JUNE 15, 2010

NATIONAL ABORIGINAL DAY

Remember 500+ years, Ancestral Wisdom, recent tragedies, present struggles & fostering hope for all our futures.

Celebrate National Aboriginal Day in Oppenheimer Park

Four days! Friday-Monday, June 18-2151

Theme: "Healing"

Performances, a Kids Day, Pow Wow, Teepee Storytelling & more!

Info: Marlene George (604) 665-3005

and: g'mama granddaughter friend sis cuz daughter auntie ally niece ex

and ... just ma

just me ... ka1

llycltka siem to the Creator .. llflllltl ay squeyul

It's my birthday today & I just wanted to thank you all for being such wonderful friends, & to my women fr iends .. lening you know I respect your warrior spi r­its, to my guy friends for being there for me .. to my family .. for trying so hard & being such hard working people and so good to your friends .. To celebrate the day one was born is taking on a new meaning for me .. as I am now a grandmother & I real­ize that I'm the same person but with self-work & counseling over the years to today .. realizing & ac­cepting, more importantly. acknowledging that I've sure come a long way on my healing journey.

The road ever changes & some days it's all uphill. .. or feels that way til I realize that I am the one to instill a change in myse lf & my heart.

Life has become so much more important & just as importantly, so are my friendships, & my relationship to family.

Rez school affected my ability to allow people to get too close & my way has been to be ... loving n friendly but surface "hey!how'si tgoinseeyoulater! " To protect myself & my soul, for many reasons .. l've

learned. But I want you to know that inside ... you've always

been in my heart & I truly do care. miss you when I don't see you and I've also watched your accomplish­ments & your life changes. ... I've stepped back from a lot of my activities .. to

work towards bonding with my adult chi ld ren & my grandchi ldren & family. I've kept busy as I know I should for the good .. but maybe it's been a bit too much to avo id what I'm not sure yet.. possibly the closeness that I've never got used to .. but I don't want to miss any more .

Resenting these rez school life impacts won't do me any favors .. but working towards mending the holes n tears .. (tares and leers) and not against.. can only serve towards a more whole purpose and heart .. & hopefully heal and fill the holes that have impacted my chi ldren. I know I've done the best I can ... as we all truly believe .. and say. but.. I know I can do better now .. for them .. for me .. for the hearts and well-being of my grand­children. so that they can too. one day be there fo r my beloved people. They should not have to learn about li fe the hard way

that I've had to, like many of us have had to .. to pay for the sins of colonization.

it's still one step at a time ... but as long as I'm workin it.. life's gonna be okay and .. better!

Love to you all. .. Zuco mulwat..Kat Norris Coast Salish. Lyackson First Nation Nez Perce, Colville Confederated Tribes.

TELLING QUOTES It was the deliberate practice of our fr iars to take the

savage babies and baptize them. whereupon their little heads and brains were dashed upon the ground, so that they would immediately reach heaven and not back­slide into heathenism. Fra. Bartolomeode Las Casas, A an·er Account of the Devas­tation of the Indies, 1542

It is expedient that there be no peace at all between our Huron brothers and their neighbors, for this is what is required by the Faith and the fur trade. - Jean deBrebeuf, Jesuit missionary, New France, 1642

If the unbeliever still does not repent, it is the task of the church to save the community by expel li ng the heretic from the world by death. - Thomas Aquinas, 1267 There is but one Holy Catholic Church, outside of

which there is no salvation. Both the spiritual and the material swords are in the hands of the Church. The

In Honour of Phillipa j 0 warm-hearted angel -You are now spirit -guide for us all

The days once spent on earth are more than a fad ing meory Establ ished was your time as a testament for j ustice, concern, friendship and passion As here your material being we have mourned in passing Let us a ll then hope for help into a brighter future,

< -So thank you, Phillipa. and love always.

spiritual is wielded by the Church, the material for the l!!l;;;;;~p=====~ Church. It is thus necessary for salvation for every ~

