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VoLUNTEER RECOGNITION WEEK

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VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION WEEK APRIL 15-21, 2012

(Look for Event Brochure Monday, April M This week is an opportunity for ALL volunteers to be applauded for their many contributions and posi­tive effects you have on our Community! It's to rec­ognise and celebrate your profound desire to assist in multiple capacities for the Carnegie Community throughout the year. Every one of you deserves your own "Helping Hand Award." Volunteer Dinner is mid-Recognition Week: Wednesday April 18th, 4:30pm, Carnegie Theatre Volunteer Recognition Party+Awards Celebration Friday, April 20th, 4:00pm in the Theatre

... please pick up dinner and party tickets in the Volunteer Program Office.

We've planned this celebration so you don't have to! Every year there's a Volunteer of the Year selected.

He or she will have met a high standard of perform­ance consistently throughout the year. It is always a very tough decision because there are so many volun­teers deserving of recognition. At this Celebration the Volunteer of the Year will be announced for the first time, plus the four other four other volunteers for special merit recognition.

This party is for YOU- IT WON'T BE ANY FUN WITHOUT YOU ... food, enlf!rtainment, your fa­vourite T-shirt of the year, d~or prizes, hilarity and more. Please pick up your ticket in the Vol. office. Directly following the Recognition Party will be a DANCE, 7-lOpm, Sandy ]Jone & The Breakdown

Absolutely everyone welcome!

seiJing between pigeons

spring light ricochets off hot jewelry

li fe surges into positivity at pigeon park market

chaos of vendors, buyers = window shoppers = and miscellaneous vagabonds ••• all this purple riotously adds up

· to random sunday luck •••

john alan douglas

Sometimes, when waiting in line at the concession/ cafeteria, someone will whine about how expensive an item is. eg. "35c for a piece of toast?!" or "SOc for a banana?!" or "a buck for a date square?!!" Not a word about how reasonable everything is, how well­made, or from tasting good to amazingly delicious! It really burns me, especially when the whiner or the

one belly-aching is a rare diner in Carnegie. Go any­where else, buy the same thing, and think about the differences in price, goodness and taste. Christ on a crutch!

This is Volunteer Recognition Week and hundreds of people who pour their energy, good hearts and talents into making our Centre as incredible as it is deserve recognition.

The first couple of paragraphs are a prime example of what boneheads put down with no thinking. For myself and a few thousand others, the Kitchen and a few staffwelcome scores of volunteers every week doing so much to make eating here worth it! Really: it has been the food - its quality, preparation and excell­ence- that have allowed me to stay here for almost 30 years (25+ as editor of this rag!). My.~hysica~ dis­order was caused by starvation, malnutnt1on, p01son, dysentery and malnutrition. It's taken a long time of eating properly to regain a modicum of balance, and such a sustained diet of great nourishment wouldn't have been possible without the tremendous efforts of the Carnegie Kitchen, its staff and of course its few thousand volunteers over 3 decades.

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PaulR Taylor

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DTES Community Arts Program Committee

On March 20, about 20 of us (Downtown Eastside artists, residents and representatives of organizations involved in the arts) attended a consultation organized by the CACV to talk about issues facing the neigh­bourhood. We created a map of key organizations and projects involved in the community arts. We also shared ideas for possible collaboration among various organizations and created a list of offers and needs­what people could offer others in collaborative work and what they need to work more effectively. Partici­pants said that the afternoon was an engaging way to begin to identify possible collaborative projects and key priorities for community arts. Community consultations are key to the work of the CACV's newly created Downtown Eastside Commu­nity Arts Program Committee. The Committee was established to guide our community arts work in the Downtown Eastside. Its mandate is to develop pro­grams and opportunities for Downtown Eastside resi­dents to experience and participate in the community arts. This mandate will be carried out through collab­orative activities and programs with Downtown Eastside community organizations . We're still "populating" the committee but are pleased to announce the following appointments by the Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) Board of Directors: Richard Evans, Architect and DTES community participant, Terry Hunter, Executive Di­rector of Vancouver Moving Theatre, Rika Uto, Arts Programmer at Carnegie Community Centre and CACV Board members Leslie Kemp (who has been appointed Committee Chair) and Jessica Numminen

Occupying the National Mentality 3 How do you occupy the minds of the indifferent masses?

