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This is the 22nd Anniversary of the Carnegie Newslet­ter. On August 15, 1986 the first issue - 12 pages in 60 copies- hit the Front Desk. For over 21 of those years the core people have been forced to keep a deep, dark secret but no more: The infamous Sam Slanders is none other than the Original Sam Snobelen, pacifist terrorist and erstwhile porridge scooper. The next time you see the editor, check for scorched

blast _marks starting from the top of his pointy head -he'll have suffered being struck by lightning for this.

On th~ 2211d anniversary of this rag I can say:

If you feel that something in the paper is garbage that's your problem. Everyone has a right to express opinions and it's r_are that a piece of writing or poetry is not printed. Most people read what they wrote be­fore submitting it, however.

A point about the respect accorded the Carnegie Newsletter: In the 22 years that I've been the volun­teer editor it's gone from 12 pages in 60 copies to 24-40 pages in 1200 copies; it's gone from being read by some people in Carnegie to being requested and read by people all over the Lower Mainland, in BC, Alber­ta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, the States, Mex­ico and England and it's been seen in Israel, Germany, New Zealand and China. It's been part of course mat­erial in at least two high schools, two Adult Learning

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Centres and two universities. The mailing list has included up to 40 individuals and 8 organisations, all of whom have made donations of from $1 0-$200 to pay for postage. Direct cash donations to express appreciation range from $1 -$13,000.

, The Heart oftlte Community: The Best of the Carnegie Newsletter is a 256-page book with good stuff from the paper's first 15 years. lt was published by New Star Books in 2003.

Respectfully submitted, PauiR Taylor

PS: "You aren't thinking or reaiJy existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence."

PPS: The Carnegie Newsletter is priceless.

[From a High School up north in BC)

We received your latest newsletter today, and I wanted to tell you and your staff how much we enjoy reading it. It gets a great deal of attention from the students and they have gained from it an altogether new and pretty much unexpected perspective and insight. I believe that our getting your newsletter gives our kids a valuable opportunity to look out into someone else's world through their eyes.

Because 1 believe this to be a positive connection for us to continue and to cultivate, I have (just now) asked the principal for the money to get us a sub­scription, for the next year. You'll know if I've been successful if there is a cheque in this package. I'm writing this letter beforehand because I have the time to do it now and it is much overdue!!!

I also wanted to say that the April visit of the Downtown Eastside Poets has proven to be the starting point for which I had been searching. My kids have been writing like mad, and they have even agreed to do a public reading at the Directed Studies Presentations next month! Again, my thanks for their help and momentum.

Now I must go to another meeting . •. •. • 'Thanks for everything!

· Lorne C Thompson '

Dear Downtown Eastside Poets,

We greatly appreciate the Carnegie Newsletters you sent us. We apologize for not sending our stuff down sooner, but because we're late we have more to send you. We are enclosing three of our school news papers. Hope you find them interesting. After translating P.J's handwriting as best we could,

the poems were copied and circulated throughout the school, with nothing but positive responses. Lorne. Thompson presented some of your poetry to his English class and I think many of them were relieved to see that poetry isn't just memorized rhymes, syl­lables and rules; it's a freedom.

On June 4, the directed studies students, under Mr. Thompson, are holding their presentations. Mixed · with these presentations, he has bullied a few student · writers into reading some work. One of the drama teachers will help us with speaking skills and we'll .practice lots so hopefully the nerves won't show too

· bad. Should be a great experience over all, though. We will, however, send more of our writing down whenever we get some together. Thanks so much for your inspiration and for waking a Jot of us up!

. Andrea Payne

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"That's our problem, Charlie, the more we get, the more we want.''

Dear Gregor Robertson, Mayor Sullivan · and Vancouver Councillors;

Jam writing to you regarding the water quality of False Creek. I realize we are being told this water crisis is due to the release of raw sewage into False Creek from a broken or clogged pipe. As False Creek is the lowest point in the city, I know that there is more in that water than sewage. The water is being tested for faecal coliform levels. Please let me know how to get the water in False Creek tested f~r the things found in garbage leachate. The many d1fferent forms of bacteria, viruses, moulds, combi­nations of chemicals, fungi, parasites .. ..... that also are affecting the environmental health and safety of False Creek residents, birds and marine life. This being the lowest section of land and an area I have watched massive amounts of leachate being drained into the sewer adjacent to, I know the water and the sludge under it will contain much of the above sub­stances. It is not cost effective to carry fluld to the landfills

so in many cases the drivers release the garbage lea­chate in a number of ways. They leave their plugs open draining the garbage leachate as they travel. They use the fact that holes can be punctured in the

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Bharbara Gudmundson

August 17 wiJJ include Downtown Eastside Artist Lisa David (collage, origami, fibre art)

-Live music

Letters to other editors

3117/ '08, Tile Georgia Straight, Letter to the editor Single rooms continue to disappear from Downtown Eastside

NPA Councillor (and mayoral hopeful) Peter Ladner is correct: drug use in the Downtown Eastside is rampant ["DTES seeks new lease on life," July 24-31] According to Bruce Alexander-an SFU professor

who studied addiction for more than 30 years-the reason for unchecked drug use is "social condition". And what is the reigning social condition of the Downtown Eastside? In a word, homelessness. At le~st one study has shown that up to 80 percent

of the _homeless are mentally ill, addicted, or both. But, according to Ladner, "All we have to do is en­sure that we don't lose social housing here (DTES) and we are not." It may be true that the social hous­ing currently present is being maintained, but single­room-occupancy hotel rooms- the main living plac­es ofDowntown Eastside residents- have become unavailable to people on income assistance, or are in danger of becoming unavailable at an alarming rate.

