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When Immanence Magazine was conceived back in the Spring of 2007, the idea was to promote artistic

expression and provide the community of Powell River with an open platform

for sharing ideas, knowledge, and opinions. We’ve striven to

produce a quality magazine with engaging content to stimulate discussion and evoke creative thinking. We’ve also tried to provide

equal opportunity for EVERYONE in our community

to have a page in Immanence (we’ve published articles from over 120 local writers of all ages and backgrounds since our first issue in June, 2007). Most importantly, we

are proud to publish progressive visions for PR’s transition into a truly sustainable community.

Like all print publications, Immanence requires a source of funds to cover production costs. To get the

publication off the ground, we started out with the traditional model of selling

advertising—despite the fact that a reliance

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on advertising often induces unspoken self-censorship as publishers avoid publishing anything that might upset advertisers’ customer base. We promptly ran into controversy in our second issue by publishing letters opposing Catalyst’s plans to expand the fly-ash landfill near our valuable agricultural district. Immanence was incorrectly labeled an “anti-mill publication” and, as a result, our advertising revenues dropped by nearly 50% by the third issue and have never fully recovered.

Our year-long hiatus has provided time to develop an alternative funding mechanism known as the Powell River Sustainability Stakeholders Rewards Program (PRSS), devised in 2009 to reduce dependence on advertising while simultaneously promoting the ideals of Immanence Magazine.

The PRSS, simply put, is a rewards program for those pledging to uphold 3 Ideals for Local Sustainability. Participating businesses offer exclusive perks to PRSS cardholders as a reward for their pledge to (1) shop locally whenever possible, (2) support and practice organic agriculture and (3) share their ideas and knowledge with the community. A 12–month PRSS membership card costs $20—a 6–month membership only $12. Each card affords its owner with valuable discounts at over 100 local businesses—many with perks that save $20 or more with just one use!

Memberships can be bought online at www.immanence.ca/prss or by dropping by our shared office space at CMG Printing (4691 Marine Avenue).

All funds raised by the PRSS go towards keeping Immanence Magazine alive and well while providing employment opportunities for administrators, layout artists, website developers, reporters, distributors, event planners, and writers. Most importantly, a strong PRSS membership base increases awareness about the importance of acting sustainably, while securing Immanence as a community-supported independent media resource for everyone in the Powell River region.

If you enjoy having Immanence Magazine in your

community—and supporting the 3 Ideals for Local Sustainability makes logical sense to you, please purchase your PRSS membership and start saving money at local businesses today! Chances are you’ll soon save much more than the cost of membership.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Immanence Magazine needs your participation in the PRSS to survive. Can you imagine Immanence returning as a monthly publication with twice or thrice the content? Doesn’t a community-supported, independent media model sound ideal—and totally doable?

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How much do you know about your food and what it does for (or to) you? This month the Powell River Literacy Council and the Food Security Project are working together on Food & Literacy month, part of the Literacy Council’s Literacy: It Means More Than You Think campaign.

Food should be more than something we shove in our mouths to keep hunger pangs away three times a day – it’s an intimate part of our bodies and lives – after all, we are what we eat, right?

In today’s world it’s possible – even easy – to feed

yourself without ever thinking about where your food came from, how it was grown, or how it may affect your long-term health and the planet around you. Never have we been so disconnected with our food. Never has there been a time in history when obesity and food-related chronic illness have been such a problem.

But many local organizations and individuals are working to help people get interested in food again, and to encourage people to reconnect with what they eat. Are you interested in finding out more? Check out www.powellriverliteracy.ca or find us on facebook at www.facebook.com/PRLiteracyCouncil.

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From Istanbul: The Real Question – and Answer by John Perkins

Dear friends,As I prepare to give the keynote

address at a conference of more than 4000 Eurasian leaders in the information and communications fields (ICT Summit Eurasia), and as I walk through this very

ancient city, visiting sites that date back thousands of years, I’m struck by these 3 facts:

For the first time in human history:1. we are all impacted by the same crises, including

climate chaos, diminishing resources, increasing prices for food, fuel and other essentials, overpopulation, and species extinctions;

2. we are all communicating with each other through the internet and cell phones; and

3. we have created a global economy that is a terrible failure, where 5 % of us (living in the U.S) consume 30% of the resources, while nearly 50% of the world’s people are starving or close to starvation.

We must ask ourselves how we will reconcile these 3 facts. Will we be wise enough to see that 1 and 3 require that we use 2 to transform ourselves and our societies? In doing so, we can insure that our offspring will grow up in a world they will thank us for. Or will we stumble along our current path of denial? And create a world that no child will want to inherit.

The global economic crisis is a symptom and a messenger. It has exposed our darkest secrets. The most materialistic and wealthiest nation in the history of the world, the U.S., also has the highest rates of suicide, drug abuse, murder, incarcerations, and other negative social factors. Our economy is based on fighting wars – killing people and ravaging the planet – trading paper (mergers, derivatives, etc.), and selling each other things most of us don’t need. Meanwhile our planet is drowning in pollution, people are starving, our resources are dissipating, and our animals and plants are disappearing at shocking rates.