*With a symbol of _Order_.*

The masses are generally attracted to Royal pageantry, because of

its subliminal sense of order- everything is in its place.

Soldiers matching in perfect pace command impressionable respect.

Thusly, the Occupy movement must present a symbol that shows orderliness.

It is suggested that all marchers and occupiers wear on the front and back of their clothes '

a 5"x 5"patch of blue as a symbol of unification and strength

When you win over the minds of the indifferent masses, you

win the nation *·· .. ~ Good Luck, • Garry Gust

Powell Street Festival presents Free Art workshops FeaturingYuriko Igi. at Oppenheimer Field House

Button making April 27, 1 - 3pm

Gocco Card making May 25, 1 - 3pm

Still Pumping up the Jams

We will not stop fighting before all of us are free not stop loving till we're all free to love freely and live shining in the diamond essence of our true souls abiding in the heavens

~~e~:::::t:our=~c~ · So my ancestors will guide

We will not stop bleeding till it's so meaningless we all forget the reasons to kill each other

l feel I need to cry ,, I need more healing Losing way too many friends I'm going to ask help from

the water To cleanse myself To purify my soul I'll go to the mountains

Howl like a wolf

& help me Go to the forest Hug my trees So I will be alright My creator will hear me So my dear friends Never give up Life is too precious Have a nice healing journey

All my relations Bonnie E Stevens

we will work sun-up till sundown to the day our true rest shines and the love we've laid covered for a million years

finally shines in our stellar humanity till we are all stars we will fight for the freedom to be who and what we are that is love, only love till time was a riddle and we've all forgotten our names

Richard Loewen

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AGAINST MASS DISPLACEMENT

CC SEQUEL 138 meet at the Pantages demo (138 E. Hastings St)

TUESD 1PM

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Defending the DTES by any Legal and Moral means Necessary ~ The Vision government has not purchased a single p~op­erty in the DTESfor social housing in 3yrs. This is be­cause of Corruption at City Hall. Call For Inquiry on Corruption at Vancouver City Hall and its Relations with City Staff and Real Es-

tate Developers in the Downtown East Side It' s come to my attention that one Vince Dumoulin,

a DTES resident artist, is currently on Vancouver's Urban Design Panel that rejects or recommends urban developments. He is compromised by his past rela­tionship with City Hall and present relationship with Developer Marc Williams and the Sequell38 Condos in the DTES. Quote from the Georgia Straight August 11 20 II: "While a number of DTES activists and arts organiza­tions have opposed the project, DTES street artist Vince Dumoulin has come out in favour of the de­velopment. In a news release sent out by Sequel..

" I want to live there myself," said Dumoulin of the development. "I want Sequel 138 to become an inter­national diving board for all artists." Dumoulin said Williams had provided him with free studio space in one of his buildings .. In the comment section Marc Williams says: "I am the owner of the former Pantages site.

Today, we announced that renowned street artist Vince Dumoulin (age 29) has s igned on to Sequel 138. He wants to live and work at Sequel 138, and to bring other artists to do the same. I welcome Vince and the other visionaries who understand what is pos­sible here ... " He has also said that 'No decent person wants the Downtown Eastside to continue as it is, overrun by drug dealers and disease ... '

The Chinatown Heights Hearings las~ year were the most controversial hearings in a very long time. The

actions on the part of the Vision [city] Government were deemed by the DTES community and many oth­ers as corrupt; and by people like Ray Spaxman, Da­vid Cadman, Ellen Woodsworth, MLA Jenny Kwan, MP Libby Davies [et al] as a great injustice to the DTES.

