February 15, 2008, carnegie newsletter

FEBRUARY 15, 2008 carnnews@vcn.bc.ca www .earnnews .org

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Are We Worse Than Animals?!?

1~ Dogs get $15 million for a whole new pound and ptocessing facility that not a few people are saying isn't necessary for another 10-12 years. But hey!

Dogs need housing.

2.Fish and water mammals (whales, dolphins, seals & even penguins get their fins bent or beaks out of joint when lumped in with the reptiles) at the Vancouver Aquarium arc getting a complete renovation of their domicile with the landlord paying all the costs for any temporary housing whilst the new paint dries and it's costing $80 million. But hey! Fish need housing.

3.The New Trade & Convention Centre(' new' to differentiate from the ordinary 'old' one, right next door) has cost $863 million so far. T&CCs are the fix that cities everywhere are being sold, along with a casino or twelve, to make up the money that State I Provincial and Federal govts have cut or slashed.

But hey! On_e Shriners' or Loyal Moose co~~en~~on a year makes 1t necessary and we are competitive ..

4.The Olympics venues and consequent costs for all kinds of loosely related stuff will be a mere $4.6 billion.

Numbers 1 & 2 are being spent I paid for by the City of Vancouver. The same entity has at least 19 sites within its borders on which social or lowincome housing can be built but it doesn't want to, so it doesn't have to. Only class-conscious housing is going in anywhere; with pricey condos and amen_ities for speculators and designated dark corners for tnple the population in 1/6111 the space (social housing ugh!).

Number 3 is tax money being spent to help our poor corporations. Gord Campbell and his n:asters at the Fraser Institute wouldn't dream of paymg half that for the 3200 units of social housing promised by their . front trick - Van Oly Com - way back when. "It isn't affordable so we don't want to pay for it and you can't make us ... so we don't have to.''

Number 4 is the winner tough guy: and Montreal just finished paying off its Olympic-related debt (from 1968) thru 40 years of taxes better spent almost anywhere else, last year. lt seems futile to embar~ass the twerps playing public servant; they really don t care.

That's what spin doctors and PR peopl~ arc for. .

The reality behind virtually all Olym?Jc Ga~ne~ ts one of promises made, bid won, the ehte ca~tta!Jst vultures move in lock, stock and barrel and mcreasc

the ills tt1eir mouthpieces promised to alleviate. In China right now the promised improvement in their human rights record is being ridiculed worldwide.

Even the promise that foreign journalists could go anywhere & cover anything without prior permission has resulted in an increase in the number of foreign journalists in jail - putting stuff on the internet about demonstrations and attempts to get help fighting the corrupt government officials and systems (over 200 a day throughout the country!) is somehow excluded from "Being nice to everybody!" [China now has, in addition to a one-party communist state, 385,000 (US dollar) millionaires and 108 billionaires. - Ed.] We can continue to make it as uncomfortable and public an expose as possible and count on alternative media to keep awareness increasing. Vancouver is the home of a revolution in terms of its innovative and brilliant drug programs- in spite of the reality of about 93% of Four Pillars money going to Enforcement and the supervised injection site still being the only one in North America and NAOMI (prescription heroin trials) ongoing, the attention of more than just the capitalist sharks is on us. Let's usc it. â&#x20AC;˘

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Native 2010 Resistance The Native 20 I0 resistance was established in December of2007. We represent the Skwxwu7meshulh (Squamish), Lil'wat, Stolo, St'at'imc, Nlaka'Pamux, Secwcpemc, Kwakwaka'wakw, Haida, Carrier, Wet'suwct'cn, N isga'a, Tsimsh ian, Gitxsan, Gitnyow, Tuchone, Cree, Annishnabe, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida nations.

We stand in full confrontation with the International Olymp ic Committee (IOC), the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (V ANOC), 20 10 Legacies Now, the Vancouver Board ofTrade and the Canadian Government and corporations supporting the 20 I0 Olympic Winter Games.

We arc here to expose to the world that we have never welcomed the Olympics ·and we continue to res ist corporate Olymp ic invasion, development and industrialization of Mother Earth . Already Olympic construction and expansion of roads, highways and ski-resorts (including fake snow made with sewage) has disrupted and destroyed trap lines, hunting grounds, salmon stocks, mountain animal habitats and sacred sites.

Our blood and the blood of the land has been spilled li'! for the Games and the government to profit. Despite / V ANOC's claim to be the most 'green games', so far

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.)' they arc demonstrating to be the most 'blood red ga mes'.

Supposedly so called BC is the 'best place to live on earth', yet for Indigenous people, 'British Co lum bia' has only served to wreak havoc on their lives and letnd. Olympic myth making and corporate brainwashing attempts to hide the facts that while Canada remain one of the richest countries, it remains home to approximately 300,000 homeless people, while another 1.7 million residents struggle with housing afTordability issues. Indigenous people account for 30% of this homeless population, despite making up less than 5% of the total population.

While the Olympic organizers operate with a budget of almost $2 billion (costs for the Vancouver's Trade and Convention Centre alone has reached almost $900 million) and other costs to government surI passing an estimated $6 billion, Vancouver is now home to North America's fastest growing homelessness crisis. Dozens of low-income hotels and apartment buildings are being converted to condominiums to house the rich.

We are also concerned about the prominence of an ab usive and violent police state. The death of Frank Paul , Gerald Chenery, Conn ie Jabobs, and hundreds of other Indigenous people, points to the racist and heightened state of police brutality that is being ac-

celeratcd by the Olympics. There is a growing concern abo ut the new militarization of pol ice that is focused on terrorism, new weapons and training and the targeting oflnd igcnous people. At Sun Peaks (Skwelkwek'welt) sk i resort near Kamloops, over 70 arrests have been made of mostly Sccwepemc youth & elders.

