By PAULR TAYLOR Witness: Vanderzalm is the man that B.C. can depend on to listen. He will

Do actions agree with words? This make sure that government is open and is the measure of realibility If You honest.. . the Socred line. convince yourself, you can speak Witness: Gordon Campbell was the one utter balderdash in every word and who nominated Vanderzalm for Mayor you will be believed until those who in 1984 and campaigned in an all-out suffer from your actions feel their effort to get him elected here. wounds and see their own life's blood. Do You ever get the feeling that

you have been kicked i n t h e head? His tory t e l l s a narrow s t o r y of ev-

e n t s , always t h e high p o i n t s t h a t l e d inexorably t o t h e next s t ep . The v i l - l age , town, c i t y , province, country & world grows and progresses and t h e ' o f f i c i a l ' records have a few sent- ences saying t h e t h ing happened. But those who would repea t t h e p a s t must con t ro l t he teaching of h i s t o r y . So, from kindergarten on, we a r e "helped" t o be l ieve t h a t t h e Government has been respons ib le f o r t h e presen t sit- uat ion. The presen t s i t u a t i o n i s t h e Socred-sanctioned l eade r sh ip of Van- derzalm - and t o ge t back t o t h e quest ion of being kicked i n t h e head: How did t h i s dismal excuse ever ge t t o be premier? How could t h e so-ca l l -ed majori ty i n t h i s province e l e c t t h i s blank t o t he h ighes t o f f i c e ? The answer might have something t o do with cloaking t h e tyranny of t he minori ty i n the mask of t h e major i ty .

Every leader r equ i r e s o u t s i d e r s t o perpetuate ' h i s ' l eadersh ip , but even with Vanderzalm h i s backers a r e l ea rn ing t h a t they can ' t manipu- l a t e a marionet te wi th only one s t r i n g . These people a r e i n i t f o r t he money and with M r . d e r ~ a l m say- ing, "Give them shovels ," he wasn't about t o l i s t e n t o h i s conscience. Fine and dandy. ' ~ e ' s pa thologica l enough t o l e t being c a l l e d " M r . Prem- ier" go t d h i s head, so we can r e l y on him t o confuse people while we MAXIMIZE PROFITS.'

F.moke & M i r r c r s Unfortunately, educat ion i s no sub-

s t i t u t e f o r i n t e l l i g e n c e . The image makers f o r Socred p o l i c i e s know s o much about t h e sub jec t t h a t t hey ' r e t o t a l l y ignorant . Spending $20 m i l - l i o n on TV ads t o promote family (an t i -abor t ion) i deas while c u t t i n g $50 o f f s i n g l e mothers' cheques;

p u t t i n g $80M t o JobTrak while s e l l - ing publ ic s e r v i c e s t o themselves & reducing a s s i s t a n c e by $7 a head & - i nc reas ing s h e l t e r a i d f o r l and lo rd ' s pockets- and being phi losophica l ly opposed t o s o c i a l housing while f r o t h i n g a t t h e rqouth t o r e l a x i m m i - g r a t i on r u l e s and ge t t he super-r ich from Hong Kong t o move t h e i r finan- c i a l empires t o B.C. before China g e t s Hong Kong i n 1990. Everything is being done t o widen t h e gap be- tween t h e r i c h and t h e middle and low-income people of t h i s province. ,Witness: Brian Smith r e s igns a s A t - torney General because t h e integ- r i t y of t he l e g a l branch was s e r ious ly i n danger of subversion through t h e meddling of t h e Premier 's o f f i c e .

Vanderzalm se l f - r i gh t eous ly says: THOU SHALT NOT QUESTION - s o when a person wi th t h e whole s t o r y opens h i s mouth, t h e smoke and mi r ro r s a r e whirled ou t of t h e l e g a l department.. everything and anything t o keep t h e ca se (read t h e Truth) out of cour t .

The t r u t h should be c o n s i s t e n t wi th f a c t s and not j u s t more p o l i t i c a l l y motivated puke. You can t e l l by t he s m e l l t h a t a l l ' s no t wel l . I t ' s obvi- ous t h a t most of t h e scandalous ac- t i o n s of Vanderzalm and Claude Rich- mond a r e covered wi th sickly-sweet coa t ings , bu t no sweeteners can cloak some forms of b i t t e r n e s s . I f i t t a s t e s b i t t e r , s p i t i t out . hat's what our most anc ien t ances to r s d id .

BEL IEVE dnd get burned

Vanderzalm and t h e Socreds implore us t o Bel ieve - l i k e a hunchback who c a n ' t s e e t h e hunch. I t ' s poss ib l e wi th mir rors , bu t t h e t r a g i c conse- quence is t h a t t he e n t i r e being might be seen. We a r e t he mi r ro r s - and worst of a l l , t h e i r ch i ld ren , whose w i l l i n g pa r t i . c ipa t ion they seek i n t h e i r dream ... they must s ee t h e i r

parents with disgust. (You try going to school with another kid who's hungry because your father thinks it's wrong to feed him!) The First Law of Bureaucracy: Grow

to the limits of available energy. Use the lie that taxes and new pro- grams will solve all problems. Keep doub- alive and you'll Always get one more chance. The basic belief that is sinking the

Socreds is Money=Wealth=Power. When money is everything, not having it makes you nothing - and "nothings" have no more rights than orts in the gutter. Don't get me wrong: money isn't evil - it's the actions of humans to acquire it that would make a corpse puke.

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COPE OPENS VOTER FEGISTRATION OFFICE

By Sue Harris, COPE Organizer

The temperature may be in the late 801s, but COPE isn't taking a holi- day. Instead we've opened a store front office to register voters for the November civic election. This year the NPA majority council

has made a political decision and eliminated the usual door-to-door enumeration. Instead they are rely- ing on the 1986 voter's list and a mail-in registration. Of 270,000 eligible voters, only

155,000 are on the list. 115,000 (43%), many of whom are seniors, stu- dents, Downtown Eastsiders, tenants and new Canadians and low-income Van- couverites are NOT on the list. Now Mayor Campbell's answer to this has been that only those interested in voting will get registered. Such an answer to the thousands unregistered is not only stupid but wrong. Many people do not even know they must register to vote. If you don't know something, how can you do anything / about it?

DANGER WARNING: not boting

CAN ) SERIOUSLY DAMAGE

YOUR HEALTH. & Government Health

It should come as no surprise that the majority of unregistered voters live in the eastside. Most did not even get the forms - a complicated, wordy, official form. As a concerned community organiza-

tion, COPE will do all it can to register voters. To do this, we have: - a storefront, wheelchair accessible office, 1314 Commercial Drive;

Tel. 251-2963 - the yellow & black COPEmobile will be located in different neighbour- hoods to register voters - actual door-to-door enumeration in communities with low registration. Other groups have also responded

to this very important problem. DERA has a registration campaign for the Downtown Eastside - contact Brain Campbell (682-0931) - and for Grand- view/Woodlands call Michelle at 251-4209. The campaign is on. If you can help, drop in to our office on Commercial or call 251-2963. We have until Aug. 20th and our target is to register 30,000 residents. Even though the heat is on, C.O.P.E. is working for the people of Vancou- ver. Get on the list! !!

Dear Friends, I I wonder if the readership knows

that there is an Editorial Committee !

4~~andergoof Has Struck gain) Vandergoof is selling the B.C.

Steamship, the last of B.C. Merchant Marine. He does not care about the men and women who crew these-skLpd- Well over two hundred jobs will be lost. They will go on U.I. for a year and what then - Welfare?! That kind of thinking does not make

much sense to me. By the time the old boy is done and everything is in the hands of private business, the Socreds will have no need for the Parliament Buildings. They could sell them to someone to turn into a tourist hotel. Just think of it! They could put

up a sign saying "VANDERZALM Slept Here!" and have the cheapest rates in B.C. - $100 a night. IJANES ROAD KNIGHT^ Dancing in the Downtown Eastside

It's Welfare Day, when the fairy godmother transforms with temporary gold and Prince and Cinderella reel down East Hastings, etbeir glass coach: a bottle that will spin them far from the five-week month and the mattress under the viaduct into the Palace of Forgetting: Mardi Gras, where footmen bow them into the intoxication of the happy hour no government can dock. where homelessness

composed of Lillian Harrison, Bill Deacon and Paul Taylor, and that this committee reviews items submitted. I also wonder if the readership

knows that the Newsletter is totally independent of the City of Vancouver and is supported solely by the Carn- egie Centre Association, donations and advertising revenue. It's my understanding that the

Editorial Committee would welcome feedback. So if you're wondering why certain items are or are not printed check it out with Lillian, Bill & Paul.

Sincerely, Diane MacKenzie, Director.

is banished, and theirs is the kingdom, the power and the glory, and Prince and Cinderella live happily ever after, dancing in glass' sl in the Downtown Eastside.