According to the Apri12008 Carnegie Community Action Project study, Disappearing Homes, that number is l ,691. That fact wasn't recorded in your sidebar. What we do know from the sidebar is that at the same time, there have been 557 social housing units built.

So no matter what Ladner claims, there is an actua I net loss of homes in the Downtown Eastside. What is needed immediately is for much more social housing to be built in the Downtown Eastside.

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Homelessness action in Paris: · Tents for homeless people line the Canal St. Martin in Paris. A French association Enfants de don Quichotte set up the tents to draw attention to the need for long-term housing solutions for that city's homeless. There are more than 200 tents.

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B.C. dragging its feet on raising the minimum wage Letter Published: 7/8/8 in The Vancouver Sun Re: .. Minimum wage increase may cut jobs,"

Soundoff, 6/8/8 The headline may be true, but the number of jobs

lost is insignificant. This has been shown by studies. It may be true that most minimum-wage earners are young people, but that's no reason to deny them a living wage. The author Keith Godin, a senior analyst with the

Fraser Institute, failed to address the issue of the 500-hour "training wage "of $6 per hour, as against the standard B.C. minimum wage of$8. Typically, minimum-wage earners can learn all they need to know about their jobs in eight hours. The real reason Godin advocates against raising the minimum wage is that the Fraser Institute is funded by business interests and these don't want to pay their workers a living wage. Also, the Campbell government's funding largely comes from business • mterests. It's a fallacy to think raising the minimum wage · will hurt the economy. Raising it to at least $10 per hour would begin to force employers toward wages high enough to live on. Other provinces are proceeding in this direction. C. is slow to follow~

RolfJ\uer

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Come to the "Six Book Challenge" Adult Summer Reading Club wrap-up party. Starting in early July participants have been reading a book a week, and now it's time to see who rose to "the challenge." All are welcome. It takes place today (Friday the 15th) at 1 :30 in the library. There will be cookies, coffee, tea and prizes.

New Books Want to know how to destroy a vampire? Curious

to know what the word for vampire is in Albania? Keen to find out which seeds will protect you from vampires? If you answered yes to any of these ques­tions then Vampires and Other Mo11strous Crea­tures (398.45) is the book for you. A light-hearted bu~ informative look at vampires (and other monstr­ous creatures) worldwide. From demons (or vampires at least), we go to an­

gels. A11gels A to Z (291.21) is a comprehensive, alphabetically arranged (the title does not lie) survey of Angels, not just in western religion and culture, but across all religions and cultures. Teen moms gather at the Valley Fair Mall. A young man goes missing, his abandoned truck found parked at the local airport. Two sisters set out on a

• road-trip to Montreal, flashing truckers on their way up the Coquihalla. These are the moments captured in Elizabeth Bachinsky's poems. She may very well be the poet laureate of the Fraser Valley and her Home of Sudde11 Service (821 BAC) contains these and many other examples of"the Valley Gothic." Ever stared at a menu and wished you only had one

option to choose from, rather than 25? Barry Schwartz knows exactly how you feel and explains, in The Paradox ofC/wice (153 .83), why more is, in fact, less, how the unprecedented level of options we currently have can contribute to stress and anxie­ty and how to deal with "the tyranny of choice."

Doreen Armitage's Tales from the Galley (387.5) is a fantastic oral history of B.C.'s "working water­fronts." Armitage interviewed fisheries workers, coast guards, tugboat skippers, divers and ocean drillers to capture the many facets of working life in ·our coastal waters.

And finally, have you ever wanted to run away with the circus? Now you can do it right from the cozy confines of Carnegie library with Images [rom the World Behvee11: The Circus in 20111 Century 4mericall Art (704.94).

Randy, your librarian while Beth is on vacation

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The Second Annual Fearless Festival' Sunday, August 24 from 3 to 9pm

In and around Pigeon Park

We want to get as many people who live here or work here or who just love this ' hood to come out and celebrate. When we first came up with the idea for this fest' it was in reaction to the Vancouver Sun article calling the Downtown Eastside 'jour blocks of heir'. We thought, "Why don' t we have a party down here just to show 'emT' So we did.

Our neighbourhood is under a real threat of gentrific­ation, so show up and join all your buds for sol idarity in fun and home.

If you want to he I p us celebrate the diversity and beauty of the DTES, either as a performer or a volunteer, call Steve at 604-788-8340.

