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In honour of Gallery Gachet's 20th Anniversary
COLLE.C TIVE HABITAT 1997-2012 ART-i-FACT: 88 East Cordova Curated by Bernadine Fox
Dec 6th - Feb 17th, 2012 Opening night: Thurs Dec 6th, 7-lOpm
Gallery Gachet's 20th Anniversary Collective Habitat 1997-2012; ART -i-FACT: 88 East Cordova; Curated by Bernadine; Opening night: Thurs Dec 6, 7-10pm
This year Gallery Gachet celebrates 20 years of being an artist-run centre, and 15 years of inhabiting our space at 88 East Cordova Street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. It is also the year our lease expires- renewal is in process but the longevity of maintaining our home is uncertain in a transitioning community rife with instability, gentrifying forces, and rapidly changing landscapes. 88 East Cordova has an artistic identity predating Gachet, bound intrinsically to the dynamic character of Canadian arts movements and communities. ART-i-FACT: 88 East Cordova is a thematic series of programming examining and illuminating the state of contemporary arts culture in Vancouver, using our building as artifact and case-study: portal, microcosm and mirror. This examination emerges foremost from the perspectives of the artists who have utilized the space over the past to the present day. Last autumn's presentation consisted of a Canada Council-funded performance art series curated by Irene Loughlin, The State of Perceived Folly in collaboration with LIVE 2011 , as well as the Gallery Gachet & Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show that just celebrated and paid homage to our community engaged arts' history. This fall's collective focused ART-i-FACT exhibition is entitled, Collective Habitat 1997-2012. It presents Gachet Collective Members' works, past and present, engaging audiences with contemporary disability/mental health diversity/politicized art practices, artists and allies. Gachet's gallery and studio space, precariously balanced in a neighbourhood undergoing advanced gentrification and predation, has emerged as a symbol of creative refuge and artist-d riven authenticity. We present our physical space, 88 East Cordova, as a window through which to view Gachet Collective Members' works and critical voices, and to further the public's understanding of artist-run centres and threatened habitat. The gallery and studio space at 88 East Cordova Street will drip with incarnations of our Collective's momentum, transforming the space into a visage with emblazoned walls, plinths, illuminated nooks and crannies. Cumulatively this will paint an image of the essential relationship between physical space and artistic development for both individual artists and collectives. For 15 years, this building has been home to diverse and unusual artists; it bears witness to creative engagement with art against oppression, paradigms of self-taught vs. school taught, politically motivated art, art borne of abuse and marginalization, inclusive art, and art revealing the power dynamics within contemporary art practice and institutions. 88 East Cordova has provided a backdrop for struggles, fruition, reinvention and triumphs. Gachet's contributions are unusual, subversive and underrepresented. In the development of the knowledge exchange concerning art, Gachet engages mental diversity, inclusivity 路 issues and intersections of oppression. Vision, reality and artistic output have an intimate relationship with perspective and socially-defined definitions of sanity and competence. As we move into a more expansive and accepting climate in the contemporary art world in Canada - one that is warming to Outsider art, ability-iconoclasm and political art - Collective Habitat creates an artistic and theoretical record of Gallery Gachet's participation in this zeitgeist. The space has not only been home to Gachet artists for 15 years. The artist collective Futura Bold was formed while renting 88 East Cordova as a studio from 1984 to 1986. Founding members Graham Gillmore, Angela Grossmann, Attila Richard Lukacs and Derek Root later became internationally-recognized artists. Sharing their studio was artist Susi Milne, the Westerr Front's video and performance art curator at the time, and acclaimed writer and luminary, Douglas Coupland, who later in 2002 joined the Futura Bold Collective. In the mid 1990s Wesley Yuen, a collector and gallerist, ran Project Gallery at 88 East Cordova. It is also rumoured that Jack Shad bolt ran his studio out of the space- but no specific information is available to con firm this fact, so it will remain a whisper in 88 East Cordova's past. The show opens on Thurs Dec 6th, and is curated by long-time Gachet Associate Member, Bernadine Fox. With a cataloguE contribution by Mary Ann Anderson, who was Gachet's first staff person and continued on for nearly a decade- she brought the 88 East Cordova 'for rent' listing to the Collective's attention in 1997- and an essay by visual artist and writer, Bruce Ray, one of ou r longest members on the Collective. To celebrate Gallery Gachet's practice of exhibiting established artists, our Salon Shop area pays tribute to the many incredible artists we've had the privilege of working with over the years, Gallery Gachet would not exist today without the dedication, hard work and support of all our past and current collective, associate and volunteer members, our past staff, and our funders, specifically, Vancouver Coastal Health, The City of Vancouver, Gam ing, and the Canada Council Equity Fund. We thank you all. For more info, please contact Lara Fitzgerald, Programming Director, 604 687 2468.
