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Jean Swanson Receives The Arthur Kroeger Col· lege Award For Citizenship and Community Affairs This is one of the five awards that make up the Arthur Kroeger College A wards for Public Affairs.

These awards are designed to recognize individuals and organizations who, by their contributions to public life, have made Canada a better place to live in.

This important A ward recognizes the perseverance, commitment, caring and vision shown by Jean in her thirty-three years of work to build a fair, democratic society in Canada. Jean has never given up, and she is in the fight for justice for the long haul.

Jean worked with D ERA in the 1970's, along with Libby Davies and Bruce Eriksen. She helped to save the old Carnegie Library for the neighbourhood, turning it into the Carnegie Community Centre. In the early 1980's she worked with the B.C. Solidarity Coalition, and in 1985 she was one of the founders and a worker with the End Legislated Poverty Coalition (ELP). Jean worked with ELP for over fifteen years. In 1995-96, Jean was the president of the National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO), and in 2001 she published her book "Poor-BashingThe Politics ofExclusion." This powerful book on poverty has gone through fi ve printings, and is used in universities across Canada. All royalties from the book have been donated to anti-poverty groups across the country. Jean is retired now, but she vo lunteers as co-ordinator with the Carnegie Community Action Project, and she is a founder of the Raise the Rates Coalition which works to raise welfare rates, raise minimum wage, abolish the barriers to getting welfare, and wants a $500 earning exemption for everyone.

At the end of her book "Poor-Bashing - The Politics ofExclusion", Jean wrote, " I believe that we can use the strength and inte lligence of people who are poor, the understanding that people who are poor have of what's really importa_nt in life to build power with, not over, all oppressed people. An understanding of poor-bashing, racism, and sexism can help unite Canadians with others concerned about the environment, peace, workers' rights, and social and economic justice into a huge solidarity movement.

Eventually, we will build a world in which every-

one's needs are met, and in which the systems and structures we set up are based on co-<>peration and human caring, not competition and greed."

This vision can inspire all of us. Congratulations, Jean, on receiving the Citizenship and Community Affairs Award from the Arthur Kroeger College.

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Harm Reduction Conference My name is Jewel. I'm here as part of the SCORE project (Safer Crack use, Research an~ ~ducation).

I think that it is very important to be gtvmg out and to have 'Safer' Crack Kits available to everyone who wants them.

In an idealistic, perfect world the only 100% safest way is not to use at all, abstinence. Realistically a 'safer; crack user is better than no safety at all!

1 already do Peer support and Outreach though the Lifeskills Centre and the L.I.N.E.S. office (Li~e, Is, Not, Enough, Society,) I feel that harm reductiOn, by way of 'safer' crack kits, and other frequently requested items, (condoms, ban~-aids etc.) pl~y a very important role in harm reduction and health1~r choices for my peers in the Downtown Eaststde.

Perhaps what I've said, along with the o~hers who are practicing and teaching harm reductiOn here to. day, will help to ope~ everyone's ears, eyes and hearts! After all, addtcts are very much people to.1 It•s your Mothers, It's your Fathers, it's Y?ur .sis.ters and your brothers! Addiction does not dtscnm~nate 1.

In conclusion I would like to leave these partmg words with everyone; next time addiction touches your self, your family or loved ones, ~ry to be more part of the solution, rather than enabhng the problem! Harm Reduction = Reducing the Harm .

Not necessarily preventing it! Thank you for hstening, and I wish everyone another 24 hours clean and sober or at least safer!

Jewel

James Pan: Thirt_y-plus _years of service For the second time in three years, a well-known and respected Carnegie person has received the prestigious Thakore Visiting Scholar A ward for humanitarian services.

In 2005, it was Michael Clague, the then-director of Carnegie. And now it' s Dr. James ChiMing Pau, a member of the Carnegie board of directors and long-time health provider in the Downtown Eastside with a unique practice combining traditional Chinese and western methods.

The award is administered by the Simon Fraser University Institute of Humanities on behalf of the Thakore Family Charitable Foundation and the India Club of Vancouver. It is given to worthy recipients who "while honoring tradition have not let themselves be bound by traditionalism in their seeking of well-being for the human race and the planet."

James Pau is in good company. Previous winners also include Ovide Mercredi, Tom Berger, Ed Broadbent, Ursula Franklin and Roy Miki.

James came to Canada from Hong Kong in 1975.

In Hong Kong he trained as a nurse in western medicine and as a doctor in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Here in B.C. he is a registered Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the areas of herbs and acupuncture, and a licensed practical nurse.

He has lived in the Downtown Eastside since 1975, and he has been active in improving the health and well-being of residents all that time.

He worked as a nurse with old people at the Banfield Pavilion geriatric ward, and got a first-hand appreciation of the problems many seniors face in adjusting. As a result, he started doing home visits as a volunteer with SUCCESS. And he got involved with Carnegie's seniors programs as another way to help seniors maintain their independence.

But he wasn'tjust involved at the senior end of the age spectrum. James has long been an English tutor for youth, especially immigrant youth, and he was one of the founders of the Downtown Eastside HIV1 AIDS Consumers' Board to help spread education and clean needles.

For years, he ran a free traditional Chinese herb and acupuncture clinic, funded by donations.

The list or organizations he has been involved with is very long, including the Elder Abuse Network, The Neighbourhood Advisory Committee of St .

Paul's Hospital: Acute Care of Elders, Vancouver Health Board; Seniors Population Health Advisory · Committee, RichmondNancouver Health Board· ' and the Vancouver City's Advisory Committee on • semors.

James has already received a number of volunteer awards, including a Community Service A ward from the Canadian Red Cross (200 1), a volunteer award fro m the Government of Canada during the International Year of Volunteers (200 1), a Community Service A ward for work in the Downtown Eastside, given by Volunteer Vancouver (2002), and the Lower Mainland Good Neighbour A ward, given by the Association of Neighbourhood Houses of Greater Vancouver (2002).