K'May Luder

creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff. - Pope Boniface Vlll , 1302 To invade, search out. capture, vanquish, and subdue

all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other ene-mies of Christ wheresoever placed ... and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery .. . - Papal Bull Romanus Pontifex, 1455, authorizing the conquest of the non-Christian world I'm Irene Fa vel. I'm seventy five. I went to residen­

tial school in Muscowequan in Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1949, and 1 had a rough li fe. I was mistreated in every way. There was a young girl, and she was pregnant from a

priest there. And what they did, she had her baby, and they took the baby, and wrapped it up in a nice pink outfit, and they took it downstai rs where I was cook­ing dinner with the nun. And they took the baby into the furnace room, and they threw that linle baby in there and burned it al ive. All you could hear was th is linlc cry. like ·'Uuh!" and that was it. You could smell that flesh cooking. CBC Town Ha ll Forum, Regina July 3, 2008

who put the poison in my baby bonle? why do you want to get rid of me? an innocent tike like myself, smothered without love Big smile - happy as can be, hate to die

Ind ian Residential School stole my spi rit away Locked me up in a box, only to be forgonen mine heart turned to stone -scared out of my mi nd

. Couldn't walk or run away - I'm hog-tied forever.

Mine older days awaken .. . no longer asleep stilll'm lost, can' t find my way out of intoxication a day wi ll pass when my drunken mind wi ll sober up when that comes, perhaps I'll be a bener person.

It's a dire shame to look at me some days drunk n shabby as a cursed bottle of stale wine Couldn't help but real ize I stagger -still overdosed Oh stupid individual, you tried to kill me th other nite

Lying in a coma can't respond- almost died overdosed! overdosed! overdosed!

All my relations, Will iam Arnold Combes

Downtown Eastsicle Photography Contest

COMMUNITY VOTE

Where to see photos and vote: Outside Carnegie:

Monday, June 28, I lam - 3pm Tuesday. June 29, I lam - 3pm

Oppenheimer Park: Wednesday, June 30, 10 :30 - I :30

Pigeon Park: Monday. July 5, noon - 3pm

If you participated in the contest you can pick up your photos from Pivot, 678 E Hastings; 604-255-9701

PI OT equality lifts everyone

www. pivotlegal.org

HOPE IN SHADOWS Portraits of our Commzmit_Y

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if I lost you I might find you I would hold you in my arms I will always remember because I can never fo rget

Hara

Ca rnegie Community Centre Association Annual Genera l Meeting

ELECTION RESULTS

Of the 42 ballots that were cast. 36 were good and 6 were spoiled.

Votes Candidates Received Result

Colleen Carroll 35 elected Gena Thompson 34 elected Prisci llia Tait 34 elected James Pau 33 elected Phoenix Winter 33 elected Adrienne Macallum 32 elected Lisa David 32 elected Sandra Pronteau 32 elected Craig Hathaway 30 elected Pat McSherry 29 elected Magnolia Villalobos 28 elected Douglas Dunn 27 elected Ben Rampre 25 elected Diane Tobin 24 elected Ann Livingston 21 elected Scott Gentes 19 not elected

BOARD EXECUTIVE

President: Vice-President: Secretary: Treasurer: Member At Large:

Gena Thompson Sandra Pronteau Adrienne Macallum Colleen Carroll Craig Hathaway

Thank you to all the Carnegie members who participated in the AGM and helped to elect the Board of Directors for the coming year.

The next Carnegie Board meeting is scheduled to be he ld on Thursday, July I" at 5:30p.m. in the Theatre. All members are welcome to participate.