Note: Sequel 138 has been given a special exemption to the 20% Social Housing Rule -Corrup tion

Is Affordability in this city impossible because of this corruption? Is buying property for & building Social Housing in the DTES impossible because of this corruption? Jon Stovell of Reliance Real Estate Holdings donated $25,000 to the Vis ion Party and now sits on the Advi­sory Panel of the Development Permit Board that ap­proves condos in Vancouver. He is the owner of the gentrified Burns Block building in the DTES. His incentive to speed up gentrification in the DTES is pure profit. He will help decide on the Pantages Sequel 138 Condos and the Chinatown condos and all the other 588 condo units s lated for the DTES while the LAPP is in progress. From his perch he can cer­tainly peddle influence on decisions to do with his vested interests-to raise DTES real estate values. NOTE: Stovell is also the Gastown BIA Representa­tive to the DTES LAPP

- The Corrupt relationship between Developers, City Hall & City Staff is acute and chronic, and has the most deadly implications in the DTES. But the cor­ruption is not limited to the DTES. One could point to the RIZE Development in Mount Pleasant... The City's Housing Policy in the DTES is to replace I for I Social Housing units torn down or in new devel­opments of market housing. This is not even close to being met; at the current rate it wi ll soon be 25-l for market housing. So the Only answer to this skewed ' interpretation' is corruption at City Hall, city staff and real estate developers. Our People are being DIS­PLACED in a big way- purposefully and forcefu lly. The following must be halted until answers are pro-

vided in a public inquiry: *The Pantages Sequel 138 Condos *The Chinatown Towers *All 588 condo units slated to go up during the

DTES Local Area Planning Process *No Rezoning (fonner senior DTES planner Nathan

Edelson endorses this.)

5 *All commercial gentrification in the DTES Critically important: is Vince Dumoulin peddl ing

influence to other members of the UDP and the De­velopment Permit Board? On the advisory panel of the board are: Member: Greg Borowski (Chair, Urban Design Panel) Representatives of the Development Industry: Members: Jon Stovell

How in the hell did Mr Dumoulin [29 year-old 'street artist'] get on the Urban design panel after

Marc Williams' Sequel 138 condo-project was unanimously turned down by the UDP??

To the DTES community Mr Dumoulin has sold the community for 30 pieces of silver- he is the Devel­opers' man in the Downtown Eastside and a critical insider in City Hall' s approval process for Condos and Commercial gentrification.

The Integrity of the Administrative and Political processes are called into question.

Olga Illich, a mulit-millionaire Developer, was named by Co-Chair Mayor Gregor Robertson as Co-Chair of Vancouver's Blue Ribbon Panel on Housing Affordability Considering that the Inquiry into our Murdered and Mi ssing Women has become a sham, illegitimate, corrupt and a cover-up of Evidence and itself em­broiled in controversy---it is imperative that our community have Justice in this critical matter of Housing-Safety and Displacement.

To the Downtown Eastside Community: To stop the Pantages condos -a stake into our Heart and Soul-we must have the largest mass civil disobedience of any single community in Canadian history-300 of us, along with our friends and allies, must get arrested and come between the bulldozers and the evil night­mare of mass displacement and gentrification.

We can and we must. We can bleed to death in the trenches or we can fight them on the front lines­regardless of our health or frame of mind. Go to the Carnegie Community Action Project, to resident groups .. . ask them to sign you up. This is our chance to speak louder than we ever did at city hall. We will shatter their ears! We will gain Self-determination, Justice, Equality, Housing and Safety ...

Love the man formerly known as Homeless Dave and Anonymous Zero .

PS: PaulR Taylor it's been an honour.

The Real Invisible Hand: George Orwell, and Why We Got JOBs not Jobs

by John Atcheson When Obama took Office on January 20th, 2009 ( & Harper on j\.fay 1 1" 2011) the stench of failure hung over the conservative's economic philosophy like a mushroom cloud. For the second time in a decade, deregulation had produced a huge speculative bubble, fed largely by unregulated hedge funds operating in secret and " irrational exuberance" fed in part by frau­dulent lending practices in the largely unregulated mortgage lending market. It was yet another failure in a long history of failures for the conservative's be­loved laissez faire policies - in fact, they've brought on the three biggest economic collapses this country/ continent has ever experienced.

