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May 12th: Bring Back Street Health Services, Re-Instate Gaetan
Submitted by ocap on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 18:54.
May 12th
Noon
Allan Gardens
(Carleton and Sherbourne)
On Wed. May 12 we will gather in Allan Gardens at 12noon. We will then march on Street Health and remind that Laura Cowan, Mary McCowan, and Eleanor Lester that they are accountable community We will not be ignored. Bring back the services back to Street Health. Re-instate Gaetan at his job in East Downtown Toronto.
Despite numerous demonstrations, several public meetings, and two petitions signed by homeless men and women, community workers, and anti-poverty activists, the people who run Street Health and Neighbourhood Link continue ignore the demands of the community.
Four months ago Street and Neighbourhood Link moved the administration office of the PAID I.D. Project out of Street Health, where it had been for the last ten years, and relocated 5 miles away from the Dundas and Sherbourne, where most of the identification clinics were located. Making people walk five travel five miles to access the administrative office is cruel and harmful to people who don’t have the money for TTC tickets needed to get all the way out to Danforth and Victoria Park. On December 8, a petition with over 500 names was given to Laura Cowan, Street Health’s Executive Director and Eleanor Lester, Chair of the Street Health Board. The majority of the people who signed the petition were homeless men and women who had used the I.D. service. They demanded that the administration office be returned to Street Health and that Gaetan be reinstated at his job in the downtown core. On December 29, a dozen people walked for over three hours from Street Health to Neighbourhood Link and delivered another petition with over 850 names on it to Mary McGowan, the Executive Director of Neighbourhood Link, again demanding that the administrative office be returned to Street Health and that Gaetan’s job be reinstated in the downtown core.
