July 1, 2021 Carnegie Newsletter

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lfyou or anyone you know is Indigenous and needs support, the Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line is available 2417 at 1-866-925-4419.

We're pausing our planned campaigning this week to instead lift up Indigenous voices and amplify the growing call to make this a week of mourning, reflection and action.

As you probably know, a month ago the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation reported the discovery of a mass grave with the remains of215 Indigenous children at a former residential school in Kamloops, BC. Last week, Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan identified 751 umnarked graves at the site ofthe former Marieval Indian Residential School. Combined with discoveries in Brandon, Regina, Lestock, and Carlisle, this brings the total number to 1,323.

That number alone is horrifying, but those kids were just a small portion ofthe thousands forcibly separated from their families, abused, and murdered by Canada's residential school system. Indigenous communities have and continue to experience this painful truth and it's been six years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission laid it bare. Let's be clear: these are not discoveries, they are confirmations.

Many think that this dark "chapter" in the Canadian colonial project ended with the closing ofthe last residential and day schools. The truth is, that the systemic genocide ofIndigenous peoples isn't just a "chapter" -- it's Canada's whole story. Even today, Canada has more Indigenous children under the care of state child services than in over a hundred years of residential schools; thousands of murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls, and 2spirit folks have yet to see justice; and Indigenous land defenders are crirninalized for protecting their lands from greedy corporations.

As people focus on solving the climate crisis, it's also important to understand the connection between the problem we're now facing and residential schools. This was a program designed to break the connection between Indigenous peoples and the land, so that Canada could take and use that land. This set in motion the decisions that would lead us to where we are today - with massive fossil fuel extraction and transportation projects fueling the climate crisis built and running on stolen Indigenous lands and waters.

No matter what associations you might have with Canada Day, there is nothing to celebrate this July 1st. Instead, please join us in answering the call to give Indigenous people space to mourn and for non-Indigenous people to take action to challenge Canada's ongoing colonial project. We've gathered a list of resources and next steps below.

In solidarity, Clayton, Atiya, Amara, Cam, Chris, Emma, and Katie (the 350 Canada team)

Resources and services for Indigenous people *Indian Residential School Survivors Society Counselling Services Survivors crisis line is open 24 hours a day & 7 days a week: 1800-721-D066

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*Prioritize donating to local frontline organizations that are supporting people in crisis at the local level.

Those groups are the ones that need funds the most. *Join a Cancel Canada Day Event near you -- Click to find a #CancelCanadaDay action in your community *Read about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and its 94 Calls to Action. *Talk to your friends and family about what you're leaming and why you aren't celebrating Canada Day

Educational resources for non-Indigenous people

Settlers Take Action resources compiled by tlie On Canada Project Yellowhead Institute - Calls to Action Accountability: A 2020 Status Update on Reconciliation Find out whose traditional territory you live on. Visit native-land.ca Sign up for Indigenous Canada, a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada.

Stealing Children to Steal the Land Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and GIrlS -

West side of Oppenheirner Park reopens While fencing will remain around the full perimeter of the park, the entrances on the western portion will be open and accessible to the public 24/7. The Park Board says it is currently "piloting" various furnishings on the west side of the park, such as natural log seating, a shared garden area activated by Watari and Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, and heavy-duty wood tables for eating and socializing. The tables will arrive next month.

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From the Library The climbing number of Indigenous children recovered from residential schools has me turning to the words of Indigenous writers and thinkers and artists on anger.

Anishnabe poet and author Marie Annharte Baker discusses how "anger is a tag that's always put on First Nations writing. I feel it's often a way to dismiss it because it just means that the person is hearing with the ears of a white person." Check out these poetry books

by Annharte's in the library's collection: Exercises in Lip Pointing and Being on the Moon are absolute must .reads.

Years ago I read Eden Robinson's short story "Queen ofthe North" in the collection Traplines (also in the library's collection). The story features characters from Eden Robinson's book Monkey Beach and zeros in on hot-tempered Karaoke. Karaoke dreams of revenge fantasies while seeing various shades of red throughout the story, from her enflamed skin post-tattoo to her menstrual blood. The reader bears witness to Karaoke's anger not by what she says but by how it expresses itself through her body. . In Red Skin, White Mask: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (also in the library's collection and was also featured on display at the Carnegie Branch Library for National Indigenous Peoples Month) Yellowknives Dene and Indigenous scholar Glen Coulthard suggests that anger be recognized as a sensation or affect fully charged with political agency.

He writes: "I suggest that what implicitly gets interpreted by the state as Indigenous people's res sentiment understood as an incapacitating inability or unwillingness to get over the past - is actually an entirely appropriate manifestation of our resentment: a politicized expression of Indigenous anger and outrage directed at a structural and symbolic violence that still structures our lives, our rel~ionship with others, and our relationships with land." It is resentment itselfthat allows for individual and collective movement making. To dismiss or alleviate such anger would only be, thinking back to Annharte's earlier quote, for the benefit of [white] settler ears.

Every Vancouver Public Library Branch has an Indigenous Collection to check out and learn and unlearn from.

Come to the Carnegie Library Branch to see what we have in-house and on display. We're also very open to recommendations and new additions to the collection.

