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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.33,0:00:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20 years ago, I was here
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.58,0:00:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and easily any one of those \Nwomen could have been me
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.04,0:00:13.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's just by luck and not design \Nthat I'm here and I have my children.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.81,0:00:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was because of women in \Nthe community who looked out for me
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.02,0:00:21.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and helped keep me safe \Nin a really hard time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.59,0:00:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, I march now, \Ncause some of them are gone
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.63,0:00:29.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because taking up space \Nand holding our presence here is so important.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.47,0:00:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tiffany Drew
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.67,0:00:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Angela Jardine
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.41,0:00:43.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tanya Holyk
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.71,0:00:47.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sherry Irving
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.42,0:00:50.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inga Hall
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.75,0:00:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Diana Melnick
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.82,0:00:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debra Jones
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.99,0:00:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wendy Crawford
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.22,0:01:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Andrea Borhaven
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.13,0:01:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cara Ellis
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.90,0:01:07.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carrie Kosky
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.80,0:01:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dorothy Spence
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.77,0:01:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We acknowledge this film was made on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish People.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.38,0:01:21.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Burrard, the Musqueam, the Tsleil-Waututh \Nand the Sḵwxwú7mesh. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.09,0:01:33.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Janet Pete, and I've lived here in \Nthe Downtown Eastside off and on for 40 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.13,0:01:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.91,0:01:42.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like I've been here a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.76,0:01:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've lived down in the Downtown Eastside \Nfor very many years.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.74,0:01:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's probably one of the most \Nhonest places in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.17,0:01:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a lot of people have \Na really hard time with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.82,0:01:58.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My friends here are like my family.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.55,0:02:02.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one important aspect I found out \Nis that you'll never starve down here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.12,0:02:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Downtown Eastside is accepting, and the \NDowntown Eastside is home to a huge cross-section
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.70,0:02:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of diversified people \Nwith diversified interests.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.100,0:02:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, um, I've never been afraid \Nof the Downtown Eastside.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.67,0:02:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I first got down here I was very lost
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.54,0:02:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and today I can honestly say \Nwith being part of this community that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.40,0:02:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a lot of support like family, \Nthrough my sisters' love and support.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.88,0:02:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have had an opportunity \Nto go back to school,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.58,0:02:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I mean I would have never had \Nan opportunity to do had I not lived here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.16,0:02:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've made great friends and, um, I expect that I'll\Nprobably have the Downtown Eastside as my home
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.20,0:02:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the rest of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.70,0:02:55.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like I belong here, you know, \Nand, uh, I fit right in, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.58,0:03:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, uh, I do a lot of work there \Nyou know with the Power of Women
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.24,0:03:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and marching and you know \Nand things like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.34,0:03:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This film is not another alley diary.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.85,0:03:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This film presumes no happy endings.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.39,0:04:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.31,0:04:08.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last year, during the 2010 winter olympics
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.95,0:04:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over 5 thousand people marched to honour \Nwomen who have died as a result of violence
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.14,0:04:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or who have gone missing \Nin the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.01,0:04:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER> Since its beginnings 20 years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.24,0:04:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Women's Memorial March has become the \Nlongest running march in recent Canadian history.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.43,0:05:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The March began in 1991 when a woman \Nwas found murdered on Powell Street.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.15,0:05:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I recall Phillippa Ryan, \Nwho passed away last year,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.75,0:05:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,telling us how the first few years \Nof the march brought out only a handful of women.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.15,0:05:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The women marching had objects \Nthrown at them from passing cars.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.36,0:06:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women began disappearing from Vancouver's \NDowntown Eastside as early as the 1970's.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.28,0:06:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But community members raising the alarm \Nwere ignored by the police and officials.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.17,0:06:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hart-Bellecourt and Lisa Muswagon-- please clarify>
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.83,0:06:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Undeterred, women in the neighbourhood \Norganized persistently.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.93,0:06:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The issue has now started to receive \Ninternational attention
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.24,0:06:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the release of Amnesty International human rights\Nreports and condemnations of Canada at the United \NNations 
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.07,0:07:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My Indian name is Shining Eagle Woman
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.59,0:07:10.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we seen eagles up there \Nand those are our ancestors
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.30,0:07:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our sisters letting us know, they know what \Nwe're doing down here for them in this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.22,0:07:29.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER> The Memorial March is planned by the \NAnnual February 14th Women's Memorial March C'tte.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.58,0:07:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The March follows a similar pattern each year \Nas described by Marlene George: 
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.77,0:07:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We gather in a circle \Nusually at Main and Hastings
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.43,0:07:42.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Often there's a prayer \Nsaid at that time,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.05,0:07:47.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then, um, we'll start \Nwith the elders lining up
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.00,0:07:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the family members \Nfollowed by the elders
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.79,0:08:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then when we stop at, um, the hotel sites or the places, \Nthe alleys where women were murdered or last seen,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.45,0:08:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our elders will go over and do \Na smudge ceremony at the site,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.99,0:08:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and leave either a red rose for murdered women \Nor a yellow rose for the missing women.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.36,0:08:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The memorial banner it's \N96 pounds of 18x20 inches,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.53,0:08:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was created by women \Nand men in the community.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.13,0:08:34.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER> Christianne created the design for \Nthe Women's Memorial March. 
