September 1, 1988, carnegie newsletter by Carnegie Newsletter

A few yeass ago, Gastown businessmen proposed that a major entrance ramp to Crab Park be constructed behind glass doors, accessable only by an elevator inside a building at No. 1 Alexander St. This building is a prime piece of real estate in Gastown square, in which DEEDS was once offered office space, as a favour for throwing their weight behind the Gastown entrance at City Hall meetings - where their presense was used to make it seem as if the community approved. The idea, adpkrently, was to make an exclusive main entrance to Crab Park that could be claimed to be - -

"open to all," but could be carefully monitored by commercial interests in Gastown. The businessmen said this was their idea of !'full community access" to Crab Park, after City Hall had failed to provide it at the east end. Of course, it was obvious to Downtown Eastsiders at the time that this would be a tourist-oriented, executive controlled entranceway, built & operated by the same commercial interests who specifically refused, years before, to donate any time, money or effort to the CRAB Community Campaign to gain a park in this location.

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Now t h a t we g o t i t - t h e y want i t , " was t h e way most e a s t s i d e r s saw i t a t t h e t i m e & no one was r e a l l y v e r y s u r p r i s e d when l a t e r on t h e P a r k was named a f t e r t h e f e d e r a l P o r t Corpora t i o n i n s t e a d of b e i n g c a l l e d Crab. I n a s e r i e s of committee m e e t i n g s d e s i g n e d t o promote t h e Gastown busi n e s s m e n ' s e n t r a n c e , t h e o n l y Downtown E a s t s i d e s u p p o r t e r s of t h i s i d e a were Tony S e a v e r , M a r t i n Baker, Cowboy E l l i s , & a few of t h e i r f r i e n d s . Caravetta loved t h e idea. Many long-term r e s i d e n t s spoke vehemently a g a i n s t i t . . . t h e n i t was suddenly withdrawn...lack of funding was t h e e x p l a n a t i o n . Years went by, i n which many demands f o r a l e v e l c r o s s i n g a t coiumb i a were made by Downtown E a s t s i d e r s & t h i s i d e a s t e a d i l y gained support A few weeks ago rumours emerged from C i t y H a l l t h a t t h e l e v e l c r o s s but then, i n a i n g would be opened h a s t i l y c a l l e d media e v e n t s t a g e d a t . 8 : 3 0 a.m. a t t h e Crab b a n d s h e l l on a damp F r i d a y morning, c i v i c 4 f e d e r a l bigwigs a p p e a r e d , l e d by Campbell & Carney, w i t h p r e - a r r a n g e d p r e s s & TV c o v e r a g e t o announce t o a s p a r s e , s i l e n t group o f e a s t e n d ' r e s i d e n t s & a c t i v i s t s t h a t t h e o l d DE~DS/Gastown businessmen's d e a l f o r a c o m m e r c i a l l y c o n t r o l l e d c o r r i d o r i n t o Crab P a r k had been s i g n e d , s e a l e d & d e l i v e r e d , a p p a r e n t l y o v e r n i g h t i n a backroom d e a l w i t h P a t Carney. P a t , by t h e way, s u p p o r t e d Crab P a r k a l m o s t from Day One. ..now, of c o u r s e , h e r m o t i v e s become c l e a r . II

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Such a r e t h e a c t l o n s o r c a r e e r p o l i t i c i a n s , b e s t o w i n g f a v o u r s on busi n e s s s u p p o r t e r s i n a n t e l e c t i o n year. C a p i t a l i s m w i n s & Community l o s e s a g a i A t t h e v e r y l e a s t , t h i s manoeuver p r o v i d e s f u r t h e r p r o o f ( a s i f we neede a n y , a f ter Vanderzalm) of "democratic" government's r e c e n t q u i e t s h i f t t o c l o s e t f a s c i s m . Once t h e y became conv i n c e d t h a t winning e l e c t i o n s was a P.R. j o b , t h e N.P.A. d e t e r m i n e d t h a t i t c o u l d do a n y t h i n g i t wanted t o , w h i l e making media s t a t e m e n t s about "Doing i t a l l f o r YOU." P u t Ronald McDonald i n a f a t c a L _ s u i t & h e ' l l r u n y o u r show any day. Yes, f r i e n d s , t h i s i s t h e s t o r y of y o u r c i t y , y o u r community, & y o u r political reality. Whatsa m a t t e r ? . . . C a t g o t your tongue? TORA

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Downtown E a s t s i d e r e s i d e n t s have s t a t e d p u b l i c l y o v e r and o v e r and o v e r a g a i n t h a t we d o n ' t want a pede s t r i a n o v e r p a s s a t t h e f o o t of C a r r a l l S t r e e t and t h a t w e want an atg r a d e c r o s s i n g a t t h e f o o t o f Columbia Street.

NOT ONE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE VOTE FOR THE NPA! NOT ONE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE VOTE FOR THE CONSERVATIVES! Sam Snobelen

I would l i k e t o know why we w e r e n ' t consulted regarding t h i s matter. It seems t o me t h a t t h e c i t y c o u l d s a v e money by c o n s u l t i n g w i t h t h e d i s a b l e d - a n d s e n i o r s of t h e Downtown E a s t s i d e , because i t i s u s who have t o d e a l w i t h and s u f f e r w i t h t h e m i s t a k e s made. ( i . e . t h e Main S t . Overpass.) Personally, I am f i g h t i n g t o r e t a i n my independence. I d o n ' t want t o have r e l y on o t h e r s t o g e t t o my own neighbourhood p a r k . Margaret P r e v o s t

The Gastown Lions Club members have proven themselv6s t o b e n o t L i o n s , b u t j u s t a bunch of bad c a t s . The a d m i r a b l e r e c o r d of a l l o t h e r Lions Clubs a c r o s s Canada p d t h e U.S.A. h a s been besmirched by t h i s A one s e l f i s h , s e l f - s e r v i n g group group t h a t h a s p u t t h e i r own money v a l u e s ahead o f t h e h i g h s t a n d a r d s of s e r v i c e t o t h e community t h a t

o t h e r L i o n s ; Clubs a c c e p t as Lion precepts. The p a s t r e c o r d of Lions I n t e r n a t i o n a l h a s always been one of h e l p i n g t h e handicapped t o l i v e l i v e s as c l o s e t o normal s t a n d a r d s as p o s s i b l e d e s p i t e t h e i r handicaps. I t would have been t h e Gastown Lions normal p o s i t i o n t o uphold o u r handicapped p e o p l e i n t h e i r d r i v e f o r an a t - g r a d e c r o s s i n g a t Columbia i n t o Crab Park. I n s t e a d t h e y chose from t h e v e r y f i r s t t o bow t o t h e i r own c r a s s d e s i r e s f o r commerce and t u r n t h e i r backs on t r u e need - on t h e i r own d o o r s t e p ! I wonder M r . L i o n s Club businessmen, j u s t how many of your e s t a b l i s h m e n t s ' i n Gastown a r e r e a l l y and t r u l y w h e e l c h a i r a c c e s s i b l e ? How many washrooms, how many phone b o o t h s , how many of your t a b l e s a r e t r u l y adapta b l e t o wheelchairs? U n t i l you had t a k e n c a r e of t h e s e l i t t l e i t e m s , why d i d n ' t you s t a n d behind o u r w h e e l c h a i r p e o p l e ? I s a w you a t t h e P r e s s Snnouncement b u t I n e v e r s a w any of you pushing a w h e e l c h a i r around. One man came o v e r t o t a l k - o n l y one. You t r e a t e d u s as s t r a n g e r s . Was t h a t t r u e ~ i o n s ' spirit? You guys have become a b l i s t e r on t h e back end o f t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l Lions and should be taken t o t a s k f o r conduct unbecoming a Lion. Your e f f o r t s on your own b e h a l f w i l l b e appreciated i n t h e proper places. Copies o f t h i s l e t t e r a r e going t o e v e r y L i o n s Club i n Canada, and t o a l l other service organizations t h a t q u a l i f y as such. JACK CHALMERS

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1112 above a p p e a r e d i n tllc Vancouv ~ Sun r on August 16 and c o p i e s a r e ~ ~ n d o u b t e d liyn major p a p e r s a c r o s s t l ~ fcountry. The War i n d u s t r y h a s been shaken by t h e v a s t p r o t e s t alld o u t r a g e of t h e c i t i z e n r y - t h a t ' s u s o v e r t h e i r " r e q u e s t " f o r $200 BILLION t o pay f o r t h e w i s h - l i s t s r o m p i l e d by a d m i r a l s & g e n e r a l s . T h i s h a s n e v e r , t o my knowledge, happened b e f o r e . Usually t h e s e n i o r o f f i c e r s a r e told not t o discuss a ~ y t h i n gw i t h anyone. ( S p i e s ya know) Now t h e y w i l l b r a i n w a s h everybody w i t h "need" ( g r e e d ) , " p r e p a r e d n e s s " ( f o r what'!), and " s t r a t e g i c c a p a b i l i t y " If i t wasn' t s o (money i n t h e bank). sick, i t might be good, low comedy.

J o u s t i n g h e a d s j o i n t l y h o n e s judgement. H e a r t f e l t j a u n t s 1 1 e u r i s t i c a l J . y j e t t i s o n hollow j u s t i f i c a l i o n s . Hidden joy h a u n t s j a u n d i c e d hope: justice heals.

