The Comfort You Have Demanded Is Now Mandatory Read More »
The number-one enemy of progress is questions.
Doomsday Clock Rally
Yesterday, Vancouver unveiled it's countdown to the 2010 Olympics with
a noonhour rally downtown at the art gallery. A few opposing groups,
most notably the Carnegie Centre and some youth attached to the APC
(Anti Poverty Committee, notorious rable-rousers) attended alongside a
hundred or so Olympic boosters to make a point about worsening
homelessness in the city, particularly among Native people.
A little-acknowledged fact: Vancouver, the Lower Mainland and in fact
much of BC is actually unceded territory. The local native nations
signed no treaties permitting Canada to use or develop their lands,
unlike what happened in the eastern parts of Canada. Most
conscientious organizations make a point of thanking the Sto:lo,
Squamish, Musqueam, and other nations whose lands we are on when we
welcome people to our events; the city, of course, does not.
Above: the Carnegie Community Action Project's Homelessness Doomsday
Clock, predicting triple the number of homeless in the city by 2010.
a noonhour rally downtown at the art gallery. A few opposing groups,
most notably the Carnegie Centre and some youth attached to the APC
(Anti Poverty Committee, notorious rable-rousers) attended alongside a
hundred or so Olympic boosters to make a point about worsening
homelessness in the city, particularly among Native people.
A little-acknowledged fact: Vancouver, the Lower Mainland and in fact
much of BC is actually unceded territory. The local native nations
signed no treaties permitting Canada to use or develop their lands,
unlike what happened in the eastern parts of Canada. Most
conscientious organizations make a point of thanking the Sto:lo,
Squamish, Musqueam, and other nations whose lands we are on when we
welcome people to our events; the city, of course, does not.
Above: the Carnegie Community Action Project's Homelessness Doomsday
Clock, predicting triple the number of homeless in the city by 2010.
Related Groups:
Who Watches The Watchmen?
More from counterculture from the underground
 |
Rewritten by machine on new technologyUpdated 12/26/2009 9:41 PM
|
 |
Holidayz TraditionzUpdated 12/25/2009 2:13 PM
Bringing Leona's family traditions into the internet age.
|
 |
DTESUpdated 12/03/2009 12:25 PM
"The people who live here, they call it the Downtown Eastside."
|
 |
Salt Water CityUpdated 10/23/2009 12:12 PM
Scenes from Chinatown.
|
 |
VictoriaUpdated 08/09/2009 9:54 AM
I was in beautiful Victoria BC for 4 days in May, attending a conference. I didn't take any pictures of...More»
|
Sad.
"Dear (Mayor) Sam Sullivan and Council,
I am asking you to please remember in the midst of all this Olympic giddyness that there are thousands of people in vancouver who are inadequately housed and need your action.
Please make sure that good housing (not dorm rooms) is available to all Vancouverites, and resist the temptation to write some of us off. Just because so many in this city hold the poor in contempt does not mean that you may do the same.
You dream city of the future will not look so great with thousands of desperately poor people wandering throughout it. Please think it through."