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We were at Andrea Mari'tovani's InterUrban show of art photos taken in the DT[<SJan 26, her 'Super Cool Tuesdays' artist talk, a regular feature at the gallery. Sittingover beside rryfriend and I was an intriguing gentleman dressed in black with grey accents. A tall good looking feJlownot in the least feminine black tights& miniskirt a black t-shirt\with a score of photorealistic kitten fares on it covered by a diaphanous grey top and cl large black hat - a cross betweena sombrero and a floral bonnet. Afterthe talk we were looking at a shot of Andrea's of the shade slashed front of the Patricia Hotel. late afternoon sun lighting a fellowwalkingby in a cowboyhat, anc the red-saturatedHotel sign above anice colourtul, somewhat moody picture. I know it's digital but it reminds me of the Kodachrome of Herzog [Fred Herzog, famous slide-film photographer ofworking class Vancouver in the 50's &60's}." Ivas the gentleman in the mniskirtlookirgat the same picture. We looked at each other. This was a fairly astute comment Tvly friend, an artist in varIousmediums, complimented the man on his kitten-faced t-shirt ... "Yeah," he said, I'm mourning Davld Bowie ' Ifanything can sum up the DTES for meifs this incident. The DTES has colour, character, living drama and an endless ability to surprise. A depth I can 't anticipate.
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What's really happening at 312 Main(copshop) Last June Vancity Community Foundation (VCF) asked me to help them with the repurposing of the old copshop, 312 Main. I agreed with the understanding that 312 was a partnership between the City of Vancovuer (as owners of the building) and VCF taking the lead on the redevelopment both in terms of the renovation and program development for the building. What I reported to the CCAP meeting on January 22 was the latest progress towards transforming 312 Main i.e. social innovation & technology. No official name has been determined, but what it won't be is a Tech Hub, as Formerly Homeless Dave has declared. While this was the focus of the Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC), this isn't the focus ofVCF. VEC was leading an earlier redevelopment scheme for 312 Main back in 2013, but this changed near the end of 2014, when VCF took over as lead developer. What is planned is something far less sinister than Dave's discription of a Deathstar Tech Hub, and is far more inclusive than an offering of cheap space to local musicians and artists in the basement. While the basement is being conceived as a "maker space" for artists and builders, modelled in part by the Carnegie's Art Program room in the basement of Carnegie, it is the ground floor, all 14,000 sq/ft, that will be accessible to the community. This will be the public square for the building, including gathering space, meeting rooms, washrooms and a cafe. There will be no security guard, the front door won't be locked and access to wifi and other ground floor programming events will be available with the purchase of a $1 to $5 a year membership. The meeting rooms, some capable of handling up to 60 people, will be available free to community organizations as part of the honorarium program being established for the building. As well, Megaphone will have their new office and vender counter on this floor and we are working towards Vancouver Community Network (VCN) providing barrier-free internet access points and IT support within the building. For the cafe plans are in the works to have East Van Roasters (run by the PHS) as operator. Forthe second floor, VCF is geared to operate its own eo-working space, which is a collection of rentable small offices and open desks with shared meeting
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rooms and reception. So far, numerous small nonprofits, some with strong connections to the neig~bourhood, like Binners' Project and Embers, are mterested in locating here along with technology-driven social enterprises and entrepreneurs. We also continue to work with PIVOT, Ecojustice and BC Civil Liberties in locating on the fourth floor and Spring on the third. While SWin路g, a business that supports early entrepreneurs with business development, fits the definition of a technology outfit, they do not consumate VCF's objectives for VCF 312 Main; namely, pairing social innovation and technology with social inclusion, employment opportunities and access. We all use techonology in our daily lives, our effort here is to ensure that it's accessible and useful to the existing DTES community. It will be at least one year before 312 Main is ready for any tenants. Ther~ is no doubt that low-income housing is the most pressing issue for the DTES. In fact I have worked on many housing projects in the past. However the stability and health of the DTES as a low-income neighbourhood relies also on other aspects of community wellbeing. VCF asks that ~ 12 Main to be considered in this light. It's not SOCIal housing, Dave is right, but it's neither a tech centre. Rather , it's an effort at mitigating negative outcomes . (i.e. Dave's tech centre) and creating something POSItive for the community and Vancouver. By Tom Laviolette