Constitution & Bylaw Review Commi~ee Will meet on Thursday, August 28 at 1:30 i.n Classroom II

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The aftermath oflndian Residential Schools blinds innocent children in voids of darkness Whose child within forever lost their way home abusive keys of oblivion rattle their closed world

My mask of confusion hides an invisible face hearts destroyed by madness, cold and bleak Fantasies consume realities of sane minds baby conspirators, Hollywood fuck-ups are blind

Shock the universe, close doors to evolution's freaks who destroyed 'n continue to destroy angelic babies Babies of all colour, denomination and creed whose kidnapped assimilating hearts bleed

Aftermath welcomes to the war zone a savage child "beasts like you will always run wild" Your mindframe recreates the ultimate rebellion against liars and fools clouded in an endless mire.

. The aftermath & thousands still die Canadian churches 'n Indian Residential schools hide behind lies created by drunken pedophiles abusive manglers of split, twisted souls Guive mercy to the ones who walk their crying, crooked path, and love and let live ·all Nature's beings of the Aftermath.

All my relations, William Arnold Combes & May C

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Medicine Pole In the Anishinabe tradition the people knew that all .

songs were not sung, and they had a healing ritual for the silent singer.

If a person dreamed a dream, and the strength of this dream was never called for, and therefore never given outward expression, that person carried an unsung song, an unfulfilled dream.

The tradition of the people enabled the person to bestow a gift on the community. She, or he, was considered to have special power to cure the sick, and was allowed to raise a pole in front of her, or his, home.

This pole was called a medicine pole, and it signi­fied the healing power of the dreamer whose dream was not expressed. Such was the power of a song that was not sung. Such was the wisdom of a culture that had a ritual to include the silent singer.

Sandy Cameron

Good-bye China - I never knew you. It was a .. -

nounced on CNN today that China has full inten~ tions of changing their name to the Official Country ofWal-Mart. Its citizens will be known as Wal-Mart employees ... (the only translation for Associate is Comrade .. . ) This should clear up any confusion and save on paperwork.

Always remember WaiMart is open 2417 world­wide for our convenience.

G.F. Long ago there lived a man who was crucified for being too loving and lovable. And, strange to relate, I met him thrice yesterday: -the first time he was asking a policeman not to take a prostitute to prison; -the second time he was drinking wine with an out-

cast; -the third time he was having a fistfight with a pro­moter in a church.

Kahil Gibran

Dear editor: . Hello, my name is Tracey Reynolds. I am sending

you a letter (article) regarding some very negative comments I have been seeing lately on Craig's List forum and in the newspapers regarding the homeless people on the eastside of Vancouver and the Safe Injection Site.

It has been said over and over again that the Safe Injection Site is a waste of Taxpayers' money and that the addicts down here are "derelicts" that don't deserve any help from Society.

I have been working in the downtown sector with these individuals for a number of years and here is my response to the idiotic comments that have been made. I would hope that you will publish this letter in defense of my client base.

I work for a non profit organization on the eastside of Vancouver. VANDU - Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.

We support addicts who are still active in their ad­diction and obviously that goes hand in hand with the homeless and trauma issues down here. We're a group of users and former users working to improve the lives of people who use illicit drugs through us­er-based peer support and education We are the ones that fight for these people ... the voice that talks with them and for them.

1 get really frustrated at the attitudes of the public and the way the media portrays the homeless issues down here. I would like to address the parallel issue regarding Harm Reduction. Society says that safe injection sites are a waste of time and that they enable addicts to continue to use. I am here to tell you my friends .... that is Bullshit! .These people down here are going to use whether

there is a safe injection site or not. They have to. They don't have a choice anymore .... heroin and opiate addiction is a physical addiction, not a choice .. .it was a choice the first time they picked up .

HAKIVJ Kt.UUL llUN ts a set ot practical strategies with the goal of "Meeting People who use illicit 7 drugs "Where they are at ..... to engage them in reduc-ing harms associated with their drug use. Together, as a Society and as citizens of Vancou­

ver, we work to minimize the harmful effects of illicit drug use by calling for effective, well­researched interventions. We can and do reduce illicit drug overdose deaths,

illness, infections, the corruption of our law en­forcement, drug-related crime, and the market for illicit drugs. It is our belief that every person, as stated in the

Charter of Rights, has the right to good health and well being. We also believe that all people are com­petent to protect themselves, their loved ones and communities from drug-related harm.

We, (my organization) are committed to ensuring that drug users have a real voice in the creation of · programs and policies designed to serve them. This is appropriate, seeing as they are the ones directly affected by the decisions put forth by government agencies and Social Service providers. It needs to be understood that drug use ranges from

total abstinence to severe abuse .... We recognize that some ways of using drugs are clearly safer than · others and it is our job, as a Society, as health care providers, and Social Service Workers to keep con­nected, educate and promote safe practices. It is important that the public recognizes that the

realities of poverty, racism, social isolalion, past trauma, mental illness, and other social inequalities increase people's vulnerability to addiction andre­duces their capacity for effectively reducing drug­related harm. So, I challenge you and your statement that these

services are a waste of time and taxpayer's money. We challenge the traditional,.Client/Service Provid­er" relationships that put forth unrealistic goafs and · create inane programs that call for the Effective Empowerment for these citizens, when they actually have no clue as to what these people are capable o.f. Those who are making these comments and deci­sions are those sitting behind their desk, collecting a . paycheck and pretending they understand what "A · day in the life of a homeless addict" is. That is what is most frustrating. We need to empower the people who use drugs to '

design and implement harm reduction strategies and interventions - they are the ones who know what . they need, what works and what doesn't. It is interesting that so many people in the general . . .