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.71,0:08:40.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking, how can we get a design \Nthat would combine the colours of the march
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.82,0:08:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the purple and yellow
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.61,0:08:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's valentine's day so of course \Nthe ribbon heart came very easily
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.10,0:08:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you walk, uh, along this street here, \Nyou walk into, uh, the money district,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.14,0:09:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within like three blocks, \Nso its very surreal,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.14,0:09:06.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you walk through the streets here and then find \Nthat this is a place where women can just go missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.35,0:09:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And nobody pays any attention.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.72,0:09:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this particular neighbourhood, area, is where \Na woman was thrown from the window, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.12,0:09:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of there, yeah it \Nwas the 5th floor
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.43,0:09:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, uh, and this spot will be something, a place \Nthat will be added to the Memorial March this year.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.50,0:09:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's of particular \Nsignificance this year
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.27,0:09:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the inquiry \Ninto the missing women,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.84,0:09:41.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that the report from the vancouver police which stated \Nthat they were taking some responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.45,0:09:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for what happened; and yet as we've continued \Nto see women, uh, being killed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.62,0:09:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you also see that the death of this woman \Ninspired the community to come together,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.76,0:09:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that we saw hundreds and hundreds of people from this \Ncommunity gather and honour this particular young woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.67,0:10:03.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ashley [Machiskinic].
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.20,0:10:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER>The tragedy of missing and \Nmurdered women is paralleled across the country,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.84,0:10:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and memorial marches in honour of \Nthe women are held in various cities.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.05,0:10:24.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Family members and activists have \Norganized a walk for justice
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.89,0:10:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to press the federal government for an inquiry \Ninto missing women along Highway 16,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.84,0:10:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now called the Highway of Tears.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.38,0:10:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the past decade, there have been a number \Nof high profile convictions,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.68,0:10:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including of former provincial \Ncourt judge David William Ramsey,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.19,0:11:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and serial killer Robert Pickton. 
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.49,0:11:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the systemic violence against women \Nis not an anomaly.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.63,0:11:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a phenomena that one man \Nhas done this horrific thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.26,0:11:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it is, um, a result of the systemic, um, attitude towards poor women.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.86,0:11:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also march for the women \Nthat have died of other causes like, um,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.82,0:11:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some women die from \Nbeing homeless on the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.89,0:11:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people, or women die from overdoses.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.43,0:11:41.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some women die from not having access \Nto proper medical care.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.41,0:11:57.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Numerous of women have been missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.45,0:12:04.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the years that I have been down here \Nand seen these women go missing
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.49,0:12:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hurt me so I'm here to be a support \Nof all the working girls,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.20,0:12:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the families, and watch over the kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.27,0:12:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sandra Amos George
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.34,0:12:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ramona Lisa Marie Wilson
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.55,0:12:25.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peggy Snow
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.90,0:12:27.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nellie Spence
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.50,0:12:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.76,0:12:30.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marilyn Moore
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.61,0:12:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rose Peters
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.42,0:12:34.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.15,0:12:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sarah deVries
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.100,0:12:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lisa Francis
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.96,0:12:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Connie Rider
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.79,0:12:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER> Who are the missing and murdered \Nwomen whose names we invoke? 
