October 1, 2009, carnegie newsletter

OCTOBER 1, 2009

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" ... empowers the police in extreme weather / to forcibly take a homeless person to the ~ front door of a* shelter."(* '!!'shelter could be anywhere from Vancouver to Chilliwack;

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Assistance to Shelter Act

By Rolf Auer On Monday, September 2 1, 2009, news broke of the BC Liberal government's attempt to formulate legislation which would force homeless people into shelters in cases of extreme weather. Called the innocently sounding Assistance to Shelter Act, it- in its original form-would have allowed police or persons in positions of authority to cart homeless people off to jail if they refused to go to a shelter. This was documented in a number of news articles including an online Vancouver Sun blog entry by Harsha Walia titled BC government to jail the homeless.

As if suddenly sensing the tidal wave of backlash rising, BC L iberal Housing Minister Rich Coleman that same Monday vigorously declared that the legislation in no way was going to allow police or anybody to jail the homeless if they did not want to go to a shelter. ("B.C. plans to force homeless off streets in risky weather," Jonathan Fowlie, with files from Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun, September 22, 2009) Next up on the chopping block was the concern that the law was just a means for the government to clear the homeless off the streets in time for the Olympics. Said David Eby, Executive Director of the BC Civi l Liberties Association: "The timing is perfect for the Olympic Games. You want to talk about how extreme weather will be defined? Well, typically it's defined as three to five days of rain in a row. Well, that's February in Vancouver. It will be a great way to get the homeless- force the homeless -off the streets, and get them out of the view of visitors for the O lympic games." ("B.C. may force homeless indoors in cold snaps," CBC news, September 21, 2009) Coleman moved swiftly to counter that observation also. He told reporters that the police would probably only have to invoke the law five or six times in Vancouver. ("Liberals say extreme cold trumps homeless rights," Justine Hunter, Globe and Mail, September 22, 2009) Then there are some other things wrong with the law. What if the homeless don't want to go to the shelters in the first place because they are more comfortable outside, because it is safer outside, because theft occurs in the shelters, because there are communicable diseases in the shelters, because the staff sometimes treat people badly, etc.?

Other pointed observations were made. Carole James of the BC NDP said the BC Liberals had eight years to act on homelessness and only now were doing something, if that's what you could call such a law.

All three mainstream newspapers in Vancouver (The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, The Province) ran editorials condemning the law as a bad one for various reasons, including its unconstitutionality.

Even these missed the obvious, however, which was that if the BC government had built enough social housing when it was running budgetary surpluses, it wouldn't be in this bind now, having to write a law to force the homeless into shelters.

Wendy Pedersen of the Carnegie Community Action Project pointed this out on CCA P's website.

Then there's a glaringly obvious point: there simp\) aren't enough shelter spaces for all of the homeless it Vancouver. There are about 700 year-round shelter spaces and 300 HEAT (Homeless Emergency Action Team) shelter spaces. There may be an additional 300 extreme weather spaces depending on whom yoL talk to. But there are anywhere from I ,500 to 2,500 homeless people in Vancouver. So what are the police supposed to do when they bring a person to a shelter and there is no room for them? Dump them 0 1 the doorstep? Where does their responsibility end?

As Darren from Megaphone News put it on September 23, 2009, "The Attorney General says that pol ice will not force homeless persons to stay in shelter! during the Olympics, they will only pick them up ant transport them away from where they happen to be.

That's way different." If that's not Olympics cleansing, I don't know what is.

News frotn the LibrarY New Books Perna Chodron believes that there is fundamental opportunity for happiness right within our reach. yet we usually miss it - ironically. while we are caught up in attempt to escape pain and suffering. Ora~' n from her Buddhist beliefs, Chodron argues that we need to move towards painful situations with friendliness and curiosity. Read When Things Fall A part: Jleart Advice fo r Difficult Times (294.34) if you want to learn more.

Luis Eladio Perez: 7 A nos Secuestrado por las FA RC (SPA 921 PER), par Dario Arizmendi. "Luis Eladio Perez comparti6 conmigo Ia penosa vida cotidiana en cautiverio, Ia pcrdida de Ia dignidad, el maltrato, las diferencias, roces e into lerancias entre los mismos compai'ieros de cautiverio, las hum iliacones a las que era sometido constantemente, sus hambrunas, el miedo a perder Ia vida. Ia impotencia de no tener ni una Aspirina para tratar un infarto, ni una crisis renal y tres comas diabeticos, amen de dos malarias y dos leishmaniasis, las largas y penosas marchas de hasta cuarenta dias por el coraz6n de una selva virgen y cruel. su relaci6n con Ingrid Betancourt y con las demas victimas.

From morality to maturity, from addiction to genius, Your Brain: A User 's Guide (612.82) explores the hidden depths of our mind. "There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions. of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are- and it's an utter mystery.''

Book Shopping I have some money to spend on books and other materials for the library in the next few weeks. Please let us know if you have ideas fo r books in English, Spanish or French. I'm going to be doing a lot of buying at local bookstores, so if you'd like to come shopping, drop by the library and chat.

Huge thanks to everyone involved with the Alley Health Fair - hope you enjoyed it, and if you have any suggestions to make it beller, please let me know!

Beth. your librarian

Change One Thing

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If you could wave a magic wand, w hat one thing Would you change in your life?

The Library and Carnegie Centre have sponsored Paul Talbot to lead a workshop that will help you Get in touch w ith what you want to change and help you towards a realistic, exciting action p lan.

Friday, Oct 2, 3pm Carnegie Theatre

Join Vancouver Public Library's inaugural First Natio ns Storyteller-in-Residence Amanda Nahanee for an afternoon of storytelling. A manda is a descendant and cultura l ambassador o f the Squamish and Nisga'a Nations. She is excited to be sharing stories of mythology and historical events beginning to emerge beyond the First Nations commun ity.

Friday, Oct 16, 3pm Carnegie Theatre

HEALTH FAIR REPORTING

By Colleen Carroll I think I attended the HEALTII FA IR behind the Carnegie Community Centre; it was held in the alley on September 17, 2009. The alley HE~LTH FA I~ I attended had so much helpful information on staymg or becoming healthy, I hardly know where to begin explaining what went on .. but I will try to describe. as much of the highlights as I can recall of that beautiful b usy sunny day. . .

Tents were lined up in the alleys behmd the Carneg1e and the spotless alley running west between Hastings and Pender streets. Eating good healthy food was encouraged, with a big healthy free meal, a bicycle fruit s moot hie machine, and snacks of healthy food.

