The Raw Diaries - EP26 - Rolf Maurer PCBS Interview, DTES Solidarity Interview

Tonight (April 14, 2023) on The Raw Diaries show on CFRO 100.5 FM on the dial, Vancouver Co-op Radio will feature an in depth interview with Rolf Maurer of People’s Co-op Books. Rolf is an instrumental member and manager of the bookstore and editor for many years of New Star Books. PCBS is one of the oldest operating bookstores in the city (since 1945) and the interview is a fascinating profile on the store and the hardworking Rolf.We also feature a brief selective interview with Naneek Naytowhow and Kaylayla Raine - two dedicated young organizers about their personal accounts of the recent April 5th “sweep the streets” decampment in the DTES. This will be the first of several interviews on the subject of the tent encampments on Hastings Street over the coming weeks with a number of concerned activists and advocates involved doing invaluable groundwork to help those people in Crab Park and the Tent City in Vancouver.