We hold the Canadian government, the British Colum bian (BC) and Canadian Judicial systems working in conjunction with VANOC responsible for the death of Indigenous Elder and Warrior Harriet Nahanee , and ack nowledge her death and the persecution of Indigenous dissent as a direct result of the Canadian Government's objective to drive out opposition in order to make room for Olympics 20 I0.

There is no justification for the targeting, imprisonment and death of an esteemed Indigenous Elder.

We ack nowledge that the Olympics wi II encourage sex tourism and hence living in extreme poverty, many Indigenous woman and children will be forced into the sex trade. Aboriginal women and children need safety from poverty and violence, and we disagree that a sex brothel should be afforded amnesty from the city and/or government to accommodate

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We reject VANOC's mockery and ridicule of Indigenous cu ltures through the Olympic mascots and the Olympic logo. Our sacred stories and symbols are misappropriated and it demonstrates theft of Indigenous stories, and aspects of our culture.

The Four Host First Nations do not speak for us, or represent us, they are merely window dress ing for the atrocities our Indigenous people face everyday.

They do not represent the poor, the homeless, or the common Indigenous people, they represent the ri ch and continue to co llaborate with govern ments and corporat ions for profit that will benefit very few Indigenous people.

We stand strong in our fight against the 20 I0 Olympics and will conlinue to resist Olympic poverty and homelessness, the theft and exploitation of lnd igcnous land, cul tural appropriation and police violence.

NO 2010 OLYMPICS ON STOLEN NATIVE LANDI NO MORE DEATHS ON THE SKI TO DIE HIGHWAY! STOP CULTURAL APPROPRIATION! RESIST POLICE VIOLENCE! END OLYMPIC HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY!

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"II is better to have less thunder iu tile mouth and more lightning i11 tile hand. ~Apache"

The very lands we all along enj oyed they ravished .. the people they destroyed ...

All the long pretences of descent are shams of right to prop up government.

Tis all invasion, usurpation all ; Tis all by fraud and force that we possess, length of time can make no crime the less; Religion's always on the strongest side.

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We Decree as We Declare It's all about stolen land nnd sinister master plans, tons on burning covetous hands. ll 's about the Rack 'n Ruin Olympiad Corp oration - way out of tune.

Mother Earth we ain 't gon na just sit back and take this 'cause we can see thru veiled screens and the figureheads who fake it. We' II take a stand for the Creator .. no more 'see ya lat·er'. These territories are out turf, this is our earth, to be returned to us as its faithful, resourcefu I caretakers. You' II lose in the long run, you can't win, you diming and stealing th ief-in-the-night. The Daughters of the Drum wi ll beat and pound for as long as it takes, speaking loud and truthfully of the spirit of renewed resistance.

The freedoms and kingdoms no more say your minions that represent our world; they are detested and dep lored. We will put an end to the smelly stcnched burning of genocidal, imprisoned, residential horror.

No more robber barons' rape of our lands, no more cashing in with no conscience. Hereditary chiefs are the true guardians, wisely knowledgeable leaders who will reclaim ancestral rights. Remember Oka & nast)i proposals abo ut ploughing graves for a golfcourse. " What burial grounds?!"

What a feeling it' II be to know for certain, to be healed, to fin ally catch a breath in relief knowing there'll be no more hurt, feeling the vibes of long ago yet remembered tribes. Here with us side by side, no more borders, endless trails in liberty, no more decrees, no more orders - this is no dream ~ it's quite real, hard as it seems. in this current age of extreme greed, unrighteous disorder, treaties past & treaties present - all parchment, not etched in stone.

The record has the facts, no false truth or lies can cover it up.

All my relations, brothers mothers fathers sisters will line up hand in hand and remain whole while pilgrims of now must make amends for wrongs and mend your ways. Our Elders speak generation to generation while what you say is is endlessly cheap Cash is paper, cash is trash; it ain ' t money we're seeking - we want our promised land . That's the key· after your end less and boring detente.

ROBYN LIVINGSTONE

5 Group threatens to take Canada to world court; Wants to hold churches, gov:. ernment condemned for residential school~ Byline: Jorge Barrera Source: The 01/awa Citizen A group representing a segment of residential schoo. survivors says it is preparing to take the federal government to international criminal court and disinter bodies of native children.

As part of a growing campaign to seek redress for crimes it claims were committed during a dark chapter in Canadian history, the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared Residential School Children plans to disinter the bodies during a March media event at an unmarked gravesite in B.C. where members believe native children who died in a residential school are buried, said Kevin Annett, spokesman.

The group is also planning to file an application against the federal government and the Roman Catholic Church at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. It accuses the federal government of being complicit in crimes against humanity, said Mr. Annett, a former United Church minister who has been campaigning on the issue for more than a decade.

The federal government recently reached a $1.9billion settlement with residential school survivors and created a $60-million Truth and Reconciliation Commission in addition to the package, but Mr. Annett's group believes the commission lacks the teeth to settle the matter. The group wants criminal sanctions against individuals who staffed the schools and were connected to deaths . They are also looking to the international community for condemnation of the federal government and churches that created and operated the program to assimilate native children into white society.

"We need a genuine inquiry and we need outside groups to monitor this," said Mr. Annett, who would like to see the UN set up a human rights tribunal and launch an investigation. "We need a body that has power to subpoena."

The group has sent letters to the prime minister, the Queen, via Rideau Hall, and the Vatican, giving each 30 days to reveal the location of burial sites and causes of death of children who died in residential schools. The group has also staged high-profile demonstrations in Vancouver and Toronto. Mr. An-

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nett .admits it is unlikely there will be a response, but ' • said the deadlines, which all exp ire by March 8, will trigger the disinterment and international court application. The group also plans to launch a series of civil disobed ience actions, including occupying • churches.

Residential schools, run by the federal government with the United, Catholic and Anglican churches, ' !' ~ existed for about I 00 years from the late 1800s to · 1986. Native children were rounded up in their ·. communities and taken to schools scattered across the country. Many endured physical and sexual abuse. School conditions helped spread diseases such as tuberculosis, which killed many children.