So in January of2009/May of201 1, the time was right to take on the myths that conservatives had been using to fleece us and enrich their already rich con­stituency.

The time was right to set the record straight. To tell Americanadians what the Orwellian terms

conservatives had been using for four decades really meant.

"Trickle down," was really all about trickling up. "Job creators" were really "job exporters." "Small government" was really a code word for

"weak government"- government that couldn't get in the way of their extremist greedophile contributors. "Fiscal responsibility" was really about gutting gov­

ernment in general and bene·fits for the middle & low income Americanadians in particular. See the Ryan/ Flaherty budget for Exhibit A of this particular lie.

"Our Founders" really meant "Their Funders." "Strong Defense" really meant white collar welfare for the likes of Haliburton/Tar Sands corporations. "The Clear Skies Ini tiative" was about rolling back

clean air rules to the point where we would have been literally killing children by upping asthma rates. "The Healthy Forest Initiative" was really about ena­bling industry to mow down formerly protected fmests.

The list of Orwellian bull by which we'd been run­ning our Republic/Dominion was as endless as it was destructive.

So in January of2009/May of 2011, the mother of all these myths- the throbbing bloody heart of this Ayn R~ndian wet dream which for four decades had de­ceived, deluded and destroyed much of what our

Maybe r won't come this way again .. .

Morning sun is a rare pleasure which calls me out to walk on Pender to Clark, then north on Powell and west to the fish dock past the B.C. Sugar Refinery. Being Sunday the Marine View Coffee Shop is closed, but it's closed forever now, fini, caput -the Port of Vancouver has other plans. Workers don't know these other plans made by strangers seen only through glass, and darkly. Seagulls swirl and cry in the bright sun over the Lions Gate Fisheries, over the fishing boats, rocking in the slick water,

Polaris '$, Miss Amy New Venture Wishhing Star "Rose-Lind

~ Sans Peur Ocean Tide Tracey Jean The goddess, the star, a are in these names, and the boats, like Zen point to the door at the which opens slowly. The Lions glisten with a small cloud touches~ the harbour sleeps in gc Where will the boats gc Maybe I won't come th

over the Marine View Coffee Shop, closed forever.

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The ice plant is already it won't reopen - ever. •'fry B.C. Ice and Cold

·y~ Founders held sacred-- lay naked and vulnerable, ready to be dispatched with one simple dose of truth. Their perversion of Adam Smith' s famous Invisible Hand bad been shown to be the ultimate in Orwellian Newspeak: nothing more and nothing less than a justi­fication for the dismantling of the New Deal/ Tommy Douglas social safety net regulatory and social framework that had restrained rampant corporate greed, and which for three decades had enabled a widely shared prosperity. So what did Obama!Harper and the Democrats/

Conservatives do? They doubled down on the free market uber alles

approach that nearly destroyed our economy. They hired new Goldman Sachs/Tar Sands execu­

tives to replace the old Goldman Sachs/Tar Sands executives who'd brought down the house under Bush/ Chretien. They bailed out Wall Street/Bay Street, and ignored

Main Street. They paid lip service to economic reform, but didn't

address the biggest causes of the economic meltdown -the failure to regulate hedge funds and derivatives.

ad the journey

.em pies, )Ottom of the garden

1ew snow, lount Seymour, lden light. when the dock is closed? sway again.

a sign says bright! y Under the sign there's a newspaper cartoon on a grimmer note, a prophecy, a cry for he I p, a picture of some people in a cage at the zoo; we know it's a zoo, the drawing makes that clear. and in the next cage is a giraffe, we can see his long neck and small head. Visitors are watching people in the cage and a sign on the cage door reads "RiffRaff"

One of the ice plant workers has drawn an arrow to the caged people, and written-in pencil beneath the cartoon; "After the ice plant closes."