James draws his motivation from the Buddhist philosophy of service. As he once told Sandy Cameron in an interview: "I am inspired by the people in the Downtown Eastside. They are people with heart kind people who help each other." When Sandy asked him what is the best medicine, he replied, "The best medicine is love."

By Bob Sarti

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The Editor R e: Welfare rate increase on cheques out March 28 As employment counselors and front line workers in the Downtown Eastside we see the impact of low welfare rate levels every day. We acknowledge that the rate increase coming on March 28th is a small step in the right direction. However before we break . ' mto a chorus of"Happy Days are Here Again" let's p ut things in perspective. In real dollars, the increase will only allow single employable recipients to regain the purchasing power they had in 1996 after the severe cuts of 1995. Those cuts put recipients well below the poverty line and well below a dignified or decent standard of ljving. If these recipients were on a ladder out of a very deep hole, the recent increases put them back on the same rung they were on eleven years ago - before inflation gradually forced them to the bottom of the hole.

Welfare recipients face far greater challenges to conduct a successful j ob search because of the low rates. They result in a lack of resources that the rest of us take for granted, such as presentable clothes and bus fare to get to job interviews. In an apparent effort to spare the taxpayer the cost of anyone being "comfortable" on welfare, the government, in its wisdom, has made it harder for many j ob seekers to become independent.

The rate increases are a barely humane gesture that leaves our clients only a few rungs up a very long ladder to a level the rest of us would deem tolerable.

HANSARD: House of Commons Mr. Speaker, The number of homeless in Vancouver has doubled since 2002, yet shelters like the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre are being forced to close thei r doors because they can't get funding.

The 2007 federal budget completely ignores the homelessness and housing crisis facing Vancouver.

Not a dime was ded icated for desperately needed housing.

Nothing in the budget closes the growing gap between wealth and poverty.

Nothing for a federal $10 minimum wage; Nothing to help the underemployed, highly skilled imm igrant Canadians who can't get their credentials recognized; Nothing on the billions of dollars in E.I surplus; And to add insult to injury, a worker's rights bill to ban replacement workers was defeated last night because the Liberals ganged up with Conservatives to say no to fairness for working Canadians.

When will this government get it? Workers want a decent wage, families want secure affordable housing, and we all benefit from fair labour practices.

I'm proud to say, I 00% ofNDP MPs voted yes to the Anti-Scab bill.

Libby Davies (MP Vancouver East)

Michael Lanier, President of CUPE Local1936 on behalf of Unit 4 members.

[Hand-delivered to the Carnegie Newsletter Office, 26/3/07]

A most courteous diver We must have a courteous sort of dumpster diver in our area, Bute and Barclay. 路 路 路 They are always polite and helpful and don't leave a mess - even sorting out recyclables.

When we moved in two of them cut all our cartons and would not take any money.

Last night, as 1ope'ned our back door, our binner was walking away when he noticed me very elderly- and he came over and took the garbage and disposed of it for me. They don't knock seniors down for their money. I always feel safe when they are around.

Anonymous Rantline caller.

[Buried in the Westender]

Homelessness: too important to ignore, Pt. 2 In the March 22 Globe and Mail, in Patrick Brethour's article, "Budget bashers displaying regional jealousy, Harper says," PM Stephen Harper is quoted as saying, "Everybody is getting what they asked for [in the 2007 federal budget], everyone is getting a fair share that addresses the priorities of the various regions. We can either accept the good news, you know, whether it's for BC seniors, families, or farmers or whatever, or we can just be jealous of the other regions [like Quebec, which received the lion 's share of federal largesse]. But I don't think that's warranted."

Not quite, Mr. Harper. There's still the issue of homelessness, which your budget didn't, you know, address in the slightest.

In an article in the March 22-29 issue of Georgia ~ Strqight, by Carlito Pablo, titled "Harper government ignores housing crisis," Vancouver East NDP MP Libby Davies-the Downtown Eastside's mem.. ber of Parliament expresses her outrage. "It was the most glaring omission of a very basic human right. It's not a lack of fiscal capacity. It's the lack of political commitment. We' ve always supported what we call the one-percent solution, which is an additional one percent of the federal budget for housing. We need to see at least a couple of billion do liars a year."

How important is homelessness? According to an article by Sean Condon in the March/April 2007 issue of ThisMagazine, titled "No place for home," "Because of major welfare cuts by the British Columbia government five years ago, Vancouver already has a growing homelessness problem that has seen the number of people sleeping on the streets double from j~st over 600 in 2002 to at least I ,300 in 2005 (2,200 across Greater Vancouver)."

But the provincial government just increased welfare rates. So what's the problem?

This is: (Condon) " After years of neglect, the Downtown Eastside is now in the middle of a major development boom and city revitalization campaign that threatens to displace thousands of its lowincome residents. With the 2010 Olympic Games only three years away, the city is accelerating gentrification of the ... neighbourhood before thousands of visitors and international media arrive in Vancouver. At the same time, the city's core has run out of

land, and the n Eastside is being regarded as its potential new frontier."

(Condon) "Kim Kerr, the executive director of the Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA), an advocacy organization, says that if the city doesn't figure out how to stop the slide, the Downtown Eastside will become a neighbourhood for the affluent only. 'You w ill see the social services move out of the Downtown Eastside, you'll see folks thrown out on the street, and these people won't be tolerated in what will become another wealthy n~ighbourhood in Vancouver."'

Residents are losing hope. (Condon) "Many people in the Downtown Eastside are beginning to get a sickeni ng sense that time is running out on them.

