Women’s Action Group – Women supporting Women in the DTES
Just over a year ago, Dianne Tobin was asked if she would consider forming a women’s peer support group at the…
Mental Health Crisis?
The Mayor’s problematic five-fold solution:
Increase Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams;…
Home Sweet Home… but for how long? (Downtown East poster series)
Affordable Motilium Pills
Poster series: By Diane Wood
Displacement – Past, Present, Future
The forces that drive people out of their homes and communities and off their land have a long history in the…
Japanese Canadian elder Grace Eiko Thomson speaks to Mayor and Council
On September 25th, the City of Vancouver passed a motion to formally apologize for its role in the internment and…
“My activism goes beyond the personal” – an Interview with Japanese Canadian…
In this era of official government apologies and ongoing systemic racism, we look to successful struggles for…
7th Annual Women’s Housing march
Pictures from the 7th Annual Women's Housing March, organized September 28 2013 by the DTES Womens' Centre Power of…
City Hall gives developers $71 Million, they cry for more
City Hall is making and proposing pro-development policy changes and neighbourhood plans. The first…
Condos flood into Oppenheimer area while City stalls on planning process
While the City stalls on the Local Area Planning Process (LAPP), the heart of the DTES community is being taken…
Storm Brewing – Local Area Plan and the Future of the DTES
The fight over the future of the DTES is heating up. A DTES Local Area Plan that could last up to thirty years will…