Others died from brutal beatings or froze to death while attempting to flee. lt's difficult to determine how many children died in the care of church and state in these schools. A lot of key documents related to the schools were destroyed sometimes on purpose, or disappeared over time, taking with them the names and burial places of an unknown number of children.

Former minister of Indian Affairs Jim Prentice, who is now industry minister, created a department working group to attempt to give a hard estimate of the number of dead.

Bob Watts, interim executive director of the Truth and Reconcil iation Commission, said he is heading the working group, which wi II give recommendations to the commission once it is up and running.

"Members of the (working group) recognize the importance of addressing this issue in a culturally sensitive way that is respectfu I of former Indian residential school students and their families who have lost children or are still searching for burial sites," said Mr. Watts inane-mailed response to questions.

Mr. Watts has also discussed with the RCMP the possibility of criminal allegations emerging during the work of the commission.

"The issue of criminal allegations was raised as one of many topics discussed during my introductory meetings with the National Aboriginal Policing Services of the RCMP on general (commission) matters," Mr. Watts wrote in the e-mail.

"We don't know what former students will choose to share with the (commission) once it is established ....

With regards to the commission handing over any possible information on criminal allegations to the RCMP, this is a complex issue. It is something that the commissioners, once appointed, will need to determine."

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What would benefit the residents of Vancouver · is that Storyeum be used as a 24-hour community centre and shelter. l oppose the recommendation of City Staff to lease the Gastown Parkade (Storycum) as a fitness centre and spa).

The City has an existing severe homeless problem.

Storyeum is a city-owned building in the middle of it. To say that $750,000 yearly gross revenue to the City benefits the residents of Vancouver is laudable.

Turning away 30,000 individuals from City shelters as it did in a 6-month period (from Nov 2005 to Apr 2006) is cruel and barbaric. The social cost of having one homeless person on the street is at least $20,000 a year. For the 1300 who arc currently homeless, it balloons to $26,000,000 or more. The comment by Kim Capri that neighbourhood businesses would suffer is unin formed. Storyeum as a shelter would make the DTES..area more secure and prosperous without the blight of the homeless being on the streets.

I find it hard to understand why the City seems to think il is its responsibility to guarantee that a business make a profit at the expense of those who need shelters. The City's responsibility lies with all its citizens and those who are margi nalized shou ld have priority.

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for those that are on the street because of finances, family breakdown, medical conditions, or lack of affordable housing. To allow a person to sleep even for one night on a C ity street is cruel and barbaric.

To quote Philip Mangano, the homeless housing czar from the United States: "if you have no shelters where are you going to put people in the meantime?

In answer to the myth that those who sleep on the street want to that is not . true. I have yet to speak to someone who really wants to sleep outside.

I will end with presenting lhe MAKE STORYEUM A SII ELTER petition with 2,000 +signatures to Counci l. Most respondents were those from the homeless population or those who were homeless at one time or another in their lives. None of the signatories are service providers or coalitions. )

The City Council on January 3 1, 2008, voted against the shelter proposal. It decided to go with the recommendation of staff to make 30,000 square feet of the building a fitness centre. Council offered no exp lanation as to why it refused to let the building be a 24-hour community centre and shelter.

Audrey Laferriere's address to Council

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Until affordable housing gets built something must be done to shelter the homeless in our streets. The city could very well go under trying to mop up the results of their failure to shelter the homeless. How much of the bill for this neglect taxpayers will be able to pay is highly questionable. Businesses going under on Cambie lowers the tax base just a little, however this is just the start of more to come. Businesses not able to pay the high wages required by workers needing to pay high rent for housing in Vancouver are to be the next to go. Face it many small businesses in Vancouver need affordable housing for their workers as much as the workers need affordable housing. Without affordable housing this city's small businesses can't draw on a much needed labour pool. Soon businesses go under, and city hall has that much less of a tax base.

Get people into a shelter 路tonight, a place to sleep and clean up, and you will see them going out and getting jobs tomorrow. The first step is a safe shelter, the second step is affordable housing. An incentive program where persons in shelters could have first dibs on affordable housing plus the opportunity " to work at building that housing would be ideal. It would keep profits in the community where the money is spent. This in turn would help out small ' business by providing an affordable labour pool and a consumer base. As these people work they would also spend, increasing the bottom line for all society.

The city's plan to go into business developing a fit-

ness centre must not sit well with those businesses who are already running fitness centres. Times are not that great for these businesses as it is, having to compete with a city made fitness centre might be the last nail in the coffin. That is of course if the high cost of paying the bi II for homelessness doesn't do them and other small businesses under first.

When you have money problems you don't try kill the goose that is laying the golden eggs, you try helping the goose to Jay even more golden eggs. So I ask why is city hall doing everything it can today to make it hard for small businesses to struggle in this city? No affordable housing for workers, means less in the labour pool. More cost for the homeless means more taxes. More taxes mean fewer profits, and less employment. Less employment means fewer customers, and on goes the downward spiral that keeps going down down down until this is a ghost town with all small business is closed d?wn.

What a recipe for destroying a city Sam! If th1s downward spiral is allowed to continue Sam will be watching the opening of the 2010 Olympics in a very depressed city.

Colleen Carro II I would like to share my prayer with our universe I pray for those who are homeless, hungry, lonely, those separated from family, those active in addictions, friends in fellowship. I ask that we have love, honour, respect, compassion, honesty and positive life-styles.

I pray for our children, elders, those in hospitals, institutions, jails. I pray for those who fought and died for this great land.

I am grateful for my precious adult babes: Sheri, Jordan, Shane, Sherman, Shrena & Stephen; angelic grandchildren Brandon, Anthony, Emily and baby Richie. J love you and miss being with you.

I ask that everyone be guided to live healthy, peacefully, and free themselves of guilt, shame, fear, anger and hatred.

