Podcast 53: Red Tents to protest MPs who are against a national housing strategy
Paul Ryan talks to Doug King about an upcoming Red Tents action and seeking dialogue with Conservative MPs who voted against an amendment to C-304, the bill for a proposed national housing strategy. [listen to podcast]
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Gabor Maté is interviewed by Nancy Macdonald (back to camera) and recorded by James Ash as Darren Fleet looks on. Absent from this photo are Erin Millar, Rebecca Cuttler and Paul Ryan.
Past Podcasts
Podcast 52: Excessive force by Vancouver Police caught on video
By Paul Ryan & Casey Leung | July 13, 2010
Sean Condon of Megaphone Magazine talks about how he came about an exclusive story about the Vancouver Police exercising excessive force on a homeless man, which was also covered in mainstream media.
Podcast 51: Dumpster Diver Market in Vancouver
By Paul Ryan Laurel Hogg | June 14, 2010
Tami Starlight from the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Committee talks about a new, organized street vendor market for binners and local people. We also talk to Pivot Intern Hannah Worku. [listen to podcast]
Podcast 50: Hope in Shadows photo contest underway
By Rebecca Cuttler Paul Ryan Casey Leung | June 8, 2010
Paul Ryan interviews John Richardson about Vancouver's Downtown Ambassadors, who are currently in the human rights court being investigated for abusing homeless people. John also talks about the latest Red Tents development. Lastly, Rebecca Cuttler interviews Paul about Hope in Shadows and the latest photo contest, which occurred last week. [listen to podcast on rabble.ca]
Podcast 49: B.C. Welfare Policy Hurting Family Reunification
By Laurel Hogg| May 17, 2010
Pivot Lawyer Lobat Sadrehashemi talks about a complaint filed to the B.C. Ombudsperson regarding a policy that makes it difficult for foster children to return to their parents. [link to rabble.ca to listen to podcast]
Podcast 48: Red Tent on sidewalk - ticket cancelled after Pivot action
By Paul Ryan, Casey Leung | May 4, 2010
A homeless man's Red Tent on the sidewalk outside BC's courthouse resulted in a violation ticket being handed out and then cancelled. Paul Ryan talks to Pivot lawyer Doug King. [link to rabble.ca to listen to podcast]
Podcast 47: New law bans welfare for people with warrants
April 28, 2010 | Rebecca Cuttler interviews Pivot lawyer Doug King about the new provincial legislation banning social assistance for people who have outstanding warrants for their arrest.
Podcast 46: Red Tents to replace homeless shelters?
April 14, 2010 | Am Johal, chair of the Impact on Communities Coalition, talks about a national housing proposal to be introduced in Parliament this month, and the Red Tents campaign.
Podcast 45: Vancouver Homeless shelter dwellers meet, closure deadline looms
Wendy Pedersen from the Carnegie Community Action Project talks about planned closures of the HEAT (Homeless Emergency Action Team) homeless shelters, opened before the Olympics.
Podcast 44: Social Enterprise Lawyers
March 16, 2010 | This week we talked to Katrina Pacey, managing partner of Pivot Legal LLP, about an exciting event coming up where they will be judged.
Come to the Social Enterprise Dragons event at the Vancity Theatre on April 22! More information here
Podcast 43: Vancouver's Megaphone speaks out
March 9, 2010 | Writer and editor Kevin Hollett talks about the Megaphone, the Olympics and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
March 3, 2010 | Olympic Canadian Pavilion wrapped up in red tent protest. We talked to John Richardson about how the campaign went and what is next for Pivot and the National Housing Strategy protest.
Read more about the Red Tent campaign
February 24, 2010 - Pivot Legal Society executive director John Richardson talks about recent and planned Red Tent actions in Vancouver.
Read more about the Red Tent campaign
Podcast 40: The Red Tent Campaign for Housing
February 16, 2010 - Rebecca Cuttler interviews Am Johal , Chair of the Impact of the Olympics on Communities Committee about the Red Tent Housing campaign.
Read more about the Red Tent campaign
Podcast 39: 2010 Olympics: Know your rights
February 11, 2010 - Pivot Legal Society to hand out thousands of cards with legal rights and sets up 24-hour Pivot Lawyer Hotline.
Read February 11 press release from Pivot
#38 - Police investigating police
By Rebecca Cutler, December 15, 2009
Rebecca Cuttler talks to Nina Purewal from Pivot Legal Society about the Michael vann Hubbard case.
