SOCIAL HOUSING NOW! UNITED WE STAND! Sat, Mar 2nd
SOCIAL HOUSING NOW! UNITED WE STAND! Saturday March 2, 2013 Noon to 1pm Vancouver Art Gallery, Robson Street (750 Hornby St. Vancouver) Taking place on unceded Coast Salish Territory: the traditional territory of the Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueum, and Skwxwú7mesh/Squamish nations. On Saturday March 2, the Social Housing Coalition of BC will STAND united in Vancouver and...
Launch of the SOCIAL HOUSING NOW! Campaign
The SOCIAL HOUSING NOW! Campaign was launched by the Social Housing Coalition BC on Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 at the Main Branch of the Vancouver Public Library. The article by Jean Swanson is re-posted below from the Carnegie Community Action Project website. The Power of Women speaking at the Launch Eloquent speakers call for 10,000...
STAND 4 Social Housing on Saturday, February 26 from noon to 1pm
Here are the locations of the STANDS 4 Social Housing, with contact information for the person(s) organizing and coordinating them. If you are willing to organize a STAND in your neighbourhood, please contact Dave Diewert (STANDS @ socialhousingbc.com or 604.253.1782) and he will send you a STAND kit and support you in getting it going....
Redeye Collective talks to the Coalition on Vancouver Cooperative Radio
Cecily Nicholson (long-time community organizer in the Downtown Eastside) and Connor Donnegan (activist with the Vancouver Renters Union) speak with Redeye host Peter Driftmier about the Social Housing Coalition BC. New coalition forms to campaign for affordable housing in B.C. By Redeye Collective | February 11, 2013
STAND 4 Social Housing on Saturday, February 16 from noon to 1pm
Here are the locations of the STANDS 4 Social Housing, with contact information for the person(s) organizing and coordinating them. If you are willing to organize a STAND in your neighbourhood, please contact Dave Diewert (STANDS @ socialhousingbc.com or 604.253.1782) and he will send you a STAND kit and support you in getting it going....
STAND 4 Social Housing in Sidney on Family Day!
There is a STAND happening on Monday, Feb. 11th, official “Family Day.” It’s happening at Beacon and Fifth in Sidney, Vancouver Island, at 11 am. For more information, please contact Sue Stroud (BCGEU), 250-857-8553 or sue_stroud @ hotmail.com.
Coleman Responds to the Coalition’s News Conference
On Monday, February 4th, 2013, the Social Housing Coalition held a press conference to demand 10,000 units of social housing per year for the over 100,000 homeless and under-housed in BC. Kelvin Bee (Kwakwaka’wakw elder with Aboriginal Front Door Society) acknowledged that we were speaking on Unceded Coast Salish territory: Musqueum, Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish nations, and...
STAND 4 Social Housing on Saturday, February 9th, noon to 1pm
Here are the locations of the STANDS 4 Social Housing, with contact information for the person(s) organizing and coordinating them. If you are willing to organize a STAND in your neighbourhood, please contact Dave Diewert (STANDS @ socialhousingbc.com or 604.253.1782) and he will send you a STAND kit and support you in getting it going....