Oh, my brother, my sister,

~::.:~ \i'j'''~~~~ Today, we have even fewer too-big-to-fai l bar.J<s

controlling even more wealth. · And now, we've passed a JOBs/Omnibus Crime

act that's not likely to create jobs, but will almost cer­tainly result in more Americanadians getting swin­dled by a deregulated securities market. Oh, and probably a bubble or two.

Realty? After two decades of non-stop con-games, bursting bubbles, and economic crises brought on by deregulation, the answer is more deregulation??

So here's the deal. There is an invisible hand afoot, but it's not the one Adam Smith spoke of. It's the hand that turns over the power and influence once wielded by people and vested in a government that often acted on our behalf to corporations and the ultra wealthy who a lways act for their own exclusive benefit.

It's the hand that sends thousands of lobbyists onto Capital/Parliament Hill - some 24 per congressper­son/member of parliament- every time a bill comes up. Not to mention funding the likes of corporate­friend ly legis lation factories, like the American Legis­lative Exchange Council (ALEC)/Canadian Council of Chief Executives ..

It's the hand that uses the bought and paid for think tanks and politicians to discredit and disable govern­ment so the rich have a free hand.

It's the hand that uses the bought and paid for main stream media to distract and deceive the America­nadian people about who controls government, and who government now really represents. So what are we to do? Well, the first thing is to understand is that the solu­

tion to bad government isn' t no government, it's good government. The second is to realize that there is an antidote to the plutocracy that now runs our country. It's sunshine and transparency. It's knowledge and truth spoken to power. lt's sustained action. It's us.

Join the 99% movement, yes. Get trained. Hit the streets. But we need more than poli tical action. More than inchoate rage. We need focused campaigns against common targets.

We need to vote with our dollars in the market place. That's what African Americans d id after Ro­sa Parks refused to yield her seat The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted for more than a year, and it ulti­mately succeeded in desegregating the transit system. That' s what Creaser Chavez did with farm workers.

The grape boycott lasted five years, but it won work­ers better wages, better working cond itions.

But above all , we must stop swallowing the swill politicians, corporatists, the mainstream media and right wing wonks se ll us, and start te ll ing them what we demand - the government envisioned by our Founders, not their Funders. T o get that, this Spri ng we must shine a spotlight on

the real Invisible Hand. Obama!Harper and the Democrats/Conservatives sure as hell aren't going to do it, so it's up to us.

John Atcheson's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the San Jose Mercury News, the Memphis Commer­cial Appeal, as well as in several wonk journals. He is the author of a fictional Trilogy that centers on cli­mate change. The first book wi ll be available on Am­azon in the spring of2012. Atcheson's book reviews are featured on Climateprogress.org. [Note: The expansion of Amen"cans to Americanadians and the mirror-images of the various American constructs are laid at the keyboard of the Editor Conservatives are virtually iden­tical to Republicans but the matching above shows how infer­changeable most politicians are.]

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Perception is Nine-tenths of a conviction It seems that regardless of what's actually going

on, those who appear to get their way have some knack at getting their illusions accepted as fact. This comes home with a lot of news stories and

staged events. This morning Stephen Harper was given free airtime as he delivered a progress report on the so-called stimulus package the Conserva­tives put together. No reporters were allowed in the entire audience was made up of Tory suppo~­ers (as stated by the "Political correspondent") and only pre-approved questions were allowed after Harp~r's gung-ho diatribe. He hammered any op­positiOn to what he and his cronies are doing as "political ly motivated". Yet look at it from an un­?iased point of view: He doesn't make this report m the House of Commons where only the united power of all the opposition forced him to have such reports, where he would have to answer non­approved questions and where the undelineated results of his policies are also made public. But ho hum, what else is new?

