Up and Down on the Downtown Eastside

Up and Down on the Downtown Eastside PDF Author: Chris Walter
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ISBN: 9781927053010
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Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Up and Down on the Downtown Eastside

Up and Down on the Downtown Eastside PDF Author: Chris Walter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927053010
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Up & Down

Up & Down PDF Author: Arni Haraldsson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780921394419
Category : Downtown Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) Pictorial works Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Post Script

Post Script PDF Author: Arni Haraldsson
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8

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A Room in the City

A Room in the City PDF Author: Gabor Gasztonyi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897535288
Category : Addicts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Gasztonyi's style continues in the great documentary tradition of Anders Petersen and Josef Koudelka, the photographer of the Roma. --Book Jacket.

Fighting for Space

Fighting for Space PDF Author: Travis Lupick
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551527138
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic; with the introduction of fentanyl, the chances of a fatal overdose are greater than ever, prompting many to rethink the war on drugs. Public opinion has slowly begun to turn against prohibition, and policy-makers are finally beginning to look at addiction as a health issue as opposed to one for the criminal justice system. While deaths across the continent continue to climb, Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city’s response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens. Over the past twenty-five years, this group of residents from Canada's poorest neighborhood organized themselves in response to the growing number of overdose deaths and demanded that addicts be given the same rights as any other citizen; against all odds, they eventually won. But just as their battle came to an end, fentanyl arrived and opioid deaths across North America reached an all-time high. The "genocide" in Vancouver finally sparked government action. Twenty years later, as the same pattern plays out in other cities, there is much that advocates for reform can learn from Vancouver's experience. Fighting for Space tells that story—including case studies in Ohio, Florida, New York, California, Massachusetts, and Washington state—with the same passionate fervor as the activists whose tireless work gave dignity to addicts and saved countless lives. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Downtown Eastside Speaks Up!.

Downtown Eastside Speaks Up!. PDF Author:
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Category : Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A Thousand Dreams

A Thousand Dreams PDF Author: Larry Campbell
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 192681228X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd, and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, offer a portrait of one of North America’s poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A Thousand Dreams raises provocative questions about the challenges confronting not only Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside but also all of North America’s major cities and offers concrete, urgently needed solutions, including: Continued support for Insite, the safe injection site Decriminalization of prostitution and drugs The transfer of addiction services to the Health Ministry, allowing detox into the medical system More government-funded SROs and more affordable social housing

Pretty Amazing

Pretty Amazing PDF Author: Teresa Pocock
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781367545175
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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What does Vancouver's Downtown Eastside look like through the eyes of an artist-an artist who also happens to have Down syndrome? The heart of Pretty Amazing is the unexpected story of Teresa Pocock finding herself as an artist and poet. Previously, Teresa's artistic expression was discouraged and ridiculed. Her opening poem, I Am Alive, packs added punch when you know that her future was written off a few years ago when she lived in Ontario. Teresa was forced into an Ontario nursing home against her will. The health-care system had wrapped her in-as disability advocate Paul Young aptly describes it -"a cocoon of impossibility". Against her wishes, Teresa's liberty and freedom was traded for a single bed in an end-of-life nursing home. It was a violation of her human rights. She did not want to be there. Teresa had things to do, places to go, and people to meet! In the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Teresa has found her voice. It is a voice that talks about feeling "butterflies", but still finds the courage to fly.

Postscript

Postscript PDF Author: Artspeak Gallery
Publisher:
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Category : Architectural photography
Languages : en
Pages :

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Pandas on the Eastside

Pandas on the Eastside PDF Author: Gabrielle Prendergast
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459811453
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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When ten-year-old Journey Song hears that two pandas are being held in a warehouse in her neighborhood, she worries that they may be hungry, cold and lonely. Horrified to learn that the pandas, originally destined for a zoo in Washington, might be shipped back to China because of a diplomatic spat between China and the United States, Journey rallies her friends and neighbors on the poverty-stricken Eastside. Her infectious enthusiasm for all things panda is hard to resist, and soon she's getting assistance from every corner of her tight-knit neighborhood.