So, the question we must ask ourselves and those in charge of providing information and communications (like the ones I’m speaking to here in Istanbul – and I will ask them this) is: Will we continue to use our new-found ability to communicate with everyone on the planet to talk about fashion, sports, and the love lives of movie stars? Or will we use our networks to let our corporate and political leaders know that we insist on creating an economy driven by a commitment to providing every person with adequate food, shelter, and social services; cleaning up the polluted air, land, and water; developing more efficient forms of transportation; and drastically reducing energy consumption and redirecting its production to sustainable technologies?

The answers seem obvious, don’t they?

You can subscribe to John’s newsletter athttp://www.johnperkins.org

Food Literacyby Emma Larocque

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The Powell River Regional District and the Let’s Talk Trash Team have been working on two compost initiatives here, one the Compost Education Center in the community gardens of the Community Resource Center and the other the Composting Advisory Committee.

The Compost Education Center is a great way to see composting in action and learn to turn food waste into food plants. We are currently demonstrating the following composters; converted freezer, 3 bin system, Critter-Proof, worm bin, Green Cone, Speedibin and, newly added, the Jora composter! We host monthly workshops on various compost methods as well as on how to maintain healthy, well-balanced compost.This fall we are excited to facilitate another

freezer-composter workshop at the Powell River Fall Fair as well as workshops focused on getting your compost ready for winter.

The Let’s Talk Trash team facilitated a Powell River Regional District Composting Advisory Committee, which was established to determine the viability of a centralized composting facility. Net Zero Waste was hired to perform a feasibility analysis. The advisory committee recently recommended the Committee of the Whole consider collection of organics and processing them in a regional facility.

For more information on these initiatives, check out the Let’s Talk Trash team’s website at www.letstalktrashpr.com.

Faith in Moneyby K. A.

Let’s Talk Compost!by Tai Uhlmann

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[ money, system, corruption] Trillions of dollars of currency are in existence around the

globe—so why is there a recession?

Are you losing faith in the dollar? Not just the dollar, but money in general?

For me, this feeling exists because money is so fundamentally flawed that it has now truly lost its purpose. It is no longer merely the means for trading goods and services, but has been bastardised to being a goal in itself. The real question people should be asking right now is, “What happens to a democracy when the people choose to vote money as obsolete? The entire monetary system as obsolete? To abolish money and go in a different direction, something we haven’t thought of yet.

I believe the entire globe’s monetary system is in mid-collapse. We shouldn’t keep pretending this problem can be fixed. There’s no solving the problem with monetary reforms, taxing changes, foreign policy or trade. The problem lies at a fundamental level. Humankind can

truly evolve only once we have free, creative choice of how we spend our time. As long as we are forced to work merely to survive, we will never be free. It’s Economic Slavery.

Our current monetary system enslaves us all. In some degree, the more money you have, the more you are enslaved. Let’s not forget that we are, year after year, voting in a fresh slate of enslavers. We vote in one politician after another who is paid off by lobbying business interests owned by some fat cat. This fat cat aims to own everything, since whoever owns 51% of the globe in the future will be our dictator. We are on a path to economic dictatorship. This has to stop.

I’ve got some ideas. You’ve got some ideas. Let’s put them together and solve this problem. Money? Lets find a way to live without it; then let’s find a way to abolish it. This is still a democracy, right?

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Of all the ideas geared towards boosting local production and self-reliance, an alternative currency called PR$(bucks) is getting the major attention and momentum, thanks to the long-running efforts of Transition Town Powell River

(TTPR.) The approach has been methodical and calculated; signing enough businesses for the PR$ to be attractive to use, dispensing the currency first to non-profits who will use it in various businesses, those places then using it to subsidize their financial relationships with the community, the circulation of PR$ alongside the CND dollar effectively lowering the cost of goods and services bought here.

Will it work? It does work elsewhere...somewhat. To be honest with you, however, I am not a fan of PR$. As an anarchist, I have no love for currency systems in general and at the core of PR$ I do not see anything that will boost local production of any kind—too many critical things in our town are captured by the Canadian Dollar: land, fuel, auto parts, taxes, debts, cellphones, etc.

For the PR$ to do more than grease community spirit, it must tie itself to something crucial and universal; otherwise I see no difference between the PR$ and the Powell River Sustainability Stakeholders (PRSS)—which also discounts transactions between locals but with far less administration and in a way people can easily grasp.

But I’m not here to rain on parades, because I do think the PR$ could be simplified and changed in a way that wouldn’t destroy all the hard work put into its creation or trip up its pace—and would allow it to do what it is meant to do.

