Building solidarity, making home: Citizen leadership in neighbourhood advocacy

Citizen leadership in neighbourhood advocacy

This month, our Learning Community Showcase features two teams committed to mobilizing community members against displacement and gentrification by increasing their capacity for self-advocacy. Engaging diverse strategies to confront structural exclusion from municipal decision-making, these teams advocate to ensure that community priorities shape the future of their neighborhoods.

• Gathering Vision is an initiative of the Indigenous Support Workers Project to identify and remove barriers for members of the Indigenous Street Community to participate in neighbourhood decision-making. Through focused conversations about identity, belonging and self-advocacy, they are developing a living document to inform the long-term transition towards Indigenizing cohabitation in the Milton-Parc neighbourhood.
• The Comité d’Action de Parc-Extension (CAPE) supports collective strategies for tenant organizing to confront attempts to evict residents through repossessions, renovictions and housing discrimination in Parc-Extension. In collaboration with the Parc-Ex Anti-Eviction Mapping project, they are documenting the impacts of increasing gentrification on the Parc-Extension community. Their objective is to build neighbourhood solidarity and community power to secure municipal bylaw measures that protect resident rights and end evictions.

This event is open to all, register in advance or drop by if you are on campus.
Bring your own lunch or come and snack on what we have!

Please note this event is held in person, at the SHIFT space. If, for accessibility reasons, you are not able to join in person but would like to attend the event, please contact emma.harake@concordia.ca and we can work together to see if an alternative solution is possible. A week’s notice will give us the best chance of making something work.