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Life in the Downtown Eastside

By Joan Morelli, DTES Power of Women group Life in the Downtown Eastside is very often tinged with violence from strangers, service providers, and the police. We suffer particularly from the cruelty of poverty. Living in poverty erodes one’s feeling of adequacy and diffuses one’s confidence and…
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Amalia lives on

Her name was Amalia, Amalia from Hastings, Amalia from Guatemala. Amalia was one of the first Latin American…