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Thank you to artists Muriel Williams (left) & Diane Wood (right) for painting the new piano that is located outside the Carnegie Community Centre.

Time for a quick update on the corporate lawsuit to silence Public Citizen.

I'll let you know how the company contorts "Citizens United" to bolster its attack on Public Citizen.

This involves "Citizens United" and corporate "feelings" that we supposedly hurt. To recap what's happened so far: - Last summer, Murray Energy a powerful corporation & the largest private coal company in the country - sued us after we ran radio ads pointing out the FACT that it opposed new regulations to improve worker safety & protect clean air.

- We tried to have the suit dismissed or at least heard in a neutrally located federal court. But earlier this year, a judge ordered us to proceed with the case in a state court that is literally in the SAME SMALL TOWN where Murray Energy is headquartered.

- In June, Murray Energy even DEMANDED that we cover legal expenses the company incurred to keep the case in its backyard. *As if that's all not bizarre enough, get this: * When Murray Energy first filed its lawsuit against us, the company contended that U.S. Supreme Court rulings like "Citizens United" mean it has privacy rights meant for living, breathing human beings - and that our ads violated those alleged rights.

In one of the few positive developments so far in the case that claim was thrown out. But Murray Energy is now appealing on that outlandish point. Here are actual quotes from earlier court documents Murray Energy filed in this lawsuit: - In "Citizens United", "the O.S. Supreme Court showed a willingness to determine that corporations possess the same rights as individuals."

- "A decade ago, no one would have foreseen that corporations woul njoy many of the same rights as individuals. " - "Yet, in recent years, the courts have shown an increasing willingness to extend rights commonly held only by individuals to corporations."

- "Murray Energy should have the opportunity to assert that [Public Citizen] invaded its privacy ...."

- Murray Energy - a corporation - suffered "mental anguish and emotional distress" as a result of our ads *In other words, Murray Energy - citing Supreme Court travesties such as "Citizens United" - has claimed that we invaded its privacy and hurt its feelings. And even though that absurd claim was dismissed by the court, the company won't let it go. * Murray Energy's appeal brief is due later this month.

"Public Citizen is a group that seeks to inform people about corporate malfeasance & greed. Ifs a sister paper to the Volcano (k the Carnegie Newsle.tter. ICd be similar if Jimmy Pattison or Concord Pacific filed a lawsuit against us for talking about the negative effects of gentrification or poverty or homelessness ..

Coverage-is paralleled here with the Conservative cartel engaging its legal army to try every legal trick when no less than 7 members of its majority government were taken to court by the Council of Canadians for lying & clieating to get elected. Does 'robo-calls' telling people they l)couldn't vote (not on a list); 2) had to vote at a different (non-existent) polling place or 3) given outrageous (but false) claims on non-Con candidates ... ring a bell? They demanded the plaintiffs PAY FOR the Conservative defense before it even got to court. In the end the judge ruled that these bozos had cheated & lied but it wasn't serious to void their win!??

This, along with the criminal actions of several of Mr. Harper's caucus, appointees & staff should be kept in mind when any Conservative ads are seen or heard.

p1\1 *Thank You! from Vancouver Taiko Society & Powell Street Festival Society*

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Photo: Salmon by Tara . Thank you very much for participating in the FishStix workshops and the Against the Current performance at the 39th Annual Powell Street Festival!

The presentation was a great success! If you have any feedback about the performance, please feel free to contact us at fishstixworkshop@gmaiLcom.

The props will likely be used again for the performance at the Heart of the City Festival in November and we will keep you updated as the details become available!

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VPL has just announced our latest "Aboriginal Storyteller in Residence" - Sharon Shorty, who is from the Raven Clan in the southern Yukon region. Ms. Shorty is an award-winning playwright, storyteller, and actress from the Tlingit, Northern Tutchone and Norwegian people. One of her plays called, Trickster visits the oldfolks home is included in a book at VPL called "Staging the North: Twelve Canadian PLays."

To learn more about the Tlingit peoples, check out these books: Richard A. Beasley has written a series (2009) of interest to carvers. "How to Carve a Tlingit Hat," "How to Carve a Tlingit Tray," and "How to Carve a

Tlingit Mask."

Sharon Busby features finely woven basketry, ineluding a visual history from the 1850s to the present in the book, "Spruce Root Basketry of the Haida

and T1ingit" (2003).