" J u s t i c e h e a l s .'I Two i n s p i r i n g and s p i r i t u a l c o n c e p t s - j u s t i c e and h e a l i n g . What y o u ' v e r e a d i n t l l P f i r s t few p a g e s a r e t h e i n i t i a l r e s p o n s e of p e o p l e f o r whom t h e s e c o n c e p t s were mangled. f o r whom f r u s t r a t i o n & r a g e a t h a v i n g t o r e a c t a g a i n must be done t o a v o i d s e l f - d e s t r u c t i o n . The f r o n t page t e l l s i t l i k e i t i s , s o 1 - e t ' s Look a t what o u r p o l i t i c a l p r o c e s s h a s d e g ~ n e r a t e di n t o : CRAB PARK Mayor Gordon Campbell ( ~ a n d e r z a l ms' p a l ) and MI? P a t Carney t r e a t t h e r e a l community l i k e pawns t o r a c k u p some p o l i t i c a l points. It d i d n ' t work. The neighbourhood a c t i v i s t s howled i n r a g e a t t h e l a t e s t s t u p i d i t y and C o u n c i l was made t o r e a l i z e t h a t t h e p e o p l e h e r e a r e s t i l l and m u s t ( s t i l 1 ) be t r e a t e d a s people, with r i g h t s . The C a r r a l l S t r e e t Overpass i s goi n g ahead a s ' p l a n n e d ' and a committee h a s been s e t up t o l o o k a t o p t i o n s again. The s i m p l e s t s o l u t i o n seems t o be t h e h a r d e s t one t o h a v e - a n atg r a d e c r o s s i n g would j u s t r e t u r n t o t h e way i t w a s done f o r 75 y e a r s w i t h o u t one p e r s o n g e t t i n g h u r t . A s i m p l e answer: CPR and Marathon want t o dump t h e s h u n t i n g y a r d h e r e s o a s not t o offend t h e r i c h r e s i d e n t s i n t h e i r proposed d e v e l o p m e n t s and b o t h Campbell and Carney a g r e e . It's like a r e l i g i o u s r i t u a l ; p i s s o n t h e poor. The s l a p i n o u r f a c e was t h e Mayor, i n h i s i n f i n i t e wisdom, d e c i d i l l g what w a s " b e s t " and j u s t t e l I i n g u s w j t h a b i g s m i l e t h a t t h a t is; t i l e way i t i s

'camping t r i p ' t o Squamish and one no wonder I c a n ' t s o l v e my problems of them, Andrew H u c l a c k , r e t u r n e d t o avoid a l c o h o l t e l l o f i t From ~ n d y ' s t a l e anyspicy foods t h i n g from s n a k e s t o w i l d d o g s t o prolonged s t a n d i n g b e a r s t o f a l l i n g over a c l i f f could & overtiredness have happened and a l m o s t d i d . Upon a r r i v i n g t h e m a s t e r c h e f , keep J e r r y S a n t i n o , s a i d h e needed some dry & clean s o y a s a u c e and g a r l i c f o r t h e Barba d j u s t your eque c h i c k e n f o r s u p p e r . J a n e t and habits Eva and Mike and l r e n e and Andrew were i n a h i k i n g mood and when a s k e d , t r y t o be r e g u l a r George s a i d t h a t t h e s t o r e was o n l y don ' t s t r a i n 3 m i Les down t h e r o a d . t h e f i v e s e t o f f walking and w a l k i n g and walki.nsert nozzle' a l l the way i n g , hoping they weren't l o s t . into F i n a l l y they stopped t o r e s t r i g h t your b e s i d e a c e m e t e r y . A s one q u i p p e d : rectum "Well, i f a n y t h i n g h a p p e n s , t h e y won't have f a r t o t a k e us!" do t h i s A man i n a d i n k y l i t t l e c a r was e a c h morning 6, e v e n i n g t h e r e and s a i d t h e s t o r e was l e s s t h a n t h e y t e l l me two m i l e s down t h e r o a d . F i n a l l y , d e a d b e a t and s t r u g g l i n g , 6 t h a t ' s just t o deal wit11 t h e Carnegie Five reached t h e s t o r e hemorrhoids and l e a r n e d what e v e r y o n e had been a s k i n g a b o u t - i t was o v e r 5 m i l e s ! Bud Oshorri Even w i t h t h e p r i z e o f a b o t t l e of s o y a s a u c e ( t h e r e was no g a r l i c ) , t h e road back was w a i t i n n - when t h e man i n t h e d i n k y c a r p u l l e d i n . H i s g e n e r o u s o f f e r t o d r i v e them was a c c e p t e d a t once. t h r e e were s t a c k e d i n t h e back l y i n g on t o p of e a c h o t h e r , and t h e o t h e r two crammed i n beside t h e d r i v e r . Sardine City!! The f i v e m i l e s back were cramped b u t beat t h e h e l l o u t of trudging a l l t h e ART BY TOR4 way. The s n a k e s , d o g s , b e a r s . ? C c l l L r e c o l l . ~ g c6 c o v e r b y Dave Ted U . $ 5 FllEE c l o u ~lrl o n s i r c c o p ~ u One of t h e f e a r l e s s s t a f f had Andy C i t y i n f o s t a f f c a n ' t accept go w i t h h e r on a l l l i t t l e w a l k s o u t donations f o r t h i s Newsletter, of t h e camp " f o r p r o t e c t i o n " and i f you can h e l p , f i n d Paul Taylor y a m $4.02 garter snakes O r having i l e # l l give you i,.fi.'t'---$ i1'0 t h r e e dogs b a r k from a home were e a c h enough t o have h e r s c r a m b l i n g . Tlrrr~rltso v o l yllutlv. h i m . - $ 1 1 . '5 Andy had t o l a u g h !

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.By ERIC ERICKSON! In an earlier issue, I told how white men deliberately cleared a large area of Northern Saskatchewan of its Native population by distributing blankets taken from the beds of persons suffering from smallpox. That happened around the turn of the century but this issue's story of the genocidal savergy of the white man is a story of this century. Indeed, many of us were alive when the machinations of the whites wiped out the Barren Lands Eskimos and the Chipewyan "Indians" of northernmost Manitoba. Both those Inuit (Eskimos) and Dene ("Indians") depended for their whole living on the regular and predictable migrations of vast herds of Barrenlands caribou. (The whole story of those peoples and of their decimation was told in 1953 in Farley Mowat's book "People of the Deer.") Greedy white fur traders weaned the -Inuit away from their dependence on the caribou, teaching them instead to trap furs and eat food purchased at the fur companies' trading posts. Farther south, the Idthen Eldeli "Indians" had survived and prospered by taking only those caribou they needed, situated as they were in the middle of the animals' wintering ground in the sub-Arctic brushlands. Whites built fur trading posts and sold rifles to the Idthen Eldeli. The white trading companies found it possible to sell dried caribou tongue to U.S. gourmet markets. The white traders were eager to cash in on

this market, especially as it offered the opportunity to sell great quantities of ammunition to the "Indians." The Barren Lands Inuit had believed the white man's way was the new' order of things and they had given up their ancient hunting weapons and skills - and their dependence on the caribou - for hunting with rifles and trapping and trading furs for the white man's food. In the same way, using the white man's weapons, the Idthen Eldeli went along with the white man and slaughtered caribou by the millions. In the 1930's the fur traders looked at their ledger books and, seeing that they were not making the profits they required, closed their trading posts. This left both groups without a source of food supplies on which they had come to depend. It also left all of them without a source of ammunition for the rifles on which they had likewise come to rely. Besides, where vast tides of millions of migrating caribou had seasonally swept over the lands, now only a few stragglers could be seen. The great herds had been slaughtered to please the palates of white gourmets. m e n Farley Mowat investigated for his 1953 book, starvation had reduced the thousands of Barren Lands Inuit to some thirty individuals and they were still starving. It is true that after a great deal of buck-passing between departments, the Federal Government in Ottawa made a feeble ,

r e s c u e a t t e m p t by f l y i n g i n a l o a d o r two of d r i e d b e a n s . Dried beans t o a l a n d t h a t , now w i t h o u t t h e f a t of t h e c a r i b o u , was e n t i r e l y w i t h o u t f u e l . Mowat found t h a t t h e I d t h e n E l d e l i had a l s o been r e d u c e d t o a s t a r v i n g and d i s e a s e - r i d d e n h a n d f u l .

