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Be the Change: an Unconference to Be The Change – Saturday May 23rd 2009 in Vancouver
THE GREAT TURNINGTap into the Global Mindshift
And Get Ready To
Be The Change
You want to see in the world!
Join Vancouver’s Conversation of the Year!
May 23rd 2009, 9:30am to 7:30pm
Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph St
This exciting and innovative gathering will convene a spicy mix of over 30 passionate community leaders and change agents. They will engage in intimate “circle talks” with a large and diverse group of citizens, to inspire, connect, brainstorm, dialogue, and move forward with personal and collective actions to change our world.
Join us for tasty food, stimulating conversation, a cash bar and live performances. There will also be a kickin’ wrap up party put on by Tribal Harmonix!
Three short films by The Global Oneness Project will introduce global citizens solving real-life problems grounded in compassion, respect, and responsibility for all of life … click to see video trailer . Oxfam Canada will speak to the significant impact that climate change is having on women in Africa and 3rd world countires.
The Great Turning is happening … dont miss it! Mark your calendar and bring your friends.
The cost for the full day is $55 including lunch. Dinner may be purchased for $11. There will be live entertainment and a cash bar setup during that time. Click below to use your credit card or PayPal to register.
Please arrive between 8:45 and 9:00 for check-in and registration. Complimentary coffee and snacks will be available.
Register and Pay NOW … if you have ANY issues with registration please call the office @ 604.269.9874
Click here for Scholarship form
Keynote & Round-Table Speakers
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Daughters of the Drum |
Aline LaFlamme |
Cross-Cultural Reconciliation |
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Squamish Streamkeepers |
Salmon & Fish Farms: The Bare Bones |
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Wilderness Committee, Deputy Mayor |
Homelessness, Dignity & Empowerment |
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Nature’s Path |
The Compassionate Diet |
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Wilderness Committee |
Our International Trade Relationships: Gateway to What? |
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Eco Granny |
The Extended Family Regroups |
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Canadian Memorial United |
Ecology, Spirituality, & The Evolution of Consciousness |
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Car Free Vancouver |
Going Car Free |
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Conscious Planet |
Conscious Commerce |
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Workless Party |
Working less – Living more |
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Blackfoot/Anishanabe |
To Be Confirmed |
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SPUD |
Creating a Sustainable Food System |
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Eco-Justice |
Defending our Wildlife |
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Vancouver Public Space Network |
Community Gardens |
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Sierra Club BC |
Climate Justice: Equitable Approaches to Carbon Policy & Pricing |
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KDO:Dialogues on Drug Use |
Our Addicted Society |
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Lighthouse Sustainable Building Centre |
Green Homes – Making An Impression Without Leaving One |
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W2 Community Media Arts |
Revitalization 2.0: Inner-City Change Making |
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Toxic Free Canada |
We All Live Downstream |
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OXFAM Canada |
Affects of Climate Change on Women |
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PIVOT Legal |
Awakening Justice |
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Be The Change Action Circle |
The Two Block Diet |
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Check Your Head |
Green Jobs for a Real Economy |
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Tribal Harmonix |
Alchemy of Inspiration |
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Recycling Alternative |
Garbage, Our Gateway to Action |
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Better Environmentally Sound Transportation |
Shrink Your Footprint – Use Your Feet |
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UBC Farm |
Mark Bomford |
Growing Young Farmers |
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Purple Thistle |
Bottom Up Urbanism – Citizen Engagement |
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Be The Change Earth Alliance |
The Great Turning |
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Forest Ethics |
Alberta Tar Sands: The Dirtiest Oil on Earth |
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Carbon Offsetters |
Confessions of a Former Offset Skeptic |
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Save Our Rivers |
Tom Rankin |
Our Water – Our Future |
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CDN Memorial Eco-Team |
Reconnecting with Nature for Wellbeing |
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PowerUp |
Climate Crisis and Being The Change |
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Dogwood Initiative |
Oil Tankers Down Our Coast |
AHA MEDIA particularly looks forward to the speeches by
Irwin Oostindie of W2 Community Media Arts – Revitalization 2.0 Inner-City Change Making http://www.creativetechnology.org
Conrad Schmidt of Work Less Party – Working less – Living More http://www.worklessparty.org
AHA MEDIA hears Sherman’s thoughts on the changes in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside
AHA MEDIA encountered a local Vancouver Downtown Eastside Aboriginal/Native man named Sherman as he was shopping at the Astoria Hotel Cold Beer and Wine Store on Hastings Street in the Strathcona neighborhood of Vancouver
AHA MEDIA has known Sherman for a number of years and always regarded him as an always smiling, happy go lucky man with a postive attitude! 🙂 He enjoys making people laugh with his easy candor and quick wit.