BC Healthy Living Alliance working together to promote wellness and prevent chronic disease Poverty Reduction as a Prescription for Health Is poverty inevitable? And if not, then what have other Provinces and Territories lone to lift up low income citizens and bring down the poverty rate? What is the :onnection between income and health? What is life like for those who have to get lY with the bare minimum? Join the BC Healthy Living Alliance on WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 12TH from 9:00 lm to 10:30 am for a webinar to explore the complex issue of low income and health. Ne'lllook at how poverty is challenging the health of British Columbians and our 1ealthcare system, what solutions have been proposed in BC and what is Norking in other parts of Canada. :mail bbedford@bchealthyliving.ca to register Jresenters:
Ted Bruce, as the Executive Director of Population Health for Vancouver Coastal Health, is responsible for the development of the health authority's strategy to address the social determinants of health and reduce health inequities. Mr. Bruce is also an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Practice in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and Adjunct Professor with the School of Population & Public Health at UBC and Past-President of the Public Health Association of BC. Mr. Bruce will discuss ~e connection between income and health, the negative impact of poverty and challenges to the healthcare system .
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Fraser Stuart is on income assistance and lives in a single room occupancy hotel in Vancouver's downtown eastside. Although ~r. Stuart has worked in the aviation field, as front-line staff in a homeless shelter and as a self-employed light contractor, he is currently unable to work because of a variety of medical conditions but has been denied disability benefits. Mr Stuart will share his experiences and give us an insider's view of what it is like to live on income assistance. Trish Garner is the Community Organizer for the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition and the co-author of A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC. She gained her experience working with Raise the Rates, an anti-poverty group based in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. In 2008, she co-founded the Poverty Olympics, a community festival that highlighted the disparity between public spending on the Olympics and people living in poverty. Ms. Garner will outline the potential of the Provincial Poverty Reduction Plan promoted by her coalition which is endorsed by over 350 organizations province-wide.
Advent Comin' on Christmas Peace and joy Renewal in the birth of one little chid Festival of light and hope Expectation
Miracles and magic As shepherds watch And angels bend to the earth Singing
Beauty reborn in the shape of a child wrapped in rabbit fur Daddy's gone ahunting Children of the fo rest free Harsh reality of cold and lonely old "Bye baby bunting" Celebrate once more Homeless and homesick The past glowing in memory mistaken The ceremony of innocence. Hope springs forth despite all evidence. Wil helmina Mi les
FROM THE HEART OF A CITY: Theatre and Music Productions from Vancouver1s Downtown Eastside: 2002-2012. Vancouver Moving Theatre has donated two copies of From the Heart of a City: Theatre and Music Productions from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: 2002-2012 to the Carnegie Reading Room. The book is located in the Downtown Eastside collection. This preview edition is a full colour 140-page book that looks at ten original productions created fo r, with and about the Downtown Eastside s ince 2002 by the Carnegie Community Centre, D.G.B. Productions, Savage God, Theatre in the Raw and Vancouver Moving Theatre. The book places these productions both in the context of this community's history & in a national context with like-minded theatre companies involved in creating community plays. In the book - in large part written by Savannah Walling- you will find articles, lyrics and poems by creators, producers and performers involved in these productions, as well as lots of colour photos. You wil l also find articles by Ruth Howard (Jumblies Theatre, Toronto) and Cathy Stubington (Runaway Moon Theatre, Enderby, B.C.), two companies who have long standing and important relationships with Vancouver Moving Theatre and the Downtown Eastside community. The book includes a forward written by Edward Little, a preface by Michael Clague, an introduction by Terry Hunter and it's designed by John Endo Greenaway who also designs the DTES Heart of the City Festival program guides. This first edition is a preview edition: it contains typographical and other errors that will need to be corrected. Vancouver Moving Theatre is making the preview book available to the Downtown Eastside and patrons of the Carnegie Reading Room because they are looking for feedback from the community. From the Heart of a City will be self-published early in the New Year, after a final round of editing and some additional chapters.