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I n 1938, I was a c h i l d i n N o r t h e r n Saskatchewan, a b o u t 90 m i l e s n o r t h e a s t Cop s a y s "We e x p e c t e d t h e y ' d go limp" o f P r i n c e A l b e r ~ . I t was t h e n t h a t Go l i m p , g e t d r a g g e d , g e t j a i l e d 'I t i m b e r wolves" began t o a p p e a r i n o u r Donf t p a s s go l i m p d i s t r i c t and t h e i r m o u r n f u l s o n g s Back l i m p back c o u l d s t i l l be h e a r d when I l e f t i n Where you came 1946. I t was o n l y when I f i r s t r e a d These a r e C a r n e g i e boys! Mowat's book t h a t I r e a l i z e d t h a t t h e Backbone f o r Anarchists white-inspired s l a u g h t e r of t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l unconvention B a r r e n Lands c a r i b o u had c a u s e d a Bloodied b a t t l i n g f a s c i s t Socreds m a s s i v e d i s l o c a t i o n o f p r e d a t o r popuC r e a t i n g i n d e p e n d e n t Downtown E a s t s i d e l a t i o n s over an unimaginable a r e a of S e l f - g o v e r n i n g , g o t no b o s s e s , n o r t h e r n Canada, a d i s l o c a t i o n t h a t Got n o money, pushed w o l v e s from f a r t h e r n o r t h i t t h a t way Keep dorm t o t h e v e r y f r i n g e s of c i v i l i z a t ion. Money buy b o s s e s , b o s s buy you Now t h e B a r r e n Lands and t h e i r bushy Money s u c k s f r i n g e s a r e a l l b u t empty o f c a r i b o u Sucks you i n and empty o f t h e t h o u s a n d s o f I n u i t Sucks you o u t and Chipewyan N a t i v e s who o n c e depenSuccess/~xcess/~aggage Of t h o s e c a r i b o u , ded on t h e " d e e r . " Down i t , d o n ' t l e t i t down you. o n l y b l e a c h i n g a n t l e r s remain. The T o r o n t o s a y : you want i t , c r a w l and p l e a d p e o p l e have l e f t l i t t l e e v i d e n c e o f C a r n e g i e s a y : s t a n d t a l l , s a y (woe-)man t h e i r thousands of y e a r s of l i f e You g o t t a b l e e d . b e f o r e t h e w h i t e men came. I r e f l e c t on t h i s g e n o c i d e - t h r o u g h C a p i t a l i s t r u l e s f o r power game Who s a y s we g o t t a p l a y ? g r e e d - and my q u e s t i o n i s t h i s : m here's c o n f u s i o n o v e r t e r m s h e r e Why was n o one hanged f o r what t h e y T h i r d World d e b t i s what d i d t o those people? The West must p a y More on t h e w h i t e man's a t r o c i t i e s Carnegie p o l i t i c a l i n s t i t u t i o n i n another issue. T h i r d World c o u n t r y C a l l e d Downtown E a s t s i d e . W e l f a r e o p i a t e of t h e masses. Hey, C a r n e g i e , why s o u n g r a t e f u l ? W e l e t you e x i s t i n o n e p i e c e , Why you p u t p i e c e s t o g e t h e r ? Take p r i d e i n f r e e t r a d e N u c l e a r ' s u b s - Wow! h i t e c h We s a v e d t h e c o n t i n e n t f r o m s a v a g e s Check o u t what we c a n d o f o r you

8 0 n e b i g Western l i n k - u p King and Bay, Wall and Broad, London, Tokyo, gay Pa-ree, Computer t e l l s t h e IMF How many w e must s t a r v e t o d a y To keep up GNP More y a - c h t s and j a g s f o r t h o s e who p l a y More b r a i n p o l i c e f o r you and me. B r o t h e r i n T 0 i n f o r m s me C i t y s t i l l g o t buzz on Healthy dose of anarchy I t e l l him ' b o u t b i g blow-up on my w a l l F r o n t page T o r o n t o Sun Rabid r i g h t - w i n g r a g "Demos Rock Metro" G l o r i o u s l y g a r i s h g r e e n and r e d C a r n e g i e boy b u r n s b l a c k f l a g of Anarchy ' c a u s e q u o t e "We d o n ' t b e l i e v e i n symbols," unquote. Wall b o a s t s two-page c e n t r e S p r e a d , 3-inch r e d l e t t e r s , " ~ a yof Anarchy" B i g g e r t h a n Blue J a y s Winning t h e p e n n a n t P h o t o c a p t i o n s : "Law and D i s o r d e r , Day of V i o l e n c e , S t r e e t B a t t l e s , Cops and R i o t e r s S l u g i t Out." Seven r e p o r t e r s , t h r e e Camermen, Five l a r g e photos S m a l l b u t amusing t e x t I c o u n t 16 armed u n i f o r m s Subduing 3 q u o t e "avowed a n a r c h i s t s i n f l a m e d a t downing o f I r a n i a n j e t by U.S. m i s s i l e s " u n q u o t e 290 d i e , women & c h i l d r e n , But t h e i r I r a n i a n s . We g o t t h r e a t t o p r o p e r t y h e r e A l l r e p o r t e r s on t h e j o b Covering h e r o e s on h o r s e b a c k Chasing t h e c r a z i e s Quote "unleashing t h e i r r a d i c a l chants: No KKK. No f a s c i s t U . S . A . No w a r . Smash t h e empire. Smash t h e s t a t e . T h i s t i m e we r e t a l i a t e . " u n q u o t e It's got a b e a t It's got a beat

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Keep i t c o m m e r c i a l , C a p i t a l i z e E a g l e w i l l come Pluck o u t t h e i r eyes Capitalize Capital eyes On Women Commodity o f p a r t s - D i s c o n n e c t e d We're n o t b u y i n g i t anymore Won't s e l l n o more No b u y e r s , n o s e l l e r s C l o s e down b u s i n e s s Share s t r u g g l e Take b a c k t h e f i g h t . Laughing o b s e r v e r q u o t e d : "This i s l i k e t h e 6 0 ' s Someone s h o u l d t e l l them The r e v o l u t i o n i s o v e r . " Here's a f l a s h , friend, Stay i n touch, It' s beginning, Watch u s grow T e l l them Carnegie s a i d h e l l o . mike kramer

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When I f i r s t began p a t r o n i z i n g t h e Carnegie Learning C e n t r e , I thought t h a t I would b r e e z e through my Grade 12 equivalency w i t h ease and comp l e t e i t a t t h e speed of l i g h t n i n g . But a f t e r p a s s i n g a G.E.D. test and p a r t i c i p a t i n g i n Mary Frances' Creat i v e W r i t i n g c l a s s , and f a i l i n g t o o b t a i n a good p e r c e n t a g e i n mathematics, I realized t h a t I ' d best follow t h e example of t h e r a c e between t h e t u r t l e and t h e r a b b i t , which proved t h a t t h e t u r t l e d i d win t h e r a c e a t a r e g u l a r pace; whereas t h e speedy r a b b i t l o s t t h e r a c e because he was t o o o v e r c o n f i d e n t . So, with t h e h e l p o f my t e a c h e r s a t t h e Carnegie Learning Centre and a t t h e Learning Front and t h e a s s i s t a n c e of my schoolmates, I ' l l r e a c h my g o a l s - even i f I go about i t i n t h e s t y l e of t h e t u r t l e who won t h e race. By Frank Hebert

Swinging For My L i f e You l e d m e a s t r a y , To be a l o n e w i t h you, And I found t h e g r a v i t y of t h e s i t u a t i o n where i t w a s Swinging f o r my l i f e . You h e l d m e c a p t i v e , To be your p e t , My d e s i r e f o r you Was my d e s i r e f o r l i f e , And I was swinging f o r my l i f e . I was l o s i n g a l l t h e t i m e , T i l l you h e l d me, I n your r e g a r d , I was swinging f o r my l i f e ! Dorin Hufnagel !

LORD, Thou knowest b e t t e r t h a n I know myself, t h a t I am growing o l d e r and w i l l someday be o l d . Keep m e from t h e f a t a l h a b i t of t h i n k i n g I must s a y something on every s u b j e c t , and on every occasion. Release me from c r a v i n g t o s t r a i g h t e n o u t everybody's a f f a i r s . Make m e t h o u g h t f u l but n o t moody, h e l p f u l but n o t bossy. With my v a s t s t o r e of wisdom i t seems a p i t y n o t t o use i t a l l , b u t Thou knowest Lord t h a t I want a few f r i e n d s a t t h e end. Keep my mind f r e e from t h e r e c i t a l of e n d l e s s d e t a i l s ; g i v e m e wings t o g e t t o the point. S e a l my l i p s on my a c h e s and p a i n s . They a r e i n c r e a s i n g , and l o v e of r e h e a r s i n g them i s becoming sweeter as t h e y e a r s go by. I d a r e n o t a s k f o r g r a c e enough t o enjoy t h e t a l e s of o t h e r s ' p a i n s , but h e l p m e t o endure them w i t h p a t i e n c e . I d a r e n o t a s k f o r improved memory, but f o r a growing h u m i l i t y , and a l e s s e n i n g cocksureness when my memory seems t o c l a s h w i t h t h e memories o f others. Teach me t h e g l o r i o u s l e s s o n t h a t o c c a s i o n a l l y I may be wrong. Keep me reasonably sweet. I do n o t want t o be a s a i n t - some of them a r e s o hard t o l i v e w i t h - b u t a sour o l d person i s one of t h e crowning works . of t h e Devil. Give me t h e a b i l i t y t o s e e good t h i n g s i n unaccepted persons and t a l e n t s i n t h e unexpected people. And g i v e m e 0 Lord, t h e g r a c e t o t e l l them so. Amen.