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.48,0:13:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Describe myself? A very strong woman \Nthat doesn't take a whole lot of shit.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.99,0:13:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a very active heroin user, \Nevery kind of drug user,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.76,0:13:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um, for about 27 years, \N28 years, um, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.63,0:13:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I got clean and sober, because, I don't \Nknow why I got clean and sober, I just did.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.34,0:13:37.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it, I, you know, I was 44 when \NI cleaned up, when I got clean and sober.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.75,0:13:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's certainly not um, i don't expect it, I absolutely \Ndon't expect them to get clean and sober.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.39,0:13:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't expect workers \Nto tell me that they can't.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.23,0:13:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of the missing women, um, I actually \Ndid jail time with, actually did drugs with.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.37,0:14:04.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that's one of the things that um \Nseparates me from a lot of the workers,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.18,0:14:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because I'm one of the women.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.32,0:14:10.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the Downtown Eastside women \Nare lumped into one,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.78,0:14:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they're women, they're absolutely living, breathing \Nwomen that each have an individual character.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.96,0:14:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, but, you know, we're talking about dead, \Ndefinitely murdered women,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.63,0:14:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we should definitely \Nput that one day.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.100,0:14:36.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what, we have over 300 other days \Nto think about the women that are still living,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.95,0:14:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think about the women that are still \Nhomeless, and living in poverty.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.95,0:14:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.45,0:14:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stretch
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.35,0:14:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,skin
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.32,0:14:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hold
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.99,0:14:58.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blood
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.95,0:14:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lay
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.66,0:15:00.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,land
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.84,0:15:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learn
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.43,0:15:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shame
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.74,0:15:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taught to pray
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.51,0:15:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wake
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.16,0:15:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,broke
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.27,0:15:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,choke
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.00,0:15:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bruise
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.11,0:15:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taste
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.11,0:15:10.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white boy
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.31,0:15:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spit
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.34,0:15:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pull
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.45,0:15:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pay.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.89,0:15:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jacqueline McDonell
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.95,0:15:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dianne Rock
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.99,0:15:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Heather Bottomley
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.97,0:15:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Andrea Josebury
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.01,0:15:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jennifer Furminger
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.78,0:15:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Helen Hallmark
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.21,0:15:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Georgina Papin
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.52,0:15:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Heather Chinnock
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.18,0:15:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER> The only way to understand the heinous \Nviolence committed against missing and murdered women
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.20,0:16:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to understand the lives and the struggles of those \Nwomen who continue to survive in this neighbourhood
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.03,0:16:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the same circumstances every day. 
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.80,0:16:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,, the issues are that are really harsh are addictions \Nand homelessness are the number one issues outside my door.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.56,0:16:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a volunteer and a survivor \Nof abuse when I was a child,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.52,0:16:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what I can see is that there is \Na higher concentration of mentally ill persons
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.22,0:16:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who live on the Downtown Eastside.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.52,0:16:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have many friends that are \Nliving with HIV, AIDS, Hep C.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.00,0:16:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been clean for a year since February,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.42,0:16:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am trying to quit smoking \Nthis year I'm trying but, I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.91,0:16:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been a survivor of \Nthe residential school,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.65,0:16:57.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they've silenced me \Nwhile I was in school,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.28,0:17:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but since I've been with the Power of Women \NI've broken the silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.39,0:17:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I protest for housing, violence against women, \Npolice brutality, apprehension of our children.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.27,0:17:18.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I currently have some issues with the Ministry \Nof Children and Family Development
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.17,0:17:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerning housing issues, and that turned \Ninto a whole bunch of other issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.54,0:17:26.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been in the Downtown \NEastside since 1996,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.18,0:17:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, uh, to me it is the family oriented district \Nin Vancouver to the lonely and the homeless.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.89,0:17:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER>The Downtown Eastside is one of \Nthe oldest neighbourhoods in the heart of Vancouver.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:45.13,0:17:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It includes Chinatown, where several \Nthousand Chinese seniors reside.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.20,0:17:59.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As well as the Oppenheimer district, which was \Nhome for many Japanese Canadians
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.21,0:18:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prior to their internment \Nduring World War Two.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.76,0:18:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cynthia Low talks about the historic significance of this \Ncommunity as a cultural meeting place.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.75,0:18:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as early as the 50s 60s and 70s there was really \Nonly certain spaces that were allowed to Chinese people.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:25.04,0:18:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The values and the politics that was \Nestablished in those days have carried on
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.04,0:18:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and become sort of a meeting place, um, for Chinese \Nseniors and Aboriginal people to I think to be allies.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.52,0:18:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER>Today, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is \Nknown as the poorest off-reserve postal code in Canada.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.83,0:18:54.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Approximately 16,000 people reside within \Nthese 2 square miles. 