Accompanying the preview is a visual display/exhibit on the 3rd floor Gallery at the Carnegie Community Centre • profiling the ten productions featured in the book; the exhibit closes at the end of December.
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Hey brotherman you got to understand ain't the season for robbery jacking jane so john don 't get away least not with the money hey hey
Just now I bought 20 smokes I enjoyed the firs t one a ll by myself then traded o ne for a be-quiet pill seeing this my ' buddy' whose name escapes me had his hand out so did the guy behind him In less than 5 minutes I was relieved o a third of a pack by friends who will never even dream of paying me back ':
'tis the season of fami lial battery ain't no xmas for you and me keeps me getting pissed over what I missed
These are the big men who boast what big men they were 'inside' pouting and sulking when at last you run out of brotherly love
Headline Gangsta Shot Brotherly that is not the Season of glad tidings & good will Jess' n you get shot and killed
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Daddy I' m so ashamed got nothing for the kids & no one to blame Got lots of excuses but the story's too lame to try to con us once again Say Santa have a real good night alone in your shabby room all uptig ht no one calls you, no one's home all you ever wanted was to just get stoned So say goodbye to your sons and everyone else you forgot [Nine grand in 2 weeks is an obscene lot.] We' ll all forget being put thro ugh by someone like you never. knew when to g it Ya Santa we knew ya never did give a shit. A l T.oewen
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News From the LibrarY Fall is always a time when we receive lots of new books in the library. Following is a sample of our latest. Also, check out the display case in the entrance of the library where you will find other new books. Are you thinking of buying a laptop and wondering how to find the right one for you? Or do you have a laptop, and aren't sure how to set it up, maintain it and learn how to troubleshoot problems? If you are a visual learner and have ever asked yourself any of those questions, then this is just the book you need. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Laptops: The fast and easy way to learn about buying, maintaining, and troubleshooting, a laptop (004.16 G97L) by Sherry Kinkoph Gunter is a step-by-step guide book that walks you through finding the right laptop to meet your needs, getting comfortable with the latest versions of Windows and the Microsoft Office Suite, and understanding the most important security aspects of keeping your online experiences safe. The book helps visual learners get comfortable and confident with their laptops. It features full-color screen shots and numbered, step-by-step instructions on how to get up and running and walks you through using the latest hardware add-ons, the Internet, and popular software applications. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Laptops, Second Edition offers you an easy-to-follow and visually appealing way to learn! Another book of interest to those of you who want to learn more about computers and online searching is How to Find Out Anything: From Extreme Google Searches to Scouring Government Documents, a Guide to Uncovering Anything About Everyone and Everything. (00 1.4 M 16hn) Master researcher, Don MacLeod, explains how to find what you're looking
• for quickly, efficiently, and accurately-and how to avoid the most common mistakes of the Google Age. Not your average research book, How to Find Out Anything shows you how to unveil nearly anything about anyone. From top CEO's salaries to police records, you' ll learn little-known tricks fo r discovering the exact information you're looking for. The adv ice in this book arms you with the sleuthing skills to tackle any mystery. The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date (50 I A66 h) by Samuel Arbesman Facts change all the time. Smoking has go ne from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades, we were convinced that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing. But it turns out there's an order to the state of knowledge, an explanation for how we know what we know. Samuel Arbesman is an expert in the field of scientometrics-literally the science of science. Knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and this evolution unfolds in a fascinating way that can have a powerful impact on our lives. Arbesman takes us through a wide variety of fields, including those that change quickly, over the course of a few years, ot over the span of centuries. He s hows that much of what we know consists of " mesofacts"-facts that change at a middle timescale, often over a single human lifetime. Throughout, he offers intriguing examples about the face of knowledge: what English majors can learn from a statistical analys is of The Canterbwy Tales, why it's so hard to measure a mountain, and why so many parents still tell kids to eat thei r spinach because it's rich in iron. The Half-life ofFacts is a riveting journey into the counterintuiti ve fabric of knowledge. It can he lp us find new ways to measure the world while accepting the limits of how much we can know with certainty. Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out ofKiss (781 .57 C932m) by Peter C riss. Legendary founding KISS drummer Peter "Catman" Criss has lived an incredible life in music, from the streets of Brooklyn to the social clubs ofNew York C ity to the ultimate heights of rock ' n' roll success and excess. K/88 formed in 1973 and broke new ground with their elaborate makeup, live theatrics, and powerful sound. The band emerged as one of the most iconic hard rock
