April 1, 2019 Carnegie NEwsletter

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the willing (volunteers)

led by the unknow,ing (staff), are doing the impossible for the ungrateful (patrons).

We have done so much for so long with so little that we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.

Volunteer • Recognition Week is April 15-21

THE CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION BOARD ELECTION WILL BE HELD IN THE CARNEGIE THEATRE ON THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019 at 5:30PM

Nominations for the Board will be made on Thursday, May 2, 2019 in the Carnegie Theatre at 5:30 PM To nominate someone, you must have a membership

card dated no later than APRIL 5, 2019

To be a candidate for the Carnegie Board you must: -Have a membership card dated no later than April 5, 2019 -Be over 16 -Live or work (paid or unpaid) in the Downtown Eastside area -Be an active member of the Carnegie Community Centre Have contributed 30 hours of volunteer work to the Carnegie Community Centre or the Association during the year prior to the election

To vote at the AGM on June 6,2019 • Your membership

card should have a date no later than MAY 6, 2019

• Meeting on Thursday, June 6th, 2019 The Carnegie Community Centre Association will hold its Annual General at 5 :30 in the Theatre, 401 Main Street. The election for members ofthe Board will be held at this meeting. To run for the Board, you must have a membership card dated no later than April 5th, 2019 and have contributed 30 hours of volunteer work to the Centre in the previous year and you must be present at the meeting. To vote at this meeting you must have purchased a membership card on or before May 6th, 2019. Registration will take place between 5:00 and 5:30 pm.

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Gallery Gachet 9 W Hastings tue - sat 12.00 - 6.00 Reclaiming our Roots Indigenous Women Artists Collective Exhibition runs: Apr 5th - May 25th, 2019 Opening night: Friday, Apr 5th, 6-9pm

Artist Art Market: Saturday, May 25, llam-3pm Reclaiming our Roots is a show about tradition and the contemporary development of Indigenous practices as working Indigenous women artists with evolving creative practices.

The Indigenous Women Artists Collective (IWA) is made up of eleven indigenous selfidentified women who have worked out of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver since before 2013. IWA aims to present their artwork to the general public, to community members across Vancouver, and beyond. Together, they've built a platform for Indigenous women to share, teach, & exhibit their creative practices .

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The collective teaches workshops in and around the city of Vancouver, and are working on promoting and developing the careers of Indigenous women. IWA has been together since 2014 and has received several awards including awards from the First Peoples Cultural Council in 2014 and 2018. In 2015, IWA exhibited at the Roundhouse and UBC Learning Exchange and are currently planning for their residency this summer through the Creative City Strategy Grant.

Participating artists: AlIison Burns Joseph, Arlene Bowman, Chantel Joseph-Bordeau, Coco Agecoutay, Doris Fox, Georgina WingK'lem, Haisla Collins, Jacqueline West, Marilyn Mckee, Shevonne Hall, Veronica Iza

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This was written 20 years ago, as was Bud's poetry-

m aybe it wi 11go away ... "we must suffer with them" we should not look to the bible for moral examples david was a mess moses was a murderer and as for christian 'vaunted superior morality' jacques ellul, a french theologian and resistance fighter against the nazis said the second world war was primarily the fault of christians because instead of praying and acting against it christians fought for it and much the same can be said of christians' response to the war on drugs a real warfare which has arrived at its current oppressive and destructive intensity from the arrival of the earliest european christians in north america who called the aboriginal human beings devils and beasts who were fearsome with disease diseases spread by the christians themselves and the same demonizing language was invoked in the christian temperance crusade against alcohol but I wonder how many of us know why alcohol is legal now since by any measurement of human & social costs alcohol is the most destructive drug but when alcohol was made illegal it created mu~ worse violence and a new well-organized criminality and alcohol was never before so readily available to children but christians thought prohibition was a victory and now christians promote the prohibition of heroin and cocaine and drug addicts are demonized as were first nations people by the first christians in north america but the illicit drug war is far more diabolical than alcohol prohibition because the drug war and its consequences are a global scandal • and the results are everywhere the same epidemics of hivi aids