The Olympics are just three years away, and it would take at least that long to build a new housing project."

The Globe and Mail 's Gary Mason put it another way in his March 22 column, " Olympic visitors won't see a pretty picture": "There have been committees and task forces and studies that have recommended building permanent, assisted-living housing for the homeless, but the idea that enough can be built in three years time to accommodate all those who need it is also a joke."

(Condon) "It wasn't supposed to go this way.

When Vancouver won its bid to host the 20 I 0 Winter Games, it promised to be the first Olympics to take care of its poor.... Vancouver created the Inner-City Inclusive Commitment Statement. This promised to protect rental-housing stock; ensure that people were not made homeless as a result of the Winter Games; ensure that residents were not involuntarily displaced, evicted or faced with unreasonable increases in rent due to the Winter Games; and to provide an affordable housing legacy."

So far, all of these promises have been broken.

The blame could start at the top, with Harper, but Steve Burgess, in the March 22-28 Westender, in his column, "A protest against anti-Olympics protestors," wrote, "There is no reason why the city cannot protect SRO [single-room occupancy] hotels as the Olympics approach .... Olympics and social justice need not be an either/or proposition."

By Rolf Auer

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Here I am Here I am but you can't catch me I keep popping and out Here I am but you don't know me Or what I am about Here I am if you can't see me You know you must be blind Here I am but then I'm soon gone You think that I'm unkind I didn't mean to make you stumble I just got in the way Or what you thought you wanted and the games you play.

I heard you say now and then The things you've said before I heard you when you heard me say I'd be walking out the door I heard you grumbling and crying 'cause you said you need more I heard you Iovin' and laugh in' When I scraped you off the floor.

I didn't mean to make you stumble And if I got in the way Of what you thought you wanted With me, that's ok Hey it's still the same old story Nothing's really changed It's still this long and lonely road And some things I see are strange And it's still here for you and me Home out on the range I'm still hooked on rock 'n roll And I ain't never gonna change I didn't mean to make you stumble Did I get in the way?

I told you from the beginning Everyday is a new day.

Here l am but you can't catch me I keep popping and out Here I am but you don't know me Or what I am about Here I am if you can't see me You know you must be blind Here I am but then I'm soon gone You think that I'm unkind

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Volunteer Events - April 2007

Volunteer Committee Meeting Wednesday, April 11 at 2pm Karoake with Steve Friday, April 13, 7- 1Opm

April is Volunteer Recognition Month. We will celebrate with Carnegie Centre's Volunteer Recognition Week, April 15-21, with a variety of events and trips that week. More information by April 15!

Volunteer Dinner - 12 vol. hours to attend Wednesday, April 18 at 4:30pm Volunteer Recognition Party Friday, April 20, 4- 6pm Live Band Dance: The Rockingguys Friday, April 20, 7 -10pm Karoake with Steve Friday, April 27, 7 -:- 1Opm

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News Flash from the Carnegie Kitchen Next Tuesday, April 3rd, a state-of-the-art oven will be installed in the Carnegie Kitchen. The Rational convection and steam oven is the latest in cooking technology. Not only will it be able to consistently cook regular menu items, to perfection, each time, it has some other amazing features. For example, it can be programmed to roast large cuts of beef and whole turkeys at night. And, on the nights when that isn't happening, the oven can be set to clean automatically. That is amazing as well as time saving.

Due to the steam booster, food cooked in the Rational oven will_not dry out which means a better product and less wasted in the cooking process.

A huge thank you is due to the Carnegie Centre Association and the City of Vancouver for making the purchase of this oven possible. This new oven is a wonderful addition to the Carnegie kitchen and will allow the staff and volunteers to improve the quality of food and service for the patrons who frequent the Carnegie Centre. This oven will continue to be a great community asset for many years to come.

NOW for the difficult part: Next Tuesday, April 3, the kitchen will have to be closed for the entire day to accommodate the installation of the new oven.

The kitchen staff and volunteers will be selling sandwiches, coffee, juice, pop, muffins and cookies from the Seniors' Lounge. We apologise for this closur~ and thank you all for your patience!

Catriona Moore, Kitchen Coordinator

KEJUVENATION Book Club, Tuesdays 11-12, beginning Apri110 Meet in the Level 3 gaiiery Well, now that the lady is back at work, we are restarting the MainandHastings book club. Beth.our fearless and friendly leader is back to work and IS anxious to get the old book club rolling again. If you want to join, come on April 10 and you'll get your own copy of the book Patrick Lane, one of Canada's finest poets, checked out of rehab aft~r fortyfive years of addiction to alcohol and cocame. There is a Season is a memoir of the year that followed, as he uses his beloved garden as a kind of therapy.

"I am -withdrawing from the scourge of fo~-five years of drinking. Two months ago I stumbled into a treatment centre for alcohol and drug addi~tion.

Now I am barely detoxed. Standing here among the sword ferns my senses seem to be thin glass, so . acute at their edges I am afraid I will cut myself stmply by touching the silicon edge of a bamboo leaf."

We'll be taking the book club out and about once the weather improves, reading in parks and gardens in the Downtown Eastside and beyond.

It's a friendly atmosphere and we welcome peo~le who would just like to do some fun stuff concemmg reading. We usually have a very light sna~k, mostly cookies or whatever. We've even had frmt (chocolate covered strawberries once, I recall) some of the places we've been to include the Dr, Sun Yat ~en Garden, Crab Park, Shanghai Alley, Oppenheimer Park and even our own patio. Its only an hour and the people are kinda friendly b~t we can get over that pretty quick. Come and enJOY an hour of ~on颅 versation and light reading. Some of the best times are spent just reading a book among friends.

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S.O.S. Street Olympics Survival Limited Time Offer!!