acts in music history. Peter Criss, the Catman. was the heartbeat of the group. From an elevated perch on his pyrotechnic drum riser, he had a unique vantage point on the greatest rock s how of all time, with the K/88 Army looking back at him night after night. Peter Criscuola had come a long way from the homemade drum set he pounded on nonstop as a kid growing up in Brooklyn in the fifties. He endured lean years, street violence, and the rollercoaster mus ic scene of the sixties, but he always knew he'd make it. Makeup to Breakup is Peter Criss's eye-opening journey from the pledge to his ma that he'd one day play Madison Square Garden to doing just that. He conq uered the rock world-composing and singing his band's alltime biggest hit, "Beth" ( 1976)-but he also faced the perils of stardom and his own mortality, including drug abuse, treatment in 1982, near- suicides, two broken marriages, and a hard-won battle with breast cancer. Criss opens up with a level of honesty and emotion previously unseen in any musician's memoir. Makeup to Breakup is the definitive and heartfelt account of one of rock's most iconic figures, and the importance of faith and family. Rock 'n' roll has been chroni cled many times, but never quite like this. Have you ever imagined playing the blues like Eric .. Clapton, shredding like Eddie Van Halen or strumming 1ike Paul Simon? The editors of Guitar World, the world's best-selling g uitar magazine, will help you make your dreams come true, even if you've never played guitar before. In Guitar World Presents The Best Instruction Book Ever! (787.6107 A37gMUSlC) you'll find everything you need to learn to play like a pro, includ ing: *Essential guitar instruction-from first chords and scales to advanced tricks and techniques for rhythm and solo playing. *The chords, scales and electrifying riffs used in your favorite blues, classic rock, country and heavy metal songs. *An easy TAB system that shows you which strings to fret and pick. *Hundreds of fu ll-color photographs and diagrams. *A DVD with video examples for every lesson in the book. Plus, tips and encouragement from guitar legends like Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Queen's Brian May, and B.B. King! Megan, your librarian
How should I start and what should I write And how do I know it will work out all right I know I could write about getting along, and have it come out in the form of a song
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CHORUS Six billion people party every day after work Six billion people party where no one's a jerk Where we all feel good no need to fight for chi And then we can truly truly be free Like Lennon and peace and sharing the entire world Being stronger, wiser, looking out for all boys & girls And being more m indful of all that we fear Moving swiftly to embrace everything we hold dear
CHORUS It's amazing th is life we're all here in one place Six billion, eight billion, the whole human race To me it's really harsh that we get wound so tight A solid team w ith strong purpose is not clear in sight
CHORUS This way That way whose way is the best? Who the hell put us here to endure th is bullshit test? This way T hat way whose way is the best? Who the hell put us here to endure this bull shit test?
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Stop Come now surprise yourself surpass yourse lf the black eye kitty meows the kitty cat or someone like how ling at the moon drops the texture opens the venture of sisterhood we pray we pray we thank Creator for another day Nora Kay
what possesses you to be so whimsical rhythm is a dancer the chicks are hatched row by row, the cards are face down Joker, peeres his succulent head I'll bite you! he sez be unworthy or th ink you have no worth no STOP and don't ever listen to his lies be full of major thwart, get it done never give up the good die young never again Nora Kay
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Carnegie volunteers a nd seniors went on a trip to Camp Homewood on Quadra Island November 5-9. Marz ipan enrobed in chocolate dark There were 35 of us bundled into the school bus that cranberry tarts - mincemeat pie s ketches of Spain in the background took us to the Nanaimo ferry. Then we were treated to Silent night - holy night a dusty o ld tour bus that was comfortable for the trip to Campbell River. We caught another small ferry to Mingling amazingly the island, and were met by the camp schoolbus ... We the static from long distance radio arrived in style! diatonic Once there, we spread out through the lodge and cabmemories giving birth to better times ins, some enjoying a bathtub that they don't get at better spaces home. The basement of the lodge was built on living hot apple cider, g lue in, eggnog with brandy rock, which jutted out from the wall. Ping pong tables were there for us to play on and there was a pool cinnamon and clove - Sugar cream pie table. the waist tightens the belt buckle strains Sally from the cafeteria ended up winning the ladies' In the Market russe t re d app 1es go ld en . . pool tournament when Lu s unk the etght ball by acct-~· an d G ranny Smtt ·h ' dent. The men's (and others') pool tournament neve r (.