Speaking for a Long TimeIn the late 1990s, Vancouvers Downtown Eastside became the setting for three monuments Crab Park Boulder, Marker of Change, and Standing with Courage, Strength and Pride. The monuments were grassroots initiatives that challenged the norms of civic art by claiming a place in public space for societys most vulnerable groups, and each figured in debates about many kinds of violence. This vivid account of the creation of memory scapes in a marginalized