Vancouver Tenants Union
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Creator (cre): Morgan, Mickey L.D.
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<p>A meeting to build organized neighbourhood power in response to the expansion of the millenium line along the Broadway corridor. Large-scale transit projects have consistently caused immediate and long-term dis-placement of those who are most vulnerable under capitalism: working-class, unhoused, and/or low income folks; this instability often compounding with and/or as a result of other intersections of oppression such as Dis-Ability, racialization, criminalization, immigration-status & citizenship, language fluency, and Queerness. 'Consultations' via questionnaire and public announcement via billboard are how the city is responding to this dire situation which will effect 25% of all purpose build rentals according to a source <a href="https://syc.vancouver.ca/projects/broadway-plan/broadway-plan-emerging-directions-intro-and-context.pdf?_ga=2.21315634.804160822.1614277085-894155598.1614277085">cited by the city in an early report</a>. Though transit expansion is necessary, this should not and does not have to come at the expense of our community's lives. We can fight this. </p> <p> "WE DON'T NEED MORE CONSULTATION–WE NEED POWER" </p> <a href="https://www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca/broadwayplan_meeting">Visit the Broadway Plan First Meeting event page on VTU website </a> |
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As an actionable extension of this work, I acknowledge that by doing community-based art or creating in/of/inspired by a community I owe my neighbours. Beyond artists and learners, in being part of community, living, fighting playing, creating on stolen Land and Waters, we must combat the systems of colonial-capitalist violence beyond just thinking and talking about it-- decolonizing, fighting oppression, acknowledging pluralistic understandings requires action. Praxis. Fundamentally, cultural work and world-building and space-making/holding and helping your neighbours is creative praxis. Simultaneously while re-appropriating our extractive role as students/researchers/artists by bringing community work into the classroom, we also expand or perhaps decolonize by re-conceptualizing the container of a classroom as not a container at all but rather a place where you learn. A wonderful Nishnaabeg articulation of this is from Leanne Simpson in the text: Land as Pedagogy. Further updates and inspirations/references will be uploaded on an ongoing basis, including a Manifesto on Neighbourliness reporting what I've learned and critical discussions encountered on doing community work while "in but not of the University" (Moten and Harney, The University: Last Words). |
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