property crime corruption of police destruction of communities and overdose deaths the illicit drug situation is used now as a political tool and political weapon an immensely wealthy and powerful transnational organized criminal enterprise has developed of such magnitude that the global economy is now dependent on illegal drug money and so are local economies like vancouver's but the whole drug pyramid bears down on the lone addict but mostly addicts who are non-white and poor those superfluous in the new world economic order and in the united states the drug war has allowed the incarceration of half of an entire generation of young black men and in canada a similarly apartheid-like percentage of natives are locked up for drug-related offences illicit drug policies and laws are tailor-made for the booming population control industry but in the downtown eastside there are numerous storefront christian missions there is the union gospel mission and first united church and st james anglican church and st paul's catholic church and the salvation army and a 4square church and an annual march for jesus and thousands of young christian volunteers and the results are that drug addicts in the downtown eastside have had the western world's highest rate of hiviaids and more than 90% have hepatitis c and while the tuberculosis rate for adults in canada is 9 per 100,000 in the downtown eastside the tb rate is 132per 100,000 and nearly all of the drug addicts who live in what has been called

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the most wretched and lethal housing in north america have backgrounds of severe trauma and abuse much of it inflicted by christians in residential schools and foster homes and since the downtown eastside has become fiercely coveted by unscrupulous upscale development conspiracies wherein christians are directly responsible for the displacement of impoverished and desperately ill people life expectancy is dropping in the area an almost unheard of phenomenon in a first world nation but drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of death for adults aged 30 to 45 in all of british columbia and the downtown eastside has become a slaughterhouse and torture chamber and what has been the christian response to this preventable genocide from which they profit so handily? soup and sandwiches and flowers for homeless sick prostitutes who are being stalked, disappeared and murdered by serial killers and hot chocolate for dying addicts and demoralizing morality speeches before permitting malnourished people to eat 2nd and 3rd-hand food but christians of course are essentially concerned with saving souls and to save souls in a community of poor people suffering its passion a community crucified organ by organ is nothing less than.obscene and anti-christ christian charity is a vinegar sponge offered to a tortured slowly-dyingjesus christ jesus was not crucified because he was a teacher or a friend or a healer or a man of peace crucifixation was a death penalty for social rebellion for those who directly threatened the religious and political establishment jesus deliberately broke laws and violated taboos jesus was called a drunkard and a glutton who has a demon inside him just like a woman 1know in the downtwon eastside who was told by a good christian that she has aids because she's a sinner jesus spoke many more scathing parables

5 about the rich taking land away from the poor and oppressing them than he spoke about personal morality but 1 heard the mayor of vanocuver say "I follow in the footsteps of jesus" and say it as casually as you or 1 might say we are going to the corner store for a newspaper but those are mighty bloody footsteps and in light of the execution on the cross what does it mean for any of us to say 'I follow in the footsteps ofjesus'? and about the downtown eastside the mayor says "we have contained those people and now we are going to disperse them" containing the people created conditions of disease and death; dispersing the people will sentence sick afflicted people to having nowhere to go no relief for their afflictions and will spread epidemics dorothy day who lived both social justice and the works of mercy said "the mystery of the poor is this they are jesus it is not the decent poor it is not the decent sinner who was the recipient of christ's love but the criminal the unbalanced • the drunken ' the degraded the perverted in even the lowest and most depraved we must see christ what right has any of us to security when god's poor are suffering? while our brothers and sisters suffer we must suffer with them I was that drug addict screaming and tossing in her cell beating her head against the wall and not because the man or woman reminds us of christ [of the divine in all of us] but because of plain and simple and stupendous fact he or she is holy"

Bud Osborn (1999)

It's somewhat disconcerting when bus drivers and tour guides and other people who never set foot on our streets repeat the rhetoric of media and vested interests - "Don't go there!" 'Welcome to Skid Road." 'Watch your back and get out of here as fast as you can!" It's just sickening when an entire area - ours - is written off into categories ..

Once you label an area - "poor, run-down, druginfested, scuzzy, ... (pick-your-own)" it permits extraordinary corporate crimes.

Countering this?: Some kind soul handed me a yellow pamphlet while I and a consort were perusing the peculiar offerings of Gastown. Straightforwardly enough, it says Welcome to Gastown. It is here reprinted-

The tourist destination that has it all!