Respectfully submitted,

Lisa David

Carnegie Community Centre Association " Board and Committee Meetings

Education/Library Wednesday, June 16'" Committee 3 p.m., Seminar Room

Community Relations Thursday, June 24"' Committee 4 p.m., Association Office

Program Committee Tuesday, June 291"

4 p.m., Association Office

Finance Committee Wednesday, June 30'" 4 p.m .. Association Office

CCCA Board Meeting Thursday, July Is 5:30p.m., Theatre

Small Arts Grants Celebration A multi..cfisciplinary arts event to celebrate

the works of some of the

News from the LibrarY

New Bool<s Did you ever look at a Vancouver landmark and won­der what it looked I ike 30 year, or 50 years. or I 00 years earlier? Francis Mansbridge did. and produced a book, Vancouver Then and Now (97 1.1 3) that shows side-by-side photos of the way th ings look now. and the way things looked back then. T here are some great photos of Carrall and Water _Streets in 1886. before the fire that destroyed much of Vancouver, of Wood­ward's in 1903, and the Beacon Theatre (now site of the Portland l lote l), where unti I the 1950s acts in­cluded Frank Sinatra. Roy Rogers and Trigger and the "Boy Mental Wizard''. Fro~ 13russels sprouts to Bullock' s heart. from rice to

rhubarb, Th e New O.>..ford Booli of Food Plants (633) is a beautiful ly illustrated guide to the plants we use for cooking. salads. navourings and drinks. Two-thirds of the Middle East is under 25 years old.

and there's been an explosive growth of college

g raduates. Still, there aren ' t enough jobs to _go rou~1d, and they' re all having a co llective q uarter-life cns1s. In the months before turning 25 herself, BBC pro­ducer Allegra Stratton set out to meet them. She visits Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dubai , Kuwait C ity and Da­mascus looking for youth culture in the Lebanese ver­sio n o f American Idol and trying to get into a men­o nly Starbucks in Egypt. The result is Mulmjaba~es (305.69). a book that will shatter your preconceptions of the Middle East in genera l. and its women in par­ticular.

What ''ould it be like if you could remember every­thing? Jill Price was diagnosed with a condi tion called "hyperthymestic syndrome·•, the continuous, auto-. malic autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. The Woman Who Can't For­<>et (921 PRJ) is the moving story of Price's journey to ~nderstand and come to terms with her condition.

Beth. your librarian

'Hazel'

I " U, I miss U, I'm empty without U! But now you are free, free of pain, of all human confusion and negativity. So, my loving sister, this is your time to shine. I can truly say today "You're all that and a bag of chips with dip too!! So you go girl !!! Hazel and I spent special sister time together, before she got really sick an' couldn't talk any more. I found out she loved bunertlies and so did her granddaughter Martha. With this knowledge I say to I laze! my love, Fly Fly as high as those beaut iful wings wi ll take you I can only imagine the beautiful colors on your wings that would be symbols of your personal ity. They'd be bright and brilliant with cheerful undertones. Remem bering your calm but oh so joyful and beautiful was your smile that you spread all over he downtown eastside community, makes it easy for me to pass on the Love and Joy and the happiness you have shared with me. I wi ll try to do the same with honor and respect. I ., U Hazel.

[Thank you so ve1y much to eve1yone who al/ended Hazel 's memorial or jus/ knew her & sent your love.]

7 Earth Mother Supreme

Mother Earth goes on forever - long, long time at1er we are gone. Stay grounded, protect and wish and hope The sun shines upon her through rain and snow Beat by bombs and drought, what else who knows? Can' t stand the abuse, she's been tom asunder yet She radiates peace and love and we admire,

Our eyes full of wonder. She cares, creates, empowers for all to smell,

To hear, to see Forgiving, remembering, sharing so unselfishly ... How do you react when she is hammered,

and plundered, and shot to pieces? Will you put her back together; to reconstruct, To maintain. to enhance her wide expanse. And do your part as you know you should. Are we not duty-bound, in a most sacred, profound, and spiritual way to cause no harm as we wonder? To be entranced forever more, beyond a mythic appocolypse ... Who knows, beginnings, or only an absolute end That's not to ponder or worry about because today is all that really maners. What's the rush? What is the hurry!?

