Poet, political activist, and former addict Bud Osborn tells his remarkable story of survival and how it has inspired his struggle to defend Canada's most impoverished community, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where the worst epidemic of HIV/AIDS among drug users in the western world is occurring.
DOWN HERE is a sustained cry of pain and rebellion from those whose voices are seldom heard and whose faces are seldom made visible - those who are homeless, those who are dying, those who are being driven from even their meager housing by gentrification - those most vulnerable among us.
"...community is care - care for one another
care for those least able to care for themselves, care for all, care in action...
and there is no one to care, if you do not care
and there is no one, no one at all to care - if I do not care..."
Produced and Directed by Veronica Alice in 1997
