Welfare Food Challenge 2016: Report Back from Nelson, BC
Channel: The Anti-Oppression Network
Date: 2016-10-23

October 17th, 2016: Kym Hines shares about their recent trip to Nelson, BC and reflects on the housing situation and class divide. This conversation is taking place on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically on the territory of Tsawwassen Nation.

Views pieces of the interview and the full version of the interview here (full version of the interview to come): 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAPOVdO_xdov6wD2XSm85reQ_yqDN7CkS

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The Challenge starts on World Food Day, October 16, 2016, and runs for a full 7 days. Due to the rising cost of rent, even for single room occupancy (SRO) in the Downtown Eastside, participants will be expected to live on only the food they can purchase with $18 dollars, a drop from $26 in previous years.

The Challenge highlights the inadequacy of welfare rates in BC. A single person receives only $610 a month, frozen for over 9 years. Raise the Rates, with others, is working to raise public awareness of the extreme poverty of people on welfare; and how this poverty costs the people of BC in human suffering and billions of wasted dollars every year.

Why $18: https://welfarefoodchallenge.org/2016...
Welfare Food Challenge: https://welfarefoodchallenge.org/
Raise the Rates: https://raisetherates.org/