"Tlingit TaLes: Potlatclt ami Totem Pole" (1985) is a compilation of stories shared by Robert Zuboff, chief of the Beaver Clan on Admiralty Island when he was eighty-years old.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s a photographer collected beautiful photographs of daily life in a Tlingit village in southeastern Alaska, featured in "A

Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country" (2013) by Sergei.Kan, We also have a Tlingit dictionary at Carnegie, if you would like to welcome Sharon Shorty when she visits our library!

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If my plants end up dead, I will cry inside my bed.

If my plants fully bloom, I will take them for my room .

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Humanities 101 Community Programme (Hum) offers four free university-level courses for people who live on low incomes in and around the Downtown Eastside and Downtown South. The courses are for people who have encountered financial and other barriers to university education and who wish to expand their intellectual horizons in an accessible, challenging and respectful environment.

Applicants must have a love of learning, basic literacy skills and be willing to attend classes, complete as. signments and participate in group discussions. Applications for these non-credit courses are accepted not on the basis of past academ ic history, but on the applicant's desire and ability to be part of the Hum Programme. Classes take place at UBC point grey campus 01) Tuesday and Thursday evenings, beginning in early September.

You can apply for an eight-month interdisciplinary . course where you will study a different subject in the arts and social sciences each week, including history and politics, art, music, architecture, philosophy, literature, sociology, first nation studies, economics, gender studies, popular culture and more. ..

Or you can apply for a three-month hands on wntmg course where a new genre and style of writing will taught each week. Participants receive school supplies, UBC student cards, bus tickets to get to & f:om ~ class, meals, and chi Idcare if needed. Note that this year Hum is offering Writing 201 for the first time.

This course is only open to alumni of Writing 101.

Please attend an upcoming information and application session for more details on how to participate in the Programme. You must attend one of these sessions if you want to apply. Information is also available at humanities 1OJ .arts. ubc.ca, or email h.u.m@ubc.ca with any questions. l

Carnegie Centre, Main & Hastings St. (3rd fl classroom) Saturday August 15th at 11 a.rn, for Hum 101 & Hum 201 Monday August 17th at 11 a.m, for Writing101 & 201 Wednesday August 19th at 11 arn, for Hum1 01 & 201 + Writing101 & 201 Gathering Place Community Centre, 609 Helmcken St. (meeting room) Saturday August 15th at 1 p.m, for Hum1 01 & 201 Tuesday August 18th at 1 p.rn, for Writing101 & 201

Vancouver Recovery Club, 2775 Sophia St. Tuesday August 18th at 11 a.m, for Hum 101 & 201 + Writ, ing 101 & 201 Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, 302 Columbia St. (women only) Wednesday August 19th at 2 p.m, for Hum101 & 201 + Writ ing101 & 201

tel. 604-822-0028 http://humanities101.arts.ubc.ca/

Praying to God means precisely pointing out God's partiality "Prayer is the act of asking for a favour with earnestness. It also means a solemn petition addressed to the Supreme Being for certain benefits. One prays to God for something which one does not possess or thinks one does not possess. One asks God for these favours with the faith that He alone can bestow everything and by His mere wish all wants can be satisfied. By prayer or by begging one wants to awaken His wish so that one may be granted the things one lacks. Does not one's attempt to rouse the wish of God to fulfil these needs, upon careful and rational thinking, appear to be a reminder to God to give one something of which God has kept one deprived? It would otherwise not be necessary to remind Him in prayer of that thing or to try to arouse His wish to give. For instance, if one is in need of money, one would, with the faith that God alone can give, pray to Him for the favour of giving one money. Does not this request show God's fault in keeping one in want of money, when He alone can give it? God alone is blamed for it, and by praying to Him for money one is precisely pointing out to Him His partiality in not giving one the money one needed. Therefore, prayer or asking for favours from God is only pointing out to the Sole Giver His mistakes in the distribution of His favours.

It only presumes lack of impartiality in Him, and that is why He is blamed for making some very rich and others very poor. Praying to God for favours is only to bring to His notice the charge of partiality levelled against Him. When prayer leads to such a conclusion, it is only ignorance to ask for favours."

Crabtree Corner 533 East Hastings St. (3rd floor room) Monday August 1'7 at 1 p.rn, for Hum1 01 & 201 + Wriing1 01 & 201

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NEWS FROM OPPENHEIMER PARK Extended Hours!

