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DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Williams, Betty; Jennifer; Rose, Cousin; Angela; Ilona; Margaret S.; Muriel; Leith; Catherine; Kari; Little Running Deer; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2002-05
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Poems by Betty Williams - The Horse Woman and Reflections on Everyday Actions; Changes to Welfare - rates are going down for some people, shelter amounts will be reduced, time limited welfare is being introduced and a three week waiting period is to apply along with limited crisis grants. Alice Kendall (Legal Advocate) thanks everyone for the going away party and baby shower. Jennifer England (Program Coordinator) is also leaving the centre after 3 years to live in the Yukon; poverty is a mental health issue; you can make a difference, the government needs to hear from you about how these cuts are impacting your life; haiku poems from creative writing group
Keywords: 
Welfare; Creative Writing Letters; Centre news

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Small, Margaret; Levitin, Jackie; Chrissie D.; Peltier, Leonard; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2001-10
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Woman's Video begun by Jackie Levitin in July 2001, from a grant by the SSHRC-funded Health and Home Research project at SFU; Library Project - plans and goals, a general time line; A woman's week of Education, Mobilization and Action; Vigil for Peace in the downtown eastside every Wednesday morning at the Totem Pole in Oppenheimer Park; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre official Open House; Updates on Evening groups; History of Leonard Peltier; Childcare for evening groups; Community updates; Mural Survey; Regular Programming: Arts and Crafts Workshops; Beading with Leona; Crochet with Anna; Fabric Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers with Beverly
Keywords: 
Open House; Harvest Dinner; Sisiters Resist; Violence against Women; Center Updates; Video Project; Libary Project; End Legislated Poverty Organizer's Training

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Carol B.; Agnes; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2001-11
Pages: 
14
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Inner Ear Retreat - ferry ride, sleeping in log cabin, Molly's Reach walk, dinner, beachwalks, hot tub, journal making, dreamcathers; Harm Reduction Workshop facilitated by Tammy; Wenlido self-defense for women for 2 hours; Nutritional Recovery Training - health, wholeness of mind, body, and spirit and menu planning; Daily Programming: Yoga with Roma; Yoga with Ferma; BWSS; End Legislated Poverty-Organizers Training; Street Nurse; Popular Education Group; Alcohol and Drug Harm Reduction Support Group; Women's Voice Healing Circle and support group with Reta Blind; Still Movement; Creative Writing Group with Marie Clements; Arts and Crafts Workshops - Beading with Leona; Crochet with Anna; Fabric arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers; List of New Staff at the Centre; Women's Centre Coffee House; Volunteer of Month- Denise Stilwell; Description of Staff Positions; Centre Guidelines; Community Services- Free Clothing, Free Showers, Free Laundry; Flu Shot Clinics - nurses conduct flu shot clinics; Poetry from The Still Movement Group - Helpless, My Heart; Lytton Healing Gathering Picture of camping with tent and scenery
Keywords: 
Inner Ear Retreat; Upcoming Workshops at Centre; New Staff at Centre; Women's Centre Coffee House; Volunteer of the Month; Calendar; Women's Staff who is who; Centre Guidelines; Community Services; Flu Shot Clinics; Poetry from the Still Movement Group; Lytton Healing Gathering Picture

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Eva; England, Jennifer; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2001-12
Pages: 
8
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Poem by Eva accompanied with a submitted piece by unknown author called To My Grown Up Son; Global day of Awareness, Action and Change - wear a red ribbon December 1st; Melanie Conn is the co-founder of the East End Food Co-op; Serema and Grace will be putting on a Nutrition Workshop; Joanne Shapwaykeesic is December's Volunteer of the Month; Learn about Winter Solstice, a celebration of Light and the rebirth of the Sun on Friday, December 21st, food and other festivities; There is a Candle Light Vigil at Thornton Park site of the Montreal Massacre Monument, Main Street at Terminal, in front of the train station.
Keywords: 
Poems and Writing; World AIDS Day; Women's Food Co-op (WFC); Volunteer of the Month; Winter Solstice; Candle Light Vigil