If you join now, get a free guide to the most popular dumpsters in your neighbourhood. You will be able to start your own catering service from the best alley locations in the downtown core!

Act Now- membership is limited. People are dying ... to get in on the action.

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We had our first libretto writing workshop, and man this is difficult work. This is not easy, it is a skill and an art, not an easy one either. Well not for me at least.

Taught by Camia Chai, the subject chosen was Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play "Mother Courage". Well worth the read. And which some of us were lucky enough to attend the dress rehearsal. And co-author of "Ali & Ali", another anti-war, anti-absurd-stupidity play, which is in our reading room. He is a very personable man, good to learn from.

The undoubted star of the evening was our very own Miss Joan Morelli of "I looooove the opera" fame, who left us all totally speechless and standing, at her expertise in libretto writing. Joan and Camyar played a duet that we were privileged to watch, as it is always a rush to watch two people who know what they are doing. I have to go and do homework.

Karenza.

Whatever Nothing matters but Love; whatever it takes, fly higher and higher on the wings of a dove. Cool.

Things that make you go hmmmm. Never g ive up!

Whatever evil, dark thoughts intrude -lies, whatever, sui cide is never the solution.

Anxiety a constant threat; depression weighs on my brain. Feeling worthless, useless, pathetic, hideous, abandoned and alone. Not. Pointless negative thinking; drugs, alcohol, attempts to escape this emotional turmoil deep within. Switch it up. Get a grip. Suck it up. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Use your head for more than a hat or turban rack. Think. Remain strong. Breathe. Believe.

Fear not. Just believe. Dream. Dream big. Go big or go home. Refuse to stay down. Strive to thrive rather than just survive. Kings and Queens are we. Let's surrender it all to the Supreme.

Remember, whatever: laughter heals.

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The BoomaHarps, --.{)R -Another True story of Stolen Harmonicas and Human Action, Right, Wrong, and Indifferent Another Wednesday in the theatre for the Music Jam, and I step around one of those big round tables for a minute when someone snags my bag with my harmonicas inside, along with my good electric guitar tuner, make-up, etc.

Damn. This is the second time those harmonicas have been stolen (refer to the last issue of the Carnegie Newsletter) and I was so lucky to get them back last time, it seems way too much to expect such an amazing thing again. I run to security and alert them, then run for the women's can, and sure enough, the bag is in there, limp and emptied of all my valuables.

The two strangers, a man and a woman that I had noticed were in the theatre, are now nowhere in the building and I don't feel much like playing music anymore, so I go home and take advantage of technology to fi ll in a form on the computer to report my loss to the police. I write down my file number, put it in my pocket. Then I'm struck by a bright idea: Why not go to the Perrna-Flea Market on Hastings street next to United We Can? Hard-won or IllGotten, if it's an item smaller than a car in East Van, chances are it's being flogged in fro nt of the open lot on 100 block east Hastings.

I get down there. By now it's about 3 hours since I lost my bag, but amazing ly, just as I approach the milling mass of densely packed, sweaty, nervous men, I see one them flash open the flat black pack of my harmonicas and there they are, incredibly, all gleaming in beautiful un ifo rmity, every one of them.

He's offering them to someone, but they shake their head no. "Those ar(( my harmonicas" I hear myself saying, but no one notices and, feeling like a ghostly goody two shoes, I see that I might as well not be talki ng at all for all the good this tactic will do me here. I look at the crazed fellow who is holding them, his hai r is lying in flat little greasy Caesar curls along the top of his sweaty bony forehead . His eyes skitter unthinkingly over my face like a long legged water bug and I realize he is so out it that he doesn't even see that I'm the person he just stole from. "Hey, how much for the harmonicas?" I enquire casually. "$1 0" he replies. So far so good, but

then I remember, I have no cash on me! I back away and look around for someone who I can trust. I see a man w ith a well fed dog and approach him, reasoning that he obviously cares about something else besides drugs. I explain my situation qu ickly, and that I'm going to get some money from the cash machine around comer, but I ask him to keep an eye on the thief and see if he goes, or if the harmonicas get sold. He agrees, so I run around the corner, literally, and grab some cash. Half way back to the scene I see a cop car. Completely disheveled, breathing hard, and unfortunately forgetting entirely about the police report file number I have in my pocket, I explain to them the situation, and ask them to just keep an eye on the transaction I'm about to make to be sure all goes well in the seething mass.

"Those guys?" the policeman says, "we just rousted them outa' there. They're all gone" "BuBBBUttttt," I stutter pathetically, "The guy was right there ..... and he had my ha~onicas ...... and I was going to buy them .... " I tra~l off l~mely. By now I'm taking in how the cop IS lookmg at me, and it's not with sympathy. "Yeah, well, they're all gone" he says with finality, and they drive off. .

I turn back onto Hastings in a second. Everyone ts right where I left them. I guess the. poli.ce just said that as the easiest way out of the situation. The dog man tells me that the goods are still with the perpetrator of the crime and that he's got some other things there too that he's trying to sell. .. .. ..

I sidle up to the thief again, " Got. your ten b.ucks" I say, and the harmonicas are magically safe m my hands again. It feels like a mir~cle. On a r~ll, I enquire about anything else he might have, hke mak~足 up maybe? Sure, no problem, he pulls out my famtliar red make-up case, and 2 bucks is g iven over for that. Got anything else? "Yeah, here's this ~hing, I don't know what it is though ... " He's holdmg m~ guitar tuner. "Me neither, but I'll give you a loome for it". He agrees, and the deal is done, I have my things back, all :or the low low price of$14. I'm feeling very good, and I stick out ~y han~ for greasy Caesar to shake. "Good doing busmess w1th you man" I say, "What's your name?" He meets my eye for the first time, and he seems softened by my asking, "Darryl" he replies, and with that .it so~ehow feels like humanity is restored to the s1tuat10n and I walk away feeling lucky.