From "the Library Are you a self-published author or would like to become one? If yes, there are some great opportunities via the Vancouver Public Library. On February at Central Library there is an entire day dedicated to independent writers at the "Self-Publishing Fair." There will be presentations from authors, advice on selling on Amazon, how-to create digital books, etc. If you simply want to support self-published authors, consider going to the "New Voices" event on Sat. Feb. 20th at Central from 2pm - 3:30pm, because members ofCarnegie's crew, the Thursdays Writing Collective, among others will be sharing and selling their work during a round-table presentation. A unique opportunity for green thumbs here at the Carnegie is contributing your ideas to a Downtown Eastside plant growing-guide (or "zine"). The brainstorm session is hosted by the Hives for Humanity in the classroom on the 3rd floor on Wednesday Feb. I ih from 4 - 5pm. This guide will be unique to the DTES on growing your own food, sharing seeds and local resources. The spring season is on its way, so should be a fun project!
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In the meantime, enjoy some of our new books on the topic of self-publishing: Self Publish, Be Happy: a DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto (2015) by Bruno Ceschel- this book is specific to photographers who want to showcase their work and contribute to the "photo book renaissance," described as a cultural revolution. The Complete Guide to Writing & Publishing your First E-book (20 5) by Martha Maeda - Maeda claims to offer "insider secrets" on becoming a successful e-book author. You can follow through with her advice by signing up for free courses at VPL's Inspiration Lab! Self-publishing for Beginners: How to Prepare, Edit, Publish, and Market your Own Print Books and Ebooks (2014) by Productive Publications. This book gets into the nitty gritty of editing, proofreading, copyright, marketing and more, both self-published print and digital works. Make a Zinel When Words and Graphics Collide (2008) by Bill Brent. If cutting and pasting is more your style, and doing things by hand, consider making your own zine. This book is a straight-forward guide
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To equalize power among us We need to keep ourselves in check in whatever ways we have privilege
Margo Adair & Sharon H the Ways We've Been Oppressed In addition to keeping ourselves in check regarding whatever ways we possess privilege, it is vital that we stop constraining ourselves-stop keeping ourselves in check, in the particular ways that relate to how we have experieru being an "outsider." We have to take the risk of putting our experience into the centre. We can no longer afford tc collude with our own oppression by accommodating and/or not acknowledging our own power. It is our experien that is needed to inform and shape decisions. It is also important to remember that offensive behaviour is not necessarily calculated to protect power. It is often simply a result of ignorance. Those with privilege have never needed to understand the experience of others. The are frequently oblivious of how their behaviour reinforces the status quo. Despite our best intentions we find, more often than not, that we duplicate the patterns of power we find so abhorrent in dominant culture. Following are some guidelines to help us equalize relations. Privilege is invisible to those who have it. To create a context which embraces diversity, in which no one is marginalized, a conscious and ongoing effort is required. By noticing and changing what we take for granted, we make room for everyone's contributions. This list is offered as a way to help privileged group members reflect on their own behaviour.
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Don't interrupt. Don't unilaterally set the agenda. Don't patronize. Don't assume you're more capable. Don't trivialize the experience of others. Don't challenge tone, attitude or manner. Don't assume anyone is more "suited" for anything. Don't take responsibility for, think for, or speak for others. Don't assume someone is exceptional compared to the "average" person of their group. Don't assume an individual speaks for or has the same opinions as others from their group. Don't be the only one controlling the organization's resources. Don't reduce difficulties to personality conflicts. Don't assume the root of a problem is misunderstanding or lack of information. Don't ask others to explain, prove, or justify themselves. Don't mimic other cultural traditions or religious practices. Don't expect to be treated as an individual outside of your group's history. Don't flaunt how you may be different than others of your group. Don't take up all the space or always speak first. Don't ignore or minimize differences by emphasizing similarities. Don't overlook history and equate all oppressions as equal. Don't expect "others" to educate you about their group's history, conditions or sensibilities. Don't expect others to be grateful. Don't defend mistakes by focusing on good intentions. Don't take everything personally. Don't assume everyone has the same options you do. Don't try to guess what's needed.
