January 15, 1997, carnegie newsletter

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driven by circumstance to live in the downtown eastside a friend spoke passionately about:

the pain I just look out my window first thing in the morning all the pain and screaming all night long" "

and this is the real crime the outstanding offense again st society committed by so many human beings in the downtown eastside pain

and the carnegie community centre her thick black hair

' her clothes were dirty and dishevelled her feet and legs were bare and covered with bruises and scabs and open sores and running wounds her feet were swollen she could hardly move and I could feel the pain

and this is the real object of all the intentions to 'clean up the area' pain

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"visible pain-bearers must be deni as well as visibility because they assert that the legitimated structures are not properly hctioning" walter brueggemann yesterday I watched a woman on the 100 block of east hastings stand in the alley

and even the action she winced her entire body reacted with hurt and then she placed her foot on the filthy cobblestones of the alley and she shuddered and tottered staggered by pain


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