Keeping clean using soap and water and good hygiene were stressed, but there were bottles of hand cleaner given out by the hundreds at one table.

Drinking lots of water was stressed with gifts of large water bottles. The use of herbal remedies to boost one's immune system, and taking in sunshine to obtain natures best and cheapest Vitamin D was encouraged. People attending were given Frisbees to further encourage them to get out into the sun and exercise. A ll these things and more were offered up to people with the knowledge that our bodies immune systems can ward off any virus nature throws our way with healthy food, sufficient nutrition, the s un 's Vitamin D, exercise and sufficient sleep.

Most impressive for me was a booth I took at first glance to be a Canadian Armed Forces recruiting booth . My knee jerk reaction was how dare they?!

The U.S. military is well known for recruiting cannon fodder in America's poorest neighbourhoods.

I first mistakenly though! this booth was d oing just that at our health fa ir. wrong !

Our military, to their cred it, had a table at our Health Fair in an attempt to find war vets who had slipped through the cracks and needed medical attention, which they were there to offer. Impressive! 1 hate people who glance at a record, DVD, CD. or bo~k cover and just dismiss its value or message and like a sheep dog demand others do the same. Yet there I was judging that table before 1 went up and talked to them. Like a good sheep dog my instinct was to herd the sheep-people away from that table. It is too easily done.

That evening on CTV 1 saw a news report on a com-

pletely different health fair held in Vancouver's DTES. Same location and date. But by CTV's accounts not the fair I had attended that day.

Th is account of o ur health fair outright lied. Stating. and 1 quote here: "Yet, at a time when the country is bracing for outbreaks of HI N I flu, there were no hand sanitizer bottles or swine flu pamphlets in s ig ht .''

This report, disg uised as news. was nothing more than an in fomercial for the pharmaceuticals industry.

Designed to instill fear into the publ ic to demand the people down here take this swine/avian flu shot.

Th is vaccine has not had the time to be developed su ffi cientl y to be effective, nor has it been properly tested.

CTV's vested interest in promoting the flu shots can be fully understood when you foll ow the money.

Today pharmaceutical companies spend more money on advertising than research and development. All med ia therefore has much to gain when driving people into being fearful of a flu bug most people's natural immunity can fi ght. Their objective is to drive us into being consumers of a product not only unproven to be effective, but which may even prove deadly and the start of pandemic designed to kill billions.

The CTV report went on to say " If there was a large outbreak of Ill N I in BC's poorest neighbourhood, it could easily move to other communities."A lot of people come down here to party on the weekend. and they will catch it and take it out," Lampkin (the reporter) said. Fred Joseph, who is staying in a recovery house in Surrey, says the directors there are panicking. "In our houses they told us to stay clean, to be clean ... to wash our hands all the time," he said .

After hearing CTV's account of our health fai r 1wondered if I'd attended the same health fair they were covering.

Now CTV is blaming people living down here for being the potential genesis of a pandemic when in reality history and time will prove it was the vary vaccine they are promoting that caused the Please do not pandemic. take my word for all this. Google Dr. Len Horowitz, prisonplanet.com. Mike Adams the health ranger, BBC news, Follow links that will take you to informat ion CTV and kin (who get big money from drug companies) don't want you to know.

COMING SOON!

The 6th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of til e City Festival Wedn esday, October 28- Sunday November 8, 2009 M ore tha n 80 events at over 25 locations throu ghout the DTES

Leith Harris: DTES arti st & activist & Mom

With twelve excitinยง days of music, theatre, fil m, poetry, readings, rad io, fo rums, cultural celebrations, workshop and art shows, the 6'' Annual Downtown Eastside lleart of the City Festival celebrates the creative and comm itte; artists, residents and activists who thrive in our community.

The Festival profiles and encourages the development of community arts in the Downtown Eastside, promotes our cultures and DTES involved artists, gives voice to local concerns, and involves a wide range of professional, community, emerging and student artists, residents and lovers of the arts.

The theme of the 2008 Festival is Il luminating the Four Corners- the intersection of Mai n and Hastings, at the ver heart of the Downtown Eastside- and this year the festival will feature numerous events at the four comers and throughout the surrounding neighbourhoods (Gastown, North Hasti ngs, Strathcona and Chinatown.)

Th is year's fes tival features more than 80 events at over 25 locations, so choosing what to see and hear becomes a delightfu l challenge. In the next news letter we will highlight a few special presentations you will want to put in your schedule so as not to miss! For now, reserve the dates Oct 28 to Nov 8 and we' ll see you there!

Watch the next Carnegie news letter for program highlights! 604-628-5672 or www.hea rtofth ecityfestival. com The Downtown Eastside Heart of the Festival is produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre with the Carnegie Community Centre & the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, working with over 25 community partners.

Hello everyone. My apologies if you have already received this email from other sources but the matter is very urgent and the arts and the residents of BC need to hear your voice on this very important and urgent matter.

As most of you are well aware there have been recent

huge and devastati ng cutbacks to the arts from the BC Li beral government. The strongest way we can reverse these cutbacks is for people like you to respond stating the arts sector of the economy needs to be increased and the cuts reversed. ....

Here is what is happening to Vancouver Moving fiJ#f

Theatre: we are losing $45,000 from these cuts. This is our core fund ing. The loss of this funding will seriously reduce our ability to continue our arts based community development work in the Downtown Eastside. Savannah and I. and our community, will be forced to seriously curtail our activities. This work ironically - was acknowledged last year by a BC Communi ty Achievement Award personally handed to Sava11nah and I by Premier Campbell.

Below is a letter from Spencer Herbert MLA for Vancouver West End. I lis letter outlines the importance of responding to the Finance Comm ittee, which is now consulting British Columbians as they develop the budget for next year. This is a crucial committee and its decis ions wi ll have a huge impact on the fu ture of provincial support for the arts sector in BC. Please take a moment to read Spencer's letter and to respond to the Finance Committee.

We need your s upport.

The provincial government needs to get a flood of responses to hear the message and to reverse the cuts.

Thanks.

Terry I Iunter Executive Director, Vancouver Moving Theatre Artistic Producer, Heart ofthe City Festival

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arts culture and heritage has arrived.

Th~ provin~ial Finance Committee will be travellinÂŁ1 the province to hear from you about what you think the 2010/201 1 budget should look like. The current BC Liberal budget plan for 20 I 0/2011 includes cuts of90'Yo to arts and culture investment. As you know this will devastate a11s organizations, throwthousands out of work, hurt our communities, and negatively impact our economy. It just doesn't make sense.

