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The 2014 Year of Reconciliation Remarkable Women Nomination Workshops Do you know a women who builds understanding and empathy between people? Do you know a woman who restores relationships to create harmony? Do you know a woman who has helped a community heal from the past? Do you know a woman who bridges the gap between culturally diverse communities? Do you know a woman who makes her community stronger through peace building?
Join our 2-hour workshop custom designed to help you nominate and honour a remarkable woman in your life! Date: November 29th, 2013 Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm Location: Oppenheimer Ladies' Tea Party (open to any female participants) What you need to bring to the workshop 1. Bring a photo or drawing reference of the Remarkable Woman you want路to nominate . 2. Bring a brief description of the remarkable woman you are nominating.
!!'/hat will happen at the workshop 1. You will learn scanning and photo treatment skills 2. Explore what Reconciliation means 3. Get your nomination posted immediately onto the Remarkable Woman blog, and post the link onto your facebook page and email to share with family and friends! 4. All nominations generated will be posted on the Remarkable Women website: http://remarkablewomen2014.wordpress.com/ For more information, please contact arts.info@vancouver.ca To view past remarkable women go to http://van<:;quver.c:;a/people-:programs/rem(3rkab_l_e-wqmen . asp~
A Huge THANK YOU to Everyone Involved!
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Producing a festival on the sca le of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival is a huge undertaking. It is a unique endeavour, not just in Vancouver but also in Canada. We couldn't produce this festival without the vast support of community individuals, organizations, sponsors and audiences. Your participation is greatly valued and appreciated! Thank you to the many artists and organizations in the neighbourho.od who present their work during the festival with commitment, passion and generosity. Your strong voices are essential to the success of the festival and to our community. And thanks to all the community members, organizations and businesses that welcomed the Festival into your spaces, parks and onto our sidewalks. Thank you for collaborating with us to present an exciting festival of music, poetry, stories, visual arts, media arts, workshops, food, celebrations, ta lks and walks that reflect our home and community in the Downtown Eastside. To continue to enjoy the 2013 festival go to the website of AHA Media (www.ahamedia.ca) where you will find an abundance of photos and videos of many festival events. If you have a project or a program idea to contribute or suggest for next year's Festival, give us a call, 604-628-5672, or talk with Rika 604-665-3003. The 11th Annual DTES Heart of the City Festival- "Keeping the Homefires Burning"- Wed Oct 29 to Sun Nov 9, 2014. Thank you once more! The Festiva l program and producing team www.heartofthecityfestiva l.com
MY HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL Every year when the festival program comes out I start to leaf through it and imagine actually going to each event. Then reality sets in and I realize the s heer impossibility of that happening. So I trudge through the best I can and manage to take in some of them. This year started off w ith the Launch in the Carnegie Theatre. This being ten years after my appearance in the great Community Play of 2003 I got all verklumpl li stening to all of us remember this wonderful event. The Launch was a fun event culminating in the traditional Dragon Dance and a mee t & greet. The next nig ht was the opening of Parkapaloosa at the Gallery Gachet in which I s ubmitted two paintings- one a pottrait of my granddaughter, Amina. T made sure I got lots of pictures so l could send them to her in Toronto. She said ''Wow I mig ht be famous having my portrait in a gallery ." I really enjoyed mingling and schmoozing and got lots of pictures. This was an inspiring and empowering event which supports all the artists that associate with Oppenheimer Park. 路 O n Saturday afternoon I took in the documentaries. T really enjoyed them but my bum got tired after watching 3 of them so I ducked out before Modernize Ta ilors which I believe I had already watched on TV. Being am amateur filmmaker myself these documentaries gave me ideas on different techniques I could use in future projects. I especially enjoyed 路'Women in Fish" which described the importance tishing has a lways had in coastal Aboriginal Wome n's lives. Rosemary Georgeson did an excellent job interviewing vvomen and editing this film. Next I went to the Playwright's Reading and Recepti on o n Tuesday evening. We heard three amateur playwrights read from their works and laughed our heads off hearing Patrick Foley's dialog ue which rang so true to me. Brenda Prince's play was fu ll of pathos and humour. Leith HarTis gave an inspiring talk about her history of theatre in the DTES and I learned a lot of things from her. I worked with her in the play I 0 years ago and have always loved her enthusiasm and laughter.
Wednesday night was the Community Play Reunion in the 3rd Floor Gallery. I arrived a little late but managed to take in everybody's reminiscences and got to talk a little bit about mine too. The next day was my event in the Learning Centre and I managed to get in a plug for that thanks to my friend Priscillia. On Thursday afternoon we held our event in the Learning Centre. It was called ''Learning from Each Other" and we performed an original play by me called '路Learning Bad, Breaking Grammar"; which was inspired by the show Breaking Bad. We were dealing with words instead of crystal meth, however. in our play . It was a lot of fun and we laughed a lot with our audience and by ourselves, getting it together. For the second half of our event we showed some digi ta l stories that we have created in the Learning Centre over the years. Everybody wanted to see a picture of our dear Hal after watching his story "Golden Ass". We also watched "Priscillia's story'' and ''Dell's Class". Overall a successful and memorable event was held in our wonderful Learning Centre this year, in my humble opi nion. I missed the ''Day of the Dead" event this year but Alfredo Flores led a process ion around the park with his g uitar and panflute. I saw pictures on Aha media and it looked li~e a fun creative time was had by all. My festival ended on Sunday when I attended my last two events at 58 W Hastings; the garden by the Portland. I e njoyed Da lannah's songwriting class pe rf01m the ir original work in the afternoon. In the evening I caught a showing of Out on a Limb in the same venue. These digital stori es combined animation with interviews and were very inventive. Again I got some ideas for future films watching them/ And so another year has gone by and another festival is over. At fi rst I felt relieved that it was over & then I s tarted to anticipate next year's festival, 1-.nowing for sure I will once again become struck with what I call "Heart of the City Festival Fever.'' By Adrienne Macallum
Next CCCA Board Meeting Thurs. December 5, 4:30pm Please note the time change for this meeting only!
'POetrY Slatn!- a great beginning
eternal joy
Having virtually no experience didn't intimidate 8 people; the pre-Slam! workshop was enough to get people writing on the spot and getting up to perform the just-gurgitated work in front of semi-strangers and feel safe from instant rfidicule or heckling ... The Slam! itself started half an hour later and six poets entered the maelstrom: no props; no costumes; 3 minutes tops; and ready to get scored like figure skaters by more strangers (audience volunteers ). After 2 ringing acts each. the wilma is Phoenix W!! The poets hope to get together and go to Cafe de Solei I on Commercial for the regular Ylonday night Poetry Slam! By Paul [thanx to Emily for being brave enough to act as one ofthejudges at Carnegie's fi rst Poetry Slam!]
-the goal of life (&it is possible) -joy is under. inside & outside everything though being consciously aware of even the word gets 'misplaced' in the press of the day -when physical form is stripped or left behind -when mental games are found to generate more mental dissidence -ah'>ays sought \>\ ith the science of intuition -madhuvidya (Tantrik Sanskrit for honey-knowledge) primed in Kathmandu & Calcutta, readied in Norway, Denmark, Iceland & Greenland, spread in the Downtown Eastside -either there are no miracles or everything is a miracle w ith no memory of ever feeling joy, ifs a mystery
Calgary Cold
Mistrust Judgments Alone on the street Churches Outside Falling s now Smoke, fire, Barrel up, warmth Outside Smudging smoke Bonfire Olympic Park Opposite Middle-class world Outside Churches Sanctuary Only glimpsed Doors open Quickly closed Against the cold. Phoenix W.
PauiR Taylor I was so happy I was so happy I was deleterious
Screaming, enthralled Giddy with joy Dancing'' ith life Destroyed by grief I was so happy
I was deleterious Married at last II ope for the future Young ones to be born And then you left I was so happy I was deleterious
Down in the Downtown Eastsid There were lots of others around I could listen to the sound Of my voice Lifted. Phoenix W.
Christmas (Tree) Decorating at Carnegie with Colleen Wednesday, Dec. 4Th, 10am
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is the colour of my fear In front of people my legs shake, my hands quiver, my pits pour, my stomach clutches my voice leaves me.
Black when I fall Blue because I can't get past it Red my shame on my cheeks Pink my masculine critic Purple my rage Yellow the bruises Beige the steps of the stairs up Brown shitlcss Rainbow meds Green photosynthesis Roped in? Invited? With a group of people Slam to perform. No talent, no talent. Why not? Echos and experts, and people just like me I'll be okay. Is this good enough? It was. Paul Sasgcs
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Letter-to-the-Editor: Re: WHY? WHY? \-VHY?? This has been nagging at me for quite some time now, and when I discuss it with others it just downright irritates the hell out of me, so I hope you print this letter so that others can be aware and let me, us, whomever seems to care what they think, know. I'm so damn curious. Well we all like the system that we fought so hard and long to get and to keep: Our own Safe Injection and harm reduction supplies sites. The very things that they hand out to us junkies and addicts to keep us safe and disease-free- I don't think any of them have taken the time to read labels of the very products they hand out to us. You know, rigs, water, Vit C (ascorbic acid), all that kind of stu ff Now in all honesty, for at least 2 years of using these products myself, I too was guilty of using and not reading prior to my use. The dope was more impottant at the time you know. Sorry for being dopesimple too .. Well a while ago it was brought to my attention by a fellow user about the needles.. they have been recycled. Did you know that? There are small black dots on the top of the rig indicating the number oftimes it's been recycled: 1 time 2 times. I have not yet seen 3 dots ... maybe they stop after 2 times, I don't know. So then when you ask for ri gs they ask you if you need water- the blue plastic tubes of sterile water. Well if you look down the side of the tube, blended in is the statement "Not for injection.'' What the hell does that mean 'not for injection' when the sole purpose of them is for you to use with your heroin, powder, etc to use together for you to inject?! It makes me shake my head, boggles my mind. What the heil are we supposed to use it for then? If not for injection then what? Did yo u know that? 1 didn't 'til someone showed me. Now the 3rd thing I know of. For all I know there may be more of this. Are the Ascorbic Acid paks, the orange packets they give you to break down rock into liquid form so you can inject it: ifyiu read the label it says Will cause vein damage. lt doesn't say may, might, can, it says WILL cause vein damage after you inject yourself with a rig that has been recycled one or two times using water that's not for injecting. Now, especially after writing this, I am so needing an answer to what the hell? I am very confused. Are
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we safe, is our health in amok? Why are our safe in-'~ jection sites handing out this stuff? l need answers. Don't you? Linda Plasse, resident of Downtown Eastside, Vancouver
Humanities 101 Community Programme is looking for participants to join its 13-week course that begins on January 7, 2014. Classes are held at UBC point grey campus on Tuesdays from 6:309:00p.m. In this course, we learn about and practice writing in many styles- some familiar, and others which may be new. Each evening, a different teacher will present a different genre of writing; we'll then get a chance to pick up our pens and try that style for ourselves. By the end of the course, we will have learned the vocabulary and practices of writing for creative fiction and non-fiction, life writing, short stories, manifestos, poetry, journaling, blogging and more -helping us to 路 organize, revise, and style our writing with new levels of expertise. The course is for low-income people who have faced barriers to higher education. Participants receive bus tickets to get to ~nd from UBC, meal vouchers to eat on campus before classes, childcare funding as needed, school supplies, and all reading materials plus dictionaries. Students also receive UBC cards, which give access to the UBC library system and other university amenities. Participants complete weekly writing assignments and receive a certificate at a Graduation Ceremony held in late April. To apply for the course you need to attend one of the following information/ application sessions.
Carnegie Centre, 401 Main (top t1oor classroom) Saturday November 16th at I I a.m Vancouver Recovery Club, 2775 Sophia St. Saturday November 16th at I p.m The Gathering Place, 609 I-lclmcken Saturday November 16th at 3 p.m Crabtree Corner, 533 East Hastings St. Monday November 18th at I I a.m Downtown Eastside Women's Centre (women only), 302 Columbia St. Monday November 18th at_2 p.m
... Emily Pauline Johnson
City Opera Vancouver presents PAULINE in workshop concert. First public performance of the new work-in-progress, PAULINE, by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Sto kes . This is Margaret Atwood's first opera, and the members and friends of Carnegie get to hear it before a nyone e lse. Set at Vancouver in 1913, during the last week in the life of poet, writer, and Canadian performance artist Pauline Johnson (1861-1913). Starring Rose-Ellen Nichols, Ken Lavigne, Sarah Vardy, Edward Moran, Nickolas Meyer, Cathleen Ging rich, Diane Speirs, and Eleanora Higginson. Norman A1mour, stage director. Chattl.es Barber, mus ic director. Davi d Boothroyd, pianist.
Carnegie Centre, Hastings x Main; 7pm - 9pm, Friday 29 November free, with public discussion Before We Dance www.cityoperavancouver.com
Long Time Coining followed me last step to the boundary matrix; where the nows all meet across all plains. Shook out the thread without really trying ... Borrowed a needle from a previous metaphor and send me the new one (metaphor) that I most want it to be. Stephen Belkin
Before we dance let's promise not to stumble. Before we promise, let's decide what we know. Before we know, let's swear not to cheat. Before we swear, let' s get us some sleep. Before we sleep, let's meet for a meal. Before we eat, let us say her name. Stephen Belkin
The Persuading Moon The last time I c hecked the game was long time over unless the rules have c hanged again I fo llow the moon's persuadings wi th a half-expectant heart, game or no game . Join me in the practice of another way to be outside of all expectationsinside of all o ur d reams. Stephen Belkin
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Oppenheimer Park *DTES Communities' Back Yard* Special Eve nts
Oppenheimer ParK CommunitY Art Show Until sundaY, December 1St at Gallery GaChet (88 E. Cordoval WednesdaY - sundaY, 12Pm- Gpm New Programs
Water Colour Painting WednesdaYs at 2pm -lfpm Wii fitness Thursdays at nam - 12Pm Chess Tournament
Saturday, November 7th at Oppenheimer ParK Field house nam - lfpm, Register in advance at the Carnegie, UBC Learning Exchange, Gallery Gachet or Oppenheimer ParK In COllaboration with Carnegie Chess Club o/ UBC Learning Exchange Chess
Oh the joy Mr Molotov brings The anarchist in me needs medication, some days more than others see, 1 gotta stave off temptation the sheer wild joy when the bottle explodes just before the car it's under brings home some righteous thunder These muthafux come down here nickel & dime us; all the time it's us payin' their bills, irs our ills makin' the car payment, mortgage too yet what do they do cheat, and whine over evgery little dime believe me brother time is comin' vou won't be runnin' shit ~hen the world and everything in it blows up in yer damn face Richard Standing Horse
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Hell a Weenie on $0 The miracle everyday is our children miraculous promise, endless mischief. endless magic how our little angels turn to devils instantly amaze us that we had them sheer innocent madness of living Saw these two jokers, (no idea of how poor they were) Halloween party off to dazzle 'em all, dressed in the saddest excuse of a masquerade alll could tell they had some raggedy-ass leather strapped round their shins, god knows what Mama tol' 'en they look like but you know laughing crossing Hastings they didn't care, they was happy just to be on their way
. their social status was a sad story _1~no-one's told 'em yet ~· • . .. ~ just maybe they'll forget ..-:-::: .- •. and just let these boys go / free AI
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Wave your fist high! for the Mi'kmaq, keep up the fight keep doing what is right something THEY just cannot do is just leave the land be, just as it is beautiful, free and wild, it's beyond the corporate agenda of the corporate man who just want to rape and plunder what's on the ground, and what's under they are deaf to the thunder the coming storm, will they ever wonder? how could we destroy in a century took nature millions of years to make perfect the history ofthe corporate invaders includes murder, robbery and genocide the land belongs to those who love her would you rape your mother? They do and will .. . less'n we stop them Xii Warhorse
OSTEOFIT c.LASSES Tuesdays 10-11 am, in the Gymnasium. Movement, warm-up exercises, strengthening, stretching and relaxation. Increase your mobility and ability in daily life activities! All abilities! Everyone welcom For additional inform ation, contact Mary Ellen (Lane Level Office) at
Carnegie Theatre Workshop For the Winter Season! "Show thou Carnegie workshop Players" Let's put our ideas together for
,..., Our Own: A Carnegie Theatre Christmas Pageant,...,
Get Your Hearing Checked with AAA Hearing On-site at Carnegie Centre December 11th, 10am- 2pm -FREE visual ear checks -FREE hearinQ checks
Wolfgang Chamber Orcfiestra Monday, November 18, 1:30 p.m. Carnegie Theatre This concert features high school students from West Point Grey Academy. They will perform works by composers Mozart, Louis Armstrong, Dvorak, and even some fiddle pieces.
creative session Wed November 20, 6pm-10pm 1st
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Creative sessions/rehearsal schedule Wednesday evenings 6pm-1 Opm Friday afternoons 1pm-5pm Nov 20, 22, 27, 29 D~c 4, 11, 13, 18, 20 Everyone welcome!
Performance on Christmas Eve Tuesday December 24 evening For more info: Teresa 604-255-940 I thirteeno1hearts@hotmai l.com
Free, all welcome!
CRUNCH CALENDARS FOR SALE
IM~wm:_:il__Jim Dewar has been publishing his Crunch cartoons in the Carnegie Newsletter for several years. A calendar featuring his work is now available for $10. phone 604-569-4310 or email jimdewarll@gmail.com
Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) NEWSLETTER vancouver.word ress.com
November 15.2013
WILL THE MENTAL HEALTH TASK FOR(.£ HELP OR (.ONTROL PEOPLE? Volunteers of the Carnegie Community and more Assertive Community Treatment teams, will control people with mental Action Project and the board of the health and addiction tssues, not help them. Carnegie Community Centre Association have sent a letter to the Mayor asking him to ensure that people who have experienced The Carnegie Community Action Project mental illness form at t!i~~.t.:~r..ll~liii.iit:IJII•:!iii and Carnegie Commumty least half of hio; new Centre Association letter goes Task Force on Mental on to say that the groups want Illness. The groups ''the Task Porce to take a good became concerned that looko at the systemic factors the city's new plan might that are causing addictions and be to control rather mental illness: low welfare than help people with rates. poor housing in SROs mental illness after a and other places, homclc<;sness. Mayor's Roundtable colonization, residential schools, on the topic on October etc." 2nd. Mos' of the people ''We want to ensure that at the discussion were people \\ ith mental illness professionals. are given choices." the letter The Mayor says that http://jann8 .staticjlickr.com continues. "'that mel ude non pharmaceutical and many people with severe non institutional options, choices about mental illness and addiction issues aren't what kind of support they need and who getting the treatment they need. While this provides it, and peer support.'' (continued is true, people at Carnegie arc afraid that page 2 .. ) on proposed solutions, like 300 "secure" beds
The Task Force should abo have a substantial number of aboriginal people on take it , have anti-oppression training, and ' submissions from the community. says the letter. ~
As Phoenix wrote in the November issue of the Downtown East, "Sometimes people need to be cared for when they are in a crisis. but when they arc felling better. they should be allowed to go back to their lives. And it seem~ that people would not be given a choice in their treatment [with the Mayor's plan]."' - JS
"ALL THE CHINESE ARE RICHI" One myth I often hear from others in the community, apparently to justify discrimination, is that the Chinese people in the food lines arc rich, live with their family in their million-dollar homes, and that most of them don't live in the Downtown Eastside. This myth says that Chinese people do not need to be in the food lines but more importantly it leads to the view they should not be in the food lines and arc stealing our food . The Chinese community is in various aspects, just like other ethnic communities in that some members are rich and some are poor. Most of the Chinese people in the food lines arc seniors, which means the maximum government income support they could receive would be almost $1.300 monthly or about $15,600 annually. This amount is even less based on various factors, including the number
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of years they have resided in Canada after their 18th birthday as well as their marital status (and partner's income support from the government if applicable). Although these rates may generally be higher than welfare, they arc not high incomes; thus, it's not difficult to see that people living on such incomes may need to be at food lines to supplement their income in light of other posstblc costs such as medications. Saying that the seniors'
family will always take care of them not only dangerously uses an ethnic stereotype but also ignores possible financial consequences that arise from familial conflict. Furthermore, according to data from the 2006 census, almost 30% of all Downtown Eastside residents identify as Chinese; these residents arc among those in the neighbourhood's food lines. We, as a community, may have different cultures, backgrounds, and practices. Some members of the Chinese community here grew up without much formal education because the government in China did not want the people to be a threat to their power. They also lived through a time where everywhere they saw people dying of hunger and starvation due to famines. This experience has profound
effects on their sense of whether they will have enough food for the day and the near future. Let us always remember that each person has their own story. The Christmas season is fast approaching and as it is one of the high times for acts of charity. I know there will be people of all ethnic backgrounds in the lines for Christmas dinners, gifts, and other items. I ask that we have a compassionate heart and remember that 路路united we stand, divided we fall." One of the free market's tactic to weaken resistance against its oppression is to divide and conquer. We are divided when we are distracted from focusing on the same force that is oppressing all of us. And it will take of us to fight against this force and win.- KMC
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What does the LAPP Low Income Caucus want In a plan for the DTES? What is the LAPP? LAPP stands for Local Area Planning Process. For about 2 years, a committee of 30 people have been working with city staff to develop a plan for the DTES. The purpose of the LAPP is to improve the future for all residents of the DTES, especially low income and vulnerable people.
1. END THE DTES HOUSING CRISIS. Designate land for social housing. Build 5000 units of self-contained housing for DTES residents who are homeless or live in hotel rooms. Make a plan to get this done within lO years using city, provincial and federal funds.
Who is the low income caucus? Half of the members of the LAPP committee represent low income people. Most have been meeting every week to talk about how to get things for the low income community. CCAP staff and volunteers organize the meetings. In June, the caucus organized petitions and a rally for a Social Justice Zone in the DTES. Over 3000 DTES residents signed Low-Income Caucus member Colleen Boudreau the petition. Caucus members delivered it to the city. Since then, the Caucus has held several Town Hall meetings to see 2. DEFINE SOCIAL !:10USING. Make what low income residents want in the plan. sure that people on welfare, with a shelter allowance of $375/month, pensioners and What's next? The city is finishing its people who can't afford market rents, can draft plan. The Caucus is hitting the streets afford social housing. again with a petition for DTES to sign. If you agree with the Caucus' 12 demands, 3. CHANGE ZONING LAWS. Supcome by the CCAP office to sign the port city staff's plan to require new depetition. To find out more, come to our velopment in the Oppenheimer Area to be Town Hall Meeting on November 30th in 60% social housing and 40% market rental the Theatre from 3:30- 5:30pm. (no condos allowed). Require one third
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of all new housing in Thornton Park and the Hastings Corridor to be social housing available to people on welfare and basic pension, and one-third to be social housing available to the working poor. 4. IMPROVE THE HOUSING WE HAVE. Hold landlords accountable for bad conditions, stop renovictions, bring in real rent control. 5. CONTROL BUSINESS GENTRIFICATION. Create a process directed by low-income people to approve or deny new business (restaurant, liquor, boutique) applications. 6. QUALITY, LIVING WAGE JOBS FOR LOW- IN COME RESIDENTS. Create job training programs for anyone who wants them. Require local business to hire local residents.
7. SAFETY FOR ALL. Stop criminalizing survival work like sex work and vending. Stop abuse by police and security guards. Create a special office directed by low income and indigenous residents to receive complaints and direct investigations. 8. CREATE AN ABORIGINAL HEALING AND WELLNESS CENTRE. Fund a centre designed and operated by Indigenous people. with the consent of people from the local nations. Include resident-run intergenerational housing in
the building for Elders, children, youth. young parents and adults. 9. FUND PEER RUN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. Fund and enable mental health services run by people who experience mental health issues themselves and have experience in the system. 10. FUND HARM REDUCTION SERVICES, DETOX, AND TREATMENT ON DEMAND. Empower people who use drugs to design and implement harm reduction services. Make sure that anyone who wants detox or treatment can get it right away. 11. FUND SOCIAL SERVICES THAT PROVIDE SAFETY AND CHOICES. Ensure that people with mental illness are given choices that include non pharmaceutical and non instituti6nal options, choices about what kind of support they need and who provides it. 12. END DISCRIMINATION SO EVERYONE CAN GET THE SERVICES THEY NEED. Make sure indigenous residents, people with disabilities, queer and trans people, women and people who speak Chinese and Spanish can use services and feel welcome there. Fund services that make the relationship between settlers and indigenous people equal. Make the DTES a sanctuary zone where all have equal access to health, housing and social services regardless of citizenship status.
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Update on the LAPP: The Waiting Game It's been a quieter month for the Local Area Planning Process (LAPP) Committee Low-Income Caucus. The caucus wasn't planning to have a slow month: We thought we'd be reviewing the draft plan by now. What's the reason for the hold up? The city still hasn't released its draft Housing chapter to the LAPP Committee. Although the sections of the plan that deal with issues like health, well-being and arts are very important, the Housing chapter is at the heart of the plan. The chapter will set out how much ofthc DTES will be zoned for social housing, rental housing, and condos. Basically, the Housing chapter will help control who can live in the DTES in the next 10 years. The city is slow in releasing the chapter because there is so much disagreement over how much low-income
housing there should be in the DTES. Some business owners and residents associations -along with a few loca l groups - have banded together to fight against a plan that would zone for more social housing in the DTES. The ''Inner City Neighbourhood Coalition (JCNC)" wrote to city planners to argue against more social housing in the DTES. CCAP and the Low-Income Caucus wrote a response, which you can read on our website (h Up :1I ccapva ncou ver. wordpress. com) and on the bulletin board beside the cafeteria. Meanwhile, the caucus is focussing on its most important work: Letting the city know that people in the DTES want social housing. We're going out of the LAPP meeting rooms and onto the streets with a petition drive! - TH
van c/) uver foLJndation CCAP Volunteer Victoria Bull speaks to the media at the Welfare Food Challenge Launch.
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After "Condemned": milk crates &locked gates Amidst the poverty of body deterioration from hunger and exposure, contractors build for condo developer profits- no compassion in their greedy composure. Commercial business doesn't want the homeless in sight- to give their prospective customers a fright. What a sight for shopping eyes to see- cardboard, plastic milk crates and sleeping bags all gathered in grocery carts. Passerbys - their eyes downward dart. We don't want to stare. Some of us can't stand to bear witness to their homeless humility. We know that having a low-wage job hardly keeps us from their fate - cuz rents r so high that some of us cud become their homeless mate. The people in condos get to lock their gates and close their doors with a sigh. Some think that the jobless r lazy. Buth they don't understand that some jobs drive us disabled and crazy. If we stupor like a drunk it cud be we've just lost our spunk. We're off balance from the stress of struggle or sometimes we over-medicate cuz we're tired of having to be so straight and muzzled. Your patriarchal god won't intervene when he's given u the free will to step on my spleen. And you'll make me grovel ifi don't have the$ to pay for your SRO hovel. If we get public housing we're expected to toe the line. Or a malicious neighbour cud conspire to get u
evicted- j ust cuz she's decided to hate u for whatever her own mind has manufactured - to get u convicted. l know that we can't struggle alone but where is the community spirit? The rich don't want us to have "The Spirit Level" of equality- they like it when we attack each other beligerently. So where is the community spirit beyond the rhetoric? The Feds provide funding for a plague of police and prisons instead of$ for building more affordable housing. Federal$ flows for the status quo. City Hall wrings its' hands claiming that the Feds won't provide. But it dishes out community Arts Grants that don't, by themselves, over the long haul, protect our insecure hides. Art, beyond story telling entertainment, needs to become a catalyst to action for change. The displaced. hungry and homeless can't do it alone. When locked up in prisons or having our time and $ consumed with court costs; we don't get to organize. Could this be why the Federal government is subsidizing the building of private prisons? A "build it and they wilt come" criminalization ph ilosophy and a judicial apparatus that ensures that a police force which arrests for misdemeanors (like shoplifting, jaywalking, the criminalization of prostitution and minor drug offences) will keep a steady flow of fodder to fill their prison industrial complex. Homes; not jails! Need not Greed! d. dec lare Some questions: How does Art become a catalyst for Action when security of residen ce is necessary for both? Is there Community without security of residence? Geographical boundaries of Community, as defined by City Hall for the purpose of Art project funding, will include some and exclude others. How has this affected people who have lived in different areas of the City? Does City Hall really care about the Criminalization of Poverty? Condo developers pay property taxes which support the coffers of City Hall - there is no money to be made fro m people who need affordable public housing. Some References: Poorbashing by Jean Swanson. Workfare by ? Captialism Rebooted by ? PacifiSm as Patholo;_;'Y by Ward Churchill The Trouble with Billionaires by Linda McQuaig
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North Vancouver Community Band Cancer Wednesday, November 27th, 7:00-8:00 PM Carne~ie Theatre
Hello from the Library Yet more new and interesting books have arrived, and are currently on display, waiting for yo u to come in to the Carnegie Library and place your holds, including: Tlte Butler Did It: My True and Terrifying Encounters with A Serial Killer by Paul Pender Paul Pender presents the harrowing true story of Roy Fontaine, a serial killer who posed as a butler to Britain's aristocracy. Fontaine asked Pender to write his life story, but then in a terrifying turn of events, threatened to kill him! Deadlines: Obits l~( Memorable British Columbians by Tom Hawthorn Collects the obituaries of notable British Columbians written by the Globe and Mail's Tom Hawthorn. Although it sounds like a morbid exercise, the stories are really about all that I ifc can be, written in Hawthorn's signature colourful and touching prose. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer A captivating non-fict ion work by Foer, whose literary sensibilities infuse this carefully considered exploration of where the meat on your plate truly comes from. Finding out that he is go ing to be a father inspires him to delve into this topic from a philosophical and ethical perspective, and the book is framed successfully as an investigative memoir. SMASH: International Indigenous Weaving by Rose M. Spahan SMASH stands for Salish, Mi'kmaq, Alaskan, Southwest, Hawaiian - and tht.:sc are the regions of the artists represented in the pages or this tribute to the exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in 2010. This book features in1crviews with the artists, stories and legends, and gorgeous full-colour photos of the artworks. Spruce Root Basketry t~fthe Haida ami Tlingit by Sharon Busby It showcases the elegant spruce root basketry of the Haida and the Tlingit people of the northern Northwest Coast, combining information and images to create a compelling visual history from the 1850s to the present. When Talent Isn't Enough: Business Basics for the Creatively Inclined by Kristen Fischer Unfortunately, creative brilliance doesn't always go hand-in-hand with business savvy -so thank goodness for this book! Designed for creative profession-
als including artists, writers, designers, bloggers, web developers. and anyone else looking to free lance or run their own business, it is written in an approachable style, and features lots of helpful information on how to run a profitable and fulfilling business. All the best. Emily (Thanks everyone, it's been great fun to be the Carnegie Librarian for the past while! Stephanie is back on November 19, so I'll be heading back to good ol' Mount Pleasant Branch).
This is a list of Library items available at or through the Carnegie Reading Room: Two-spirit People Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-spirit Literature She Walks for Days inside A Thousand Eye:s A Two Spirit Story By Proulx-1\trncr, Sharron In One Person A Novel By Irving, .John Huntress By Lo~ Malinda Half Emp~v By Rakoff, David Riding Fury Home A Memoir By Wilson, Chana Valmiki's Daugliter By Mootoo, Shani Freaks and Revelations A Novel By Hurwin, Davida Love & Lies Marisol's Story By Wittlinger, Ellen Two Parties, One Tux And A Very Short Film about the Grapes of Wrath By Goldman, Steven Ninety Days A Memoir of Recovery By Clegg, Bill American Studies By Merlis, Mark Harley Loco Hard Living, Hair, and Post-punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side By Elias, Rayya Three Wolves Mountttin By Naono, Bohra Hidden By Mournian, Tomas How Poetry Saved My Life A Hustler's Memoir By Dawn, Amber Sub Rosa By Dawn, Amber 10,000 Dresses By Ewer1, Marcus ' [Compiled by Emily Sobool]
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THE ART ROOM IS OPEN Lots going on in the Carnegie Art Room. Expressive Arts with Jill Nowack, Wednesday, November 20th, 2-4pm Out trip to see Charles Edenshaw exhibition, Wednesday November 2i" (meet in basement at 11 am to sign-up). Memo boards & Art Room door have updates.
Fake Greens, Real Greens: Part Three The environmentalist movement that Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson may belong to, has changed radically since it re-appeared in 1970 or so. It's splintered & grown into dozens of movements not just in North America but around the world. Animal riahts activists call for the end of hunting 0 . and experiments carried out on an imals. Anti-loggm.g activists block loggers from cutting down trees. Antimining groups protest mines that poison wat.er and soils. Meanwhile anti-coal activists block rat! cars from delivering coal to factories. Climate experts and others warn that climate change endangers the planet. They are joined by others who oppose the use of present day trucks, cars and buses. Some activists oppose the oil industry period. "20 per cent of global warming is due to raising animals and using them for human food," a writer in The New Yorker magazine claimed this past year. "60 per cent of global warming is caused by burning coal." The other 20% of climate change, he claimed, comes from carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane gases spewed out by cars, buses and trucks. True or not, parts of the green movement now threaten the present western world's way of doing
business. "Every movement that wants change." the late B.C. feminist Rosemary Brown once said in effect, "always produces a reaction to it." Brown was talking about the backlash that developed to feminism. But then it happened to environmentalism. New powerful forces soon mobil ized against the greens and environmentalists. Oil companies joined other oil companies to shred the public's belief that oil emissions were causing climate change. Other oil media releases claimed that climate change was a myth. Stories popped up in the media that praised the western world's standard of living and warned that the green movement threatened people's jobs. Big lumber firms did the same as did many other industries. Big advertisements tilled the pages of newspapers and magazines extolling the virtues of big oil firms, coal companies, mining companies and lumber companies. Now big industrial complexes claimed that their products were "green and sustainable." This propaganda had an impact. Senator Nancy Greene Raine, an Olympic medal winning skier. denies that climate change is caused by human beings. A woman whose father worked in a sawmill said, "The mill where my dad works may close. He says it's the Greens' fault." Poliiicians like U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Stephen Harper loathed environmentalists. In 20 13 the Harper government scrapped an act from 19th century law that protected Canadian waters from environmental damage. The sole Green member of Parliament Elizabeth May said that this removal of protection from 97 lakes. 60 rivers and three oceans was bad. But as she pointed out when the new law was first proposed, the Harper government "has largely removed federal oversight on industry" already. . Yet despite all th is opposition, environmentalist causes are still popular. Many First Nations gro~ps have stood tirm against fracking, mining, a~1d pipelines planned for their land. Protestors rou~路~ely block one big megaproject after another of the oil mdustry. The environmentalist movement has come a long way from its long ago beginnings on Earth Day in March 1970. And what li es ahead? as the French say, "On verra" which means "We'll see." Now Vancouver supposedly has a green mayor, and we'll see in the next issue what he's up to. By Dave Jaffe
vocacy goals. First, the project aimed to document
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on the struggle that has been going on for years, to gain some laws and develop an evidence and human rightssecurity and worker's rights for women involved in the sex trade. based position on law reform. The 94 affidavits proIt's too good to reduce by removing portions just to fit it in 2 pages. vided a strong body of evidence that pointed to the (Go to http://pivotlegal.org/Publications/reports.htm for the urgent need for Canada to repeal four sections of the footnotes and references. Ed.) Criminal Code that relate to adult prostitution. The .__________;....___________. second objective was to produce a constitutional
Sex Workers United Against Violence & Kiselbach v. Canada: An in11ovative approach to strategic litigation on behalf of marginalised communities. Darcie Bennet, Campaign Director, Pivot L.S. 0 0 Jill Chetticr, Coordinator, Downtown Eastside Sex ' ~ Workers United Against Violence Society ....... DJ Joe, Director, Downtown Eastside Sex Workers o ~ United Against Violence Society Lisa Kerr, Doctoral Candidate, New York University School of Law Sheryl Kiselbach, Violence Prevention Coordinator PACE Society Katrina Pacey, Litigation Director, Pivot Legal Socie Elio Sigurdson, lawyer, JF.K Law Corporation In 2003, at the same time as the Subcommittee on Solicitation Laws was announced, sex workers from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside began to collaborate with lawyers, activists and Jaw students working with a local human rights organization, Pivot Legal Societ/, to launch a campaign for human rights for sex workers. At that time Pivot did not have an established campaign in this area, nor did it have a position on the impact of the laws relating to prostitution. The organization looked to sex workers to direct the development of the organization's campaign goals and strategy. This collaboration resulted in a major report calling for the decri minalization or sex work in Canada. Voices for Dignity: A Call to End th e Harms Caused by Canada's Se.x Trade Lawi made a series of recommendations for legal and social reforms. The recommendations were based on a novel methodology for identifying the key issues: the collection of legally sworn statements of 94 sex workers in the Downtown Eastside, who described their lived experience under Canada's crim inal laws and their perspectives on law reform. The Voices for Dignity project had a number of ad-
analysis of the laws that could be submitted to government. The Voices for Dignity report included a constitutional analysis"' hich concluded that Canada's prostitution laws violate sex workers' constitutionally-protected right to life, liberty, security of the person, equality, expression and association. Through political advocacy and public education efforts following the report's release. Voices Cor Dignity effectively put the government on notice: that it was Pivot's opinion, grounded in the evidence of almost I 00 sex workers. that Canada's prostitution laws violate the constitutional rights of sex workers and that these laws would not and should not withstand a chal路 lenge in the courts. The hope was that th is would motivate the federal government to usc its legislative powers to reform these harmful laws. An important outcome of this process was the deep connection that emerged among sex workers who participated in the project and shared a commitment to activism. Once the Voices for Dignity report \路Vas launched in 2004 and that stage of the project had concluded, sex workers began discussing ways to continue to work together towards legal and social reforms that would improve the circumstances of sex workers in the neighbourhood and across the country fn 2005, they formed the Sex Workers Action Group The group's membership and leadership was composed entirely of current and former sex workers whc live and/or work in the Downtown Eastside and who were interested in fighting for sex workers' rights. The Sex Worker Action Group distinguished their mandate from other Vancouver sex worker organ izations in that their purpose was to create social change and engage in social activism, as opposed to a focus on service-delivery or client support. In 2007, the Sex Worker Action Group incorporatei: as a non-profit society, and renamed themselves as the Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society ("SWUA V"). From its inception, SWUA V was guided by two key principles: first, thi:i
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the group should be ''by and for'' current and former sex workers; and second, that the organization's mandate was to improve the living and working conditions of current and former sex workers by engaging in activism and campaigns for social change. SWUA v·s constitution sets out the organization's objectives as follows: *to improve work ing conditions for women work ing in the sex trade; *to work toward better health and safety for women working in the sex trade; *to work for systemic change that will improve the lives of women working in the sex trade, with a focus on street level sex workers; *to work against all forms o r violence against sex workers; *to work against poverty, with the understanding that poverty is a driving fo rce in many women's entry in the sex trade; *to work against racis m, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and other forms or oppression that are major factors in creating dangerous and violent working conditions for women working in the sex trade; *to create an organizati on that is driven by the needs of street level sex workers, that incorporates thei r vision into all aspects of the organization's work. and creates structures that are accessible to street level sex workers; *to create stru~tures and processes that work to empower sex workers by providing them with agency and a political voice; and *to use the political vo ice of the organization to lobby for policy and law change that will improve the li ves and working conditions of women working in the sex trade. All ofSWUA V's members and directors are women who are currently or formerl y engaged in sex work. G iven the organization's location in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, the women who get involved in the organization are women who live with poverty, homelessness, addiction, mental and/or physical health issues. The majority of SWUA V's membership is of first nations ancestry. Al l SWUA V members describe having experienced violence at some point in their lives. Women are invited to become members through info rmation distributed through
word of mouth and in the neighbourhood. SWUA Vis committed to ac~essibili ty, and does not maintain a formal membership list in order to ensure the confidentiality of its members. Since it was founded in 2005, hundreds of women have been involved in SWUA V. There are many reasons for the organization's effectiveness in connecting with extremely marginali zed sex workers. The group maintains a structure with very low barriers to participation, meaning that SWUA V accepts women no matter where they are in their lives, and al lows the m to engage with the activities of the organization as much or as little as they feel able to. SWUA V also maintains a climate of respect and dignity, ensuring that members feel heard, valued and empowered. Furthermore, SWUA V directors have remained committed to the social change purpose of the organization, providing sex workers who are facing incredibly difficult circumstances in their lives with a s pace where they are empowered to make a difference in the world ar o und them. ·~ _J_ j
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THE LEPERS DANCE Saint Minus went to visit his friend SantaCiaustrophobic for a few days, such a sad sight to behold his Home Prison Home slowly destroys his soul why must we be put through these little hells such soul butchery in everyone's way, growing up you had visions of being a rockstar owning your own business maybe a casino as you carry out your duties as a busboy at a Denny's or a Bino's such a thin line between gene-pools and cess-pools, so sory what have you had to say these deathbed confessionals have relax and snooze buttons so what's your problem today something about becoming an ancient aging fool, now I'm okay with tomorrows but pretty shaky when it comes to todays we were to do something of importance just tying you r shoelaces are as important as the invention of sleep, like drinking 3 bottles of cough syrup just before you are to give testimony on the witness stand -in between scream ing 'Who are we talking about?!!' you kinda remember 'was it a stupid white boy or a Punjab or nigger or chink or jew-boy or' at least you have narrowed it down to every (almost) man please drag out 'Blindfold' Wrap-up then throw him into a cell made for a mouse there's where he will keep; Historic injustice thrives on people of insignificance those who embrace the hatred of any and/or all other races are themselves the architects of prejudice your roads all lead to your hell, not een knowing the meaning of such words just shooting your mouth off in a bar your head will be shaken beaten to a pulp then stirred look l'm in the abysmal business and business is absolutely swell, Darwin the apostle tells me he is just a shell of a character shedding colours like the empty moon sheds light vision is dark the human soul darker the differing shades somehow enrage the more ignorant of the species called man, like having a lifetime subscription to Looking Over Your Shoulder magazine or waking up to find the word racist printed in dog feces on the front of your house well at least that confirms that extremely sick nightmare that worked its way into your dream at least your favourite show Master Race Theatre is on tonight enjoy
mankindness its been around since hatred life and war even begtan, Now where I live is called Kilarney it took BC Housing 8 years to get me here l"ve yet to meet an Irishman in fact only Vietnamese and Koreans live here some are okay the rest racists chain-smoking using the ground as their ashtray I won't paint them all with my negative paintbrush Saint Minus says there is a little good in everyone plus the bad, women pushing their way without an 'excuse me' in s ight old men opening their mouths as a sack of flem bile undigested food or worse hits the sidewalk the faces of people that have probably never smiled then again how many truly lost many members to all these bloody wars this planet has had, Speaking of destruction I grew up in Richmond and watched helplessly as they destroyed and ripped it apart under the guise of construction it now leads this entire country at 78% as of last year now 1 remember the way it was boyish years ago we had the working class from many backgrounds, then everything got changed the structures built up and torn down then rearranged when the Circus (Olympics) came I wrote a story called A Tale of Two Atrocities the reckoning destroyed a once cool suburb once again no common sense to be found, what used to be mine only exists in rearview mirror1the future eats & spits out the present l and you are now the inferiors all this ''future is friendly"' stuff is for the generations-to-come, now if British Columbia becomes another province of Chinese descent while Alberta becomes the 51st StateOf course everything I just said is worthless, I hope so because in all honesty I have no idea how they'll fare as time never ever stops it just keeps running ... Take care every single one cuz it never ever stops it just comes. By ROBERT McGILLIVRAY P.S. Constable Lee Chipperfield has been cleared by his buddies who concluded that while the soon-to-bedead did have a bipolar disorder and was shot 7 times that he was still a threat as he crawled on his hands 111 and knees across Granville & 16 and was shot an eight h time in the head! To every child who wants to be a cop ... scary!!! P.P.S . .lust how stupid is our figurine head Steven Harper with booze soon to be in grocery stores while pot is still a no no. lie is the definition of pathetic (and ruu up those Party bills you selfish bastards!!)
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