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Bob and Muggs - let me tell you a story about these two. T hey have hearts of gold in their golden years, and they made it by getting involved. (hippies from the fi fties or something like that.) They were born in a time that made their plans play out.

Muggs came to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside from North Vancouver, and somewhere along the line made a name for herself by getting involved The story I news report went like this : "People have the right to fight" for wfiat is needed in their lives.

The headlines started to make people read about a community in need of better housing, especially for s ing le mothers and have good lunch programs for kids in school and so much more.

Carnegie became another project, the fight to make this building a place for those living in SRO hotels that have been going down hill since they started the fight for our community. Also these two and other saved the building from being demoJished for a ''stupid" parking Jot the City wanted to build. Way to go people you all helped to make things happen.

Now Bob and Muggs are on their way off to another journey with Paddy in Hornby, I just wanted say I am going to s incerely miss these two. It's all Muggs' fault I am on the board as one day she approached me o utside the library to see if I would like to run.

T he secret is out/the mystery is solved .. . and I am still caus ing trouble, "Life is Grand" Thanks kids.

Margaret Prevost

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It's a Wrap after a Zillion Performances Carnegie's longest running volunteer couple performance, "The Bob and Muggs Show" is wrapping up. Sometime in January they will be folding the~r perfonnance tent in Vancouver and then re-openmg on Hornby Island. • You name it, either Muggs or Bob or both have performed it at Carnegie; kitchen cashier, food . seryer, chili chef, the board, the program commtt-

tee, the finance committee, community relations committee, volunteer committee, Oppenheimer Park committee, theatre, statistics course, musicals, Carnegie tours, DE tours, performances at City' Hall and the Parks Board, street demonstrations, public hearing presentations, radio and televis ion interviews, getting arrested, Carnegie Admissions Policies and Practices Task Force, and so much more.

Get ready Hornby Island.

M and B, you will be hugely missed: your entertainment value, your passion for Carnegie and the Downtown Eastside, your activism and knowledge and skills in organizing and getting the message across.

I had 5.5 energizing years working with you, and really appreciated all your s upport and occasional "direct" feedback advice. lt was a blast.

So on to Hornby . .... we look forward to dropping down the road from our coop camp to visit you at your estate.

Michael [the Godfather] Clague .

Bob and Muggs and the CEEDS Commune When we decided that the commune should look further afield to find people who might be interested in an alternative lifestyle of living on the land and growing food for the people, we decided that the most fertile ground for finding those people was the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and we sent our envoy Lisa Enquist there. That was '87 or '88. It wasn't long before Lisa met Dave McConnell and Dave introduced Lisa to Muggs and now, as they say, the rest is history.

Countless visits to our farms by Bob and Muggs, bringing the likes of the DTES poets to b_egi_n ~ith, moving on to the "Mild Men" and many mdtvtdual visits from Dave McConnell over the years, Sandy Cameron, Sheila Baxter, Jeff and Joanne Sommers and kids, Lee Donohue, Shawn Millar, more recently Jay Hamburger, and many, many more who have been convinced by Bob and Muggs that they should check out the farm in the Cariboo.

Where do we begin to describe our fortune in connecting with Bob and Muggs? Muggs we admire for her organizing skills, her gardening abilities, her understanding of herbs and most importantly her tenacity, tenacity, tenacity in refus ing to accept a

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love for his unrelenting pursuit of knowledge, his untiring need to share what he knows with others, his fury with injustice, and his humour.

Bob and Muggs introduced us to the DTES. They've opened up their home to us whenever we've needed it on runs to the coast. They've shown us a part of the city that we know has been touched by them; the Carnegie Centre and the Strathcona Gardens. They've brought to us writers, poets, actors, carpenters, cooks, nurses, artists, painters, musicians, gardeners, farmers and family for us to meet and broaden our outlook. Muggs, when she can, has worked in our gardens enjoying the satisfaction of producing lots of food organically and collectively.

Bob has spent many hot days in the hayfields picking bales and keeping up the spirits of the hay-crew and washing baby carrots and monstrous Romaine lettuces in the garden and for the last 3 years has spent January with us trying to experience -40 C. while feeding pigs, chickens and the occasional aloof cow.

We don't know how we lived without them and we hope we don't have to live long without them now that they've retired. We all wish them the best in their new life out of the city and we know that it will be as difficult for them to break away as it will be for us and all their friends in the DTES to let them go. So long for now Bob and Muggs, love and peace, CEEDS

Thanks for the Memories How would we of the Downtown Eastside have ever gotten by without the constant and consistent help and hard work of Bob Sarti and Muggs Sigurgeirson over these oh-so-many years?!

They have been dignified and totally committed 3 champions of varied and important causes, crusades and concerns - too innumerable to mention all in this space. Muggs and Bob put in countless hours over years on boards or committees, including especially Carnegie Centre's. They were principal in doing the tough spade work, both literally and figuratively, to make and create the beautiful Strathcona Community Gardens - hopefully a lasting fixture to exemplify the creative and artistic nature of residents of both Strathcona and the Downtown Eastside.- a permanent legacy that Muggs and Bob helped spearhead. In their endeavors I've never noticed either getting material rewards, but the gratification and heartfelt thanks are priceless, my friends.

In Civil disobedience, activism, charity and more you could always count on Bob and Muggs to be there in the thick of it on the front lines for civil rights, truth, justice, on our side - the right side.

The most recent (and close to home for me) has been (is) fighting for rate hikes for the steadily dwindling number of deprived people still fortunate enough to remain on the welfare ' benefit' rolls just to receive a paltry sum of mpney after jumping through a myriad of obstacles and seemingly endless hoops. [This fight continues with RaisetheRates.org having current info and how to get involved.]

As l4uggs and Bob close this chapter in their lives, many people consider themselves fortunate and proud to have known them as their friends, acquaintances, comrades-in-arms and so on. What, then, is their legacy? (believe the greatest monument they have for themselves and all citizens is the help that's made the Downtown Eastside and Strathcona neighbourhoods of Vancouver much more beautiful ' safer places to live and raise a family.

And we ask "How can we ever thank them enough for everything they've done and accomplished. I believe it is to carry on the work that they were doing and/or involved in. I could go on but I've got a funny feeling that they'll be back (hopefully sooner than later) ....

In the meantime you two have a peaceful, active, long-deserved rest. I know you're just recharging your batteries, listening to the serenely smooth sea breezes for news of the rallying for the next cause that you must be caught in the middle of- 'cause that's your nature. Be seein' ya!

Robyn Livingstone

Dear Carnegie Newsletter, Here's my contribution "to the accolades, roasting, thoughts and laughs to share" re. Muggs and Bob. 1. You know those 2 big pillars holding Carnegie up ... no, not the concrete ones outside, I mean, Bob & Muggs!

2. I never liked chilli 'til I tried Bob's chilli.

3. Bob and Muggs turned the ancient stone walls of Carnegie into ribbons of silk, and curtains of warm wool to caress us and provide the best of warmth and care.

4. I really don't want to believe they are leaving.

Could we start a petition to stop them?

Libby Davies, M.P . for Vancouver East

a moratorium.

I' ve been hanging around Carnegie for only about a year and a half, working on the Carnegie Community Action Project. But in that time I hav~ really depended on Bob & Muggs for their insight, knowledge of the history of the area and its struggles, and their skills. lf I'm trying tt> sink my teeth into what I think is a complicated issue or task, all I have to do is call up Muggs and get a quick, down-to-earth, plain language analysis that makes a lot of sense.

Bob is great for figuring out how to get media coverage. They are both great for a thousand other things and I find myself calling them nearly every day for advice on one thing or another. I really appreciate that Bob put in so mucn hard work to write The Tipping Point, the play about Bruce Eriksen, and put Eriksen front and centre in the history of the Downtown Eastside.

I wish the best for Muggs and Bob in their new life.

I hope I can caB and pester them for advice once in a while.

--Jean Swanson

For Muggs and Bob November 2"d was a sort of historic day for Carnegie. It wasn't historic because a bunch of us were up at City Hall sitting around for 8 hours, waiting for the exalted councilors to get around to hearing people speak in favour of a moratorium on hotel conversions and demolitions. It was historic because it was the first Carnegie board meeting in 20 years that Muggs had missed and she missed it because she was giving council all the reasons why we need

Bob as "Sid Slick, oilier than a dipstick" hosting The Price is Wrong.

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Muggs and Bob - Thank You Thank you for helping to build our strong, caring Carnegie community.

Thank you for helping us fight against injustice.

Thank you for the many things you have done to help individuals in distress, showing us that we are in this world to help others.

You are part of the Carnegie community forever, and we are grateful.

Muggs and Bob have a long history of resistance against injustice. In 1971, Muggs was part of the resistance of the Mothers of Raymur Place. They blocked the railway tracks of the Burlington Northem Railway to keep their children from being run over, and they won a walkway over the tracks. Also,

Muggs has been a labour organizer, and in 1985 she, sociation and Board, its function as the living room along with Bob and others, helped to start the of the Downtown Eastside, and its thousands of Car- " Strathcona Community Gardens. negie members (it's the people who make the comBob came to Canada from the United States in the munity) - all these parts of our community center, 1960~s in protest against the Vietnam War. He plus many more I haven't mentioned, have made the worked as an intelligent journalist for the Vancouver Carnegie Con:tmunity Centre one of the most sucSun, and his writing supported people who were cessful inner city-community centers in North Amerfighting for justice. He and Muggs fonned an alliica, and one of the busiest community centers in ance in the 1970's, and they worked together to help Vancouver. People come from all over North AmerIn 1986 Muggs and Bob became involved at Carica to visit our community center, and to use it as a negie because they were concerned about how the model to build strong community centers in other Carnegie Community Centre Association (CCCA) places. was being run. Muggs became part of a group on the Muggs and Bob, you have played an important role Carnegie Board that included ~am Snobelen, Tora, in building the Carnegie Community Centre we have Irene Schmidt, Bharb Gudmundson, Danny Korica, today. You have taught us that we have a responsi·Peter lmm and Sheila Baxter. They wanted to bring bility to each other. You have shown us that faith is democratic change to the Board. Bob helped fonn a not so much believing what we have not seen as cre. group called the Friends of Carnegie Users Society ating what we do not see. Your unselfish dedication (FOCUS) that also worked for democratic change at to the Carnegie Centre, and to the people who use it Carnegie in 1986 and 1987. .Is an .msp1rat1on . . ' to all of us. You may be leaving the And change came. A huge wave of hope surged Downtown Eastside, but a part of you will always be through Carnegie in March, 1987, after the old here. This will always be your home because so Board had "blown itself out of existence" in the th ' much of your dreams and energy have gone into words of Tora. The March 15 , 1987 Carnegie building community here. We are the richer for your Newsletter, of which Paul Taylor was the editor, enduring commitment to Carnegie. And we are carried the headline, "Could this be the beginning of grateful. a new renaissance?"

Sandy Cameron Muggs and Bob helped to free this enonnous energy at Carnegie. They helped to build a new, positive relationship between the Carnegie Community Centre Association and the City of Vancouver. They helped to build our committee system so Carnegie members could have more say as to how Carnegie II CHAISrMAS FOR£C/1Si... would be run. They helped to fonn the Downtown WHf1i I BUT FOR SOM E, IT~S 'YIELL, FOP. HOST oF Eastside Poets who not only read their poetry at EVER ' You, YOU WILL FINO JUST PLAIN TOUGH. Carnegie, but traveled around the province of BC. IT w'ARM AND 1 4 ; rlOPEFULLY THEY'VE I ~- TOASTY THIS GOT SOME Our Carnegie Community Centre, with its strong . .. , , : ~ 0 CHR\STMAS! '4'-....... &LOVES ~ o· programs, its committees, its powerful volunteer !li ( ~ .- OR MIT TE NS, 8 I, c- J ( "'... '"" system, its library, its empowering learning center, OR S011ETHI NC7 , ~ (''' T V II. £ ') MAP HERE {P, . ,,, its absolutely first-rate kitchen, its famous Carnegie -'o -.

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The Worst Dream Tag Team An article buried on page B 11 of the December 9 Vancouver Sun, titled "Triple conversion fees suggested," told of a report soon to be presented to City Council recommending that the price for converting a Single Room Occupancy unit in the Downtown Eastside be increased from $5,000 to $15,000.

The purpose of this idea is to make it less attractive to developers to by SRO hotels and convert them to middle-income or high-income housing, thus depriving low-income residents of homes.

Developer Robert Wilson denounced the suggested fee hike as " usurious." " I don't know of any jurisdiction in Canada where you have to pay a penalty to convert your buildings," he slavered. (Maybe Mr. Wilson is unaware of the unique character of the Downtown Eastside- unique in all of Canada in that many, many poor people call it home.) "It's not my responsibility to provide social housing," he avariciously declared. Wrong, Mr. Wilson- the responsi bility belongs to all of us, even including greedy developers, such as you ..

from the scientific evaluation of Vancouver's safe injection site "spotty at best."

Isn't this the same MLA that gave B.C. the Safe Streets Act, which is designed to persecute fhe very poorest, and also the Apology Act, which allows the B.C. government to weasel out of any meaningful compensation for wrongdoings to persons or groups by apologizing to them without fear of being sued?

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but it seems as if Mayencourt's record is "spotty at best.""

And what's "Nightmare's" plan for addicts (who make up a significant portion of the homeless)? According to a November 30 article in The Globe and Mail, "Nightmare" wants all of them shipped off to "the country," where they would live on selfsustaining farms.

It may be true that addicts are to a large degree responsible for property crime in Vancouver, and that they present a, shall we say, less than savoury appearance, but forgive my cynicism in thinking that it is rather timely that this Liberal MLA, instead of recommending ways to his government of dealing with homelessness, suggests shipping them off to remote farms, just in time for them to be out of sight for the 20 l 0 Olympics.

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David Eby, a lawyer for Pivot legal society, said the proposed fee hike isn't high enough. Vision Vancouver Councillor Raymond Louie agreed, "A fee of $50,000 is more appropriate because it comes closer to reflecting the replacement cost of SRO housing. By no means is $15,000 enough of a deterrent."

Where are all the people made homeless by SRO conversion supposed to go? Liberal MLA Lome " Recurring Nightmare" Mayencourt has an idea.

Remember "Nightmare" Mayencourt? My last en..counter with him was in a May 11 letter of mine published In The Vancouver Courier: '.'So, MLA Lome Mayencourt calls the evidence

(I find it ironic that approximately four days later, a week-long series on homelessness in The Globe and Mail by Mark Hume reported that the best solution was to build more social housing.)

And what of Nightmare's Worst Dream Tag Team partner, NPA City Councillor Kim "Bad Dream" Capri? You remember Bad Dream Capri, don't you? It was she who came up with the wonderfully practical idea of building 1Ox 10 sq. ft. "cruise ship" social housing units.

But "Bad Dream" doesn't stop there. A December 11 article in The Vancouver Sun reports that Capri is in favour of a report to City Council recommending that dumpsters be locked, to prevent binners from delving into their contents, thus causing street disorder, which as we all know is anathema to NPA Mayor Sam Sullivan. "Bad Dream" is bound to get her wish, what with City Council dominated by the NPA. And what of the binners who are no longer permitted the luxury of foraging amongst our garbage to support themselves? "Bad Dream" has the answer: " We need to find income outside of the dumpster,

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not in dumpsters." Leaving what, panhandling?

Ooops, that's a high-five tag team touch off between "Recurring Nightmare" and "Bad Dream". Panhandling, thanks to "Nightmare" (and now, Sullivan) is verboten.

Starve, you homeless, starve. And chalk up an other victory to the Worst Dream Tag Team. ~

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By Rolf Auer

THE GOLDEN BIN I PRAY THIS YEAR THAT I WILL WIN THE CHANCE TO DIVE THAT GOLNEN BIN THE GOLDEN BIN IT HOLDS NO TIN HAS COFFEE BRASS AND MAYBE GIN IT JUST MIGHT HOLD A DREAM OR TWO A LOTTO TICKET TRIPS TO THE WO TVS RADIOS COMPUTERS OLD THERE'S JUST NO TELLING WHAT IT MAY HOLD YOU'LL KNOW I'VE FOUND THE GOLDEN BIN FOR ON MY FACE WILL BE A GRIN A VCR MAYBE I'VE FOUND A BRICK OF GOLD MAYBE A CROWN ONE THING I KNOW I'LL FIND NO DOPE THE GOLDEN BIN HOLDS LOVE AND HOPE IT MAY BE THICK IT MAY BE THIN BUT STILL IT WILL BE THE GOLDEN BIN THE GOLDEN BIN IS FULL OF GRACE IT'S FULL OF LOVE FOR EVERY RACE THE GOLDEN BIN IS NEVER LOCKED THE GOLDEN BIN IS FULLY STOCKED MAYBE I'LL FIND SOME BOOTS OR SOCKS THE GOLDEN BIN IT HOLDS NO ROCKS FROM THE EAST NORTH SOUTH OR WEST THAT GOLDEN BIN WILL BE THE BEST UNLIKE THE UNCARING CITY TART THE GOLDEN BIN GIVES FROM THE HEART IN SUN SNOW SLEET OR RAIN IT GIVES AND GIVES WITH NO PAIN THE GOOSE THAT LAID THAT GOLDEN EGG KNOWS THAT I WON'T NEED TO BEG NO NEEDLES IN THAT GOLDEN BIN THE GOLDEN BIN SOMEDAY I'LL WIN Merry Christmas, Mr mcbinner

Thoughts on poor and rich in Vancouver: A few months ago Vancouver City Hall was des) perately trying (for the sake of tourism and rich condo owners) to ev'ict 't he poor people who were living in tiny boats on False Creek. The problem City Hall ran into is that apparently the False Creek waterway comes under Federal jurisdiction because it is part of the Pacific Ocean. The mayor and councillors managed to influence the Feds in Ottawa to pass some legislation to restrict the use of False Creek to the anchorage of "impoverished" boaters, limiting it to a few weeks. After that time period the city (by way of help from the Can. Coast Guard?) could force the boaters to move on.

What's interesting about all this is that there's a new multi-million dollar project being built on the shores of False Creek adjacent to Science World. In the process of this construction the contractors have used thousands oftons of rock/soil "fill" to fill in a large area of False Creek that used to be under sa lt water. The area they've filled in extends out into False Creek maybe 75 to 100 feet. At least some of this filled in creek space used to act as moorage for some of Vancouver's homeless boat people.

Anyway what we can divine from all this is that the Mayor and City Hall say it's not ok and you have no right to anchor your old motorboat on False Creek because it's now Federally "Prohibited" but at the same time it's ok for wealthy developers to fill in large areas of False Creek to extend their condo and building projects by thus creating new and free land where it never existed previously!

Thi路s filling in of False Creek is not just a recent event - it's been goi ng on since the 1986. Expo lands started to convert into today's massive condo projects. In {act if a survey of the outline of the False Creek of 1986 was compared to the new outl ine today we would see that many square miles of "Federal" False Creek waterway have been expropriated by developers and turned into precious land space for their multi-million dollar projects.

If we extrapolate from this developers' use of False Creek, could we sunnise that anybody could start filling in areas of False Creek, say in the middle, to create their own little islands to live on or even rent out or sell? If the condo de4velopers can do expropriate False Creek waters for their profit why can't other Vancouverites?

A.K.Hawley

Mankind Reason

UBC Humanities 101 Public Lecture Series 7:30-9:00pm Fridays 3rd Floor of Carnegie

Jan. 5- Arthur Allen- Architecture of Prisons Jan 12- Bud Osborn- Politics in the Downtown Eastside Jan 19 - Tara lvanochko and Paul Keeling Climate Change Jan 26 - Jodi Ton ita - Environmental Activism Feb 2- Cynthia Low - D.E. Womens' Centre

the keepers of fire from ancient scion she ceases to receive him~ in her bossom Love and hospitality left at the gate Matriarch and lusty at quarrel with nasty rude boy talk is cheap, bu1lshit walks you create diseases then search for a cure murder and massacre as solutions to your problems backyard is stenched with war casualties bedroom fouled with injustice "mankind" she beheld the seed fruition with creation his man-made strategic graphed by the tree from corrupt seed Man-kind? Woe Man were two-footed to begin with Sour grapes turned your head into a disaster sexually repressed and oppressed Part of the Social Contract?

She don't want the face of the patriarch "mankind" has got so ugly that no mama wants to look at it Ayisha

UBC Humanities 101 Undercurrents Forum Series: Wednesday, January 17th- 7:30pm- 9:00pm Vancouver Public Library, 360 E Georgia

"Aboriginal Land Claims" Tony Penikett, Lisa Barrett Representative from First Nations Moderated by: Line Kesler More info: Am Johal - 778-895-5640

24 HRS. SAFE HOUSING at DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE (DEWC) The momentous sit-in which commenced Sunday Nov. 19th has imparted some greatly needed social changes. A mini -revolution is happening!!

The overall mood in the DEWC after only one night has changed the chaotic atmosphere, which is usually brought about from spending a disgruntled night on the cold, rainy streets, to a mood of calm and peace. Ladies who are usually scowling, smile, laugh and act more courteously with each other! It's heartwarming to see real camaraderie as women are more inclined to get along and share with one another knowing they have a safe, dry, women's only place where their dignity and their personal needs are met.

With our current polluted water problem and its subsequent shortage, the ever burgeoning colder and rainier nights and the ever present dangers of sleeping outside -ranging from weather exposure, various animal bites, being exploited, assaulted or RAPE, it makes us truly realize what needs to be mandated now: that is an IMMEDIATE opening and sustaining of more centers like the DEWC to help with the ever-critical housing crisis! Do we not live in Canada? Do we not live in Vancouver, the best city in the world? Perhaps our temporary water setback is forgivable but allowing our poor women to sleep huddled from the cold and rain, risking possible death from overexposure is an atrocious shame. l' m grateful and thankful to the DEWC and other women's services groups in town for they have immeasurably helped women in need with so many life-sustaining things.

If it is too much to have f~ clean water, and safe shelter, the basic necessities ofhuman life in Vancouver, Canada on Monday November 20, 2006, what can we hope for ourselves and what can we dare dream for our children?

Please support the WC. Thank you

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We are having a Christmas gathering Wednesday, December 19, at 2:00. for our participants. Call our toll-free number 1~88-685-6356

Gentrification 1 01 Clandestine meetings, cloistered & shrouded fik e a web with schemes to plan and raid for reasons unfounded. Police, fire and health inspectors bash down unlocked doors to enter space they have no ri ght to - it's not their own. With battering rams and batons at hand .. it's hard to fight or take a stand while being told and scolded to vacate your ' home', your welfare hovel.

Oh, by the way authorities, we will refuse and we will not grovel, even with gauntlet thrown. You wi ll · meet resistance because the die has been cast. You besuited actors look for a mythical crystal meth laboratory, and the fumes you' ve imagined - both leaked to the tipped-off media, the supposedly impartial press to whom we are thrown - as to wolves.

The outcome, the destination is the harrowing streets with not a hint or a thought of ever returning, with zero chance of an apology, cash redress, token or otherwise. At City Hall our faker comrades at election time are, in point of fact, realtors with sugar dadies: : you carry out their dictates to the letter, to the Nth degree, to slap us in the face, us in desperation with no where to tum and no one to kiss it better City Councillors appear rather mean. Study upon study, as l recall, give similarities and shades of Simon Legree- a man of old and mythical foul deeds; extremely right-wing demigods pass their dastardly decrees as the band plays on and the bourgeoisie nibble on cakes and sip their steeped tea.

Their tycoon friends, in mirth and g lee as the money rolls in and the beat goes on; as the hurting . homeless· wander listlessly with no safety or comfort or especially a place they can call home ... off into the early, unsettling darkness, into a somewhat tragic and sad and aimless roam.

Robyn Livingstone

Lasting Memorial Garden, Vancouver Downtown Eastst·de .

cred space for people to remember and grieve those they lost, where they could leave a candle, a stuffed toy, a rose, or a poem and continue healing from their losses. ·. . ., · For further information, please contact Marlene George at Carnegie (604) _665-3005, email address: marlene.george@vancouver.'c a.

All donations are welcome and appreciated.

The Lasting Memorial Garden needs your help. ..

The Lasting Memorial Garden will be dedicated to all of the women who have died through violence in the Downtown Eastside (DTES); it is our intention to hon~ur and remember these women with a living memonal. Our dream may be coming to fruition ....""P!ease make cheque payable to The Lasting Memowith your help.

The horrific tragedx_~!the disappearances and heinal Garden and write "Lasting Memorial Garden" no us murders of so many women from this cornmuin the memo section. Send cheques to: .

The Downto~ Eastside Women's Centre nity at the Pickton Farm continues to affect every ~ember of this community and has a wide reaching . , ·. 302 Columbia Street Impact on our society as a whole. Pickton has been , Vancouver, DC V6A 4JI charged with the murder of twenty six of these A~l don~tions over $10.00 will be acknowledged women. The Lasting Memorial Garden, built by wtth an mcome tax receipt. people from the DTES, will offer a place to remernThank you very much for your time and attention, ber women who have died, acknowledge the impact Marlene George of these losses on our community, and act as areminder to all of us that every life is equally important, and of our responsibility to protect and care for Happy belated 19th birthday to my son one other no matter our status.

Stephen Page (Nov 20!)- Bless your heart.

We envision a Healing Garden to include an artistic Happy 21st birthday ' permanent monument to honour these women's lives . ~heena Page (Dec 20!)- my princess Happy btrthday (Dec 21) Jeff sweetheart 1st AA birthday December 23 Happy Holidays to all at Carnegie -thank you volunteers Happy Holidays - children & grandchildren Norma-Hean B.

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in a real way (a cob building offering massage therapy, reflexology, shiatsu massage, access to a trauma counselor) surrounded by a living memorial garden filled with native medicinal healing plants (i.e. Lavender, mint, Salal, thyme, forsythia, & others). ~ The site we have in mind is in the 100 Block East Hastings Street, as many women either lived or were last seen on Hastings. We see the memorial as a sa•

Hello my name is Badger, My Mumma-Bear is Sue Blue (Bannock Lady. taking orders).

I was here in Vancouver visiting with my mum this past summer.. I started playing the Tenor Saxophone with Earle Peach and I enjoyed it very much, This is why I am writing to you all: I would like to get a saxophone. At the moment I have no mula, But I would like to make payments, work or trade for it. . Please leave a message at the Carnegie for Sue Blue or myself, Badger. Thank you all and have a good day or night.. whenever you read this!

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Born Before Drugs or Not As a War Baby I missed out on the drug experience 0~ we had booze And we drove too, But somehow we survived And teen angel was only a song.

My friends, the Boomers, were five years younger generally experimenting with LSD., speed, heroin l watched and feared for them Went to the Blue Angel Went to court Went to visit the prisons and hospitals Listened to the poetry And got paranoid on grass.

We used to say" God grows his own" Mexico was the place - the hot semi-desert sun produced a rough kilo for two hundred dollars We smoked in the Black Swan cafe on Robson Where good soup was only twenty-five cents The wallpaper pictured castles on the Rhine River A far-off fairy land to me.

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The Mounties dogged our steps, or we thought they did; raided our homes Scattered our belongings Stomped on ou~ photographs Possession of one cap of heroin got you six months Some died there.

Marijuana was almost legal in Oregon But you could get busted in Halifax with one ounce ..

Those were the days, my friend Between protesting the War - it was VietNam then And living on unemployment We lived life large as we could Laughing, applauding, loving and crying Almost like NOW. Wilhelmina

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all o,ur volunteering saints

On behalf of the Carnegie Centre staff, I would like to wish a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our great volunteers and patrons of the Carnegie Community Centre.

All through the year I am incredibly impressed with the dedication of volunteers to making the Centre work for everyone. Your passion and commitment are an inspiration. Carnegie Centre could not operate in the way it does and provide all of the services we have here without you. It's your willingness to volunteer your time and assistance that keeps the centre's programs accessible for everyone. Thank You to each and every one of you!

Ethel Whitty, Director, Carnegie Community Centre

Dear friend, A feature length documentary film entitled UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide, which I and others have just produced, is ready It is the first film that documents the details of the deliberate and ongoing genocide of aboriginal people in Canada, and is being circulated around the world.

Please tell others of this film, and urge them to order it and show it in their communities. We urge you to post it on your websites and send it to alternative media, educational, aboriginal and human rights groups around the world.

Please contact me if you wish to obtain a copy of this film.

Kevin Annett I Eagle Strong Voice Co-producer, UNREPENTANT 260 Kennedy St. Nanaimo, BC Canada V9R 2H8 ph: 250-753-3345 email: hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca website: www .hiddenfromhistory .org

Dear Downtown Eastside Residents, I just want to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

I hope you have a warm, cheerful year.

Hope all your efforts, the things you fought for, ¡ turn out to be a success. Keep up the good work.

All the people fighting for the homeless, keep on fighting; without you people we won't have a warm place to sleep.

So, people, have a good Christmas.

All my-,r.elations, Bonnie E Stevens

Editor Hopefully the Mayor, in the coming year, will.focus on needed housing for the Downtown Eastside homeless, and not on jay-walking tickets and panhandling.

We need a window of hope in the coming year.

Don Larson [Some bozo has been using a computer, in Carnegie no less, to conduct sleaze through a web-log- or blog - trashing the whole company of the created-inCarnegie Opera Condemned; a work in progress.

Sleaze is the politest tenn available as the rhetorical garbage has been spewed upon Ethel Witty, Carnegie Director, several members of our Association's Board, on programs and services offered in the build in& not least of which is the kitchen, and the blank even tries to trash Ye 0/de Carnegie Newsletter! There are a number of people who are 1OOo/o sure of the identity of this dismal excuse - but he's kept anonymity as his only gross defence against confrontations with the people he's trashed. Ed.] To the author of ((CBC duped about downtown eastside homeless" Your argument is semantic and based on a geographical premise. A grand display of "upper crust" ... English with alliteration. An embellished story which attempts to discredit our collective experl•

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While at first glance the diatribe appears to be a critique of the media's portrayal of Condemned; it soon turns instead into a criticism o.f t~e participants who either don't live "on the downtown eastside" or don't experience poverty except to "play" at it. Catty content. . Currently, some of us are grateful for having adequate, affordable housing and are no longer living in the downtown eastside. We haven't forgotten the experience of being homeless - however you choose to define it.

The reality of anyone familiar with having slept "on the street" or in doorways for whatever period of time is such that (while not having basic needs met) there is no time or energy available to them to allow for a sustainable commitment to anything beyond the daily struggle to survive.

What does community mean? ... in urban areas, communities ofplace are diminished in importance; neighbourhood plays a much less significant role in constituting community.

(Marilyn Friedman '93 :249 What Are Friends For?) ~

Art can only hope to portray a reasonably accurate 1 rendition of reality. We managed to keep the team we had together for the duration it took to get to per- 1"' fonnance. None of us bickered about who belonged or how poor we were. Although some bickering was unavoidable, we attempted to keep "inside" gossip to ourselves and to avoid maliciousness.

To be (or not to be, as in this case) perceived of as a drug user, past or present, or having a mental illness: can be implied about anyone- depending on the eye (intent) of the beholder. Please stop "rolling your eyes". We know that labels get imbued with other peoples' pre-suppositions.

Some people get off by intentionally stirring up malicious shit: some truth exaggerated by a flair for fiction; thus creating their own drama. Do you need to create outsiders so that you can justify yourself as a politically correct insider? Your diatribe sounds like the rantings of a neighbourhood snitch. Perhaps you could fork over some funds for such slander.

Those of us who have struggled for adequate housing need to continue to fight with and for those without. Are you in or are you out? d.leC. I have no need to hide behind anonymity .

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About Bob and Muggs and Carnegie's kitchen •.• This has come with whispers and giggles and rolling of eyes. Aside from all the accolades & praise, my sources want to remain anonymous because Bob is still going to be in there between publication of this and his grande finale making huge pots of chili · for the party on January 13th. (In some places areporter can protect his sources; in other places they jail one or both, in still other places it's slow torture or they just shoot everybody ....... !)

Bob works the cash as a volunteer at the concession on Thursday afternoons; Muggs's volunteer shift at the same job is Friday afternoons. Sources in the · kitchen, being asked to contribute to this story, said that Muggs is easy to work with, she's calm and fair

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Bob makes some people wince. When he's on cash the line moves really slow, partly because he gets into conversations and philosophical debates with customers, realizes he's also supposed to fill their order, and gets really snarly if anyone even mutters about "the next Ice Age". Bob is known to argue and even yell at staff when they just try to work around his quirks/idiosyncrasies/weird stuff and actually get food to people dying of their expressed hunger while Bob is discussing options in his latest stageplay or something. When there is a problem, Bob wants to give his personal philosophy, citing sources like Moses or Beelzebub to help the other person comprehend how he arrived at his stance on the size of sandwich fill or the temperature of soup or even why the one complaining should either go get what he wants somewhere else - which will cost at least 200% more than at Carnegie - or stop holding up the line! When there is upset in any part of the food service, staff generally hope that Bob won't show up until everything is over. [It's not as bad as all that but the eye-rolling and biting of tongues send confusing giggles .. er, signals. staff]

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For anyone suddenly having a vision or epiphany about some Bob and/or Muggs memory, take heart.

Not getting it in here still leaves almost a month where you can, as agreed to by almost everybody, praise Muggs and roast Bob. Even the now-verified blog bozo referred to in the introduction to Diane LeClaire's cogent criticism would have a hard time dumping on Muggs (though I wouldn't put it past him to continue being a pest) and Bob is one of the unsung heroes for getting to the bottom of this guy's attempts to remain anonymous (or remain just too slimy to speak to people face-to-face).

Now I don't want to ruin any enjoyment or laughs that Bob and Muggs get out of all this stuff, so I'll put the blank back in the well-deserved category of a four year-old spoiled brat pissing in his pants.

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A:&STO:&Y Jean was afraid of bears. She wouldn't go into the forest without her bear bell. It was a tiny bell which she fastened on to her blue jeans. 1t made a tjnkling sound when she walked, and that meta11ic noise warned bears that she was in the area. When people asked Jean if her bear bell actually worked, she would reply that she hadn't seen any bears, so the beiJ must be working.

Now Jean was not a person who frightened easily.

When it came to fighting for higher welfare rates or for a higher minimum wage, she would battle any politician in the country. In political debate she'd be as fierce as the mighty grizzly, yet in the forest Jean was afraid of bears. She knew a lot about politics, and that knowledge gave her courage, but she didn't know much about bears.

One beautiful Sunday morning in autumn Jean and I decided to go for a walk in Cypress Bowl which is located in the mountains of North Vancouver. We walked up an old logging road on Black Mountain, and then we took a winding trail through some old growth forest. Our destination was a tiny lake in the flat country behind Black Mountain. We liked to reach this lake while the morning mist was still on it, and we liked to watch the water lilies, so dignified and calm on the still water. I named this small lake "Jean's Lake", and it was so peaceful there that it seemed to us that Vancouver was a thousand miles away.

Jean was wearing her bear bell, but her fear of bears was not as strong as her love of the forest, the mountains, and the beckoning sky. Blueberries grew along tbe path and around the shores of the lake. We stopped to pick some, but this was not a berry picking trip ..Jean had picked her winter s upply of blue•

berries at sea level about a month earlier. The lake was at an elevation of four thousand feet, and berries at that height ripened later in the year.

After spending some time at Jean's Lake, we de- ~ cided to walk to the top of Black Mountain. I led the way. Jean meandered along, .pic}<ing a few blueberries from time to time. She was about fifty or sixty feet away from me when suddenly !Jean ran towards me in a great rush. She grabbed my arm and said in an agitated tone of voice, ".I want to go home right now."

"Jean, what's the matter?" I .a sked .

"I saw a bear," she said, and her eyes were wide with fear. " I want to go home." · "Where did you see the bear?" I asked.

"Bac~ there. (t stuck its head out of the bushes. I want to go home." " What did the bear do when it saw you?"

"It disappeared."

"Jean, that bear is probably a mile away by now.

It's more afraid of you than you are of it."

"I want to go home."

"The bear was probably looking for blueberries, just like us. Bumping into you would be the last thing the bear wanted. You "must have scared it something fierce. We're safe here."

"Do you think the bear is far from here?''

"Oh, yes. It might be in Squamish by now. Tell me more about the bear." " l was just walking along when I heard a rustling in the bushes above the path. I looked up and saw this little bear face poking out of the bushes."

"And then it disappeared."

"Yes. It was just a little face, and it didn' t look very fierce." ''You want to go home because you saw a little bear face?'' " Well, I don't know how big the bear was."

"The bears have been on this earth longer than we have. They are our older brothers and sisters, and they, too, are suffering from the ravages of imperial progress. Shall we walk along the trail a bit further?

I'm sure we won't see any bears."

"Alright. We' ll go a bit further, one step at a time," Jean said. ~'I'll drink to that," J replied.

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METH: Looking for Grass Roots Solutions

By Savannah Walling Last week I went to the Japanese Hall to see the Headlines Theatre production of Meth directed and facilitated by David Diamond. The play was created and perfonned by people who have been through struggles with methamphetamine addiction, either in ~heir own lives or with loved ones. It was presented m the style of Forum Theatre, which offers a chance to explore troubling issues and look for grass roots solutions.

I found Meth to be one of the most useful explorations around addictions on a "grass roots personal a~tion" level th~t I've ever attended. I really appreCiated the team s gentle and compassionate approach within some harsh content. . I liked the way the team used Meth as a doorway mto the larger subject of addiction. They did not tell any one person's story - nor did the actors play themselves - but all worked together to make in David Diamond's words, "the strongest art th~y can about one story of a living community''.

I was also very interested to realize that two original plays about addiction (Meth and The Shadows Project, now being created in the Downtown Eastside) have been conceived independently with totally different approaches, yet both focus on stories about three generations of women, with an outside male friend for the youngest.

Meth was born when Headlines accepted an invitation to attend a meeting on the Skwah Reserve near Chilliwack organized by community leaders of the Stoi:Lo, including Elder Dr. Rose Charlie. At the meeting, Headlines was invited to create a forum theatre project on addiction focused on meth. Next, the company invited 20 people to take part in a community workshop that formed the basis of Meth - the group included Eroca Zales, Randy Tait and

Teresa Myles, who've been involved in other DTES art projects.

The cast of Anglo and Aboriginal actors ranged in age from 17 to grandparents; Kayla Cardinal, Jordan Fields, Cody Gray, Betsy Ludwig, Sophie Merasty and Herb. Varley. Some of them were professional actors, some were on stage for the first time: All of them offered the kind of heartfelt, realistic portrayals that take a lot of courage and hard work and require a generous spirit. They were supported by a strong design team that included Chris Hind, Yvan Moriseette and slide designer Lincoln Clarkes.

The story .of Meth begins with a burial attended by relatives and friends of a dead man. Over the course of the play we meet the dead man 's best trten<l - a drug dealer - and a former girlfriend, her mother, grandmother and cousin. Everyone in the play is struggling with socially accepted and/or illegal addictions. The play builds to violent or verbally abusive conflicts between all the characters. At the end of the play, we' re left in doubt about their futures.

In the style of forum theatre, the 20 minute play built to a crisis and stopped with a big question: the moment where those involved didn' t know what to do next. The entire performance was then repeated exactly - with one big difference. Audience members were invited - one at a time - to stop the action, replace one of the actors, and step into the role of a character whose struggle they understood. Their task was to create safety in the situation. Their challenge was to create interventions that deal with the world how it is - not how one wishes it would be and then manage the situation in a safe way.

What was exciting for me was this - although there were no "silver bullet" solutions presented the night I attended - there was one demonstration after another of the powerful mini-transformations that occur when people do their best to listen to each other, to express interest in each other, to show friendship and to create safety with the person you are with: "Life is made up ofmany tiny moments that can have big consequences - small moments ofcaring so that this path doesn 't start today ... we don't know what will happen ifwe take that little moment of caring - thinking ofsomeone else for a while and what they will need. "

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I have lived in Vancouver off on since the mid 60's and have never seen the Downtown Eastside go so downhill. I believe the main problem is that the mayor and councillors have turned their backs on us the REAL citizens of the community.

I have lost count of how many times I have phoned the police because I could not get past the United We Can bottle depot or into Carnegie Community Centre because of the throng of drug sellers and users on the street in front of the building.

The last time I e-mailed city hall I complained that it is only a matter of time before someone has had enough and flips out on those dealers that have destroyed our community. Councillor Capri responded by phoning the police on me thinking I was going to go wacky and do battle or harm against the poor defenseless drug dealers. That was most distressful to say the least.

The Four Pillars Drug Strategy does not seem to apply here. Jnstead of attacking the whole area please talk to some of us long time residents who have to live among the trash city hall has ignored for years. Most of the problem people are il1egal immigrants or have warrants from other parts of Canada..

The only thing the city cares about is their image for 201 0. Not only that but the courts aren't much help.

Yours in print, Carl Macdonald, a subscriber

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We completed our 3rd and 4th sessions of the 2 to 3 hour, weekly method/character exploration acting classes conducted by Jay Hamburger of Theatre In the Raw. Jay brings his many years of experience in acting, directing and producing theatre in the U.S. and Canada.

In the four weeks, the workshops have been running we have worked on depicting emotions and stylized movement, both individually, in pairs and in small groups. We have participated in guided and improvisational skits as well as working week to â&#x20AC;˘

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One week we worked with masks, thus analyzing and getting into creating characters. Each session builds on the previous, but each workshop can-also be taken separately to learn from. The focus is on acting; it is a group working toward artistic discipline. There is talk of pntting on a simple perform ance sometime in March 2007.< Classes run from I pm to 4 pm every Monday, and yes, we are in the Carnegie Theatre every week.

Participation is limited to 10-16 interested folk.

Downtown Eastside Pneumonia Shots An intensive two-week vaccination campaign is underway in the Downtown Eastside to protect community members from an outbreak of severe pneumonia that in many cases requires intensive care in the hospital. A few people died.

WHO IS AT RISK? People who are HIV+ or hepatitis C+, and people who use injection drugs or crack cocaine are at greater risk of getting this illness. Anyone who lives or spends time in the Downtown Eastside should get vaccinated.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN? This daily bulletin includes up-to-date information on where and when community members can get vaccinated.

It is critical that you encourage everyone, particularly those in high-risk groups, to get vaccinated as soon as possible.

So far 1,200 Downtown Eastside residents have been vaccinated. Help us to stop the spread of this disease and reach as many people in this community as we can!

Clinics: 59 W.Pender, 569 Powell, 449 E Hastings

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Thank you Carnegie for being a bee hive For all these years With so much activity to offer So much J love to do Dancing, poetry, drawing And good eats too ... .Buzz... Buzz... Honey Goals can be reached in so many paths Thanks to all who give their time to this HIVE Merry Christmas and by all means The best 2007. ©Montana King

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HOLIDAY CHEER Well its still verrrrry early in December and I've been to 2 parties already. That's probably all I'll get to go to. We had the end of tenn school party for Humanities 101 and tonight I managed to get into an end of cJasses celebration for the success students from Carnegie Learning Centre. Both were good events and in between I managed to go and see the Eagles at Brackendale up near Squamish, about an hour or so up Hwy 99 on the way to Whistler. Boy they sure are improving that highway. Nothing like the world watching to get a much needed job done and its still 3 years to the big event... Where to start?

I guess I' II start at the beginning and finish at the end. Wow isn't that a great concept?- Do something in the order it comes in.

The party 1- Hum 101 We11 i almost missed the best party of the year. Last year we had pizza and pop and not very many students showed up. This year there were all kinds of food. Homemade food, store bought and fixed somewhere along the way food, candy decorating, candy, treats and a little package for everyone to take home. Then we had caroling, singing, music and even some games, which everyone seemed to enjoy. Everyone was hugging at the end. It brought tears to my eyes, naw just kidding, but it could have if r was a speck more sentimental. It was a great party. I almost missed it because I thought why should I go all the way to UBC for a piece of pizza and a half empty room when I have a whole empty room at home and I wouldn't have to spend an hour on the bus both ways. I had a good time and its great to socialize and not have to worry about some subject or other. Just have a good time. I even caught myself singing along at times and that's highly unusual. I ex. changed info with a few people and we promised to meet sometime during the coming month, as we don' t go back to school until January 2007. Everyone wished everyone else a merry Christmas. Then we split up the leftovers and went our separate ways.

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was chilly so I stood next to an info board, out of the wind and in the sunshine. Darn it was nice. 1 watched the birds for about ~ an hour. A coupla rafts came by full of eagle watchers. First time I saw that. After some time had passed we decided to head back for the big city. We stopped and got a muchneeded hot java at a nearby java joint. (Tim Hortons) we were gone for 5 or so hours and some people fell asleep on the way home. Another great outing with the class from First Nations Journeys, (Mon 1-2 PM and Weds. 12-2 PM 3rd floor classroom) Thanks Gary The party 2- Success people I didn't get the full or even right name for this group. They needed a hand the other night and 1 was handy. As a result J was invited to share in their finals celebration. It was a meal that was cooked by the participants of the program run in the Learning Centre by Betsy on Thursday PM I think. I was invited to the party earlier on in the day by one of the members, he had come along on the Eagle watching trip. I hadn't planned on going because I felt that that was something meant only for the participants. They needed 2 people in order to get the kitchen's use in our building. I was asked, and so naturally where there's free food and home cooked at that, I was more than willing to help. I hadn't really planned on staying but after they showed up i thought warm up something at home alone or take part in their celebration. What would you do? I decided they needed my guidance so I stayed. What a treat. Everyone had home-made food and alii brought was my appetite. There was bannock, sweet potato soup, sushi, chocolate cake and something called Japanese Hotpot (a combination of fish balls, shrimp, noodles, cabbage and put into a bowl that had Japanese vinegar in it.) What a great meal. The company was good too. We worked on a carol for the Learning Centre party and that turned out pretty dam tootin if you know what I mean. I sure lucked into that one and I appreciate it immensely. Thanks people for allowing me to part of the party.

Tbe party 3 - Christmas party learning centre. The day started out pretty good. I awoke early and I could see a bright spot in the East where the sun promised to make an appearance. As usual, at this time of year in Vancouver, it was a lie. That promise

is rarely kept during the fatl and winter months from September to April, but the promise of a party in the LC was kept. And it turned out pretty darn good.

There was speechifying ana conversation, singing and music playing and some not bad offside comments from the emcees. A lot of certificates were given to deserving individuals (me included ;> l).

The food came and it was as good as usual. When is it bad at Carnegie? I had to leave early due to having a previous appointment. All n' all it was a good time. I seen some people whom its good to be around. I also saw the other kind. I wished them all seasons greeting or maybe I said Merry Christmas. 1t doesn't matter; I think they got the general drift.

Someone recited their impression of Santa Claus and it was really very good. lt was about how Santa was a product of Coke (Coca Cola) and I guess coke (cocaine) is still ruining peoples' Christmases all over the world today. Not only Christmas but also their life in general. It was also very condescending and a real put down of Christmas as a capitalist Hoedown or something similar. I've also read other putdowns about the season. Some are in jest and others may have been sincere. There's getting to be so many that I can't tell which is what anymore. 1just wanted to say there are still some good things about the season and this is what I think about at this time of year. First I wanna wish everyone the best of the season and l don't really care to hear whether you celebrate or not. Just enjoy yourself. It doesn't cost anything to wear a smile. Christmas is a time of celebration and a way of measuring or at least thinking about the past year. Its also a time of celebratio n and a chance to look forward to a better time next year. I guess it's a renewing of hope and a chance to fill your face and say its all worth it?? It is as you may have guessed (hint, hint) a time of celebration.

Families get together and I mean all types of fami lies including extended families, street families and any kind of family. It' s a family time of year and whether you like it or not you are in some kinda family. So enjoy. Those are my thoughts and its how I was brought up to enjoy this particular time of the year. The occasional present doesn't hurt and I got a coupla those today too. I' m smiling, now that I' ve had my rant and said something. HopefuJiy we can all celebrate a great season and J wish you all a happy new year. - hal

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Raise the Rates Coalition is asking British Columbians to add one more job to their busy holiday schedules: Write Premier Gordon Campbell and ask him to raise welfare rates. "It's impossible to eat a nutritious diet with the amount of money welfare provides," says Ms. Broccoli, the Coalition's newest member.

"People are making much-needed donations to the food bank this holiday season," says Ms, Broccoli.

"Their generosity is vital. But we hope they will also take a few minutes to write the Premier and tell him people need enough money for food year-round."

"At $510 per month for a single person, and $968 for a single parent with one child, welfare rates make it impossible to buy enough food to stave off hunger, let alone eat a healthy diet," she says.

Andrea Ottem, co-author of the Cost of Eating in BC report released last month by the Dietitians of Canada, agrees. "Dietitians are concerned about the

BC Women's Centres Demand Federal Accountability on Women's Equality The BC Coalition of Women's Centres is joining the voices of other groups to sound the alarm bells on Steven Harper's speedy erosion of women's equality in this country, and to call for the immediate resignation of Status of Women Canada Minister, Bev Oda. The Federal Conservative Government recently announced a $5 million funding cut to SWC, the federal government agency that works to promote gender equality. In addition to eliminating funding for independent research studies and removing "equality" and "advocacy" from their group project funding criteria, Minister Oda revealed on Novem-

ability of those living on a low income, especiaJJy those on income assistance, to purchase enough healthy food," says Ottem. "Food banks were never meant to replace adequate income. Raising income assistance rates to reflect the actual cost of shelter and support, including food, is a key recommendation made by dietitians to reduce poverty."

"The Premier has promised to increase the shelter allowance for welfare, which is important," says Ms, Broccoli. "But that money will go to landlords. It won't help people buy food. When people can't eat well, they are more likely to get sick and develop diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure. It costs a lot more to treat a sick person than it does to help them stay healthy."

Ms. Broccoli says British Columbians can visit the Raise the Rates website (www.raisetherates.org), where they will find a sample letter to the Premier and more information on BC's welfare policies.

ber 30 that SWC would now be closing 12 out of 16 regional offices, including the BC/Yukon provincial office, thereby cutting 61 positions and removing direct access to the agency for millions of women.

Minister Oda proclaims that these cuts are intended to "eliminate waste", create "efficiency" and even "modernize" S WC. "The dismal irony is that the cuts and guideline changes will actually have the opposite effect," says Michelle Dodds, of the North Shore Women's Centre. " Instead of moving SWC forward, what the Harper Government is doing is taking women's equality backwards to even before SWC's creation in 1976."

