The East Van x Occupy Vancouver
The East Van is at it again.
This time using it’s wheels to deliver some much needed resources for the infrastructure of Occupy Vancouver down at the VAG.
Here’s what Occupy Vancouver states on their site:
WHAT IS OCCUPY VANCOUVER?
Occupy Vancouver – A Non Violent Movement for Social, Economic and Political Change
We, the Ninety-Nine Percent, come together with our diverse experiences to transform the unequal, unfair, and growing disparity in the distribution of power and wealth in our city and around the globe. We challenge corporate greed, corruption, and the collusion between corporate power and government. We oppose systemic inequality, militarization, environmental destruction, and the erosion of civil liberties and human rights. We seek economic security, genuine equality, and the protection of the environment for all.
We are inspired and in solidarity with global movements including those across the Middle East, Europe, and the Occupy Wall Street / Occupy Together movement in over 1000 cities in North America. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
We humbly acknowledge that Occupy Vancouver is taking place on unceded Coast Salish territories.
We are committed to an inclusive and welcoming space, to addressing issues of oppression and discrimination, and to creating an environment where all the 99% can be heard and can meaningfully participate. We are also committed to safeguarding our collective well-being – including safety from interpersonal violence and any potential police violence.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a working statement that we know will evolve as #OccupyVancouver grows and flourishes. Our demands and our dreams are not limited to this statement as we have many ideas and solutions. As stated by #OccupyTogether, no one group, person, or website could ever speak for this diverse gathering of individuals. However, the General Assembly on October 8th reached consensus to accept these broad principles as a starting point and there will be further discussion on October 15th at 10 am at the General Assembly at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
If you have any questions regarding Occupy Vancouver check outwww.occupyvancouver.com for more info
Welcome To Eastvan x Vision x Cause + Affect
On November 19, 2011 Vancouver residents will vote for 1 Mayor, 10 Councillors, 7 Park Commissioners and 9 School Trustees in the municipal election.
If we don’t vote, those in power have no reason to care about our issues or us. Voting won’t change things overnight — but it is a tool. It’s one way to make the world more like the place you want it to be.
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Welcome To Eastvan recently released a collaboration t-shirt with Vision & Cause+Affect.
(This doesn’t reflect our voting status, we’re voting for Chains)
If you want to purchase them, contact Vision.
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Some information regarding voting:
Am I eligible to vote?
You are eligible to vote in a Vancouver general local election if you are:
a resident elector (ie. you live in Vancouver) OR
a non-resident property elector (ie. you live elsewhere in BC but you own property in Vancouver)
To vote in this election, you must meet ALL of the following requirements:
Age 18 or older on general voting day (November 19, 2011)
A Canadian citizen
A resident of B.C. for at least 6 months immediately before the day you register to vote
A resident of Vancouver (for at least 30 days) OR a non-resident who is a registered owner of real property in Vancouver (for at least 30 days) immediately before the day you register to vote
Not disqualified by law from voting in an election
Eastvan History 101: The Carnegie
Main and Hastings. Once the boisterous hub of old Vancouver is now shamed as “Pain and Wastings.” Though many generations have swept through the neighbourhood, shaping the faces of its citizens, today’s community has a strong goal of reestablishing faith, family and future.
The Carnegie Public Library was built in 1903 with a $50,000 investment from Andrew Carnegie (of NY’s Carnegie Hall fame). The City of Vancouver also injected $5,000 a year into the facility until the library was moved further downtown in 1957. By that time, the Vancouver Museum had also vacated the top floor it was occupying. The building would spiral into shambles well into the late 70′s and early 80′s. The Downtown Eastside Residents’s Association then approached city council to successfully convert the building into what is known today as the Carnegie Community Centre.
In 2011, the Carnegie is again host to a branch of the Vancouver Public Library as well as a senior’s lounge, computer room, weight room, cafeteria and a learning centre offered by Capilano College. There are approximately 200 volunteers that help drive the centre with many more members free to use any part of the facility for a nominal fee of $1 per year.
The Carnegie Community Centre‘s Mission Statement:
To nurture mind, body and spirit in a safe and welcoming environment. Through the leadership and participation of our volunteers we provide social, educational, cultural and recreational activities for the benefit of the people of the Downtown Eastside.
Find out how you can be a part of the Carnegie HERE!
Manik – Hood Miracle
Below are the t-shirts you seen Manik wear in the video.
find it here
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THE RAP GUIDE TO EVOLUTION by Baba Brinkman
I had the great opportunity to open for Baba Brinkman a few years back at the sorely missed Monday Night Live at the Lamplighter. At the time, he was coming off the success of The Rap Canterbury Tales and a feature in XXL Magazine. Having studied English Literature at college, I sorta got it. But to my surprise and his good fortune, a lot more people actually got it. He soon left Vancouver and started touring his Lit-Hop raps around Europe to rave reviews.
Well, thanks to Alyssa Milano’s tweet, Baba comes back to Vancouver with this post in light of his new act: The Rap Guide To Evolution. An amazing public speaker, Baba goes into a lecture about human evolution and direct correlations between life expectancy and violence all in relation to Darwinism. If that doesn’t do it for you, though, then skip to the 9 minute mark and listen as he lays down evolutionary bars over Mobb Deep’s “Survival of the Fittest” and Dilated Peoples’ “Worst Comes To Worst.”
Head over to BabaBrinkman.com for reviews in the NY Times and listings for his off-Broadway show.