If wine can flow like water, it will dr the bawling of the midnight hour, the glass slippers will not shatter, the dance not end, its measure dribbling to a slop mopped up

from some bar-room plastic table the music not falter sprawl into a gutter, the coach not warp to paddy wagon, nor the footmen mutate to rats fighting them for sour scrapings from garbage cans behind an East Hastings grocery store.

RUSH HOUR: TODAY & EVERYDAY

I s e e t h e i r f a c e s Behind rush hour I s e e t h e i r e y e s Determined t o make work Bodys have t o be showered Armpits deodor ized , l e g s shaved Necks perfumed, f i n g e r n a i l s pa in ted Ear lobes have t o be hung w i t h e a r r i n g s L i p s t i c k a p p l i e d w i t h a brush Today & Everyday Thousands of working minds Locked i n on Powell S t r e e t One Way, through Gastown T i e s have t o be t a s t e f u l Shoes have t o be sh ined P a n t s p r e s s e d , h a i r combed Socks have t o be c l e a n The world w i l l s t o p dead I f they d o n ' t d i g i t up I f t h e y d o n ' t t u r n S e t t h e a la rm, g e t F i l i n g c a b i n e t s hav Video s c r e e n s s w i t c Telephones have t o

i t o v e r o u t of bed ,e t o be un11 :hed on be answered

"The mind industry's M a i l opened, forms f i l l e d i n

main business and concern is not to sell High h e e l s have t o c l i c k i t~product ; i t i s tocse~ theexisting DOW" p o l i s h e d c o r r i d o r s

order, to perpetuate the prevailing pat- Today & Every day tern of man's domination by man, no Licenses have t o be r e g i s t e r e d matter who runs the society and no C l a i m s recorded

Jean I I -- Swanson for mayor

Yorke replies to Campbell Editor,

Mayor my This elitist attitude complete- In a strictly "partisan" wayhe ~aianer. bag man and what have recent letter shows that he has no ly ignores the facts of life that concludes-many more of my YOU, for Bill Vander Zalm's un- respect for "the truth, the whole people living in relatively low in- supporters are on the voters list, successful attempt to impose his truth, and nothing but the truth!' come areas, and all are why should I 20 anything serious . autocratic presence on us as

It remains fact that bver forced by .all kinds of cir- to get the others On also. ; mavor of Vancouver. 100*000 citizens, yes Over cumstances to move frequently, Democratic community 100,000, will not be on the voters and hence have NEVER Citizens should remember groups are now compelled to list this November come election ,d the mailed out registration that this kind of anti-democmtic amduct a door to door enurnera- day, because Mayor Campbell forms in the first place. attitude is not new to the real tion themselves, a civic respon- and his NPA Council have refus- to the self-registering at a Gordon Campbell. In 1984 he ~ibility- that Mayor Campbell ed to conduct the usual door to polling station on election day, was the chief promoter, cam- a"dfheNPACouncilrefused to door enumeration. this is a cumbersome process at do for purely partisan reasons.

Briefly* On March 22* 19889 best, especially if thousands of thru the initiataive of Alderman un,gistered voters up, Davies, Council had before it causing mass confusion and

a mail out of registration What is the real political Davies and motive behind Nayor Campbell's

Eriksen opposed. refusal to conduct a door to door To date the number of citizens

returning the forms thru the It is easy to see. From the is around 1601000p 'Om- returned mail registrations he

pared the 292p000wh0 were On knows precisely that the woefully the 1986city enumerated door to inadequate results are never- door list. theless RELATIVELY HIGH in

Mayor Campbell attemp's the areas of the city that voted justify his civic neglect by saying, for the NPA, and relatively low "only people interested in voting in COPE areas. are likely to register:'

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The G l i rom - Notice how t h e s e panes c a s t a l l t h e world i n da rkness , r e f l e c t from t h i s bank 's h i g h r i s e a thousand b l a c k t r a n s l u c e n t c o f f i n s .

When p o l i t i c i a n s dance t h e two-step wi th bankers , t h e Dow Jones index

1 capers up and down between h y s t e r i a and hope. Hope i s a g i l t -deged commodity o u t of r e a c h of t h e s e abandoned who wai t i n t h e s t o c k exchange of l o s t l i v e s f o r d iv idends from t h e swig of rubbing a l c o h o l . - f,

A t nigk they sl t h e s t a i on t h e moon, and even t h e r e , government d i s c a r d e d what i t termed garbage: t h e moon, t o o , i s t rodden, now.

J a n c i s M. Andrews ' I

St range C l o s e t s We a r e t h e s e l f - c o n t a i n e d

We a r e t h e s t r a n g e a t t h e c rux of s u b j e c t i v i t y :

A patchwork of scabs We p e t Schroed inger ' s c a t

from s e l f - i n f l i c t e d wounds A f a m i l i a r worthy of our m e t t l e - surround u s on a l l s i d e s . a s our c l o s e t s s lowly expand

We a s k no o n e ' s pardon t o embrace t h e odd f r i e n d .

f o r our t a s t e i n decor . Stephen Belkin

We a r e p a t i e n t w i t h adv ice . We d o n ' t want t o h u r t t h e i r f e e l i n g s . We nod y e s t o t h e i r c o u n c i l because we t a k e p i t y on t h e i r f e a r ; It would t a k e up too much mind t o e x p l a i n we on ly t h r e a t e n t h e i r complaisence.

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m e n I i n i t i a l l y d e s c r i b e d t h e a t t a c k e r l r a p i s t ( a t t h e J u l y 3rd "Writ ing ~ o m e " P o e t r y Reading) , I s a i d he w a s 5'101', w h i t e , w i t h a beard. The f i r s t r e a c t i o n was a very d e f e n s i v e one from a man who f i t t h i s d e s c r i p t i o n ( a l o t of men look l i k e t h a t ) who s a i d t h a t he d i d n ' t want t h i s t o t u r n i n t o a Man- Hunt. The response from a few of u s was ' ' Y e s i t is !"

Another response from a man was 'could I g e t a b e t t e r d e s c r i p t i o n of t h e a t t a c k e r l r a p i s t , o r a l l men w i t h beards would b e s u s p e c t . ' Well, I would l i k e t o e x p l a i n t o you t h a t i f you a r e a woman walking a l o n e a f t e r d a r k , ALL MEN a r e s u s p e c t . From a block away I s e e a s i l h o u e t t e and wonder who it is , and what they could do. When i t ' s a man I d o n ' t recognize , my b r a i n goes on a l e r t . I t 's n o t a p l e a s u r a b l e s t r o l l on a

I b e a u t i f u l summer n i g h t - i t ' s w i l l he o r won't he . . . ? and once h e ' s 1 p a s t I can r e l a x , though I u s u a l l y

1 check a g a i n a t t h e c o r n e r t o make s u r e he h a s n ' t tu rned around t o fo l low me.

Men d o n ' t f e e l t h i s t h r e a t of v io- l e n c e on a d a i l y b a s i s t h e way women do. Try t o imagine s e v e r a l people ou t t h e r e , p o s s i b l y armed, who want t o a t t a c k and h u m i l i a t e you, who a r e w a i t i n g and l o o k i n g f o r you. We f a c e t h a t k ind of energy every t ime w e walk o u t of t h e house.

There ' s no g u a r a n t e e t h a t we ' re s a f e i n our houses , e i t h e r . Men who rape a r e n o t j u s t t h e lu rk ing- in - the-shadows t y p e s d e s c r i b e d i n t h e media. I t ' s a myth t h a t i t ' s u s u a l l y a t o t a l s t r a n g e r ; more o f t e n i t ' s f a t h e r s , b r o t h e r s , husbands and f r i e n d s . There ' s Date Rape - men

a c t i n g o u t what they c o n s i d e r " ~ o r m a l " s e x u a l r e a l t i o n s - men over-powering women - w i t h c o m p l i c i t y on t h e p a r t of any woman who supposedly 'a l lowed ' h e r s e l f t o be raped.

So be c a r e f u l who you walk home w i t h , women - is i t someone you t r u s t o r j u s t someone you;ve seen around a few t imes? I t ' s s a f e r and e a s i e r t o g e t a woman t o walk you home: she unders tands wi thou t e x p l a n a t i o n s why t h i s is n e c e s s a r y , and w i l l l e a v e when you thank h e r a t t h e door . How many men expec t t o b e asked i n f o r a v i s i t o r a goodbye k i s s ? No thanks , I d i d n ' t a s k you o v e r , I asked you f o r a s a f e walk home.

I was e x p l a i n i n g "al l men a r e sus- pect" at a f r i e n d ' s , how when I s e e a man on t h e s t r e e t h a l f a b lock away my d e f e n s e s a u t o m a t i c a l l y go up. A man i n t h e room asked , "Even i f you s a w ME? !" Hey guys, you d o n ' t g e t it do you? Why a r e you be ing s o defen- s i v e ? Why a r e you u s i n g a l l your energy t o p r o t e s t your innocence? I

" I ' m n o t t h e r a p i s t ! " OK. But I

your r e s p o n s i b i l i t y d o e s n ' t end t h e r e . Show some concern f o r me and my sis- t e r s ; y o u ' r e n o t t h e one g e t t i n g a t - tacked. I f you s a y you l o v e women, then h e l p make t h i s community s a f e f o r women and l e a v e your ego behind.

