Downtown Eastside

April 24, 2013

Downtown East newspaper was founded in March 2013 as a news source for low-income communities struggles for social justice on unceded Coast Salish territory, Downtown Eastside Vancouver.

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Keywords: Online Resource , Downtown Eastside, Organizing, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives

June 1, 2011

Carnegie Community Action Project Blog

The Carnegie Community Action Project website has a blog with news and information on housing, homelessness, and actions in the Downtown Eastside.

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Keywords: Online Resource , Downtown Eastside, Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, British Columbia, Organizations

April 14, 2011

PIVOT Legal Society

Pivot Legal works to advance the interests and improving the lives of marginalized persons through law reform, legal education, and strategic legal action. Pivot’s mandate is to use the law to...

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Keywords: Online Resource , child welfare, child welfare, criminalization, criminalization, Downtown Eastside, Downtown Eastside, Homelessness, homelessness, homelessness, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, Organizing, policing, policing, sex workers, sex workers, social change, social change, social justice, social justice, Welfare, Women, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives, Organizations, Reports and documents, Research and education, Services

February 14, 2011

Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside

"Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside" is a short film that documents the 20 year history of the annual women's memorial march for missing and murdered women in...

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Keywords: Online Resource , Downtown Eastside, Indigenous, missing women, Women, women's march, British Columbia, Multimedia

December 15, 2009

Our Place & Our Words: Mapping Downtown Eastside community assets and challenges

This is a report on 23 community mapping sessions that the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) held with about 200 low-income residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood (See...

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Keywords: Online Resource , Carnegie Community Centre, community mapping, Downtown Eastside, British Columbia, Multimedia, Reports and documents