A fact sheet from the Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Women illustrates that equality has

never been achieved for all women in Canada and is still very much a far-away dream. The fact sheet shows that in 2003 women with high school degrees earned 7 Io/o of what male graduates earned and women with post-secondary degrees earned only 68.9o/o of their male counterparts. Federal incarceration rates for Aboriginal women increased 74.2% between 1996 and 2004 while the overall federal inmate population went down by 12.5%. Also notable is the fact that women make up 50.4% of the population in Canada, but fiave only 20.8o/o of seats in the House of Commons.

"This government doesn't even begin to understand the realities of women's struggles in this province," says Benita Bunjun of Vancouver Status of Women.

In BC, women's groups relied on funding from SWC to take on projects such as investigating the sexual exploitation of girls in rural communities, finding out about barriers for women in Canada's immigration policy, and coordinating action on the feminization and racialization of poverty. "With the changed guidelines that eliminate equality, research, lobbying, and advocacy, these important projects are in . jeopardy," says Bunjun.

Micki Smith ofthe Kelowna Women's Resource Centre explains, "with the regional office closing, we won't even be able to communicate with someone who knows what the specific situation is like for women in BC and can assist in our project development. In addition, the closure will increase the lack of communication, accountability and transparency to women in BC by the government. By closing down the regional office, the federal government sends a clear message that 'we don't want women's equality to have a presence in this province', pushing women in the margins and back 30 years.

Women in BC and across Canada are in trouble."

On this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, the BC Coalition of Women's Centres is demanding accountability from the federal government by calling for: *the immediate resignation of Minister Oda, *reversal of the $5 million cut to the SWC budget, * the reinstatement of "equality and advocacy" in the funding guidelines, *..the allocation of funding for independent research studies, and . * the cancellation of regional office closures in BC â&#x20AC;˘ and across the country.

"Minister Oda is not acting in the best interests of women, and is certainly not promoting women's equality," says Dodie Goldney of the Kamloops Women's Centre Society. "She should be ashamed that on this National Day to take action on violence against women, she is actually creating the circumstances for women's experiences of violence to deeply worsen." .

The Coalition is encouraging women across BC to communicate their disapproval ofSWC's direction to Minister Oda, Prime Minster Harper, and their local MP. The BC Coalition of Women's Centres is a provincial network of rural and urban Women's Centres seeking an end to the violence, poverty and other human rights abuses experienced by women in British Columbia.

Media Contacts: Benita Bunjun, Vancouver Status of Women; 778.558.6504 Denise Darrell, South Fraser Women's Services Society; 604.536.9611 ext.228 Michelle Dodds, North Shore Women's Centre; 604.984.4697 Dodie Goldney, Kamloops Women's Resource Centre Society; 250.376.5426 Micki Smith, Kelowna Women's Resource Centre; 250.762.2355

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Sir WiiJiam MacDonaJd Elementary school recently hosted a celebration for Chief Henry Robertson. MP Libby ~avies and members of the Squamish Nation, along wtth the school's student body, were in attendance on Hastings Street and Victoria Drive to enjoy the celebration.

Twelve years ago. Chief Henry Robertson honored the school with a 12-foot wide cedar eagle carving that was placed above the school's entrance way. At the end of August of this year movie crews asked to remove the carving for a movie shoot. School Principal, Brian Anderson was unaware that removal of the carving would be a dishonor to Chief and carver Henry Robertson.

Since becoming informed of this mistake, Anderson arr~ged for this celebration to re-erect the eagle carvmg and to say his apologies to Chief Robertson and_the Kitlope people. As members of the Squamish Nat1?n perform_ed drumming and singing, the eagle carvmg was hotsted back into its original place

above the main entrance to the schooJ. As everyone watched the placing, an illustrious eagle flew above the ceremony. Chief Robertson and others looked up with satisfaction. ¡ Squamish Chief, Ian Campbell addressed the crowd J about the meaning of replacing the carving. He first spoke in his language and then spoke in English.

"When he (Chief Robertson) did this beautiful carving of the eagle, it was blessed 12 years ago by my late uncle who did the same work we are doing today," said Chief Campbell.

Chief Robertson was happy to see the eagle fly over. "It gave me a good feeling when the eagle flew by," said Chief Robertson.

During the afternoon feast of Salmon, sandwiches and rice, Principal Anderson was able to apologize for allowing the carving to be moved. "Today I am able to apologize for this insult I have caused. This is my opportunity to apologize," said Anderson.

The afternoon was filled with drumming, singing and dancing from members of many nations .

By Jackie Humber

Friday Afternoon Concert Through Darkness, Through Light: Songs of Contemplation and Joy

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Long-term heavy drinking can cause a range of chronic problems. These include:

Join CliffRidley, baritone and Danie/le Marcinek, piano as they celebrate the season in song!

Friday, December 22, at 3 PM Carnegie Centre Theatre

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-arrhythmias - abnormal heart rhythms that can instantly kill even young people if they are abusing alcohol -beriberi (vitamin Bl deficiency) -lack of vitamin Bl (thiamine), is common in those dependent on alcohol and can accelerate heart damage and mental degeneration -brain damage - alcohol kills brain cells -diabetes -heart damage - involving changes in the heart's size and structure -hypertension (high blood pressure) -liver disease such as cirrhosis -loss of feeling in hands, feet, and elsewhere due to effects on nervous system -stomach ulcers and gastritis (inflamed lining of the stomach) These are just a few conditions closely linked to alcoholism. In fact, heavy alcohol use increases the risk for almost all diseases.

LAW AND BINGO Law and bingo, beer to order CSI downtown Eastside Without a Trace Everything slipped out of place Sell me a smoke Somebody;._,~ell me a smoke?

Before, before that one came through the door • There was'- another one, just Iike the other one, Before, bingo!

Under the eye, those watchful eyes Hey Papa, want something to kiss the sky, Hit the street, who knows who you'll meet, Who are you?

Who, who?

Who the fuck are you?

To the ends of the earth Rock, Powder, Up, Down Makes you wonder why the earth goes round So you think you can think Fast by, drive that car, dot dot dot. .. gone Gee, I was feeling kinda good Thank God for understanding I was kinda misunderstood Steppin' thr<?ugh that bar, thank god it ain't far Wandering home, are we together, or are we alone Hey you got home alone, you're alone 0, if you only knew The two stop, the dance we go through To stay alive, sometime to revive Don't think about playin' your cards right lt's the downtown eastside, Bingo Jimmy Lincolnfish

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PRoBLEM

I • BC has the highest child poverty ;'

rate in Canada at 1 in 4 .

THE CAUSE • Welfare rates have dropped to their lowest level since the 1980s.

THE SOLUTION • In this time of ·crisis, give to the local food bank .

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i' • 80,000 people in BC used food ; ]

banks in March al?ne - one third of those users were children .

• People on welfare have only $6 a day to cover all living costs except rent.

i1 ; • People with low incomes have ~• more health problems and die '' younger. !

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• Minimum wage is inadequate to raise people above the poverty line.

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• To ensure people in poverty have enough food to eat all year, tell Gordon Campbell to: • increase welfare rates by 50% • end the barriers to getting on income assistance • raise minimum wage to $10/hour Rm 156, Parliament Buildings. Victoria, BC, V8V 1X4

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