Here in Vancouver the dominant theme is that "revitalization, improvement, quality-of-life and opportunities for the future" are all catch phrases to hide gentrification, equating wealthy speculators with "good , honest people" and all the reasons why bulldoz ing the DTES is in everybody's best interests. The rea lity underlying this is the results of financial inequality, classism and the not-a­stakeholder label wrapped around most low­income people - wrapped so tight that the blatant hope is that we strangle in it.

It seems to be more of what you can get someone to believe that hides the stuff going on. Witness the export of the " American dream" worldwide that somehow convinces everyone how wonderful things are in North America- but the poverty,

homelessness, disease, want and oppression are as tangible as anywhere else. But if al l you get is John Wayne and Bruce Willis and Tom Cruise and George Bush, streets must stil l be paved with gold.

With the Olympic Games, the media and all on board are going to great lengths to ignore home­lessness, poverty, land claims, the promises about housing made to get the bid and then systematically broken, the continual cover-up on using the Games ~ t~e blanket excuse to get massive redevelopment, ?llhons on highway and venue projects rolling like a J~ggemaut over all manner of community consulta­tiOn, common sense and basic decency to make as much for as few as possible. A guy named Kurt Yonnegut wrote a bit in one of his books about this: " I have never seen a more sublime demonstration

of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be lik­ened unto a syste m of gears whose teeth have been filed off at random. Such a snaggle-toothed thought machine, driven by a standard or even a sub­sta.ndard libido, whirls with the jerky, noisy, gaudy pomtlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell.

[.We] wrongly think that there are no gears in the mm~ [of the monopoly, corporate capitalist] , and say You're completely crazy."

[The narrow-minded boobs bent on accumulating "unlimited wealth and power"] aren't completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic total i­tarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are ex­quisitely machined. .Hence t~e cuckoo clock in Hell - keeping perfect

ttme for e1ght minutes and thirty-three seconds j~mping ~ead fourteen minutes, keeping perf~ct t1me for SIX seconds, jumping ahead two seconds keeping perfect time for two hours and one seco~d then jumping ahead a year. '

The missing teeth, of course, are simple obvious truths, trut~s available and comprehensibie even to ten year-olds, m most cases."

. The one point of this is to ask that you take noth­mg at face value . Always ask " what is being said and what is not being said/" Why does someone want me to believe what they are saying?!" The answers to these simple questions open a whole new world. The future is up to us.

PRT

DEGA'I DOME.SIIC cally deny being the enemy what have they made you

New Vancouver s lithers into decay, once our dreams do what the hell did they do for you a promise and and other foolishness like good intentions are locked everythina is good then reality appears shaped as

h somethingb quite blunt, i really promise to stick with up forever and like most wishes it's t rown away, d hammering out differences left and right and right and one theme but my mind has gone to far my front an wrong, ST.MINUS always said not to get high hopes back are both waving up front, NOW i don't know

how to save anything accept unneeded letters and cuz people who have been there will gladly show you the ropes if songs under the floor boards play all day words, I'll get back to the truth but first stop burning long, you will never make me hate music the way you my letters, for everyone gone history shuffles along took hockey. This World, this insane country and once time to go hope whoever is in the most pain starts an awesome city has come to pass and is just plain getting better Thank you P.S. stuttering is now against

