In this comer: Developerking Nat Bosa. DERA, JIM GREEN

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"paydirt". . .a very d e f i n i t e way of s q . f t . I t ' s s i c k t f ( ! ) say ing what is very d e f i n i t e l y impor- "When I met w i t h S h i r l e y Schmidt a n t . . . i f you have t h e mental d i s e a s e (former d i r e c t o r of Columbia Housing c a l l e d greed. Advisory Assoc ia t ionS I was f u r i o u s .

But l e t ' s can t h e philosophy and I t o l d h e r , ' I hope l i k e h e l l you morals and e t h i c s , because t h a t c r a p sc reen p r o p e r l y ' . W e l l , I ' m t o l d j u s t g e t s i n t h e way when y o u ' r e a YOU can 't d i s c r i m i n a t e . s e l f - s t y l e d , self-made, s e l f - d e f i n e d The a r t i c l e t h a t t h e s e quo tes are developer l i k e one NAT BOSA. taken from h a s been t i g h t l y e d i t e d ,

An "interview" w i t h Bosa appears i n making N a t Bosa appear a s a s h i n i n g t h e development p a r t of t h e paper example of a l l t h a t ' s holy i f y o u ' r e c a l l e d Equi ty . For t h o s e of you new a greedy, narrow-minded, h y p o c r i t i c a l t o che Downtown E a s t s i d e , new t o (da re I say i t - money-grubbing) Ear th , t h e r e ' s a housing c r i s i s going b a s t a r d . It 's even layed ouc i n a on: people l i v i n g on low and f i x e d way t o convince you, i f you i d e n t i f y incomes a r e being fo rced o u t of homes wi th t h e d i v i n e d e s c r i p t i o n above, and apartments and rooms by t h e greed t h a t , a s u s u a l , t h e social is^ whiners of developers , and Bosa shows himself a r e an i s o l a t e d c a s e and, a s u s u a l , t o be one of t h e most v i r u l e n t c a r r - i e r s of t h i s mental poison.

t r y i n g t o g e t f o r no th ing what t h e honest , hard-working s a p s have t o

Bosa s t a t e s t h a t he w a s f o r c e d , by work 20 y e a r s t o pay o f f . Every page i d i o t s c a l l i n g themselves " s o c i a l has $-page ads f o r g i a n t c o r p o r a t i o n s planners" t o reduce t h e d e n s i t y of p e r p e t u a l l y engaged i n making money h i s $ .5 b i l l i o n menagerie of high- f o r t h e sake of making more money. r i s e s (going i n a t Main 6 Terminal) . J i m Green i s c a t e g o r i z e d a s " the

The C i t y of Vancouver, a t t h e urg- s e l f - s t y l e d p r o t e c t o r of t h e poor of i n g of DEMY wanted 200 of t h e u n i t s Downtown Eastside". .words under reserved f o r s o c i a l housing, a re- h i s p ic tu re . . and s i n c e people read duct ion of t h e d e n s i t y by 250,000 s q - captions under pictures first, i t l s f t . and a payment of $4.5 m i l l i o n f o r so much easier to think of the loss t h e c r e a t i o n and enhancement of pa rks w i t h i n 1 mi le of Bosa t s s i t e .

of "cheap" housing as a good t h i n g ,

Bosa, u n l i k e normal humans, muffed i s n ' t i t ? But hey, t h a t ' s what sub-

t h e chance t o a t l e a s t p r a c t i c e being l i m i n a l brainwashing i s a l l about!

human and s a i d , " I ' m n o t s t u p i d . I f Nat Bosa i s n ' t t h a t s u b t l e . I f

they want t h e s o c i a l housing, g i v e you judge people by t h e s i z e of t h e i r

them t h e goddamn s o c i a l housing." bank account - t h e b i g g e r t h e b e t t e r - The concess ion t o provide t h e 200 h i s b i n o c u l a r b u l l s h i t is common

u n i t s g r a t e s on Bosa. The kind of ' s e n s e . I mean, t h e f a c t s j u s t confuse

t e n a n t s who may move i n i n f u r i a t e s you when your mind i s made up.

him. Bosa, you a r e probably p r e t t y com-

"This is insane. The type of people f o r t a b l e c a l l i n g o u r community "skid

J i m Green (DEW o r g a n i z e r ) r e p r e s e n t s , Road'' - t h a t ' s a g iven f o r you. A l l

most of them don ' t work. Why should of t h e s t e r e o t y p e s of "lazy", "bums",

someone who d o e s n ' t work, who s l e e p s ' t th ieves" , " rubbies t ' , "dope-pushers",

^ ' i n t o 11 i n t h e morning, l i v e i n a "a lk ies" ... .maybe "worthless" o r " i

b e a u t i f u l l o c a t i o n r i g h t downtown be- " s h i f t l e s s " when you g e t i n t o it w i t h