Monday to Sunday

9:15am - 8:00pm

The 8thAnnual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show: In Between! Announcing Participating Artists We're excited to announce this year's participating artists! If you're selected, but haven't met Kay, the Coordinator for the show, please meet her in-person asap!

Kay's office hours*: Sun: 9am - 5pm/Mon: 11am - 8pml Thurs: 9am - 5pm (*subject to change) ..

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Endless Summer Festival- September

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A family fun event for everyone. Free! Arts and Craft tables, festival games, musical chairs, jello eating contest. lO:30am - 4:30pm

We are recruiting volunteers to help with the event. Please speak with Cody Kenny or other park staff if you are interested in helping us out this year.

Sushi Making Workshop

Monday, August 17th 5:30-6:30pm.

Sign up with Park Staff. Limited spaces available Participate in Community Art Project!

SATURDAYS 4:30PM - 6:30PM Join Sarah to create a community art piece for the HomeGround Festival 2016. Some samples will be made for our 8th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show.

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The harms from this refusal to hold WaIl Street accountable are the same generated by the general legal immunity the US political culture has vested in its elites. Just as was true for the protection of torturers and illegal eavesdroppers, it ensures that there are no incentives to avoid similar crimes in the future. It's an injustice in its own right to allow those with power & wealth to commit destructive crimes with impunity. It subverts democracy & warps the justice system when a person's treatment under the law is determined not by their acts but by their power, position, & prestige. And it exposes just how shameful is the American penal state by contrasting the immunity given to the nation's most powerful with the merciless and brutal punishment meted out to its most marginalized.

(SE)DATE & STERILE 'Welcome to our Fall Decor catalogue' Full of stuff ya didn't know you're supposed to want They got just the shit you need to finish that charming SRO of yours in charcoal, bone, slate & beryl -old colours with expensive new namesThey got 4000 threadcount sheets woven by Himalayan gypsies & designed by some putz you never heard of They got $500 lamps, priced exactly right to grace that milk-crate end table They got recycled-stinky-plastic patio furniture made (exclusively) by third world slave labour Fire escape suitable - is that perfect or what? .

They got over-priced particle board bedroom SUItes (Designed by another guy you never heard of) Don't got an imagination? No style?

No Problem: at Date-with-Erroll Taste comes mass-produced and pre-packaged So even the terminally hopeless homeowner can be just as stylin' just as unique as every other Yaletown hipster because you're nothin' without good taste Style! Culture! You've heard the WORD -now take out your chequebook* suckers DMcK *a nod to Cindy Sherman

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Muddy water's flowing under a collapsing bridge, to how I would describe humanity - all of us flowing not really knowing where we're going. Oh there are a few who know what is really going on. They have shown us all by signs but all the using and abusing has kept us blind. And I've a feeling we're running out of time the most surreal gift we have and waste so much of, doing things that we don't want to do. If we are so smart why do we have near-starvation, drugs?

Escapism is like a prison, never-ending supply of delights to keep us distracted from what is really going on: the rape of our children, land & minds is going on and no one seems to care. So what are the answers -there have to be a few. I suggest printing more money is not the ting to do. No. I say pile it high burn it and start anew - this we could never do: How do we know have we tried; might be forced to

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Choices and Anarchy these words are used to describe a mindset to overthrow tyranny and that my brothers and sisters is what we all need to do. Scream your indignation from the rooftops you have voice use it before even that right is taken away. Bill C-51 is just the start, its real aim is us -rhe ones who can make a fuss. And, for them to keep it all, suppressing us is a must.

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Dear Paul Taylor clo The Carnegie Newsletter

2015, Vancouver

Been meaning to send into the enduring & needed Carnegie newsletter a donation both for to keep it going & in honour of Bob & Muggs, as well as the theatre workshop there at Carnegie. It was from this workshop that Bob got going with his three original musical shows that told the Untold Stories of Vancouver in song, dance & script. It took Theatre in the Raw 11 years to complete the production of all three shows in fact. Amazingly, a lot of the work was first shown through numerous Heart of the City Festival events & venues in the Downtown Eastside.

It was also through the Carnegie Theatre Workshop where I taught for a number of years that I was able to then work closely with a host of hard-working, talented & remarkable artists & coordinators in the 'hood; a group of endearing folk over many years in & out of the Carnegie Centre.

