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Vancouver City: Guilty of Social Cleansing
Sunday April 19, 2009, the City of Vancouver was put on trial because of it’s disinterest in the well being and it's persecution of the poor and the homeless.
The City of Vancouver is voting on bylaws to clean the parks and the streets of the 'undesirables': the poor and the homeless, to take them out of the public eyes in the city's east end.
The City doesn’t want their rich and tourists to look at the indigenous people of that area, so the best way and legal way to do it is to vote new laws to clear all these people from their homes and the streets.
These people are the most vulnerable in the society we live in, they are already suffering and struggling, some of them have more problems with addiction, they are the first victim of this bad economy with all the social cuts.
The City is creating tremendous stress on it’s more vulnerable people, not only by voting on new bylaws to kick them out of the streets, but also by not doing anything against the increasing real estate prices that throw them on the streets.
The number of people on the street grow every day and the city is doing nothing for them, instead of helping them by building more low income housing and more shelters, the City is ticketing them just for being alive and there.
The City doesn’t feel as obligated to the poor people of the east side, as it feels obligated to uphold it’s contractual obligation to the IOC, and the 2010 Olympics.
The people have realized that the Colonial and Capitalist, the government court at whatever level won't give fair justice to the poor and the homeless, so they realized that only a people's court would look at the facts and lessons of the more vulnerable and traumatized and give them a fair trial.
The people's court is the only one on the people's side, the only one that looked into the people's interest.
It was time for the people to come out to voice their dissent and anger.
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