Rachel (Rosetta) Davis

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Newsletter For more info visit Association Office - 2"d floor Carnegie Centre

April 1, 2007

Women's Centre shelter extended to July March 22,2007- Vancouver, Women

for women.

We are concerned and anguished by the ongoing devastation of poverty and homelessness in our community. According to the 2005 GVRD Homelessness Count, 路 there has been an increase of 60% in the number of homeless women since the 2002 Count. PIVOT research shows that the number of homeless people has doubled to approximately 2, 174 people in 2005 and it is estimated that the rate of rapid gentrification leading to the Olympics will triple the number of homeless in Vancouver. We will continue the work we have been doing to raise awareness and advocate for an end to homelessness and for housing for women.

We thank everyone for their support during this critical time . .....,DEWC

in the Downtown Eastside welcome the announcement by BC Housing today announcing funding for the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre (DEWC) Emergency Shelt~r to operate for another six months. An average of fifty women a night has been using the shelter as a safe place since November 2006.

Women in the Downtown Eastside, as part of the Power of Women to Women Project, would like to thank BC housing for responding to the voices, needs, and demands of homeless and poor women.

We would also like to emphasize that shelters are not a viable solution to homelessness and all levels of government must commit to long-term, safe, and affordable housing

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Update on residential hotels condo conversion. It's easier to convert an empty building than a building with people in it.

Useful Stats: • 1 in 5 rooms have been sold in the last year, many by known developers; • 1 developer, named Robert Wilson, bought 6 hotels: Arco, Rainier, Shaldon, Walton, Gastown and the Pender Hotel (Pender tenants evicted in 2006) for a total of 3 81 rooms.

• In 2006 we lost 600 units from closures, not including those lost to rent increases higher than welfare shelter rates.

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Four Hotels gave notice to evict tenants for March 31, 2007: 1. Golden Crown Hotel: Tenants were being evicted to renovate rooms for "Olympic workers and Woodward's Labourers", according to the owner.

PIVOT won litigation against illegal eviction notices at the GC and the owner backed off outright eviction but likely will continue to "slowly convert." This is the most common type of conversion now.

3. Carl Rooms: New owners bought this hotel recently and rooms were slowly being closed. Typical of first time owners, they bo~ght it for investment but had no idea what to do with it. A TIRA, the company that manages Bridge and Serena Housing, may take over the management and maintenance of Carl Rooms and reopen the closed 30 rooms

2. Piccadilly Hotel: This hotel closed because the city wouldn't pay for $5,000 in repairs to keep it open under their Standard's of Maintenance. Advocates say this type of closure is part of the City's strategy to prepare buildings for

4. Asia Rooms: The owner of this hotel near Carnegie on Pender gave eviction notices to 14 tenants but backed off because PIVOT was suing them. They signed a one year lease with their management company. -Wendy P

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What to watch for in your hotel Has your landlord given you an illegal rent increase? Here's how you can tell.

If you live in non profit housing, a $50 increase to match the $50 welfare increase is probably legal, although you could check it out with advocates at DERA or First United. If you live in housing that is privately owned, your landlord has to: );> give you 3 months notice of the • 1ncrease; give you the notice of increase on a special Notice of Rent Increase form from the BC government housing department; make the rent increase only 4% of you current rent or less; );> not give you any rent increase unless you have lived in the premise for 12 months.

There are exceptions to these rules but they are complicated for the landlord. If you get any rent increase, you should check it out with DERA or First United, and report it to the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP). We want to keep track of all the buildings where people are getting Increases.

One thing you can do if you get a rent increase, is go to DERA or Pivot and try to get help organizing your building. If the rent increase is legal, you could try

to make sure the extra money the landlord gets goes to repairs. If it's illegal but doesn't make any difference to the tenants (cause they won't get the money from welfare unless they pay it in rent) maybe the tenants can organize to get repairs. ~Jean Swanson

Bharb, CCAP member at SFU Olympic Puzzle event speaks to public and media: " ... in the Downtown Eastside there's a community that's been forgotten and its being allowed to disintegrate and developers are using that and buying up these places nice and cheap. I saw it happen with Expo 86 and now again with the Olympics. These are our elderly and our disabled citizens."

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ID rules make it harder for poor to vote The Canadian Senate is about to pass a new law that will make it much harder for people who are poor and tenants to vote in federal elections.

According to this bill, called Bill C-31, even if you are registered on the voters' list and have a voter card, you won't be pe1n1itted to vote unless you can produce re~uired ID. You' ll need: );> One piece of government-issued ID with your photo and current address; or );> Two pieces of ID from a list which hasn't been made yet.

Except for a driver's licence or BC ID (which costs $3 5 and can take 6 weeks to get), hardly any fonns of government-issued ID have a photo and address. Even a passport doesn't come with your address printed on it.

If you don't have the required ID, you can vote if you swear an oath and get another voter to vouch for you, who: );> Has the required ID; );> Lives in you own little polling district, and has not vouched for anyone else. When a House of Commons committee was coming up with these changes, Canada's Chief Electoral Officer appeared before them and testified that there is no evidence that

there is any problem with voter fraud that needs fixing.

These are the same kind of voter ID rules adopted in many Republican dominated states last year to make it harder for groups who tend to lean toward the Democrats to vote.

The BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre is currently meeting with groups like CCAP and others to try to launch a Charter case against this law.

The law may be in place for the next federal election. It doesn't apply to provincial and city elections (yet) ~Jean Swanson

Pictures from this issue: Page 1: Rally at Carl Rooms Page 4: Stacey speaks out at Carl Rooms as one voice representing 5000 residents living in Social Housing in the DTES.

