BREAKING:
Heiltsuk Nation is reacting to potential non-attendance of VPD constables at upcoming Apology Ceremony for Maxwell Johnson and his Family.
Constables were expected to offer oral apologies to Mr. Johnson and his family alongside the Vancouver Police Board and VPD .
October 10 is #WorldHomelessDay. Homelessness is a human rights failure. A failure to provide adequate housing and supports for people who need it. A failure to prioritize resources for those most in need. Everyone in Canada has a #Right2Housing - we can do better. –MJ
"People will come to neighbourhoods like the Downtown Eastside to play out some of the worst violence, possibly because they know they can get away with it," @BlakPurlMimi told @CBCVancouver.
Read more:https://t.co/lHm9O1ZsoJ
#DTES#ViolenceAgainstWomen#vanpoli
August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day.
In B.C., over 10,000 people have died from from the toxic drug supply since 2016.
Today, we remember without stigma those who have died and acknowledge the grief of families and friends left behind.
#EndOverdose
Aero, OUR STREETS organizer, speaking to CBC about yesterday's @VancouverPD killing of an unarmed man outside VANDU:
"We are not third class citizens. We are human beings. If feels like the cops just protect the rich and the powerful."
Read AHMA's full response to the ongoing human rights violations taking place in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Encampments.
👉 https://t.co/uzMFk2q6YT
#Indigenous#Housing#HumanRights#BCpoli
Yesterday began the decampment of the tent city on East Hastings, following a fire order from Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services.
#vanpoli#DTES
Thread 🧵:
Our schedule and registration links for Intersectional Crisis Intervention Webinar Week are live!
from Mon. Mar. 21- Fri. Mar. 25 with workshop sessions from 7:30PM nightly.
Register here: https://t.co/HNGTWgyGWy
#intersectional#crisis#intervention
#urgent donation call-out! We need your help in collecting winter #donations for our participants. We are desperately low on all winter essentials - coats, socks, sweaters - you name it. If you don't have physical stuff, you can always donate $ too
#vancouver#nonprofit
@katarungann @UBCIC@femdeliver@EndingViolence @PAFNW @hogans_alley@DEWCVancouver@WestCoast_LEAF@vwhc "Indigenous women are either grossly or significantly overrepresented in arrest statistics in most jurisdictions examined in B.C. In many cases their arrest rate exceeds
that of white men" End systemic racist systems now.
Additional shelter space is available tonight due to extreme weather:
📍Directions Youth Services Centre - 1138 Burrard St.
📍Tenth Church - 10th Ave. and Ontario St.
📍Cascades Church - 3833 Boundary Rd.
📍Evelyne Saller Centre - 320 Alexander St.