Program Title: Stand for the DTES: Protest the Street Sweeps & Targetting of the Poor! (report)
Description: These recordings are from a protest organized by the Power of Women Group held in the streets on January 25th 2008 to contest police state, gentrification and social cleansing in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver accelerated by the coming 2010 Olympics. The introduction to these is our comments, critics and appreciations of the event

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Topic: Politics > Activism Type: Speech/Presentation

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Listen (h:mm:ss) 0:12:18	Women_from_DTES_1.mp3	Download (5)
	Women_from_DTES_1.mp3	11,823k 0kbps Mono
	Comments: A member of the DTES Women Centre Power of Women Group speaks about the condition of housing, of the poor and the women in the DTES, and about the oppression of the police state, during the demonstration. This interview has been edited and is ready to be aired.
Listen (h:mm:ss) 0:14:00	film_maker_from_DTES.mp3	Download (5)
	film_maker_from_DTES.mp3	13,446k 0kbps Mono
	Comments: A woman film maker from the Downtown Eastside speaks about her projects and her views on the situation in the DTES. This interview has been edited and is ready to be aired.
Listen (h:mm:ss) 0:09:00	beginning of the protest "Stand for the Downtown Eastside"	Download (5)
	1stpart_standupdtes.mp3	8,641k 0kbps Mono
	Comments: First speeches given in front of the Women Center
Listen (h:mm:ss) 0:29:06	Intro	Download (5)
	standupdtes.mp3	27,940k 0kbps Mono
	Comments: In the form of a conversation, we discuss the protest in question, bring up the inspiring aspects of it and criticize its strategies and some of the positions claimed.
Listen (h:mm:ss) 0:25:45	protest	Download (6)
	2ndpart_standupdtes.mp3	24,736k 0kbps Mono
	Comments: Music and speeches in front of the Vancouver Police Department
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