I know that times can be tough and the funding for worthwhile & creative work can sometimes not only be near & dear but the cupboard can be nearly bare .. unfortunately. Anyway, I want to see the Newsletter continue of course & a voice from the Carnegie Centre & the Downtown Eastside keep up its beacon call.

I'm hoping that there is a change in the political landscape Federally and wouldn't mind if one happened with our Provincial government as well. We've had too too long the same policies & government sorts at the helm; change is needed for sure in a number of quarters.

Glad I got a chance to see Bob & Muggs on Hornby Island. He is very much missed by a number of friends within the Downtown Eastside and beyond.

Thanks and take care. Yours ever, Jay Hamburger

Hurray for the Carnegie Newsletter The Downtown Eastside's most widely read paper about the Downtown Eastside.

Nothing else like it in the City!

The longest survivor. What other is there?

Deeply committed to the cause of the community Fearless, entertaining, moving, Adventuresome with the facts Passionate, committed. A must read.

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Thanks to the commitment of the volunteer staff Working with the Downtown Eastside, for the Downtown Eastside, about the Downtown Eastside.

Educates about the DTES community, Advocates for issues and concerns of our community Speaks our values to the larger city and beyond.

A gold mine of writing Giving voice to the low income community of the DTES Informing.

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Opening our eyes to gentrification and displacement Opening our hearts to the conditions of the SRO's and the need for affordable housing Nothing like it at any other community centre in the city.

Participant driven. An anarchistic publication.

Produced with hours of volunteer work.

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Paul didn't give a S-H-I-T Our Community is not a rich community.

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The New Aristocracy When France fought the British in the war for American independence France, in effect, became bankrupt. This, together with the structure and dynamics of feudal society and the lack of food due to bad harvests in 1787 & 1788, precipitated the French Revo Iuti on.

Before the French Revolution in 1789 the "little people" i.e. the peasants, many of whom were illiterate, hungry & and full of contempt and rage, were in chains - which is to say they were, among other things, the bearers ofa heavy indirect tax (even on salt) while the aristocracy avoided both direct & indirect taxation ..from which the church was exempt.

On July 14, 1789 powerless prisoners destroyed the Bastille, an infamous prison used by the King. On August 4, 1789 the so-called Third Estate of the National Assembly, which included 166 lawyers, 85

merchants & 278 government officials and which supposedly represented the will of the people, decreed the abolition of the entire feudal system .. which resulted in some peasants being able to now buy land at low prices while being freed from the burden of feudal dues & tithes. Many others did not or could not buy their own land and therefore continued to live in their hovels, still poor & starving. They, however, no longer had to work the land of the landlord for the landlord without pay.

On January 21, 1793 King Louis XVI was guillotined, as was Queen Marie Antoinette on October 12.

In much the same way as there were extremely wealthy & privileged aristocracy, so today there are also extremely wealthy & privileged pseudo aristocrats - the top 1%, about 80 families - who possess roughly 50% of the world's wealth while 99% of humanity, the Walmart peasants, own the other 50%.

Thus has the wealth been rationally distributed!

By HARRY SHORNECK

Our Mother Earth As I walk across the earth Thousands of things I get to see Birds fly I:igh, soaring higher and on the flowers I hear the buzz of bees The sun of the dawn rises within the hills Mountains covered with snow Shining like the crown of silver And he waves touching the cliffs The waterfall flowing down the green-blue mountains Rivers forming a dream delta before entering the sea.

And while walking on the beach at night I feel the cool and sweet-smelling breeze the slashing sound still feels like the sound of love and peace.

The moon over the sea Shining like a ball of gold And in every step my eyes hold wonder I bend on my knees to thank Mother Earth and the truth is If s a great pleasure for me to live in this wonderland.

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"Modern Social Paralysis in the online age" Like someone eating too much candy and growing very ill, humanity is beginning to display the consequences of excessive technological convenience, a phenomenon that has strangled two thousand years of organic social communication, the natural function that helped give birth to virtually all the luxuries and convenience we enjoy, yet mostly take for' granted, today.

Though I am only thirty years of age, 1 can recall the time before cellular communications technology and the advent of the internet and remember that the social climate in Western society was certainly a few notches warmer. People did not hide behind textmessaging or feed unnatural impulses like voyeurism, creeping peoples social-networking pages online.

Both practices nurtured unhealthy behaviors and could very much be called antisocial technologies.

When you consider the brass-tacks of the whole situation, its decidedly quite sinister ...

