Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

Friday, October 24th.  Dinner served at 5 pm, panel from 6-8 pm.
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, 302 Columbia, 1 block west of Main, corner Cordova.
All (including men) welcome!

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
* Nicholas Blomley: Nicholas is a professor in the Department of Geography at SFU specializing in the politics of property and public space in the DTES.  His books include Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property and How Law Matters To Political Geography.
* Ayisha Faruk: Ayisha is a DTES activist, born on the continent of Black People from the Lion Tribe. She is a performing and visual artist, traditional African herbalist, human rights activist born with revolutionary blood in her veins.
* Carol Martin: Carol (Nisga’a Nation) is a member of the DTES Elders Council, is a victim services worker in the DTES, and founder of the Sweetgrass All Nations Healing Centre.  She is a strong voice for those who -like her – are survivors of abuse, addictions, and a legacy of colonization.
* Jean Swanson: Jean has been an anti-poverty advocate for over 30 years and is currently working with the Carnegie Community Action Project.  She has worked with End Legislated Poverty and has authored the book Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion. She has been a single low-income parent with two children.
* Member of the DEWC Power of Women Group.

Join us at the DTES Women Centre for a panel with some exceptional speakers. We hope to contribute to the movement to eliminate homelessness with a framework of housing justice that analyzes the roots causes of poverty and forms of structural violence that impact poor communities, as well as the global political and economic systems that create and perpetuate poverty and lack of dignified housing.

This event is part of the two-month long series on Housing and Gentrification which includes the “We Declare: Spaces of Housing” artist exhibition featuring the DEWC Power of Women Group and talks hosted by Vancouver Flying University.

For more information contact DEWC Power of Women Project or call 604 681 8480 x 234.