These cuts include the elimination of gaming funds, the entirety of BC Arts Council grants, and other investments in arts and culture.

To get on the speakers list you need to act fast. The Finance Committee have provided less than 5 days notice for arts and culture organizations in Vancouver to participate in the fi rst public forum they are hosting. The committee will v isit other communities across BC soon thereafter.

The government has provided very little time to respond, and we can't let them get away with keeping our communities' voices from being heard.

To get on the list to speak contacts are: toll free, 1877-428-8337, local 250 356-2933, or online www.leg.bc.ca/budgetconsultations hnp://www.leg.bc.ca/budgetcons ultations and click on the participate in a public hearing button . .

If you are unable to make it to an in-person sess1on then you can submit your thoughts in writing or by Web video. This is very important- even a one page subm ission outlining the impact of cuts and the need for next year's budget to reverse the trend would be helpful. It is important that speakers include comm.unity members s peaking in support of the arts, cul_ture and heritage sectors, professionals, membersh ip organizations, board members, volunteers ... you get the idea.

Here is the schedule in brief:

Fri., Oct. 16, Surrey

G r eetings fr iends of arts, cu lt u re a nd her ita ge, 1 am writing to let you know that one of the key opportunities to influence the next provincial budget, and call for a restoration of provincial investment in

[Spencer lists !he meetings taking place around the province, butthe one Vancouver venue happened on Seprember 28. The only other even/ within transit reach is in Surrey on the Friday in mid-October.]

1 hope you will take this opportunity to share your views (you can even re-submit the letters you have sent the Minister). It is so important for us to keep the pressure and action going.

Many thanks, Spencer Herbert MLA Official NDP Critic for Tourism, Culture, and the Arts

Sinfonia Orchestra

presents Traditional Austrian connections Music by 3 generations of Mozarts (including Symphony # 40 by Wolfgang Amadeus), Viennese waltzes and more! Special guest, Trombone Soloist Jeremy Berkman.

Friday, October gth, 5:30 PM, Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Street

PACIFIC BLUEGRASS & HERITAGE MUSIC SOCIETY presents

A VARIETY OF BANDS PLAYING BLUEGRASS, FOLK & COUNTRY

DTES fteithbouthood Hou1e presents

it's 2nd Annual

'Bplelulo"' m t11e NltJnt' Portrait taking Sunday October l &'h, II am - 4pm Watch for pop-up tents a round the neighbourhood to have your portrait done. A ll Portraits will be

projected on Dec 21

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Salzburg Serenade: Mozart's Early Years Pacific Baroque Orchestra

Wednesday, October 14, 7 - 9 pm Carnegie Theatre

Enjoy Mozart's exquisite Salzburg Symphonies, a pinnacle in his c hamber orchestra writing. matched with pieces by his contemporaries on the Salzburg scene, including Michael I !aydn and his father Leopold Mozart. FREE

Friday October 23, 7:30pm - St. Jam es Anglican Ch urch, 303 Cordova St. (at Gore Ave.)

Volunteers

C AMP HOMEWOOD, QUADRA IS LAND (Sept.28- Oct.02, 2009) Volunteer Progr a m / Seniors Program Ca mp For the first time ever, here we are at the exotic shores of Gowlland Harbour on Q uadra Island missing all of you terribly. Well. ... Thank you everyone fo r taking care of things back home to enable those who are on vacation to be here. We are all very appreciative of you. Peter, thank you for making the music discs fo r us and Davor, don't work too hard, we have spies.

This is the fish Bill and Marvin (are going to say) caught ••. ooops, we are not even there yet ... LO L. Volunteer C ommittee Meeting Wednesday, October 7.2009@ lpm Classroom II Volunteer of the Month is chosen by those at the meeting (not by stall) All vol unteers we lcome!

Your voice is needed and appreciated.

Vo lunteer Dinn er - C a r·n egic T heatr·c (and Ego r 's Birthd ay) Wednesday, October 142009@ 4:30 Sharp!

Your contribution and hard work is appreciated by the many people who benefi t by your services. Let the us serve you! Skill test ing questions fo r mystery prizes.

Please pick up your ticket fro m the Volunteer Program Office Volunteer s of the Month OF September Anita Kennedy, Weight Room Ta ra M eDia r mid , Learning Centre Pun ki n Pa tch a nd C arving Contest (hosted by Colleen) You get to pick o ut yo ur own p unkin, br ing it bac k to Carneg ie T he atre to e nter the Punki n Carv ing Con test Monday, October 26,2009 - --Meet at In fo d esk a t lOa m Sign up with Colleen in the Volunteer Program Office or Marlene. Lane Level.

Dear Readers, 1 have decided to go to the Supreme Court of Canada. I will go with my la''l')'er, Nina Purewal, from the Pivot Legal Society. My auntie Margaret Fletcher will also come for character purposes.

1 feel that $25,000 is not enough for all the anguish and excruciating pain I went through.

Constable Brown(# 1768) is a woman. She didn't care if Constable Steverding (#238) tasered me or not. In my case 1 hold that both arc cruel to the point of being sadistic. She didn't intervene at all. " A year ago my uncle Bill Wuttunee sa1d to me Yo~. don't need that wheelchair any more. You can walk.

And 1did. That's my will power - no wheelchair now and no cane.

1 will write again to let you know what happens in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Marlene Wuttunee

Stolen Children Kidnapped from their parents' embrace Endlessly abused in a dark strange place Dangerously, silence took its toll They were treated like a sti lled totem pole.

Couldn't speak or mimic their native way Future lost - spirituality's in decay All were told to leave spiritual 'n cultural beliefs in the past, 'Your future's in our hands." ('got you at last!')

'Twas a crucial moment of lost thought Searching for love - beatings are all they got This crooked path 's like a Hit 'n Run Petrified. scared and bleeding hearts are no fun.

People! Did you not get the big picture yet?

Stolen children! Stolen children they live to regret The si lhouette of insanity: Indian Residential Schools Ceremonious Angels; they were nobody's fool. ..

Sinful days and nights would collide Children buried 'round these churches of genocide Orchards, mounds, (incinerators) marks of mass g raves Eternity, infinity? No, bring back my baby braves.

Oh Great while Spirit, free those stolen children The innocent mouse of the south, let them be like The illumination eagle of our ancestors- set them free Children, stolen children, get up off wounded knee.