~ B .C. d e1ICIOUS . · got underway because the weather was too good! . · There was a crib tournament that Les won, with the ~ ·Mom & Dad dance around the tree prize of a cribbage board and deck of cards. The icicles hang perfectly l,~/ Lights twinkle and s hine For night-time snack, we were treated to fres h crab caught by Bill. Sounds a bit gruesome, but poolroom w-J Pine b.oughs bedeck the mirrors Brad learned how to rip the limbs off the dead crabs. A faint sound of carolling down the street We all got totally messy and enjoyed the Dungeness com ing closer and rock crab. One night, someone made a delicious red & blue toques, mittens dipping sauce of ginger, onion & lemon. On Thursday the holly & the ivy only 3 crab were caught so we were unable to feast Mistletoe magic that night, but the crabs were happy that they got to kissing & giving in the gym live. We were also shown shrimp at night c linging to the e nding the beginning again the posts of the dock, but they avoided attempts to ceremony of season catch them. natire's remembering Sarah, formerly the cafeteria cashier, had two parents who live on the island and cooked for the camp last hearthfires or woodstoves year. T hey invited us to their home and bakery where crackle and pop we had a tour and enjoyed fresh cinnamon buns and spit sparks onto the rug coffee. family feud forgotten They came for our clos ing nig ht as well, where Anblood thickens drea made an appearance with her fall ing out teeth. Every image a mirror She tried to give away her fake dentures but there every mirror an image were no takers. She had a beautiful dress on, and back and/or forward looked suspiciously like John the security guy. balanced in these pivotal times
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BC Housing subsidizes Sequel 138 condo project Downtown Eastsiders are asking after learning that BC Housing plans to loan up to $23 million to condo developer Marc Williams. Williams plans to build 79 condo units plus 18 social housing units (only half will rent at welfare rates) at the site of the old Pantages Theatre, 138 E. Hastings.
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Should BC Housing subsidize a Downtown Eastside (DTES) condo developer when our neighbourhood has 850 homeless people and 3500 living in crummy hotel rooms that need to be replaced? Is Condo King Bob Rennie, also on the Board of BC Housing, behind a sweet deal that will probably increase property values two blocks away from hi s own office? These are two questions that shocked
He calls the project Sequel 138. According to the Vancouver Province, the loans will be at 1.29 % interest, much lower than the goi ng rate from a bank. Over 40 organizations, housing
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providers, artists. and social workers have It's especially important to stop the Sequel joined 2200 DTES residents in signing a project because it is in the Oppenheimer Community Resolution opposing condos area of the DTES which requires 20% at the old Pantages Theatre site, stating," social housing for most new developments. We would not want to be complicit in a If Sequel can succeed with this project that will requirement, other March to block condos from the 100-block and dcfend Downtown Eastside k)w·income communities ag:J.insr genrrificalton and developers are likely futther displace, to proceed with impoverish, and police residents more condos and gentrify the heart of the Downtown Eastside and of the DTES. The To ·rutl tu; nous1Ntl nAILml'r city has also said in make people feel t. .I • OF Slltnlllt 1:18 CONDOS!!! more unwelcome its DTES Housing TUESOAY,DECEM9E~ 11 AT 2PM in their own Plan that the neighbourhood." Oppenheimer area should have more The groups want than its share of new the city to buy the self contained social Sequel site and housing. This can't use it for resident happen if the area if controlled social overrun with condos. housing that people on welfare can To continue afford. the fight against Sequel, the DTES 1 llf~l~tii~N'I,! Not for Developers Building condos J•II(HJI,Il NOT I•ROI'I1'! S1'(W (IEN'fUIJII(;ATION! Coalition is in the Downtown 0• T.u. lee lid!. we 'Iii r31y 111 tab baci tile stnets alld deNIIIIIICialloJsitt. oot .,pensi,. cnas! Eastside causes organizing a lrtM"IdllJ gentrification. IHilS NO'l' FOil ln~VEJ.OPilUS COJUI1'10N demonstration on http:fldtesaotfordelelopers.wordpress.t:om Condos increase December 11 at 2 property values; pm at the Sequel rents and taxes for hotel rooms and local site (beside the blue fence in the 100 block businesses go up. New businesses serve of East Hastings). Come out and join us! new, richer residents . Police and security - JS guards harass and ticket low income people to keep them away from the new upscale bus incsses and the streets become zones of exclusion for low income people. 2 disp~cemcnt