I love hearing stories of courage & positive change and wish everyone happiness & a safe journey.

God grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

I honour Telkwa BC, my hometown.

Love and kisses, Norman-Jean B PS: J pray for the families of the missing women along the Highway ofTears.

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·- - - -- The only remaining OTES group possibly moving in to Woodwards is W2 Community Media Arts Centre: www.creativetechnology.org. The City Real Estate Department calcu lated that the DTES Neighbourhood llouse would need to raise $403,168 and W2 would need to raise $815,002. for tenant improvement costs for their share of the total 31,000 sq ft of publicly-owned space.

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W2 core member organizations include: Redwire Native Youth Media Society • Gallery Gachet Socie!)'

Coop Radlo/CRES (Community Radio Education Soc} Kootenay School of Writing Society IMAGeNationllndigenous Media Arts Group Society Independent Community Teltwision (ICTV} Society CHAKRAS/teaspace Society W2 community collaborators have committed to satellite program delivery at the new Centre. These include VIVO: Video In/V ideo Out (satellite programm ing), Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (community-access meeting space), Carnegie Community Association (social services and arts programming), Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Association (artist residency programs), desmedia (street level peer learn ing in video and ed iting), Radix Theatre (performance installation and theatre), and Vancouver Community Network (via Industry Canada Community Access Program).

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The Community Board of the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House last week informed the City of Vancouver that we are withdrawing from the short list for Purpose Built Sp~ce in the Woodward's Redevelopment.

In 2005 the City of Vancouver put out a call to non-profit groups interested in the Woodward's Heritage building (East Hastings at Abbott). The Neighbourhood House applied and was short listed along with AIDS Vancouver, Tradeworks and W2 (a coalition of arts groups). The DTES Nl I asked for 3,200 square feet (600 for a communal kitchen, 600 for storage and 2000 for NH programming) .

We've come to realize that 3,200 sq ft is inadequate for the DTES NH, especially considering the coming population influx of Woodward's and other OTES residential buildings. The DTES Neighbourhood I louse also needs a location with a storefront presence, visible from the street.

On 4 May 2007 we opened our first DTES NH site at 50 I East Hastings - an 824 square foot storefront where we offer 35 hours of weekly programming over 6 days a week to a weekly average of 172 DE resident participants. Taking into account that onefifth of members attend a 2nd program each week, our attendance calculations for our first operat ing year bring our 2007-2008 numbers to 7, 155.

The l'heer cost of raising more than $400,000 [assigned by the Real Estate Dept and non-negotiable] emphasis & {] added.-Ed.]to make the Woodwards site operational is not one which we can justify to ourselves or to our DTES residents.

So Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House continues the search for a site with adequate space elsewhere in our community within the Traditional Territory of the Coast Salish People.

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Libby ask'ed me to pass along the link below to last week's parliamentary debates about the HIV crisis faced by aboriginal people in East Vancouver (and especially for aboriginal drug users in the DTES). A lot of your organisations were mentioned

by Libby in the debate as examples of groups working for solutions to this health and poverty crisis.

Thanks to everyone for all your hard work, and a further thanks to those who were able to provide us w.ith information and research to use in the debate.

Here's the link to the debate:

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/P ublication.aspx?Docld=3259 1~ 1&Language= E&Mode= 1&Par1=39&Ses=2#00B-2308868 I

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Dear Quest,

Ever wonder how forensic scientists solve murder and other cases? Forensic Files is a gruesome, highly illustrated series of books that take you behind the scenes of forensic analysis. The library has: Do You Read Me? Famous Cases Solved by Handwriting Analysis, by Diane Webber (363.25), Bullet Proof!

Tile Evidence That Guns Leave Behind, by Jaime Joyce (363.25), Gut-Eating Bugs: Maggots Reveal tire Time of Death! by Dan ielle Den ega (614.1 ), Killer Wallpaper: True Cases of Deadly Poisonings

by Anna Prokos (615.9), and /lave You Seen Th'is Face? Tile Work of Forensic Artists, by Danielle Denega (363.25).

We worked together, my ex & me, volunteering 15 years ago at the Dugout when you began your free meal service. Then and still now I work thru E.L.P,. and the CVP allotment has been a godsend. My job description suits me so I can continue and feel worthy without hurting myselfthru stress or overwork (and I have fun too!). 1 work different places, find out issues, concerns, missing pieces, then l report on it & work for change where I can.

Since you were my first area-job you've had my prayers support & good wishes thru the years as I watched your expansion with much pleasure at times. And recently I was so very pleased becoming a member & shopping at your discount-priced store.

Thank you! Thank you!i know that the most work gets done behind t~e scenes, often unseen or unthanked; 1 can only imagine all the hard work you've done to be able to climb every step.

My main issues have been decent shelter, yes, but food too is my #I "talking stick." After that comes opportunity with respect - we are caring, intelligent people, just cash-poor. Your store has the proper attitude so keep up the good work. I will be doing all I can to encourage organics & good quality food donations. The next thing we need is a Health Food Store (my# I dream) and a cafe/restaurant - also affordable for us downtown folks.

For any other 'oldtimers' who may remember, I'm the girl who gave out the cutlery and (much more) gave out smiles with genuine love & respect.

Love to you all now and a BlG smile.

Sincerely, Lynne G

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New Books

Houses for All: The Struggle for Social Housing in Vancouver, 1919-50, by Jill Wade (363.5) is a fascinating look at the housing problem that developed in Vancouver in the first half of the twentieth century. At the time, there was a chronic shortage of decent living conditions for those of low income.

The book is a reminder that inadequate housing and activism aren't a recent phenomenon, and that the struggle for decent accommodation for everyone in Vancouver has a long and proud history.