I f you s e r i o u s l y b e l i e v e i n equal- i t y f o r a l l t h e n h e l p make t h i s com- munity s a f e f o r a l l and n o t j u s t f o r your i n t i m a t e s and f r i e n d s . No m a t t e r how drunk o r ou t -o f - i t a woman is , no m a t t e r what h e r job, no woman "de- se rves" t o be raped o r bea ten . I t ' s n o t a m a t t e r of p r o t e c t i n g a woman i f you l i k e h e r ; you should p r o t e c t everybody.

Rape i s n o t a woman's problem. I t is a Community Problem, and one f o r

which men must t a k e r e s p o n s i b i l i t y . We always h e a r what women should do - l o c k your c a r doors , c a r r y your keys i n your f i s t , don ' t walk home a l o n e - but we r a r e l y i f ever see t h o s e guide- l i n e s f o r men. The r o l e of men is no t f o r them t o "avenge t h e honour of t h e i r women". I t ' s t o f i g h t t h e soc- i a l c o n d i t i o n i n g which r e i n f o r c e s a l l t h e sexism and a g g r e s s i o n t h a t make rape and v i o l e n c e a g a i n s t women so common.

I f you see a woman and a man having a f i g h t , d o n ' t assume i t ' s h e r boy- f r i e n d . I t ' s a s easy as s a y i n g "Hey, what ' s going on?" a s w e l l , you could a s k ' t h e woman "Is t h e r e a n y t h i n g I can do? Do you need help?" What can I do?" I f they are a couple , he o r s h e o r bo th of them may y e l l a t you t o l e a v e them a l o n e , t h a t i t ' s none of your bus iness . So what? So what i f some- one y e l l s a t you - you might be sav- i n g a woman from be ing h u r t .

Make i t obvious t o t h e woman on t h e s t r e e t y o u ' r e n o t going t o a t t a c k h e r . Cross over s o y o u ' r e n o t coming up behind h e r o r where you a r e t h e only two on an o t h e r w i s e d e s e r t e d block and you s p o t h e r from a good d i s t a n c e . T h a t ' s probably t h e same d i s t a n c e s h e w i l l s p o t you from and beg in t e n s i n g h e r defence mechanisms. I f you ' re a t a bus s t o p , make i t obvious you a r e w a i t i n g f o r t h e bus , n o t h e r . I f i t ' s a woman you know, wave and c a l l h e r name, n o t "Hey, Blondie , C u t i e , Honey e t c . " There a r e some peop le who c a l l me nicknames t o my f a c e , bu t on a d a r k s t r e e t from o u t of nowhere, i t s e t s o f f t h e a larm. Go over and s e e wha t ' s happening o r come o u t on your porch i f you hear a scream, w h i s t l e o r loud arguing.

I t ' s been shown t h a t t h e e a r l i e r a woman r e s i s t s h e r a t t a c k e r , e i t h e r v e r b a l l y o r p h y s i c a l l y , t h e more poss- i b l e i t is t o g e t away unharmed.

R a p i s t s are count ing on a woman's sil- ence, through t h r e a t s t o harm o r k i l l us d u r i n g t h e a t t a c k , and through t h r e a t s of harm as w e l l a s our " g u i l t " t h a t we won't t e l l a f t e r . R a p i s t s a r e look ing f o r an easy mark. Cowards choose h e l p l e s s v i c t i m s . This one i s w a i t i n g f o r women coming home from t h e b a r s i n t h e e a r l y hours of t h e morning. I f you a r e d r i n k i n g , g e t someone t o CALL A CAB before you go o u t t h e door. The guy may have been watching you i n t h e b a r , and wai t ing . I know i t ' s h a r d r t o spend money on cabs when money's s o s c a r c e , and walking c o s t s nothing. I f you d o n ' t have i t , beg o r borrow, e x p l a i - n i n g t h a t i t ' s t o g e t home. I f you can spend money on d r i n k s , you can spend i t on y o u r s e l f - i f you want t o be a b l e t o go o u t aga in tomorrow.

I ' m angry t h a t i t ' s ME who has t o spend MY money because t h e r e ' s some c r e e p o u t t h e r e . T h a t ' s p a r t of t h e reason I d r i v e a b i c y c l e - s a f e t y and economy.

I f w e a r e w i t h male c h i l d r e n who a r e h a r a s s i n g female c h i l d r e n , we cannot " l e t boys be boys" bu t must p o i n t o u t t h e harm they a r e doing.

Men - i n s i t u a t i o n s where t h e o t h e r guys are making rape jokes o r t r a s h i n g women, make c l e a r your s e r i o u s f e e l i n g s about rape. I was s a y i n g I ' d l i k e a "Sweetie" t o a male f r i e n d l a s t week. As we were l e a v i n g Carnegie at 10 p.m. t o head our s e p e r a t e ways, he joked t h a t r

I ' d probably be g lad t o run i n t o a r a p i s t on t h e way home. I s a i d , "That ' s n o t funny. " It is a male myth t h a t women enjoy rape. Rape i s n o t sex , i t is v io lence . It can s c a r c e l y be d e s c r i b e d as p l e a s u r a b l e . Rape o r de-personal ized s e x (no s h a r i n g l n o c a r i n g ) i s no t what I was t a l k i n g about. I d o n ' t t h i n k I o r any o t h e r woman would have a n y

u IV problem ( o t h e r than emot ional s t a r - v a t i o n ) g e t t i n g J u s t Sex. You know *

the word I mean. It 's u n f o r t u n a t e but t r u e i n t h i s c a p i t a l i s t , male- dominated s o c i e t y : women a r e a commodity - something t o be "won", "conquered" o r a " se rv ice . "

Community awareness of t h e r e a l i t y of r a p e , t h a t i t is a n a c t of v io- l ence and sexism, is t h e f i r s t s t e p i n r educ ing t h e numbers of a t t a c k s on women. Neighbours i s o l a t e d from each o t h e r by f e a r and u n f a m i l i a r - i t y have l i t t l e power t o e f f e c t necessa ry changes i n t h e i r own neighbourhoods and i n t h e community a t l a r g e . Neighbours l o o k i n g o u t f o r each o t h e r can p rov ide more s e c u r i t y than t h e p o l i c e . The p o l i c e a r e o f t e n i n e f f e c t i v e , coming a h a l f hour t o o l a t e i f they come at a l l , o r t h e woman h a s a worse t ime w i t h t h e i r q u e s t i o n s , o r t h e y ' r e s o nervous t h a t they make jokes - "make l i g h t " . I heard an o f f i c e r who'd j u s t ques t ioned a young woman who had been a s s a u l t e d r e f e r t o t h e I' concocted s t o r y . ' I

When I suggested t o t h e g i r l t h a t i f t h i s happened a g a i n s h e make a l o t of n o i s e , t h a t someone might h e l p , s h e s a i d , "No one on t h e s t r e e t e v e r h e l p s you. . .not i n t h i s neighbourhood ." We need t o be d i s - cuss ing ways of making o u r community s a f e , ways we can do i t o u r s e l v e s . To p rov ide s a f e t y f o r each o t h e r , we can o f f e r r i d e s o r a r r a n g e t o walk home t o g e t h e r . We can a l s o s e t up systems of checking up on each o t h e r . Women l i v i n g i n t h e same b u i l d i n g can a r r a n g e s i g n a l s t h a t w i l l b r i n g he lp qu ick ly . We can a g r e e a s we s e t o f f on our s e p e r a t e ways t o phone when we g e t home t o l e t each o t h e r know we ' re OK. Se l f -de fense c o u r s e s a r e u s e f u l f o r b u i l d i n g conf idence.

, Break t h e s i l e n c e t o end men's :

vio lence . ~ o n ' t s h r u g o f f u g l y , woman-hating j o k e s , t u r n a deaf e a r t o a s t r a n g e r ' s screams o r "make l i g h t " of t h e v e r y r e a l p a i n o f a woman who a h a been a s s a u l t e d . Most women d o n ' t l i k e t a l k i n g about i t because we ' re t o l d i t ' s o u r f a u l t . We i n t e r n a l i z e t h e blame = maybe I s h o u l d n ' t have been walking a l o n e ... wearing a s k i r t ... o u t l a t e a t n i g h t . .. Is i t a cr ime f o r a woman t o walk a l o n e , wear a s k i r t o r be o u t l a t e ' a t n i g h t ? When we ' re t o o f r i g h t e n e d / p a r a l y z e d w i t h shock t o f i g h t - u s u a l l y t h e f i r s t t ime when we thought a l l a l o n g t h i s would never happen t o US - we blame our- s e l v e s t h a t i t happened because we d i d n ' t f i g h t . The propaganda f o r t h e male supremacy t e l l s u s i t i s women who c a u s e r a p e by be ing un- c h a s t e o r i n t h e wrong p l a c e a t t h e wrong t ime. I n e s s e n c e , by behav- i n g as though we were f r e e .

