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Vancouver Shelter Residents get thrown Human Feces !!!
With thanks to Homeless Nation Vancouver Outreach team for this footage
Video by J-Hock and Carter
This was flung over the Granville street bridge. A bag of of human feces, ladies and gentlemen. Yup, that is what the residents of the Granville street bridge area have resorted to…
It is important that we all understand that this is not a random act of vandalism or teenage hi-jinx… This is hate. Pure and simple. Xenophobic and gentrified in it’s intent. There are people living in the best rated city in the world flinging shit at people trying to survive in the shelters below. But, as you will see, they are at war to stay open against those very inconspicuous Fecal Fiends….
Colin
http://www.homelessnation.org/en/node/16508#
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As someone mentioned today in CCAP meeting at Carnegie Centre
“Give Homeless People Homes, Not Hate or Sh!T!”
AHA MEDIA co-facilitated Up Words writing group on retreat to Deep Cove and sees a bear!
AHA MEDIA went to Deep Cove in North Van, along with members of Up Words writing group to co-facilitate a “media making” retreat in the woods. During the trip, we got to express our different writing styles and even got to see a bear!
Please see the rest of the story including more photos and videos at http://tinyurl.com/mo5ngf
April Smith of AHA MEDIA with Lani Russwurm arrival at Japanese Language School to try to see Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Sunday July 12, 2009 was a Historic Day for us in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside. Japan’s Royalty – Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit our local Japanese Language School!
What a rare honor for us in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES) !
In this video, April Smith of AHA MEDIA and Lani Russwurm’s arrival at Japanese Language School to try to see Japan’s Royal Emperor Akihito and Empress Michikoin Vancouver Downtown Eastside.
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 the following photos, Lani Russwurm, local Vancouver Downtown Eastside Historian http://pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com and many others wait patiently for Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko to exit the Japanese Language School
In this video, Japan’s Royal Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko exit the Japanese Language School after being escorted by Mayor Gregor Robertson in Vancouver Downtown Eastside with the Emperor waving goodbye in his limo.
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, after Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko leave Japanese Language School in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Mayor Gregor Robertson poses with Wendy Pedersen’s son and Rika Uto’s son.
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 the following photo, our Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson poses with poses with Wendy Pedersen’s son and Rika Uto’s son.
In the photos below, happy people pose together including our Mayor Gregor Robertson and 2 RCMP officers in traditional dress uniform.
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To see our test livestream videos of this Historic event, please look at
To see 45 photos of the Japanese Royal visit, please see our Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157621279467487/
Sarah, a First nations woman and her story at Carnegie Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
In this video, April Smith and Clyde Wright of AHA MEDIA speak with Sarah who tell us her story in local activisim in poverty issues and her own personal tale.
Sarah and her son Mitch both support each other and are from the Snuneymuxw ( Nanaimo ) First Nation from Vancouver Island.
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.
AHA MEDIA is exploring more livestreaming software and platforms to increase our mobile media production in Vancouver and Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
We at AHA MEDIA are striving to be even more mobile with our media production.
We have been busy testing and exploring different livestream software and platforms with cameraphones and laptops.
Among the following software and sites we’ve explored or will be testing…
Qik – http://www.qik.com/ahamedia
Bambuser – http://www.bambuser.com/channel/ahamedia
12 seconds – http://www.12seconds.tv/channel/ahamedia
Livestream – http://www.livestream.com/ahamedia
Ustream – http://www.ustream.tv/ahamedia
We livestream during many events – art shows, music performances, social media meetings, business functions, community gathering for ourselves, our friends, and our colleages in Vancouver
Our ongoing professional contracts are with
Fearless City Mobile http://www.fearlesscity.ca/mobile
W2 Community Media Arts http://www.creativetechnology.org.
AHA MEDIA got our start with Fearless City Mobile and W2 Community Media Arts as they peer trained us in learning about mobile technology and helped us bridge the digital divide in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) – a marginalized inner- city of Vancouver.
Please see AHA MEDIA’s livestream site for updates
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