Robyn Livingstone

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MURKY RAINBOWS

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Pump that oil pump that oil bump & toil a new defini­tion ofvlad.face lows arc in tow, come on in the boil­ing cau ld ron we call an ocean just about time to start bubbling 'That she blows! like helping to feed the rich (first thing on my NEVER To DO List) poor little overnourished bottom of the oil barrel your bankabil­ity -as the Corleones would say- is now sleeping with these dead fish. Oying by with colours so dead-like it' s the past we never get to finish, a little taste of hell before you go now as you may know escape was al­ways within reach catastrophe need not be in foreign form Everyone can figure it our when it's spelled in Engli sh; like I said a safer world was within reach until you drenched every single beach thanx for this ' lesson· teach now every retirement plan is I'm sure a little more special cuz 'cause all that 's lefi are these dead crimson red tidal pools on your 'get away from everything personally picked out then named after you' island I guess it's true life is a bitch. they're say­ing worse than the Exxon Valdez we shall build new oceans with better fi sh but you get to tell Mother Earth we broke the bank & that's the reason she'll never need to know (she knows) her purse is lighter &

everything's getting worse. I a lways wondered what would happen when days like these came, nushing rainbows down the drain again & again; is there such a crime as Oceanicide? Acid ifica­tionally speaking, what' s going on up there - you' re trying to save the oil more than mankind 's lifeblood Yes! It's still leaking but there 's money to be made in horrificness like this stop asking if I'm the one who's ok OK? Like playground pick-up lines I've heard 'em all on Love American Prison Style granted that was back awhile but you' re still dressed up in Red & White & Black & Blue & we' re already ahead of the end of time just waiting atop murky rainbows hows about you The Gulof ofTexico/Mexico (take your pick) has so many silent voices I mean silence louder than church bells going under for that final toll. I wonder aloud whether these words create yet another hole let alone putting scary people in charge o f very scary roles; I'd much prefer Strawman from the Wizard of Oz at least he could take out useless pieces of himself & use them to plug some of those holes & so it goes just another cliff of adversity to climb or jump off one more question before I go when you put these obsta­cles together - BP, global warming, Jean air let alone water in a blender turn it on there they go either you have just found the cure for cancer or a new order of thoughts, not even Evil itself could have forewarned what we just bought, again.,

Acidificationally yours, The ocean.

By ROBERT McG ILLJVRA Y '·It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars ...

-Garrison Keillar.

DNC Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council

JULY GENERAL MEETING Saturday, July 3rd, 2- 4prn

Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main Street

M) name is Brad Firth and on May 2, 20 I 0 I ran the 26.1 mile BMO Vancouver International Marathon in 3hrs 07 minutes. I placed I 02nd out of 3300 rac­ers. Top 5%. As a result of this I am now qualified to run the prestigious BOSTON MARATHON.

Not too bad for a former hard core addict who spent the last 16 yrs running away from himself and family in the DTES back alleys and streets. !made the lifesaving decision to learn the language

of recovery and by joining the winning team, which consists of other former I lasting addicts in recovery. It was the best decision l have ever made. By dropping the violent street customs of yesterday

l became willing and eager to learn healthy behav­iours that give me the courage to continue on my journey of the spiritual red road.

l am surrendering more of myself each day to this wonderful program of recovery by going to many varieties of 12 step meetings, sweat lodge ceremonies and the Empowering Warriors Against Violence program -all of which keeps me focused, calms my mind, humbles mysel f and teaches me non violent solutions. l continue my studies at Native Education College where I'm working towards the FCC pro­gram in the fall.

Each morning l run the north shore bridges which takes approx. 2 hrs. Running offers me a healthy choice and provides a therapeutic va lue (for which 1 am so gratefu l), celebrating movement in a good way. As a resu lt of this, my goal is to run the 2800 mi les to lnuvik in the Northwest Territories next sum.m~r -to prove to myself that l can overcome my add1c11on and aspire to new heights through absti­nenc.e from drugs and drug behaviour. Anything is poss1ble when you make a decision to walk away from the drug-using lifestyle and into the world of a supportive recovery community.