What you do n o t s t o p from happen- i n g , you a l l o w t o happen.

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I n t h e n e x t room a woman c r i e s o v e r t h e r a i n b a t t e r i n g t h e s k y l i g h t . Wal ls of p a p e r , w a l l s of l e a d . I c r e a t e d i s t a n c e r e f l e x i v e l y now, I ' v e had twelve y e a r s ' p r a c t i c e . A f t e r a l l , s h e was o n l y punched once t h i s t i m e b e f o r e h e s tormed o u t . Wal ls of p a p e r , w a l l s o f l e a d . S u r e l y , s h e cou ld g e t away i f s h e d i d n ' t en joy f e e l i n g s o r r y f o r h e r s e l f s o much. Walls of p a p e r , w a l l s of l e a d . Someone, a n o t h e r woman, knocks on h e r door . L e c t u r e s h e r ; t e l l s h e r t h i s must s t o p . The c r y i n g woman's l i f e s t o r y tumbles o u t a l l over my e l a b o r a t e l y wrought d e f e n s e s ; I n o t e t h a t I d o n ' t f e e l a goddamn t h i n g . Wal ls of p a p e r , w a l l s of l e a d . The woman l e a v e s ; t h e c r y i n g s t o p s . 1 remind myself t h a t I shou ld c a r e , j u s t f o r t h e r e c o r d . Wal ls of p a p e r , w a l l s of l e a d . The r a i n s t o p s . No one s e e s t h e rainbow. By morning I have wiped h e r from my mind a g a i n . U n t i l t h e n e x t b a t t e r i n g . Walls of p a p e r , w a l l s of l e a d .

I Wondering of t h e Dawn

The s t r e a m s a r e r u s h i n g And God i s l e t t i n g u s l i v e a n o t h e r day Showing l o v e w i t h t h e w a r m glow of t h e I ' m wondering o f t h e dawn, I s e n s e t h a t t h e r e ' l l be a dawn coming And t h e r e ' l l be b l a c k n e s s and doom Everyone w i l l be t e r r i f i e d Beauty w i l l d i s a p p e a r And t h e cause of t h e a g e s w i l l be l o s t So I ' m wondering a t t h e dawn A s God g i v e s u s a n o t h e r chance And l e t s u s c o n t i n u e on

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Those who get "jobs" & perform paid work for bosses in the capi- talist system are enslaved contribu- tors to it. Just as those who wear military uniforms create a world in which torture, death & destruction are the bottom line, working wage slaves help create planetary suicide by corporate greed. Anyone who only wants a paycheque for a nine-to-five slot in life is worthless to the truth, worthless to the evolution of humanity, & ultimately has no place in the harmonics of change. The real work we were born to do is economic- ally unacceptable & every human soul fitted into a paid slot is another small but significant victory for capitalism. Because people are convinced by

their fear of "failure" that they have no alternative, they agree to follow orders & maintain rules that fall short of the truth... & get paid for it, of course. They wouldn't do anything they didn't get paid for, most of them... & most of them go on complaining about "The System" all their lives, and never even see that they are it. Those who have learned how to def-

end & promote capitalism are the worst of all... our elected officials, leaders & corporate heads whose bod- ies, hearts & brains have been signed, sealed & delivered over to the ulti- mate error of our times - the doc- trine of economic salvation ...j ust get hooked into money ... let money run your world...& together we will create a profitable future...we have all the answers, and...wefre doing it all for yo*, they say.

Well, the fact is, capitalism is eating up the future so fast, we will be lucky to exist on this planet the day after tomorrow... & future generations, our children's children, will be up against cancer- ous mutations & sophisticated con- trol systems in a dead & dying en- vironment. Everything we are or have ever accomplished as a race of conscious beings on this planet is all over - it's gone - signed, sealed & delivered into capitalist oblivion. By the time this "resource" planet

is used up, capitalist science will have produced a vehicle capable of carrying a new generation of elite controllers to another solar system - another host planet will have been targeted, & the death cult known as "resource management" will produce another "work force" to gobble it up. If you want to know what Star Wars

is all about, consider Darth Vader and the eternally malignant exist- ence of the "Boss''. ..the whole con- cept of one person's ambitions dir- ecting another person's actions is sick. It is an invisible & socially acceptable disease of the heart &

mind that continues for as long as we let it continue, & the ultimate result of all its symptons is a series of living environments...one planet after another...reduced to toxic waste. Those who "get jobs" & perform

paid work are angels of death who do not recognize themselves, so...is it all for nothing? ... is every human lifetime a wasted effort? Well, if

I you c o n s i d e r h i s t o r y a m a t e r i a l even t w i t h no s u r v i v i n g S p i r i t . . .y e s . I t 's a l l gone down t h e t u b e s - & everyone who c o n t r i b u t e d ( i n n o c e n t l y o r ignor- a n t l y ) t o i t , must b e a r h i s l h e r s h a r e of p e r s o n a l r e s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r t h e h o r r i b l y l u d i c r o u s f a i l u r e & cont inu- i n g p e r v e r s i o n of "economic s a l v a t i o n " i n a m a t e r i a l world.

But - t h i s world , t h i s consc ious ex- p e r i e n c e of be ing h e r e now, is n o t j u s t a material t h i n g ... be ing i d e n t i - f i e d a s human s o u l s , we are n o t j u s t l i m i t e d t o t h e t r a g i c w a r f a r e most of us have made of t h i s e x i s t e n c e . L e t ' s n o t be t o o qu ick t o heave a s i g h of r e l i e f h e r e , & f o r g i v e o u r s e l v e s , however - o u r e t e r n a l p resence on t h e u n i v e r s a l scene - our con t inued e x i s t - ence beyond d e a t h , is a mixed b l e s s i n g t o say t h e l e a s t .

I f " J u s t i c e " - t h e p r i n c i p l e of c o r r e c t i n g m i s t a k e s , rewarding honesty and d i s c a r d i n g l i e s - t h a t we have t r i e d t o app ly i n cour t rooms . . . i f such a t h i n g as t h i s " j u s t i c e " p r e v a i l s & is a c t i v e i n t h e u n i v e r s e and n o t j u s t a figment of our imagina t ion ... a t some p o i n t beyond t h i s abused r e a l - i t y , each i n d i v i d u a l being w i l l be c a l l e d t o account .

I must say t h a t I ' v e examined t h e evidence f o r such a p o s s i b i l i t y , & I ' m convinced t h a t i t w i l l be so . . . of course , I ' m aware t h a t many o t h e r s do n o t b e l i e v e t h a t , & i n a world of f r e e w i l l , t hey a r e welcome t o t h e i r view.

S ince I am convinced, however, I must a c t on my c o n v i c t i o n , & r e v e a l as much of t h e t e r r i b l e t r u t h a s h a s been revea led t o me. 1t's n o t d e a t h t h a t we must f e a r , b u t t o t a l r eve la - t i o n , because s o many of u s have wel- comed t h e s u b t l e c o r r u p t i o n of our s o u l s by "economic s a l v a t i o n " . I n t h i s con tex t - t h a t i s , beyond d e a t h - t o t a l r e v e l a t i o n i s i n e v i t a b l e .

There is no way under i t , over i t , o r around i t - e v e r y t h i n g t h a t is w i l l be revea led t o you a t some p z n t be- yond t h i s p r e s e n t r e a l i t y . Your ac- t i o n s up t o t h a t p o i n t w i l l be what you a r e , and what you a r e w i l l have no c h o i c e b u t t o f a c e up t o t h e a b s o l u t e t r u t h .

When Judgement comes upon t h e s o u l who supported & j u s t i f i e d i t s e l f by t h e l i e of economic s a l v a t i o n , t h e r e w i l l be a s w i f t & f i n a l r e s o l u t i o n of t h e d e b a t e over r i g h t & wrong. Those few who have nour i shed & kept some p a r t of t h e t r u t h a l i v e i n t h e i r s o u l s w i l l s u r v i v e ... b a r e l y . And a l l t h o s e who suppor ted t h e l i e of economic sal- v a t i o n t o t h e p o i n t of e r o d i n g t h e i r t r u e s p i r i t , w i l l c e a s e t o e x i s t now & f o r e v e r , as i f t h e y had never been.