All my relations, William Arnold Combes

The Downtown Eastside Arts4A//Institute noY4PMb4Pt II路

19. 1009

A creative laboratory and practicumfor art that engages and celebrates community.

This week long intensive will focus on the principals. practices, and underpinnings of community art practice, and the things you need to know to launch your own project.

Faculty includes some of Canada's leading community art practitioners, with co-directors Savannah Walling (Vancouver Moving Theatre) and Ruth Howard (Jumblies Theatre, Toronto), and Cath) Stubington (Runaway Moon theatre, Enderby BC) To apply and for more information please contact Terry llunter or Savannah Walling vancouvermovingtheatre@shaw.ca 604-628-5672 Further details will be posted soon at www.vancouvermovin theatre.ca Limited registration.

Bursaries are available for Downtown Eastside community members.

Produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre, Jumblies Theatre and the 2009 Hearl ojlhe City Festival with the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.

WORD UP

Slang Deciphered

by Dave McGinn Source: Globe and Mail-- September 25, 2009

Conflusion [kuhn - fl oo - shun] -noun -related forms: conflused. verb I. The state of being unsure about whether to get a flu shot 2. A general feeling of uncertainty regarding the HlN I virus Usage: "I was going to get my flu shot this year, but now that I hear health officials are rethinking their vaccination strategy, I'm totally conflused."

"The conflusion over just how scared to be of Ill N I is understandable g iven the lack of consensus."

Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP)

Newsletter

l Find us in the Carnegie Association office (604-839-0379)

Oct 1, 2009

Creative juices flow at Town Hall about CCAP mapping project Gena Thompson and Hugh Lampkin used slides to present results of the Carnegie Community Action Project's mapping project to about 60 local residents and media at a town hall meeting at Carnegie on Sept. 22"ct. About 200 lowincome Downtown Eastside residents participated in community mapping sessions with CCAP over the last eight months or so. They described the places in the DTES that are most meaningful to them, the best housing and best places to get food and shop, as

well as places that made them feel uncomfortable and unsafe.

Then CCAP went through the notes of the mapping process and carne up with a list of 10 good things (planners call them assets) about the DTES (see the list in the box on page 4).

After the presentation people talked about what might be missing from the asset li st and what would happen if (Continued on page 2)

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One man suggested that a large food co-op would be good for the neighbourhood and might draw in other people to shop here. Other people argued that United We Can is a great enterprise that helps people get money without getting into crime and helps people recycle. "We need a flea market 路 for binners," said one person.

CCAP's Wendy Pedersen concluded the meeting by saying that in the next few months we are going to have a process where low-income people can work on a model of what they'd like on Hastings St. from Woodwards to Main.

CCAP will also be getting more input on what low-income residents want as a vision for their community and hopes to present a plan to City Council within months. - JS

condos keep flooding into the neighbourhood. Some had good ideas about what the neighbourhood needs.

One woman said that artists are assets and the wonderful programming at Carnegie. Lorelei Hawkins said that we need to build housing that meets the needs of the people who live in ithomes not merely buildings. Another woman said the DTES is very proactive in spite of the negative stereotype, and that's a huge asset.

Responding to the idea that low-income people who live in the DTES should be pushed out into other neighbourhoods, Ian McRae said, "People won't last very long outside the neighbourhood paying 99 cents a pound for potatoes instead of 29 cents at Sunrise Market."

Thanks to the Blackbirdfor these photos.

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Unlimited condo development could wipe out good things about DTES Carnegie Community Action Project Press Release:

using a car or transit (which many can't afford), and can volunteer and participate in numerous organizations to help others and themselves.

The DTES is also a place where people who live in some of the 5000 social housing units feel that they have a strong base and network of support, where the green spaces are greatly appreciated, and where there is a lot of

September 16,2009, Vancouver, B.C: Most of the things low-income residents like about the DTES could be wiped out if the city continues to allow unlimited condo development in the area. That's the conclusion of a report on community mapping released today by CCAP. The democratic mapping process involved over 200 residents at 18 DTES community hubs.

Participants were asked to draw their most meaningful place in the DTES on a blank map.

Then they were asked where the best housing and best place to get food and shop were. Everyone was asked why they chose the places they chose and extensive notes of their answers were taken.

The DTES is a real community where low-income people feel accepted.

"We're on no levels here and I don路t know anywhere else where that happens," said one of the 200 participants. The mapping process also showed that DTES residents like being able to get the things they need without

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empathy for people who are homeless or have health and addiction issues. And it is a place where many people who experience human rights violations work for social justice.

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The mapping report challenges the unproven theory that only neighbourhoods that include rich and poor can be healthy.

DTES low-income community assets: "Mixing rich and poor is already creating a clash, rather than a Belonging and acceptance mix in the DTES," said Pedersen. "Some condo Empathy for those who are suffering residents are already organizing to keep out services and housing that low income people need," Strong sense of community "More condo development will increase land prices and taxes, Authentic cultural heritage pushing out stores that cater to low income people and Spiritually important green spaces increasing hotel rents. Upscale businesses exclude residents with prices and security guards," Opportunities to volunteer and added Pedersen. contribute Mapping participants were also asked about unsafe and Free, cheap and nearby necessities uncomfortable places in the DTES. These included gentrifying places where people Needed and appreciated DTES felt excluded, like condos, services Gastown and Tinseltown.

Mappers also said they feared Ongoing work for social justice violence from a number of sources including police, nonSome good quality affordable housing resident drinkers, security guards, predators and drug as a base dealers.

The mapping project is one in this community," said Wendy phase ofCCAP' s process to develop a Pedersen, a DTES resident and one of vision, some principles and strategies the co-authors. "With this report it' s the for achieving a safe, secure, affordable, residents who are saying what's good and authentic low income about the community and what needs to neighbourhood in the DTES. *** be preserved."

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What would make you feel safe in the DTES? residents feel unsafe. One person said "it would be safer if there was no legislation that will empower police to apprehend the homeless and put them in jail."

Another resident felt targeted because he was poor and native. He said "I get ticketed for nothing by the cops. I've experienced hatred from the cops. I can't pay them. I only have $62 a month to live on from welfare."

A few people said they felt safe in the DTES. One said be actually felt safer here than in most other neighbourhoods: "As an Aboriginal man, I'm safer on Hastings here than on a skytrain platform in Burnaby." He said there is more tolerance here and that there are pockets like this for others, like East Indians, around the region.