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POVERTY ASKS THAT ALL J O I N I N MARCHING. S t a r t i n g o u t s i d e MP P a t Carney's o f f i c e a t 1035 Howe a t Noon, we w i l l walk t o g e t h e r t o Claude ~ i c h m o n d ' s o f f i c e and then r a l l y i n Robson Square. C a l l 321-1201 f o r i n f o .

once a s h o t of r e a l joy a wind of e c s t a s y blew through m e t h e sky took o f f but remained where i t was & I l o s t o r d i n a r y consciousness a v e i l had l i f t e d a l l l i f e was a l i v e my s p i r i t was blinded & put down i t s eyes & t h e s e words jumped i n t o my head "the sky i s c l o s e r h e r e , less blockaded'' f i n a l l y I w a s given a t r u t h a paradox b r u t a l i z e d l a t e r by t h e knowledge t h a t I could n o t l i v e t h a t experience t h e r e was no p l a c e f o r i t u n l e s s my v i s i o n was organized & meaningless & on t h e h a s t i n g s exp r e s s t o n i g h t one d i r t y o l d drunk a s k s a n o t h e r "is i t gonna be d a r k very l o n g t o n i g h t ? " & t h e o t h e r one answers " i t i s f o r you" & cuba & I t a l k about t h o s e who have d i e d & a r e poorly mourned i n a drunken s l a u g h t e r house n o t i n s a c r e d understanding "you d o n ' t have any mopey l e f t eh? you g o t nowhere t o go" a woman t e l l s a man i n f r o n t of t h e r e g e n t a headl i n e s a y s " c h e a t e r s rampant i n s p o r t " l i k e c o u n t e r f e i t p r o d u c t s & underground empires & shadow governments

Yeah, i t h i n k i t ' s t r u e 'bout t h e s e money-grubbing, entreprenurial pigs, who view us f o l k a s a p i e c e o f meat t h a t moves t o do t h e i r god-damned bidding and make them p i l e s of money. J u s t t h e o t h e r day i ' m t a l k i n g t o this woman

t h a t o n l y one system t h e technologic a l makes p o s s i b l e & more than 30000 canadians have a l z h e i m e r ' s a d i s e a s e caused by aluminum & a c u t e movie about aluminum salesman i s p l a y i n g on t e e v e e & c a n c e r w i l l h i t one i n 3 & a r o b o t t a l k s t o t h e queen of england & i n a p r i l a mouse became t h e world's f i r s t p a t e n t e d animal a t r a n s g e n i c l i f e form oh p o e t s who w i l l s i n g & c e l e b r a t e a r t i f i c i a l l i f e i n an a r t i f i c i a l world t h e geep a c r o s s between a g o a t & a sheep a n animal never seen b e f o r e l i k e s e v e r a l thousands of brand-new p l a n t s & animals " t h e f u r t h e s t s t e p " a s c i e n t i s t s a y s "& one a l r e a d y worked-on i s t o create soc a l l e d d e s i g n e r genes chemical sequences designed t o do almost everything.. cuba & I walk i n t h e r a i n i n t h e e a r l y morning & watch t h e sky change c o l o r s & h e a r a thunder being booming i n t h e dawn of z e r o t o l e r a n c e & t h e sidewalk wears t h e human weather on powell street a pool of plum blossoms "you wanna buy a k n i f e ? "

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and s h e t e l l s m e h e r l i n e of work on a p r o d u c t i o n l i n e paying minimum wage being ordered around t o do o t h e r worker's jobs and how s h e q u i t w i t h good reason from mental confusion and d i s g u s t . p. imm

process. This attitude is healthy as the self-depracating aspect doesn't domClash is good! If everything is inate... it becomes quieter as psygoing well and there is no conflict chic power develops. Self-pity is an with co-workers or acquaintances or aspect of unit mind that can become those that each situation forces condangerously acute with repetition. tact with, how long can it go on Daily, in every waking moment, we before you freak out for lack of must strive to view all occurrences change or challenge? of physical and psychic clash as a Physical clash is the foundation means to strengthening our spiritual for evolution. Cosmic Mind crudified practice. into inorganic matter - unit mind Religions casual and religions inevolving from this state via physical tense are constantly at odds with one clash, psychic clash and attraction another as to who has the unique of the Great. Reaching the stage revelation and correct or "true1'Word. where a human vehicle is necessary Spirituality is the original and for further advancement, each entity true path of awakening, using "origipromotes its own acceleration towards nal and true" at their simplest. the Infinite with more subtle exMyths and legends from ancient times pressions of its nature. The linkage to the present try to explain what with Cosmic Mind stems from the first actually happened in ways that those ''1" in the sentence "I know that I hearing would understand. The mystery exist." This aspect of unit mind is religions on which Christianity was the dominant force governing the "1" based and from which most of its that does - that performs action. The legends were taken (Adam, Noah, Moses, doer-"I", in turn, rules the crudest Abraham, etc.) sufferred from the aspect of individual identity: the "I" stigma of all such discipline: they that receives the results of action were and are in the hands of selfthe common, conscious mind. To be o r d e r s/priests/rabbis/uma/ serving mobile and advance in psychic evoluministers whose chief concern was and tion is the permanent activity of is the continued subservience of all life, the fastest and most effective from whom independent thought has means being the Primary Clash! been snatched. Intuition is far stronger and truer Clash must be seen and dealt with than intellect, needs no indulgence on all levels, both inwardly and outin intellectual extravaganza for exwardly, with all people and ideas pression and correct action based on that ask to be bowed to in recognition its illumination never degenerates of their superiority. into tall talk. With unit mind evolvWelcome to the Monkey House. ing through the expressional stages of crude, subtle, subliminal, sublime By PAULR TAYLOR

l o v e w i t h a s c h o o l g i r l from t h e w h i t e s i d e o f t h e t r a c k s . Although t h e soundt r a c k i s n ' t bad, t h e r e have been b e t t e r f i l m s made i n t h i s genre. September 1 6 t h : SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977)*** D i r e c t e d by Hal Needham S t a r r i n g B u r t Reynolds, S a l l y F i e l d , J a c k i e Gleason, J e r r y Reed, P a u l W i l l i a m s and t h e b l a c k Trans-Am. F a s t paced comedy/chase f i l m , i n which a b o o t l e g g e r and h i s f r i e n d s t r y t o keep one s t e p ahead o f s o u t h e r n lawman Buford T. J u s t i c e . I d o n ' t know a b o u t you, b u t I ' m i n f a t u a t e d w i t h t h a t c a r .

b e a t about t h e BUSH l i k e aQUAYLE. Okay, i t i s s i c k p o l i t i c a l humor, b u t I c o u l d n ' t h e l p myself. Now l e t ' s t a k e a l o o k a t my thumb-nail reviews of t h e movies f o r September. They w i l l be shown e v e r y F r i d a y evening a t 7:00 pm i n t h e Carnegie T h e a t r e a t 401 Main S t r e e t . As u s u a l I have used t h e 4 - s t a r r a t i n g system as f o l l o w s : Excellent Good Fair Poor

September 23rd: NORTH SHORE (1987) D i r e c t e d by W i l l i a m P h e l p s S t a r r i n g Matt Adler, John P h i l b i n and Gregory H a r r i s o n . With h i s s u r f b o a r d and p r i z e money from a s u r f i n g c o m p e t i t i o n , an Arizona t e e n t r a v e l s t o Oahu and becomes invol v e d i n a c o n f l i c t between t h e young a g g r e s s i v e s u r f e r s and t h e o l d e r metaphysical "soul surfers". A s I haven't s e e n t h i s movie, I have l e f t i t n o t rated.

September 2nd : INTO THE NIGHT (1985)*** D i r e c t e d by John Landis S t a r r i n g J e f f Goldblum, M i c h e l l e P f e i f f e r , David Bowie and Richard Farnsworth. A b e a u t i f u l woman who i s b e i n g chased by k i l l e r s i s helped o u t by a n e r d . Cameo appearances by f i l m d i r e c t o r s abound, i n c l u d i n g Landis a s an I r a n i a n badguy. T h i s i s a w e l l made movie i n t h e f i l m - n o i r mold.

September 3 0 t h : COOGAN'S BLUFF (1968)*** D i r e c t e d by Don S i e g e l S t a r r i n g C l i n t Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan C l a r k and Don S t r o u d . An Arizona lawman t r a v e l s t o New York City t o help t h e a u t h o r i t i e s t h e r e pursue a wanted man. T h i s movie was t h e b a s i s f o r t h e t v series McCloud. When Clint gets together with director S i e g e l , y o s can always count on an e n t ertaining picture.

September 9 t h : WALK PROUD (1979)* D i r e c t e d by Robert C o l l i n s S t a r r i n g Robby Benson, S a r a h Holcomb, Pepe Serna and T r i n i d a d S i l v a . A c h i c a n o s t r e e t gang member f a l l s i n

COMING I N OCTOBER: E e r i n e s s abounds w i t h a werewolf on v a c a t i o n , Abbott and C o s t e l l o , F r a n k e n s t e i n , t h e Munsters and Halloween 11. So u n t i l n e x t month t h i s i s t h e Unknown C r i t i c w i s h i n g you a REEL good time a t t h e movies.