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Dragon, frantic, Dance of death, scattered dreams of Doom. It's about dashed hopes and coping with the threaded shredded frantic themes of groping in the darkness, cool and hot, all at once as scaled reptilian heraldic beasts hungrily stare with glistening ripping possessive eyes, casting shadows harsh that at first compel, then suddenly awfully repel, to captivate and capture, to inevitably pounce, trounce and kill.

Forget the history of you and yours, that's gone, that's past, into this spinning, smoking sucking fiery vortex, traveling to an eternal realm, a cockeyed realm, a misty, hazy world where summer burns with no end. Crucifying fears, it or you may succeed to recede, to expel, as I hear the distant screams and muffled yells. Don't tarry, do not delay, you will not be as you were. Do you concur? When times did shine in days of yore and fo r certain your being that the hypnotic potions transformed. And as we deplore, ain't no lost causes, it's about second chances, choices, and of yearning then. .. on to I istening, pleading, crackling voices, you of the ones eclipsing satiny skin and shimmering hair, who now wallow in transcending sleep and sultry spins in a self-centered display of suffocating stale air, the treats and other tricks far flung, away, afar. Then we shall soon discover who you really once were, who you truly now are, when settled and relaxed, with a murmuring heartbeat and a peaceful tranquil mind, including splendid revelations, brilliant lucid thoughts, love in kind. Together, as one, as a whole, upon a glowing, magical time, oh yes, so sweet, battling off all temptations, hovering, dodging, chasing, dragons pursuing, disappearing, hidden away to fight and to fend. To battle hard and to make soft amends, when in shadowed doubt, and if uncertain, or when dashing, running or dancing as fast as you can. Ring us when you're feeling fancy free, for a heartwarming hug, from relations or a fond friend or maybe just little old me.

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--The World's Desire The DTES A vibrant community. Same faces laying in same places.

People call your name, say Hi Joe, Hi Frank. How are you today?

Hey, can I bum a smoke, no but we can share one.

Many cafes. Bright neon signs light up the sky as darkness falls.

Murals splash the walls, but not on canvass or in a window But on the sides and fronts of buildings older than dirt.

Usually some sort of parade comes by, generally weekly.

Drumming and singing flow through the streets A van pulls up and hands out coffee A caring community. A small crocus pops up its head on the side of a dirty alley. Just a small plot of dirt but still ... life from the crocus.

Jackie Humber

Who wi 11 hang Your Nee-Christian President?

Democrats? Republicans?

All of you Americans Guilty of unleashing Your Nee-Christian President Guilty of betraying Your forefathers' testament.

Democrats Republicans Evil by design Plan no more to fool the world To think one side can right The other's wrongs When in fact Both sides conspired.

Si lence is conspiracy Conspiracy is complicity Complicity is duplicity Democrats - Republicans All of you Americans Shame! The world desires To hang our Nee-Christian President And all those ...

Who did conspire!

June, the month of pairing, or is it paring To wed or not to wed, that be the question Me, a maiden at the sixth level, as my older friends so kindly put it, Me, I am ready once more to plunge into the breach To seek sanctuary in the arms of a new-found friend Caution to the Winds!

Mother Mona's voice pricks my bubble "Don't get jurt" But how can you do dat ting mon?

Is there not More than garlanded flowers?

What about Descartes?

Cogitation was, alas, my folly Yea, but it tempted me To illusions of Instant Karma Of Peace in MY TIME And yet, after all, the beaten path grows much more than mosses.

Wilhelmina

Victor Paquette

Change of Seasons Nice- it depends. Spring: So wonderful, so full of promise, flowers popping shyly above ground, birds chirping, longer daylight, kids screaming developing lungs for the future. Every season is great at my age!

Love. I wonder. From an early age till nearly now I wonder. Being separated from family at 4 years of age; four sisters in one house, my brother and I in another.. a religious school preaching about Jesus loves you .. . I still wonder Then there's the consolation of my cat: is it unconditional? They have moods too ... !

James

AT OPPENHEIMER PARK In cooperation with the Aboriginal Rainbow Council we will be running several programs in the Park' s Clubhouse.

Big Drum I Hand Drum Lessons Thursdays, 11 :30am -1:30pm Drumming will be taught by Blue Thunder, a pipe carrier, sun dancer and sweat lodge keeper.

Elders Traditional Crafts Saturdays at 9am Traditional craft making (pine needle boxes, medicine bags, moccasins, etc) will be taught by Elders from the neighbourhood.

To Wendy's Gang, Congratulations fo r the victories for tenants' hotel rooms. The battle is hard and victories slow but we shall overcome. Hugs to all 'resisters'.

Sheila Baxter PS : Our "crude" clock was great. The info on it was awesome and it got as a lot of positive press.

Thank you to all who participated in the Creative Writing group, especially Kelly and James.

We will be finishing at the end of March - 'writers like to be in the sun!' We'll resume later this year.

Sheila B.

Rainbow Talking and Healing Circle .....

Wednesdays at 1pm.

This will be run by Elders from the

I 路 F 0 VIET ' S Pa-sstn!J as Sane : Ccmttl!) cut c~ Every day I pass as sane; pretending control and serenity; Appearing reasonable, average, "normal" I confess to taking pills that alter my state: that bring optimism, steadiness, A less subjective reality.

Also church in very small doses, meditation, getting plenty of rest, staying away from the market.

Temptation to come out eats at my sense of honesty But I did that before, remember?

The time I gave away all the books and records.

Suddenly, I was "crazy" in your eyes; Overnight I was changed into one whose word could not be trusted whose touch could contaminate.

So I will continue my careful way: passing as sane: Faking it ... not till I make it.

Because I will never make it - I am crazy for good, But because the prizes go to the winners.:. the whole - the sane- the happy.

