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Mobilizing on Pandora: Taking Back The Green
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Gathering on Pandora Green
by VCAP
This Thursday City Council will be enacting a bylaw to criminalize homeless people for camping on Pandora Green.  Specifically, their new regulation prohibits people from sitting, kneeling or laying down on boulevards in Victoria after 7:00 PM.  

Two weeks ago more than 100 people came to a public hearing and spoke almost unanimously against this initiative.  We lined up for hours to patiently explain that authorizing domestic military forces to chase poor people away from their community is morally atrocious and will amplify the crisis of poverty and homelessness. 
 
The city refused to listen to words, so now its time for action.
 
Gathering on Pandora Green
(between Cook St. and Vancouver St.)

Thursday October 7, 7:00 PM


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oin VCAP on Pandora Green this Thursday at 7:00 PM for a potluck gathering to publicly defy the new bylaw.  If the city wants to send in Police to chase us away, they'll be on TV for breaking up a picnic, but if they let us stay then they will be famous for letting (mostly) privileged activists get away with the same thing that homeless people could be fined for.  We win either way!

Call your friends, family and neighbors and tell them that this is a great way to make our point with a very very low risk of anyone being fined.  Bring your instruments, some food to share, a tarp in case it rains and a tent if you want to spend the night.  Semi formal attire would be great if you have it.  

For more information visit http://vcapvictoria.wordpress.com/

 
 

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