Unearthing resistance

Cheyenne Henry Social Sciences and Humanities Research and Dianne Ross of the Lord Selkirk Park Council of Canada, by way of a Stand- Resource Centre contributed to the suc- ard Research Grant and a Small Univer- cess of the project in numerous ways, and sities grant titled “Social Justice in the Janice Goodman of the North End Com- Age of Globalization” held by the Uni- munity Renewal Corporation [...] The women see safety and security as the They struggle to create safe spaces for primary problem in the Developments, themselves and the children in their and are clear and emphatic in expressing care in a public housing project that is the need for a different and more com- a low-income, marginalized and munity-based kind of policing strategy. [...] Not all of the initial Centre, were conducted by the author, list of 20 women could be contacted; ad- and were intended to generate further dis- ditional women were identified by plac- cussion about the same questions: what ing a notice in the Resource Centre, and are the main strengths and problems in relying upon Cheyenne Henry and the D; what do you like most and least Dianne Ross, the Resource [...] The interviewers asked those inter- viewed: how they came to be in the De- A small cash payment was made to all velopments; what their backgrounds those interviewed, as a token of appre- were; what they consider to be the most ciation for their participation in the important strengths, and the greatest project, and as an acknowledgment of the problems, in the Developments; what value of their cont [...] A 19 year old woman who moved in with her sister in the D specifically to help her The care of children and the desire to be sister with raising her two boys said that close to other female family members is the best thing in her life was the birth of the reason that many of those we inter- her two nephews.