Pyongyang: A Journey iu North Korea, by Guy Delisle (915.19) is a political graphic novel that tells H~1 of the author's time in North Korea. Whether it's the W~~~ shock of finding fresh broccoli in a foreigners-only \( restaurant, or wondering whether it's the jet lag or if n that guy really is walking backwards, this is a wry, [l non-judgmental look at one of the world's least,/ \ known countries. ··...

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May the Great Spirit take you in his arms Comfort..give you all his love in this walk Keep all in your heart Wonderful memories of your loved ones Positive thoughts at all times Keep your head up high You are a Warrior You will survive anything that is put in front of you I hope & pray You will always be kind to oneself & love all All my relations Bonnie E Stevens

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Poverty Olympics carries the torch for social issues ELIANNA LEV The Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, G lobeBC February 4, 2008 VANCOUVER-- Poverty-line high jump, longjumping over a bedbug-infested mattress and welfare hurdles won't be official sports at the 20 I 0 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and Whistler, 13C But yesterday, the categories took centre stage at the first Poverty Olympics.

The "games were staged by several anti-poverty groups in Vancouver's troubled Downtown Eastside and drew a standing-room crowd to a neighbourhood community centre.

Part community theatre, part social activism, organizers say they were meant to raise awareness of the hardship, challenges and substandard living conditions many residents in the area deal with regularly while governments fund the Winter Olympics.

Like in the real Olympics, a fake torch was brought in to light a towering larger one, which was marked with the words End Poverty. They also had their own version of mascots - Itchy the Bedbug, Chewy the Rat and Creepy the Cockroach.

During the poverty-line high jump, characters like Rachelle Singlemom and Disabled Joe tried to jump over a high-jump bar marked with the words "Poverty Line. Each attempt failed as the bar (pro-rated showing the government's Low-Income Cut-Off & actual income of poor people) was about three metres off the ground.

Posters hung on the wall painted with the Olympic rings with handcuffs instead of circles, with the slogan Poverty: It's Not a Game."

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Last week, Vancouver Olympic Games Organizing Committee promised not to leave behind social housing as part of the Games. Committee head John Furlong said it has committed $66.5-million toward social housing in Vancouver, Whistler and for natives. He promised the commitments'd be reached even if other Games partners weren't able to meet promised goals.

VANOC committed $30-million toward building the athlete's village along Vancouver's False Creek on the cond ition 250 units of social housing remain after the Games. Another $30-million will be used in Whistler so workers can find affordable housing after the Olympics.

VANOC has also committed $6.5-million toward native housing. (Now doesn 'I that make you feel warm all over!? ? - Ed.)

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In response ftJ an outside newspaper 1 first got involved in the Poverty Olympics when Jean Swanson,a co-ordinator of the Carnegie Community Action Project, asked if I would participate.

Knowing my involvement in the community and my experience as an actor may have been a factor.

I have a personal connection to the cause. Firstly, the Downtown Eastside has been my home for years. 1 have seen businesses, people and governments come and go over the years, and now, as one ofthe leaders of this community, I have dealt with the different issues: the missing women, homelessness, poverty, and now the 2010 Olympics.

Throughout, those same people and governments make decisions on our behalf without meaningful dialog. We want and need to be involved in those decisions and we must be represented at the table.

Yes and no to whether the outcry against poverty is being heard by government or by the public in Vancouver. But for sure our message has not been heard by those who have the power, but not the will, to change what matters most for those citizens who require it. We in the DTES are not afraid of ch~nge; we know the Olympics will happen, and they wJll have an impact on our community, in many ways a negative one, but we need the chance to contribute, to minimize the effect the Olympics will have and allow us a fighting chance to move forward in this ever changing world.

1 do not feel that the first annual Poverty Olympics was necessary, in the sense that it is a total shame and an embarrassment that in a rich country such as Canada, so fu ll of resources and with a surplus of dollars to spend, that we even have to put on events like this to demand the basic rights of citizenship for all people. As for Vancouver, we are sometimes dubbed "the best place to live on earth", but the treatment some of our people receive is certainly not that. We are also called "the poorest postal code in all of Canada", but then why is it that so many people want to take the land that the poorest now live on? This is what I want to communicate to the w'orld. What I wanted was to address serious concerns and issues prior to 20 I 0, and make our governments accountable. Next year I hope, but it de pends on the powers that be.

Thank you for the opportunity to share, Stephen Lytton

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Ada Dennis, evicted soon, writes to City Council Many of you know Ada Dennis: kitchen volunteer of 5 years, winner of the City of Vancouver's Volunteer of the Year award last year, familiar face on the 2nd floor and in other parts of the hood. She is getting evicted on Feb 29, 2008 from 334 Carrall Street.

Ada's apartment is owned by Robert Wilson of Georgia Lane Developments. He is renovating and raising the rents, likely to prepare these homes for future condo conversions. Wilson is responsible for keeping the Pender Hotel closed and for the new condos going up next to it. In 2006, he bought 5 hotels that we know of and 2 apartments in the DTES and flipped 2 to the Province (Walton and Orange Hall) the same year. He has talked to city planners about converting the remaining hotels and apartn1ent into

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Unfortunately the apartments aren't covered under the SRA Bylaw or the Rate of Change Bylaw whicll would give it some minimal protection.

Ada has been orgamzmg • against her eviction for awhile. PIVOT took her case to arbitration and lost last week.

The arbitrator at the Residential Tenancy Branch chose to not believe the 20 year renovations expert witness PIVOT provided who said that moving Ada was NOT necessary given the minor level of renovations being proposed.

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makes me feel good to win awards and that I'm appreciated. Working at Carnegie makes me not think about stupid things like suicide. I'm supposed to take 19 pills a day hut I don't need them because working with people, talkin~ to people, discussing things and getting suggestions from others is really goodfor me. I learn d{fferent things.

Last weekend I helped with the children's Christmas Party at Carnegie.

I lost my family and my Carnegie .friendfi are like my family.

I put in all my social housing applications but I'm not hopefill because there are big waiting lists.

I want City !-!all to make more housing for people.

