoples’ history of a peoples’ park, Ivan Drury
http://downtowneast.net/2013/03/08/drury/
The Pidgin Picket is only the latest in a history of community defence and struggles for justice at Pigeon Park.
Unpublished letter to the editor of The Province about Pidgin Picket, Sid Tan
http://downtowneast.net/2013/03/08/tan/
Responding to media poor bashing low-income DTES residents through attacking the picket.
Questions and Answers about Pidgin Picket, Jean Swanson
http://downtowneast.net/2013/03/08/swanson1/
Confusion abounds about the Pidgin Picket. This article takes on the myths in the media and replies with facts.
Displaced and then replaced, Terese Lulf
http://downtowneast.net/2013/03/08/lulf/
The business and media attacks on drug users and other “undesireables” in the DTES are violent displacement efforts against our most beloved community members.