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vent citizens, have been victims of Government bu­reaucracy and red tape. Some have been cut off their Employment Insurance or Worker's Compensation · and. though still unable to return to work, have been refused welfare because of this. And some just slip through the cracks.

Out of the hundreds of members we have, I have only met a handful who accept their lifestyle and choose to be where they are at. Every one of these people has a story to tell and if you only took the time to listen you would soon understand how ridi­culous your statement is and how these people are a valuable asset to their community, that they contri­bute and are giving back on a daily basis. Now my friend, I ask you this ... when is the last time you did something for your community?

Dear Tracey, Thank you for your letter. Yes, it will appear

prominently in the next edition of the Carnegie Newsletter, though it may be mostly 'talking to those who already share your outlook' ("Preaching to the converted" doesn't really fit- dogma and common sense are polar opposites.)

The addressed in the email didn't include a wide range of media outlets; hopefully that was planned. Your insight and outlook should appear in many

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weeklies and even dailies throughout BC and on the Internet. I don't have a 'facebook'(?) or other thing that [seems to] let people vie for the recognition of peers as the great thinker and personality each be­lieves themselves to be, but have a suspicion that all of this negativity towards drug users and the down­town eastside in general is propagated by develop­ment interests. The larger the corporation or finan­cial group involved, the more certain it is that a de­partment exists in the structure to promulgate disin­formation. The daily papers are one part of this, and television coverage is another. Witness CTV and the Vancouver Sun stating unequivocally that they just will not cover any further protests or anti­Olympic events. So much for an unbiased media.

This kind of condemnation oflnsite/drug users/ street/homeless people is building up steam - it's easiest to begin with the "universally" despised -to make the more draconian measures certain to be used just prior to and during the Games to render us and our neighbourhood invisible to international media. In Atlanta they gave the above population small amounts of money and 2 weeks stay at some outside sports stadium for the duration of their Olympics; refusal or disinterest resulted in immedi­ate arrest and incarceration.

We have to keep the larger picture in mind and keep asking 'Why is this (whatever this is) appearing or being conducted now?"

Respectfully, PauiR Taylor, editor.

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The PROGRESSIVE UTILISATION THEORY- PROUT

Political Concepts Here the term political is used in the broadest sense. It does not mean merely party politics or government administration but covers all the relationships in society which affect social progress. In this context, the

. fundamental principles comprise the essence of the political concepts in PROUT. The main ideas contained in each of these principles are as follows:

1) "No individual should be allowed to accumulate any physical wealth without the clear permission or approval of the Collective Body." a/ Social Formation-Society should be structured so as to ensure the allocation of the minimum necessities to everybody and to take care of the problems of individual survival. b/ Cosmic inheritance - the universe is the common property of all. Property rights should be based upon a system of cosmic inheritance and not upon private or state ownership. c/ Freedom - individual welfare vs. collective welfare. There must be constraints on accumulation to ensure that· everybody has sufficient minimum requirements, but there is unlimited accumulation of available men­tal at:td spiritual resources. d/ Accumulation - both the psychological urge and actual physical accumulation must be checked to prevent exploitation. The realisation of infinite happiness must always be encouraged. e/ Social Ethics - the problems of law and morality arising from the accumulation of physical wealth, and both individual & collective responsibility. fl Government Responsibility- the duty of the bureaucracy, government and Board of Sadvipras is to ensure proper allocation of minimum requirements and incentives.

2) "There should be maximum utilisation and rational distribution of all mundane, supramundane : and spiritual potentialities of the universe." a/ Non-human Resource Allocation- problems relating to all forms of resource utilization: what; for whom

· and how in all 3 realms . . b/ Maximum Utilisation -the use of resources to provide the maximum welfare to maximum number of people for the maximum time period; also includes things like a progressive incentive system, the use of ap­propriate technology, etc. c/ Rational Distribution - accomplished by guaranteeing purchasing power to enable people to acquire min­imum necessities, by an incentive system and by social and economic planning. d/ Planning- short and long-term projections in all vital areas of economic and social life (e.g. the amount of production in a particular area of manufacturing, the development of decentralised cities, etc.). e/ Methods of Utilisation- how to best utilise resources: e.g. keep them in their present form or change their form; use them now or save them for the future; transport them from one place to another, etc.

3) "There should be maximum utilisation of all physical, metaphysical and spiritual potentialities of unit & collective bodies of the human society." a/ Human Resources Allocation- problems relating to the utilisation of human resources in all spheres (physical, metaphysical, spiritual). b/ Maximum Utilisation- the use of all human potentialities to provide the maximum welfare to the maxi­mum number of people for the maximum time period. This includes things like ideas, creative potential, and spiritual realisation. c/ Collective Development- the constant endeavor to expand both the individual and collective body/mind/ spirit bearing, and the constant struggle by society to get established in universal humanism. d/ Education - all forms of expanding awareness and pursuit of knowledge. This al~o implies proper moral and spiritual education- education in all spheres of the unit and collective body.

