2nd Annual Women’s Housing March
Published by Patricia June 11th, 2008 in Aboriginal, Human Rights, Make Poverty History, PWD, Political Action, Racially Visible, Womens Issues Tags: Temporarily disabled.Saturday, June 14 @ 2 pm - starts outside Downtown Eastside Women Centre, 302 Columbia- corner Cordova, just west of Main.
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Join women in the Downtown Eastside Women Centre Power of Women Group in the 2nd Annual March for Women’s Housing and March Against Poverty!
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We are marching for:
 - Social Housing, Childcare, and Healthcare for all!
 - No more Evictions and No more Condos in the DTES!
 - People Before Olympic Profits! No Olympics on Stolen Land!
 - Stop Criminalizing the Poor and Scrap Civil City!
 - End Global Hunger and Poverty!
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The Power of Women Group is a group at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre and we do education on social issues. We are a group of women from all walks of life who are either on social assistance, working poor, or homeless; but we are all living in extreme poverty. Many of us are single mothers or have had our children apprehended due to poverty; most of us have chronic physical or mental health issues for example HIV and Hepatitis C; many have drug or alcohol addictions; and a majority have experienced and survived sexual violence and mental, physical, spriritual, and emotional abuse. For indigenous women, we are affected by a legacy of the effects of residential schools and a history of colonization and racism.
For more information contact project@dewc.ca or call 604-681-8480 x 234