And sure, I want to win - I'm not that crazy. wmmiles

revised website is up and running at http://www.povnet.org New features include: * updates once a week * easier search tools by subject area or region * a more accessible interface We will shortly be implementing other new features including a free job board for work in the anti poverty community across Canada, an events calendar, and other interactive tools.

If you have a story that you think fits into our mandate (poverty issues anywhere in Canada or internationally), email news@povnet.org or use the contact form on the web site. We can't promise that everything will go up, but we'll try to keep up-to-date.

And this summer, someone from PovNet will be contacting you to make sure that your information on the "Find an Advocate" page is up-to-date -- if your group is not there and want to be, please let us know. Of course, as always, comments, constructive criticism, suggestions, etc are welcome at any time.

Penny Goldsmith, Co-ordinator PovNet (penny@povnet.org) 604 876 8638 (ph); 604 685 7611 (fax) #300- 1140 W Pender St, Van BC V6E 401 http://www.povnet.org

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A whale has choice!

Weather it wants Oatmeal or Bacon and eggs Eggs and bacon For breakfast ... hmm.

Breakfast is ready In micro bits Ready for swallowing In the vast waters of ocean Our garbage dump

Disaster "Help" said the whale I'm choking On lunch p.s. this is no joke.

To Laurence of Kanoa What does a bird think about When he is imprisoned in a cage Does he long for freedom For the sunny sky and leafy trees For the company of his fellows Or does a bird have a rich inner life An ability to experience each day As a cause of joy Without boredom or loneliness.

Getting out of the rain . Has left me in a big Puddle, muddle All wet and drenched Sick and tired Of the big drop ... plop Pounding on my head I feel crazy And cracking Soggy and wet Brain more divided Than ever

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Shopping cart photo Things- clothes, pots and pans, books and a box of pills Mainly pain medication to end my inner pain.

It's someone's world, but now what? Where w ill these four wheels go How far before a wheel falls off. Have I fallen off? Where am I going?

I have to keep pushing my world till I come to a fresh life.

Is it possible or is my next life just the same, Flop-house, low rent, but still too high No hot water but at least there is water.

I need a roof, Oh! I need some bread But not for me, to feed the birds. I still have hope I will stop at Oppenhiemer and feed the birds.

Maybe a fri end will take me in, maybe not? schedule: spring 2007 But at least my world is with me ... for now I feel o.k. The birds are singing, they are free WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4: Just like me. No walls or bars to close me in.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 26:

North Vancouver Community Band FRIDAY, MAY 4:

West Vancouver Concert Band WEDNESDAY, MAY 16:

Black Bear Band All concerts at 7:30PM in the Carnegie Theatre

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We're pleased to welcome onto the cast and crew: Debbie Blair, Sue Blue, Jean Paul Bouchard, Grant Chancey, Wendy Chew, Phoebe Conway, Sandy Daniels, Rachel Davis, Paul Decarie, Sophia Freigang, Vance Grausso, Diane LeClaire, Robyn Livingstone, Yvonne Mark, Alex Martin, Mike McNeeley, Joan Morelli, Elizabeth Murdoch, Naomi Narvey, Paul Nosotti, Dean Obrol, Sandra Pronteau, Tom Quirk, Mike Richter, Jamie Robson, Jim Sands, Priscilla Tait, Leesa Dee Tree, Kevin Wilke, Maggie Winston, Susan P. Wong, Fanna Yee, Eroca Zales

East End director Kim Collier, who also works with the Electric Company, will be directing our play. Ya-wen Vivienne Wang is our co-composer and musical director; she was musical director for the Firehall Art Centre's Menopositive and Urinetown and performs as a keyboardist, Taiko drummer and musical clown. The shadow effects are created

by Tamara Unroe who designed shadow puppets for The Downtown Eastside Community Play and has performed on puppet productions in Vancouver, Vermont and Bangkok. Our lighting is designed by Adrian Muir who designs for many Vancouver companies and instructs students in stage craft and lighting design at Langara and Douglas Colleges. Cowriter Rosemary Georgeson is also providing community outreach. Cease Wyss, a media artist and educator from the Squamish Nation, is creating a documentary video about the making of

The Shadows Project.

Performances: April 19-22 and April 26-29 The Russian Hall, 8pm (600 Campbell St.) Produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre in association with Carnegie Community Centre. Info: 604-254路6911

The Neighbourhood Small Grants Program returns to the Downtown Eastside and Strathcona!

Presented by:

Carnegie, Ray-Cam and Strathcona Community Centres

What's your dream for your neighbourhood? You can make it happen!

This program offers grants of up to $500 to groups of neighbours who want to work together on small projects to enhance their neighbourhoods. Plant a corner garden, hold a community story & feast, organize an art fair, host a youth sports day- whatever a group of neighbours would like to create. Application forms available at Carnegie Centre (401 Main), Ray-Cam Centre (920 E Hastings) or Strathcona Centre (601 Keefer).

Projects to take place June to November 2007 Application deadline: 5pm Wed April 25, 2007

Ifyou would like more information, phone the DYES/Strathcona Neighbourhood Small Grants Committee at 604-713-185 0 or email: teresa-nsgp@hotmail. com.

Funded by a grant from the Vancou-Ver Foundation.

In Memory of Harriett Nahanee ... and the child she saw murdered ... and thousands like them ...

Third Annual Aboriginal Holocaust Remembrance Day 10 am Sunday, Apri115, 2007 Be outside St. James Anglican Church North corner of Gore and Cordova street, one block east of Main street in Vancouver Residential school survivors and other witnesses to crimes of Genocide by the Anglican, Catholic and United Church will be speaking, and demanding: 1. Where are 50,000 residential school children buried?