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4) "There should be a proper adjustment amongst the physical, metaphysical, mundane, supramun­dane and spiritual utilisations." a/ Adjusting the allocation o_[human and non-human resources- in order to ensure individual and collective benevolence there must be a proper adjustment provided by guaranteeing purchasing power, rather than by direct distribution. Also, subtler resources should generally be taken in greater measure when more than one kind of resource manifest together. b/ Administration - the system of government and the dominant varna must endeavor to bring a proper ad­justment in the a11ocation of all resources for both the individual and collective welfare. cl Sadvipra Leadership- proper adjustment in the allocation of resources depends much on Sadvipra Lea dership.

e) "The method in utilisation should vary in accordance with the changes in time, place and person, and the utilisations should be of a progressive nature." a/ Social Dynamics- everything varies as per time, place and person, and so must the method of utilisation in a progressive society. Society is constantly changing, and it must always strive to be .flexible and progres-

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b/ Towards Spirituality- society has to endeavor to continually increase the scope for spiritual realisation.

These ideas form the basis of PROUT's political concepts and, together with PROUT's philosophy, theory of history and economic theory, form the fundamentals of the ideology of PROUT- given "for the good and happiness of all."

In fighting corruption, there should be a constructive ideal. Different CIVIC movements in the States & Canada failed to give a benevolent service for want of a constructive ideal. They fought only for fight's sake. It is necessary therefore, that ideal should be first, ideal second and ideal always. Capitalism makes humans beggars; communism makes the beggar a beast. Those who lack in constructive

ideal help the capitalists in their exploitation. Only criticising capitalism would not do any service to the people, rather it will help the anti-social elements in finding out or inventing more tactics for exploitation. This is our condition today. The leftist groups are engaged in criticising the capitalists, which is. bringing no fruitful results, and the capitalists have captured power by infiltrating the ruling party. Ours should be a con­structive ideal and we should mount a ceaseless and practical struggle against all anti-human and anti-social factors. We are to fight capitalism and not the capitalists .

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Ayisha, Diane and Harley are the hosts

of East Side Story, a weekly radio show of interviews, news updates,

music and poetry from the neighbourhood. We're the voice of the

Carnegie Action Project. CAP does research, public education

and action to improve the Jives of the low-income residents of the D TES. Eastside Story comes to you live

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One day, when Guta was doing whatever Guta did, which is to say not very much, but it certainly in-

. valved a certain amount of curiosity, she happened to meet someone without any imagination, this be­ing a far worse crime, in her esteemed opinion, than being stupid or rude. · Guta went back to her friend Kutaphah, to tell the

tale. When she asked the cashier at Rexall pharmacy in Tinseltown, to take her legal tender, four rolls of 50 pennies, he said he could not take any rolls. She had bought the penny rollers that her pennies were now in, not a half an hour earlier from the same cashier, spending a total of six dollars. Not a little frustrated, she lost her patience and said with a small measure of force, "no, you can take this money, you can make a decision, just give me my change, this is legal tender, you have to take it". At which point another cashier said "we don't have to ' take anything, and if you could just be patient, I will get the manager11 and that the manager would wail on him, to which the security guard agreed. Guta said "I am patient, and he is going to beat you for taking four rolls of pennies that are paying for penny rollers?" The very stern and immovable manager had been

summoned, he then refused to accept her legal ten­der, saying they could be full of slugs! She was in-

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suited! He had implied that she was a thief! She of­fered to count the pennies out for him, to prove they were indeed pennies, he said he would not do that, so she said "how rude" and momentarily walked out. She then went upstairs to her regular noodle ven-

. dor, who took the rolls without question; and who ·laughed when Guta gave .her a quarter tip for doing so. ~he went back down to the pharmacy, and told the cashier how she had been coming here regularly for four years, and how when she took the penny rolls to the rioodle lady, she hadn't thought twice about changing her money for her. The cashier could only say .. it is not my dec is ion". Kutaphah, who had been first waiting patiently for

his friend, for some time, while this whole adven­ture took place, was now listening, patiently; could only say with no little amount of laughter in his eyes once he heard the entire recount; "what do you ex­pect, this land is full of people with little imagina­tion." When she insisted on experimenting with oth­er vendors of the great market Tinseltown, to see which if any had no imagination, he only rolled his eyes and laughed saying "haven't you had enough of fighting everybody for one day?" Guta, moved by this obvious display of common ·

sense, decided her frie(Jd was indeed right. For those with little imagination who worked at the RexaiJ drug store in what is known as the "Tinseltown", she had created a clever and rather disingenuous song about the manager. When she shared this with Kutaphah, he could only laugh in a sort of uncom­fortable way. Not thoroughly unconvinced that he had made a mistake in befriending Guta, as he shooed her out the door, there was not some small measure of rei ief. He could now have some peace and quiet from the unpronounced chatter of his friend. Deviating from the narrative was a particular spe­

ciality of Guta's, whatever happened to come into her head, she would share at lightening speed, jump­ing from one topic to another, with whomever hap­pened to be in her natural vicinity. She was ever so oblivious when these people would make excuses to see her later. Being continually fascinated with her own machinations, it could be said in this instance Guta herself had too little imagination to realize that everyone was fascinated with their own inner mono­logs. No matter how drearily small their mono-logs circled, they still preferred their own version to any others, especially when they could provide tailor made snacks and habits that would briefly interrupt

