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BEING ALIVE CANNOT, MUST NOT BE MERELY SURVIVING
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The Carnegie Newsletter has been published twice a month (with rare exceptions) 23 times a year since August 15, 1986. Its little sister publication, Help in the Downtown Eastside, has come out twice a year since 1991, with money to pay for printing that raised separately every year for those 21 years. The Newsletter started with 12 pages in 60 copies, the first issue being run off on an old photocopier at Carnegie Community Centre in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. It had been typed up and laid out in a basement storage room, converted to an 'office.' The seed - a kernel of an idea- had been planted, small yet untested against the storms of the time . The years between then and now have seen the Newsletter grow to 1200 copies per issue, and into a 16-28 page forum for our voices on matters of poverty, housing & homelessness, violence against women and the obscenity of over 125 women both missing & murdered in 15 years, the drug trade and the Four Pillars, the survival sex trade, !tee trade, development & gentrification, the marginalisation/ stereotyping of low-income residents, community events, cultural festivals, art, sports and other aspects of living in and among this stuff. Everything except the actual printing - writing articles, poetry, locally created graphic art, input, editing, layout, collation/stapling/folding and distribution is and has always been done by people volunteering. The money to pay for printing the Newsletter has come mostly from funds raised through gaming- the licence the Carnegie Community Centre Association (CCCA) has to benefit from Bingo revenues and, for the last decade or so, casino revenues for charities.
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