I want to live in BC !lousing, a co-op or social housing so I can feel secure.

1 want to live in this neighbourhood so I can still volunteer here. I would like a full tilne job here.

I want you to raise my welfare so I can get housin~ and live happily without being harassed and kicked out.

If you don 'I protect the hotels eve1yone will be out on the streets and going to jail for a place to stay. I want more housing built in the DTES. People should have a right to live where theyfeel comfortable.

My name is Ada Dennis and I might be homeless soon ((you don't keep your Watch for notice of rally promises. for Ada and others at 334 Carrall. The last Dominion I Iotel tenants are getting evicted the same day. --Wendy P.

My name is Ada Dennis. I live at 334 Carra!! Street in the DTES and have lived there for 3 years and they are tearing it down. They sold the building.

There are 32 homes in the building.

Eve1ybody has to move. Some have places, some don't. I have no place to go, no place to put myfurniture and my belongings.

My home is owned by Robert Wilson the condo developer who bought many hotels in 2006. New people will buy my home and 1--t'ill pay ha(fa million or a million dollars to live where I live now.

I needed to make 1noney to prepare for moving by selling my belongings on the sidewalk. I got a $75 fine for that.

I 1-11ant you to keep your promises for the Olympics and give the homeless a place to live. I want you to give me a place after you make homes for them. I might be homeless soon ifyou don't keep your promises to make more housing.

Now I'm afraid that I'll have to move to a place that won't take my cat or won't have room for all my furniture. I don't want to be in a hotel room. Its not safe and not clean. I may end up on the street and be killed or raped or serious damage done to me that I don't deserve.

I can move to Surrey and Burnaby and .flnd a roommate so I can afford a place but I've had so much problems with them over the years because they don't pay their rent on time then I get in trouble.

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First Annual Poverty Games: A Comical Portrayal of a Very Serious An overcrowded theatre was the marker of success of the first annual Poverty Olym;ic games held on Sunday, February 3r at Carnegie Theatre.

C'CAP, VANDU, Streams of Justice, BCPWA, Raise the Rates, and the DTES Neighbourhood House has worked hard over the last few months to pull the event together.

The mascots were Itchy the Bedbug, Creepy the Cockroach and Crawly the Rat. 1 he notorious Mr. Bid, played by Rider Coocy, also n1adc an appearance but was quickly booed off stage.

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Jump over the Bedbug infested Mattresses," and the "Welfare Hurdles." to just nan1e a fe\v. The gatnes highlighted the substandard living conditions and the multiple social barriers many living in the DTES face.

Swanson noted there are answers available and it is up to the government, at all three levels, to in1plen1ent them. 4.5 Billion is being spent for

the 2010 gatnes, the _ provincial govermnent boasted a 4 billion dollar surpl~1s and the federal govermnent boasted a 14 billion dollar surplus.

Research has shown that to drastically reduce .povery in the DTES, $1.3 Billion is all that is

have featured the event. It even attracted international attention from a newspaper in Pravda. It is apparent the world is watching and it is our time to let them know what is going on in our city.

The opening ceremony of the Poverty Olympics included a singing of the Poverty anthem sung to the tune of, "Oh Canada."

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The day was nicely finished off with a slice of cockroach cake made by the Carnegie kitchen staff.

Simply put, the key tnessage of the day is, "end poverty: its not a game."

More pictures, stories and information on future events can be found

The Poverty Games was a retninder and an education piece for the public as to how the 2010 Olytnpic games can and will lead to increased homelessncss and poverty if the governtnent continue their course of action and policy n1aking.

Organizers vowed to hold a second and third Poverty Olympics unless governn1ents act to end h01nclessness and reduce poverty before the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

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Last week I met with City Councilor Suzanne Anton from the NPA about development in the DTES. She said that 10 developers have come forward with proposal s for 40 storey condo towers m our neighbourhood.

She said, for every extra 20 stories, there is approxi1nately $20 tnillion in bonusing available. What is bonusing?? Well, here's my understanding of it: in exchange for preserving heritage, providing social housing or paying for something in the public realm, like a swimming pool, G\.. velopers can build higher.

So, for one condo tower we would "horse trade" for potentially 100 units of social housing ($200,000 for a new unit into $20 million per tower). If there are 10 towers then we could get 1000

homes. But, according to Suzanne Anton, heritage is already competing for those dollars. To make matters worse, we would need 50 towers to get the amount of housing we need .

Ccap doesn't want to horse trade for people's lives. We want a condo development freeze and 2000 new homes . developed by governments in the DTES before towers. Plus we want the 5000 hotel rooms replaced - all with 400 square foot social housing homes. And welfare rates raised and barriers removed!

Want to help us get this? Lets pull together to plan some actions to get government investment instead of developer crumbs now.

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Next Stage of EcoDensity Consultation: EcoDensity Workshops Get involved! A number of public workshops are being held on the Draft EcoDensity' Charter . and Draft Initial Actions in January and February 2008 where you can:

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Saturday, February 16, 1: 30-4pm Chinese Cultural Centre 50 East Pender Street (between Carrall Street & Columbia Street) *Chinese facilitation available Transit: Bus #3 - Main/ Downtown Bus #16 - 29th Ave Station/ Arbutus Bus #10 - Hastings/ Downtown/ Granville I

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Calling all writers!

Join established and aspiring writers in a collaborative writing event at Granville Island.

Tables often participants will work with a writer coach/editor. The host of the evening will give the teams a word or phrase and they will have 20 minutes to write a piece. Vancouver Writes judges will select winners of each of the evening's 3 sessions.

Prizes will be awarded to the top entry in each session and to the evening's overall top entry. Wine, beer and snacks will be available.

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The Writers' Festival has given Carnegie writers 5 places for this event. If you'd like to take part, :Jlease write your name on the sign-up sheet in the 3rd Floor Program Office.

