Friday, April 4, 2008Shelter Resident Creates Libraries Inside San Francisco Shelters Without Funding !San Francisco has an abundance of talent, ideas, creativity and 'outof the box' thinking -- right inside of our own tax funded HomelessShelters. We have some great shelter...
Approximately 200 pro-China protesters have gathered on the steps of the Vancouver Public Library this afternoon. They are wearing white t-shirts with "Anti Riot and Explore The Truth" on their backs, and held...
Canadian Union of Public Employees has been back to work at Carnegie Center on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for some time, but they continue to lock the poor out of services.These povertarians got themselves a 20%...
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CUPE came back. Striking Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 15 members returned to work today at Carnegie Center in Vancouver. But they are not allowing the poor to return to work. CUPE members are blocking the poor from the public access computers inside Carnegie...
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Striking librarians are keeping themselves busy on the picket line at the VPL Main Branch with knitting, read-ins, and puppet theatre.
Maybe they should hold a spelling bee.
Look at the Fairness for Civic Workers website, at a prominent...
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Downtown Eastside residents eager for computers have been denied access to the fourteen computers on the 3rd floor of the Carnegie Centre during the strike by civic workers. They have also been...
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The Vancouver Public Library has chosen Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats as the title for this year's "book club for the entire city."
A sexy, poignant, funny tale about global meat and media production, My Year of...
"Even before 11-year-old Johnesha Page and 9-year-old Shawnae Washington stepped inside the new Minneapolis Central Library downtown, they knew which books they were going to check out."