Another said "my confidence makes me feel safe. I can see and say things clearly and that helps me avoid trouble with the police." He wished that other residents could have better health, maybe with special pills to make them able to understand what was happening and to not be so vulnerable.

The cops didn' t say much, but some tried hard to put (Continued on page 6)

Last week 20 or so DTES residents, mostly from V ANDU, met the VPD at Chapel Arts near Oppenheimer. Pivot arranged for us to talk about these topics in small groups: What would the DTES look like if the streets were safer? Tell a story about a time that someone did or said something that made you feel safe:r.

What relationships do you have now that help make the streets safer and what tools could help?

The talk was passionate and a little bit tense. Residents at my tables talked mainly about what would make the DTES safer.

Only one person mentioned the drug scene as a problem. She said getting rid of drug dealers would make the DTES more safe for her as she walked around at night.

At the small tables, some said a "safe inhalation site" would make them safer.

No probing happened to fmd out why. I think residents want the police to stop hasseling residents for smoking crack, want to be indoors and possibly closer to services and help.

Mostly people talked about how the police themselves make

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(Continuedfrompage 5) residents at ease. One said be was a "reformed red neck" and he changed because of getting to know residents, "their stories and why they are trapped here". He said changing outsider's perception of the DTES is really important to improving the safety of the DTES. Unfortunately, the facilitator didn' t probe to ask why this would improve safety. One resident got upset at that point and left. I think the cop was trying to say that police treat people badly because the area has such a bad reputation.

At the end, we were asked what would make us come back. Residents applauded loudly when one person said

they wanted to talk about locations for a safe inhalation site. And when someone said the police should admit that the community has never had a say over policing. And again, when someone said that "you've been chasing drug addicts up and down Hastings for the last 100 years, which is futile. We could talk about a place where we can all agree that drug selling could happen."

Jbe police said they would come back to sort out what's acceptable and not acceptable down here in terms of behavior and help to build a common understanding. Do you think we should meet again? - wp

DTES a little safer thanks to VANDU by sending City Managers Penny Ballem and David McLellan to big meeting at VANDU. Theytold V ANDU that they will look at tickets with the city's prosecutor, throw some out and resolve others with community service. They also asked ifV ANDU would work on a DTES pedestrian safety project with the city. Vending tickets fall under Provincial jurisdiction and we need to fight this still. -wp Thanks to April at Aha Media for these photos. Can you see the gun in the photo above?

Earlier this year, CCAP, BC Civil Liberties and Power of Women pressured the city to withdraw tickets given to lowincome DTES residents for jaywalking, vending and other minor offences. These tickets were given out in a blitz and residents could end up in jail just in time for the 2010 games if they failed to pay and failed to appear in court. We didn't get anywhere. But it was V ANDU that pushed city council and got results in August when they interrupted a council meeting with their message that the tickets are unfair. Council responded

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CCAP planning day shows DTES has a lot of heart they would like to see in the DTES of the future. Some of the things they put on the collages included: lots of low-

Unity, equality of all of us, acceptance, caring, a lot of diversity, compassion, respect, comfortable, a real community.

These are some of the words that 30 people wrote on rocks at the Carnegie Community

income. intergenerational housing that serves the needs of residents, with lU.....UIOf

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Action Project's P lanning Day on July 27th.

CCAP organized the day to get lowincome residents to help develop a vision and some principles for creating a healthy, affordable, safe, low-income community in the Downtown Eastside.

The workshop took place in the Carnegie gym and was facilitated by Kathy Coyne.

At the workshop people divided into 4 groups and made huge collages of what

seniors and children and daycare and programming and green spaces on the roof; a community growing inside the housing; compassion with needles; inner city wilderness programs for (Continued 011 page 8) 7

(Colltinued from page 7) children and adults: a central square at Main & Hastings with no cars and fountains and lots of marches; a swimming pool; trees and benches lining the sidewalks; water fountains; a healing, sweat and wholistic centre; Sunrise, Save on Meats, Quest, Zellers, Tim Hortons -not too expensive for people; Aboriginal art; more crosswalks; more parks; public washrooms; the richness and colour of our lives expressed in our community.

Other things in the collages included a community garden, more home support for elders; children are able to gather

kids connecting; long house; we are needed.

CCAP is now working on a report to include a VISIOn

and principles from this day and will be taking it back to the group to for input before writing a final vision report for a safe, healthy. affordable, low-income neighbourhood.

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outside that means our neighbourhood is safe; growing together- we can live in harmony with what is around us; houses meld in with the greenery and trees; nature all by itself --we need quiet and peaceful where we can escape to; we're OK with each other if we have a fish on our head or can't see or have a cane; safety; car free spaces; friendly police; a DTES council, a neighbourhood plan, greened alleys; art centre: kids walking to school; parade of protest; arts and

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Pushing the once limitless boundaries of my gradually degrading, semi-unconscious mind, and then suddenly reawakening in a start with not a moment's notice! Rebounding in an awesome explosion of illu~ minating creativity caressing my entire being - in a cocoon of cozy famil iarity, both safe and secure. My now re-emerging burgeoning, robust heart and soul, bursting in a cacophony of catharsisistic necessity so time could be; floating serenely in a seamless sea and I'm soaking it in like a sponge, for future reference if need be - a crisis in remembering vividly yet fading with horror-riddled recollections of being blasted and blistered, flat busted/bankrupt/broke. kicked and punted from pillar to post; punished perhaps for past lives unlived, unrealised ... static stodgy indefinitely indelibly undefinable, a blurred sideshow of snapshots and reels of baggage committed forever to my memory film -like spools of synthetic celluloid of my past tense and recent history for the most part (now) incomprehensible and, as always, wishingly dispensible, long logged and, hopefully, forever lost. .. ;.but I doubt it i\ II is still incomplete, fa celess, flat , unimag inable images that snap to attention in an instant, only to be most gratefully gradual in a state of hazy disinterest and daft indifference - a state of bittersweet bliss on my part blown off into the space recessive, intellectual, nether-bound, a virtually scattered wasteland of nothingness in us all.

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September 12, 2009 Hi Rudolf, Our gig today at the Four Sisters Co-op Summer Circus was fun for us in the Oppenheimer Park Homeless Band. It was a bright and clear morn ing and we got a nice photo of the 'bandwagons' roll ing do'-'~1 Cordova carrying the instruments a nd equipment. We participated in the community circus for several hours, alternately performing our songs and musically accompanying the kids doing their amazing outdoor circus acts. So much for playing live songs fora total of45 minutes, eh!