: s i d e a S k y t r a i n s t a t i o n ? The accomo- f r i ends . . .none of you can s t a n d t o

d a t i o n t h e y are g e t t i n g ... is e x a c t l y f e e l g u i l t y o r r e s p o n s i b l e f o r t h e

che same a s t h e guy who pays $250 a s t a n d a r d s of l i v i n g t h a t poor peop le

endure. You even Ery t o s a l v e your conscience by s a y i n g t h a t you want t h e s e 200 u n i t s t o go t o t h e " t r u l y needy". I f you e v e r g e t your fu r - l i n e d b l i n d e r s r i p p e d o f f your puss you might s e e t h a t over h a l f of t h e c i t i z e n s of Vancouver ( o r any c i t y f o r t h a t m a t t e r ) a r e "needy" and li i n g i n d e b t f o r most of t h e i r l i v e s

A s a c l o s i n g p o i n t , we no l o n g e r accep t t h e i d e a of blaming o u r s e l v e a s r a t i o n a l . For t h e r e t o be a v i c t i m , t h e r e must be a p e r p e t r a t o r .

Anyone wanting t o w r i t e t o Bosa and d i s c u s s h i s comments on res iden of our neighbourhood; h i s a d d r e s s -

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B r i n g l o t s of f r i e n d s .

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I n memory of RANDY FRENCH - who passed away September 25, 1989.

s c h o i c e is yours .

T H E D O W N T O W N EASTSIDE i s a

R e s i d e n t i a l Area

Are you g e t t i n g s i c k and t i r e d of h e a r i n g about what i s needed i n t h e Downtown Eascs ide? Well f o l k s , g e t used t o i t !

There a r e over 10,000 people l i v i n g i n t h e neighbourhood and we a r e h e r e t o s t a y .

There a r e a l s o many o r g a n i z a t i o n s i n t h e community where h e l p is a v a i l - a b l e f o r j u s t about everyone. Asking anyone w i l l u s u a l l y g e t you p o i n t e d i n che r i g h t d i r e c t i o n , and t h e r e is a l s o a phamplet o u t c a l l e d Help I n The Downtown E a s t s i d e .

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MANAGER: B R n MACPHEE

101 East Cordova Vancouver. B.C.

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To name j u s t a few, t h e fo l lowing a r e used by me and some peop le I know:

DERA: Help w i t h f i n d i n g housing, w e l f a r e problems, income t a x and o t h e r r e s o u r c e s a v a i l a b l e .

CARNEGIE: 2,000 peop le a day p a s s through; t o a t t e n d i n t h e

Learning Cent re , t o go t o t h e L i b r a r y o r watch TV i n t h e S e n i o r s Lounge o r l i f t we igh t s i n t h e basement o r p l a y poo l on t h e 2nd f l o o r o r t o e a t b r e a k f a s t , lunch , d i n n e r ..... CRAB TREE CORNER: I had no i d e a

how much t h i s h a s t o o f f e r . I ' d heard abou t emergency \

daycare and community programs and g o t t h i s l i s t -

Emergency and short-term daycare

Children: 6 weeks to 6th birthday

Monday to Fr~day 9:30 - 4:00

Phone registration at 8:45 a.m.

M S.S.t-1. cou~ons available

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COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Alcohol and Drug Counsellor

Free soup and bannock 12:OO p m. - Tues.. Wed.. Fri.

Parenting workshops

Fitness program - Mon.

Single Mothers' Food Bank Trip - Tues.

V~deos- Thurs., Fri.

Clothing and book exchange

Referral and resource information

COMMUNINITY SPACE

Healthiest Babies Possible

Child Poverty Action Comrninee

Red Road Warriors Native A A - Wed. and Frl , 7:30 p m. (chddcare provided) (Farn~ly Cllnner, th~rd Fri. of month at 5-30 p.m.)

WOMEN'S CENTRE: Prov ides f r e e c l o t h - i n g , showers, l aundry

and soup & bannock, programs & v i d e o s

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DUGOUT : On t h e c o r n e r Columbia, i t p r o v i d e s Tree

c o f f e e and soup i n t h e mornings a t 8 dm, is open throughout t h e day, & h a s a d a i l y AA meet ing a t 12:30.

The Downtown E a s t s i d e h a s a l o t o t o f f e r , s o f e e l f r e e t o drop i n t o any of t h e above mentioned p l a c e s .