First, tie the currency to something, in this case Local Food. Food is notoriously undervalued, dominated by supermarkets, and is a huge component of any sustainable, ecological effort towards a better world. People are passionate about good local food and Powell River already has a strong communal practice of sharing it and paying one another with it. The two things we cry out are, “It’s too expensive,” and “We want more!”

So: we tie the PR$ to local food, mirroring the current TTPR system closely, but with small changes.

The PR$ and the CND dollar can still have an imaginary parity, but instead of registering businesses and non-profits, we register just food producers and they are the first to spend the money. These farmers and gardeners then walk into any transaction with a person and say, “If you’ll accept my PR$ for your goods or services, you can turn around and use them to buy my food.”

Instant demand—because everyone knows good food can be had for PR$, and instant supply – because even renters can grow peppers on the fridge this winter. People tie PR$’ worth to the food it can buy, making everyone free to use PR$ for all kinds of transactions, knowing it ultimately covers a crucial expense. Petrol-based supermarkets get a punch to the gut, and a truly healthy internal economy gets a shot in the arm.

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If you’ve never seen Antony Holland live, October 26 is your once-in-a-lifetime chance to experience him in

an intimate theater setting right here at our Max Cameron theater.

Antony Holland, 92, is one of Canada’s most notable actors, and as founder of the prestigious Studio 58 acting program at Langara College, he is a pioneer of theatre in B.C. He is the winner of three Vancouver Jessie Awards, the Sam Payne Award for “Humanity, Integrity and Encouragement of New Talent,” the Union of B.C Performers Award of Excellence for distinguished contribution to the industries of theater, radio, film and television, and he has been inducted into the B.C Entertainment Hall of Fame. He has appeared in countless movies and television series, among them McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (with Katharine Hepburn), Battlestar Galactica, and Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital. He has acted on stage for over fifty years from The Bristol Old

Vic to his performance in The Fly Fisher’s Companion for Magnus Theatre in Thunder Bay. His acclaimed performance as King Lear at Studio 58 in Vancouver has been eclipsed only by his role as Morrie in Tuesdays with Morrie, which he has played to audiences across the country, numbering over 40,000 and counting!

For us, he’s doing his one of his three one-man shows. A Man in His Time delivers the odd story of three peace-building years of war in Egypt during WWII. Brought to Powell River by our International Peace-Poem Walkers’ Association which hosts the annual kids Peace-Poem Competition, This show is the highlight of a year of peace-building. Don’t miss it!

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Should you find yourself marooned on a desert isle where your e-reader won’t work, there would be no better

book to find tucked in with your travel gear than Decoding Your Destiny, Tanis Helliwell’s slim volume of “Keys to Humanity’s Spiritual Transformation.” It has more guideposts packed into it than the average big-city baseyard. If you cannot ferret out your divine purpose on that maddening desert isle with the help of this mini-encyclopedia of wisdom gleaned from the four corners of the earth (wherever they are), well, there’s probably no hope for your soul’s growth.

In five sections, Helliwell covers human and animal evolution, the history of humanity’s “way-showers”, and the next step in planetary evolution. Along the way, exercises help the reader become in various ways, from exploring one’s relationship with plants, animals and crystals to meeting your guardian angel.

Not every reader will share a belief in Helliwell’s statements about spiritual and religious history and development. Focusing always on what traditions and prophets have in common, however, the author presents her findings in so engaging and forthright a manner that readers feel they have permission to meld them with their own belief systems, thus enhancing their spiritual lives.

This is a dense, fact-packed book that deserves a permanent place on your Mind/Body/Spirit bookshelf, certainly if you are someone who wants a complete grasp of how today’s spiritual leaders view the next step in human evolution.

Decoding Your Destinyby Eva van Loon

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—Jean Houston, Author of A Mythic Life and ambassador to the UN


Controversy frothed over what the first demands of the Occupy movement should be.

Let’s be clear: the battle to wrest control of money from capitalistas and banksters can and will be fought in every community in North America, however small.Consider tiny Powell River:

twenty thousand souls living two ferries and five hours from Vancouver, many of them virtually immobilized by soaring ferry prices, sitting in their unrepaired houses in outdoor wear to save electricity, lagging on the rent or the exorbitant property taxes, buying or scrounging the cheapest food however poisoned or processed it may be, skipping arts and education expenses, and skimping on everything else. Meanwhile, few businesses besides the Food Bank and the big-box stores from Outside are busy. What a way to run a community!

Now consider the old slogan “Power to the People!” Literally, I mean—as in “Publicly Owned Power.” POP for short. Imagine the revolution in North American thought if Occupy insisted on public ownership of all power sources!

Meditate on this for a few moments—it’s like dreaming about winning the lottery.

In Powell River and Sliammon, suddenly we could decide for ourselves whether smart meters are really such a smart idea. We could argue persuasively for ferry fares ordinary people can endure. We could change our local building-code-extension bylaws to accommodate self-reliant houses with composting toilets and systems

for collecting, using, and cleansing water.We would have decision-

making power over those 700 rivers north of us

slated to be torn up for “run-of-

river” projects, and decide for ourselves whether we want to wreck

our salmon beds or sell our water.