2. How did they die?

3. When will these churches return their remains?

Bring your stories, drums and signs

Sponsored by the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared Residential School Children (Founder, Anishinabe Elder Whispers Wind) No Reconciliation without Full Disclosure!

Note: Similar vigils and protests will be held outside these churches in seven Canadian cities on the same r1!liJ â&#x20AC;˘

Documentary on Crimes in Canadian Indian Residential Schools wins Top Award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, March 6, 2007 Los Angeles: UNREPENTANT, the recently released documentary film on crimes of Genocide in Canadian Indian Residential Schools, has won a second award in the American film industry.

A final note: this year's April15 actions will be the launching pad for an even greater display, including possibly a National Caravan, regarding the disappeared of Canada.

Thank you all for your commitment to this important work, and I look forward to hearing from you about your plans for April 15, and beyond, Kevin Annett I Eagle Strong Voice www.hiddenfromhistory.org pager: 1-888-265-1007 home: 250-753-3345 "Hidden from History", every Monday from 1-2 pm (PST) on CFRO I 02.7 FM (www.coopradio.org)

On March 6, 2007, UNREPENTANT was awarded the prize for Best Documentary Film at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. Last November, UNREPENTANT won Best Director of a Documen tary at the New York Independent Film Festival.

UNREPENTANT is a novel exploration of the fuil story of murder and ethnic cleansing in Canada's native boarding schools, where an estimated 50,000 children died or were killed between 1890 and 1984.

The film features first hand interviews with aborigi nal survivors of these crimes.

UNREPENTANT opens this spring in film festivals around the world, and was recently screened in more than a dozen aboriginal communities across Canada, and at Powell River and Gabrie la Island Festivals.

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On the Life Cycle: Backpedaling like crazy!

' The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.

2007 DONATIONS Libby D.-$1 00 Rolf A.-$50 I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time Barry for Dave McC-$125 Christopher R.-$50 and what do you get at the end of it?

Margaret D.-$40 Penny G.-$50 Ja nice P.-$30 , A death.

Wes K.-$50 Gram-$400 John S.-$60 Leslie S.-$20 What's that, a bonus?

Michael C.-$80 Sheila B.-$20 Wilhelmina M .-$25 . 1 think the life cycle is all backwards.

CEEDS -$50 Saman -$20 Phyllis L.-$200 . You should start out dead; get it out of the way.

Paddy -$ 125 Bob S.-$ 100 Barry M.-$ 125 , You wake up in an old age home, feeling better The Edge -$200 Mel L.-$20 ·every day. You eventually get kicked out for being too healthy and go collect your pension.

Submission deadUne for next Issue: . · When you're too young to be retired any more, you ~~~~funi•~ get a job - and on your first day they give you a gold Thursday, April12 -.

Centre watch.

You' ll work 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement You're promiscuous, you drink alcohol, you party so that you'll know all the pitfalls and can be more responsible when you get to high school.

You end high school as a freshman and get to make . fun of all the seniors who are just starting.

Jenny You go to primary school, you become a kid, you Wai Ching play, you have no responsibilities.

You become; a baby, and then get to spend your last Kwan MLA nine months floating peacefully with all the luxuries of a fivestar hotel...- central heating, spa, room service on tap, and larger quarters everyday.

Working for You And finally you finish off as an orgasm.

1070-1641 Commercial Dr V5L 3Y3 Doesn't this make more sense?

Phone: 775-0790 Fax:. 775-0881 Downtown Eastside Residents Association 12 E. Hastings St, or call 682-0931

- on the web, from comedian Sean Morey [Submitted by Ms Kelly]

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Join Lisa in the Art Gallery on the third floor and discover the magic of turning a piece of paper into a decorative or useful object through the Japanese art of paperfolding. All materials supplied.

News from the Library- April 1 New Books In Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver (971.13), James Delgado traces Vancouver' s seafaring history from the Coast Salish peoples through early explorers and settlers, enterprising lumbermen, shipping magnates, immigrants and stevedores, to today's busy commercial port.

This book is beautifully illustrated with maps, paint ing and photographs.

Interpol, the international police agency, currently lists more than 25,000 works of art as stolen. Museum ofthe Missing, by Simon Houpt (364.16) looks at what happens to the Renoirs, Rembrandts, Van Goghs and other art works that disappear. The book takes us into the backrooms of Scotland Yard, the FBI, and into a tangled world of money laundering, drugs, illegal arms trading and terrorism. The book includes illustrations of some of the paintings that have been recovered, and some of those that are still missing.

Remember Vancouver in the 1950s, '60s and '70s?

Michael Kluckner's Vancouver Remembered (759.21) looks at the time when "Vancouver was a small, quiet seaside city,", when "ethnic shopping and dining meant either Chinatown or Robsonstrasse; a night out would likely entail drinking and philosophizing in the Cecil Hotel beer parlour or dancing in a Gastown club." Kluckner's trademark pastel-shaded watercolours are supplemented by hand-painted maps, historical photographs, bro-

-. chures, postcards and cartoons. This book is available for use in the libr onl .

You can see these & more new books in the display case in the library. Ask at the front desk of the library if you want to reserve one (or more) of them.

Trades Books in the Library Are you working in a trade or looking for information about the various trades? Thanks to a generous donation from the KMC Foundation in memory of Ken Cummane, the library recently received a large collection of books on subjects like construction, plumbing, electrical work, first aid and janitorial work. Titles include: Residential Construction Academy: HVAC (697) Plumber's Pocket Manual (696. 1) Build Like a Pro: Painting & Finishing (698.1) Home Repair and Improvement: Plumbing (696) Build Like a Pro: Working with Tile (693.3) Machine Shop Basics (621.9) Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics (62 1.3) Home Wiring (621.31) Look for these books and more like them on the library shelves. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to the KMC Foundation for their generous donation.

Beth, your librarian.