fi.ltl t th . th 1 th truth 1·s be1·ng the law·,ifyou'resoslowwehaven'tanyplaceatall! aw 1 1e ru IS ere so gurg e, e burnt one letter at a time as Santa Claus wonders aloud I-------~-:Bmy_R~O;-B7E7R_T_M-:c~G_I-:LfiLIII'"V:":RA~-y-(Do I still have a job?) always a pleasant answer given 10~ j4HH iL ?J.NI'I that man, when achievements stop meaning anything 1 know how to live in a fantasy, like transcending life is there a Train to anywhere else sighting like rumours and reality. 1 find I have, in order to survive, yet it is and promises just don't mean a damn, stick to that not a constant to stay aware, to keep alive. I've got truth you will trip much less over memorized lies yet lots of troubles yet don' t we all : to avoid, stumble, that day you actually prayed to never come is here, crash, then fal l. I often wonder, "Oh what's the use!" I've just entered PHOBOS land as I've just learned .. but I try to remain stable no matter what transpires PHOBOS is Greek for fear, a coward dies a thousand a long with all the abuse. You've been there too so death !learned new words this is a give and take place don't try to deceive me .. just don't feel bad. Be your-to be, all the hellos and good-byes in the universe self and you'll be fine. could easily destroy this domestic decay-themed soci- 1 used to take on other characterizations, playing a ety, there will be no 21 st century magicians pulling a person that was far from me, but I guess everyone never ending line of phones out of his pocket Fuck off does that _ it's human nature - no harm/no foul as STOP IT convenience to you is air water and a mate to long as no one gets hurt and no one hates you. Still I intercourse to not everyone is normal like the feath- want to daydream, live in a parallel universe and just ered haired good looking and better looking cloths this imagine worlds where all is well. I often get the urge is how fr iends are made to recognize each other eve- to punch a one-way ticket but then come to my senses ryone else no one cares totally excellent times when because that wouldn't be right; wouldn't fix it. you picked last even Claude Rains (invisible) got cho- 1 achieve all this completely drug-free yet, when 1 do sen before you but life is not ever going to be fair,time return, it's never meekly .. never without a struggle. for medication then off to coffee inspiration some of All that aside, I'm forever slipping, sliding, riding on my work was done best there, the anger and doubt i the tail of a fire-breathing dragon! And you think can't shake out is saved for you every meaningless 'that's a laugh; this dude's gone batty with his cuckoo word or lack thereof i don't accept blame anymore. crazy mind a-wandering.' I don't much care for your Time or anywhere, more ideas to come but this where or that point of view ' cause if I feel fine that's all that the pen stops and my brain shuts down have to go only really counts. End of debate. I know where I've been so many troubles can be balanced at once these are and where I'm going. facts and facts take time a lot of money and you can Well, that's about it. I've said my piece and construe-always hire someone to care, like sending a member of tive criticism doesn't bother me at all. Have you got your team to go on ahead and check out these violent the vision to rise above the white noise? Have you got reports in some place called Syria the capital of grief the inner vision to be well above the fray?! Sure you or at least the flavour of what is now, who gives a shit do: on this one friends I absolutely guarantee you've about a one night riot fuck right off and use your abil- got the inner strength and sheer will power to release ity to be quiet or you will have nothing to bow with let your mind and soul onto the plane of a higher power. alone to and how, so the evi l justifies the ends every ROBYN LIVINGSTONE. country has you down as condemned but you categori-

Dear Sir or Madam: • To Whom lt lVlay Loncern: Please help with lack of funding plight I wish to express my support for funding for the for our Newsletter gives us might , Carnegie Newsletter. It gives local talents a voice Over th~ ~ears I have always look~d forwar~ to the_ it's our community's pride & poise regular ed1t10~ of th~ Ne~sletter. l~ IS al~ays mform Without Newsletter we might lose the fight ative concernmg van?us 1ss~es gomg on m our _co~-

. • h d l'ght munity· it helps keepmg us mformed and to mamtam to our enem1es s eer e 1 • , Mila Klimova a good sense of caring.

f One of the greatest things I enjoy is the avenue o f 1, U ct"'S creativity that it provides for our community mem-1\.. bers. lt seems no matter who you are or the walk of

It's come to my attention that the funding to the Car­negie newsletter, which has been in print for more than 23 years, has recently been cut by the provincial gaming department, apparently on the grounds that "The Carnegie Newsletter is not a program." Such hairsplitting, so banal as hardly to merit my response, nevertheless finds me wondering, why wouldn't the newsletter qualify for the distinction of "program" if the term means "a planned series of future events, items, or performances"?

For what is the Carnegie Newsletter but a planned performance, via text, of "the dynamic of li fe and struggle," as well as a venue "to let all manner of physical, mental, and spiritual creativity have expres­sion," to quote your website. It's also a program that works: as the website also reports, the Carnegie Newsletter is "one of the most read and respected publications in the Downtown Easts ide."

