http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/ PoorBashing in BC Blog (by aletta.org) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:15:02 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. Writing Support Other http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/archive/32.html Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:10:11 GMT It was on the news the last few days. I have to wonder how they didn't see that coming? There have been enormous outbreaks of infestation in the east end for at least a couple of years. I've blogged about it for at least two. The health department knew it, I spoke to them about it. The social worker (I am on disability) I spoke to about my fears of the infestation knew all about it. It was someone from the department of health who told me about lavender, also boric acid, but I knew about that already. I took the photo below in August 2006, when the problem as already being addressed in... (more) http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/comments?id=32 http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/archive/31.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:56:29 GMT All the Best for 2008. http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/comments?id=31 http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/archive/30.html Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:19:00 GMT Are my Neighbours really heartless fascists? I am tired of all the negativity projected onto my building by a residents association I had never heard of until reading and article interviewing them on the building I live in, brought on by the mass evictions at 2100 block of Pandora Street. That building, which after a flood brought on by a despicable lack on maintenance had the city mass evict the tenants. Those tenants are having a very rough time finding housing, mostly because there is none, none that would approach the level of housing they had in that fated building. They had their... (more) http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/comments?id=30 http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/archive/29.html Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:40:33 GMT Still have the same bloody headache so the last few weeks have not been terribly productive. Nonetheless there has been movement. In another week I can pick up my passport after which I can get the local Identification (which required a passport or local birth certificate, hence the passport first. Yesterday I finally got my replacement bus pass, so that means I can get about, and it won';t cost me every time. Unfortunately my knee isn't getting better as I would like and it caused me grief, in time it might get better. The police are closing my file, or rather it is now inactive as... (more) http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/comments?id=29 http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/archive/28.html Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:11:00 GMT I mentioned a little while ago that I was concerned the city could close my apartment building for criminal activity or repairs not being done. Already one apartment building in East Vancouver and several residential hotels "SRO" (single room occupancy, had been closed down. Residents are/were given three hours to collect up their things and get out. Temporary shelter was found for one to three days, then they were told they would have help "relocating". This terrifies me. I realize the city is looking for more space to build accommodations for the Olympics. ... (more) http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/comments?id=28 http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/archive/26.html Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:28:45 GMT For those of you interested in visiting this gallery when you are in Vancouver it is on East Hastings, just past the fashionable bits of gastown on the south side of the street, at least it will be there until this block also falls to the demolition plans of the city to restructure everything for those two weeks of the winter olympics without any concerns for the needs of the population which now, because life has handed some lemons is their rat infested, bedbug riddled homes. The question is ...the rest of this article... - Also in Textiled with Textpattern http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/comments?id=26 http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/archive/25.html Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:00:13 GMT Invisible Man vs. Indifferent Man Are people really so obtuse and unaware, or just block out the unpleasant nature of poverty because they feel no need to acknowledge the man or his condition? http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/comments?id=25 http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/archive/24.html Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:27:49 GMT excerpt: So life goes on. I feel badly much of the time that I cannot find the energy to join in more with family functions or attending functions. I'd like to plan a night of visiting art galleries, I really would, but if I am lucky enough to find the energy to make a warm meal and actually eat some too, all I want with what's left of my day is to sit, think, play with my pets and water the plants that constitutes my paradise. Because it doesn't take a lot of energy and because it does take my mind off pain and the general boredom of my cookie cutter sameness days, I like to edit the... (more) http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/comments?id=24 http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/archive/23.html Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:59:39 GMT Textiled - WordPressed Get Flash locally our city government is making sure that the poor are driven from their neighbourhoods against their will, to make a quick buck during two weeks of Winter Olympics in 2010 - residential hotels closed and upgraded for tourists or demolished for other projects and no new affordable housing even in numbers to replace what was destroyed - Saferide program relocates vagrants out of the area with no resources when they are dumped outside the city's transit boundaries Shame! http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/comments?id=23 http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/archive/22.html Thu, 31 May 2007 06:21:13 GMT Longs days and little to show, his reasons don't matter, it shouldn't happen, not if the world were really kind and evolved, but maybe we're not evolving, maybe we're devolving My dog, the natural scavenger watches the human forage for scraps, while himself well fed and well housed, steps away from a full bowl of kibble and treats. What kind of society makes it illegal for humans to let a dog be homeless, unfed or otherwise un-cared for, yet finds it acceptable that humans are homeless, hungry and deprived of respect and companionship. A homeless person is somehow fit to... (more) http://poorbashing.blogdrive.com/comments?id=22