#37- 2010 Olympic Security & the Downtown Eastside
By Paul Ryan, March 27, 2009
The 2010 Olympic Security arrangements were explained to Downtown Eastside Residents last night. Two Integrated Security Coordinators met a packed hall full of local residents in the meeting hosted by Pivot. We talk to Pivot's housing campaigner Laura Track about how the meeting went. [listen to the podcast]
#36 - Downtown Eastside coverage by mainstream media: locals talk back
By Paul Ryan, March 12, 2009
This week we visit the B.C. Mental Health & Addictions Research Network Colloquium in Vancouver and talk to coordinator Tenny Bache.
At the venue was a Hope in Shadows table where we talk to Joe Mangatal and Russ Zilman about what they believe is unbalanced reporting on Joe's life story in the Globe and Mail in their series "Our Nation's Slum".
Finally Paul Ryan talks to Wendy Pedersen from the Carnegie Community Action Project about feedback she has had since the mainstream media launched their campaign about the Downtown Eastside. [Go to Rabble to listen to podcast]
Joe Mangatal was upset about the unbalanced article written about her in the Globe and Mail.
#35 - Hope in Shadows in Chinese
By Paul Ryan, March 5, 2009
Angela Kan from the CCM community centre in Burnaby talks about why they invited Hope in Shadows to their gallery and why they translated it into the Chinese language. Also, we visit the B.C. Mental Health and Addictions Research Network 4th Annual Research Colloquium where Hope in Shadows was invited to meet the delegates.
#34 - The BodyCuff
By Paul Ryan, March 4, 2009
Pivot files "BodyCuff" complaint about miss-use of the restraining device by Vancouver Police. Doug King, Pivot's police campaigner, also comments about the lastest news about changes to B.C.'s Police Act in regard to complaints against the police. [click to link to podcast] Length 7:20 minutes.
Read the press release: Pivot files "BodyCuff" complaint
#33 - The ticketing of Downtown Eastsiders
By Paul Ryan, February 26, 2009
Paul Ryan interviews Pivot's policing campaigner Doug King about recent ticketing by Vancouver police of people in the Downtown Eastside. [click to link to podcast] Length 10:22 minutes.
#32 - Jean Swanson: What Downtown Eastsiders want
By James Ash, December 10, 2008
James Ash speaks with Jean Swanson about the "Nothing About Us Without Us" interim report on community visioning by the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) with help from the Low Income Land Use and Housing Coalition (LILAHC). The report was authored by Wendy Pedersen and Jean Swanson.
From the report's introduction: "The results of the vision sessions and questionnaire show that the overwhelming majority of low-income residents agree that the DTES is a real community where people know each other and feel comfortable and at home. Ninety-five percent said they would like to continue to live in the DTES if they had safe, secure housing.
"There is also overwhelming agreement about what residents want and need: affordable housing, better incomes and services, mostly health services. Most current residents do not want the area to become dominated by condos and many fear that they will be pushed out with nowhere to go." [click to link to podcast]
#31 - Security before Justice - a report on private policing in Vancouver
By Nancy Macdonald, December 3, 2008
Pivot Legal Society researcher Dr. Darcie Bennett is interviewed by Nancy Macdonald about the findings from the new report Security before Justice which looks at the rise of private policing in Vancouver and its effects on the local population including the homeless.
#30 - Help in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside pamphlet
By James Ash and Lily Jae Ash-Dinwoodie, November 25, 2008
James Ash interviews Paul Taylor, the editor of the Carnegie Newsletter about the Help in the Downtown Eastside pamphlet which was recently denied funding by the City.
The pamphlet has helped thousands of people over the years in finding services in the city's poorest neighbourhood.
To find out more contact Paul Taylor at the Carnegie Centre, tel. 604 665 2220.
6:34 minutes, 6.1 Mb
Host: Pivot podcast team
Show Notes:
(0:36 - 6:34): Pivot Legal Society Police spokesperson Doug King speaks about information obtained showing the RCMP appearing to secretly fund anti-Insite research. Click to listen the podcast
#28 - Jane Doe Legal Clinic launched in Vancouver
14:49 minutes, 13.9 Mb
Host: Pivot podcast team
Show Notes:
(0:36 - 11:04): Darcie Bennett is interviewed about the Jane Doe Legal Clinic set up for women who have experienced violence, including survival sex workers and new immigrants. For more information contact Darcie on 604 255 9700 x 102. (11:04 - 14:49): Pivot Issues in the News. To read the articles mentioned go to the Pivot website news article link page Issue related news.