Another a r e a t h a t i s c u r r e n t l y a t i s s u e is p e d e s t r i a n s a f e t y , e spec i - a l l y a t Main & Has t ings . A kink t h a t has t o be i roned o u t h e r e is t h e number of i n c i d e n t s o r n e a r i n c i d e n t s invo lv ing peop le u s i n g t h e c rosswalks . We have t o make s u r e t h a t t h e y ' r e s a f e f o r people of a l l a g e s , bu t d e f i n i t e l y . .

f o r t h e s e n i o r , d i s a b l e d and i n f i r m r e s i d e n t g .

THE LIST GOES ON & ON & ON & ON! A l l of t h i s i s f o r t h e b e n e f i t of

o u r community. Working t o g e t h e r can r e a l l y make a d i f f e r e n c e .

By MARGARET PREVOST

'TliE l l ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ T I C " NEWS : (Any resemblance t o mainstream prop- . - aganda is pure ly c o - i n c i d e n t a l ...)

The m a j o r i t y of modern businessmen & women spend most of t h e i r t ime en- joy ing luxurys o t h e r s c a n ' t a f f o r d & p l o t t i n g ways t o break t h e law wi thou t g e t t i n g caught . Th i s has be- come s o common t h a t i t ' s no l o n g e r cons idered c r i m i n a l o r p a t h o l o g i c a l behaviour. I n t h e p u b l i c e y e t h i s s o r t of a c t i v i t y has come t o be acc- ep ted as proof of s u p e r i o r i t y &, acc- o rd ing t o many popular b u s i n e s s per- s o n a l i t i e s , has r e c e n t l y become "sanctioned" by Cod.

L a s t week, Media Rocks-Off, t h e daughte r and deal-maker f o r Scam-You, one of t h e r i c h e s t businessmen i n t h e world, g o t a s much media coverage a s s h e could ou t of h e r long drawn-out p roposa l s t o buy ~anders lamrn ' s Fan- Easy Gardens p r o p e r t y i n Richmond ( a name compounded from Engl i sh & French, meaning " ~ i c h ~ o r l d " ) .

A f t e r B i l l Vanderslamm had conned h i s way i n t o p u b l i c o f f i c e , and j u s t b e f o r e he e l e v a t e d himself t o t h e d i v i n e r i g h t of p remiersh ip , he con- s t r u c t e d a media image around h i s "wholesome" s m i l e , sun-lamp t a n , & expensive b u s i n e s s s u i t s , & used i t t o t u r n an a g r i c u l t u r a l p r e s e r v e i n t o a "theme park", which i s t h e l a t e s t American codeword f o r "Shop= p ing Mall".

B i l l i s a master con-man, & i n 1985 ~ i c h m o n d ' s Town Counci l co-operated w i t h him a l l t h e way, a s he gained approval f o r 15 expansions of some- t h i n g he c a l l e d "Fantasy Gardens", d u r i n g a p e r i o d of on ly 14 months.

B i l l in t roduced each p roposa l a s a s m a l l bu t necessa ry expansion, & a t no t i m e d i d he o u t l i n e h i s o v e r a l l p lan. The Richmond Department s a i d l a t e r t h a t d u r i n g t h e p rocess they were aware of each i n d i v i d u a l p iece of expansion bu t t h e f i n 4 1 t ransfor-

mation of B i l l ' s " b o t a n i c a l garden" i n t o a theme p a r k shopping m a l l took them by s u r p r i s e , t h e y s a i d .

When t h e Vanderslamms bought t h e p r o p e r t y i n 1983, i t was a c t u a l l y a r e a l b o t a n i c a l garden, w i t h on ly one smal l b u i l d i n g on s i t e . By 1985, B i l l & L i l had added a conserva to ry , b e l l t o w e r , c h a p e l , gazebo, 2 b a r n s , a pa rk ing l o t , animal s h e l t e r s , a "Noah's Ark", a m i n i a t u r e r a i l w a y s t a t i o n , mobi le home, r e s t a u r a n t com- p lex , f i s h & c h i p s t r a i l e r & garden- c e n t r e complex i n c l u d i n g s t a t u e s of c a t h o l i c sa in t s . .whose s t o n e B i l l s a i d w a s "imported d i r e c t l y from t h e Holy and". . .of c o u r s e B i l l n e g l e c t e d t o p o i n t o u t t h a t h i s so -ca l l ed "Holy Land" i s a c t u a l l y a p l a c e where t h e y herd d i s s i d e n t s i n t o r e f u g e e camps, & c u t o f f your hand f o r s t e a l i n g a l o a f of bread.

