The Poverty Olympics Torch Relay rolled through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside today bringing with it a few hundred protesters angry with the over $6 billion dollars of provincial and national funds that have been spent on the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The Poverty Olympics Torch Relay culminated today in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Torchbearers Lucie and Richard completed the final leg of the The Poverty Olympics Torch Relay.
From the Poverty Olympics website:
But one legacy that won’t be so enjoyable is the thousands of homeless people on the streets of Vancouver. You can’t help seeing them as you walk around downtown, and in many other neighbourhoods around the city.
Unless we do something about this shameful situation, visitors in 2010 will be treated to a city with more homeless people than athletes competing in the Games!
Tags: Olympics Photos, Protest, Vancouver
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