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The First United Church at Hastings and Gore is one place where residents of the Downtown Eastside community can go for Basic Literacy Instruction. Oppenheimer Park's hard-working This community program is jointly staff have asked for space to just sponsored by the First United Church & thank, publicly, the people who contributed funds to make a camping the Basic Education Department of Vancouver Community College, King Edward trip possible for their teens. Campus. Classes are taught by a quaIn no particular order... lified instructor and provide upgraFirst United Church ding in Reading, Writing and Math from King Kam's Kitchen grades 0 to 8. Beginning in September Uprising Breads classes will be offerred three afterSafeway (Broadway & Commercial) noons a week from 1:00 to 4:15. For Livingston Egg Co. students in need, Financial Assistance Seven-Eleven Stores is available. ' Woodward's For more information: Ray-Cam Community Centre Norine Mawer or Linda Stewart at First Carnegie Community Centre United Church - 681-8365 thanks

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D E R A is l o c a t e d at 9 E a s t H a s t i n g s o r p h o n e 682-0931. D E R A HAS B E E N S E R V I N G T H E DOWNTOWN E A S T S I D E FOR 1 5 YEARS

A t t h e Learning Centre of t h e Carnegie Community Centre a method of t u t o r i n g i s p r a c t i c e d t h a t works w i t h people known a s r e j e c t s o f our system: persons of p a r t i c u l a r backgrounds, s o c i a l c l a s s e s , r a c e s and r e l i g i o n s , who s l i p p e d through t h e maze of education. Most s t u d e n t s s u f f e r from profound f e e l i n g s of i n f e r i o r i t y because of imposed rest r i c t i o n s from former e d u c a t o r s , who t o l d them they were n o t c a p a b l e of l e a r n i n g . Socio-economic condit i o n s k e p t s t u d e n t s from understanding what was being l e a r n e d i n c l a s s ; they have been l a b e l l e d by p a r e n t s , family d o c t o r s , p s y c h o l o g i s t s and s c h o o l o f f i c i a l s a s having n e u r o t i c tendencies o r learning d i s a b i l i t a e s , such a s d y s l e x i a and b r a i n damage. The s t u d e n t a t Carnegie i s t h e r e f o r e encouraged t o make l e a r n i n g a persona l e v e n t , where t h e o r e t i c a l l e a r n i n g goes hand i n hand w i t h everyday l i v i n g , d i a l o g u e and c r i t i c a l t h i n k i n g . I n "Adult L i t e r a c y : Reading t h e Word and t h e World", Paulo F r e i r e d e s c r i b e s a p e a s a n t who h a s been shown a n image of a n I n d i a n h u n t i n g w i t h bow and arrow and a p e a s a n t , l i k e himself, a l s o hunting, with a r i f l e . The p e a s a n t comments t h a t t h e Indian cannot be i l l i t e r a t e because he l i v e s i n a c u l t u r e t h a t does n o t r e c o g n i z e l e t t e r s . To be i l l i t e r a t e you need t o l i v e where t h e r e a r e l e t t e r s and you d o n ' t know them. I n many c o u n t r i e s t h e r e a r e a number of people who a r e i l l i t e r a t e because they were k e p t from goi n g t o school. However, a t Carnegie our i l l i t e r a t e and f u n c t i o n a l l y illi t e r a t e l e a r n e r s d i d a t t e n d school once before. The s c h e d u l i n g , d i s c i -

p l i n e and day-to-day t a s k s r e q u i r e d from them g r a d u a l l y i n c i t e d enough r e b e l l i o u s n e s s on t h e p a r t of c h i l d r e n and a d o l e s c e n t s t o c a u s e them t o be e x p e l l e d , From s t u d e n t s who have o t h e r c u l t u r e s t h a n t h e dominant w h i t e one and who went through p a r t 06 t h e s c h o o l system, i t h a s become e v i d e n t t h a t t h e y r e a c t e d t o conditions t h a t negate t h e i r h i s t o r i e s , c u l t u r e s and e x p e r i e n c e s . The p r e s e n t system e n s u r e s t h a t some s t u d e n t s w i l l i n v a r i a b l y p a s s through s c h o o l and l e a v e a s i l l i t e r a t e s . A s our s t u d e n t s c o n t i n u e t o l e a r n , they begin t o understand t h e i r l i f e a s a t o t a l i t y and examine t h e i r exp e r i e n c e s i n a c r i t i c a l way: a s k i n g q u e s t i o n s about r e a d i n g , w r i t i n g and t h e almighty p r i n t e d word, which can be so intimidating t o the basic adult l e a r n e r . Sometimes, however, a d e s i r e f o r o l d l e a r n i n g h a b i t s from s c h o o l pop up. One s t u d e n t , f o r example, i n s i s t e d on having s o much homeowrk t h a t he could h a r d l y handle i t . Learni n g t o him meant s u f f e r i n g and when he s t a r t e d having f u n f i n d i n g o u t . f a c t s t h a t he i s r e a l l y i n t e r e s t e d i n , I a m s u r e t h a t a t t i m e s he f e l t pangs of g u i l t . It i s important f o r t h e l e a r n e r t o have a c o n t i n u a l l y a v a i l a b l e d i a l o g u e with t h e t u t o r . I n dialogue t h e t e a c h e r - l e a r n e r and l e a r n e r - t e a c h e r need t o i n t e r a c t i n o r d e r t o stimul a t e each o t h e r t o t h i n k and r e t h i n k , change and rechange. Discussions a l s o e n a b l e t u t o r s t o r e l e a r n what they thought t h e y knew about a n g e r , p a i n and f r u s t r a t i o n . Although he may be i l l i t e r a t e , t h e r e i s much power and beauty i n t h e way a s t u d e n t e x p r e s s e s h i m s e l f ; t h e r e f o r e i t can become very

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frustrating to a tutor when a student does not want to talk. Even though she fought her personal "come back" battle before she eneered the Learning Centre, one of our learners would be practically silent during the first few sessions. "What do you want me to do?" was the most she would ever say. Things changed after a trip to her childhood reserve near Winnipeg. She told her tutor about her experiences, which the tutor wrote down. Then she would read them back to her tutor. Since she was reading her own words, she developed a good feeling of being in charge of her own learning (a common practice at the Centre). From then on, a page or two was read during every session and the stories did not end with her trip. She went back to her childhood, which is wrapped in fear and hate, and the originally lifeless sessions turned into some emotional mornings, in turn silencing the tutor. It is easy for a trained tutor to choke the student with words, but the damage will be done; he won't be back. The tutor should create an atmosphere where the student can say, write and do what is real for them. Our learners are generally poor, sometimes bitter, scared and angry, and attitudes towards teachers and school are negative. His motivation is not to be taken for granted. A beginning tutor can have a job finding out what can be learned from the learner; how much does he know, how did he learn it, what are his living conditions, what is his language, accent, history, revelations and experiences. Our students - the dominated - teaching the tutors, silently by their example, their situation: not actors, but passing on live language. In a country with so many different cultures and dialects the domi-

nant system is designed to create inequality in social classes. Education does not shape society, but society shapes education according to the interests of those who are in power. Education has to be supervised because if it were left alone it would create problems for the authorities. However, the act of learning is an attitude toward the world, not a relationship of a reader to a book or text. The progressive teacher rejects the dominating values imposed on the school system because they see the need for programs that meet the needs of all learners. If the students life experiences, history and language are ignored, he will be unable to engage in critical thinking, i.e. organizing his findings with an increased understanding of their significance in the context of his life. If, on the other hand, the student's interest in everyday life is used for critical questioning and responding, motivation might move into the process of learning. By "liberating" the student, we are keeping a watchful eye on school and society: a political, pedagogical act by no means neutral. By WILHEIMINA MUNRO

Blow Me Down, 1'm A Feather I'm wasted away, I've proven myself over and over again For you to come back, And you can blow me down Because I'm a feather. The wind's tried me, And the rain found me innocent, You gave me my freedom But now I don't belong, And you can blow me down Because I'm a feather. Dorin

The Big Wallet Party struck again, backed up by the Big Wallet Gang. All they wanted was housing regardless of the quality of life and the cost of wasting Green space. but what about the Fine. Dandy viable alternatives - are they looked at? Of course not, since the Big Wallet Party was already told to go +# for the Big Wallet Gang's deal. All that involved was dismissal of any commitment to the D.E. Face it: the Big Wallet Party and the Big Wallet Gang just don't care about anyone but themselves, but then again, they don't even like each other. Crassly yours, Captain Chaos

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What is a FRIEND A FRIEND is someone who cares A FRIEND is someone who lends an ear or a shoulder to cry on

A F~IEND is someone who's there when you need them Let it be any given time of the day.

hat's what a true Friend is. Margaret Prevost

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What happened t o G o d z i l l a , t h e monster who t r a s h e d Tokyo & s t a r r e d i n 16 movies, should be a l e s s o n t o u s a l l . . . He was born o u t of t h e Japanese e x p e r i e n c e of Hiroshima & Nagasaki o r i g i n a l name was "Go jura" , which means "Gorilla-whale"

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The s t o r y of h i s b i r t h , c r e a t e d on f i l m 30 y e a r s ago by Tokyo s t u d i o s , included d i a l o g u e about r a d i o a c t i v e r a i n , mass e v a c u a t i o n , r a d i a t i o n s i c k n e s s , b i r t h d e f e c t s , & c h o i r s of Japanese c h i l d r e n s i n g i n g about World Peace.

H e was awakened from a m i l l i o n y e a r s l e e p by t h e f i r s t n u c l e a r b l a s t & r o s e o u t of t h e ocean a s "The t e r r i b l e c r e a t u r e of t h e hydrogen bomb." I n h i s f i r s t s t a r r i n g r o l e , Gojura symbolized t h e growing power of n u c l e a r d e s t r u c t i o n unleashed by U.S. m i l i t a r y commanders a t Hiroshima & Nagasaki then Gojura went t o Hollywood

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Kidnapped by American f i l m producers who c u t & dubbed h i s o r i g i n a l image and changed h i s name t o "Godzilla" - Gojura was removed from t h e a n t i n u c l e a r h o r r o r s & sympathies of h i s b i r t h .

I n h i s f i r s t Hollywood f i l m , he was c a s t o p p o s i t e Raymond Burr & dubbed "King of t h e Monsters

I n t h e west Gojura became j u s t a n o t h e r monster b a t t l i n g e x t r a t e r r e s t r i a l i n v a d e r s , g i a n t cockroaches, dragons with chainsaws, mechanical d u p l i c a t e s , smog monsters, g i a n t h o r n e t s , & f i n a l l y - King Kong h i m s e l f .