We are a recognized leader in: Homelessness - More than 2,000 low-income people still live in the old hotels in Gastown, but we are eliminating their housing as fast as we can to make room for more tourist shops and trendy offices.

Drugs - Everything from crack and heroin to marijuana and Valium is easily obtained on the streets of Gastown. That's why experts say we are p of the largest open-air drug market on the continent.

Child Prostitution - The police don't seem to be able to do anything about it. The pimps and johns wander freely here, so no wonder child advocates are starting to call us the Bangkok of North America.

Street Crime - Thefts from autos and auto theft on streets and in parking lots are at record highs.

Makes you wonder if it's safe to leave your car unattended -but isn't that what insurance is for?

Hey - not to worry.

Gastown has one of the largest private police forces anywhere. They work full time to keep the

unsightly panhandlers and shopping cart people moving and away from you. The pimps and johns know better than to tangle with our efficient guardians, so you'll always he fully protected as you enjoy your shopping experience. Don't you feel safer already?

And Vancouver city police have big plans to make it even safer. They want to install surveillance cameras that can scan all the high-crime areas of Gastown, meaning just about every sidewalk and street corner (see walking tour map).

Then they can keep an eye on you as you go about your shopping.

And that's not all: Gastown is getting its second I police station, at Carrall and Cordova, less than two blocks from the first one, with 40 extra officers dedicated to just one thing -giving you a good old-fashioned Gastown welcome.

For your shopping convenience, we are planning to create a "Carrall Street Safe-Transit Corridor" where police and rentacops will be patrolling in extra strength to protect you from unauthorized contact with the locals as you travel from Chinatown to Gastown and back in search of shopping experiences.

But we're also busy tackling the root causes of all these problems, too. When we're finished with the final solution, there won't be any poor people left in Gastown to spoil your shopping experience only the new gentry living in high-security gated complexes. With our friends in Chinatown, we are currently lobbying city council to prohibit any more low-cost housing or social programs here.

So once all those poor people finally get the message, they will pack up their few meagre belongings and move to a cardboard box in another part of town -or maybe to your town.

And as for all the people who have physical or mental disabilities, or have addictions, and the children and adults selling their bodies on the street, well, they'll just mend their ways on their own when they find out that there's no help for them available in Gastown.

So enjoy your visit to Gastown. Remember, it's not who you are, it's how much you spend

By PAULR TAYLOR

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WALKING SKEI.ETON How is it that I was brought into this world only to be abused and left for dead?

I've experienced a lifetime of suffering from the voices in my head which sound exactly like my parents' voices with their critical and ungrateful dread.

What could my purpose possibly be if there is no one in my life but me?

I was never wanted nor loved Never adored or admired Only judged and criticized to the point where I have nothing left inside.

My heart has been sliced into bits by dozens of guys with hard dicks that thought I was some kind of ho' without the courage to say no.

My body has been tom to shreds by the insanity of my own actions that took instructions from the voices in my head.

Now all that remains is a hollow empty skeleton that is using my name.

I wear my guts on the outside and my heart on my sleeve I leave a trail of blood as I walk down the street Nobody notices, nobody sees the pain that's buried deep inside of me.

IfI could only find the courage to reach deep inside, maybe just maybe I'd see my own light.

But I am overshadowed by darkness and living in fear of this world that already once destroyed the person I called me.

The voices in my head tell me to get fuck out ofhere or be left for dead. It's your choice, they say, and wish me good luck in finding my way.

I run to the mirror hoping to connect with the person inside but all I see is my hollow eyes open wide.

I don't like what I see I am fraction of the person I used to be Living a life that is hollow and alone where nowhere feels like home..

I am nothing more than a walking skeleton roaming the streets Invisible to a world full of people that stare right though me.

If I could only find the courage to reach deep inside, maybe just maybe I'd see my own light. lennifer Elizabeth This is dedicated to my mother who gave me the pet name of "walking skeleton" years ago.pnd it has stuck with me ever since.