I like the Oppenheimer Park I lomeless Band practices and gigs. Quite a few folks who want to sing and play have been coming to the practices on Wednesday afternoons at Oppenheime r park (throughout the last year) and more recently on Dunlevy Street. For the next few months we are meeting at the Downtown Easts ide Centre for the Arts, http://www.decentreforthearts.com/, inside the InterUrban Gallery, I E. Hastings St. at Carrall St., across from where Pigeon Park used to be. The jam session goes from 5:30- 7:30pm each Wednesday.

There's support, too, as we've come out to one another's musica l performances, made additional practice opportunities, and shared specific skills to learn. I feel encouraged to do more music now, on my own and with friends who come by, and always look forward to the next band practice.

Thanks to Carrie, Blair, Robyn, and Eddy, and to Rudo lf fo r all your efforts for the band. You're a real rolling stone, man, forging ahead, gathering no moss, in your efforts to make real musicians out of us all, or, at least, help us to more enj oy making our own music!

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I see you've been promoted to g lory just one4 more same old story feel free to stop me if anything releva nt or gory enters the story, still picking pieces of this rock out of my heart now don't get me wrong (right) this planet has been a pleasure just knowing how we will be going measure for measure who will

be holding that gate now thafs fate for you, expect the worst and never be disappointed like a holiday ir Mogadishu no one misses you no one at all & all at once like testing Earth's patience by stopping every· thing in its tracks this third stone of holy horrors is now on the skewers rack good times a head (if you'· already dead) grass replaced by asphalt not my fault as tempers & temperatures flare like a flower lirefight, the will against the n ight. 7 billion jaws dropp ing to the ground a t the same time reminds me of a childish rhyme, I know if everyone on this planet could actually plan it & jump up & down at the exac time Earth would spl inter in groups like an egg !think we just amputated our only home .. is there another la nd like Dotcomland. Land filled desert island too much to demand Satan/God please take these useless hands of mine & direct the m to anothe time no more cari ng about the weather the soonest the much mush better, we will be all skin & phones by the way do yo9u speak Corpseanese even the d e: continue to talk you think it sucks up here I'll give you something to fear, bones pushing digits (Death still has a crush on Gidget) who was first with thes global positioning leashes wires from skull to toes that how it goes?

The only thing that everyone can agree on is that nobody at all knows now I don't want to say I told you so so back to the planet without a plan like an !81h century map all washed up like the MayTag ma now some of these things neve r change just names • dates being rearranged not so fast where's my chan! not pity or whatever you take for granted as my depression era goes into Xtra innings we talk but nc one takes responsibility the dead eagle has landed like rinsing your hands in liquid explosives a little dab 'I do ya were the last words he said, a stand-up guy down for the count o n a bus no fuss as the cops surround us ( In Surroundavis ion) then make the fat & futile mistake & gang-rush the bus sorry Mr. Fori who thought himself a winner li ke a lamb being fed then led to the spot where he's eaten & forgotten lik last week's dinner, pass the bread I thought I heard said "The Next Sound You Hear beep*beep*beep* beep*beep* now little bow peep is now asleep & )C are, as always. incomplete.

By ROBERT McGILLIVRAY "You can never plan the future by the past.''

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Advocacy groups denounce Salvation Army's human trafficking campaign Advocates for sex workers' and women's rights arc demanding an end to the Salvation Army "The Truth Isn't Sexy" campaign.

On September 25, 2009. the Salvation Anny is askIdiot Statement of the decade: ing its supporters to participate in "group prayers" where they will place mannequins in tattered white "We also have no history of colonialism. So we ha\'e dresses stained with fake blood outside strip clubs all of the things that many people admire about the and massage parlours. great powers but none of the things that threaten or In 2008, the Salvation Army launched the campaign bother them." -Prime Minister Steven llarpcr with a series of shocking public advertisements depicting women in situations of danger and violence.

The upcoming "weekend of prayer" will take place in cities around the world and will involve actions targeting sex workers and their \\Orkplaces.[ l]ln May of this year, the Salvation Anny was forced to apologi7e for a simi lar campaign in Australia.

"Through an aggressive misinfonnation campaign, the Salvation Army is trying to create an unwarranted Dear Friends, panic about human trafficking in Canada," says Katrina Pacey, Pivot lawyer and coordinator of the sex Many Aboriginal communities have experienced work human rights campaign. "Even one instance of health problems from pollution, burning of trappers' human trafficking is an unacceptable tragedy but it is cabins by governments and corporations, clear cutthannful and insulting to characterize all sex workers ing of their Traditional Territories, relocation of their as trafficking\ ictims." communities and the horrors of the residential school Pivot Legal Society, FIRST and other prominent sex system. This remarkable new film about Grassy workers' and women's advocacy groups have joined Narrows First Nation in Ontario. Canada not together to speak out against the Salvation Anny and only documents their struggle but gives hope, directheir campaign. Other coalition members include the tion and new ideas for all communities who are expBC Coalition of Experiential Communities, Prostitueriencing similar situations. tion Alternatives Counselling & Education (PA CE) If you would like to obtain a copy of this important Society, WISII Drop-In Centre, the Naked Truth film, arrange a showing of it in your community or and the Sex Professionals of Canada. air it on television, please contact the film maker "It is completely unacceptable that the Salvation Tadashi Orui at: tadashiorui@hotmail.com Army excluded sex workers from the development of this campaign." says Esther Shannon of FIRST. "It is llcre is Description of the Film and Screen Shots: v. idely accepted that the expertise of sex workers is http://scarsofmercury.com/ critical to effective anti-trafficking campaigns.Failing to collaborate with sex workers and other key stakeAll the very best to you aiL holders does nothing to further the safety and rights For Land and Life. of the women and children that are trafficked into John II.W. Hummel, Canada each year." clson, B.C.

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October 2 - 24, 2009 A n Invitation Opening Reception: Community Quilt Exhibition

F riday October 2, 2009 Doors open 7:00pm. Ceremonies at 7.45 pm.

Interurban Gallery, One East Hastings, Vancouver Exhibition from October 2 to October 23. 2009 Live and Silent Auction: October 24 , 2009 This is the first project of our Fabric Arts Program Fabric arts provide opportunities for everyone to participate in creating community using fabric as the medium. Connections are created through these collaborative artistic endeavors between different communit ies in the neighborhood. The fou ndation of the Fabric Arts program is quilting.