The Japanese of c o u r s e made t h e i r own v e r s i o n s - & i n h i s f i n a l b a t t l e w i t h t h e g i a n t a p e , Tokyo s t u d i o s made Gojura t h e winner, w h i l e i n t h e western v e r s i o n King Kong triumphed over Godzilla. A s an e x p r e s s i o n of a n t i - n u c l e a r h o r r o r , Gojura never got h i s message a c r o s s .

Like a l l i n s p i r e d c r e a t i o n s of t h e imagination, he was turned i n t o a spectac u l a r money-making promotion by c a p i t a l i s m - & h i s embarassing p a c i f i s t message was b u r i e d under a mountain of Box O f f i c e r e c e i p t s t h a t made m i l l i o n a i r e s o u t of a few f a s t o p p o r t u n i s t s . Though G o d z i l l a may be l i v i n g i n decadent luxury i n L.A. o r New York, II Gojura" i s s t i l l o u t t h e r e , growing l a r g e r , more dangerous & d e c e i t f u l every day - sneaking i n t o t h e world's c i t i e s under t h e cover of h i - t e c h s e c u r i t y - l e a r n i n g computer language - w a i t i n g f o r t h e f a t a l mistake t h a t w i l l one day g i v e him t h e power t o d e s t r o y t h o s e who c r e a t e d him. TORA

Here's a s h o r t s t o r y of t h e p l a c e I l i v e a t . Our b u i l d i n g ' s owner decided s h e wanted t o s e l l , s o s h e d i d . As of August 1st w e were informed of a t r a n s f e r of ownership t o a couple of l a d i e s from t h e o l d country. Fine and Dandy, n o t h i n g t o worry about. As u s u a l , t o pay my r e n t f o r August I had ambled up t h e t h r e e f l i g h t s of wooden stairs t o t h e t h i r d f l o o r t o our owner/managerts o f f i c e . I was g r e e t e d t h e r e by h e r s m i l i n g , happygo-lucky demeanor and a very p l e a s a n t "Hello P e t e r . " I had my bank-draft f o r t h e couple of hundred d o l l a r s t o cover t h e r e n t f o r t h e month. I handed t h i s t o h e r and s h e , i n r e t u r n , c a s u a l l y handed over t o m e a l e g a l s i z e paper w i t h t h e heading a t t h e t o p of t h e page i n bold c a p i t a l l e t t e r s , "TENANT ESTOPPEL AGREEMENT. " Believe me d e a r r e a d e r , I d i d n o t have t h e f a i n t e s t c l u e a s t o what t h e h e l l t h i s s o r t o f agreement is. She asked m e t o s i g n t h i s form. " W e l l , s o r r y , " i s a i d , b u t , "i d o n ' t know what t h i s i s about. P l e a s e s l i p me a copy under my door. I ' l l have some l e g a l person o r someone e l s e check i t out." That was t h a t . S e v e r a l weeks l a t e r i had t h e copy i sought. And b r o t h e r was i p i s s e d o f f . There a t item- s i x of t h i s agreement was t h e following:

"I ( t h e t e n a n t ) a m s a t i s f i e d w i t h ' t h e s t a t e of r e p a i r of t h e Premises and t h e Landlord h a s given no promise o r committments t o r e p a i r , a l t e r , improve o r o t h e r w i s e expend money on t h e B u i l d i n g o r on t h e Premises." I thought t o myself " t h i s i s a c r a z y agreement," and i went ahead t o g e t some s o l i d a d v i c e . I c a l l e d up t h e r e s i d e n t i a l tenancy a c t people, who m a i n t a i n a n o f f i c e i e x p l a i n e d some of t h e i n town. i t e m s on t h e agreement, s e e k i n g answers t h a t were b l u n t and d i r e c t . The woman i t a l k e d w i t h s t a t e d , "Do n o t s i g n t h i s agreement," and s h e went on t o e x p l a i n f u r t h e r t h a t no landl o r d can r e n t o u t t o t e n a n t s and t h e n expect t h e t e n a n t t o a g r e e t o having no maintenance done t o t h e b u i l d i n g . This v i o l a t e d p r o v i n c i a l r e g s . She s t a t e d a g a i n e m p h a t i c a l l y , "Do n o t sign." I thanked h e r and hung up. I went t o a t e n a n t a c t i o n group f o r a second o p i n i o n . The man behind t h e desk, a f t e r l o o k i n g a t t h i s agreement, s a i d t h a t he had never seen a n y t h i n g l i k e i t b e f o r e and t h a t t e n a n t s cann o t a g r e e t o having t h e i r r i g h t s taken away, which was i n e f f e c t t h e i n t e n t of t h i s paper. H e s a i d t h a t p r o v i n c i a l r e g s o v e r r i d e t h i s agreement. So, a s of t h i s w r i t i n g , I have not signed It was mis-represented t o m e t h a t t h i s agreement was o n l y t o confirm my r e n t and s e c u r i t y d e p o s i t money.

DOWNTOWN

By PETER IMM

ARE YOU READY TO MEET GOD? NEW TESTAMENT REVELATIONS: One n i g h t God appeared t o Jimmy Swaggart A s a s i n g l e mother l e s b i a n hooker I n a New Orleans motel Jimmy d i d n ' t r e c o g n i z e h e r God d i d n ' t s a y much Jimmy was j u s t a n o t h e r john t o h e r Jimmy thought God was poor w h i t e t r a s h God thought Jimmy was a j e r k But s h e knew he had a m i l l i o n d o l l a r s Stashed away i n some p r a y e r tower t h e r e & God wanted t o buy a good t i m e f o r t h e k i d s Jimmy knew he was a s i n n e r , Dear Lord H e s t r i p p e d a few b i l l s o f f h i s b a n k r o l l & God p u t h e r h i g h h e e l s on God knew what Jimmy wanted She knew what t h e world w a s l i k e God was a v e r y sad g i r l . God gave Jimmy what he hoped & prayed f o r & paid f o r Money was n o t h i n g t o Jimmy H e could h u s t l e a m i l l i o n bucks i n t h e m a i With one s h o r t sermon on how God s a y s dancing i s a s i n No wonder he d i d n ' t r e c o g n i z e h e r She was a c u t e k i d , a sex kitten, A snake w i t h l e s b i a n s i n g l e mother b r e a s t s Coiled round t h e Tree of Knowledge She was Jimmy Swaggart's Mama Moving h e r h i p s t o t h e b l a c k man's music God was a b e l l y dancer w i t c h i n g a w e l l i n t k She was a f o x , a w o l f , a p a n t h e r Moses h e l d up h i s b r a s s s e r p e n t The Red Sea p a r t e d The l e s b i a n s i n g l e mother of God Appeared a s a voodoo witch on t e l e v i s i o n Confessing Jimmy's s i n s t o t h e world. & God gave Jimmy Swaggart a new image closer to the truth. TORA

TO the Director of the Stanley Park Aquarium

Bars do not a prison make. The killer-whales at Stanley Park they get to are magnificent but swim around and around and around... They communicate with each other and possibly, according to the latest Star Trek movie, with other intelligences. It's really sad that they have nothing to do; they must be bored stiff. I'd like to suggest that they be given "day-passes" - with clearly defined rules like time of return, company not to be seen in, not eatin in restricted areas, etc., and only once a week until they have proven themselves both responsible and conscientious. And NO EXCURSIONS OUTSIDE THE 200-mile LIMIT!!!

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Respectfully submitted PaulR Taylor. Vancouver Sun Province Carnegie Newsletter

there are realms where angels do not bend to curse the calloused air and there is creation but no art for art is the dismembered corpse of the life we do not live but I do not this day know where my unanswered soul goes to find its peace when these storms in the blood rage high tides in the brain Cuba Dyer

Calm Oceans Calm oceans beckon to ma as undecided tides leave me highldry on the shores of Vancouver's reality.

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Wandering about closing in on me

No place to run Down here in the eastside no place to hide Past hookers on sidewalks of little hope on past winos in doorways of cornered churches Stained glass eyes from bar doors selling life in bottomless glasses of tranquility Dealers offer illusionary relief from the fires of hell stoked in my mind Down streets of despair on past Dark alleys full of lost dreams Nightmares of tomorrow And yet Calm oceans beckon to me C.L. Eckert

Desert Culture for Marian L. Vaughn Culture borne thought crucifies contexts to no god's purpose; words flailing-hollowed clonkings, drown ineffable truths lost arriving at junctures purposes were once presumed to have been wrought eternal at least for a while. Inertia continues clinging ghostly motions to acts giving culture its due, bought by the weight of its mass at expense no longer imagined by the units weighted down t~ the gravity of the situation. Linguistics looms large on self-severed horizons for (wrong) reasons ground into the syntax of meaning linguists are so proud of expounding to prouder self-righteous ears hanging on every word too intently to notice taut hungers secretly strangling Subterranean hope digs under the surfaces cramming attention wordless. therefore pure the root recognitions spring from for any accidental thirsters who still know how to praise the rain beccause contexts borrow their form from the cactus

JUSTINE IIUNTER lkvelopment plans for the Expo lands will crc.it-. an elitist h m o for yuppies while ghettoizing !!I& mothcrs, Vancouver city council was told I'~iwtlaynight. Vorc than 40 clclegations addressctl council G! nth concerns n1)out the environmental si+ktyof i!r site, tlle ratio of social housing to up-scale I.-comoclntion,and the preservation ofan acccssI I J !waterfroot. ~ 'The 4%-hour nlceting brought out few pcople i it Civor of the development, but a spokesman for !iie Concord Pacific development later brushed (.il'the complaints. "A lot of the concerns I heard have already ~ ~ ~ Ytaken I I into account," said Stanely Kwok, rlii &or of the lands purchased by Hong Kong !It>vcloperLi Ka-shing. "\Ye are talking now about a concept, not the ;;!:!IIitsrlt:" he said. Ile said he is confident the plan for a series of 1il:ioonson tlic north side of False Creck will be : c ~ c p t . ~indprinciple by council, which will {!l.I)atethe issue next Tuesday. 'I'lic c.llrrentproposal calls for a series o f canals 111 ollsct the higher rcsidential densi tics C'cmcord I';tc%ic hopes to build, by separating clr~sttlrsof !~o!~sing on islands between the Canibie and !~ranvillestreet bridges. 'I'hc B.C. Women's Housing Coalition said the pI:!n, which calls for 20 per cent low-income h : ~ u s i n gi n the development housing, docs not l i ~ wenough opportunity for single mothers. Spokesman Marlene Healy told council a minim u m or half the dwelling units should he alloI .:!ctl lo low4ntome households, and halfofttiosc :!:wlct aliow children.