111 )EADLINE: Friday, February 15 , at 5:00PM. fwe have more than 5 writers, we'll draw names •ut of a hat. We'll give you bus tickets, but you'll ~ eed to make your own way to and from Granville sland. For more information, see Rika or Beth '

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Hiromi Goto Thur·sday, February 28, 7pm, Carnegie Free What does writing mean to a writer? And how does writing tit into a writer's life? Listen to 1-liromi Goto as she reads from her work, then join in an interac:ive discussion on writing and its role in our lives.

Hiromi Goto is the Vancouver Public Library's W'riter-in-Residence for 2007. She is an award.vinning writer whose work has won world-wide tcclaim. She is the author of four books. Her short tories, critical writing and poetry have appeared in wide variety of publications, and she co-wrote the cript for the award-winning NFB short animation ilm Showa Shinzan. Her most recent book, Hopeful 1onsters, is a collection of short stories.

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Poems should ideally be sonnet length (that's I4 Jines long), with a maximum of28 lines. Cross streets or place names for the poems should be provided.

There is no fee to enter. Authors whose work is chosen for the anthology will be paid $25 per page or poem. Submissions must be typewritten and sent with a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Anvil Press at the following address by July 3 I, 2008: A Verse Map of Vancouver c/o Anvil Press Publishers 278 East First Avenue Vancouver, BC VST I A6

Last cheque day (Jan 23) there was some sort of screw-up and residents of a four block radius around Harbour Light and my place on Cordova did not receive their cheques until late morning the next day. Everyone reading this will know what trouble that caused.

I emailed Canada Post through their website laying out the situation. Today is the 31st and 1 have been answered through email, snail mail and [just got a phone call from Customer relations. Neither the speed nor the message was what I expected. IT WON'T EVER HAPPEN AGAIN!!! And I was honestly made to feel that I (all of us) were being taken seriously. Canada Post is well aware of cheque day and they have and will make a special effort to get everyone their cheque.

It's just so nice and so rare a big corp responds so fast and with straight up answers and actions that 1 wanted to share this.

Doug Dunn Large human movements spring from individual human initiatives. If you fee/that you cannot have much of an effect, the next person may a/so become discouraged, and a great opportunity will have been lost. the Dalai Lama

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About to relinquish control when guess who takes a s~ro ll Saint Mi~us and his lost souls doddling ahead, p1eces of the wmdshield of opportunity hurts my eye the good one anyway I'm not surprised on the one side you have people eating other people's leftovers one of the many reasons sinister is I atin for left on the other there's a purge-athon deca;hlon going ~n next door can I stay here where it's safe? or go on over and lead with my cleft??

When you can pay the extras with what's left on your plate you're doing something right instead of g~rbage cans y~ujust throw (up) the unscraped dtshes to the children who treat said can like home kind of like a heating grate with round walls and the selfish circle begins Selfishness is a messy business the landfill for diapers is right this way the old man dressed like a USC-Universal poor guide points his blackened dig its to this stretch of road as the stench unfolds is it too late to jump from this 50 mph rad y~s,no,l don'.t know so I will be the one to go when 1 h1t .the r.oad ~Jter~lly I pray for one thing only and fittmg nght 111 wtth the subject at hand I promise never to create any sequels Like sm iling doctors you know something isn't right and your ~tud~nts wouldn't want to be ya probably never agam will we see ya although there's no such thing do you remember when Tilt meant End of Game instead of the World HOLD IT! I think I hear my telepathic synthetic satellite-connected n:'ulti~ethnic ~hannel cellular dump trek phone sing nght m the m1ddle of the court martial of Eddie's father just let it ring &ring &.ring ·&ring

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On Saturday, February 16, 2008, the Vancouver and District Labour Council Young Workers' Committce(_YJ::?LC Young Workers' Committee) is organizing a rally in front of Premier Gordon Campbell 's office (3615 W. 41h Ave) in support of the campaign to increase the minimum wage to $10 per hour and eliminate the $6/ hour "training wage''.

Endorsed by many organizations, including the Vancouver and District Labour Council, the BC Federation of Labour, and the Canadian Federation of Students, the rally sends a unified message to Premier Gordon Campbell. The $8 per hour minimum wage is below the poverty line and not sufficient for minimum wage workers to live on. "$ 10 per hour is a rea so nab le demand and one that can easily be met in our booming economy," said Stephen Von Sychowski, the chair of the VDLC Young Workers' Committee. "Young workers are being taken advantage of and paid insufficient wages to live a life that they deserve because of this government's inaction.''

The minimum wage in BC has not been increased since 200 I. According to 2005 Statistics Canada numbers, in order for a minimum wage to earn above the poverty line, they would have to eam at least $ 10 an hour in 2005 dollars. Inflation has made the situation even worse today. " We need to change the minimum wage in BC so the term yo ung worker is not synonymous with poor wo rker," says Emily Ottewell, who will be speaking at the rally on behalf of the VDLC Young Workers' Committee. "Gordon Campbell has told the people of BC who counts - his own MLAs just got huge raises. Thousands of people who earn minimum wage are still waiting for theirs."

The guest speakers for this event include Jim Sinclair, President of the BC Federation of Labour; Emily Ottewell from the VDLC Young Workers' Committee; and Shamus Reid will be speaking on behalf of the Canadian Federation of Students.

There will also be two minimum wage workers who will be telling their tale of li ving and surviving as minimum wage workers.

More than 50,000 British Columbians have signed the "$ 10 NOW" petition. Many provinces in Canada have already increased their minimum wages. It is time for British Columbia's government to legislale a living wage for BC's young workers.

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The DTES has a new website to tell its story! The Fearless Media Cluster of the DTES Community Arts Network has launched: www.fearlesscity.ca The project is in its infancy, and over the next few months will have graphics and features added to it. Local residents are encouraged to get involved on the ground floor by attending weekly meetings at Gallery Gachet, 88 East Cordova every Wednesday, l-3pm. To help people get skills to contribute their voice a weekly support workshop is also held at Gallery Gachet.