Whining White Boy

Sometimes it shames me to be white this morning after sleeping in a dry doorway a man name of lvleyat nice enough to let me have a combo french vanilla/hot chocolate to warm these old bones - Meyat don't care about company profits, he just sees an old man with a white beard cold and asking his human side sa id go ahead l asked the Lord to bless and protect Meyat as l shufned off into the grey dawn

next thing I'm in a line for coffee l let this tiny Chinagramma into line 'fore me only to draw fire, raise ire o f a crybaby redneck who got riled at me for letting an 80 year-old in line before the throng he thought it was all wrong - 'these Chinese­give 'em an inch ... " on and on he railed. ranting out his hatred as if one lady in front of him in a line for free coffee is really gonna bust his balls ... little prick got no human kindness in him at all he went on to other topics, whining away

Makes me sad, and kinda mad fools like this dude makes us all look bad by the grace of God we all get fed we all get by one way or the other we all are brothers but some people just \\On ' t see beyond their own ass. to see humanity we all bleed red. we all need bread and l feel sorry for this honky candy-ass l pray one day his sort of stupidity will pass

when your ass is eighty I hope you find me Jetting you in line. those who ain't busy livin' are busy dyin' .. l hope one day he'll see if he' s lucky enough to have the time

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As for how I felt personally about the closure of 'fran'quille-well, I hadn't really wondered to ask myself about that.

But then came the day when I hap­pened to be stopped on a Kamloops street waiting for a young. mentally handicapped boy to cross at the cross­walk. He appeared to be on his way horne from school, walking along in the sunshine with a schoolmate and swinging his lunch kit in that big­armed way that every kid in the world

· is probably fani.iliar 'with.

I reme~ber the exact moment I And it was all so normal. A 30-sec-started to look at people with men- ond scene, yet it clarified for me in an tal handicaps in a eornpl~tely dif- instant why we had to put the days of

ferent way. giant institutions behind us. Normat Is It was 1985, not long after the a pretty nice pLace to be. ·

province bad closed the h\)ge institu- AU these years on, much has tion for "retarded" people at Tl:an- . changed for people with mental handi-quille, an old tuberculosis sanatorium caps. They have the. right to go to outside Kamloops. I was working at a ·, ·school. To l,ive a real life in a real com­Kamloops newspaper at the time and · rnunity, near to.friends and family. 1b the closure was big news, so I'd been be paid a fair wage for a job well 'part of documenting the hope, fear, done. Th have some say over their own anger and anticipation that the closure . lives. Those. are meaningful achieve- '•

.' ha:d sparked. . · ments. . ··fanillies had been working· for life- .. ,.• As for the families- well, let's just

tiines by· then tO" move things forward say it's been an interesting 25 years. for· their rnental1y handicappe;d .chil- • Their children's basic needs · dren, 'who were all,ages. They liad few, haven't changed in that time, because choices in those years when it can;te to a mental haridicap is forever. But f.iitding services or schooling for their everything about the way the govern-children in their oWn hometowns, and ment operates its services has been in

. often had no option but to send their' . : a ·near-constan(state of flux. Some-children hundreds of kilometres away times that was due to shifting philoso-to institutions such as 'franquille, . .pliies or new research, but more often Woodlands and Glendale. it·was because somebody in govern-

The famil\es ~vere mostly over the ment.thought ther~ were savings to be moon at the thought that 'franquill~~s .... had by doing things differently. closure would allow them to bring • The langul!ge changed: Mental . their childien horne to get all the sup- handicaps became developmental dis- · port they needed in their own cornmu- anilities and the associations an<! pro-nities;which is wh:it the government· grams serving that population took to was promising. But they were t~rri- . referring to their services as "com-fied, too, because 'it's very hard to give . muruty living." When the government up a sure thing for a promise when it's' created Community Living B.C. in your child's life at stake. 200S,.a new governance authority that

. . . wouid give families more say over services, many of those families felt they were realizing a dream.

But it's the year of broken dreams. ·CLBC is now preparing to shut down group homes - the four- and five-bed­room· staffed homes that people were moved into after the·institutions closed. The move has been portrayed as being about choice for families, but it's mostly about saving $22 million a year. ,

Many fan1ilies have lobbied hard to give their ailult children more housing

. options beyond just moving into a group home. Independent living is one more step toward normal, and l'in all forit. ·

But everything changes when the primary goal is cost Savi.rigs. If fami­lies aren't yet alarmed by what they'n; .hearing fi:ol]i CLBC, t}!ey . might want to ponder what i~ wo.uld . really mean to eliminate the only' des: ignated housing supports in B.C..for people with developmental disabili-... ties.