T he Commu nity Q uilt The Community Qui lt, a project of the Fabric Arts

Program which began in May 2009, and was inspired by the treasured Women's Memorial Quilt. Residents. cultural groups, and community g roups were invited to contribute a square for a community quilt or create a quilt with their g roup. The qui lts arc exhi bited for the commun ity to enjoy and then auctioned to raise money for the the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts and the community groups w ho contributed.

The Co mmunity Quilt Stor y Comm unity quil ting excites personal expression, connects people, and creates communi!). The Communit) Quilt project gave people from different com munities with di ffe rent li fe experiences the oppo rtunity to learn an ancient cra ft, to create together in an open and encouraging environment, and t connect and come to know one another better in the process.

Quiltcrs had the opportunity to tell their story and talk about their work.

CommunitY Quilt Project Exhibit -Participant LiSt Qu il ts A Stitch for Social Change; C lub Femminile Italiano from The Italian Cultural Centre Coyote Comforts Quilting Project; Downtown Eastside Centre for the A11S- Community Quilts Downtown Eastside Women's Centre Elizabeth Fry Society; Karolina Barski; K itsi lano Neighbourhood House; Lindsay Undem Lions Gate Quilters Guild; Living Through Loss Counse lling Society o f BC Lydia Shimek; Maggie Winston ; Nancy Bosomwonh & Sarah Turner; Patchwork and Art Quilts Paulette Clark; Phi lippine Women Centre ofBC; Sandi Bajcar; Sara h Turner; Skundaal Vancouver Christian School; Vancouver Resource Soc1ety Day Program; Wanda Mowry Community Q uilt Workshop Leith Harris P hotography Progra m Participants Lindsay Undem Ashley Evers Anna Lisa Fox Valdes Hannah Bee Breezy Lixian Cheng Karolina Barski Carol Lo is Klassen Lisa Fox Valdes Celeste Godwin Bowen Lydia Shimek Sarah Turner Christine Cardi nell Tutt Mary Ballard Fabric DQnors Charl ie Kirkley Mo lly Gaetsz Alex Fabrics Claudia Carpenter Nancy Bosmworth Do reen Lind Corri Langridge Natalie Don路it llott C urious George Nessa Bryce Ethel Marlyn PACE Society E WMA- Marianna Dalannah Gail Bowen Daneille Brown Pat Haram Fabric Land Danika Sea Sandra Pro nteau Les lie Straghan Gai l Webster Sara Prins Maxwell Fabrics Gia Aweida Sarah Turner Spo nsors Hannah Bee Shannon Lazzarotto Dussa's Ham & Cheese James Oickle Shara Opus An & Design Media Jan Fox Sheri Poelman Packaging Alternatives Inc. Jennifer Cooper Po rtland Ho tel Society Steve Valdes Kiran I lacker Vance Romance Print Time Digital Centre Katie Ernst Wish Drop-In Centre Stock designer bags Kriss Boggild W T Lynch Foods Zoe Beukers Krista Lomax lara's Deli

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The Eyeless Worm路s View of God I am Shiva- destroying the tenuous order of the universe To find substances, Any s ubstance To stil l the demons of my body To lay ghosts of timeless past To send back the unfinished, unvarnis hed and crudely joined Salt in the furrows Boiling oil from the high walls o f Masada 'avin a noice cuppa in the garden While visions of doodlebugs dance in the heads I am Krishna & Shiva & Luxmi too In the light of the morning star Balancing, directing, calling, CREATING I am Jahweh in my humanity Small, mean, jealous. vengeful, destroy ing, creating or Allowing those puny. crawling maggots to bring down the Rose of Creation to the wasteland Bring down the Road to the Cross ofTime once more I am Raven - inqui siti ve, civilized, alert holding the illuminated universe like a bead I am Coyote - running yellow dog speaking in ridd les Permiuing outrageous atrocities, but only sometimes You never can tell ' bout him.

I am Ramses and the other Princes, waiting, waiting And Death only a momentary consideration. wm miles

"UNSUNG HEROES OF THE FOUR CORNERS" A S howing o f digital s tories from th e Shire Proj ect Thursd ay, October 29'" in the Carnegie Learnin g C entre from 2- 5 The Shire Project is a collaboration of the Carnegie Community Centre and the Carnegie Learning Centre. It was originally envisioned to be about seniors' experiences w ith housing and living in isolation in the DTES. Since February of2008 a group of seniors have been producing digital stories about

Reunion Walking down railroad tracks sun slices the sky 1 stare at the crystal thru which I see Thi s illusion we call reality I am firm ly planted in the ether S leepin beside lakes, waking up to the Canada goose Foraging as the sun broke the line of the hill So the summer sang its song, with Jesse My long lost bastard son by the light of midnight fire 路We created the memories we never had as kids Never too late to care for your own sk in blood bone we have family to keep us from being all alone The hundred days in the hills, sleeping lakeside Drinking coffee in the warm summer morn ing Credit 's good at Walt's News as the days parade Of cider and sweet ganja beginning dances ti ll dawn do it once and do it again and just keep on Doing it all over again What was best was the love, being called "'Dad" By a boy you barely knew, too late Came the recognition fo our difTerences And all the things we carry are the same Love your children while you got 'em Be someone they find it easy to love, respect And lay away the resentments and the blame Let shine the light of love; learn to live again.

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themselves and others in the community.

Digital storytell ing is a layering of pictures, voice recording, mus ic and just about whatever you want to use to tell your particu lar story. We have learned how to bring the stories out of others as we mentor them through the process.

As a part of the "Heart of the City Festival" this showing of Year' we are proud to present our latest stories on Thursday, O ctober 29 ~ from 2 to 5 pm.

After the show. we invite everyone to take part in a storytelling works hop. This project was funded by the New ll orizons for Seniors Program. We look forward to seeing you there and invite you to come and check out our stories. Who knows, you might love it so much you will want to create your very own masterpiece with the help of the mentors: Bob, Adrienne, or Karenza.

Every ExCuse in the Boo!<: - Jim Dewar Opening Reception Friday, October 23' 5- 7 pm Carnegie Community Centre

3'd Floor Gallery, 401 Main Street Exhibition: October 19th - November 13th _,~•. ~ Does the ~ Downtown ~ ::-..._ ~ Eastside ~~ ~ have a sense ~ ~ ofhumour?