We could devise locally owned windpower and solar projects. We could use the waste-recycling system in innovative ways to create power and value instead of considering waste an expensive nuisance. We wouldn’t have to go public, wailing and gnashing our teeth over proposals to bring foreign garbage here to provide us with garbage jobs.

We could keep the money from our power-generating systems—what a novel idea, to create our own power and sell any excess instead of constantly going cap in hand to Big Biz to please, please, please place their businesses with us for the sake of the almighty McJob Dollar—funny it never occurred to us before! Perhaps best of all, we could decide for ourselves, on the basis of real knowledge, to allow or ban from our boundaries nuclear power and ships carrying LPG.

Governments and businesses would have no reason to lie, withhold facts or create disinformation about Publicly Owned Power.

Was there ever a cogent reason to allow banksters and suits to own the resources that naturally provide

Wall Street Needs a POP Revolutionby Eva van Loon

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There’s a new currency in town named Powell River Dollars, and they’re here in Powell River to stay. These dollars can be spent only here, with

those who have agreed to accept them—they can’t leak out to Ottawa, or Victoria, or even Nanaimo. That means they stay here and work for us over and over again instead of just once. They are an addition to Canadian dollars, not a replacement. They increase the amount of money available to do useful work in the community. Local money benefits the community, local businesses, non-profit groups and citizens of Powell River in many ways:

• stabilises the local economy, increasing its resilience to shocks;

• inspires community pride;• improves community image;• supports local businesses, whose profits stay in town;• puts control of our money back into our own hands;• provides publicity and increases visibility for our

non-profit organizations;• increases donations to non-profits; and• enables citizens to donate to non-profits without

reducing spending power.

More money in town = more customers, more business, more employment, more opportunities, more community projects, and more community support.The PR$ project uses a model for local money called Community Way (see page 10), developed in the Comox Valley and operating there since 2009. It integrates lo-cal businesses, non-profit groups and individuals into a “virtuous circle” where businesses issue the money, non-profits receive it as donations, and individuals buy it from non-profits for CN$ and spend it at participating business-es. Of course, once the money is out “in the wild” people can use it for anything they like between themselves.

What kind of things can you buy with PR$? The signup process for businesses is continuous; so, for an up to date list you’ll need to check out our website

at powellrivermoney.ca. We know already that you’ll be able to buy printing services, alternative health services, artwork, computer services, construction services, hobby supplies and food - and that’s just the start. As the system expands you’ll be able to use PR$ to

trade for all kinds of other things and services.

July to October is a test phase for the PR$ software and systems. This period will let organizations get used to working with PR$ and making best use of it, sign up more businesses and non-profits, and work out any wrinkles.

From October onwards, it will be all systems go, with a launch party and lots of opportunities to earn and spend PR$ during the holiday season and on into 2013.

Who is behind the Powell River Dollar? A group began meeting in September 2011, developing into a small but passionate team which has brought the project this far. We’ve registered the Powell River Money Society with the Provincial Registry to provide accountability and continuity for the PR$.

From October 2012 anyone will be able to join the society. If you’d like to get involved and use PR$ personally, for your business, or for a non-profit you’re involved in, here’s what to do.

Businesses and Non-profits: Download the info package and register online:

http://powellrivermoney.ca/powell-river-dollar/download-an-info-package/

Request a short presentation:http://powellrivermoney.ca/powell-river-dollar/request-a-visit/

Individuals: Buy your PR$ at CMG printing or directly from the Powell

River Money Society table at community events.

For more information, visit powellrivermoney.ca or contact Kevin Wilson (483-9052),

Rob Higgin (487 -1119) or Sean Melrose (483-5544).

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Behold, the Powell River Dollarby Kevin Wilson

Behold, the PR$ fiver!

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Alternative Currencies

The severity of a recession is directly related to the money supply. When there is less money available to buy

products, service debts, and pay wages—production (GDP) falls, banks foreclose, and layoffs ensue.

Governments used to ease recessions by printing more money to fund jobs created

by infrastructure-improvement projects designed to add value to the society. By contrast, in today’s wacky world, our debt-burdened governments borrow money—at interest!—to pay off the debts of failing banks (say what?) and the current favorite methods of creating jobs are heightened extraction of resources for export and wage wars of all kinds. Yes, we are living in crazy land.

Luckily, many communities have turned to alternative currencies rather than government policy to inject financial grease back into local economic machines to boost local trade. The local currency stays in the community rather than leaking out of town (read “Local Currency Systems”, published in the March/April 2009 issue of Immanence Magazine.

Alternative currencies are as diverse as the communities that initiate them and they enjoy varying levels of success. One community which seems to have gotten it right is the Comox Valley of Vancouver Island, BC, just across the water from Powell River.

“Community Way” is a currency system developed by Michael Linton, founder of the LETS

system (a bartering and exchange system developed in the 1980’s and now used around the world). The Community Way model has been adopted by the Powell River Money Society for use right here. What sets this system apart is the novel manner in which it includes charities and community organizations in the mix of businesses and consumers.

Here’s how it works: 1. Local businesses “borrow” Community Way

Dollars (CW$) and donate them to charities and local community organizations of their choice. They “pay back” this debt simply by accepting CW$ as partial (or full) payment for their goods and services. Each business chooses the percentage of CW$ it will accept—typically between 15—50%.

2. The general public can obtain CW$ by exchanging equal amounts of federal currency for CW$, one for one, at participating local charities or central distribution points.

3. The public spends their CW$ at participating local stores, restaurants, and service providers—and even amongst themselves.

As businesses begin collecting CW$ as part of payments, they are then able to repay the initial CW$ “loan” that they originally obtained to donate to charity to kick-start the whole process. Once the initial “loan” on CW$ is repaid, businesses can repeat the process over and over again ad infinitum. The net result is a growing surplus of CW$ in circulation due to the time differential between the donation of CW$

Community Way—a Model Currency by Corey Matsumoto

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going out and the CW$ coming back in. Purchases of CW$ directly from central distribution points can further increase circulation volume.

The result is a new funding mechanism for community groups and a new tax-deductible, interest-free way for businesses to market and grow. Also, since local currency has no value outside of its range of acceptance, CW$ stays and accumulates within the community to be spent over

and over. By contrast, federal currency is usually sucked out of the community into Canada and the world.

Another cool feature of the program is that people get double the value out of their federal money—first by supporting a charity/community group, and then by receiving equal value back in the form of CW$ that can be traded for tangible goods and services. Since local currency does not earn interest there is no incentive to hoard but good incentive to spend—and spending is what really drives an economy.

Most local currencies use printed money; however, once local credit unions get on board, it is simple to add debit-card-accessible bank accounts in local currency.

The Community Way system’s success is evident in its spread to Nelson and Vancouver. There is no reason why it can’t be even more successful right here in Powell River. Have a look at both the Community Way web site (www.communityway.ca) and Powell River Dollar site (http://powellrivermoney.ca), and talk it up with your friends and local business people.

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Acupuncturist Edward Sanderson recently celebrated Powell River Healthworks’ first year of business.

Under a new business model, the clinic is now part of POCA, an international non-profit group of Community Acupuncture

clinics whose goal is more available and affordable treatment. What hasn’t changed at Healthworks? On stepping into the clinic, you feel a sense of tranquillity. As one person noted, “Thank you for creating such a peaceful, nurturing, comfortable and safe place.”

What’s new, aside from affordability, is the community sharing of that sense of tranquillity. One client “wondered if I would be self-conscious, or if the presence of others around me would disturb the healing process.... “My worries were unfounded. In fact, quite the opposite occurred. With three other people in the room, the space was very serene, and the energy was calm. Rather than detracting from it, the presence of others seemed to enhance my experience.”

Time away from the distractions of our busy lifestyles is valuable, and in this healing space the shared stillness is perhaps as significant as the needles. A collective energy field, generated by several people having treatments at once, enhances the effects of individual treatments. It is similar to the group effect of Tai-Chi or meditation practice.

Practised in Asia for over five thousand years, acupuncture inserts fine needles at specific points in the body to promote health and well-being. It is effective in treating many chronic physical and emotional complaints and, aside from relaxation and mood elevation, acupuncture has no side effects.

Some people worry that acupuncture will hurt because it involves needles. If a point is uncomfortable during insertion, it feels like a pinch or a mosquito bite initially and then quickly passes.

In Canada, most acupuncturists charge $65-$175 per hour, making treatment inaccessible for most people. A growing number of community

acupuncturists is working to change this. The “pay what you can afford” system originated in 2002 at an acupuncture clinic in Portland. Now, there are over 200 such clinics in the U.S., Canada, Israel and the United Kingdom.

Acupuncture works best with regular treatments—a course of eight to twelve treatments, given at least once a week, is often necessary for lasting effects. People of average income often stop after two or three treatments because

they can’t afford the expense.At Powell River Healthworks, patients pay on a

sliding scale of $20-40, making it possible to receive treatment as frequently as needed, up to three times a week for acute conditions.

Some conditions acupuncture can help are acute and chronic pain, migraines, fibromyalgia, anxiety and depression, sleep disorders, hormonal imbalances, digestive problems, sports injuries, infertility and issues arising during pregnancy. For more information call 604-485-0108 or email Edward at [email protected]. or visit their website at http://prhealthworks.ca.