Don't assume that the visible reality is the only one operating. Don't expect to be trusted. Do take responsibility to learn about the history, culture and struggles of other groups as told by them. Do make sure the context welcomes everyone's voice and listen. Do appreciate efforts to point out mistakes. (You must be doing something right, or no one tells you what's wrong. Do expect discomfort when relating to people different from yourself. Do address accessibility, including such things as money, space, transportation, childcare and language . .Do notice what you expect from and assume about others, and note what experiences formed your ideas. Do name unacknowledged realities, so the parameters of the situation expand to include everyone's experience. Do remember that others speak about more than the conditions of their own group. Do regard people as whole human beings with families, interests and ideas beyond those of the particular task. Do take responsibility for equalizing power. Do name dominating behaviour when you see it. Do encourage pride in your own and other's ancestry and history. Do understand individuals in the context of their social history. Do look for political differences rather than personality conflicts. Do ask questions. Do struggle over matters of principle and politics. Do respect disagreements. Do make accessible all information so others can decide if they are interested. Do appreciate the risk a person takes in sharing their experience with you. Do take risks. Do trust others.
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a Worst Time continued: .. INCIDENT#I: Slow were jamming downstairs at the Terrible House of Sickness meanwhile a seagull lay dying on the sidewalk across the street then was picked up by an old Chinese man & gently 'tossed' into the connecting yard which killed it. Guitarist Shane Parke-Davis from Bad Attitude went over to collect tile remains, took it around to our backyard placed several aerosol cans underneath built a fire & blew it up. Needless to say multiple calls to Police of "Shots fired!" they descend on 909 Windermere & backdoor kicked in with loaded guns drawn Slow continued to the end of their song then explanation given that in our religious circle they can't just be cremated but must be blown up. Although things of a criminal nature may have gotten out of hand but guns' copcars' police themselves (& ghost copcars) kind of stepped up with their methods so delicately & the beginning had begun INCIDENT#2: Greaseballs lived beside a Punk Rock h house at i & Fraser, 7 or 9 came over with baseball bats & as we had a mostly glass front door we could
girls. I got my head 'h;:l:~d in while girls were hit with fists while someone phoned the cops. I pointed out the several who'd beat us the cops wentrzext door to find mass stolen goods & pot growing & other cop fantasy stuff. Never saw them again that day. INCIDENT#3: We put together a benefit for Lyall Island in '85 at the Indian Community Centre on East Hastings, ourselves (Bad Attitude) Slow & out of all selfishness The Powder Blues. It was packed our table covered in beer bottles before they started serving but when they did our table was covered in hard liquor bottles & a lot of moonshine. As it got late Powder Blues offered to play first. thanx. By the time we played it was past 11 :00 & the first song went over great. After that it was like a sound repellant - we rd only got to start a 3 song when security came on stage & tried in vain to grab us I ducked while they pulled out all the plugs. Slow didn't get to play at all & we set this all up! INCIDENT#4: We played in a Battle of the Bands against 2 other bands at the Town Pump. The winning band came over to tell us what several tables of patrons had 'voiced' .that we should have won. Myself & another band member went into the back-of the club. There were walls mirrors big ashtrays & we smashed walls mirrors big ashtrays stools chairs & I grabbed a hand full of piano strings -$3500 damageother bands wouldn't play with us & a certain piano player was out for blood. We changed our name for several gigs added another guitarist & started again ... INCIDENT#5: Afer a great gig downtown me & several other band members decided to become blood brothers. We smashed out beer bottles & removed jackets. I gave him a decent slice but mine was 7 inches long & an inch wide. loved it!? INCIDENT#6: Waking up one fine morning to pounding at the door. There was a 6 ft eleventeen guy from Long & McQuade. "Where's the fuckin' monobass amp!?" "Urn, North Van?! "You get it by the end of business today or today is your last day on Earth!!" INCIDENT#7: My roommate witnesses a couple of thugs robbing an elderly couple of anything worth cash & traumatic stress of course. They see him. A couple of nights later as I'm snoozing on the couch near the front door SlamSlamSlam & 6 or 8 enter to