EXACTLY one year ago today as this is being written, the President of Ports Canada and the chairperson of th& Vancouver Parks Board were con- gratulating themselves on making the new Portside Park a reality! The 'official' opening happened on

cheque-issue day, the last Wednesday of the month, so they were sure that their media event wouldn't be marred by' the loud portests of the seniors, mothers with very young children & especially people with disabilities. These are the residents who have been discriminated against through the conscious design of CPR and the Port Corporation. If you have no idea, go to the foot of Main Street and look at the Main St. Overpass! On this anniversary of our victory

over the developers, a rally/picnic took place in Crab Park (that's Port- side spelt backwards). For the past week events have happened to build awareness of 4hp upqoming date. On ~aturday,, a fundraising carwash

was held, First United donated the proceeds of the parking, the Carnegie Pool Room donated, DERA donated and BC Coalition of the Disabled chipped in. The focus of the rally on Friday began with a march from the DERA meet- ing at Carnegie and over 150 people proceeded to Crab. There reports were given amid music, dancing and playlets. The case before the Human Rights

Commission hasn't been resolved yet but the ideal outcome will be for both the Port aqd CPR being held legally responsible for the disgust- ing violation of our rights. - -

Alderman Philip Owen spoke about a possible solution "weeks" away, but one year ago the majority on City

$. Cauncil promised to ".,.put political k-" ,

scorching point that one's physical or mental challenges do not detract from the inner beauty of the person. In all, we still have a fight. The

new Minister of Transport is Jerry St. Germain from a Lower Mainland riding. He must be constantly reminded of our demand for a truely immediate solution. We have to extract respect and recog- nition of our rights from people who smile, are polite, then knife us in the back. The sour thought festering in their minds: POOR PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS DOING THIS pressure on

CPR to immediately re-open the at- grade crossing at Columbia Street.'' Owen was all enthused about the hard work of the NPA and the Mayor, yet in the next sentence said that the City of Vancouver got a reply from "a jun- ior law clerk in Montreal" who said that the crossing wouldn't be reopen- ed. Two weeks the Mayor finally got around to meeting with a vice-pres. of CPR and after a half-hour nothing had changed. (Gordon Campbell worked

' for Marathon Realty, the r6al estate arm of CPR, before entering politics.) So, like always with this Council,

as little as possible boat-rocking as is publically acceptable. Owen stood in for Mayor Campbell, maybe because the Mayor didn't want to be embarrass- ed by public awareness of the lack of progress. Alderman Libby Davies spoke about

the history of the struggle to wrest Crab from developers and the insult of the only access route being a farce. She said that the Port & CPR forced a deal on us, saying "We'll give you the

Theatre Terrific performed a play TO RICH PEOPLE.

about a visitor from outer space wanting It's a hard life, eh? - - - - - a ''perfect human being" to learn fair- By PAULR TAYLOR ness, compassion and love from. The players, all withdisabilities, made

MOTION: THAT D.E.R.A. COMMUNI- CATE TO LIBERAL LEADER JOHN

I~~U R N E R IT'S SUPPORT OF HIS EFFORTS TO FORCE MULRONEY !TO ALLOW THE PEOPLE OF CAN- ADA TO DECIDE THE FATE OF THE CANADA-U. S . FREE TRADE AGREE- MENT BY WAY OF A FEDERAL ELEC

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STAGE 401 - Saturday Night's "Live" (Atiba & Donalda have all results)

Surveys are going over well with users of Carnegie. People here have good

ideas and our suggestions/ques tions/complaints prompt surveying as the way to get the community's opinions. Stage 401 is the Volunteer Support Group's weekly dance & fundraiser; the

survey was conducted to ''touch base" with the users and utilize responses to make beneficial changes. During the 3% week period, 71 people helped with - humour (wanting bear meat at the concession), criticism (one singer 1s always

park only if you concede to an overpass." too loud) and insights on decoration, ventilation, lighting, sound quality Denis Ralston & Harry made quite a and even the tables & chairs.

statement: they started up the Respondents asked about more variety in the music - checking preferences in hill yesterday, went as far as they a list of Country, Country Rock, Rock n' Roll, Blues, Rhythym & Blues, Dixie-

before tiring, then pitched camp land, Folk, Labour, Jazz and Other (Salsa, Reggae, Womenst Bands, Bluegrass, and stayed the night on the slopes - Swing, Heavy Metal and Originals). Other concerns included food at the concess- just to get Our park under their Own ions, more young men and more young One person says the pizza is great!! steam. The Volunteers want to thank all who took the time and energy to help.

SUGGESTIONS FOR LETTERS TO THE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL

ADDRESS

NOTE

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would be what t h e Write i n

The Mayor'and C i t y C o u n c i l l o r s C i t y of Vancouver 453 West 1 2 t h Avenue Vancouver V5Y 1V4

I f your l e t t e r i s addressed t o t h e Mayor and Members of C i t y Counci l , t h e C i t y Cle rk w i l l d i s t r i b u t e c o p i e s of each t o t h e c o u n c i l l o r s .

A s w e l l a s r e g i s t e r i n g your o p p o s i t i o n t o hav ing t h e nor thwes t quad- r a n t of S t r a t h c o n a Community Gardens rezoned f o r r e s i d e n t i a l u s e , i t h e l p f u l i f your l e t t e r gave C i t y Council a s e n s e of who you a r e and Garden means t o you. There i s no need t o w r i t e l i k e a c i t y p lanner . your own v o i c e , s o a l l o u r l e t t e r s t o g e t h e r can c r e a t e a p i c t u r e of

tlle Garden's r e a l i t y .

Some o f t h e t h i n g s you can mention, i f they a p p l y , a r e :

: t h a t you l i v e i n t h e neighbourhood of t h e garden (and i f you have l i v e d chere a long t ime, s a y s o ) . * t h a t you a r e r e t i r e d , o r d i s a b l e d , o r unemployed, o r a s i n g l e p a r e n t , o r a new Canadian, o r working f o r a low wage.

t h a t you l i v e i n s o c i a l housing, o r r e n t a l housing, o r any kind of housing wi thout garden soace . 9: t h a t you need t h e food you grow i n your garden. ;? t h a t your own garden i s i n t h e t h r e a t e n e d a r e a ; how much work o r money you have pu t i n t o i t ; what i t would mean t o you t o l o s e i t . * t h a t you use and en joy t h e common a r e a s o r p r o j e c t s -- you b r i n g your c h i l d r e n t o t h e p l a y a r e a , walk i n t h e marshland, p i c k b l a c k b e r r i e s i n t h e s h e l t e r b e l t , d e l i g h t i n t h e e n t i r e g a r d e n ' s openness t o l i g h t and weather - whatever i t i s about t h e garden t h a t ' s most impor tan t t o you. Say what i t would mean t o you t o l o s e t h e common a r e a s of t h e garden.

T f you have any s p e c i a l i n t e r e s t o r e x p e r t i s e ( i f you work w i t h s e n i o r s , o r i l l landscaping, a r t , menta l h e a l t h , environmental economics, e t c . ) , mention i t and use i t t o b r i n g your own a n g l e t o t h e q u e s t i o n .

COPIES I f you can , p l e a s e l e t u s have a copy of your l e t t e r f o r o u r f i l e .

IiEI,P I f you a r e not c o n f i d e n t of your a b i l i t y t o w r i t e i n Eng l i sh , o t h e r garden-members w i l l h e l p you.

We w i l l pos t t h e t imes when someone w i l l be a t t h e garden w i t h a t y p e w r i t e r . We can a l s o supply s t a t i o n a r y and stamps.

FUICl'HER I N F O R M A T I O N : E l l i e 253-9618; Tania 255-3719; Joanne 254-5742.

MIITE GREED WS LETT by e r i c e r i c k s o n

I am whi te but I know t h a t twice i n my younger days , t h e genoc ida l savagery of t h e whi te man touched my l i f e .

I was born i n a t r a p p e r ' s c a b i n i n t h e woods of Northern Saskatchewan. The coun t ry had been newly opened t o homesteading - i n f a c t our bush farm l a y a t t h e n o r t h e r n l i m i t o f govern- ment-surveyed land. Between t h e n o r t h e r n l i m i t of our farm and t h e North Po le l a y on ly bush, muskeg, tundra and A r c t i c i c e and smow.

The one-room l o g c a b i n i n which I w a s born s tood w i t h i n 100 y a r d s o f t h e Cumberland T r a i l , a f u r - t r a d i n g r o u t e l e a d i n g t o Cumberland House - a t r a d i n g p o s t on Cumberland Lake - which was e s t a b l i s h e d by e x p l o r e r Alexander Hendry i n 1876.. The c a b i n ' s beams were blackened by decades of wood smoke.

There w a s evidence t h a t t h i s had once been " Ind ian country ." One could f i n d f l i n t arrowheads and occas ion ly t h e most marve l lous ly made n a t i v e s t o n e hammerheads. There were a l s o leaden-grey b a l l s of what had been 'I pemmican", a mix ture of animal f a t , meat and b e r r i e s . Although t h a t pem- mican had l a i n i n t h e bush f o r dec- ades , one could s t i l l eat i t .