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.71,0:19:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, it's becoming less and less \Nof a choice that fits one's pocketbook.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.94,0:19:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The land, everything down here \Nis extremely overpriced
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.08,0:19:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the developers have been \Nallowed to get away with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.22,0:19:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER> Lack of safe and affordable \Nhousing is one of the primary issues,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.22,0:19:26.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with average rentals under 100 square feet, \Nwith no bathrooms, and no kitchens.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.10,0:19:34.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The neighbourhood is also home to an open \Ndrug trade and a visible survival sex trade.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.46,0:19:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One third of sex workers say they \Nhave survived an attack on their life.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.41,0:19:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of the 4,000 intravenous drug users
Dialogue: 0,0:19:44.05,0:19:50.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,90% are infected with Hepatitis C, \Nand 30% with HIV.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.53,0:19:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, if you look at the alcoholism \Nand the drugism and all that right,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.36,0:20:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but once you get past all that, there are \Nactually beautiful people down here, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.07,0:20:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's so much stigma \Nand judgement on people,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.25,0:20:10.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's really sad because \Nyou know we're all human beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.85,0:20:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not everybody down here is \Na drug addict or an alcoholic.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.25,0:20:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, people have problems here, and \Npeople outside this area they have problems too,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.29,0:20:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they deal with it in \Ntheir own fashionable way.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.89,0:20:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look at the ripple effects \Nof the residential school
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.59,0:20:31.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just how it isolates us
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.13,0:20:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It isolates me from my own body.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.70,0:20:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It isolates me from my \Nown identity from who I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.54,0:20:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It, um, it's almost like ripping your \Nskin off of you and you know
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.80,0:20:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you kind of live in disassociation for years.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.24,0:20:50.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every, all the struggles that our people \Nare going through right now
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.42,0:20:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is where everybody ends.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.09,0:20:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER>Despite being overly researched \Nand deeply pathologized,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.56,0:21:03.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Downtown Eastside remains invisible \Nto most of our society.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.20,0:21:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there one thing that you think people don't know about \Nthe Downtown Eastside that they should know?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.93,0:21:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, that everyone's got a story, you know, \Neveryone's got an angle.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.71,0:21:17.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<"And I Cry" performed by Dalannah Gail \NBowen> People living in misery.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.52,0:21:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People lost and alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.72,0:21:26.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just trying to get by.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.45,0:21:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ain't got a home
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.69,0:21:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I cry
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.02,0:21:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i cry
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.67,0:21:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i cry
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.34,0:21:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i cry
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.07,0:21:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's blood in the alleys,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.60,0:21:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blood in my breath
Dialogue: 0,0:21:49.94,0:21:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Theres the blood of my sisters
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.75,0:21:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no one asks why
Dialogue: 0,0:21:58.18,0:22:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.50,0:22:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For women in the Downtown Eastside \Nwho are Aboriginal or Chinese, um,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.06,0:22:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, working or poor, \Nlack of access to education, um,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:49.33,0:22:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having had a lot of \Ncrisis in their lives
Dialogue: 0,0:22:52.74,0:22:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or not having had the opportunity \Nto reach their potential,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.57,0:23:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think all the barriers \Nadd to their marginalization.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.28,0:23:10.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact that they're poor women is huge, um, I \Nthink is probably the biggest systemic discrimination
Dialogue: 0,0:23:10.69,0:23:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they encounter.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.55,0:23:17.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are barriers that we put as a society, \Nplace in front of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.43,0:23:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There isn't a day that goes by that i don't see \Na woman being handcuffed and taken somewhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.16,0:23:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now we're talking about the police officers \Ngetting involved with "violence against women".
Dialogue: 0,0:23:32.47,0:23:36.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to really look at it \Nwith a different angle now.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:36.25,0:23:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about men \Nand violence against women.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.95,0:23:44.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Has anyone really talked about \Nthe police officer being the men?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.29,0:23:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Giving them the suit to wear,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.73,0:23:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guns, tazers, the power \Nto misuse the power?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.23,0:23:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why doesn't anybody ever \Nquestion that fact?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.74,0:24:00.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER> The disturbing reality is that \Nnothing we are seeing < OR SAYING?>today
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.57,0:24:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will come as a surprise.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.55,0:24:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rachael Davis
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.90,0:24:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Serena Abotsway
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.45,0:24:40.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tamara Chipman
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.64,0:24:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fern Charlie
Dialogue: 0,0:24:44.10,0:24:46.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mona Wilson
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.65,0:24:49.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nancy Clark
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.69,0:24:52.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cara Ellis
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.89,0:24:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patricia Johnson
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.73,0:24:59.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marnie Frey
Dialogue: 0,0:24:59.71,0:25:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:05.34,0:25:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just want to set a challenge to the \Npoliticians, lawyers, the physicians,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:12.27,0:25:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the people in authority
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.39,0:25:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take an oath to protect the children
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.97,0:25:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to protect our family here on earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.13,0:25:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the words of Audre Lorde:
Dialogue: 0,0:25:36.10,0:25:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If i didn't define myself for myself
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.54,0:25:43.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would be crunched into other \Npeoples' fantasies for me
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.85,0:25:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and eaten alive".
