Thanks for capturing Pivot, Blackbird
Vancouver, March 4, 2010 - For several years Pivot Legal Society has been extremely lucky to have caught the attention of a dedicated local man who has taken amazing photographs of many of Pivot's activities. [more]
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Last residents vacate tent city, most for hotel rooms
At its peak, it housed hundreds of homeless people, some in their own tents, some in red tents provided by the Pivot Legal Society.
[Vancouver Sun, March 18, 2010]
Counting the Vancouver 2010 Olympics’ broken promises
That’s the pledge of Pivot Legal Society, the non-profit legal advocacy organization that launched the campaign as some 350,000 visitors descended on Vancouver in February to soak up the so-called first socially sustainable Olympics.
[This Magazine, March 10, 2010]
Does is matter who's living in a tent?
Tom Fletcher wants Pivot Legal Society to tell him whether the people taking part in the Red Tent campaign are actually homeless.
[Burnaby Leader, March 8, 2010]
Activist profile: the BC Civil Union's David Eby
David’s advocacy work with Pivot Legal Society contributed to the biggest provincial social housing investment in Vancouver in over 10 years, 91 recommendations from a provincial auditor for reform of the complaints process under the Police Act in British Columbia, increases in municipal fines for converting low-income rental housing to condominiums, the resurrection of a long unused City of Vancouver power to repair rental buildings that are neglected and bill those repairs to the building’s owners, and protection for tenants of 4 low-income rental buildings in the Downtown Eastside who were facing mass illegal evictions.
[rabble.ca, March 3, 2010]
Indebted Olympic nation
Some in the media and public slam APC, DERA, PIVOT, Carnegie and many other groups for their activism, yet all of these have done vastly more for their fellows than all the mealy mouthed politicians combined.
[rabble.ca, March 3, 2010]
Longest Banner Wrap - world record set by the Red Tent Campaign
The world's Longest Banner Wrap featured slogans calling on Stephen Harper, the government and the Canadian public to support the Red Tent Campaign, a national movement initiated by Pivot Legal Society which seeks to end homelessness.
[World Records Academy, March 2, 2010]
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