As I harvest the food that remains in my downtown community garden, my thoughts fall to the massive flooding and mudslides that recently destroyed roads and instantly cut Vancouver off from accessing the many items that we enjoy each day. We are incredibly insecure within this “system” that they have created and continue to perpetuate. Like most things, food exists within the capitalist system and is subject to the same logics of profit, dependency and class inequality. Most of us are dependent on grocery stores to survive and incapable of growing our own food, while access to healthy and …
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Million Dollar Hole
Million Dollar Hole This hole in the ground represents different things to different people. For some, it is a future home to rest one's head and raise a family. For another, it is a money making venture, a temporary job, an opportunity to brand, sell, design or build. For others, it is a scar and damage done to a place where trees and birds once flourished where anyone could openly enjoy. For me, it is a symptom of an economic system that takes at any cost with questionable benefits to society as a whole. Developments encroaching into green spaces only accessible for the affluent, …