If you need help, please reach out to 2417 support lines:

Indian Residential School Survivors Society: 1-800-721-0066 Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text: 686868 Suicide Crisis Line: 1-800-784-2432 Battered Women's Support Services: 1-855-6871868 IRS National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419 Tsow- Tun Le Lum Crisis Line: 1-888-403-3123 Ku-Us Crisis Line (BC only): 1-800-588-8717 ~ Danielle

Neighbourhood Small & Greenest City Grants

Personal gatherings Examples of a personal gathering include having friends over to your house or meeting up with friends at a park.

Outdoor personal gatherings Up to 50 peqple can gather outdoors. For example Up to 50,people can gather at a park or beach Up to 50 people can gather in the backyard of a residence Indoor personal gatherings Up to 5 visitors or 1 other household can visit a personal residence. For example: Up to 5 people from different households can attend a dinner party at a household of 4 people One household of7 people can attend a birthday at another household of 4 people We would like to start to support block parties and other outdoor gatherings, if they're up to 50 people.

As NSG projects are still considered "personal gatherings" we would like to continue to restrict gathering indoors.

Here is the link for applications https://grants.vancouverfoundation.calAccount!

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Battered Women's Support Services proudly informed the framework and content of Canada's first NAP on Gender-Based Violence, a historic project led by Women's Shelters Canada.

Canada is at cross-roads when it comes to violence against women and gender-based violence CVA W/GBV): a perfect storm of colliding pandemics-COVID-19, and the pre-existing WHO declared pandemic of VA W/ GBV-has created both the conditions for escalating harms of violence, and the aperture for real and lasting change. This report lays the groundwork for answering the question: What will real change require?

"It's critical Canada address all policies that may affect women and people who are marginalized by their gender to access to services and protections within a framework that takes into account the full dimensions of Black, Indigenous and people of colour intersectionality. A deeper understanding and awareness ofBIPOC and disability intersectionality will allow us to address specific structural histories of exclusion that have affected the equal distribution of access to services and protections", says AngelaMarie MacDougall, Executive Director at BWSS. The National Action Plan focuses on 4 pillars: Enabling Environment and Social Infrastructure The NAP must address all policy areas that may affect women's vulnerability to violence and their ability to access services and protections. It must strive to achieve full substantive equality for all women to prevent and eventually end VA W/GBV. Prevention Prevention work must be community-specific, adequately funded, and based on a gendered, feminist intersectional analysis of violence. The focus has to be on educating children, youth, and adults on human rights and , VA W/GBV. This must be done through promoting understanding of healthy relationships, consent and rape \ culture, breaking down sexual assault myths, encouraging bystander interventions, offering programs to foster f~ self-esteem, and working with men and boys to change attitudes and behaviours.

Promotion of Responsive Legal and Justice Systems The NAP must address police, legal, court, and prison systems to ensure they reflect and are responsive to the lived realities of women facing violence. It must also work to both prevent and reduce the impacts of violence and ensure women's safety from an intersectional perspective.

Support for Survivors and Their Families .

A universal, coordinated, and integrated system of support services must be adequately funded, offered across all geographic locations, arid accessible to all women who have experienced any form ofVA W/GBV. This should include the development and implementation of service and practice standards and guidelines for all sectors that respond to violence against women, such as health, child protection, social assistance, and housing, to name a few.

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Dear Carnegie Community Centre Association members, Downtown Eastside residents, and community partners; It is with mixed emotions that I'm writing to let you know that I will be leaving Carnegie Centre at the end of July, and moving into a leadership position with the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation. My last day at Carnegie Centre will be Friday July 23.

It has been an incredible honour to serve this community over the past seven years as a Community Programmer, Manager of Community Centre Operations, and Centre Director. Carnegie's programs and services, and the board, volunteers, community partners, and staff that support them, are second to none. The way this community works together to build and sustain culture; to centre dignity, equity and justice; and to celebrate and honour moments of joy, sadness, and reflection are some of the threads that have knit this community into the incredibly amazing place that it is, with this Centre and Oppenheimer Park at its heart. Supporting this work, and the work of the Carnegie Community Centre Association, who has advocated for community both in times of complexity and in celebration have been incredible lessons in leadership, protocol, power, and love.

As the Provincial COVID-19 restart plan advances, we are continuing to expand arts, cultural.educational, recreational and volunteer programs and services both at Carnegie Centre and at Oppenheimer Park. I invite you to visit us to connect with our staff to learn more about what's happening, and how you can get involved. ..

The recruitment of a new Director will take place over the coming months. Over the coming weeks, J...a more details on an interim leadership plan for the Centre will be shared. : Thank you;

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NOTICE OF A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE MEMBERS TO:

THE MEMBERS of the Carnegie Community Centre Association (the "Society")

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special General Meeting of the Members Community Centre Association (the "Society") will be held at the:

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1. To consider, and if thought fit, to pass the following special resolution as a special resolution requiring the approval of a majority of not less than two thirds of the votes of those members of the Society who are entitled to do so and who vote in person at the meeting, to alter the purposes of the Society: Be it RESOLVED AS A SPECIAL RESOLUTION of the Society that the Bylaws of the Society dated for reference March 13,2018 be deleted and replaced with the Bylaws dated for reference June 23, 2021.

Copies of the by-laws dated for reference March 13, 2018 and June 23, 2021 are available for review at the Carnegie Centre at 401 Main Street's main floor Information Desk, or by phoning 604 665 2220.

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BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Gilles Cyrenne

PRESIDENT