Housing activists took to the streets again today in downtown Vancouver. Their objective was to surround the LiveCity Downtown Olympic celebration site with a wrap of red banners and to then allow the public to paint their own messages to the Canadian government. According to their Facebook event page they used “142 red tarps and 1700 feet of messaging calling for an end to homelessness in this country”.
Some of the banners were staged as blank canvasses for others to voice their own messages.
Under an agreement with the Vancouver Police, at approximately 3 pm the entrance to LiveCity was peacefully blocked for 60 seconds.
Tags: Olympics Photos, Protest, Vancouver
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