There was a l l of t h i s evidence of n a t i v e occupa t ion o f t h e l and i n p a s t t imes - but t h e r e were no n a t i v e s

Born i n 1930, I l i v e d t h e r e u n t i l I moved away i n 1946 w i t h my family and i n those s i x t e e n y e a r s I on ly s a w n a t i v e "Indians" once. I n about 1938 a wagon t r a i n went through. i ts people had s k i n d a r k e r t h a n t h e Caucasian whi te which was a l l t h e s e t t l e r s i n t h e d i s t r i c t had seen before . My mother - from England - announced t h a t they must be Gypsies. No one would go n e a r them.

Of course t h e s e were n a t i v e I n d i a n s pass ing through a vast a r e a of Nor-

t h e r n Saskatchewan where t h e r e a r e no N e t i v e s .

Why i s t h e r e t h i s b i g ho le i n t h e a b o r i g i n a l map - t h i s g r e a t expanse of coun t ry where no Nat ive peoples e x i s t ? I have s i n c e l ea rned why t h a t is and i t is t o t h e e v e r l a s t i n g shame of t h e whi te man.

About t h e t ime t h e CPR w a s d r i v e n through t h e p r a i r i e s t o i ts f i n a l goa l i n B r i t i s h Columbia, whi te f u r t r a d e r s i n Northern Saskatchewan were look ing ahead.

"This is going t o be good farming count ry , " they s a i d . "Farming and I n d i a n s a r e n ' t l i k e l y t o mix s o we g o t t a ' g e t r i d of some of t h e s e f***ing savages." So they opened t h e g a t e s of t h e i r t r a d i n g p o s t s and handed o u t f r e e b l a n k e t s t o t h e Nat- i v e s . It would have been a n i c e ges- t u r e excep t t h a t they took t h e blan- k e t s o f f t h e beds o f a number of smallpox v i c t i m s w i t h i n t h e f o r t .

The whi te men had t h e i r way. Small- pox went through t h e n a t i v e popula t ion l i k e a sharp s c y t h e through a s tand of r i p e g r a i n . That is why t h e r e is a g r e a t sweep of t h e map i n Northern Saskatchewan where t h e r e a r e no N a t - i v e s , why t h e once w e l l - t r a v e l l e d Cumberland T r a i l w a s - even when I w a s growing up t h e r e - an abandoned t r a i l through t h e woods.

I n fo l lowing i s s u e s of t h e News- le t ter , I expec t t o t a k e a look a t o t h e r examples o f t h e whi te man's shameful behaviour. Much of t h a t shameful r ecord is n o t t augh t i n t h e whi te man's schoo ls . It is covered up and whitewashed and swept under t h e rug. How t e r r i b l e i t would be i f t h e plump and well-fed whi te c h i l d r e n should l e a r n t h a t they w i l l i n h e r i t t h i s marvel lous coun t ry thanks t o p o l i c i e s o f robbery, murder, genocide and ou t rageous ly l y i n g p o l i c i e s - and t h a t - t h e shadow of t h o s e p o l i c i e s f a l l s a c r o s s a l l d e a l i n g s w i t h t h e Nat ive p o p u l a t i o n today.

Now i s t h e t i m e t o s t r i k e t o t h e Heart of t h e mat te r ; During my archeologica l s ea rch f o r Sam & t h e ~ u c k I d i d n ' t f i n d e i t h e r , bu t I d id f i n d a t r u e gem - t h e Socred - Secre t ! Actua l ly is w a s a smelly modly doucement t i t les Fascism S t r i k e s Back - P a r t I1 by Winnie Vander Za,m; a l s o s u b t i t l e d "How I W i l l Run B.C. f o r YOU". It w a s worse than Armageddon, wi th Socreds g iv ing themselves t i t l e s l i k e S i r and My Lord and Your Worship.. . & worst of a l l was t h e l a s t page - The Socred CONSTITUTION! !! To re- p lace the Canadian one?

L e t ' s make Vancouver a Socred- Free Zone. Write your MLA about t h e p a c i f i e r f o r Vanderzalm and don ' t f o rge t t h a t Gordon Campbell was No. 1 behind g e t t i n g him e l e c t e d a s Mayor of Vancouver i n 1984.

Crass ly yours , Cap t&Chaos

- - and doing-for o t h e r s ; he lp ing , l i s t e n - i n g and shar ing . Happiness i s knowing you a r e apprec ia ted . It i s f e e l i n g good, l i v e l y and ene rge t i c . Looking a t a b i r d i n a t r e e can be g r e a t happiness.

Maybe a cup of c o f f e e and . a sand- wich is t h e g r e a t e s t happiness of a l l .

Some people need microwaves and o t h e r s a r e happy with a smile!

Love, P e a r l

- LETTER FOR AL

There i s a bottom t o a bowl There is a bottom t o a w e l l , The e a r t h has l a y e r s of rock, water , o i l and s o on, Everything w e can s e e o r measure has a s i z e , shape and depth.

But what about t h e depths of our emotions? Does everyone experience t h e same amount of joy and sorrow?

Sometimes I f e e l an extreme and in- t ense happiness; sometimes I am very sad, l one ly and down i n t h e dumps.

I o f t e n wonder about ord inary people The ones who work day i n & day out The ones who have c h i l d r e n & l i v e i n t h e suburbs. . . Do they exper ience t h e s e g r e a t happinesses & depress ions?

I answered my own ques t ion f i n a l l y and concluded t h a t t h e s e people t h a t a r e c o n s t a n t l y on t h e go don' t have time t o t h i n k about t h e s e t h i n g s . a l 1 t h a t much because t h e i r goa l i n l i f e is money and most of t h e i r energy is put i n t o g e t t i n g o t t h ink ing about money & what microwave o r c a r o r

I house they are going t o (have t o ) bu

Happiness can be having fun t e l l i n g jokes, pa r ty ing , going t o t h e beach, being i n l o v e . , . There i s g r e a t happiness i n f r i ends .

11 probably n o t i c e , I d o n ' t have a A s you w i l l a "cute" l i t t l e o f f w i t h t h i s q u i t t o go w r b id t o become Johnny Carson so maybe I ' l l l i k e t o s h a r e

opening b l u r b t o s tart my column month. Th is is because my writers

i t e speeches f o r Captain Chaos's Mayor. Well, t h a t ' s okay. I h e a r h a s been w r i t i n g h i s own m a t e r i a l , w r i t e him a l e t t e r and see i f he 'd some of i t w i t h m e nex t month.

Okay, now l e t ' s g e t down t o t h e bus iness a t hand which is my thumb-nail reviews of t h e movies f o r t h e month of August. They a r e shown every Fr iday evening a t 7:00 pm i n t h e Carnegie Thea t re a t 401 Main S t r e e t . A s u s u a l I have used t h e 4 - s t a r r a t i n g system a s fo l lows :

**** E x c e l l e n t *** Good ** F a i r * Poor

August 5 t h : PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987)** Di rec ted by John Carpen te r S t a r r i n g Jameson P a r k e r , Donald Pleasence, L i s a B 1 .ount and rock s t a r Al ice Coope - A group of c o l l e g e s t u d e n t s , p r o f e s s o r s and a p r i e s t i n v e s t i g a t e a c a n i s t e r cont- a i n i n g a s t r a n g e g reen l i q u i d i n t h e basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church. The p r i e s t b e l i e v e s t h e subs tance t o be none o t h e r t h a n Sa tan h imse l f .

August 12th: JAWS (1975)**** Di rec ted by Steven S p i e l b e r g S t a r r i n g Roy Sche ider , Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss and L o r r a i n e Gary. Fas t paced t h r i l l e r about a New England c o a s t a l town t h a t i s t e r r o r i z e d by shark a t t a c k s . Th i s , t h e o r i g i n a l , i s 100% b e t t e r than any of t h e seque l s . John W i l l i a m s won a n Academy Award f o r h i s now c l a s s i c mus ica l score .

August 19 th : MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE (1985) Di rec ted by Mike Hodges S t a r r i n g G r i f f Rhys-Jones, James B. S ikking, Jimmy N a i l and Joanne Pearce . What happens when a spacesh ip f i l l e d w i t h a l i e n s - who j u s t happen t o be bra in- l e s s t w i t s - c r a s h l a n d s on Ear th? Having n o t y e t seen t h i s one, t h e answer i s beyond me, bu t I ' m s u r e i t ' l l be o u t a t h i s world.

August 26th: SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941)**** Di rec ted by P r e s t o n S t u r g e s S t a r r i n g J o e l McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert warwick and W i l l i a m Demarest. A Hollywood f i l m d i r e c t o r , t i r e d of making f l u f f , d e c i d e s he wants t o make a s e r i o u s p i c t u r e . To r e s e a r c h i t , he s e t s o u t w i t h 1 0 ~ i n h i s pocket t o exper- i ence l i f e i n t h e r e a l world. Th is is an a g e l e s s c l a s s i c n o t worth miss ing.

COMING I N SEPTEMBER: I r a n i a n bad guys, Chicano s t r e e t gangs, a b l a c k Trans-Am, bleach-blond beach-bums and C l i n t Eastwood. So u n t i l t h e l i g h t s go down aga in , t h i s i s t h e Unknown C r i t i c s u g g e s t i n g " t r y a bag o f t h e Volunteers ' popcorn."

