Invitation

"Dying for a Home is heart wrenching and inspiring." —Sarah Polley

Between the Lines & The Atkinson Charitable Foundation
invite you to celebrate the launch of
Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out
by Cathy Crowe
with Nancy Baker, Brian Boyd, Bonnie and Kerre Briggs, Kevin Clarke,The
Colonel, Dri, James Kagoshima, Marty Lang, and Melvin Tipping

"Read this book and it will pierce the surface of your complacency, touch
the core of your humanity, tickle you and teach you in equal measure. It
will literally change the way you walk down the street."
                                                        —Avi Lewis,
Filmmaker/Journalist

Please join us on Wednesday, 18th April, 2007
10:00a.m. - 11:00a.m.
Sherbourne Health Centre
333 Sherbourne Street
Toronto
Refreshments served and books available for purchase

About the Book: Cathy Crowe always wanted to be a nurse, but she never
planned to be a Street Nurse—a title she continues to use to evoke the
horror of homelessness in a rich country like Canada.  The contents of
Crowe's nursing bag reveal the hard truth of her specialty: street nursing.
Her vitamins will not prevent the white plague of tuberculosis from taking
another life.  The duct tape to fix a cardboard shelter or the bus ticket
to get an elderly man to a hot air grate will not ensure a peaceful night
of safety and sleep.  Crowe's experience has taught her that the only thing
homeless people have in common is being dehoused and forced to live in
conditions of poverty.  It is this first-hand experience with the disgrace
of homelessness that turned her into a housing advocate and introduced her
to the ten contributors to Dying For A Home.

In Dying For A Home, Crowe brings us the voices of ten homelessness
activists advocating for change.  The word homeless conjures many
stereotypes, but rarely does it suggest bravery, courage, charisma, or
intelligence—qualities demonstrated by each of these determined
individuals.  Crowe gives us a chance to meet these extraordinary
activists, many of whom have lived on the street for over a decade.

The activists reveal this epidemic of homelessness to be an unnatural
disaster, a disaster of our own making.  In this groundbreaking book, Crowe
invites ten formally homeless Canadians to tell their stories, and together
they reveal how we can work towards an equitable future.  With a quarter of
a million Canadians either homeless, or disgracefully underhoused,
homelessness is no longer a national secret.

About the Author:   CATHY CROWE is a Street Nurse in downtown Toronto and
has worked in the area of homelessness for over eighteen years.  Along with
colleagues, she co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC),
which in 1998 declared homelessness a national disaster.  Cathy is a
current recipient of the Atkinson Charitable Foundation's Economic Justice
Award.

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