Playing Downtown Eastside Women

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Downtown Eastside Women

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Contributed by José Garcia

Length: 15 min 46 sec

Year of Production: 2008

Director:

No One Is Illegal

Producer:

Sarita Ahooja

Carol Martin, Reta Blind and Phillipa Ryan speak about the effects of government policy and the 2010 Olympic games on Downtown Eastside Vancouver, at the Defenders of the Land gathering, 2008.

Defenders of the Land: a network of Indigenous communities and activists in land struggle across Canada.

Between November 12-14, 2008, the historic Defenders of the Land gathering took place in Winnipeg. The gathering brought together dozens of grassroots activists, elders, youth, women and men from Indigenous communities across "Canada" who are in active struggle to defend their land and assert self-determination. The second Defenders of the Land gathering was recently held in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories, in November 2009.

Members of No One Is Illegal-Montreal have recently uploaded twelve interviews with participants from the 2008 Defenders of the Land Gathering in Winnipeg.

To see all thirteen interviews please visit http://www.isuma.tv/hi/en/defenders-land/