The o t h e r day I took a walk down t o t h e o l d Expo site. My wander- ings l e d me t o The P l a z a o f Nations and t h e r e I found t h e model of P a c i f i c P lace .

Desp i te a l l t h e w r i t i n g I have done on t h i s proposed development and t h e e f f e c t i t would have on t h e Downtown E a s t s i d e , I l e f t t h e r e i n a s t a t e of mild shock.

The p r e s e n t a t i o n was s l i c k , in- c lud ing a six-minute v i d e o d i s p l a y ; t h e model i t s e l f w a s b e a u t i f u l , an example of t h e model maker 's c r a f t - manship. What r e a l l y grabbed m e was t h i s development is going t o be r i g h t on our doors tep .

Up u n t i l now, most of u s thought of P a c i f i c P lace as being b locks removed from us. T h a t ' s n o t so . Its scope r u n s from Yaletown a t t h e f a r end t o Pender S t . a t t h e ex- treme n o r t h end.

Did I say Pender S t . ? Yes I d i d . The south s i d e o f Pender S t . from Shanghai Al ley r i g h t up t o t h e Sun Tower, a t Bea t ty S t . , is included.

What's going t h e r e ? Well would you b e l i e v e ; f a c i n g Pender S t . a r e t a i l ma l l of s o r t s and going back towards Keefer S t . medium-rise apar tments and o f f i c e s - s t r e t c h i n g c l e a r around t o t h e Chinese Gardens on C a r r a l l S t r e e t .

A few q u e s t i o n s p u t t o t h e g e n t l e - man who was e x p l a i n i n g t h e develop- ment t o u s brought t h e i n f o t h a t c o n s t r u c t i o n is expected t o beg in at both ends a t once. Yaletown and Pender S t . a t t h e same t ime. True enough, i t w i l l be a few y e a r s be- f o r e we see any th ing happening b u t cons ider t h i s : b e f o r e f i v e y e a r s have passed t h e r e w i l l be new b u i l d i n g s on Pender S t . between Bea t ty and Carrall S t . It won't be much l o n g e r a f t e r t h a t and w e ' l l s e e new b u i l d i n g s on t h e n o r t h s i d e of Pender. That i s j u s t around t h e c o r n e r from T e l l i e r Tower - a b lock s o u t h and two b locks west of t h e Carnegie Centre , one b lock away from woodward's and Army & Navy and sev- eral h o t e l s . Pigeon Park might become a t o u r i s t a t t r a c t i o n .

Before t h i s happens, we might s e e c o n s i d e r a b l e change i n t h e D.E. woodward's owns q u i t e a l a r g e chunk of t h e a r e a and Army 6 Navy almost a s much. I d o n ' t suppose they a r e about t o l e t t h e g r a s s grow under t h e i r f e e t .

The new h o t e l t h a t i s t o be b u i l t a c r o s s from S e a r s w i l l s t r e t c h t o Pender S t . and even t a k e over some of t h e b u i l d i n g s t h e r e . The renewal f e v e r w i l l l i k e l y spread down Pender and Has t ings S t s . ,

c r e e p i n g towards t h e D.E. a l l t h e t ime .

I f we look a t Has t ings S t . from Vic to ry Square down t o C a r r a l l S t . , we can a lmost v i s u a l i z e what may happen. The b u i l d i n g s d i r e c t l y e a s t of Vic to ry Square a r e f o r t h e most p a r t f a i l e d b u s i n e s s e s , second hand ' s t o r e s ( a t l e a s t 3 of t h e s e under t h e same owner); t h e mass ive b u i l d i n g a t Has t ings and Cambie w i l l p robably remain, b u t most of t h e o t h e r s a r e expendable t o a deve loper .

Across t h e s t r e e t i s mos t ly owned by woodward's, i n c l u d i n g a p o r t i o n of Cordova S t . and ex tend ing r i g h t i n t o Gas town.

The b lock between Abbott & C a r r a l l w i l l be most a f f e c t e d as i t is most- l y s p l i t up i n t o u n i t s now. Behind most of t h e s e b u i l d i n g s is a l a r g e pa rk ing l o t , go ing from t h e c o r n e r of Abbott t o C a r r a l l . L e t ' s review what ' s t h e r e .

1) A c t u a l l y f r o n t i n g on Abbott S t . bu t t a k i n g a l a r g e f r o n t a g e on Has- t i n g s S t . i s t h e Abbott Rooms. Th i s b u i l d i n g is now owned by Korean money. It w i l l most l i k e l y be razed and a h o t e l could p o s s i b l y t a k e i t s p lace .

2 ) The Grand Union H o t e l (maybe merge w i t h t h e money peop le who own t h e Abbot t ) . 3 ) The o l d Wosk s t o r e ; ha rd t o s a y

who owns t h e p r o p e r t y now, bu t i t s t a n d s i n t h e way of development and would go under t h e wrecker ' s b a l l .

4 ) San Franc i sco Pawnbrokers and t h e b u i l d i n g n e x t t o i t ; one is owned by Fedco Dept. S t o r e s b u t bo th bu i ld - i n g s a r e o l d and l i k e l y t o be demol- i shed . 5) Then t h e r e is t h e pa rk ing l o t and

next t o i t is a wedge shaped b u i l d i n g which is o l d , a l t h o u g h kep t i n good r e p a i r , and i t w i l l l i k e l y go t h e demol i t ion r o u t e .

6. The Simon's Bu i ld ing , r i g h t on t h e c o r n e r of C a r r a l l S t . ; a marvel- ous ly wel l -kept b u i l d i n g and w e l l wor th s a v i n g a s i t s t r e t c h e s a lmost t o Pender. Th i s b u i l d i n g would be an i d e a l make-over t o s o c i a l housing - a n o t h e r jewel b e s i d e T e l l i e r and t h e Four S i s t e r s .

Think of t h e Downtown E a s t s i d e wi thou t a l l t h e s e p laces : The Arco Hote l - Detox - Pender H o t e l - Abbott rooms - The S i l v e r & The Avalon - The Metropole ( renova ted & renamed) - The Grand Union - The Lotus - Save- On-Meats - Woodward's S t o r e - Funky Winkerbeans - San Franc i sco Pawn- b r o k e r s - The L i t t l e Spot - and f i n a l - l y Pigeon Park . P rev ious l o s s e s of f a m i l i a r p l a c e s a r e : Wosk's - White Lunch - Warren H o t e l - Asher ' s Men's Wear - Sweet S i x t e e n - The Boot Shop (now l o c a t e d o p p o s i t e T e l l i e r Tower).

What w i l l t a k e p l a c e on t h e s o u t h s i d e of Pender S t . w i l l a f f e c t a l l of t h e D.E. and u s a s w e l l . This i s why i t i s impor tan t t o g e t as many low- income housing p r o j e c t s i n t h e n e x t two o r t h r e e y e a r s as p o s s i b l e .

Th i s i s why your v o t e is important i n t h e upcoming c i v i c e l e c t i o n .

Th i s i s why we must be c e r t a i n t h a t t h e buddies of t h e guys who a r e s e l l i n g o u r p rov ince o f f a r e no t going t o g e t a chance t o s e l l o u r c i t y o u t .

I f you haven ' t r e g i s t e r e d t o v o t e y e t , g e t w i t h i t ! A v o t e t h a t ' s l o s t i s a v o t e t h a t c o s t s !

Enjoy t h e luxury of f i r i n g a bunch of guys you d o n ' t l i k e by v o t i n g

Decent Affordable L iv ing Accomodations Soon (D.A.L.A.S.)

The l a t e Mart in Luther King s a i d i n one of h i s speeches , "I have a dream." Those words of h i s caught t h e imag ina t ion of peop le a l l o v e r t h e world and a f t e r h i s t r a g i c d e a t h by an a s s a s i n ' s b u l l e t , "I have a dream" became t h e r a l l y i n g c a l l f o r under -p r iv i l edged and depr ived people worldwide.

D.E.R.A. h a s had "A Dream" f o r many y e a r s . F i r s t under Bruce Er ickson and Libby Davies and now under J i m Green, t h a t dream h a s been decen t a f f o r d a b l e l i v i n g accomodations f o r a l l - r e g a r d l e s s of r a c e , r e l i g i o n , language o r p o l i t i c a l pe r suas ion . I r e f e r t o t h i s by t h e acronym D.A.L.A.S.

Concord P a c i f i c Developments L td . , t h e Company under which t h e F a l s e Creek Expo l a n d s a r e be ing developed, i s s u e s a q u e s t i o n a i r e t o v i s i t o r s a t t h e i r P a c i f i c P l a c e model l o c a t e d n e a r t h e P l a z a of Nat ions on t h e o l d Expo si te. This q u e s t i o n a i r e a s k s 1 2 q u e s t i o n s , one of which i s , "We a r e emphasizing r e s - i d e n t i a l development r a t h e r t h a n c o m e r c i a l development f o r t h e s i t e . Do you a g r e e wi th t h i s approach?