Goldilocks pull up your socks the big bad wolf is waiting for you Wanting to take you away The Drug lost Demon is anticipating waiting to lead U astray Will you pick up your pipe? or fight for your life?

This is your choice today Hickory dickory dock you're running up the block to purchase another rock Only to be struck down again from consumption of too much cocaine You're like an old woman who lives in a shoe Doesn't know what to do, pays no dues, follows no rules Needs to tap into a higher power Take a shower Time to change re arrange You can do it go thru it Work hard to reap what you will sow as one door closes another opens Remaining strong I nevi tab ly being where you belong Your metamorphosis has occurred Your life has changed -• You have moved on

Fearless Slogging in the DTES First session Thursday, February 28, 7-9pm Facilitator: Lorraine Murphy, raincoaster.com $2 includes tea/coffee.

Ever think about blogging, or becoming a media creator? Have you or do you want to create a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations? Well, this is for you! Pick up the basics on how to start blogging, hang out and ·meet other new bloggers. Get involved with www.[earlesscity.ca, Vancouver's newest arts and issues portal for artists and residents of the Downtown Eastside. No experience necessary.

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Some get out Some have too much doubt Some stay to repeat again the predator - victim game The most in need may sell out their sex and remain oppressed In need of love and on the run Needing someone to help them Stop playing this master I slave game Stop being sexually enslaved An absolute: the truth No more traumatic bonding to pimps pushers There is a longing a belonging Needing a way out God please help this need today .

Help the ones who are sexually enslaved.

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Know that the job Will always be there Loving, caring & sharing is another thing but self-care, for oneself Is the most important.

Take care+ bless you all Volunteers Rule because they are Number One in everything they do!

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Crack Found on Governor's Daughter [Imagine that!]

Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says [No, really?]

Police Begin Carnpaign to Run Down Jaywalkers [Now that's taking things a bitfar!} Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus?

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Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant [See if that works any better than afair trial!} War Dims Hope for Peace [I can see where it might have that effect!} If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile [You think?} Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures [Who would have thought!} Enfield (London) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide [They may be on to something!} Red Tape Holds Up Ne\v Bridges [You mean there's something stronger than duct tape?} New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group [Weren't they big enough?!]

Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft [That's what he getsfor eating those beans!} Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half [Chainsaw Massacre all over again!} Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors [Boy, are they tall!} And the winner is ....

Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

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Tuesday, February 26 PauiR Taylor has been volunCeer Editor of •he Car11eg/e Newsleller since Dec. IS, 1986-21 years.

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Oh babe in my arms.

I pray you help make life for mankind sweet.

Never arming for advancement of the elite.

For without yo ur help, do ing as they bid .

Of wars and Marshall law for their advancement the' II depend on you dear ki d.

Without your help against your own.

The eli te could not have power over us alone.

For a world free of war and civilian strife.

Raising children to be police and solders must not be a goa l for their life.

Today they kick down doors in other lands.

Tomorro w our own doors will face their boots.

So the elite of th is world can collect more to loot.

It does not hurt us today.

Because it's all being done so far away.

In time at home we too will pay.

Our turn for enslavement is on its way.

Withou t your help my dea r little one.

The rich will have no means of getting their bidding do ne.

So J pray to yo u and all your like.

The ti me to end sorrow on earth has now come.

No more be tools of oppression.

Protecti ng those and their possess ion.

Those who enslave us and others far away.

Without you their power could not stay.

HI everyone, I am happy to announce that "M(lmma's Got the Blues" is receiving great response and is being played on Australia, Japan, Poland, France and on Argentinean radio stations (internet and regular fm's.

Wed idn't reali ze that it would happen so fast and now we have to play catch up, a good catch-up, but catch up with the rest of the management of cd marketing, etc.

Check the website as we have made some changes to make it more accessible and easier to purchase cd at www.dalannahgailbowen.com In peace, Dalannah Gail Bowen .

INV ITA1110N Public Forum on the Security and Prosperity Partnership. (SPP) From behlhd closed doors; into the publio eye.

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1 Heritage Hall, 3 1'02 Maih near l6t Avenue Guest Speakers: Don Davies, BA, LLB Director, Legal Resources, Teamsters Canada Peter Julian MP (Butnaby-New Westminster) Co.. hosted by Libby Davies and Don Davies For more info contact 604-775-5800 Libby Davies Consdtu Office, 2412 Main路

Then for their crimes against humanity they would have to answer and pay.

Puppets of Fascism and Tools of Terror Deing a so ldier or policeman is a great error.

There is much the world needs my sweet.

Be good for humanity not a tool of the elite.

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ACTIVITIES AND PLACES THAT MATTER IN THE JAPANTOWN/POWELL STREET COMMUNITY

Help us to find the buildings, places, and activities that matter to people like you in the Japantown/Powe/1 Street community The City of Vancouver is gathering stories about places and goings-on that are important to people living and working in the Japantown/Powell Street community. This is part of the Historical and Cu ltural Review - Powell Street (Japantown) study now underway. Your thoughts will be compiled as a resource that can be used in your own planning and advocacy for the area.

Tell us your stories:. Tell us about the buildings.and about the places that matter to you.

Tell us the history of your community and the community activities that matter to you.

You can help to find the buildings, places and events that matter to people in your community by answering the questions in this survey. You can leave your name and number, or give your answers anonymously.

1. What stories about the community are important to you?

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2. Which buildings do you like in the Japantown/Powell street area?

3. What are your favourite places in the Japantown/Powell street area? Why?

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4. What activities occur in the community that you find make the place feel important to you.

5. If you were to use three words or photos to describe the history of the Japantown/Powell Street area, what would they be?

6. Who should we ask about stories and places that matter to people in the community?

7. Other comments?

PLEASE RETURN THIS SURVEY TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE BOX IN THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY