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the Carnegie Newsletter; lie w-rote about how the history of the DTES and our never-ending struggle for justice, for human rights, was something that made us / the community we are, a community unique in its I challenges, its diversity, and its unquenchable spirit; some considered him the to be the conscience of the DTES. Tom Wayman said of him that, "he never saw his opponents as less than human," and that level of dignity - when there are so many easy reasons to hate the elite Sandy Cameron - "Memory is - survives as a roadmap for how best to call them on their self-righteous rationalizations without having to the Mother of Community" descend to their level. He was a social activist; he By Debra McNaught spoke out against ~entrification and racism, against There are people just born with a different light inside the class inequality that continues to pit the rich them, a better way of thinking they bring into the against the poor, about the need for housing and world with them, a light of a kind that when it goes against legislated poverty, and about the loss of the out we know we will not see its like again anytime murdered and missing. SOOI1. Sandy Cameron was, I believe, that kind of-man. Through high school and university Sandy had Between the reminisces of those who knew him best worked as a logger and a miner, a definite contrast to and the legacy of written works and the deeds he left the life he was born to. Immersed in working class in his generous wake, Sandy Cameron was an inspiraculture he came to understand the concerns of the tion for so many. He truly was a DTES hero, one of working class: the need for better wages, better living our finest. We are fortunate he spent a good part of his and working conditions, for better social programs. life here in our community, that he felt his most imHe worked for 30 years as a teacher and at many levportant work took place down here, but he also els. He taught First Nations in Northern Ontario, and touched & inspired many people in many other places. in Lytton, Victoria and Vancouver, and had a special He began life in Toronto, in 1931, born to an upper place in his heart for the indigenous peoples; as Jean middle class family. The well-to-do, especially the states, "From them he learned what he called 'a way of being in the world' that helped his own life become Scots of "Upper Canada" stock, sent their kids to camp in the summer, and it is there his lifelong love of more meaningful." He taught public school, literacy and upgrading classes, at university level, and with the the outdoors first took hold. Many of the poems he wrote are so lush with exquisitely drawn natural impoor bastards in prison, but I think he was the kind of agery reading them takes you - momentarily - from man who taught without even trying, one of those people who inspired you just by breathing, a mentor wherever you are to where he was, so that you see the colours he did, you set the trees against a night sky who always left you wanting to learn more, wanting to be a better person than you were. He arrived in British where "stars settled among her branches like birds," the wildlife he encountered, and the splendid weight Columbia in 1965, and in 1985 he came to Vancouver. of mountains and glaciers and forests. His poems That same year he met Jean Swanson; they became a make you remember how beautifully magnificent this bonded pair and together a positive force for change unceded territory truly is. And when he wrote about that continues today. the injustice he witnessed ... well those poems make He was a man of the kind that when you learn about what kind of a person he was you wish you had the you cry. But poetry was not Sandy's only literary gift. He opportunity to know him while he was still around. He wrote about what he saw happening around him, about mentored so many people, and inspired many more to the relentless bullshit perpetrated on low-income peocontribute what they could for the greater good of all ples by every level of government, about deliberate of us here in the DTES. The true measure of a person marginalization and legislated mdifference, and his is whether or not they leave the world a little sweeter quiet outrage was our own. He wrote many essays for than when they arrived, and by all accounts Sandy

lived a life lit by all the right and passionate things that human existence can and should be. Sandy felt strongly that memory was what ultimately holds us together, that shared life and housing and poverty experiences become our shared memories, and from there forge bonds between people of different backgrounds and different ethnic groups here in our community. The DTES itself is what holds us all together, the mother that lights us all, and we are the stronger for it. They are trying to take our community away - from all of us - so we are all in this together; if we want to survive we have to be. And we do it together. Sandy died in October of2010. I would like to thank Jean Swans on for generously lending me some of Sandy's work for the purpose of this edition of Lives Lived.

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Old Man/OldMaple On May 6, 1977, Richard Si. Barbe Baker, "man ofthe trees," visited the home of Philip Paul' in the Tsartlip community of the Saanich Nation. Baker died in June 1982, at the age of 92. He came to US, the old man, and talked of the death of trees.

"The life of a tree is our life," we said. 'The memory of a tree is our memory." The old man knew this, he who had fought to save the Redwoods in California. "There is an ancient Maple not far from here," we said. "Perhaps you'd like to ... " "Yes," the old man said. "I'd like to meet that tree, for such trees carry wisdom with their years." We brought some candles as it was night, and dark the starlit path. With Philip helping the old man we went in single file a line offiretly lights sparks from the fire. We walked as shadows, and the shadows of trees moved to our moving. The night was alive with listening. It was a long way but not far, , dark but the direction was clear. The old man loved the earth. We would take him to this tree which stood like a mountain, a church steeple, â€˘ a ladder between heaven and earth. We formed a circle 'round the giant Maple, smiling a little, pleased that we were there; and-shy, too, awed at the love we 'gave and we received. We Stood in a cave oflight, and the great tree held the night in her arms gently, as a mother. Stars settled among her branches like birds. "See where the tree has been scarred. by lightning," the old man said. "It has overcome, though, and is more beautiful than ever. So it is with us." Some of the candles had gone out, and were re-lit from other candles, "This tree is my friend," the old man said. "We are both made of stardust; we share the same Creator;

now the trees which have given us so much need our protection. We must care enough ... care enough ... " and he touched his forehead to the tree. We returned to the house, a line of firefly lights sparks from the fire the old tree standing like a mountain, a church steeple, a ladder between heaven and earth. Stars settled among her branches like birds. Sandy Cameron [Sparks/ront

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• Philip Paul was a Councillor and later Chief of the Tsartlip Band. He helped found the Southern Vancouver Island Tribal Federation, the Union of B. C. Indian Chiefs and the National Indian Brotherhood. In 1967 he developed a Native Studies Program at the Institute of Adult Studies, later renamed Camosun College, and along with many other Saanich people, he helped to build their own Tribal School. Philip died in December 1992.

Carnegie Patrons, Message #1 In light of the recent fentanyl crisis, the number of overdoses our Security staff are attending to has been increasing. As most of the incidents take place in the public washrooms & an immediate response is required, we have taken a number of proactive steps. These steps include the following: Camegie is a recognized first-aid naloxone program facility. T.J;1is means we have naloxone kits on site. Providing ongoing training to security staff to administer Naloxone. Washroom doors are being refitted with new closures for easier access in the event of an emergency or overdose response. Until then, we have installed a temporary closing mechanism at the top of each door. Security will increase their daily patrols/rounds throughout the building, with a focus on the washrooms to keep people 'safe. This may mean, security staff entering the washroom if they have good reason to think someone is in duress.

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, for DTES community members and friends and family regarding the Fentanyl/overdose crisis. Service providers from VANDU, PHS, Fire, VCH and Carnegie Centre will speak regarding the response being made by first responders, front line staff and friends and neighbours. We will also seek feedback from the community regarding the impact of the crisis and suggestions for what further actions could be taken. Many people are making a huge effort to save lives and we want to come together to support each other and to share our response to this medical crisis.

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Friday, December 16th 11:00-12:00 Carnegie Theatre Message # 2 Carnegie Patrons, If you or anyone you know has been asked to leave the Carnegie Centre and not been given a return date, you may now return with no further action on your part. The only exceptions are for those people who left under police escort or have a standing court order to not come to the Carnegie Centre. We will continue to provide a peaceful, welcoming and secure environment for the use of community members . Feel free to contact Sharon Belli atCarnegie Centre if you would like more information.

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The Sad Siren Song in the Downtown Eastside To Whom This All Should Be Concerned: My name is Tracey Morrison. I am an Ojibwe women who resides in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, BC. I volunteer and work in this very diverse community for 15 years and will continue to do so. I acknowledge that I can live, work and play on these unceded territories belonging to the Coast Salish People. Having respect for the people on which territory I live on is a must and writing this letter is a must. When I hear the sad song of sirens that ring in my neighbourhood every day, all day I am dreading on to hear the story if this person made it or not. This emergency crisis on Overdoses and the death toll here in this city I love so much is inconceivable, so hard to understand why can't this problem be solved or helped? Why isn't what we are doing, working? The Lights of emergency vehicle isn't what I want to see every block I want to see Christmas lights. I believe that the War on the Poor has a lot to do about this. The laws need to change which is a pipe dream. We as a society an residents of the DTES needs to ally together to do positive change. I know writing this letter is not going to do anything to change but for me it's a start. I am going to send this letter to people I know, organizations and levels of different stakeholders. I am proud to be apart of The Naloxone Training at 501 Powell with the City. (230 trained) The Public Forum with the City at City Hall, Dec 8th, I do a lot of my own outreach on the street thru selling of my bannock usually in the evenings. 1 want to also acknowledge that all the unsung heroes in our community who are doing their part but ask yourself how can I help? Not just people who resides in the DTES but all of the Greater Vancouver and Canada. All levels of government, all non-profits, BIA's of Vancouver, health authorities (VCH, FNHA etc.), VPD, housing of all kinds, etc. That is all I want for Christmas for all to ally together and Stop the Drug War, Stop the War on the Poor and to be able all to work together and help our people who are the most dis criminalized, stigmatized, and marginalized. Thank you. All My Relations, Tracey Morrison

- from the Library December is a busy time around the Carnegie Centre, and if you're free on Saturday December 17th at 11am - lpm do join us in the Art Room for Winter Solstice Crafts. Hives for Humanity are hosting beeswax candle-making along with the DTES Women's Memorial Quilt committee and VPL Digital Services, who are encouraging Carnegie locals to record a memory for the website, "Remembering our DTES Women" featuring the Women's Memorial Quilt As a Librarian, I highly approve of the Icelandic Christmas Eve tradition called "Jolabokaflod" or "Christmas Book Flood." Essentially, everyone gives each other a book and then they read all night. Here are some books that might make interesting gifts, or at least be worthy of borrowing: Game Ch angers: the Unsung Heroines of Sports History (2016) by Molly Schiot. This is a most beautiful book full of photos and stories about female athletes, coaches, and journalists who have overcome adversity to compete or promote women in sport. Every page is inspiring featuring motorcycle racers, Korean underwater "Sea Women," to bullfighters, tennis players, and boxers. When Breath Becomes Air (2016) by Paul Kalanithi . While the VPL "request" list is a bit daunting, the book is worth the wait. The author, a young neurosurgeon discovers he has advanced lung cancer & shares his thoughts on what makes life worth living in the face of death. A Handmade Life: in Search of Simplicity (2007) by William S. Coperthwaite. If you know someone who loves making things with their hands and living in a simple way, operthwaite's wise way of being will resonate. He experiments with creating hand tools, making shelter and furnishings from wood, and he challenges mainstream living. Sing for Your Life: a Story of Race, Music, and Family (2016) by Daniel Bergner. For a musician, especially an opera singer to perform with New York's Metropolitan Opera would be a lifetime dream. Bergner's story, as an African American opera singer who overcame childhood violence and poverty makes the accomplishment even more wonderful. May the Christmas season bring you a sense of belonging, community and even jcy! Your librarian, Natalie

Gospel Autopsy Song Life is captivity walls built out of hostility I don't so much like this idea but as long as thoughts are free, imagine a government surprisingly coherent it must be now that the most evil choice has been taken god do you see what I see? Has anyone thought of let alone prepared for the bleak next twenty years it is only human realities of grandeur have taught all to run & fear I find disquietude like I to be the perfect excuse. When you've got nothing to fall back on validity of life becomes a narcotic something what hole can you fill are you a labourerlblacksmith can you carry a tune a sense of timing is much more than a skill find it before Shadows Lengthened Inc finds you. Mister god why are murderers set free is it to force or show force the poor need more than guarantees Hey minister of other ministers pay hikes what have we done to be treated like last week's trash? Why are so many finding relief in self-harm & accidental overdose death I am sure a lot of them were not on purpose trying to kill themselves but other lives are nothing but a mess we are looking at a gospel autopsy crash, like looking through mirrors for an afterlife that only reflects astronomical body counts is god a dictator or another drug addict on his knees no peeking reflections do not count there're 4 guys on horseback saying something about an apocalypse, they have been waiting oh so long back when the sun had brothers & sisters but Pestilence War Conquest Death each smothered one to its demise leaving us one moon and a collection of stars with a single sunrise just out of reach (at least for now) of selfishists' fingertips. By ROBERT McGILLIVRA Y

BLUE SPAGHETTI I'm feeling blue -- "I'll have a blue Christmas without you." It's not even past American Thanksgiving and already Christmas decorations are up and stores are playing Christmas carols. "Buy, buy, buy ..."

This 11:;hdayseason I am not even at my friend's, so where will I go? Memories of Christmases past, being alone and being homeless. Where will I go? It's depressing. At least the good ole "Sandstone Lady" is open -- the Camegie that never sleeps. Phoenix Winter

Day By Day Step by step and day by day Life going by come what may People lining up in the old soup line Gulls are awaiting for a sandwich rind Church bells ringing nobody comes A lady with a cart and a few old bums Hotels are home to the lost and the poor The crazy the alkie the addict and the whore Going round and around the same old block It's up, down, weed, and rock Red lights flashing sirens in the night Two roll in the gutter and have a fight Preacher in the pulpit folks on their knees Sing for your supper got to say please Guy in a wheelchair missing one leg Pushed by a guy who helps him begÂˇ Could go for a doobie maybe a beer This old street is missing some cheer Sun up above has lost his smile Won't be long just a little while Some sleep on a bench maybe a pew Better watch your stuff or it's stole from you Buildings are dilapidated been all let go Owners want to flip 'em and make some dough There's money in the banks but none for the poor Gold in the vault guarded and secure The rich get richer with a big slice of the pie The poor eat the crumbs oh my oh my You can look in the window but none is for you It just ain't fair but what can you do? Down on the corner people mill around In a dance of death with no music no sound Cops patrol on Hastings confiscate goods People trying to make a buck but treated like hoods Ain't gonna tell you nothing you ain't heard before Someday someone is gonna' declare war Take it from the rich and give it to the poor The lost and the crazy the alkie and the whore ~ Rats in the alley pigeons in the eaves The cold wind gusts among the swirling leaves, Patrick Foley

Silence of the Page what a paradox silence you wish for and then become crushingly lonely for some sound other than the ringing in your ears or your own heartbeat you succumb to the technology and fire up the computer and play the stream as your personal sound track now the dreams 1 wanted to put to page have gone to where ever dreams go to hide and I'm left with the silence of the page

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J have been through the doubt and in the silence of the page feel little outrage , and a poignant nothingness is all that remains then honky tonk piano with wailing alto sax leads the high stepping funeral parade didn't he ramble didn't he gamble wasn't he the last man standing wasn't he last one singing and a stepping wasn't he the one that used a smile and the just right words to heal a broken heart

my muse puts on her mask as we complete our appointed task and know our foot steps i hear in my delirium were the echoes of my past preparing me at last for the silence of the page John Ward-Leighton

The Year in Review from the Carnegie Learning Centre We had a wonderful year all in all. One on One tutoring, computer help, help out with government applications, Chinese computer tutoring, resume help, writing workshops - geez we do it all in this place. Every year about 8,550 volunteer hours are devoted to the learning centre by our dedicated volunteer contingent. For the summer holidays we are totally volunteer run while staff takes their much deserved break. Lucy and Betsy are much loved and their leadership is very much appreciated by students and tutors alike. The year started off with our Chinese New Years celebration. Every colour and kind of food is brought in by our Chinese Students. We tell new year's stories and have a lot of fun. This is the biggest holiday of the year for many of our students and we love the colour and traditions that this celebration brings us The next event we celebrated this year was St Patrick's Day. Our resident decorator and Sign Language Instructor, Videha, constructed a giant leprechaun with a hole in its face for us to take pictures of each other as little green men!. Such fun we had that morning. ~ Lucy and Videha In the spring we applied for a Small Neighbourhood Grant to hold an event called "Poetry in the Park". About 60 of our students, tutors and friends of the Learning Centre went to Crab Park on a cloudy spring day. Everybody read their own poetry or stories while they enjoyed a hearty lunch of baked chicken, potato salad and watermelon galore. These are some pictures from the event:

And then it was summer and our volunteers stood up as usual to keep the LC open all summer. Before we knew it, summer was over and school was back in session. It was great to have Betsy and Lucy back to get us organized for the fall. We had two events for the Heart of the City Festival this year. We held a writing workshop with the Invisible Heroes group on November 3rd and an event called Learning Centre Live on November 5th. We had poetry. skits, singing and digital storytelling .. Both events were very well received by the festival-going public this year plus we all had a lot of fun putting them together. ~ ~John, Johnny and Gilles reading their poetry at Learning Centre Live We just had our annual Holiday Party this week and once again we wrapped up our year in great style .' We realized that our Learning Centre has had this holiday party every year for 18 years and we hope to continue this tradition for many years to come!

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C.~H'r .w!tlT The Provincial election is coming up this spring, but we still don't know what opposition parties like the New Democratic Party (NDP) will do to address the unprecedented housing crisis for low-income people. Our Homes Can't Wait held a Town Hall meeting on Dec 14 with two NOP MLAs - Melanie Mark & David Eby with the objective of putting housing and homelessness on the election agenda. This year saw record high homelessness in the Downtown Eastside, with over 1000 people living on the streets and in shelters in our neighbourhood. The Downtown Eastside is now scattered with tents and smaller tent cities, as people struggle to survive without homes, shelter and on abysmally low welfare rates. As a result of government inaction and the criminalization of homelessness, homeless people have half the life expectancy of other BC residents. 'let the recent housing announcement by the provincial government would only house about 100 more low income people in the Downtown Eastside if rents in all the new units are at welfare/pension rate, At the same time, we continue to lose SRO hotel rooms as gentrification pushes up rents. This year the city's lease ~n the Quality Inn will also expire, effectively removmg 157 rooms from the affordable housing list. The housing crisis has never been worse, and we need all political parties to commit to real measures to address the housing crisis. This includes rent control 10,000 social housing units per year with at least 10 social housing sites in the Downtown Eastside and measures to improve and save the SRO hotels in our neighbourhood. There will be a comprehensive article on what steps those at this meeting agreed on, but the next Newsleter is on January 16, 2017. If you want to learn sooner ~nd get ~nvolved, go to the Carnegie Community Action Project's website.

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This is what the bookmark sized card said that I was handed on Wednesday November 30 while gathered with my friends at our weekly Firestarters writing group in the Learning Centre (except the subtitle which is mine). One ofCarnegie's security people politely asked if we were interested in this gathering which was just about to start downstairs in the theater. We decided to go ,more out of curiosity & hunger (we had just discussed our lunch plans a couple minutes before; lunch is a ritual together after we write). On the invitation, there was a picture of the VPD chief, Adam Palmer in full crisp clean uniform sporting a rather congenial smile. Below is the time and place. No agenda, no particular subject, just simply "Lunch With the Chief'. Downstairs we were escorted to a table, given a ticket for a prize draw and sat at a table adorned with white tablecloths peopled like the others in the room with VPD officers in uniform and plainclothes and us 'common' folks in our unique uniforms. We were served fresh fat sandwiches, Greek salad & coffee, tea, water or pop. Plus a nice fresh fruit plate was put on the tabJe later on that was quite a hit. The atmosphere was friendly, there were introductions, pleasant conversation, the odd 'cop' joke here and there and I even noticed some police exchanging contact information with some of us there. Just before the food was served a First Nations elder shared some words of wisdom and reminded us all of the way of his ancestors--how the spirit of community in all relations was simply the way it was, period. After we had eaten the Chief let us know the 'agenda' of this day and announced that 2 of the 3 speakers were soon to take the floor. And that it was 2 women from the Urban Native Youth Association. Good, I thought: the youth, our future. The first speaker, Dena Klashinsky, Executive Director of the association, spoke a bit about the UNY A its progress and community connections with police and other services. And she talked about future plans of building a new center and over one hundred affordable social housing units at the corner of Commercial and Hastings. The young woman with her, Leila Williams, is a Youth Board member belonging to the Association for --

12 years and said glowing and positive things of her involvement there. She talked of her own goal to get on staff there as her role in a career in some important capacity. The last speaker to take the mic was another First Nations elder named Rose. She fearlessly shared some of her personal story of being on the streets and all the tough things that accompany being a poor and often homeless user of substances And she also shared rising above that and making a movie about violence towards women. I personally was touched by her closing words which were--"We must share our strengths with all down here. We are all brothers and sisters. This is our community and we must care for one another in order to be and stay united and strong" The Chief then took the floor again and drew a couple dozen numbers for some treats which was a nice little bonus. In closing he simply stated that is their job to do their best to keep us all safe, stay connected to the people and organizations to be able to help one another grow in strength and show our youth the importance of this. In summary, the gathering was geared (as the First Nations elder said at the start) simply towards the 'spirit' of community. Sharing and sustenance provided in a friendly manner by our Vancouver Police from a neutral position as genuine people who understand and are receptive to the needs of us humans especially in this 'hood' we call the downtown eastside. Past, present and future were examined and the youth were given an excellent example of how they need to act as future leaders. And, as the subtitle of this article states, "true religion at Carnegie theatre" this is a perfect example of what took place-here this day. The word religion itself; is derived from the Latin language, as much English is and means simply-- TO CONNECT. J h J k' o nny awors

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Same City-Hall Bullshit, Different Committee: CEDSAC does not want your Input! By Joey, Eh? The CEDSAC - Community Economic Development Strategic Action Committee - keeps pretending it wants input from those of us who live here in the DTES. It seems every couple of weeks I get approached from one representative of the committee or other, encouraging me to take an active part by contributing to the deliberations, attending the meetings, making suggestions that will "improve" the neighbourhood, etc etc. The urgency behind this push, and I know they are asking pretty much any DTES resident (I'm not that important, in other words, not the only one they're asking) is because then they can claim just like in the LAP (Local Area Plan) - that they "consulted" with the people whose neighbourhood is being gentrified out of existence. This effectively lets them off the hook because now they can claim that they listened, that they "consulted" with us, "but nothing concrete came of it" for the simple reason that all our suggestions are in opposition to their already decided-upon strategies. The developers, the greedy entrepreneurs, the Strathcona Business Improvement Association, the realtors, and City Hall itself - none of whom actually live down here - have already made their plans, and their plans have no room for us. Latest evidence of this? There was a meeting at City Hall last week where deputations from the committee and other interested parties were present to hear the report authored by Wes Regan and make presentations of their own. Everybody's presentation was recorded by digital camera except the two representatives from the low-income community. Can you say blatant disrespect and deliberate noninclusion? Sure you can. They fucked us on the LAP and they are in the process of fucking us with CEDSAC, and the Emperor with No Clothes keeps asking us to join the party .

street sermon (after hearing one too many preachers haranguing about hell-fire on granville street) brothers and sisters fellow low-life listen we are in luck one guy at least came just for us a tremendous low-life jesus he didn't come down here to this blood-stew for no limousine riders no bible thumpers no hotshot angle-shooters no came down here I believe it's the truth for me and you I mean junkies winos hookers cripples crazies thieves welfare bums and homeless freaks lowest of the low least of all do your parents hate you? your teachers hate you? po-lice hate you? your friends hate you? you hate you? you're really in luck nowhere to go? everybody hated jesus too you got nowhere to live? nowhere to hang your hat') jesus said to a cat 'even the foxes of the field to lay their weary ass down and the birds of the air got somewhere but not me oh no' do people scorn you? put you down? tell stories about what a problem you are? a judge told me I was of no use to society the president of a university told me I was trash and obscene my own mother god bless her told me I was the world's biggest asshole but all that just makes me eligible to hook up withjesus who got nailed up bleeding sweating balls-naked to a wooden cross to take all that bad bullshit off my back jesus tells you not to hate your own self which is easy to do out here running around like a fool but just ask jesus he'll help you with that 'love yourself he says 'so you can love somebody as unloved and unlovable as you been' I mean jesus didn't come all this way go through all that trouble to send you and me to hell no maybe these other soft successful types I don't know but not you and me bona fide losers you and I know this world is all the hell we're going to see jesus came to cool us out from this hell right here right now for real with love not handcuffs editorials or plastic gloves do you slash-up? overdose? drink lysol or some shit? stick rigs in your arms? or pull a knife on somebody else? well jesus is just for you he was the world's all-time biggest loser

the straight people he said lowlife scum

the priests and judges hated him because would get to heaven before they did

and at the end when jesus needed his friends they all took off on him except for a hooker named magdalen but all his close friends split said 'no way {don't know him' except for his friendjudas who turned jesusin to crimestoppers his friends made him take the rap all alone you know how that feels and jesus kept his mouth shut when pontius pilate the chief of police ~ wanted jesus to cop-out