Edward Sanderson R. Ac.604-485-0108

Powell River HealthworksCommunity Acupuncture Clinic

4898 Manson Ave. Powell [email protected]

• Relax in a group setting • Affordable sliding scale •

By donationAll proceeeds to local charity

First Saturday of every month:

acute and chronic pain, migraines, fibromyalgia, sleep disorders, anxiety and depression, hormonal imbalances, digestive problems

Acupuncture for EveryoneAffordability on a sliding scale by Corey Matsumoto

At Powell River Healthworks, patients can pay on a sliding

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Healing Herbs

In this final part of my series on pregnancy, we’ll cover herbs to help with labor, postpartum care and lactation support. Consult your family doctor before

taking any herbal remedy, and trust your intuition, when having a home birth, if you feel it is time to go to the hospital. Finally, please refer to the on-line section of the magazine for helpful recipes.

The last weeks of pregnancy are a good time to boost your intake of raspberry-leaf tea and stinging nettles to strengthen your uterus for labor and give your body essential vitamins, minerals and the energy it requires for the upcoming labor.

Once your labor begins, take some shepherd’s-purse tincture. This herb is high in oxytocin, a big help in making the labor progress smoothly. Put the shepherd’s-purse tincture aside for use after the birth. Take it once again after expelling the placenta to help reduce internal bleeding.

The following herbs assist with the labor process: cloves, allspice, ginger, squaw vine, lady’s mantle, stinging nettles, and raspberry leaves. In the last stages of labor, peppermint tea with honey is very helpful, giving the body much needed energy and reducing nausea.

Using pure beeswax candles during labor purifies the air while creating a good focal point during contractions. Receiving a massage with oil infused with chamomile encourages relaxation. Eating one square of dark

chocolate with the afterbirth tea (noted in the recipe section) may help to expel the placenta and shrink the uterus down to its regular size

over the next few days. When your milk comes in around Day Three, this can be a painful

process if your breasts become engorged. Have some light green savoy cabbage on hand to assist you. Place a large raw cabbage leaf on each breast to ease engorged breasts and draw out the milk. The cabbage will soon warm to the temperature of your skin; you can wear the cabbage right in your bra and keep changing to a fresh leaf as it absorbs the milk. Sometimes,

when the milk first comes in, your breasts may become rock hard, which may make

it difficult to nurse your baby. Try a warm bath with comfrey in it and place a warm, wet

facecloth over each breast to help the milk flow, soften the breasts and make nursing easier.

Stock up in advance on some healthy snacks such as sesame sticks, yogurt ,nuts and dried fruit. Organic grapefruit with a runcible spoon makes for a quick and easy breakfast. Have a few bottles of your favorite green drink handy. Stews made with barley will enrich your breast milk.

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A beautiful, intelligent, snow-white-topped man, someone intensely engaged in the betterment of our

community, stopped in at my place of work today and we fell into a conversation.

We chatted about the differences computerised society is manifesting in

pastimes like bridge and professions like medicine and law.

I am quite likely either too dumb or quirky for bridge; so was amazed to hear that it has changed vastly from the Goren-on-Bridge days, partly thanks to the computer. The gentleman, of course, like all of us, was well aware that doctors now view their computerised-research-addicted patients with a somewhat fearful and jaundiced eye, expecting from them either wild confusion or the dread Hard Questions.

It seemed, however, a complete surprise to my new acquaintance that the ancient and doddering profession of law is also being shaken to its clay feet by the miracle of computers. It is now possible, you understand, to access forms, perform legal research, and obtain legal guidance online without a lawyer. To the lay person, this means, theoretically, that you can be your own lawyer. My new friend opined that this would be a very good development, to see those greedy lawyers done out of the opportunity to milk the public of funds that could serve better ends.

He apparently had never heard the adage, “A lawyer who represents oneself has a fool for a lawyer and a fool for a client.” You can imagine what that proverb would become for a non-lawyer who represents oneself? In all but the most extraordinary cases? ‘Nuff said.

Although I agree that the legal profession has too long jealously guarded its territory, relentlessly pursuing and punishing all who seek to help people through a legal problem without the protection of a legal robe, I envision

only disaster as more and more people devise their own contracts, write their own wills, take their own cases to court and—worst of all—try to defend themselves in court against an increasingly fascist government.

Law was never easy to master. Since I was called to the Bar over a quarter-century ago and the computer has invaded the courts and legal boardrooms, it has become an incredibly varied and sticky place to get anything done. Armies of self-represented people trying to solve problems without lawyers will raise the cost of running courts to astronomical levels and will succeed

only in frustrating and disillusioning the public. As it stands, the public knows

next to nothing about legal life. The computer is not going to change that.Our society has made a fundamental

error in failing to teach the young about the bases of our laws. My new friend showed me once again that by and large even highly intelligent, educated and successful people don’t have a clue about how law works—that there’s criminal law and

civil law, and ne’er the twain shall meet, for example. Or that differing burdens of proof resulted in OJ’s acquittal in criminal court

and judgment against him in civil court. Or that there’s no such thing as “getting off on a technicality” because form is function in criminal law. Or that the erosion of the principles of criminal law mean the feet of the goddess of justice are being washed away.