O f course , I a g r e e wholehear tedly w i t h t h i s concept provided t h a t I cou ld a f f o r d t o l i v e t h e r e . But t h e t r u t h is, n e i t h e r myself n o r anyone e l s e from t h e Downtown E a s t s i d e would be a b l e t o a f f o r d t o l ive t h e r e i f t h e r e is t o be no a f f o r d a b l e housing on t h e s i t e .

Copies of t h i s q u e s t i o n a i r e are a v a i l a b l e t o you. They a r e e x a c t l y t h e same a s t h e one i s s u e d a t t h e model 's s i t e , o n l y we have removed t h e Co. name.

What i s needed is t h a t as many people a s p o s s i b l e complete one o f t h e s e forms and under t h e heading of a d d i t i o n a l comments, r e g i s t e r t h e i r concern about t h e l a c k of a f f o r d a b l e housing.

We w i l l t hen forward a l l t h e completed q u e s t i o n a i r e s as a p e t i t i o n t o Concord P a c i f i c o f f i c e s , d i r e c t e d t o t h e i r Board of D i r e c t o r s .

This w i l l be a n o p p o r t u n i t y f o r o u t wishes t o be s e e n and our v o i c e s heard where i t counts . Of c o u r s e we w i l l a l s o have t h e i s s u e brought forward a t

I C i t y Council .

If we a l l work t o g e t h e r on t h i s , maybe w e ' l l make a d i f f e r e n c e i n some d e c i s i o n s t h a t w e l l be made i n t h e f u t u r e .

Those of u s who a r e a l r e a d y i n a f f o r d a b l e housing should remember what i t was l i k e and s t a n d a l o n g s i d e our b r o t h e r s and s i s t e r s , n o t on ly of t h e Downtown E a s t s i d e but a l l over t h e Lower Mainland.

WHAT HAPPENS TO ONE OF US, HAPPENS TO ALL OF US!

I f you a r e p r e s e n t l y l i v i n g i n a f f o r d a b l e housing and would l i k e t o be a team l e a d e r f o r D.A.L.A.S., p l e a s e c a l l me a t 682-1697 and I w i l l a r r a n g e f o r a Team Response Package t o be d e l i v e r e d t o you. Thank you.

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I remember h i s a r m s t a t t o o e d i n b l u e s and g reens and red and Gold "We'll c h a l l e n g e t h a t last s c o r e , " he s a i d Minions of Midget Men.

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Af ter , was t h e Vancouver F o l k f e s t Jane t asked f o r poe t ry . Where I s a w h e r Lesbian eyes .

I l i s t e n e d t o h e r song, bu t Boy

A s t h e Moon Shines

I ' m wondering how t o go t o s l e e p wi th you on my mind,

L i f e is r e a l l y worth i t knowing you You i n s p i r e my every waking moment, I l e f t you my memory

so you'd dream about my hear tache

The moon's glow s e t t l e s my mind and I know you won't worry about m e

i f I go t o s l e e p You b r i n g me home t o my s o u l and

i t was worth knowing you. And a s t h e moon s h i n e s you a r e

my guardian a n g e l t o p r o t e c t me d u r i n g t h e n i g h t .

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w a s I s u r p r i s e d !

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done over i n Blue-Grass s t y l e . And bag P i p e r i n t h e 5 1 s t S t a t e of and s t o r y t e l l i n ' f o r t h e l i t t l e c h i l e .

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I ' m s t i l l f r e e t o roam.

She shakes t h e brown b lanke t - an e x t e n s i o n from a f r i e n d .

I spun around t o thank it Off t h e bus , On t h e s t r e e t . THE END.

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I go back t o schoo l f o r someone l i k e myself who went t o g rade s c h o o l f o r

1 t e n y e a r s , and on ly g o t t o g rade f i v e . 11 l e f t i n 1946 f e e l i n g despondent and d i s g u s t e d . I d i d n o t know t h e n t h a t I had a mild form of d y s l e x i a .

Words were e n t e r i n g my b r a i n t w i s - * t e d around and they sounded d i f f e r e n t ; i t ' s s t i l l w i t h me today, bu t t o a l e s s e r degree . I s t i l l have t r o u b l e wi th numbers. Ethan Minovi tz , cover- i n g t h e one day confe rence a t Carne- g i e , quoted me a s s a y i n g I have a hea r ing problem, bu t I can h e a r f i n e .

Las t yea r , I went on a camping t r i p f o r f o u r days up t o S e c h e l t . I t was

I j u s t g r e a t g e t t i n g o u t of t h e c i t y f o r a few days . I t made one f e e l l i k e a human be ing aga in . So I wrote

a thank you n o t e t o Nancy Jenn ings , I d i r e c t o r of Carnegie , and t h e volun-

t e e r s , f o r g i v i n g me a grand t i m e . I bumped i n t o Nancy one day and i n t r o - duced myself t o he r . "Oh," s h e s a i d , "you ' re t h e one who wro te t h e l e t t e r . " I s a i d yes and t h a t I ' v e on ly go t t o grade f i v e , but I t r y . Nancy then asked me i f I had two minutes t o spa re . I s a i d s u r e s o s h e took me t o Tom Atkinson, Carnegie Learning Cen- t r e c o o r d i n a t o r . hat's how I e n t e r - ed t h e l e a r n i n g c e n t r e . I found o u t I r e a l l y l i k e go ing t o c l a s s e s . I ' m t a k i n g math and Eng l i sh composi t ion and c r e a t i v e w r i t i n g .

Mary Frances , t h e c r e a t i v e w r i t i n g t e a c h e r , asked me t o w r i t e something

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about t h r e e pages long. So I went home and thought 'What can I w r i t e a b o u t ? ' I s t a r t e d w i t h t h e t ime I was on t h e i c e on t h e motor v e s s e l Theron. A f t e r t h r e e pages I could no t s t o p , and got c a r r i e d away, f i n i - s h i n g w i t h f i f t e e n pages. Mary Fran- c e s s a i d , "You must have been w r i t i n g a long t ime;" and I s a i d , "No, i t ' s t h e f i r s t I have e v e r done."

She encouraged me s o much. I s t a r - t e d w r i t i n g a r t i c l e s f o r t h e Carn- e g i e News le t t e r and t h e e d i t o r always s a y s t o keep w r i t i n g . I am very p l e a s e d , and now my g o a l i s t o be s f r e e l a n c e j o u r n a l i s t and a u t h o r .

The Learning Cen t re has helped no t on ly me. There is a l a d y w i t h a few c h i l d r e n who could no t read o r w r i t e when s h e f i r s t came, but now s h e is a l s o happy t h a t s h e i s l e a r n i n g .

There a r e 250,000 a d u l t s i n B . C . t h a t can n o t r ead o r w r i t e . There a r e a l o t o f peop le o u t t h e r e on a wai t - i n g l i s t wanting t o g e t i n . Unfor- t u n a t e l y , t h e r e is a l a c k of t u t o r s and a l a c k of funds from t h e provin- c i a l government t o t h e Vancouver School Board, which i n t u r n h i n d e r s t h e Carnegie Learning Centre.

I f o n l y t h e Socreds could s e e down t h e road , people l i k e myself w i l l b e working a g a i n , and paying b i g t a x d o l l a r s back t o V i c t o r i a - which h e l p s pay I%Af s s a l a r i e s and fund many o t h e r p r o j e c t s . By g e t t i n g people an e d u c a t i o n and o f f w e l f a r e r o l l s , t h e b e t t e r i t w i l l be f o r a l l .

Big Moment 2. imm/h. w a l t e r -. 2: I ts B i l l what 'shizlastname'z -. s b i g B I G moment. \

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"Charged", durn de durn dum, by t h e R. C.M. f o r c e he s e z f o r " i n f l u e n c e paddling." and w e ' l l be damned i f o l e ' B i l l w h a t s h i z l a s t name weren ' t c l e a r e d of t h e "charge". and him g r i n n i n g o u t a t u s and spread ing t h o s e w e l l gardened hands a t u s o u t of t h e f r o n t page of t h e newspaper Hands t h a t a r e open and oh s o squeeky squeek c l e a n . But, t h i n k . people. t a k e a second thought . t h i n k . I Who t h e h e l l g e t s "charged" and never ends up 9 i n c o u r t ? B i l l w h a t s h i z l a s t name anyway! I n f l u e n c e peddling- I racke tee r ing-br ibe ry . Cr iminal type "charges" and no c o u r t d a t e . what t h e h e l l goes on? Col lus ion w i t h t h e p o l i c e ? Set-up w i t h t h e A.G .? One law f o r t h e r i c h and b r u t a l i t y and zoo t ime f o r t h e poor. Throw t h e son of a b i t c h i n t h e s l a m and b r i n g him before t h e c o u r t !