Homeless Chess Champ
Tom Murphy is one of the best chess players in the United States. Now he lives in a downtown Washington park and teaches the game.
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Monday, October 22, 2007
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Streams of Justice
- Streams of Justice
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Streams of Justice meets Monday nights (except holidays) at 7 pm at
Grandview Calvary Baptist Church.
1803 E. 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC.
Check out the SofJ Calendar below for more specifics.
More About Us
Papers and Podcasts
Friends & Blogs
- Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries
- Carnegie Community Action Project
- Dan's blog
- DTES Neighbourhood Council
- Growing Gap
- Homeless Tales
- Homelessness Action week
- Live Simply, Give Generously, Practice Hospitality
- Make Poverty History - Canada
- Pivot Legal Society
- Raise The Rates
- Resist Exploitation, Embrace Dignity (REED)
- Sojourners
- Spectacle Vancouver
- Student Christian Movement
- The Christian Radical
- The Vancouver Catholic Worker
- Vancouver Media Coop
General Resources
- A new and unsettling force: the strategic relevance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign
- Response to Budget 2009 - Citizens For Public Justice
- 2007 Child Poverty Report Card
- A Backgrounder on Housing & Homelessness (CCAP)
- BC Campaign 2000 - Child Poverty (pdf)
- Chapter 1: Poverty and Policy in Canada (pdf)
- City/Province Housing Partnership
- Conversation on Women's Health - 2007 (pdf)
- Cracks in the Foundation: Solving the Housing Crisis in Canada's Poorest Neighbourhood (link)
- Fair Play for Housing Rights: Mega-Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights (Geneva: COHRE and GIAN)
- Greater Vancouver Homelessness Count
- Homelessness a cause, not a result of drug abuse
- Homelessness in a growth economy: Canada’s 21st century paradox (June 2007 pdf)
- Housing Legacy of the 2010 Games: Report of the Inner City Inclusive Committee Housing Table
- Left Behind - 2005 (pdf)
- Project Civil City (VPSN)
- Report of the Inner-City Inclusive Housing Table
- StatsCan Perspectives on Labour & Income - 2006 (pdf)
- The Cost of Eating in BC - 2006 (pdf)
- The Cost of Eating in BC 2007
- The Rich and the Rest of Us: The Changing Face of Canada's Growing Gap
2010 Olympics
- Council of Canadians: Statement on the 2010 Winter Olympic Games
- The Least of These
- Two Incompatible Visions: Jesus and the Olympics, Reflections from Mark 3:1-6
- Follow the Money, Understand the Olympic Scam
- Olympic Reflections - Dave Diewert, January 2009
- Hallmark Events & Impacts on Housing
- Matthew 4:1-11 (A Reflection)
- The Olympics - Updated (Dave Diewert)
- A Plan to Achieve the 2010 Olympic Housing Commitments
- Olympic Oversight Interim Report Card
Housing
- Citywide Housing Coalition
- The State of Non-Market Housing in the Downtown Eastside (Sept 2007)
- Homelessness and Affordable Low Income Housing Backgrounder (Sept 2007)
- Disappearing Homes: The Loss of Affordable Housing in the DTES (April 2008)
- United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing (Oct 2007)
Homelessness
- Homeless Voices, 2010: Listening to Metro Vancouver Residents Who Have Experienced Homelessness
- Finding Our Way Home Again - 2009 Report
- The Homeless Hub
- 2008 Homeless Count - Fact Sheet
- 2008 Homeless Count - Memo
- Homelessness, Victimization & Crime: Knowledge and Actionable Recommendations
- Lenten Vigil: Poverty Drama - God's Friday 2007
- Lenten Vigil: Homelessness and Housing
- Lenten Vigil: The Criminalization of Homelessness
- Lenten Vigil: Being Poor in a "Civil" City
- Lenten Vigil: BC - A Leader in Child Poverty
- Lenten Vigil: Barriers to Income
Canada's First Nations
- Rot Has Set in on B.C. Reserves
- Assembly of First Nations
- Canada's Dirty Little Secret (June 2007)
- First Nations Child & Family Caring Society
- House apologizes to residential school survivors (May 2007)
- Natives died in droves as Ottawa ignored warnings (April 2007)
- Survivors Wait While Lawyers Squabble (Feb. 2007)
Reflections & Liturgy
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- Lawyers see a 'vindictive' new refugee law
- Hitman Jason Kenney strikes again
- Peruvian lives on Canada's conscience
- Inside a migrant worker transport van
- Surge in migrant labour makes reform imperative
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- At home pilot project belies Harper’s hard line re...
- Leading Canada's public healthcare to the free-mar...
- "I Cannot Eat Your Prayers": How Student Debt Chan...
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- Six weeks on hungerstrike, six years in detention
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- The Mass Incarceration Agenda
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- DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS RELEASE UN...
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