Protesters set up tent city in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

By LARRY PYNN
Vancouver Sun
February 15, 2010

VANCOUVER -- Hundreds of homeless and poverty protesters using the Olympic spotlight to their advantage flooded into a large vacant lot in the 100-block West Hastings Street on Monday and erected a tent city.

Occupation of the site followed a noon-hour anti-Olympics rally at Pigeon Park at Carrall and Hastings streets and a short march reported upon by dozens of print and electronic journalists.

Vancouver police took a low-keyed position, monitoring the crowd and directing traffic without encountering the sort of violent protest that occurred downtown on Saturday.

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