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JUSTICE NOT CHARITY! Join the second annual march on CBC foodbank day Should people have to depend on food banks for food? Or should they get enough money to buy their own food? Raise the Rates wants welfare rates raised so people can afford their own food. That's why they are organizing a "caper" at the CBC on December 7th. the day the CBC will be raising money for food banks. ' If you think welfare rates should be raised, join us at 11:30 am at Carnegie and we'll walk (if it's not pouring rain) or bus (tickets provided) to the CBC Plaza at 700 Hamilton St. There we plan to host our own mock , radio show at noon. People will talk about what to have to on charity food, and why welfare rates should go up. This will be the 26th year that the CBC has raised money for food banks. During the day they refuse to talk about the need for higher welfare in spite of repeated requests from
Raise the Rates and others. Raise the Rates is not asking the CBC to stop raising money for food banks, just to connect the need for food banks to a broken welfare system that is starving people who can't work. Relying on charity is humiliating to people and takes away self respect. People on welfare struggle every day just to survive. A single person receives a total of $610 a month for everything and has around $26 a week for all their food - imagine feeding yourself on that. You cannot live a healthy life on welfare. Raise the Rates calls for: • Raise welfare above the poverty level , $1 ,300 a month for single person • End the barriers to welfare and the clawbacks such as on small earnings and child support • Raise the minimum wage to S 12 an hour • Bui ld 10,000 units of social housing a year See you at the CBC on the 7th! ~IS
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Is Save On Meats' token gesture to the poor still a money maker for gentrifier Mark Brand? This November Mark Brand, the Downtown Eastside gentrifying restaurateur. entrepreneur and e nfant terrible behind the Save On Meats cultural engine celebrated on the western Canada lecture circuit, launched $2.25 breakfast sandwich tokens to "provide nutritious food to those in need ." Brand is marketing his breakfast tokens as charity. But charity is when relatively well-off individual s or social groups give money. food, and other resources to low-income people at only the cost of gratitude and swallow the cost themselves. On December 7 low-income people and groups critical of charity will march on CBC during their annual food bank day to demand social justice not individual charity. The philosophy of social justice says that the state should compensate lowincome people for the poverty they suffer because of soc ial and economic inequality and not be de pendent on the whims, conditions, and humiliations of lining up for charity. But Mark Brand's breakfast sandwich tokens are not a matter of charity, they are a business marketing tool like coupons or gift cards. Gift cards are a license to print money. US Consumer Reports found that in 2007 around 27% of gift cards 4
went unused; that retailers collected around $8B illion in straight cash that would never be redeemed in merchandise. In an article in the Province newspaper Brand says he has printed tO ,OOO breakfast sandwich tokens to start with, to handle the holiday season - which, coincidentally. is the time of year when charity-food overflows the streets of the DTES so much that it goes to waste. How many of these 10,000 $2.25 tokens will go unredeemed when they can only be exchanged for a single product during certain times of day, from a single location , when given to strangers as an act of individual charity during this time of charity overdose in the DTES? And how many will go unredeemed because the tokens can only be redeemed at the • sidewalk sandwich counter and not sitting inside the restaurant? Will Brand open his books and show how many he has calculated will go unredeemed and how
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But just because his tokens are not charitable Brand has not lost the opportunity to absorb the worst and most humiliating aspects of charity into his breakfast token program. A write-up posted on the Save On Meats website claims "the meal tokens solve the dilemma that many people find themselves in." But they are not talking about poverty, malnutrition. food insecurity, inequality or gentrification; they are talking about the dilemma faced by people who are " hesitant to give money rather than food to people they see on the street." Like the charity parking meters set up by the city to discourage panh andling, the message of Brand's tokens is that
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T he solution to problems of poverty, malnutrition and health crises in the Downtown Eastside are not to be found at the Save On Meats sandwich counter because they cannot be solved by clever marketing campaigns. Social and economic inequality is a material problem and it needs fundame ntal change. If restaurateurs like Brand want to help they can begin by supporting low-income community-led campaigns for higher taxes on businesses and higher income people , higher incomes for people on welfare and in low-wage jobs, and social justice not charity. Christmas-- anxious to support "good works."
