/vandu-protests-vancouver-police-board-for-targeting-downtown-eastside/ News from the People, for the People Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:30:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 /vandu-protests-vancouver-police-board-for-targeting-downtown-eastside/#comment-7412 Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:59:29 +0000 /?p=7154#comment-7412 […] With the exception of a day visiting the Jubilee Park homeless community in Abbotsford, I spent most of my week in Vancouver in Hastings Street, learning from a range of experts in social housing, community organising and law, and sampling the diverse social enterprises that have sprung up in the area.  It’s a vibrant, complex community that has fiercely opposed the gentrification of their streets and the voices of local residents have featured strongly in debates about social housing, policing, ticketing and development. […]

]]> /vandu-protests-vancouver-police-board-for-targeting-downtown-eastside/#comment-6532 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:55:55 +0000 /?p=7154#comment-6532 […] Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver made up of over 2000 drug users who live in the community – staged a protest at a meeting of the Vancouver Police Services Board last week, where a report was being tabled by Vancouver police “whitewashing the discriminatory […]

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