Chinatown Concern Group

Why is Ryan Beedie being awarded the Order of BC while contributing to the gentrification of Chinatown and the oppression of low-income residents?! Since 2014, Beedie has heard countless times from low-income residents of the Downtown Eastside that we need low-income housing - not luxury condos at 105 Keefer that will drive gentrification in the Downtown Eastside. But Beedie continues to ignore our voices and still insists on building their market project, by suing the City ...of Vancouver to do so! Are these actions what we recognize and award through the Order of BC? Will Beedie's 105 Keefer make Chinatown a "better place to live" for low-income residents? No it won't! Such a project will not be built for good but for greed! And does gentrification align with Beedie Luminaries's values? It doesn't seem like it, does it?! Beedie's Lawsuit Update: http://www.mingpaocanada.com//htm/News/20200718/vas1h_r.htm Background on Order of BC 2020: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020IGRS0006-001385

Although the pandemic has stopped us from gathering with our members in-person, we have not stopped our work. We have been checking-in with our members to ensure they are holding up, including delivering supplies to them. We have also started a new project to engage with our members who are online via WeChat. With this project, we aim to introduce some English terms with our members and to then have political discussions with members about them. The first term of this project is Police and we have shared these infographics with them with the aim of following up with some more in-depth conversations with them. Be sure to follow us on social media (Facebook and Instagram) to keep posted on this project. We aim to share the resources with you all, hoping it may be helpful for you as well!

The federal government has launched a benefit-finder tool that might be helpful to folks! See here: https://covid-benefits.alpha.canada.ca/en/start More information here:... https://www.cbc.ca//the-latest-on-the-coronavirus-outbreak See more

Yes! We need to build translated multi-lingual multi-ethnic movements, rooted in solidarity with Indigenous peoples on their unceded territories! Thank you Jane Shi for this article! "One haunting detail of Chu’s research is the parallel that he draws between the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 when hundreds of protesters were massacred by the Chinese military and the so-called Oka Crisis, the fight to protect a Kanien’kéhaka burial ground from being desecrated by a g...olf course in 1990. Today, I see similar echoes of the Hong Kong protests of summer 2019 in the 2020 Wet’suwet’en rail blockades. Telegram, an encrypted chat app used to organize protests in Hong Kong, became a key source of updates during the weeks-long Indigenous youth-led occupation of the B.C. legislature steps. In these moments of mass mobilization, we have opportunities to share strategies and wisdom between our communities. But such sharing cannot happen without translation, which helps us build reciprocal relationships while exposing similar experiences of state violence. "

On which nations' traditional territory do you live, or work, or play? If you don't know, learn here: https://native-land.ca/ Leena Minifie:... It helps plant a seed that there’s people here before you, these are the lands that they’re on, and they’re still here." via RAVEN Trust (2019 Article)