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so if you feel misunderstood nobody know how you feel or what you talking about that's jesus too he know about you he been through it and don't you allow these puffed-up self-righteous chumps sell you no goody-goody jesus shit no jesus got pissed off plenty times when jesus was kept saying jesus told them your enemy money-grubbing give it up

wandering around no bus fare all his buddies 'what should we do? what should we do? we're scared' 'lay down your life for your friends and if rip-off your coat give him your shoes too give up this power-tripping fantasy-acting ego bullshit and you won't be scared nb more'

but jesus got nailed-up between two thieves just another criminal and everybody thought so little of jesus was down on him so bad they let a mad terrorist bomber go free instead of him but jesus told that thief hanging on the cross next door like he telling you and me right now today this very hour man '1 take you with me to paradise' jesus told a death-row thief he was going to take him to paradise jesus didn't tell a stockbroker he told the brokers and promoters the way you going' a young banker 'I dig your rap what I gotta do?'

didn't tell a rock promoter 'you can't get to paradise came up to jesus said and jesus told him 'give it up

brother' said 'give all your money to the poor the punks the drunks the bums give it up' and that banker did to jesus what most people do to you when you got your hand out he just walked away 'anything but my sports car'

in his own home-town they called jesus a crazy motherfucker 1 been called crazy lots of time I in my home-town locked up in the nuthouse to prove it andjesus they told him <we know you boy don't go pullin no fuckin miracles around here' and tried to grab his ass r but he ran fast damn but you know what that's like)

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and if you think you got trouble just keeping your name straight Jesus confused many fools with that <are you god or what?' they were always asking him he said <who do you say that I am?' a smart-ass jesus was always being told <you can't do that it's against the rules it's against the law' butjesus talking about the spirit body and soul I the whole deal real real life not just social insurance nu~bers and fingerprints

and jesus believed in having a good time told those tight-ass bastards his kingdom was like a wedding reception and first thing jesus did was turn water into wine so they wouldn't run out and the authorities called him a drunkard I but jesus just kept saying <help each other love each other no matter what it's the only thing you can count on' I

so fellow lowlife just know jesus loves you if nobody else does I know he loves me f especially when Ixion't love myself or anybody else it's hard to believe in love] 'in this cruel city in this nightmare time that everybody else pretends is just fine but remember I no matter what kind of nasty shit you pull jesus loves you in fact you can't make jesus not love you

I but when you been an insult but not with jesus out of your helped you make it

kicked around since you were born love is like <oh we love you so much we want to hurt you some more' when you suffering real bad just reach a hand heart and he'll help you make it jesus has already you just difn't know it

and the gospel tell you the gospel just the highlights of a lowlife jesus believed in the devil too the devil that runs around in him and her and me and you and all over everyplace else seems like jesus knew the devil personally but jesus didn't go on and on about some therapy-self-help-socialworker-shrink-headedvictim-disease-shit jesus knew we couldn't be this crazy this miserable this goddamned mean and vicious without a lot of help

from the devil jesus knows we're in this world

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kick-boxed the devil right out of people and easily possessed by all the crap knows all this stuff

so the devil came to see jesus one on one whenjesus was strung-out from not eating and hanging-out in the desert near kamloops and the devil said to jesus 'if you're such a bigshot turn this stone into a loaf of bread and feed yourself than do and jesus said 'forget you I' cl rather be hungry what you tell me to do' did you ever do that? refuse and have people say 'you don't know what's good for you? then the devil said to jesus 'look here Ishow you all the world cars drugs power sex beer in the whole world I'll give you all that just say you're mine' but jesus could not be bought and the devil kept working on him the devil said 'okay you so stupid jump off this cliff and see if your big daddy save you like you always talking about' jesus just laughed he knew better Ihaven't always known better though those deals the devil offeredjesus sound pretty good to me but Ihave been mostly fucked-up in my life so Iain't the best expert on my own lifeÂˇ Ido need help so all you nuts junkies freaks jesus is always by your side like a kind of no bullshit truth-talking guide always with you but not so close by he'll get on your nerves Imean a lot of times you think: he's not there at all cause he ain't doing what you think he ought to be doing for you \ \. ",,;, but he's there knowing what you need better than you do ". \1 .â€˘, knowing you better than you do just like the devil do but that's good and everything probably broke like me better to do has made us

because everything Iknow how to do you know how to do has got us both right here maybe 0.0 dope no real hope listening to a lunatic because neither of us has figured out anything with the mountain-moving love Jesus all to be BudOsbom

25 the carnegie newsletter has helped save my life I fled toronto for the downtown eastside as though all the furies in my life were chasing me and I began living here in 1986 not long after Paul Taylor published the first issue and Paul was the first person I met who not only encouraged my writing but inspired and befriended me and allowed me to work on the newsletter and since I'd never known real community or home the newsletter and all the knowledgeable writers and contributors who entered the newsletter office taught me about community about our unique and amazing shared history of resistance our fierce committed activists the brilliant satirical and imaginative artists and the truth-talking words of our many poets and it was through this incredible activity I discovered and was welcomed into a precious community and Paul Taylor, Sandy Cameron and others Imet possessed and exemplified the vital and wondrous qualities of our community while the newsletter has insured the communication of information so important to us all for 25 years an accomplishment of fortitude courage and dedication I can scarcely imagine Paul is and has been my friend in so many ways ever since I first entered the carnegie centre and I have beeruglad when Paul and Lisa attended readings I've done and performances with bands in public venues to speak of the newsletter as the most important publication I know of and Paul Taylor the most extraordinary editor and fearless defender of our community with his writing Iwas at my last gasp when I arrived here and the newsletter introduced me to a life & place & friends never previously conceived or believed possible I could not be more grateful Bud Osborn

