Home

Olympic Tent Village opened in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

By Mara Kardas-Nelson and Alex Samur
| February 15, 2010

A group of over 500 Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents and their supporters gathered at Pigeon Park in Vancouver today at a rally called "No More Empty Talk, No More Empty Lots." A five-storey high banner describing the protest's aims: "Homes Now: Tent to End: Homelessness, gentrification and criminalization of the poverty" was draped over a neighbouring building.

Rally participant Mysa Kaczkowski, a waitress who's lived in the Downtown Eastside for three years, told rabble.ca: "I love my neighbourhood, I love my community and I don't want to see it taken away.

"I have an income, I have a roof over my head and I can barely afford to live here -- how can anyone else?"

Read more
rabble radio
rabble radio

#102 - Olympics and epic struggles

March 17, 2010
| Talking election violence in Manila, a little more Olympic activism, fish farming on vacant city land in Toronto, music from Caracol and Alejandra Ribera and who phoned in to rabble radio!

27:57 minutes (25.63 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#101 - 2010 Olympics: gold medal for activism

February 23, 2010
| In this podcast: Why protest the Olympics, Aboriginal activists speak out, talking diversity of tactics, and all about Vancouver's Red Tent campaign for housing.

26:46 minutes (36.75 MB)

BC Civil Liberties' Eby defends his criticism of protesters

On Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, VIVO (a not for profit media production, exhibition and distribution centre) hosted a night of discussion on the support of a 'diversity of tactics' and the direct action protests against the Olympics that took place on the previous Saturday, entitled 'Heart Attack.'

In this clip, David Eby, Executive Director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, defends his criticism of the aggressive tactics that some, from the anti-Olympic 'Heart Attack' protest, employed in Vancouver.

Our apologies for the poor lighting of this video.

Tags:
Vancouver 2010 Vancouver protesters protest Olympics 2010 olympics David Eby British Columbia Civil Liberties Association black bloc BCCLA

Chris Shaw comments on 'diversity of tactics', analysis of Saturday action in Vancouver

On Wednesday, February 17th, 2010, VIVO (a not for profit media production, exhibition and distribution centre) hosted a night of discussion surrounding a support of a 'diversity of tactics' and the direct action protests against the Olympics that took place on the previous Saturday, entitled 'Heart Attack'.

In this clip, Chris Shaw, a well-known leader in the anti-Olympics movement, and author of Five Ring Circus - The true cost of the Olympic Games, gives his analysis of the actions and their impact on the anti-Olympic movement.

Tags:
Vancouver 2010 Vancouver Protests protesters Olympics 2010 olympics Diversity of tactics black bloc

Will the Olympics boost long-term tourism to B.C.?

By Seth Klein
| February 16, 2010

“We’ve invited the world, they’re coming, and the place is a mess.” That was the tag line the CCPA gave to our BC Solutions Budget back in 2004. At the time, we argued as strongly as we could that if BC was to change the story the world would tell of us this month, we needed to get busy tackling poverty and building social housing.  Sadly, that appeal went largely unheeded, until some frantic action on homelessness started up in 2007.

Read more
Meagan Perry

Commercial Drive protest forces Olympic torch relay rerouting

By Meagan Perry
| February 12, 2010

The Olympic torch was forced to reroute off its planned path down Commercial Drive by protesters from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Protesters say that the money spent on hosting the Olympic games could be used to create a Vancouver where programs to prevent poverty, homelessness and addictions are available.

Protesters were clear about why they were participating in the march.

"How could you not be at this protest? 10 million dollars in cuts in the Sun this morning. 10 million dollars that's what Harper came here to tell us. Ten million more cuts for the poor, ten million more cuts in housing. How could you not be here?" said protester Louise Leclair.

Read more
Meagan Perry

19th annual women's memorial march draws thousands in Vancouver

By Meagan Perry
| February 16, 2010

Sunday, the annual Women’s March for Missing and Murdered Women wound its way through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, only a block from the route of a Chinese New Year parade earlier that morning.  

Read more

rabble.ca's new west coast office: Community media centre 'W2' launches

On Feb. 11, 2010, W2 -- a media arts community centre -- launched in Vancouver. The centre is home to numerous social and co-mmunity media projects. It is also rabble.ca's new west-coast home, adding to the Toronto CSI (Centre for Social Innovation) in Toronto.

Tags:
w2 Vancouver 2010 Vancouver rabble.ca Olympics 2010 community media
123next ›last »
Syndicate content