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Members of DTES Local Area Planning Process Committee start discussions on people's planning As they approach the one-year anniversary of the DTES Local Area Planning Process (LAPP) committee some low-income community members of the committee are reaching outside the official city process to welcome the broader community in. These low-income community reps arc launching a "People's Plan" bulletin published "from inside the belly of the beast" of the LAPP committee and organizing regular town halls to discuss the struggles we are facing in the DTES today, to form specific visions for change, and to strategize how we. the DTES low-income community, can most effectively fight for this change we need.
The first People's Plan town hall was held in the Carnegie Theatre on November 8. About 50 people came to better understand the frustrations of working within a city planning process instead of focusing on street organizing. ''Everybody here who's involved with LAPP is spending tons of time at bureaucratic meetings ," explained Jean Swanson from CCAP. "Could this time be spent more effectively doing something else?" Keep a look out for the first issue of the People 's Plan bulletin and come to the second People's Plan town hall on Friday December 14. 2pm at the Oppenheimer Park Field House . ,...,JD
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0 TES Not for Developers Coalition starts survey and discussion series about cycles of displacement CCAP is part of the DTES Not for Developers Coalition which has been organizing for over a year and a half against condo developments at Pantages theatre, in Chinatown and, recently, at 955 E Hastings. The coalition is now statting a survey and discussion series about the threat that underlies all these condo development projects: displacement; in its Downtown Eastside form of gentrification. The purpose of the survey is to better understand what living in the DTES and the threat of displacement means for residents.
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If you cou ld have an affordable apmtment anywhere in the city or the Province ( including DTES) where would that be?
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CAN THE LOCAL AREA PLANNING PROCESS SAVE OUR HOMES?
Friday December 7 12noon-1pm CBC Plaza (700 Hamilton St) Meet at Carnegie at 11 :30am to walk or bus depending on the weather In 1982 Food Banks were established in BC as a 'temporary' measure. Thirty years is not temporary - Food Banks have become a tragic permanent feature of BC. Raise the Rates is hosting a "Poor People 's Radio" in which we will ask: "Why do we still need Food Banks after 30 years?" "Are there better ways to feed people and tackle poverty?"
Friday December 14 2pm Oppenheimer Field House Come hear from and talk with low-income community members of the City's DTES Local Area Planning Process. What is the LAPP doing to protect low-income housing in the DTES? Is it doing anything to slow or stop the gentrification that threatens our community's existance? What can WE do together to fight more effectively?
Some websites to look at http://ccapvancouver.wordpress.com/ Virtually everything we're up to at CCAP gets posted on this blog . Click on the reports tab to read CCAP's reports. http://dtesnotfordevelopers.wordpress.com Website for the Downtown Eastside Not for Developers Coalition and the campaign to stop the Sequel 138 condos on the 100-block http://raisetherates.org/ See the Raise the Rates website for updates on the campaign to raise welfare and basic wages in BC and the fight for justice, not charity!
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like an animal; that Ea11h is here to be raped at will be stray dog brain, that any technological advancement, innovation, discovery, has something to do With Human Progress, Seven Dollars that our Humanity Carefully budgeting, must be underestimated. seven dollars a day. disposable lives occupying Sure limits one's options an expendable population, They say it's the survival of the fittest, slaves to an Anti-Human bent, sure hard to be fit on seven dollars. that retains the limited Paycheck Millionaire They don't just want you off the system, range of thinking Check day they want you dead. that afflicted The dead come alive for a few hours Dead men don't eat, don't complain, our cave-brained don't need health care. predecessors, Line ups for a free meal longer than who changed from the line up at Walmart on black Friday. four legs to two Line ups become part of your life, line up without forests around; for a free phone, free coffee or a loaf and so were denied of stale bread. the brain that creates, God forbid you want hygiene, a toothbrush, comprehends, toothpaste, or toilet paper. chooses what is best We don't do hygiene you have to for the species ... pay for that out of your cheque! is best for the planet Good luck with a raincoat, towels, and other species, Henry George yet moving forward laundry o r a haircut. without humanity What do you mean you need soap soon we will be out Going days without so you can take as a priority ... of the Dark Ages the bus across town to another line up results in a planet of industrial interference and all its species to the food-bank, four hours later, back. with the natural flow open to rape and That's if you have a place to go back to. of Evolution, murder by the Food-bank's not much good if you're on the street, when preserving Human ever eaten raw potatoes or uncooked macaroni? animalized life