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LOOKS ARÂŁN7 EVERYTHING What are you doing for the next hundred years we all are participants in life if you need to go deal with your demons & fears when cometh the end who was to say there'd be an end? Like the always polite loyal subjects who have veered off course to become a splinter group of sorts What was The Plan (if any)was it to cut up the next hundred years with your knives & forks we have never been on good terms cuz looks mean nothing it is the stigma we must take down & defeat when started we must defend, like the eleventeenth caller whose family has died in a plane wreck a day after winning a multiple million dollars so does the money go to political & lawyerish scum when it could have gone to an area of disappojntment where everything has been destroyed several centuries later the only things that remain are the Moon & the Sun (soon they'll change the sky) We live in a world that is financially dependent on cosmetic overdoses with daily plastic surgery disasters why not consume a litre of gasoline then light your life on fire? Some of the bodies we are entombed in make serious decisions that much faster - foregone conclusions are the evil we insanely abide by like One Phone Call: one is all it will take to get a shot ofVitamin J 'n soon as that's done the rent money can easily be remade as Hell is constantly being smacked into my head that is what Hell is constantly living beneath your means every single day so wave the tear ferry bye-bye, as someone who meant a fucking lot more than an ignorant loser who turned out to be me someone once said, "There's no real music I'm just shouting & screaming!" Looks aren't everything this makebelieve wold made by human scum like U&me should go free to run its course fall to the sidelines & say final prayers then I guess it is time to die, I have had so many good-looking friends yet time & the good 01' days have peeled their looks away the education planners believe in happiness by installment disquietude is for the taking let's take ours away no more hiding or driving me into brick walls yet death sometimes sounds so grand (you would not want to live in my imagination - pretty turns ugly (I'll explain) It does not take muchto be stoned let alone apiece of stone like former child TV actors starting to appear on the sides of milk cartons this willsoon be a course taught in the most expensive universities (my how you

will have grown!) as the newest newspapers once turned on a side all the letters fall off & no one cares of course Progress has dreamt of this moment- everything means nothing then again how many things go as planned? Like a gun-free America tere must be 100 for every person dOesn't matter if it's New York or Texas or Las Vegas as landfills grow the sewers growl to act our age my guess is the Riot Squads will have to loadup on weapons & make us & just when I began living this life which now I cannot stand. Like being forced to fall back as the Marxists have their plan they call it A Day at the Racists anyone who looks out of place let alone poor feed them Listerine martinis then give them a helping shove down along flight of cement stairs hey these useless lives will thank us for it in the end please god let me awaken on another planet before I join the insane either that or I go shopping at the Guns'R Us store that's mostly what it's there for so avoid reflections. Does ugliness exist only in your mind or does it burrow down to the human core? By ROBERT McGILLIVRA Y "Oh vanity of vanities. How very weak the very wise; how very small the very great are." - Thackeray.

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It is Christmas at Carnegie and all through the house not a creature is stirring, no even a mouse. The tree is lit & decorated and the windows as well and Santa is coming to bless us & tell us that all ou efforts to raise the welfare rates will someday have effect - believe him, they will. Our volunteer party will be fun as will Christmas Day and New Year's Eve. Can we ever forget dear Carnegie & all it has done for us? And in the future may we try together to minister to others. As Santa will say as he leaves us have a good xmas & keep up the fight! Joyce Morgan

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IF YOU ARE UNHAPPY ~ Once upon a time, there was a nonconforming sparrow who decided not to fly south for the winter. However, soon the weather turned so cold that he reluctantly started to fly south. In short time ice began to form on his wings and he feJl to earth in a barnyard, almost frozen. A cow passed by and crapped on the little sparrow. The sparrow thought it was the end. But, the manure warmed him & defrosted his wings. Warm and happy, able to breathe, he started to sing. Just then a large cat came by and, hearing the chirping, investigated the sounds. The cat cleared away the manure, found the chirping bird and promptly ate him. The moral of the story: I. Everyone who shits on you is not necessarily your enemy. 2. Everyone who gets you out of shit is not necessarily your friend. 3. And, if you're warm and happy in a pile of shit, keep your mouth shut.

