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Gentrification - the Economy of the Land and the Role of Politics

Syndicated from Libcom on Thu, 2012-06-28

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DTES Interim Rezoning Guidelines a Mixed Blessing for Low Income Community

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2012-03-30

Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories – March 30, 2012 – The Low Income community won at least a partial victory on Wednesday when the city passed a set of Interim Rezoning Guidelines for the Downtown Eastside.

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Balaclava! 35 VMC Broadsheet

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Mon, 2012-01-09
Disrupting prisons, pipeline companies and the ports

The 35th edition of Balaclava! looks at the CCAP 2011 Hotel Report, and follows the port and prison disruptions from the end of the year.

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Separation over gentrification

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Sun, 2011-11-27
A condominium project pits neighbour against neighbour

The conversion of a former Halifax church site into a condominium building is dividing a North End community.

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Council to vote on future of St. Pat’s site

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2011-09-30
Will it be condos or community organizations?

It’s rush hour on a warm day in early September. Parents all over the city scurry to collect their children, but the backyard of St.

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Cops and Condominiums: Poverty and Gentrification in Toronto's Downtown Eastside

Syndicated from Common Cause on Thu, 2011-09-22

<p><p>By Alex Balch</p>
<p>According to the <span style="font-style:italic">Toronto Star</span>, I live in the worst neighbourhood in the city.</p>

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Women's Housing March and Gentrifuckation Tour 2011

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Wed, 2011-09-21
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Homes now, not condos!

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Sat, 2011-09-17
The fifth annual women's march called for a boycott against gentrification

In the face of an onslaught of swanky condos and ritzy cafés that are moving into the downtown eastside, residents and supporters took

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Boycott Sequel 138: Protest Against High-Price Condos in the DTES

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Thu, 2011-09-08

A bright sunny morning saw 50 people gather outside Tinseltown mall to protest gentrification and the infectious spread of high-price condominiums in the Downtown East Side (DTES).

The demonstration kicked off the Boycott Sequel 138 project: a move to stop the development of condos in the DTES that is pushing low-income communities out of the area.

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Fifth radio segment of the Montreal Media Co-op/Quatrième segment radiophonique de la Coop média de Montréal

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Wed, 2011-06-15
Tuesday, June 14 on CKUT's Off the Hour

News Briefs: a week in protest

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Privatizing Montreal

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Mon, 2011-06-06
Community groups get ousted from a historic building to make way for luxury condominiums

Originally published on Spacing Montreal

 

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DNC Chinatown Heights Fight at City Hall

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DNC Chinatown Heights Fight at City Hall

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Thu, 2011-04-07
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Banner drop at city hall

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Banner drop at city hall

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Wed, 2011-04-06

Anonymous people perform feats of daring in this banner drop action at Vancouver City Hall.

Banner is in relation to the 10 sites campaign. The other banner that did not make it up properly, before security showed up, said "fight the heights", in relation to the current Chinatown heights battle.

For more information on this issue, see:

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