As media-culture became an all-pervasive influence in the lives of ordinary people, especially the wageearning and middle classes, people became bullied and intimidated by the Electric Dictator. Suddenly they were insecure and horrified that they didn't look like the dreamy superstars and television personalities they saw as they plugged their consciousness daily and nightly for years into the touchstone abyss, staring into the glass like the damned staring into

eternal hopelessness, that one-of-a-kind most peculiar and weird stare that people have when watching a screen or a monitor. Suddenly who they wasn't good enough, wasn't rich enough, wasn't cool enough. Suddenly people became prisoners in their own minds, the dictator constantly stimulating far too much mental activity, imprisoning them in images of their own imagination. Simply put, they became afraid to be themselves .., You needn't be psychic to see how pitiful we've all become. Though we take a flight from Toronto to Hong Kong in a day and have lunch at an upscale cafe or shoot the breeze with someone, most of us are where we have been imprisoned since cell phones and internet: in our heads!

You can see that glazed stare when talking to people nowadays. You suddenly realize you're talking to a fictional, superficial, media and ego-dictated version ofwho-they'd-like-to-be( which, by implication really says: 1 hate who I am and I secretly don't think I'm good enough).

True, we can talk instantly to someone in the farthest reaches of our developed world, & have gained much yet I suspect we have lost so much more, something we can't retrieve. As frost begins to cover the trembling and traumatized hearts of average people, a dark shadow begins to loom over our species, a cold spectre of death and destruction that was foreseen long ago ....

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Desperate Political Craving Journal of a Hope-fiend I dream a dream of whys for fortune and god's eyes I like people all love positivity grand tolerate my own wherewithal choose to make peace fight the idea of war and make new friends galore each day a new opportunity for learning hope and tweaking reality John Alan Douglas

Harper and the Conservatives have decided to dissolve parliament much earlier than required, in order to open a campaign at the tax payer's expense. Whatever party spends the most money, usually wins the election. The party is then reimbursed of their spending by the stupid, jolly taxpayer.

If you have any energy in your body then please go out and vote on election day & rid our land of Harper and his warmongering ways.

It takes about 40 minutes to leave your home, go down to where the ballots are cast, wait your turn in line & cast your vote. Then you return to your home having done your duty. Is 40 minutes of your time worth having a change of our dinosaur leadership?

If not, then you deserve what you'll get.

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THE STRICKEN FORM OF MAN Another piece of sky is blackened from our sight another day of being the punch line of an overextended joke consumes all forms of light have fallen off the map I just don't know what I should know by now, bad news is the only news in print as newspapers begin to become obsolete the Richmond Review threw out its last edition with nothing even running in to complete apathy is in full control now, the bad things will continue to make waves while entire communities will have to dig t~eir families' graves what is left is just not right, Things & ideas I hold extremely dear disappear by the end of a single day, you are only cheating yourself out of time & still you think if 11all be OK when your life gets kicked in will you offer the evil ones a light then obey every new morning I push my fists out red yet tight, the future gets torn then thrown around it never fazes me when it lets me down another piece of time turned downside up Oh these dystopian nights, like reading the Riot Act to invalids & shut-ins who wouldn't know if peace had broken out let alone war ifs all fine until music drowns out the next & last world war far above a million little pieces of our waste awaits those who plan to be here eleventeen hundred days/years from now, like an Instagram ofDorian Grey or that dystopian biblical chain of events that has just got to be coming our way hepatitis andronicus should be here any moment near now, Mankind makes its own bed and now must lie on it we seem capable of shattering our own dreams ifl had a previous life 1 spent it devising short life-

span schemes (was I bipolar then) depression is the one luxury in abundance I have always had, when your god begins to crumble right before your eyes like a tomb with a view with no one but yourself to sympathise there's the biggest industry Mother Earth has ever had, these people you get to know so well then the phone rings will you accept the charges it's from hell as another friend is dead a pack of life saviours would not have changed a thing, some die very soon others almost forever but is always seems short whether from afar or always together I alwait my fate to find the real truth maybe there will be no clear answer as dramatists the world over continually swing, like a political party that uses facts & common sense or a dentist from the States that kills Cyril the lion I think hell is where you can forward his insurance cheques along with cyanide whipping cream on his urinal cake will plunge to the top, like carpeting with chalk-outlined people woven right into the fabric or the yearly running of the bulldozers over cheap boarding houses once the poor are gone this will be truly fantastic do you really think I would make all of this up of course not, we are the stricken we are the Jewish people of 30s~40s Europe despised by many who truly think our best interests are in 6 feet of buried ground, my 20/20 blindsight knows full well what is happening all across this once pristine country but my thoughts weigh my might further down, like a sunny Chernobyl happy hour it is time for the end to take control. Next time enjoy the heat-wave glow.