Dialogue: 0,0:25:49.25,0:25:55.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, I was a part of this community, like, \NI lost myself in this community,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.59,0:25:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I eventually found myself down here.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.16,0:26:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My one suggestion to you people \Nis to get rid of that attitude
Dialogue: 0,0:26:02.86,0:26:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:04.38,0:26:07.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get rid of that belief, \Ncome down here, socialize,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:07.93,0:26:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,phone me, feel free to call me.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.99,0:26:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm willing to take you out and about \Nand go for coffee and do whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.23,0:27:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.74,0:27:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER> Those of us who come to \Nsupport this space with the best of intentions
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.37,0:27:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,soon realize we are the ones being taught.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:23.28,0:27:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it can happen, and you want to be, \Nyou want to do something,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:26.84,0:27:29.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you discover that it's \Nactually already being done,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:29.57,0:27:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people are already, um, involved in \Ntheir own way of expressing justice for women.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.96,0:27:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.60,0:27:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER> In the middle of daily protests, grit, \Ngrime, and sensationalist media headlines,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.14,0:27:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an extremely vibrant community  
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.34,0:28:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.54,0:28:44.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello, hello, 
Dialogue: 0,0:28:45.09,0:28:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do volunteer work, and help people out, \Nand help some senior old people out.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:54.60,0:29:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm First Nations Aboriginal, Italian, \NI'm Chinese, I'm East Indian,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:04.24,0:29:07.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I would like to change
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.71,0:29:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the point of view that the outside world \Nhas looking in on the Downtown Eastside.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:14.82,0:29:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I help a lot of street kids, which is \None of my favourite things to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:19.06,0:29:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most important thing I feel really blessed \Nto belong to is the Power of Women Group.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.76,0:29:30.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a group of women that have \Ncome together from all walks of life,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:30.28,0:29:35.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um, and they've undergone \Ntheir own, um, journey.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:35.51,0:29:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, I am a, I am a mom. \NI'm unfortunately not a grandma yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:41.01,0:29:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a resident of the Downtown \NEastside and very proud of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:44.72,0:29:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Myself and Harsha's group the Power to \NWomen Group, try to deal with many issues
Dialogue: 0,0:29:49.76,0:29:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Downtown Eastside.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.16,0:29:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I enjoy it so much, I wouldn't want to be, \Num, a resident anywhere else.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.09,0:30:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the quality that I love and I \Nhope never disappears, is solidarity.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:04.00,0:30:09.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Together we all make up the Downtown Eastside \Nand I'm proud to be part of the hood. Peace out!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:09.71,0:30:12.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.49,0:30:30.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER> This film is a tribute to the resilience \Nand the generosity of women in the Downtown Eastside.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.03,0:30:40.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These women daily survive conditions that few of us \Ncould imagine, let alone endure. 
Dialogue: 0,0:30:44.21,0:30:50.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women all around the world \Nare suffering. It has to stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:55.55,0:30:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<\VOICEOVER>To women in the Downtown Eastside:
Dialogue: 0,0:30:59.32,0:31:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With every heartbeat you carry dignity
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.30,0:31:09.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In every breath we see your humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.47,0:31:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With every step we join you
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.76,0:31:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you may walk free of violence and injustice.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.09,0:31:44.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,, I sing this song,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:44.55,0:31:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all of those who have come before, before.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:50.98,0:31:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who have come before, before.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:57.12,0:31:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Working to break free
Dialogue: 0,0:32:34.92,0:32:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.88,0:32:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah
Dialogue: 0,0:32:42.57,0:32:44.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.85,0:32:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't ya hold me down no,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:52.29,0:32:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't you see that I am flying?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:56.76,0:33:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I slip from your grip cuz I am free
Dialogue: 0,0:33:04.70,0:33:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't ya hold me down no,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.33,0:33:13.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't you see that I am flying?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:13.57,0:33:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I slip from your grip cuz I am free.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.03,0:33:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This world is just a world
Dialogue: 0,0:33:24.14,0:33:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These bricks are made to fall
Dialogue: 0,0:33:28.06,0:33:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a  broke through \Nyour facade and so can we
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.52,0:33:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so can we
Dialogue: 0,0:33:35.49,0:33:39.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this world is just a world
Dialogue: 0,0:33:39.11,0:33:43.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these bricks were made to fall
Dialogue: 0,0:33:43.57,0:33:45.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the  broke through your facade
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.71,0:33:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so can we
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.46,0:33:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so can we
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.80,0:33:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said prison break
Dialogue: 0,0:33:51.30,0:33:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.85,0:34:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prison break...