In this video, Sherman thoughtfully gives his insights on the changes in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES). How some things are better, the same and worse in our community.
AHA MEDIA further learned that Sherman had a private school education which would explains his knowledgeable articulation on camera and awareness on issues endemic to our area.
This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
Cart at Main and Hastings vs Cinema at Main and Cordova in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
The following photos illustrate the juxtaposition of the HAVE NOTS ( corner of Main and Hastings Streets) to the HAVES ( Corner of Main and Cordova Streets).
A man with a shopping cart comes around the corner of Hastings and travels down Main Street towards the well heeled folks at Cinema 319 and their Red Carpet Gala Event at the corner of Main and Cordova.
We at AHA MEDIA, hope that with the upcoming Election, issues such as gentrification, poverty and homelessness will be addressed and not forgotten. The Vancouver Downtown Eastside is a vibrant active community with people from many walks of life, – let’s find a way to solve the social problems!
AHA MEDIA attends the DERA and CCAP Town Hall Meeting at Carnegie Centre
AHA MEDIA attended the DERA and CCAP Town Hall Meeting at Carnegie Centre at Main and Hastings in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
In this video, Kim Kerr, E.D. of DERA speaks then introduces Jenny Kwan, MLA who spoke about homelessness in Vancouver and Downtown Eastside ( DTES) at the Town Hall Meeting April 27th at Carnegie Centre
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this photo, Jenny Kwan listens to the Carnegie Centre folks as they ask her questions.
In this photo, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA listens to Carnegie Centre folks as they wait patiently to speak with Jenny Kwan.
In this video, Kim Kerr, E.D. of DERA speak about housing in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, (DTES) before passing the microphone over to Laura Track, Pivot Legal Lawyer
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is
passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this photo, Kim Kerr introduces Laura, Track of Pivot Legal Society
In this photo, Laura Track talks about the Government’s definition of Housing.
In this video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA speaks out against SRO hotel in the Vancouver DTES who charge guest fees which are illegal to Laura Track, Pivot Legal lawyer at the Town Hall Meeting April 27th at Carnegie Centre.
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this photo, Kim speaks to the crowd at Carnegie Centre which includes Ellen Woodsworth, COPE City Councillor, dressed in green.
In this photo, Kim Kerr and Ellen Woodsworth share conversation.
In this photo, Ken Glofcheskie, Reporter for AHA MEDIA speaks with Kim Kerr
In this photo, Hendrik Beune gets ready to interview a man in the Carnegie Centre Elevator
In this video ( Part 1 ), Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA decides to interview a Man in the Carnegie Centre elevator about Housing and Renting issues in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) Both men had just come from the Town Hall Meeting April 27th at Carnegie Centre
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this video ( Part 2 ), Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA decides to interview a Man in the Carnegie Centre elevator about Housing and Renting issues in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) Both men had just come from the Town Hall Meeting April 27th at Carnegie Centre
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
PIVOT Legal Newswire – Call 911 on “beggars, says VPD
| Call 911 on “beggars”, says VPD
Vancouver, April 23, 2009 – The Vancouver Police Department is instructing Dunbar residents to call 911 whenever they see “beggars” on Dunbar Street. “The Vancouver Police Department has instructed Dunbar Community Patrollers to call 911 when they see beggars on Dunbar Street and I would urge you to do so too,” wrote Linda MacAdam, Chair of the Dunbar Community Patrol, in an email to residents. MacAdam noted that these instructions were confirmed by Sergeant Randy Regush of the Vancouver Police Department. Vancouver ranked last among 13 North American cities surveyed in terms of police response times, according to a 2007 report to Vancouver city council. The report called for increased funding for police officers to address the slow response times, which for a 911 break and enter call stretch to 34 minutes on average. The current yearly VPD budget is over $195 million, almost one-quarter of the City’s total budget. “In 2008 Vancouver police spent thousands of hours ticketing Downtown Eastside residents for minor bylaw infractions, and in the West Side they treat legal panhandling as a 911 emergency,” says Laura Track, Pivot’s housing campaign lawyer. “Every year the VPD asks for more funding, but people need to ask if harassing poor people is how they should be spending that money.” “This is just another example of a broader pattern of criminalizing poverty and restricting poor people’s lawful access to public space.” “I was shocked to see this message advocating that we call 911 when we see a beggar” syas Randy Puder, a West Side resident. “What a waste of tax money. The homeless need compassion and assistance, not police making their lives even more difficult.” |
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