#27 New homelessness complaint sent to UN by Pivot
22:04 minutes, 20.7 Mb
Host: Pivot podcast team
Show Notes:
(00:36-15:00): Erin Millar talks to Pivot lawyer Laura Track about the new report and also about the new community court in Vancouver. (15:00 - 22:04): Pivot issues in the news. Rebecca Cuttler talks with Erin Millar. Articles mentioned are linked from the Pivot website's news page.
#26 The Blackbird - a Downtown Eastside photographer
22:59 minutes, 21.5 Mb
Host: Pivot podcast team
Show Notes:
(00:00 - 22:59): Nancy Macdonald interviews Vancouver photographer Jay Black about why he decided to take photographs of people and events in the Downtown Eastside and post them on Flickr.com.
#25 - Pivot to sue police until civilian oversight initiated
19:40 minutes, 18.4 Mb
Host: Pivot podcast team
Show Notes:
(0:15-9:43): Nancy Macdonald talks to Doug King, Pivot policing campaigner about the boycott of the Police Complaints Authority by Pivot and B.C. Civil Liberties Association. To read the guide book How to Sue the Police in the Small Claims Court go to the Pivot website publications page. (9:43 - 19:02): Paul Ryan talks to Nancy Macdonald and Erin Millar about Pivot Issues in the News. Articles in the press mentioned this week include comments made by Vancouver councillors Kim Capri and Peter Ladner about David Eby's decision to seek selection for Vision Vancouver on September 20 and Eby responded two days later in the same paper. Also mentioned in the Vancouver Courier is a report about the Sex Industry Worker Safety Action Group. For updated links to all pivot-related news reports, visit the Issue-related News page.
#24 - Safer crack-use kits: the trial ends, how did it go?
21:42 minutes, 20.3 Mb
Host: Pivot podcast team
Show Notes:
(0:36 - 16:59): Rebecca Cuttler interviews Jodi Loudfoot from SCORE, the safer crack-use coalition, on the release of their new report, safer crack-use kits and why they did the project.
(16:59 - 21:25): Devon Carr chats to Nancy Macdonald about the media coverage of the Human Rights complaint by Pivot and a community camp-out to protect homeless people by local Downtown Eastside resident. Articles mentioned are linked from the Pivot website Issue-related news page. Also mentioned: Blackbird's incredible shots of Vancouver-Police-turned-garbage-men kicking awake homeless people and dumping their belongings in the garbage crusher should not be missed! [listen to the podcast]
#23 - Pivot lawyer David Eby aims for City Hall
10:53 minutes, 10.2 Mb Host: Pivot podcast team
Show Notes:
(0:36 - 4:48): David Eby speaks about how Pivot Legal Society will manage without him while he seeks a Vision Vancouver nomination and how his announcement last week was received by people in the Downtown Eastside and Vancouver in general. (4:48 - 10:35): Devon Carr chats with Rebecca Cuttler about Pivot Issues in the News, including David Eby's decision to try for Vision Vancouver. Discussed today include The Vancouver Courier article, Pivot Lawyer Courts Vision Nomination and Civil City program gives itself a pat on the back, in the Vancouver Sun.
[listen to podcast]
#22 - New Rights Cards for Renters
18:52 minutes, 17.7 Mb Host: Pivot podcast team
Show Notes:
(0:58 - 11:18) Rebecca Cuttler talks to David Eby about Pivot's new Tenant Rights Card. (12:05 - 18:14) Pivot issues in the news.
[listen to podcast]
#21 - By-law enforcement targets homeless people in Vancouver (July 3)
11:31 minutes, 13.5 MB. Host: Pivot podcast crew.
Show Notes:
(0:36 - 11:04): Carolyn Wong interviews Pivot lawyers David Eby and Laura Track about City of Vancouver "property confiscation" by-laws being enforced on poor and homeless people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. To see pictures of the Vancouver Police in action visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbird_hollow/sets/72157605506432431
#20 - Harm Reduction: Dr. Ron Abrahams on keeping women and babies together (June 19)
20:15 minutes, 18.5 MB. Host: Pivot podcast crew.
Show Notes:
(1:00 - 19:36): Rebecca Cuttler interviews Dr. Ron Abrahams who works with women at Sheway and Fir Square on harm reduction. He talks about Epigenics - how genes might change because of the environment they are exposed to, such as when babies are separated from their mothers after birth. They also discuss the benefits of allowing mothers with addictions to bring up their babies themselves.
#19 - The 2008 Hope in Shadows photography Contest (June 12)
18:26 minutes, 16.8 MB. Host: Pivot podcast team.