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ARTS4ALLINSTITUTE a creative laboratory and practicum for art that engages with and celebrates community This week-long intensive course will focus on the principles, practices, underpinnings of "community art practice" and the things you need to know to launch your own project. Instructors include 3 of Canada's leading community artists, Ruth Howard (Jumblies Theatre, Toronto), Savannah Walling (Vancouver Moving Theatre) and Cathy Stubington (Runaway Moon theatre, Enderby) Presentations, guest presentations, discussions, videos. hands-on workshops, creative explorations and resources to take home.

DATES: Nov. 12 (evening only) and all day Nov. 1315 & 17- 19,2009 at various DTES venues WHO IT'S FOR: People interested and experienced in art s and other processes that engage Downtown Eastside community artists ready for leadership roles Public sessions and some part-time participation

!lis goal is to express j ust that through the production and publication of a book of cartoons. A current recipient of a Small Arts Grant through Vancouver Foundation, Jim first had a couple of these cartoons published in the April/May 1999 iss ue of the DERA Newsletter. A practicing artist for more than 30 years and a permanent resident of the downtown eastside s ince 1995, his exhibit presents qualities of a retros pective of his work combined with exciting new material.

The Opening Reception wi ll feature several circulating mock up copies of his book, a talk with Jim, and a musical performance by Jim, who is also an accomplished guitarist. This is a unique opportunity to meet this talented artist.

opportunities w ill be available.

TOPICS INCLUDE: Definitions. values and principles, Developing your own vision, Project startup and basics, Planning and partnerships, Budgets and grant-writing, Arts-based and oral history research, Facilitation skills, Documentation and evaluation, Legacy and sustainability, Challenges and rewards, Aesthetics and ethics.

C OST: sliding scale $25 and up for Downtown Eastside community members. Regular fee: $300.

MEALS: first day lunch, coffee/tea, otherwise bring your own.

CERTlFICATION: Those completing the intensive will receive a certificate from VMT and Jumblies.

Applications available at Camegie 3'd fl oor office.

For more information please contact Susan Gordon 604-874-8433.

Deadline October 17, 2009 Also visit www.vancouvermovingtheatre.com for application form and further information.

Limited to 25 participants selected partly on a firstcome basis, but also with a view to creating a comp· atible and diverse group which includes Downtown Eastside community members. Applications arriving

by October 17th will be assessed and space confirmed by Oct. 25. Late applications will be processed only if there is space.

A Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival Event

-"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead

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I) There's still time to sign up to do a 60-second performance at the anniversary party. Poetry, singing, skits, interpretive dance, videos ... anything goes, as long as it lasts no longer than I minute and is related to the theme of rhizomes. Email lisa@rhizomecafe.ca if you'd like to perform.

Our silent auction is going on now (bidding 2) ends at I Opm on October 3 and includes an amazing array of items donated by members of our Rhizome community. Thank you to all who have generously donated their time, creativity and talents! New items are being added throughout, but at the time of this mailing the auction includes: * Original artwork (by Claudia Segovia, Vanessa Lowe, Sam Bradd, Lenka S., Pat Beaton, Laiwan, and Krisztina Kun) * Integrative Energy Healing Treatment (by Denise Woodley, Ripple Wellness) * A Transgender Day of Remembrance proclamation (donated by Tam i Starlight) * Handmade rhizome-themed notecards (by Dalia Vukmirovich) * 2 kinesiology sessions (by Amy Ruth) * Preparation of one simple will (by Tim Lou is co.) * 2 hours of housecleaning (by Deb Ashcraft) * A set of 3 handmade bowls (by Amanda Walker) * A 2-hour blogging tutorial (by Karianne Blank) * 2 pairs of handmade velour pants (Niki Westman) * A 3-hour soapstone carving workshop (Michelle S) * An 8-session drawing class (by Bernadine Fox) * Handmade earrings (by Kyla Bourgh) * Women's history walking tour (Jolene Cumming) * A 1-hour drum set lesson (by Lisa Lambert) * 6¡8 classes of Cuban salsa lessons (by Michael Gabriel Rosen, Mas Movement) * Computer repair (by Martin Suchanek) â&#x20AC;˘ And a handmade puppet named Ghostie (by Diana Jeffries, Flexible Theatre), begging for you to bid on it and escort it out on Hallowe'en.

3) There's still time to contri bute something to the si lent auction. Email lisa@rhizomecafe.ca

Book Launch: Not A Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda Jeopardizes Dem ocracy Friday. October 30, S:00-7:30pm This book, by Donald Gutstein, is about one of the most important unreported stories of recent years.

Conservative businessmen and their foundations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to support so-called independent think tanks and advocacy organizations that argue for smaller government, deregulation and fewer social programs. This money has bought undue influence in reshaping o ur society and future. Simon Fraser University researcher Donald Gutstein will discuss the book and sign copies.

Presented by Key Porter Books, SFU School of Communication, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Free Anti-Oiympics Resistance Friday. October 23. 6:30pm No One is Illegal presents an evening of creative resistance to the 2010 Olympic Games. From traditiona ' Indigenous territories to urban ghettos, from migrant workers to low-income fam ilies, thousands are bein.l! evicted or pushed out. Once displaced, many becom ~ cannon-fodder as precarious labour. Come join us in expressing our dissent with megacorporate industri c: ~ like the Olympics and the Tar Sands, and in raising our voices in creative expression against the 20 I 0 Games ! $0-10, no one turned away DTES Power of Women Storytelling Evening Saturday, October 24, 6:30pm The Power of Women ( POW) Group is a group at the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre dedicated to educating and raising awareness on social issues.

POW made up of women from all walks oflife who are li ving in extreme poverty. Many are single moms or have had children apprehended due to poverty.

Many have chronic health issues, have drug or alcohol addictions, and have experienced abuse. Many ' are indigenous women affected by a history of colonization and racism. These are women who are victims but are also survivors. They are oppressed but they' r powerful. They are frequently researched, but it is rare that their own voices are heard. We hope you will join them on this evening to hear what they have to say about experiences, struggles, and aspirations. $0-$10, no one turned away ~

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Are you interested in earning money selling the 2010 Hope in Shadows calendar?

This opportunity is open to everyone. No experience necessary I

Come to a straightforward training session and get sales tips from an experienced Hope in Shadows seller. You'll receive a City License to sell the calendar on the streets of Vancouver and one free $20 calendar to start you off.

With your license you will be able to purchase calendars for $10 and sell them for $20.

What's the Hope in Shadows calendar? It features photographs of the community, taken during the Downtown Eastside photography contest last June.

Next-Free Calendar Sales Training Sessions

Life skill s, 4 12 West Co rd ova St. Wednesday October 14, 1p.m.

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