Once all the group homes are 'gone, families will be left to fight it out with everybody else' for low-income hous~ ing for their aduit children. The sup­port to help people fmd and keep housing will be there initially, because government needs' to make the changes palatable. But for how Jon¥? And then what? ·

This government in particular has a history of being deceptive, ruth­lessly ideological and dangerously ill­infortned around social spending. CLBC.may havehonoll.(.able.inten-· tions, but it's a good soldier. It's no· more likely than the health' authoriti~ to chiillenge government demands for cuts. · ··

Families, you've ,been here before. lt's'wrong that they're comirig' for you again, but so it goes in this often ·

. unjust world. Fight. ,_ .... ..,..._.-t

CRUNCH

The privme sector has been increasingly focused on the potential market that a public sector pro\· ides in countless service areas. Common Practices The Public Sector is already very lucrative for corpor­ations that have found ways to privatize parts of it. Following are the more obvious ways the transfer of our tax money from our government and public agencies into private pockets is already taking place. OUTSOURCING, CONTRACTING OUT A contract to do public work is given to a nongov­

emmental entity, with its nonpublic employees. Public money is used to pay for the work done un­der this contract. Corporations benefit greatly, but there are also nonprofit organizations, including religious ones, that get their pieces of public funds­and profit from them (meaning that they make more money than it should cost to do the work, as evidenced, for one thing, by the corporate CEO­scale salaries some pay).

Nonprofits, religious and secular, also enter into contracts with for-profits. Sometimes corporations set up nonprofits to get their tax breaks, and then get contracts from them. It's a cozy world of blurry boundaries, all fue led by public money. Contracting out govemmem work has a long hist­ory in the United States and has supported many small businesses that do responsible work. But it is quite another thing when public work is privatized, wages are cut substantially and the profits made by raising prices to whatever the "market" will bear go into fewer and fewer hands. Consider nature. Whether in the wild (to the extent that there are wild chickens) or in the henhouse, the fox and the chickens are in competition to meet their goals. However, they have very different goals. They both need to eat to live. But while the fox can, and truly desires to, eat the chickens, the chickens can't eat the fox, and have to spend a lot of energy to avoid becoming fox food. The chick­ens' goal is to stay alive, which involves staying as far away from the fox as possible. TI1e fox's goal is, quite litera lly, to swallow the competition.

Fanners who raise chickens for eggs and meat build henhouses to keep them close to hand-and to protect them from those foxes. But then the foxes get smart. They hire marketers and public relations people. TI1ey contribute to the animals that are run­ning for those offices that decide how the chickens will be kept secure and protected from outside invaders seeking to destroy the happy farmyard way of life. Reinvented as guard ians of the farm

and its system, the foxes get themselves a contract to guard the chicken coop. And then, promising to provide the best and cheapest care for those chick­ens. they move on inside. The rest, as they say, is history. The foxes get fat­

until there are so few chickens left, they get hungry all over again and start fighting each other. The farmer goes broke, the bank forec loses, and the farmer goes to work at Wai-Mart . Pretty soon, the foxes have to travel on to new lands. new farms and farmers , new henhouses wherever in the world they might be.

The Soup wrinen by Detroit labor lawyer Maurice Sinclair, is a great song from some seventy years ago- before all the regulations and "safety net" provisions we now take for granted were established because we saw what a Great Depression can do. The song captures the lessons learned about loya lty when it is required only of workers. In a nice piece of musical irony in this age of corporate global colonization. it's sung to the

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tune of My Bonnie Lies 01•er tlte Ocean:

I'm spending my nights at the nophouse I'm spending my days on the street I'm looking for work and I find none I wish I had something to eat

Soo-oup, soo~up, They give me a bowl of soo-oup Soo-oup, soo~up. They give me a bowl of soo-oup