Security Guards: My Rights Under the law, all property is either private or public. The owner of PRIV ATE property can make rules about how it is used and what activities are allowed to be carried out on the property. Security guards can be given the authority by the owner to enforce these rules on private property, but they have no power to enforce rules on PUBLIC property (like sidewalks and alleys). *1 can only be banned from PRIVATE property. A guard can ban me from private property in don't obey the rules of the owner. However, these rules cannot discriminate and must be applied to everyone equally and fairly. *1 have the rigbt to be judged by my actions, but not my appearance. If I am banned, they must tell me why. * Security guards can only arrest people in limited situations. Security guards can only arrest me iftbey . see me committing a crime or running from police. If they arrest me, they must tell me why I am arrestee and hand me over to police as soon after as possible. *Guards can't arrest me for refusing to identify myself or for not showing ID. If! am arrested, I have a right to, and should, speak to a lawyer before saying anything. *Security guards can only search people in limited situations. Guards can't search me unless I give them permission or they have arrested me. If they arrest me, they can only do a pat-down or quick search for weapons. Guards can't search my bags or packages, but they can hold them until police arrive. *1 have the right to the same treatment and courtesy as anyone else. I must be treated equally regardless of my ancestry, colour, place of origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, marital or family status or any combination of these factors. *1 can make a complaint. I can report a guard that abuses me, swears at me, discriminates against me or violates my rights.

To make a complaint against a security guard, it's important that I get the guard's name, and the security company they work for. They are legally required to provide this information to me if! ask.

Sleeping Outside: My Rights In December 2009, the BC Court of Appeal released a judgment called Victoria v. Adams. That decision means that if there aren't enough shelter beds, homeless people now have a right to erect a temporary overnight shelter on public land. Public land includes parks and sidewalks. This right has some limits; the rights of other people to use public space for other reasons must also be respected.

Pivot Legal Society believes that, if you are homeless, you are legally entitled to erect a tent or a temporary overnight shelter on City streets so long as you respect other people and follow these general guidelines: I. Tents aren't put in the middle of sidewalks or on curbs 2. Tents allow space for pedestrians to pass easily 3. Areas around tents are kept neat and clean 4. Tents do not block access to doorways or fire hydrants 5. Tents are taken down in the day and when nearby businesses are open If! follow the above guidelines, but a police officer or city official or security guard still bothers me, I should call or visit rivot Legal Society if! want to take action.

Panhandlinq: My Rights 1. I have the right to ask for money as long as I do not swear or make threats, or block a person's path, or continue to ask after they have said no.

2. I have the right to ask for money if the person is alone and away from their vehicle.

3. I have the right to ask for money on public property if the person is five metres away from a bank machine, public pay phone, public bathroom, or bus stop or vehicle. Note: parking lots are not public property.

4. I can ask for money within five meters of a bank machine in have permission from the owner of the property where the bank machine is located.

Police:

Standing Up for

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SILENCE IS GOLDEN: If! am arrested by the police I should stay SILENT and calm, use my common sense & try to remember my rights & what is happening to me.

I have the right to silence. When on public space, I can refuse to talk to police or security guards, or answer their questions. The exception is if they say I broke the law. In that case I have to identify myself but I do not have to say anything else.

If I do choose to talk to police, I realize that they can use the things I say against me. I do not have to answer any questions I do not want to. I can end a conversation with police at any time.

I can walk away from police unless I am being detained or arrested. If I am being detained or arrested, I have a right to know why. If! am arrested, I have a right to speak privately to a lawyer without delay - even if! can't afford to pay.

I can say "NO" if the police ask permission to search me or my things. Saying "NO" does not mean I have something to hide. .

I can only be strip-searched in private and by officers of the same sex.

I have a right to know a police officer's names and badge number. I can report am officer who abuses me, swears at me, or violates my rights.

To report a police officer to the Police Complaints Commis- sion call: 1-800-663-7867. To speak to a Legal Aid lawyer call: 1-888-978-0050

ASSERTING MY RIGHTS "Officer, if! am under arrest or being detained, please tell me so. If! am free to go, please tell me so. If! am not free to go, please tell m why. I wish to exercise all my legal rights including my right to silence and my right to speak to a lawyer before I say anything to you. I do not consent to be searched. I wish to be released without delay. Please do not ask me questions, because I will not willingly talk to you until I speak to a lawyer. Thank you for respecting my rights."