And don’t even get me started on property law—in that field, what you don’t know WILL hurt you! (pardon the pun.)

The problem remains the same: we fail to teach the young the very basis of our society. Law guards its provinces jealously and awards the keys to its lucrative kingdom only to those who can endure the torture of law school and all that comes with it. Not that the law race isn’t worth it for the individual contestant—it is. Few of us regret the permanent changes in mind and psyche law school inevitably wreaks. But our approach is wrong. If

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Pack Leader’s old friend Major lies buried in our back yard, near my favorite wallow. His spirit keeps nagging me.

“Hey, Kid! Written anything yet?”Kid, he calls me. Grrr. I’m almost two, now,

taller than Pack Leader when I place my paws on her shoulders. “He’s still a teenager,” I hear Pack Leader tell other humans. Whatever teenagers are, it must be some kind of excuse for bad behavior. She always says it when I’m on the verge of being B-A-D.

Kid or not, I’m supposed to take over Major’s writing job. I don’t even have my first degree yet! I can’t spell human language—this iz wut it looks like wen eye trie. But Mayjur ashoorz mee pak leedr wil fiks up mie wurds.

“But...wut doo eye rite uhbowt?” “Rite about munnee, Hunnee—it’s reellee kwite funnee.

And yuze yer spel-chek!” That’s the last I heard from that silly old ghost dog. So

here goes, spell-check turned on.The business of money isn’t funny. It seriously messed

up my life. The facts all k9s should face is that (a) humans cannot seem to live without money, and (b) when they do not have enough of it, they do crazy things, things that wolves or dogs would never do.

I should be grateful to money—I met Pack Leader because of it. You see, my previous human never went walkies with me, being busy under the hood of his car; so we didn’t get car-car trips, either. I thought I’d do him a favor by taking myself for walks. My first few forays out into the big bad world went fine: if something spooked me, I’d sidle up to the nearest friendly-looking human, invariably a female, who would then feed me

something nice and chauffeur me to the neighborhood dog hotel, called The Pound. A nice chap there, Bob, would talk into a little box, and

eventually my human would show up, hand over some money, yank me out of

my inelegant quarters—not a moment too soon as by that time I had usually managed to fill up one end with poop—and ferry me home.

Every time, my human’s mood was worse. “BAD DOG !” (Worst words you can hear!). “I’m sick of paying through the nose for your hijinks! The next time you get a price on your head, you can damn well stay at The Pound until some rich bitch ransomes you!”

I was so confused, I didn’t eat for two days. I had seen him give Bob money from his hand, not his nose, and there were no bitches, rich or otherwise, at The Pound. Was he not telling the truth? I padded to the bathroom mirror to inspect my head: nothing. Obviously smelly wads of paper did not constitute the entire story of money.

Depresson hit. I moped. I determined to stick to my human like pine tar, even if I had to cross my legs twice to wait for pee-time. That proved impossible. He’d leave me behind, locked up. What if he never came back? I panicked; tried to follow him, using paws and teeth to escape my jail. When he came home, he’d point at what I’d chewed and yell at me. “You’re costing me a fortune, you stupid mutt! You’re eating me out of house and home! Why’n’t you go play in traffic?”

So, one day when I’d been left behind again, without breakfast or water, I escaped and headed for traffic. How this would help, I had no idea, but I was willing to try anything once.

I’ll say one thing for playing in traffic: you get fast results. Cars screeched and banged together. People screamed. Someone yelled, “Holy shit! A wolf! Get a gun!” I was shaking so hard I blurped diarrhea all over the road. Then a female human opened the back door to her car; the seat was empty and I jumped in, just as a guy emerged from his truck with a shotgun...

An Awful Pawful—Doggone Funny Moneyby His Exuberance, Lord Tyee Houdini Wolff

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The financial system is breaking down on a macrocosmic as well as microcosmic levels. Government

and banking systems are coming to a crunch. Many people once considered middle to upper-middle class are now on the streets in America and beyond.

This ascension in vibration is a quantum leap into a different

dimensional existence. We are entering a new state, a vertical dimension of energy vibrations no longer based in duality. The Master Self within you, that part of you connected to the ALL that IS, connects to this new energy vibration. There will be neither rich nor poor as all we ever need(ed), desire(d) or require(d) is and was always provided.

I don’t mean we are all about to have big piles of money. It’s that people will have Abundance in all its forms, brought about by our own powers, our eco-sustainable, renewable re-Source(s).