and limb will become Hand me down's and hand me around. human brain, priority number one, The animals at the Zoo get more, and now holds when we will recall 路 than seven dollars worth of food, and down the power of with a shudder our Human Energy they get bathed, snipped and clipped. what it was like to be by spreading its Prisoners are budgeted more than seven dollars, hierarchical, each and every day. terminal fear high-err-ark -ick-cull; of the future, So just a quick re-cap: hi-er-arch-ical. .. of change, Three meals (even two), hygiene, grooming, when the renaissance of looking In clothing and transportation all on of the energy of the the mirror; Seven dollars a day seven billion changes Humanity cannot lose, Now that's some budgeting, everything, our journey glad I don't have any more money to budget. foreve r.. .' to the Human World Henry George has been a long wild trek; love from tmm
New report critical of Missing Women Inquiry issued weeks before Inquiry's deadline A new report that labels the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (MWCI) a failure has been released by three leading BC human rights organizations j ust weeks before the Commissioner delivers his final report to the Attorney General of BC. The report describes lessons that can be taken from the process that shut out fifteen g roups who had been granted standing at the Inqu iry, and was pi cketed for weeks by the very women w ho it was intended to support. "We wanted to try to find a positive out of all of the negatives of this lnquiry,"said Darcie Bennett of Pivot Legal Society. "This Inquiry presented an opportunity to hear from marg inalized women about their lives & how to make them safer, and it didn't. But from that failure we can draw lessons so that fut ure inquiries can restore and build public confidence, instead of repeating what happened here." The report, written by legal experts from the B.C. C ivil Liberties Association (BCCLA), Pivot Legal Society and W est Coast LEAF, makes a number of recommendations that focus on ways Commissions of inquiry can facilitate the participation of marginalized groups. The report also addresses basic procedural issues that dogged the MWCI, inc luding the lack of full & transparent document disclosure, timely decisions on app lications made by lawyers, and issues of confl ict of interest. "We were dismayed that the very inquiry set up to add ress the concerns of marg inalized women shut those same women out," said Lindsay Lyster, President of the (BCCLA). "Our initial s hock gave way to the realization that decisions li ke these could only have been made in a system that systematically excludes marg inalized communities. This step-bystep guide is meant to prevent such an unfair and onesided process from ever being repeated, by providing the too ls to create inclusive and empowering opportunities for vulnerable people to speak and to be heard." The MWCI faced criticism from the day it was announced, due to the narrow terms of reference and the appointment of a former Attorney General who had been quoted in media saying there would be little to learn from a public inquiry. The hearings ended amid a firestorm of controversy about excessive salaries paid to junior and senior lawyers, with the most senior
Commission lawyers receiving almost half a million dollars each for six month's work, almost the entire annual budget for the drop-in centre for street-based sex workers in Vancouve r's Downtown Eastside. " If we had just one recommendation, it would be that it is vital to ask the community demanding the inquiry how the inquiry should be set up. what issues it should address, and then acting on that important advice," said Kasari Govender, Executive Director of West Coast LEAF. "This Inquiry was a missed opportunity to put the voices of marginalized women and communities front and centre." Recently, the Commission was granted another extension and w ill be handing its report to the provincial gove rnment on November 30, 20 12. C lick here to read the report:
http://www.pivotlegal.org/blueprint for Wake Up Angela, you' re going nowhere Your body's showing signs of morbid pain The di lemma is in the pai n you're inflicting on yourself & others; you路 re dy ing. Zoe, you ride your bike You remind me of the w itc h in The Wizard ofOz who's controlled & controls by hurting others. Pain is the master - what a d isaster. One day, I pray, you may find your true meaning and purpose ... that's not now looking so brightGrim reality bites. ~ NoraKay
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A Community Aware Forum for discussion of community concerns
Hope "Tize impossible takes a little longer" Hope from Artistic Perspectives Tuesday December 4, 7:00 to 9:00pm Mosaic Settlement House: 1720 Grant Street (east off Commercial Drive) Registration: communityaware@gmail.com Fee: $5 to cover incidental o rganizer costs
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How do we reconcile hopelessness and resistance?
Presentation and discussion: David Tracey: Novelist, Community Ecologist, Editor Catherine Fallis PhD: Body Oriented and Expressive Arts Therapist Sharon Kravitz: Film Maker, Sidewalk Artist, activist A Community Aware has served the Vancouver Commercial Drive neighbourhood &beyond since 1999. Bruce Alexander is author of The Globalization of Addiction (Oxford Univ. Press). Barry Morris is a United Church Minister at Longhouse Ministry in Vancouver. Terry Patten is a retired business administrator.
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