Show Notes:
(0:36 - 11:20): Erin Miller interviews Paul Ryan about the 2008 Hope in Shadows Photography Contest held this week. (11:20 - 14:24): Hendrik Beune is interviewed live at the 2008 camera return. (14:25 - 17:57): Rebecca Cuttler talks to Paul Ryan about Pivot Issues in the News. This week's media coverage includes: The Candian Press and The Cape Breton Post.
Click here to see the Flickr photo essay of the Vancouver Police booking a contestant for alledgedly trying to sell comic books
#18 - Mark Haden talks about a regulated drug market for Canada (June 5)
22:58 minutes, 26.9 Mb. Host: Pivot podcast team.
Show Notes:
(1:04 - 16:36): Mark Haden is interviewed by James Ash about some alternatives to drug prohibition and how a regulated drug market would work. (16:37 - 22:20): Live commentary from Bud Osbourne at the celebration on May 31 at Victory Square, Vancouver. It was a planned protest which quickly bacme a celebration of the B.C. Court decision to keep InSite open.
Podcast 17: InSite saved; homeless turnaway rates (May 27)
(1:05-8:08) Nancy Macdonald interviews John Richardson from Pivot about InSite, North America's only supervised injection site, being protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms for at least a year from June 30.
(8:14-16:58) Darren Fleet talks with David Eby about the leaked figures showing thousands of people being turned away from Vancouver's homeless shelters.
(16:58-20:03) Pivot Issues in the News with Nancy Macdonald, Darren Fleet and Rebecca Cutler.
Podcast 16 (May 22):
(0:36 - 14:27): Nancy Macdonald interviews Liz Evans from PHS Community Servies about current and planned efforts to keep the supervised injection site, InSite, open after June 30. InSite's website is communityinsite.ca (14:27 - 20:22): Pivot issues in the news, including a report in the Vancouver Courier: PIVOT CRIES FOUL; an article from an activist website by Am Johal Vancouver 2010 Olympics Social Sustainability Legacy under Fire. Bedbugs attacking Vancouverites are covered in a Tyee article Vancouver's Bedbug Plague and finally the new Hope in Shadows book gets a rave review in the Georgia Straight. If you want to check out the top 10 political blogs in Vancouver where Pivot lawyer David Eby is number 1, check out this page.
Podcast 15 (May 15):
(00:36 - 12:56): Erin Millar interviews Murray Mollard, executive director of B.C Civil Liberties Association about the Frank Paul Inquiry, and (12:56 - 22:26): the proposed changes to the Elections Act by the B.C. Liberal Government which will disenfranchise up to five percent of the voting population including the majority of homeless people. (22:56 - 29:10): Rebecca Cuttler and Darren Fleet discuss Pivot Issues in the News. Articles mentioned this week include West End renters prepare to fight eviction and RCMP checking into downtown Vancouver hotel for 2010 Olympic Games and the website rentersatrisk.com is mentioned.
Podcast 14 (May 8):
(00:36 - 5:06): Nancy Macdonald interviews Amy Jushchka, Associate Editor of Megaphone magazine about the vigil held in the local Crab Park on May 6 to raise awareness about the community support for InSite, North America's only legal supervised injection site.
(5:06 - 9:28): Nancy Macdonald and Rebecca Cuttler discuss Pivot Issues in the News this week. This week's articles were Businessmen, activists join forces to help developers find solutions for Downtown Eastside in the Vancouver Sun on May 3, praise for the Housing Solutions report from a Vancouver Sun blog and also an article about the housing report from 24 Hours (Essays offer housing answers).
Podcast 13 (May 1):
(00:35 - 15:49): Darren Fleet talks to Pivot lawyer David Eby about various issues in the news this week including: Most of the daily newspapers in Vancouver now officially sponsoring VANOC and the 2010 Olympic Games and how it might be perceived as being a conflict of interest (which got the Sun and Province blogs to respond); Concord Pacific's new 100% market condo development in the heart of the Downtown Eastside which was approved by council without public consultation; the InSite court case to keep the supervised injection site open beyond June 30 by the Portland Hotel Society and VANDU; the 2009 World Sport & Environment Conference in Vancouver and Sam Sullivan's round table meeting on homelessness.
(15:49 - 25:12): The new Pivot report on housing solutions for the Downtown Eastside was released this week - David Eby explains why the winning essay was chosen and what the writer proposes.