I spent twenty years in the factory I did everything I was told They said I was lo) al and faithful Now even before I get old

I saved fifteen bucks \1 ith m) banker To buy me a car and a yacht I went down to draw out my fortune And this is the ans\\er I got

I fought in the war for my country I went out to bleed and to die I thought that my country would help me But this was my country's reply

I 11 ent on my knees to my Mal..er I prayed every night to the Lord I vowed I'd be meek and submissive And now I've received m) reward

The Soup Song was wrinen in the early 1930S, be­fore President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the New Deal, which put the government more squarely on the side of the majority of th is coun­try's people and against the corporations. Still, now as then, people complain about government telling them what to do. They rail against government. They make cynical jokes about it.

Right a"itude, wrong target-except from the point of view of the privatizing corporations and right­wing think tanks, which have been work ing hard to direct our legitimate anger towards governments that are increasingly in their service, rather than at them. It's interesting that we have words for many forms of government, but not (yet) for what happens, as David Korten put it in his book title, Wilen Corporations Rule tlte World- although Mus­sol ini, taking power at the same time as Hitler and Stalin. said that the form of government that he invented shou ld be called "corporative" as well as fascist because it merged the powers of the corpor­ation, labor, and the state. Fascist remains a label of insu lt: corporatil'e never caught on. What we are facing today is de facto merger of the

corporation and the state. Privatization is both its method and its purpose.

I UBC LAW STUDENTS \ LEG~L!.'DV~CE CLINIC

Starting Monday. May 24 Ends Thursday. August ~9

Drop -In M ondays & Thursdays 9 - 5pm

Tuesdays ~ - 9pm

3'd Floor - Art Gallery

LAW STUDENTS' LEGAL ADVICE PROGRAM The University of British Columbia Law Students' Legal Advice Program ( LSLAP) is a non-profit organization run by UBC law students 1.1;110 volunteer their time to staff free legal clinics fo r people who cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Currently there are 18 legal clinics open throughout the Lower Mainland. In many cases students are able to represent clients before tribunals and in Provincial Court. Students have access to a supervising lawyer for guidance. support and advice. Areas of law we cover include: criminal. small claim~. residential tenanc), WCB, wills. consumer transactions, employer-employee relations. human rights. and immigration. Unlortunately we do not cover family law. real estate matters. personal injury, malpractice. BC Supreme or Federal Court. Union issues. business law. and driving offences. For the areas of law \\C do not cover. we are often able to give summary advice and referrals. To book an appointment call 604 822 5791. Please bring all relevant documents to your appointment.

DOWNTOWN EASTIDE RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

JULY 15,2010

6PM

ST. JAMES' CHURCH

PARISH HALL

230 GORE AVE. NORTR

Despite the widely publicized false allegations of wrong doing of the Downtown Eastside Residents' Association !lousing Society (DERAf~I S)- DERA itself continues as the agent of ad vocacy that it has always been and will continue to be.

A court agreement was reached that the Housing Society would return Pend era Place, Tellier Tower and Solheim to the control of BC Housing. Funding provided for operating Social Housing has been inadequate for many years.

With that separation complete, DERA announces its Annual Genc1·al Meeting on July 15,2010.

Residents who are members in good standing* of DERA who are interested and have skills to offer, are in vited to let thei r names stand for election to the Board of Directors. Nominations close on June 30, 20 I 0. Please write a Jetter to the Pres ident, DERA with your DERA membership number and date, your name and contact in formation, stating the reasons you think you would make an effective Board member. Please leave the letter with the Carnegie Centre front desk before the end of the day, June 30,2010. Voti ng for members of the Board of Directors will take place at the AGM. Registration is from 6-6:30 pm. ONLY members who are in GOOD STANDING with the Society are invited to attend.

*memben in GOOD STANDING are: supporters of the DERA constitution am/ bylaws; at least 16 years of age; am/living within the area bounded by Seymour St., Smythe St., am/ the Cambie St. Bridge to the west, Clark Dr. to tl1e em·t, Great Northern Way and 211{/ Ave. to the south, and have a DERA membership card, new or renewed, dated behveen July I 5, 2005 am/ June I 5, 20 I 0.