You are a part of the One Source, fifth-dimensional energy where there is no separation or individuation. A barter style of sharing goods and services means we don’t have to “pay” for a service or product. We are forced by our own creation of circumstance to come together in unity of community. Then the essential

nature of abundance reveals the truth, that we were never really “making” or “saving” something called money. Money is but a symbol of the constant flow, and like any other renewable resource, it has been sustained by—you guessed it—you, me—our

SOURCE Energy. Get out of that old, dense duality

vibration that somehow created shadows of no-”thing”—just the limited illusions bringing about a limiting sense of separateness, scarcity and fear. When in an active state of

busy doing, we are not open to receiving. We step on the hose and

cut off the flow of being. We need to look at this from a

completely different perspective. In the old paradigm, we gave our power to

money, which is not the cause of your good, not of your job, person, place or institution. That Cause is Spirit. Source. Source is the ONLY cause of all you consider good in Abundance. Your good is drawn to you like a magnet to the Source; a connection inside you seeks to return to the source of ALL that IS. Everything is rushing to return to its ONE source. So, help Good Orderly Design help you to keep that channel open and clear. Step off the hose, so to speak. Then look out! Be in that because it brings an a bounding abundance that you just have to share. We literally have more than we need.

In this current Sea we are navigating, the currency is FAITH, Love and Trust that the next breath, dollar, meal or hug are all from that ONE Source. Easy, right? Help yourself by keeping mind and heart steady on the inherent knowledge that “money” $ is no different from oxygen.

Having said that, may I add that it may be a good idea to get your money out of the bank and buy a homestead, land, gold and solar panels! ;)

Love and Light, Michelle Lea McCann

Abundance is a state of Source by Michelle McCann

604 414-9889 [email protected]

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we do not start to teach the young generation the basics of law within basic schooling, we risk losing it all, and all the computers in existence won’t save our legal system, which, with all its flaws, is still one of the best on the planet.

If fifteen-year-olds fail to appreciate the sacrosanctity of principles like innocent-until-proven-guilty, what is to prevent them from taking the side of the accusers, abusers, and the greedy instead of the innocent? If we fail to empower people to create basic contracts and wills, why would we be surprised to see them barreling on through life without such protections? If we do not engage the principals in the discussion of how to run today’s blended or broken families, how can we expect pronouncements from on high to work for children and other living things?

Ignorance of the law comes with a huge but largely hidden price. It’s time the legal profession got off its saintly ass and scuffed out the boundaries between lawyers and everybody else by opening the doors to legal knowledge, education, and help. True, many

lawyers’ salaries might slip back into the five-figure category from the six. On the other hand, in a profession notable for its high percentage of misery, just as many lawyers might have happier, more fulfilling lives in a true helping role rather than guarding the shaky ramparts of a jealous old profession whose lifeblood is insidiously being sucked away by the almighty computer.

Pay it forward, my fellow legal beagles, and teach the children well. Their parents’ hell will slowly go by, and you will have laid a solid stone in the walkways of a new and stronger society.

POP Revolution (cont’ from page 8)

The price of Ignorance (cont’ from page 14)

the necessities of life? Surely only those who depend on those resources should have the say in how they are used—and the information needed to make rational decisions.

Is there any justification for denying the people who depend on public utilities and resources full and free access to all information available on those utilities and resources? Of course not! Yet the long battle for freedom of information has won only a few skirmishes. Occupy has let us realize that we know next to nothing about how the planet is really being run—and the banksters and suits are not about to let us in on their secrets.

As Fukushima proves to our grief, seventh-generation thinking is not industry’s forte, although it seems reasonable to every schoolchild that nuclear plants are surely the first places such thinking should saturate all operations. The nuclear industry, it turns out, in planning for the caretaking of its toys never counted on serious volcanoes and earthquakes, nor

did it consider who or what would ensure the safe retirement of nuclear plants and weapons for the next twenty centuries.

Only the public as owner of a utility would adopt the precautionary principle. The soul of the People, however sickly, lethargic, and dulled individual members may be, is ultimately and forever incorruptible.

Occupiers are the First Warriors in the Last Battle. For, should they be dispersed with nothing won before they so much as voice a cogent battle cry, what then is left to lose? What further powers can the banksters and coporatistas wrest from us? We will find ourselves eking out our poisoned lives on a prison planet, literally and metaphorically without power.

Here’s to Occupy! Only the People can bring on the POP Revolution! Publicly Owned Power—NOW!

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Young Poets on PeacePowell River International Peace-Poem Anthology 2012

P owell River, the Pearl on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, presents its annual catch of youth’s poems, pictures and songs about peace. Although well aware wars and disasters across the planet, these talented young people focus on the natural world, the warmth of family and friends and the joy of living to illustrate the really important things in life.

Cover art: Sedona Vigneault(Visual Poetry 1st, age 11)

Paige Cooke (Visual Poetry 2nd prize, grade 6)

Madeline Cimaglia (Visual Poetry hon. mention, grade 6)

Alivia Gussman (Visual Poetry hon. mention, grade 4)

Brooke Clansey (Visual Poetry hon. mention, grade 6)

Tyler Cardinal (Visual Poetry 3rd, grade 6)

PRIPPA 2012 is published by the Powell River Live Poets’ Guild from hundreds of submissions to the annual Youth Peace-Poem Competition sponsored by the International Peace-Poem Walkers’ Association, a non-profit society dedicated to “peace and poetry at a human pace.”

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