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get roommate. Pete dives through a small bathroom window & I'm told "Sit on that couch or you're dead! Pondering Life I comply. They grab the TV, Pete's grow op & other' If you win, stuff & as ski-masked home invaders start to leave Savour the moment, one comes out of my room withj my bass guitar. I Then carry on. plead "It's left-handed & has a busted string" thug is If you lose, pissed & leaves it ona chair. Bass saved & no beating! Learn from the experience, An interesting evening. Then carry on. INCIDENT#8: Me & Sid Savage plan an eat&run at If you lose someone, Knight & Day Restaurant on Broadway. After big Celebrate that life, meals & dessert we walk slowly to the front when Sid Then carry on. bolts out the door 'n down the street. I look at the But on occasion remember that life manager He looks at me "What the fuck! He has the is precious and savour all that you can money!" HE gives me the once more once over & he absorb for you never know when that too bolts out the door & down the street. I wait until I moment will be your last. can't see him & I bolt out & up Heather until a ghost Maria Teixeira copcar stops me several blocks away: "Why you running Punk Rock Guy?" the invective detective asks. "It's cold I want to get to is" & Main I live there it's warm & there's music & 2 other members of No Exit. He checks my record what I'm running from obviously hasn't been reported ... "Keep clean." yeah ... INCIDENT#9: Back in the early 80's I could leave If you do not practice what you Richmond with $20 & guzzle booze drop acid everyone had pot but I was introduced to Benylin cough Preach then there will come that day that You will be judged for whom you really are. syrup -it'd fuck up to where you'd have lengthy conversations with telephone poles or wave at the winWe, as humans were made to be humble, to be dow even though the street was empty or phone Caring, and to be loved; however, we need to realize someone and just as your finger finished with the ih That as humans we are sinners and we need to bow digit PANIC ATTACK 'cause you had no idea who Down to the mercy of this universe and stop pretending you'd just called. I'd say 'This is Rob/Chunk who do That we can stand alone without the love and support of our fellow men. I know who lives there? Little did I know I'd become - Maria Teixeira addicted to it, like everyday for 17 ~ years. My liver hates my guts but I'd outgrown Pam Glue Lime-Flavoured Old Spice & other cheap highs. An interesting death-wish waiting to happen some said but instant insanity what did they know (other than a few people r----------------------" Rents are getting higher and the welfare rates are not saying I could play bass & write lyrics). A lot of them rising in accordance. We get worried about this makare dead, moved away or created families. I live by ing ends harder to meet. Especially 'concerned are the myself with Isabella my bass guitar, a lot of awesome lower echelon of income levels of those at Carnegie & absolutely needed music & plenty to write about who care about this area & the less-advantaged people The day my 'plate' is empty is the day they'll add to here. How are we going to take on this tremendous my urn. If you're waiting for this series to end sorry task? but there's one more Enjoy what's left of your life.. god knows I've wasted a lot of mine. Oh well. Names Jean & Wendy & others are doing the best they can but they need our support. are real to protect legacies of each&everyone & theirs Here's to them and our battle fighting poverty and By ROBERT McGILLIVRA Y related conditions. "There is strength in the union even of very sorry men.-Homer. Joyce Morgan
Psychiatrists under fire in mental health battle. British Psychological Society to launch attack on rival profession, casting doubt on biomedical model of mental illness There is no scientific evidence that psychiatric diagnoses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are valid or useful, according to the leading body representing Britain's clinical psychologists. In a groundbreaking move that has already prompted a fierce backlash from psychiatrists, the British Psychological Society's division of clinical psychology (DCP) issued a statement declaring that, given the lack of evidence, it is time for a "paradigm shift" in how the issues of mental health are understood. The statement effectively casts doubt on psychiatry's predominantly biomedical model of mental distress - the idea that people are suffering from illnesses treatable by doctors using drugs. The DCP said its decision