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e t r u n d l e d into the heart of Vancouver. Like the original Trojan Horse, the False Creek North package is rumored to be MI of dazzling prizes.?

- Georgia Marshall

Many dclcgatcs expressed concern ict~outt h t ~ safety of thc site, which is conlaminatcd with toxins from previous industries along the waterfront. Jim O'Donncll, chairman ofthe Vancouvtlr and District Labor Council, told council the city should introdrrw strict guidelines for the protcction of construction workers from loxins. The clean-up of the site is thc provincial government's rcsponsibilily. Including interest payments, Concord 1'acili.r is lo pay $320 million over 15 Scars for the sitc. Jim Green. spokesman for the L)ountcrwri Eastside Kesidcnts' Association, criticizrtl tile amount of pul)lic- input into the duvclopment. saying "it's insulting to be told we h a w fi\,c minutes to have input inlo this prqiect." Georgia Ma~~shall for the First United Church also complained about the degree of public participation. "A Trojan Horse has been trr~ndledinto thc heart of Vancouver. Like the ori,cin;~l'I'roj:in Horse, the False Creek North package is rumored to be full of dazzling prizes," she said. "Lack of specifics about these 'rewards' worries those of us unable, or unwilling, to make all act of faith in the wisdom of unknown arid unaccountable planners speculating on the future of our city."

Love Poem from the Volunteer

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In Howe Street, the big talk is of tax reform and free trade. Here among the lesser angels of U.I.C. and welfare cut-offs you wander, your shopping bag of small talk over your arm. The language is the corn on your tongue that stabs with each "Nay Ho Mah."* . * "How are you?" (Chinese) You will never be one of them yet you are: contradiction they've grown used to, familiar in your height and your accent as some piece of flotsam washed up on East Hastings that they now take in stride. In the grocery stores, you speak and Chinese sub-titles flash in their eyes. They hand you the vanilla bean you didn't know you'd asked for. For the thirty-third time you accept the marriage proposal of the spaced-out supplicant at Hastings and Heatley, and go home to tea, to the public intimacies of the lavatory next to your room. The landlady exquisitely draughts her niece's hysterectomy. It is confirmation: grace of a sort and you stir it in with the sugar, with the vanilla bean, with the slow sip of an afternoon off wreathing lucent perspectives between your fingers, and suddenly your world is rich and the first star blooming at your window is reachable and lovely, is a branch budding as your time here is, as these Downtown Eastsiders are in their singular shining. Jancis M. Andrews

The Welfare Recipient Walks Around His Winebottle

Jancis M. Andrews A random process of slow turmoil created an atmosphere hospitable to life: one small spark begat this earth. A random process begat also his consciousness of that slim bottle: his lonely nights and days evolving into this. He circles in slow turmoil, afraid the bottle is the sun, and he, a small, trapped planet, fleeing to the farthest reaches of his aphelion only to return, magnetized by its lucent element or maybe he is the stereotypical moth: sucked in from a long dark for one last fling with light, though he surely must know that random radiation kills.

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On Sunday, J u l y 3 1 s t , R a j a E n t e r t a i n e r s were a t t h e Queen E l i z a b e t h T h e a t r e . T l ~ ea u d i e n c e a p p a r e n t l y was overwhelmingly E a s t I n d i a n . The show was s c h e d u l e d t o s t a r t a t 6:30. By 7:30, when I happened on t h e s c e n e , t h e r e had r e p o r t e d 1 y been a s many a s f i v e paddy wagons of p e o p l e t a k e n away, a n o t h e r wagon was w a i t i n g o u t d i s e t h e t h e a t r e doors, about a h a l f dozen policemen were p a c i n g t h e e n t r ance f i n g e r i n g t h e i r s t i c k s and seve r a l red-jacketcd t h e a t r e s e c u r i t y g u a r d s were e x c h a n g i n g " i n s i d e 1 ' j o k e s 3s t h e y e s c o r t e d a n o t h e r two o r t h r e e p e o p l e t o t h e p o l i c e and t h e wagon. What seemed t o b e most d i s t u r b i n g $ 1 was ~ the f a c t t h a t , apparently, i n a d d i t i o n t o t h o s e t a k e n away, a l o t of p e o p l e were s i m p l y "arm-wrestled" from t h e t h e a t r e a n d , i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h t h e a t r e p o l i c y , g r a n t e d no r e f u n d o r exchange. I went w i t h two p e o p l e w i t h t i c k e t s (which I s t i l l have) t o e n q u i r e as t o t h e i r s t a t u s . A s I approached t h e entrance ( t h e t i c k e t h o l d e r s behind me), a policeman p a r t i a l l y b l o c k e d my p a t h , s h o u t i n g "Hey!" On s p e a k i n g t o one of. t h e s e c u r i t y g u a r d s , t h e g u a r d s h o u t e d , "Those t i c k e t s a r e no damn good." The t i c k e t owners s a i d t h e t i c k e t s were i n f a c t s t u b s g i v e n b a c k t o them on b e i n g o r i g i n a l l y a d m i t t e d . The guard s h o u t e d f u r t h e r , "Well, i f t h e y were thrown o u t whatever t h a t ' s i t ! ; r e a d t h e r u l e s on t h e back of t h e t i c k e t ! " and walked away. The r u l e s make r e f e r e n c e t o d r u g s , a l c o h o l and o t h e r i t e m s n o t a l l o w e d on t h e p r e m i s e s . The p a r t i c u l a r t i c k e t owners I was d e a l i n g with d i d not smell of a l c o h o l o r look stoned o r whatever. I asked f o r t h e manager and a n o t h e r g u a r d , mentioned John Dyck. M r . Dyck, D i r e c t o r o f C i v i c T h e a t r e s t a t e d t h a t a b o u t 300 p e o p l e had

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a p p a r e n t l y been i n v o l v e d i n s u c h irr e g u l a r i t i e s a s s i t t i n g i n higherpriced s c a t s while possessing only M r . Dyck was lower-priced t i c k e t s . q u i c k t o a g r e e w i t h me, however, t h a t t h i s d i d not j u s t i f y coercive and/or M r . Dyck was arbitrary ejection. p o l i t e , a t t e n t i v e and h a s now i n v i t e d me t o a d d r e s s t h e Board m e e t i n g a t 12:30 on S(xpteniber 8 t h . N o w sonwone a t C a r n e g i e spoke L O rncl of t h e " b o u n d a r i e s " of t h e Downtown E a s t s i d e n o t i n c l u d i n g t h e Q.E. Theat r e . What t h e n i s t h e c o n c e p t of I I community'' ? We s h o u l d b e o u t working t h e comnlu n i t y ; i . e . on t h e b e a t i n s t e a d o f h i d i n g behind p e n c i l and p a p e r b e i n g exposed t o t h e immediacy of problems - l i k e t h e b u r c a u c r a c i e s o f government Si b u s i n e s s . Community g r o u p s , one t h i n k s , are supposed t o he an ' a l t e r n a t i v e ' .

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c o n t . from page 4 . FALSE CREEK S i n c e J a n u a r y t h e C i t y h a s been holding S p e c i a l Council Meetings t o revamp p o l i c y on t h e u s e o f t h i s a r e a . Since January, people have expressed a growing a n x i e t y a b o u t n o t b e i n g allowed i n p u t . The " p r o c e s s " was t o have a l l t h e e x p e r t s and p o l i t i c i a n s t o make up t h e i r minds and t h e n t o The r e s u l t : 150 a s k John Q. P u b l i c . pages of p o l i c y t h a t e v e r y p e r s o n / group g e t s e x a c t l y f i v e m i n u t e s t o r e s p o n d t o ; a s i n "What p a r a g r a p h / s e n t e n c e l w o r d d o n ' t you l i k e ? ! " What t h e y ' r e s a y i n g i s t h a t o n l y experts-professionals-politically " r i g h t " p e o p l e know what t o d o , s o i f you d o n ' t h a v e t h e p a p e r s t o p r o v e i t you o b v i o u s l y have n o t h i n g t o o f f e r . (And i f you d o h a v e p a p e r s / d e g r e e s / p u l l you b e t t e r b e aware t h a t a n economic c o l d s h o u l d e r a w a i t s you i f you open y o u r mouth.) STRATHCONA GARDENS "DEMOCRACY BY EXHAUSTION." The meeti n g l a s t e d u n t i l 3 a.m.; o v e r 25 p e o p l e l e f t i n d i s g u s t t o honour o t h e r commitments ( f a m i l y , s l e e p , e t c . ) w h i l e t h e m a j o r i t y v o t e d n o t t o adj o u r n and n o t t o l o o k a t any a l t e r natives. Council took p a i n s t o p o i n t o u t t h a t they a r e well-paid t o (appear t o ) l i s t e n - b u t d e c i s i o n was w r i t t e n on t h e f a c e s o f most l o n g b e f o r e a l l had spoken. The f a r c e was when t h o s e v o t i n g f o r t h e r e - z o n i n g gave r e a s o n s , t h e y ' r e w.6rds were aimed a t t h e p o l i t i c a l mileage a v a i l a b l e . A l l t h e heartw r e n c h i n g and e l o q u e n t words t h a t poured from t h o s e s u p p o r t i n g t h e Gardens as a v i t a l , "magical" e n t i t y were d i s m i s s e d a s e m o t i o n a l . Owen s p o k e o f f a c t s , meaning where t h e money(oops, where t h e m o r a l o b l i g a t i o n ) l a y , as b a c k i u g t h e m a r g i n a l a c c e p t i b i l i t y o f h o u s l n g and P u i l