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deserve ~n award, for her nob I.e lessons, but that she \yould do the rewarding herself. Food being used as a reward, had left its legacy on Guta, so she em­ployed what the inhabitants still found little pleasure in: smoking a cigarette. This ae.t was not something her friend approved of, yet there was little reasoning that could be expressed to Guta, once she decided to do anything.

Waiting in the line up at another "drug store", but which served things like cartons of milk at any time of the day or night, Guta was feeling pretty "impor­tant" and certainly "deserving", having won her first round of philosophical battles, so she thought.

When taking so very long to serve her, after chang­ing the tape in the cash register, and now calling a price check for the person in front of her in line, the line had grown to a great length. When a new cash­i~r showed up many people scurried with armfuls of particular nonsense to pay him. Guta saw this as her opportunity to be served next, as she was next in line and said so to the new cashier. The shrinking lady who had managed to get in front of her was no obstacle to Guta's personal sense of fairness, and Guta proceeded to order her cigarettes as though this woman did not exist. She was ob­viously someone who had spent her entire life try­ing to be invisible anyhow, and this would not alter

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·, By now Guta had come to accept her own irregular­ities, or what others had defined as characteristically eccentric. Being right was something Guta "loved", even if this was only known to her and her universal ~core keeper. She was momentarily stopped by the cashier when he said "is not this woman here first", to which she replied with the most casual authority

. she could muster, "but sir I "was" the next in line". . Leav~ng the store, another moment of philosophical battle had wearied our heroine. The small comfort or' smoking·had become somewhat of a social de­viance, once the rulers of the country Canada had .made it all but illegal. Along with their stinking ve­hicles, Guta had to suffer the smug superiority all non-smokers shared, especially whenever she hap­pened to light up in a public place. She was meditat­ing on this when- as if on universal cue- a couple walked by and she overheard one say to the other with a sort of wispy rightness, "did you smell any-· thing?", she sort of laughed when the other said "no

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When you tell me to flame off I won't need it out there Where some stranger in a silver suit Beside me tells me what to do Which parts of the hull need fixing

It would be so much easier Out there, nameless and almost human Between you all and what passes here For the vast and endless, if I could love Even just one of you ...

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Being a volunteer in the Gay Parade in support of the Carnegie Battalion I wondered: had I been ar­rested by the Thought Police, what cell I would have been in (carrying a FaLun Gong manual and the Communist Manifesto)?! The Parade seemed a great success and truly, with

my thoughts, felt democratic hearing applause and seeing al the smiling faces of both the artists and participants ... considering my routine of an 83 year­old with a long face meeting many another sufferer with a longer face.

It was enjoyable and a pleasant day, a financial generator to the city with more problems.

By JAMES McLEAN

CBfack, tt£ Wfi.ite (]Jaffoons All these cranes & stains up in the sky while idling cars with witless cellular drivers keep stopping by. how many smokers = one idleist? maybe 20 or more reality hits harder later a family will cry so many selfishistic fools like fighting World War III using World War I tools; the more shite you make the less dignity you take as long as there's a paycheque at the bottom of that black&white rainbow; this sick­ening cycle will come back and bite you in the form of prison walkways, self-made widows and a cock­tail involving Drano. Bottoms Up Everyone hope­fully this novelty will wear off faster than letters on a prison keypad, then again we have been graciously given a preview of hell kind a like a toilet with a view, as Hells go it's not that horrifically bad like the street, ever notice the difference between testify­ing and terrorizing (these two rarely if ever meet) like stealing statues, tombstones, lives & manhole covers Jots and lots of ka-ching you heart less sel­fishist bastards: when you're caught may you rot you' II be in fine company Now we're thinking ahead to the golden retirement years check the numbers numbskull they indicate not even near! "The time is now to take action!!" an ad in some yellow newspaper said, throwing away more than paper ($. But with global warning shots

to the back of the head) this ain't no party you self­ish silly people - This Means Death .. that thing after life, you know. You also know that half empty feel­ing you take with you to bed every night, I forgot completely that as a member of this planet's race feeling secure is not my right. Then the climate change artists, the stock market & Rap sheet Music people sill & stroll - it's called parole but some thought it was a parade look there's a guy in handcuffs selling lemonade (watered down l bet) more than the little girls who thought today was theirs .. just one small day toooo baddd The Selfishistic Times' largest section is S for SAD Anything worth living and dying for will be laden with physical and emotional traps, cruel and delib­erate mishaps, punctured parachute straps, degenera­tive mind lapses & just empty flaps ending in mur­derous scraps another day perhaps given the last rites of circumstance cause we're stuck to progres­sive crap minimum wage has a credibility gap ... Take a last(ing) look I'm like the atmosphere empty & complete look you're the one on parade/parole . someone call in Hercule Poirot yo·u~lllike opening ceremonies and wounds with salt & vinegar in mind

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An Ode to Tasha Barry Tasha Barry, tragedy gone, no where to be found, this relief from earthly temporary bonds, cut down so much too soon like a springtime dew. Regal, you touched the sky~ you ran the hills, srpelling sweet perfumes. I know you now cannot at all explain about return and about remain. I serjse the mists of early day dawning and I can almost hear your soft, heavenly refrains. I've heard and read about para­normal things like astral planes where I ponder deep dreams - questions as yet unanswered and never even clearly explained. Time travel, mysteries to unravel, where to begin? Fire, water, earth and air; a quartet of a yet unra­velled riddle, where do you slice them if not right down the middle?!

. And so Tasha Barry where are you right now .. whe­rever have you gone? Are you a forever girl, a lady fair, with no more worries and few if any cares?? You had some troubles, traumas and tribulations~ you handled all with grace and strength, always sporting your wide, warm and infectious smile ...

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Suddenly: ashes to ashes, dust to dust, a tough break at monstrous cost with fate and luck holding hands. Most desperately missed will be warm hugs and wet kisses - locked in fading, surreal yet pleas­ing memories ... yet you're still somehow here---I truly believe Tasha Barry keep us strong - all friends and family, all from whom you were so suddenly stolen. There is no ear to hear my heart-wrenching pleas, so tell me by sign if ever I can honour and kiss you and gaze into your glittering, welcoming eyes without an exchange of dimension?! Your aura surrounds me and I thank you for this. Tasha Barry, I miss you desperately; I loved you and love you more than ever before, hoping and wishing you'll know somehow in a universe of days . Tasha Barry, sleep well; I will certainly be seeing you in some ama~ing, imaginative, exquisitely in­credible way, over the awesome, arcing, endless rainbows- we will soar high above the misting, refreshing, summer rains.

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The Heatley block is located at the corner of Heatley and Hastings Streets. It was recently purchased by the City of Vancouver and is operated by Atira Property Management. Rogan Sinclair along with his partner Kim, are the site managers for the Heat­ley Block. They have recently moved in with their kids Christmas and Mickey this past year. The pre­vious building they were in was located at 29 west Hastings, next to Army and Navy; not super kid friendly but they managed. I met Christmas and Mickey at Strathcona Community Centre where I have worked on and off for about 12 years. They were all very happy about this move to the Heatley Block. Close to the school, way more space for them as a family, quieter, and places to play _outside with 2 parks just down the street They're adaptable kids, they' II figure it out if their new home gets torn down. They have been going around with pet11ttot .... ,.., Mickey told me they have 3 pages mted up al­ready. Their parents are bound by who they work for to not respond, but their kids aren't. I feel real proud of them that they feel empowered enough to

respond, I want to support them how I can. I guess that's why I'm writing about them, a small way of helping. They are 2 very good reasons amongst many as to why the Heatley Block should stay put. The proposal goes something like this: Tear

the Heatley block as well as the adjacent building belonging to Pivot Legal Society( who will sell their

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So why is any of this wrong- new library, new affordable housing, all good right? No actually, its all supposed to sound good, just like South East False Creek, which has seen all but 20 percent of its affordable housing squeezed out, and the future of. that is still debatable. The high costs of construction can be trumped out to add a few more floors on, make the project half market or more and why not throw a Starbucks downstairs, not out of the realm of possibility, their is much history to draw upon. So why should it stay put? Carnegie Library for starters is one of the most used libraries in the City. The Children's library at the School is also well used and very convenient and safe for the kids, that don't have to walk out to a highway to get their books. For all of the itew residents who are too freaked out to go to Carnegie for their ~ooks, they could go to the oldest part of the School that could house a full collection with an expanded children~s sectiOJ'1. There are also a number of viable local businesses at street level, including the most recent tenant Spartacus Books, which has been in and around the neighbourhood for over 30 years. We don't seem to get the concept of heritage and why it is actually important. Our idea of heritage is

~~ gutting the interior, keeping the facade and popping a tower in the middle. Not heritage. Heritage is about people and memory and story and the feel of places that have had thousands of people run through them. People who have witnessed decades

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By Sharon Kravitz . . .

Mental illness: noticed for the wrong reasons

This issue of The Carnegie Newsletter marks its 22"d . I' anmversary. m sure that Paul Taylor-our esteemed volunteer editor throughout that whole time has some choice words to say about that so I' 1.1 leave further comment to him, and just part,with th1s note: congratulations, Paul!

I'm writing this article because I read an editorial in The Province on August 6, 2008 titled "Lefs all address mental illness." It seems to have been trig­gered by a couple of violent incidents which hap­pened recently, namely, the attack on nine people by a person with a hammer, and the decapitation of a

· man on a bus by an obviously deranged man. I'd like to address the issue of mental illness and

violence. According to an article on the Canadian Mental Health Association's website, Violence and Mental Illness, "The majority of people who are violent do not

suffer from mental illnesses. In fact, people with a mental illness arc more likely to be the victims, ra­ther than the perpetrators of violence."

"Recent studies have showed that alcohol and sub­stance abuse far outweigh mental illness in contri­buting to violence." "Curr~nt research shows that people with major

mental Illness are 2.5 times more likely to be the victims of violence than other members of society. This most often occurs when such factors as pover­ty, transient lifestyle and substance use are present.''

"The pattern of violence is remarkably similar whether a person is suffering with a mental illness or not. People with a mental illness, for instance, are no more likely than anyone else to harm strangers."

Why mental illness has suddenly come to the news media's now is probably due, as the CMHA article states, to its obsession with sensationalism.

. ·But that's not a good reason to notice it only now, • alth.ough the closing sentence- "That is why, as a soct~ty, we must all do more to recognize early on the stgns of mental illness- and do our best to se­cure professional treatment for it,"-is encouraging.

As I wrote in the April I, 2008 Newsletter, in "The high cost ofSAMI homelessness," about the report on the SAMI (Severe Addictions ~11d/or Mental Ill­ness) homeless titled "Housin~ and Support for Adults with Severe Addictions and/or Mental Illness

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in British Columbia," the report's authors estimate that 50 to 70 per cent of the homeless are dual diag­nosed (that is, both mentally ill and addicted) indi­cating that perhaps 80 per cent of the homeless are one or the other. The report also states that it is un­clear whether homelessness causes mental illness or vice versa, and that probably these are reciprocal effects of each other.

Given the reported link between homelessness and mental illness back in April, why didn't the news media then jump all over the necessity of treating mental illness- in at least the homeless, one way .being to build sufficient supportive social housing? Why did BC Housing Minister Rich Coleman an­nounce rent subsidy increases right after the story about the report broke in the news (instead of new supportive housing)?

Answer: we just don't give enough thought to the plights of the mentally ill until some sensationalist story or two catches our attention. t~

By Rolf l\uer

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For the Soldier from Saskatchewan

Your hair is still on my bathtub Tangled in the towels Long, straight - mostly silver - reminding me Remembering your departure angry, indignant, I did not understand.

A breath of prairie air I babbled... You appeared to listen ... I looked for you in the park, under the trees,

already knowing you wouldn't be there

Wilhelmina

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TOWARD a sentient peace ... Webster's Dictionary defines the word "sentient" as

"being conscious of (or responding f)o feelings; not in opposition but as augmentation to perceptual thought." That's a mouthful. It stands for the ability to be creative and to allow for, even to welcome, the new. It is a sad fact that every end to war ever described in recorded history has been the dividing of spoils, the claiming of whatever was left by the ones who "won" ... and at the same time the ones who "lost" become the next scapegoats for the few who wallow in the power & wealth so recently up for grabs. The ideals .. the lofty ideation shows itself to be mostly empty words even when they are brought out at the scheduled times (holidays!), polished up or at least brushed off, spouted in fine rhetorical style and then reverently put back into the sacred place called dogma. Dogma is bad theory presented as truth; religious, communist, capitalist and all the shadings between or among. "Peace" - as we know it today almost every person

on Earth is convinced that it's just a briefperiod be­tween wars. Some nut for detail checked ... in over 3,000 years of recorded history there has been some­thing like 47 where no major war was being fought somewhere. Today, there are. what .. 9 or 10 going on right now?

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As always, the populations that spawn the soldiers who "kill or be killed" cannot even imagine what the destroyed survivors have done or will do, but the

unthinkable is hidden behind budgets, technology (or at least highly technical data) and "jobs". The rhetoric of patriotism plays a key role in channeling the sexual high of battle into ideation on the necess­ity of continuously turning young people into homi­cidal maniacs for use in war. And, when the failure of every alternative (or whatever has been staged to make war the only answer) is broadcast as obvious, those who have the most invested in winning what they desire - in terms of wealth & markets & re­sources- tighten the screws to a new level of tension until war is again the only alternative and on and on.

SO .. what about this sentient peace? Tora wrote a good line a while ago: "Why can't they ever e;et it rie;ht?" Simply 'they' aren't interested in a solution or action that benefits the whole of the society, but in what will further the selfish interests of the privileged few. Look at any crisis or misunderstanding or conflict and look at what the leaders did. Quick-fixes and band-aids and a few crumbs to the majority and it's business-as­usual almost at once. Poets are the most sensitive, but anyone who choos­es to live is, in essence, an embodiment of spiritual poetry. You, me, all of us, can see almost at once when a solution or innovation or "new thing" is good or just the same old shit dressed up in a differ­ent way.

Being part of the struggle towards a sentient peace starts for each of us when we listen to our own intui­.tion. Very soon, just being alive - surviving - isn't going to be enough.

I have a body but I am more than that~ l have a mind but I am more than that. .. and full circle with the attainment of psycho-spiritual parallelism.

And 'doing it right' becomes easy. Live long and prosper!

By PAULR TAYLOR

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