By ROBERT McGILLIVRA Y "History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice."

-Will Durant.

A Good Neighbour For your neighbours, lend your hand Show them that you understand They have rights we must protect Show them kindness and respect For your neighbours try to care When they're in trouble, help repair.

Lend an ear and listen too If they're worried help them through For your neighbours give a smile Spend time with them for awhile Look after your neighbour's needs And God will reward your deeds.

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The Opening of Insite '(After reading this, think of Harper's 'reasons 'for wanting to kill Insite and any other kind of harm reduction initiatives.)

ANew Day we of the Downtown Eastside have made history today we who have had the highest rate of overdose deaths in the world we today are making history we who have had the highest AIDS rate in the world among injecting junkies the highest rate of tuberculosis from shooting up in putrid alleys and poisonous hotel rooms are making history we have won a major battle we the most afflicted of the poor have won a battle in the war against the drug warriors we have beaten them in a harm reduction battle a war of 50 years begun by Ernie Winch MLA for Burnaby who first tried to bring supervised injection sites to Vancouver 50 years tens of thousands ef needless deaths and infections tens of thousands of destroyed families and hopelessness but here something new has emerged from the work sweat blood deaths and demonstrations for so many years from so many people . we are writing a new Canadian history Canada's real identity is not tearing apart communities and families like the United States that pushes dope

and the death of hope to enter our land yes, we have fought for over 50 years and today we can announce an incredible victory saving lives and giving those lives opportunity for change for a real life oflove and joy and care and health and this is what a safe injection site is about and this is our day the day for everyone who has ever cared for the Downtown Eastside in a world of death and terror because we have won a corner of it for life and peace there has never before been in North America an injection site supported by 3 levels of government and the local police until now this is the beginning of new life a new illuminating light for everyone in the horrific darkness of the war on drugs in North America a new illuminating light of hope It was a previously unheard of request and privilege for a poet to be asked to write and read a poem for the opening of Insite, North America's fi'st publicly-supported supervised injection site.

I therefore dedicate this poem to the many people who laid down their lives to bring about this life-saving and hope-inspiring initiative.

-Bud

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This issue marks the 29th birthday or anniversary of the Carnegie Newsletter. The first edition was put together in a storage closet in the basement for August 15, 1986 - 12 pages, 60 copies. It's been "that @$%)(*"*)#$ rag" to "the only thing I read from cover to cover every time!!" but the invisible victories are much deeper and more profound. The Newsletter has become the foundation for expression of universal principles, for gathering allies and propagating the ideology of justice. The Downtown Eastside is a microcosm of global struggles.

"In every living being there is a thirst for limitlessness"; the struggle is to progress without being overcome with the sky-licking greed of humans, the impossibility of quenching this spiritual thirst in the desert of drugs and booze, money and power.

The dogmas of criminality and clean-up are still dogma - bad theory presented as truth.

The prime directive is to elevate the dignity of women, a struggle expressed by building housing and a new Women's Centre, breaking the silence around violence against women, the hidden obscenity of over 60 missing women and the deaths of over 125 women in just a few years.

The prime directive.is to raise the cognitive awareness of humanity, to literally revolutionise the evolution of human consciousness; the struggle to expose the dark forces of gentrification, superiority complexes, the forced dispersion of residents without concern for consequences, and the driving greed and self-interest mistaken on purpose for enlightenment.

The Carnegie Newsletter is a pole in the spiritual magnet of the Downtown Eastside. All eyes are on us as the hub of a cosmic wheel, but our incredible strength is invisible, intangible and often incomprehensible. It is told to investors, speculators and interested parties alike: "You have to talk to the community" - and it's fair notice. We are not vain-glorious; nor is anything exempt from the droll dabbling of dilettantes, but the networking and connections are invisible victories of enormous magnitude.

At the wild risk of whimsically willing a wee wisp of wisdom to wing forth: Baba Nam Kevalam love is all there is.

PAULR TA'YLOR VOLUNTEER EDITOR