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Taking the Fight to City Hall
From: Fighting For Space
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The trailblazing activists continued their work in Downtown Eastside. This chapter highlights the demonstration, led by Dean Wilson in 2000, where VANDU confronted Mayor Philip Owen at the City Hall, imploring the government to support their cause, in spite of the opposing pressure from the NPA. This chapter also talks about the study conducted by Gordon Roe to determine if peer to peer services could be reality for the drug users.
Contributors
Travis Lupick
Travis Lupick is an award-winning journalist based in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He has more than a decade's experience working as a staff reporter for the Georgia Straight newspaper and has also written about drug addiction, harm reduction, and mental health for the Toronto Star, the Walrus, and Al Jazeera English, among other outlets. For his reporting on Canada's opioid crisis, Lupick received the Canadian Association of Journalists' Don McGillivray Award for best overall investigative report of 2016 and two 2017 Jack Webster awards for excellence in B.C. journalism. He has also worked as a journalist in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Bhutan, Peru, and Honduras.