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Boyle, Linda; Butterworth, Sharon; Helen; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2002-01
Pages: 
18
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Contact Centre grand opening, December 21st, 2001 at the Roosevelt Hotel; Food Hampers will be distributed by the Women's Centre on Saturday January 5th at 2:00pm; Breaking free from Helplessness; Popular Education group; Wanted submissions for all Monthly News Letters; Volunteer Thank yous; Regular programming; Arts and Crafts Workshops; Beading with Leona; Clay Works; Crochet with Anna; Yoga; Fabric Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers; January 1st A Transformative Year of Delight and Discovery; Yoga classes; Our first Women's Centre Coffee House; Poems - My Body, Life, A Christmas Story; Tobacco Day
Keywords: 
Upcoming Events; Tenants' Rights; Bus Rider's Union and Food Forms; new Mental Health Advocate (Erin Graham); Poems

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Gervais, Rosanne; Hamen, Joanne; Cori; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2002-03
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
20,000 show up to protest Gov't Cutbacks, 30 from DEWC; Sasamat Retreat - rainy day but good meals; Calendar: Library Group; Organizers Training; BWSS; Creative Writing Group; Street Nurse; Popular Education Group; Alcohol and Drug Harm Reduction Support Group; Women's Voice; Women Surviving Together; Yoga; Sweat Lodge; Music Jam; Arts and Crafts Workshops - Beading with Leona; Clay Works; Crochet with Anna; College Arts with Anna B.; Fabric Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers. Income Tax and GST forms; Poems - Time Travelled and Walking a Mile in My Shoes; Affordable Housing Workshop; Safety; Upcoming Workshop PovNet; info on Welfare and Housing Laws in BC; Peregrine and The Mouse; Political Agendas re: Protest March and Politics
Keywords: 
DEWC Protest March in Victoria; Lake Sasamat Retreat; Poem; Calendar; Affordable Housing Workshop; Safety; PovNet Workshop; Politics

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Bottomley, Cynthia; Estee; Williams, Betty; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2002-04
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Annual Spring Dinner; Volunteer Appreciation Day; Proposed reduction of welfare rates; Impact of Provincial Government Cuts on Women; Health and Equality; DEWC Schedule; Regular programming; Arts and Crafts Workshops; Beading with Leona; Yoga with Roma; Crochet with Anna; Collage Arts with Anna B.; Fabric Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers with Denny; Centre News; Bus Tickets; Laundry; Raffle; Yoga; Evening Groups; Childcare; New Staff; Open Letter from Cynthia Bottomley; Poems by Betty Williams; Beauty Night photos; the link between health and societal oppression
Keywords: 
Spring Dinner; Volunteer Appreciation Day; Welfare Rates; Government Cuts; Health and Inequality; DEWC Schedule; Programming; Centre News; Open Letter; Poem; Beauty Night

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Martin, Carol; Breathnach, Sara Dan; Butterworth, Sharon; Keyespapamatao, Marie; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2001-01
Pages: 
14
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
News from Your Advocates; DEWC's Mental Health Advocates; Poverty is a Mental Health Issue; There is no excuse for abuse; My rights; Simple abundance The Inner Journey; DEWC Schedule; Regular programming: Learning Group; Battered Women Support Services (BWSS); Street Nurse; Popular Education group; Women's Voice; Creative Writing; Support Gathering for Women living with HIV/AIDS; Arts and Crafts; Beading with Leona; Fabric Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers with Beverly; Poems: Letting Go, Gastown Bleakness, Sweet Abundance of life; Outings: Skating at Britannia, Eagle watching at Brackendale, Tobogganing at Cypress, Spa Day; Volunteer of the Month; Women writing the News Letter; January Feast; food hampers
Keywords: 
Advocate News; Abuse; My Rights; Simple Abundance; DEW Centre schedule; Poems; Outings

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Breathnach, Sara Dan; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2001-02
Pages: 
20
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
February 14th Memorial March - a brief history; Black History Month honours our sisters and grandmothers; Important information coming from the Outreach Worker about what causes Syphilis; Donna, the Outreach Worker at DAMS, is beginning a new group entitled "Anger and Art"; Lucy joined the Centre team in late December; Cori is now covering Marg's advocacy position until Marg returns; Meshell is the Outreach Worker and leaving in early March to pursue other things; in group Still Movement for women survivors of violence - this is about Bodyhistories/Bodystories and connecting individual and community resistance and healing; Learn about African-Canadian heritage during Black History Month
Keywords: 
Memorial March; Black History Month; Outreach Worker; Staff News; New Group

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Sandra J.; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2001-03
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Tomorrow Blackwind is February's Volunteer of the Month; Tuberculosis in the Downtown Eastside; March and Rally for International Women's Day and join the Centre for a Pancake Breakfast
Keywords: 
Community; Volunteer of the Month; Health; International Women's Day

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