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	Podcast:		Mainstreet Halifax \x96 CBC Radio
	Episode:		Participants reflect 25 years after employment office sit-in on Gottingen Street
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:17:52
	Publish Date:		2021-09-16 03:10:00
	Description:		Fed up with the gentrification of Gottingen Street in Halifax in 1996, community members protested by occupying the local Canada Employment Centre that was scheduled to close. The occupation lasted four months. Host Jeff Douglas spoke with Carolann Wright and Shelley Fashan who were involved in the longest running occupation of a federal government office in Canadian history.
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