Podcast 12 (April 24):
(01:03 - 09:38): Rebecca Cuttler interviews Hope in Shadows director Paul Ryan about the new Hope in Shadows book which focuses on the people who have taken photographs in the annual photography contest, resulting in an annual exhibition and Hope in Shadows calendar which is sold on the streets of Vancouver.
(09:38 - 16:04): Nancy Macdonald and Rebecca Cuttler discuss the weekly Pivot issues in the news. This week the issues were the Globe and Mail's national coverage of Hope in Shadows; The Canadian Press coverage of B.C. transit cops' taser usage; B.C.'s homeless death toll and VANOC's offer of $250,000 for an emergency shelter for youth.
(16:04 - 19:36): A poem about struggling with addiction by Mike Pratt.
Podcast 11 (April 17): Rebecca Cuttler interviews UBC political science student Mike Powars about the complaint being filed about homelessness in Vancouver to the United Nations; and Paul Ryan and Rebecca Cuttler discuss the weekly "Pivot Issues in the News."
Podcast 10 (April 10): Darren Fleet interviews Pivot Legal Society executive director John Richardson about the current Pivot policing campaign news; Rebecca Cuttler interviews David Eby about the homeless count figures and taking a look at the papers, Darren Fleet and Rebecca Cuttler discuss the weekly "Pivot Issues in the News."
Podcast 9 (April 3): Rebecca Cuttler interviews Sean Condon about the April 4 relaunch of Vancouver's street magazine Megaphone; James Ash interviews Sean Spear about the recent report from the UN about addictions and taking a look at the papers, Darren Fleet and Rebecca Cuttler discuss the weekly "Pivot Issues in the News."
Podcast 8 (March 27): Darren Fleet interviews David Eby about the new Pivot report Cultural Divide - A neighbourhood study of immigrant rental housing in Vancouver. They also discuss a new report looking into the cost homelessness for Vancouver.
Podcast 7 (March 20): Gabor Maté talks to Nancy Macdonald about his new book In the Realm of the Hungry Ghost. For more about his book visit http://www.drgabormate.com/. Jodi Loudfoot and Susan Boyd from SCORE talk about their campaign to provide safer crack kits to addicts. Mentioned in the second interview: http://www.educatingharper.com/ Safer Crack Use Kit Contents: Pipe, Screens, Lighter, Lube, Gum, Vitamins, Mouthpiece, Push Stick, Condoms, Hand sanitizer, Water, Bandaid.
Podcast 6 (March 13): Darren Fleet talks to the organiser of the 2008 Homeless Count during the count. Nancy Macdonald talks to director of the Portland Hotel Society Mark Townsend in the second in a series of podcasts looking at addiction (see http://www.communityinsite.ca for more details about InSite). Finally, Erin Millar and Darren Fleet take a look at Pivot in the news this past week.
Podcast 5 (March 6): The first in a series of podcasts looking at addiction. Excerpts from UBC free lecture series "Drug Policy: Public Health or Criminal Justice Issue." The unedited web cast can be downloaded at http://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/forum/. Finally, Pivot in the news - a look at the papers.
Podcast 4 (February 28): Darren Fleet speaks with Pivot lawyer, Lobat Sadrehashemi, who co-authored the report Broken Promises, about the response to the report since it's release. Pivot lawyer David Eby gives some background on what prompted The Carnegie Action Group to organize the upcoming rally at Georgia Lane Developer Robert Wilson's office and shares his thoughts on recent events surrounding housing in Vancouver's DTES. Darren Fleet and Nancy Macdonald bring us Pivot in the news..
Podcast 3 CHILD WELFARE CAMPAIGN SPECIAL (February 21): Eighteen months in the making, this is an exclusive 20-minute interview with Darcie Bennett, one of the authors of Pivot's new report on child welfare Broken Promises. We also broadcast report author Lobat Sadreshashemi, Penny Irons from the B.C. Aboriginal Mothers' Centre and Amanda Rose from the Kettle Friendship Society at the press conference (15 minutes) and the weekly "Pivot issues in the News" (to read the articles mentioned in the report click here).
Podcast 2 Homelessness (February 14): Darren Fleet interviews David Eby about the Frank Paul enquiry and the upcoming Housing Solutions report and Nancy Macdonald interviews Aaron Zacharias, winning author of one of the Housing Solutions report essays.
Podcast 1 Sex work (February 7): Brief comment by David Eby with James Ash about the death of homeless person Darrel Mickasko on January 31; Interview with Katrina Pacey by Nancy Macdonald plus a weekly rundown of Pivot in the press with Darren Fleet and Paul Ryan.
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