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It's something to raise a few eyebrows, maybe give pause to whatever preconceptions someone might have about tenacity, if nothing else. 3 decades is how long I've been hanging around, being an editor of this paper. The trade-off has been not looking tor a job, tor doing something for someone who'd think it profitable to pay me for doing what they want. There's reaJly not much caJl for someone with both physical limitations in balance, manual dexterity, coordination, handeye correlation and other stuff and a mental state that has been officially diagnosed and unofficially borders on aberration. Okay, enough of the intimate details ... The Newsletter first published on August 15, 1986 and the first editor who was here on a UI To-up program, stayed until his UI ran out in the 3rd week of November. There was no December 1st issue in '86 but it wasn't that hard to do and a few of us carried on with December 15th being the first edition where I was acting as editor. It would be highly disrespectful to make a synopsis of 30 years of work in a few paragraphs. From the perspective of access, every issue is online, with each

individual's work available to whomever. The Public Library has the actual newsletters archived, the City Archives has every issue and there is a complete index available on the web at camegienewsletter.org for you who can navigate through "Search ... " It's heartening when *a grant is obtained to make a book of some of the best from the first 15 years and it's published in 2003:

The Heart of the Community Edited by Paul Taylor Published by New Star Books; *a phonecall from the owner of The History Group, a company that chronicles the paper trail, activities, and documentation of its clients, saying she/they want to do some volunteer work. The first thing out of my mouth was "I'd like an index of the Carnegie Nwsltr!" (Getting a grant for $30K to pay someone to do 6-9 months' work hadn't really panned out.) She employed six people, each with degrees in History, Social Work, Urban Geography, Computer Science, Political Science etc. and said "We can do that(!!)." All came to Camegie, bringing all equal number of graduate students in their respective fields, and said they'd create a database identical to a University Library's, scan every issue into it, categorise each piece of poetry or writing, and make the whole thing accessible & searchable. Each person took part of the archive and . off they went. The result was amazmg. *the Camegie Association is a non-profit society and eligible for a Vancouver Foundation-sponsored Intern program whereby non-profits could adverise jobs or projects to active students to help them do stuff that none had money to pay for. I asked for some genius to create a website that was user-friendly, that could host each issue as it came out, that could incorporate the stuff that the History Group had done (but not updated since '08), make the work of individuals available in separate files, make the whole thing searchable and open to anyone. Enter Sean, who knew what to do, where to look for the right platforms, found out who to contact about essential aspects, did much more than the posting called for and there is now one of the best websites going. *there's recognition of the myriad efforts and energy given over these 3 decades at the Heart of the City Festival, and the inclusion of the Masthead in the beautiful mural by Richard Tetrault called Living on Shared Territory. I'll end this nostalgia by printing the poem Carnegie Newsletter by Terry Hunter:

Hurray for the Carnegie Newsletter The Downtown Eastside's most widely read paper about the Downtown Eastside. Nothing else like it in the City! The longest survivor. What other is there? Deeply committed to the cause ofthe community Fearless, entertaining, moving, Adventuresome with the facts Passionate, committed. A must read. Consistency. Issue after issue. Month after month. Year after year. Decade after decade. Thanks to the commitment of the volunteer staff Working with the Downtown Eastside, for the Downtown Eastside, about the Downtown Eastside. Educates about the DTES community, Advocates for issues and concerns of our community Speaks our values to the larger city and beyond. A gold mine of writing Giving voice to the low income community of the DTES Informing. lIIuminating. Opening our eyes to gentrification and displacement Opening our hearts to the conditions of the SRO's and the need for affordable housing Nothing like it t any other community centre in the city. Participant driven. An anarchistic publication. Produced with hours of volunteer work. Represents what real democracy is. Its Real. Not City funded. Not City propaganda. Suits have come up the stairwell to the Carnegie office. Paul didn't give a S-H-I-T Our Community is not a rich community. But the newsletter brings out our richness. It brings out the beauty of our community

It sheds light on the lives of the community The stories of the daily lives of the community. We come alive through the Carnegie Newsletter. Our tears. Our laughter. Our beauty. Our pain. This chronicler of our community Gives us a reason to exist. For decades through all kinds of change. Its still there. The voice. Our voice. Our phoenix. Community run. Community owned. We don't have access to the Globe and Mail, The Province, The Sun. Like no other the Carnegie Newsletter shares the voices coming out of the wilderness. Shares the voices that the mainstream won't publish. An essential paper that people look forward to. No other newsletter tracks the lives of our diverse community Though not everyone agrees with it, it plays a major role The news and views from the Heart of our community. A major source for people to have a say - through poetry, words, aft. Rough and Refined. Raw and sublime. Black & white scissor cut from loving old-school hands. Beloved for its wonderful haphazard design. The layout is unique - it is a Pauling. Month after month, issue after issue The newsletter of Bud Osborn, Robyn Livingstone, Stephen Lytton, Muriel Williams, The newsletter of Jim Dewer, Robert McGillivray, Ellis, Kelly Stewart and Sandy Cameron, The newsletter of Rita Wong, DJ Bruce, AI, Wilhelmina Mary and John Allan Douglas, The newsletter of Step hen Belkin, Dave Jaffe, Diane Neufeld, John Goodall & Skippy the tye-dyed mascot, The newsletter of Marlene Wuttanee, Clarence, Henry George, Garry Gust and Fuckhead Jones Here we hear a different mindset. Incredible our editor Paul

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