In a century in which so many pe rformances-­programs--are mediated, both digita lly and textually, it's unfair to suggest that a news letter designed to give voice to the DTES cannot be a performance or an event. But it is so plainly obvious that the flexibility of the term "program" is an excuse for the department to cut funding without any accountability. The effect will be a tremendous loss of voice to one of the city's most vulnerable communities, not to mention one of its most dynamic. The silence will be deafening. As a result, I want to share my opposition to the deci­

sion to cut funding to the Carnegie Newsletter and give you my permission to share thi s letter as part of your appeal. Please be in touch v ia email if you have questions or would like me to clarify my comments on this issue. And keep up your wonderful, vital, nec­essary work.

* Monica M. Brown PhD Candidate Department of Eng) ish. UBC

life you have taken you will be respected and_ accept­ed here to be published. The empowerment g1ven the­se folks is incredible. I'm sure there is an extra skip in their walk and a large smile on their faces the day

their issue comes out. This publication is an icon of our community that

instills pride and joy to all of us living here. That joy lies in the love, sweat and hard work of all the volun­teers who make it possible as they share their com­mitment to the newsletter and the greater community. Thank You to them all! !

Please help by maintaining funding for the Carnegie

Newsletter. Thank You. ~. . ~ ~ John Fraser

Hello: My name is Pat Haram and l would like to see fund-

ing remain for the Carnegie Newsletter. . This has been a v ital service for the commumty for a long time and is very informative in letting people know what is going on locally and globally.

Carnegie Newsletter is an intricate part of the com­munity and should remain so. If you must cut fund­ing, find it somewhere else!

Dear Sir or Madam,

I' m writing to express my support for the Carnegie Newsletter.

The Newsletter has been a rock of Gibraltar for the poor and marginalized s ince 1986.

It has changed lives, given individuals hope and pre­sented clear and concise facts that are never recorded in the main stream media.

It is my opinion that the Carnegie Newsletter is an accurate representation of what it used to mean to be a "True Canadian".

It would be a shame and a sham to lose it. S incere ly, Ms. A.C.Zenk

Vancouver Moving Theatre & DTES Heart of the City Festival in partnership with the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre present

Storyweaving Weaving First Nation Memories from the Past into the Future

A multi-disciplinary event honouring First Nations ancestral ond urban presence in Greater Vancouver. Twining stories, poems and personal memories with oro/ histories woven from cultural teachings, West Coast dances ond the ancient bone go m e of 5/aha/.

May 11-13 & 18-20, 2012 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sunday Matinees at 2 pm

Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre, Chief Simon Baker Room, 1607 East Hastings Street Sliding scale $0. $20 pay at door. Event Information: 604-628-5672

www .vancouvermovingtheatre.com; www .heartofthecityfestival.com; www. vafcs.org

Storyweaving is about giving voice to those that have lived within and around the Canadian legislation of the Indian Act. Storyweaving is about our hopes for a good future, guided by the principles of our cultural past. Renae Morriseau

The project's team of exceptional artists includes, among others, award winning Renae Morriseau (director), Jeff Harrison (lighting), Bob Baker, Wes Nahanee, Loni Williams (Spakwus Slulum Dancers), Mike and Mique'l Dangeli (Git Hayetsk Dancers), Jenifer Brousseau, Quelem ia Sparrow, elders Sam George and Marge C. White, and DTES involved performers Sue Blue, Brenda Prince, Steven Lytton, Priscillia Tait and Muriei"X" Williams.

SURVIVING ON THE STREET I like to paint what I see .. . and feel.. mostly people trying to get a footing on this ' \tneven

earth' ~eople taking a beati_ng on streets I knew so well as a boy. Often I hear myself saying to these fhends

0Don't throw m the towel. Hang in 'til all hell breaks loose.' SurvivaJ means

toughness of flesh, bone, spirit.

SamRoddan

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