Our Agenda

So remember Our relationship was born out o f compassion

That is companionship and passion for love

We wish to reach out to the world finding these spirits

of compassion that dwell in every corner of the earth

And re lease this energy in great abundance creat ing a chain reaction

to bring peace, caring, and sharing

to William

let's all salute the crooked man on the corner he stands turtling in the rain making impossible contortions with his funny face here's to the effects of crack-induced dementia makes clowns out of clowns and monstes out of monsters and fools out of everyone

"hat happens when all these people and their feeble minds become unsprung and even more impossible to deal with

since they shut dov.n the asylums we sec the products of chemical bioengineering gone splatter on the sidewalk iS the last brain cells go up in smoke 1ey buddy can you spare a dime? tet buddy can you spare a toke? ain't lyin· this time 1is here ain't no joke AI

Friends I got friends

'' ho speak Spanish, Eng I ish. French too ''ho are black & white & red all over "ho give me cover. brother O\'e me- like no other got friends ain't met yet -iends I never forget ·iends I never regret iends ''ho feed me icnds "ho need me ·ends I can't lie to en if I '~anted to 1usc they're true blue 1d of friends" ho see you thru ;on"t go on and on about it 1st wanna shout it

!nds I got friends RJ 13ean

l<PP-CitY

Even tho I am a white nigger my friends wouldn't call me a wigger ·cause maybe they figure I'd get man and pull the trigger but I kno\\ that they kno" my skin might be the colour of snow but in my real soul the ones they can't control I'm a rainbow with haifa million hues I'm so old I start again being young ·cause it's more fun to be one one of the boys makin· noise out in the streets playing'' ith real toys so I hope you ''on·t mind me ''hen they find me all that bad shit I put behind me the light shining s hot it blinds me so in case I forget you gotta remind me that I'm not a '~hite nigger I'm the one yo9u never figure the truth too hot for me to give her give of what I got to del ivcr we are all the same colour you arc me I am you I'm your father you're my mother '' e are brothers. all the others punks & lovers all the same under the covers. under cover brother I give you ''hat you can't give back back sprain or heart attack brought on by too much bunk-crack cooked up in the dirty red shack so if you see me you gotta set me free 'cause you can be me and I can be you together brother ain't noth ing \\C can't do I'm scllin' you tcllin· you I hope you heard brother this is my last word

The Sno\\ \-1an

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The kindness of s trangers ...

Special tha nks to the fine woman working at the Powell Street Chevron. She kindly saw to a nasty gash I acquired Friday night, saw that I had a clean bandage and sent me packing o ff to St. Pau l's. S incere best wishes to this kind woman who took care of an in­jured old man. (I 'd been hit with a 2x4 for breathing. ]

R.L.

Th is is a graphic speaking volumes. It's in a paper called BALACLAVA ! and tells a lot about the tornado of an economy based on high ro llers. gambling, loan sharks and the scene already sweeping us - having to sell. pawn or pedd le anyth ing/eve rything just to get a temporary roof.

Its caption of Demand Nothing is a paradox- by making no demands you get nothing, but the constant demand for safe, decent, affordable housing has resulted in more than a few crumbs. Social housing is a label getting co-opted as developers keep trying to squeeze the ir obscene scams under its umbrel la.

O lympic Vill age '·affordab ility"" ­the tiny percentage of units being rented out at the ' low end of market' go to those making $35-$50K /year.

Woodward 's low-cost housi ng has 2-bd units starting at $1440 a month and in all cases the subsidized hous­ing is less than I 0% of un its bui lt & avai lable.

Constant facts, figures, reports, in­depth analyses and more may emba­rrass middle-class managers. but we have to keep in mind who pulls the strings . Witness T erry Hui , owner & C EO of Concord Pacific, talk ing for over an hour to community activist Wendy Pedersen, but incapable of understand ing why she doesn 't real ize why no one wants low-cost, social housing?!?!?

PRT

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