If a police officer, city official, or security guard: 1. Threatens to use force to take me to a shelter 2. Takes my possessions and doesn't give them back 3. Tells me to move along in public space when I am just sitting or standing there 4. Tells me I can't put up a temporary overnight shelter in a park or on a sidewalk if! am homeless and the shelters are full 5. Tells me to stop panhandling when I'm not breaking any of the panhandling rules Harasses me at night when I am sleeping in a public place Stops or searches me because of the way I look Refuses to help me when I am hurt or seriously ill Then my rights have been violated, and I should talk to Pivot Legal Society if I want to take action

Pivot Legal Society 121 Heatley tel: (804) 255-9700

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"We need to keep families together. Colonization and missing and murdered Indigenous women has broken families. The children left behind by missing and murdered Indigenous women are mostly infoster care and then when they age out they end up on the street. The violence against missing and murdered Indigenous women continues with their children who are also violated and made vulnerable. " Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside On April 3, The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre (DEWC) will release Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside based on the lived experience, leadership, and expertise of Indigenous survivors. This comprehensive report is the culmination of a participatory process with 113 Indigenous women and 15 non-Indigenous women regarding the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Violence against Indigenous women, girls, trans and two-spirit people is one of the most pressing human rights issue in Canada today. We know that the over-representation in statistics on homicides, poverty, homelessness, child apprehensions, police street checks, incarceration, and overdose fatalities is not a coincidence; it is part of an infrastructure of gendered colonial violence. Colonial state practices target women for removal from Indigenous lands, tear children from their families, enforce impoverishment, and manufacture the conditions for dehumanization.

Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is an extraordinary report with Indigenous women survivors at the center; rather than as a secondary reference. Indigenous women in the DTES-a neighbourhood known as ground zero for violence against Indigenous women-are not silent victims, statistics, or stereotypes. This unprecedented work shares their powerful first-hand realities ofviolenc ,residential schools, colonization, land, resource extraction, family trauma, poverty, labour, housing, child welfare, being two-spirit, police, prisons, legal system, opioid crisis, healthcare, and more.

Authored by Carol Muree Martin (Nisga'a and Gitanyow) and Harsha Walia with 128 collaborators, the compelling stories, rigorous research, and holistic recommendations within the 220-page report drastically and urgently shifts the lens from pathologizing poverty towards amplifying resistance to and healing from all forms of gendered colonial violence. We are honoured and thrilled to share the tenacity, brilliance, and warrior women spirit of Red Women Rising.

"This report is comprehensive and compelling. DEWC is one of the few safe spaces in the DTES exclusively for self-identified women and their children, and thus uniquely positioned to author this groundbreaking report. " Union of BC Indian Chiefs "We stand behind this excellent report and the Indigenous leadership it provides on the elimination of genderbased violence on these lands. " - Yellowhead Institute

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From the LibrarY Hi Everyone! I have some important library news. In an effort to diversify, VPL is running pilot programs in several branches to explore other borrowing options. Carnegie Branch has been selected for this program, so starting at the beginning of this month, we will no longer be lending out books, but instead will be lending whimsical hats, puppies, and ice cream cones. So for this issue's column, I'll be reviewing some of the new whimsical hats, puppies and ice cream cones we have in.

APRIL FOOLS! We still have books. Here are a few of our new ones.

Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves might as well be an April Fools read. It's a novel, but good luck making sense of it. Some pages have only a single word on them, others feature extensive footnotes that themselves have footnotes, still others have to be held up to a mirror to be read. It is apparently an example of"Ergodic Literature".

True Crime doesn't come any truer than the Case File of the NYPD - a collection ofNY crime tales going all the way back to 183 1.

Eric Waiters may be Canada's most prolific writer of teen novels - he's written 92, so far. His most recentEnd of Days - is the gripping tale of the race to save humanity from an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.

John Hein is a Fast Food Maniac. He is an obsessive devotee ofthose restaurants without table service, and probably not much of a fan of the movie Super-Size Me. Regardless of your feelings on fast food, his book is a pretty interesting history and catalogue of all the fast food joints across the US. He even reveals each chain's secret menu items!

Finally, we'ij be showing the NFB film Window Horses in the Theatre at 3 :30 on Saturday, April 6th.

This is a gorgeous animated film about an overprotected Vancouver girl's journey to Iran to take part in a poetry festival. Please join us!