to speak out "reflects fundamental concerns about the development, personal impact and core assumptions of the (diagnosis) systems", used by psychiatry. Or Lucy Johnstone, a consultant clinical psychologist who helped draw up the DCP's statement, said it was unhelpful to see mental health issues as illnesses with biological causes. "On the contrary, there is now overwhelming evidence that people break down as a result of a complex mix of social and psychological circumstances - bereavement and loss, poverty and discrimination, trauma and abuse," Johnstone said. The provocative statement by the DCP has been timed to come out shortly before the release ofDSM-5, the fifth edition of the American Psychiatry Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The manual has been attacked for expanding the range of mental health issues that are classified as disorders. For example, the fifth edition of the book, the first for two decades, will classify manifestations of grief, temper tantrums and worrying about physical ill-health as the mental illnesses of major depressive disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder and somatic symptom disorder, respectively. Some ofthe manual's omissions are just as controversial as the manual's inclusions. The term "Asperger's disorder" will not appear in the new manual, and instead its symptoms will come under the newly added "autism spectrum disorder". The DSM is used in a number of countries to varying degrees. Britain uses an alternative manual, the International manual, Classification of Diseases (lCD) published by the World Health Organisation, but the DSM is still hugely influential - and controversial. The writer Oliver lames, who trained as a clinical psychologist, welcomed the DCP's decision to speak out against psychiatric diagaosis and stressed the need to move away from a biomedical model of mental distress to one that examined societal and personal factors. Writing in the Observer, lames declares: "We need fundamental changes in how our society is organised to give parents the best chance of meeting the needs of children and to prevent the amount of adult adversity." But Professor Sir Simon Wessely, a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and chair of psychological medicine at King's College London, said it was wrong to suggest psychiatry was focused only on the biological causes of mental distress. And in an accompanying Observer article he defends the need to create classification systems for mental disorder. "A classification system is like a map," Wessely explains. "And just as any map is only provisional, ready to be changed as the landscape changes, so does classification." By Jamie Doward [This article is here to give grist to the mill. A recent meeting held at Gallery Gachet brought focus to the mental health needs in the OTES & how such are mis-served by an exclusive psychiatric, biological model of treatment. Ed.]
"ThisChal18es E~erlJ thil18" With Special Guest Speaker: Christine Boyle -Inspired by Naomi Klein's international non-fiction bestseller, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines of climate change. Filmed on several continents over a period of three years, This Changes Everything argues that the greatest crisis we have ever faced also offers us the opportunity to address and correct the inhumane systems that have created it. Christine Boyle accompanied Naomi Klein to the Vatican Climate Conference in July 2015.
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NOBODY'S FRIEND My name is gossip. I have no respect for justice. I maim without killing. I break hearts and ruin lives. I am cunning & malicious & gather strength with age The more I am quoted the more I am believed. I flourish at every level of society. My victims are helpless. They cannot protect themselves against me because I have no name and no face. To track me down is impossible. The harder you try, the more elusive I become. I am nobody's friend. Once I tarnish a reputation, it is never the same. I topple governments and wreck marriages. I ruin careers and cause 'sleepless nights,' heartache and indigestion. I spawn suspicion and generate grief. I make innocent people cry in their pillows. Even my name hisses. I am called Gossip. Office gossip. Shop gossip. Party gossip. Telephone gossip. I make headlines and headaches. Before you repeat a story ask yourself, is it true? Is it fair? Is it necessary? There are two sides to every story. Malicious gossipers paint themselves as victims so they can get a group together to ostracize the so-called 'villain.' Before you give someone the cold shoulder get her side of the story to stop the spread of lies. d.b.d.
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