This is about the gentrification, destruction and a major catalyst to the housing crisis and the criminalization of poverty and homelessness.

In the lead up to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Several low income and supportive housing buildings saw mass evictions, street sweeps (where street entrenched people would have all their stuff stolen well they slept) saw huge increases as well as the constant harassment by both the city and cops. A lot of people were also rounded up and thrown in jail, the drunk tank or given one way bus tickets out of town with nothing but the clothes on their back. I remember people being dropped off at the old Safeway bus exchange in downtown Chilliwack as well as downtown Prince George in the dead of winter to basically freeze to death. Entire neighborhoods being dug up or displaced to build venues for a sporting event and a party for rich tourists. How nobody was talking about it and the city of Vancouver, police and olympic committees were trying to sweep it under the rug. Meanwhile entire neighborhoods are being destroyed and people are being forcefully displaced.

Here's a song about 6 billion better ways to spend 6 billion dollars

this 5 ring elitist corporate shit show has wasted 6 billion dollars and counting

for what ? What do we have to show for it ?

Poverty, homelessness, exploitation, oppression, destruction of civil liberties, rights and basic freedoms

we can think of 6 billion better ways to waste 6 billion dollars

proper health care for everyone, education, affordable housing and social programs would be a start

we will not stand for this corporate shit show on stolen native land

not well our people live in poverty, not well children are starving, not well jobs are disappearing at the hand of greedy corporate outsourcing and being homeless is a crime

not well our civil liberties, basic rights and freedoms are being stripped away and sold off to the highest bidder

this is just the beginning over of 6 billions better ways to waste over 6 billion dollars

6 billion better ways to waste 6 billion dollars
6 billion better ways to waste 6 billion dollars
6 billion better ways to waste 6 billion dollars

we will not stand for this olympic shit show on stolen native land

not well our people live in poverty, not well children are starving, not well jobs are disappearing at the hand of greedy corporate outsourcing and being homeless is a crime

not well our civil liberties, basic rights and freedoms are being stripped away and sold off to the highest bidder

Tonight we take back our rights
Tonight we take back our streets
Tonight we call for convergence and unity as we stand together and piss on the status quo