t r i e d t o c o r r e c t h i s recent blunder of 'ESL ( E n g l i s h a s a Second Language) l o w e r i n g t h e q u a l i t y o f eduTo c a t i o n i n West End s c h o o l s . ' b l u n t any p e r c e p t i o n o f him b e i n g a n o v e r t r a c i s t , h e spoke of a "vision" h e ' d had y e a r s ago of a m u l t i - r a c i a l c i t y . R h e t o r i c a l garbage; n o t t h e c o n c e p t b u t t h e e s p o u s e r ' s psyche. - " B e t t e r i f 50 had l e f t " - Baker a f t e r l e a r n i n g 26 p e o p l e had gone. - "No more h o u s i n g a r o u n d highnoise areas" - P u i l before being t o l d 73 times about t h e t r a i n s , f i r e h a l l - "I e a t a t P e t e r T s e u n g ' s r e s t a u r a n t a l l t h e t i m e ; what c a n I do?" Owen a b o u t t h e P r e s . of Freemasons - "This i s n o t t h e time f o r an int e r v i e w " - Campbell when E r i c k s o n wanted i n f o a b o u t DERA's o f f e r of a n alternative s i t e - "I l o v e g a r d e n i n g " - T a y l o r b e f o r e v o t i n g t o k i l l t h e Garden dream. A l l i n a l l , the p o l i t i c a l process i s now a b u r e a u t i c game whose m a j o r p l a y e r s a r e ignoring and/or dismissi n g v a l i d a l t e r n a t i v e s because they d o n ' t a l i g n w i t h t h e i r backroom d e a l s . For t h e NPA i t ' s money and ' power - f i r s t , l a s t and a l w a y s . It's t o o bad wisdom and r e s p e c t a r e a c q u i r ed i n t a n g i b l e s - l a c k i n g i n e i t h e r makes t h i s c o u n c i l m a j o r i t y spiritually rhetorical. By PAULR

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Over 600 p e o p l e a t t e n d e d a zoning h e a r i n g a t t h c S t r s t h c o n a C o m u n i t y C e n t r e Thursday n i g h t . The s u b j e c t o f t h e c o n t r o v e r s y was' whether o r n o t t h e Chinese Freemasons Soci c t y c o u l d have one a c r e of t h e S t r a t h c o n a Community Gardens rezoned i n o r d e r t o b u i l d 31 u n i t s of S e n i o r s Housing or whether t h c Community Gardens would b e allowed t o grow and f 1 . ~ 1 1 r i ~ h . f ' n s u r e t h a t most p e o p l e i n t h e Downtown CastsLdc and S t r a t h c o n a a r e f a m i l i a r w i t h t h i s isave a s i t h a s been v e r y w e l l p u b l i c i z e d o v e r t h e summer m m t h s , nncl t h e garITS kavc f?cef.::~ massive c o r n u n i t y s u p p o r t t o c o n t i n u e d e v e l o p i n g i n t h e p r e s e n t form. 7 Lc nrw dcvclnpnent i n t h i s c ; t r q g ? e happenrd a ~ c e kb e f o r e t h e zoning h c - l r i n g . DERA came f o r t h and uiferecl t h e Chinese Freemasons one of I)EFA'S a c t i v e sites f o r housing i f they wom~ldnct b u j l d on t h e Gardens. Tile Freemasons, f o r r e a s o n s unknown, r e f u s e d t o dlsccns t h i s d l r e c t l y w i t h J i m Green s o t h c r e s t of u s t r i e d t o r e a c h t h e Aldermen, t!ic Elsv;r, C i t y P l a n n e r s end anyone else who could h e l p s o l v e t h i s c o n f l i c t i n a c o n s t r u c tive c n n c : . It d i d n ' t work. The Nayor (de.<pice !I:.. writ inued statements: t h a t hc wishes 1-0 h e a r from t h e people) was u n r e a c h a b l e ; t h e r e s t of t h e Aldermen s a i d t h a t t h e y c o u l d n ' t he iobbfcd b e f o r e t h e z o n i n g h e a r i n g . Alds. Carol Tzylc-: and Helen Boyce s a i d , " b r f n e i t t o t h e zoning h e a r i n g , t h i s is t h e p l a c e t o dlficrine i t . " T h i s b r i n g s u s t o t h e b i g g e s t t h e zoning h e a r i n g . farce

The hcoririfi d i d n ' t s t a r t u n t i l a f t e r 9 p.m., bccausc Council, i n i t ' s wisdom, d e c i d e d t h a t 600 people should s i t and w a l t u n t i l t h e two o t h e r i t e m s were d e a l t w i t h f i r s t . They had o r i g i n a l l y been scheduled t o go a f t e r t h e Gardens i s s u e . Once we s t a r t e d it W ~ Sc l e a r t h a t i t would n o t g e t through t h a t n i g h t a s almost 100 peop l e had signed up f o r speaking. S p e a k e r s , a s w e l l a s Aldermen Daviee and E r i c k s o n a l l asked t h e %yor r e p e a t e d l y , a f t e r t h e c l o c k p a s s e d midnight, t o a d j o u r n f o r t h e e v e n i n g and res c h e d u l e a n o t h e r n i g h t s o we c o u l d c o n t i n u e w i t h a l l who wished t o a t t e n d . The Mayor r e f u s e d and made c l e a r t h a t t h i s i s s u e wocld b e ramrodded right through t o n i g h t n o m a t t e r hov

The politics of Scam artists l o n g i t would take. I n f a c t C i t y C o u n c i l made t h e i r d e c i s i o n a t 3 : 1 5 a.m. T h i s i s supposcd t o be democracy! Over 26 s p e a k e r s l e f t b e f o r e t h e i r t u r n came up. I knot t h e overwhelming number o f them were p r o t h e Gardens. I n f a c t , 80% o f t h e s p e a k e r s spoke i r favour of n o t b u i l d i n g on t h i s l a n d and asked Council t o t a k e a c t i o n on t h e DEW o f f e r . Gues: what C o u n c i l ' s d e c i s i o n was? No s u r p r i s e : the: v o t e d t o p u t housing on t h e C o m u n i t y Gardens! lJhy they asked p e o p l e t o go through t h i s f a r c e i s n o t c l e a r . They d i d n ' t pay a t t e n t i o n t o a n y t h i n g s a i d by anyone who was n o t i n f a v o u r of the rezoning. Alderman P r i c e , a t 3 a.m., t r i e d t o g e t Counc i l t o a g r e e t o look i n t o o t h e r s i t e s i n c l u d i n l t h e DERA s i t e . They a l l v o t e d a g a i n s t even t h i s minor a t t e m p t t o work o u t a compromise. Alderman T a y l o r , who s a i d s h e f e l t f o r t h e g a r d e n e r s , v o t e d a g a i n s t t h i s and s a i d t h e F r e masons d o n ' t want t o b u i l d h e r e s o what c o u l d her or the s h e do? Who i s t h e alderman h e r e Freemasons?! I t was c r y s t a l c l e a r t o a l l o f u s t h a t t h i s c o u n c i l , w i t h a few e x c e p t i o n s , h a s n o t h i n g bu ccntsmpt f o r t h i s neighbourhood and most o f t h p e o p l e who l i v e h e r e . They do n o t c a r e t h a t t h o s e who have b a b y s i t t e r s must go home and bc s i l e n c e d ; i f you g e t up f o r work i n t h e mornir tough; i f you arc and have t o s l e e p a t n i g h t tough. e l d e r l y and c a n ' t s t a y up t o 3 a.m. What t h e g a r d e n s w i l l d o now c a n n o t r e a l l y bc decided u n t i l we s i t down a t o u r r e g u l a r meeting on Tuesday, Sept 6. But i t i s p o s s i b : we w i l l be c a l l i n g once a g a i n f o r t h a t wonder: mzssivc s u p p o r t t h a t everyone i n t h i s cornmunil gave u s Thursday n i g h t .

(Text) by MUGGS SIGURGEIRSON The - - - - h e a d l i n e is b a s i c a l l y c o r r e c t . We follow t h e process, t r e a t o t h e r s f a i r l y , and g e t kicked on t h e b l i n d s i d e through backroom d e a l s , greed, p o l i t i c a l f e a r and p l a n s t h a t we . "inconvenience1' - massive developmerit s t r e a m l i n e d by removing t h e o p p o s i t i o n . No vote-no say=no win. Editor.

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