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Sat April 27 2pm-4:30pm In the Carnegle Theatre Naomi will take participants through the basics 0 theatre improvisation, including short form improv games. Build skills and apply to short scripted scenes.

"Come ready to play and have fun!"

Naomi Vogt is a professional actor based in Vancouver, with years of experience as a teacher and improviser.

Free, everyone welcome! No experience needed.

For iufo: Teresa 604-155-9401 thirteenofheartstiuhotmail.com

From my balcony I see across the city.

A sprinkle of white dust and the sparkling lights.

A city so large becomes so quiet.

Yet the kaos is undeniable.

People slipping, cars sliding, buses unable to go up a hill.

Yet it's only a sprinkle of white kaotic dust.

The beauty undeniable, the kaos unknown.

People freezing, without a home People starving, without food, and a quiet pain that rips through a city.

Covered in a beautiful layer of white dusty snow.

People cut off welfare get harsher sentences than criminals I believe one major solution to homelessness woul4 be for the federal government to build hostels that provide three meals a day and a bed to sleep on. It is wrong that in a country as rich as Canada, thousands of people are living on the streets.

Currently, if someone defrauds the welfare system, they are cut off from income assistan~e and are sentenced to sleeping in alleys, panhandlmg, and dumpster diving.

Someone who cheats the welfare system should be punished, by going to jailor having their benefit~ cut off. However, the offender should still have the nght to live in a government funded hostel shelter. To .sentence someone to live in the street is too harsh a punishment.

Food and shelter are the most basic of human rights.

When a murderer goes to jail, he has food, clothing and shelter paid for by the government. Yet if someone gets cut off welfare, they are left to freeze and starve on t?e streets. This is terribly unfair. Fraud is a far lesser cnme than murder. However, a murderer is better taken care of by government than a homeless person!

Some people are homeless because they can't find a place cheap enough to rent that can be covered by welfare. Government funded hostels would provide temporary relief until an affordable place to live can be found.

Chris Lindsay, Kelowna

The Bigot-in-Chief After the mosque murders in New Zealand, Donald Trump again spoke his racist rhetoric by refusing to. denounce the shootings and praised white supremacists as being "mighty fine people." .

Despite the lies coming from th~ Trump-Pence re.glme that Trump is not a bigot, Trump IS a cowardly racist.

Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, was a Nazi supporter, and the apple didn't fall far from the tree: Those who remain silent on the problem of white supremacy only promote the problem. People need to stand together in total solidarity to resist and fight the lie of white supremacy.

Hoka Hey! Mitakuye dyasin.

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Who's My Real Kin? for I seemed to have been used and abused as like a scapegoat from the kin that I was born within.

I know that in ancient times, it was the the healthiest, the innocent, the loving and most accomplished of the herd that was selected - to abide and hide the sins of others; for it had to be strong enough to suffer for a period oftime, alone in the wilds, Love within one's character - is a strength, but it is also something that one can lose if they choose to stay in abuse ... and yet, what is more painful than saying goodbye to kin - no matter what?

Maybe the answer's to get on with one's own life and keep a slight distance, for you never did quite fit in with 'their problems' that they have chosen not to solve .. for they just seem to want to dissolve them into you! dysfunctionally. , Sometimes we gotta find our own kin with like-minded people who are secure enough in their own skin to welcome us in - as we are and as we wish to continue to be courageous, optimistic and loving.

Let go of the pain, the guilt, the shame, the thoughts of suicide? that you might have formerly entertained.

Forgive insults that are not yours to carry and then don't look back - for today's freedom - is joy enough to marry. lnga g My eyes see, your lips and look Lie to me You censor me, laugh me off, move me along My truth still stands after your despicable acts I prepare for anything and everything You do not.

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-Subject matter pertaining to issues relevant to the Downtown Eastside, but all work considered.

-Black & White printing only.

-Size restrictions apply (i .e. if your piece is too large, it will be reduced and/or cropped to fit).

-All artists will receive credit for their work.

-Originals will be returned to the artist after being copied for publication.

-Remuneration: Carnegie Volunteer Tickets Please make submissions to Paul Taylor, Editor.

The editor can edit for clarity, format & brevity, but not at the expense of the writer's message.

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