More b u i l d i n g s w e r e added t o ill's f a n t a s y i n 1986 & of c o u r s e t h e fam- ous Expo r e p l i c a of a Dutch c a s t l e w i t h a drawbridge t h a t is never low- e r e d , topped i t a l l o f f i n 1987. I n t h a t y e a r , Richmond's L icens ing Dep- ar tment f i n a l l y admi t t ed p u b l i c l y t h a t t h e " b o t a n i c a l garden" (which t h e a r e a i s s t i l l zoned f o r ) had now become "a secondary f e a t u r e " . . . a c t u a l l y t h e garden around which B i l l ' s f a n t a s y was b u i l t was now on ly an accessory t o t h e r e ta i l complex t h a t had grown up so r a p i d l y (and accord ing t o Richmond p l a n n e r s - "unexpectedly") around i t .

I n 1986, j u s t b e f o r e B i l l e l e v a t e d himself t o t h e d i v i n e r i g h t of Prem- i e r s h i p , he s a i d : "When I t h i n k about how i t w i l l a l l come t o g e t h e r , I t h i n k t h e r e must be a Higher Author i ty a t work" ... he showed u s h i s a s t r o l o g y c h a r t & i t i n d i c a t e d he would be e l e c t e d & LO IT CAME TO PASS!

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theme of commercial p e r s o n a l i t i e s . Now, Media Rocks-Off, famous daughte r and deal-maker f o r Scam-You, a c l o s e f r i e n d of t h e l a t e Ferdy Marcos, fo r - mer d i c t a t o r & i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y re- knowned c r i m i n a l , h a s decided t o buy up B i l l ' s d i v i n e l y i n s p i r e d f a n t a s y . .

A t f i r s t s h e s a i d s h e thought s h e might t u r n it i n t o a luxury h o t e l f o r t h e i n t e r n a t i o n a l b u s i n e s s set , b u t when s h e heard i s was s t i l l zoned f o r " b o t a n i c a l gardens", claimed s h e was "undecided".

Miss Rocks-Off s a i d s h e l i k e d t o "play t e n n i s and t a k e p a r t i n aero- bics". She d e s c r i b e d h e r s e l f as " t o t a l l y d e d i c a t e d t o work" bu t "un- a f f e c t e d " by t h e "immense w e a l t h surrounding h e r ."

Scam-You, h e r f a t h e r , who is t h e a c t u a l owner of t h e f a m i l y ' s wea l th ,

. p l a y s h i s p a r t i n t h e d i v i n e l y in- s p i r e d b u s i n e s s by s t a y i n g i n t h e background and manipu la t ing numbers.

A company spokeman s a i d he "loves" t h e number 7 - & t r y s t o i n c o r p o r a t e i ts m y s t i c a l q u a l i t i e s i n t o a l l h i s b u s i n e s s d e a l s .

Lee Cash-In, a n o t h e r weal thy Asian p e r s o n a l i t y who a l s o keeps o u t of s i g h t & u s e s h i s c h i l d r e n a s f r o n t - men, r e c e n t l y snapped up t h e b i g g e s t real e s t a t e b a r g a i n i n North America, buying o u t t h e h e a r t of Vancouver's f u t u r e development.

1t's o f t e n been claimed t h a t he t o o has gained favour w i t h t h e gods by a r i t u a l manipu la t ion o f numbers. L i l l i a n & B i l l ' s Ast rology & " s p e c i a l powers of ESP", L i l l i a n ' s good-luck headbands & B i l l ' s d i v i n e l y i n s p i r e d "Higher Author i ty" a r e c l e a r ind ica - t i o n s t h a t they have a t l e a s t one t h i n g i n common w i t h t h e i r r i c h Asian f r i e n d s - they a l l worship t h e same god: money.

TORA (From a Main & Has t ings Co-op Radio s c r i p t . Heard every 2nd Thrusday.)

Tents . . long s h o r t round and wide.

Chi ldren. . running playing, , laughing. .

a s mothers t r y t o keep them o u t o f t h e wa te r f o u n t a i n

The museum s t a n d s da rk and observan t

P o l i c e t a k e p i c t u r e s from Vancouver Hotel

His to ry being made People i n a t e n t c i t y

i n t h e middle of a bus iness world

Make a p o l i t i c a l s t a tement o f suppor t f o r t h e Mohawks f o r Ind ian l and being s t o l e n .

The cement s t e p s . . covered by tent-canvas . .

a food k i t c h e n w i t h donated food

A f i r e burns i n a 40-gallon drum

The drum b e a t s s o f t l y , s o f t l y , s o f t l y

and t h e p r o t e s t o r s w a i t f o r news.

S h e i l a Baxter -.. SENIORS - Whidby I s l a n d T r i p

S p e c i a l thanks goes o u t t o our d r i v e r , Tony, t o t h e gorgeous s t a f f (Kim & L i s a ) and t o a l l t h e Sen iors who, through t h e i r e f f o r t s , made t h e whole t h i n g p o s s i b l e .

The lunch & d i n n e r were g r e a t ; more food than anyone could eat , and t h e scenery w a s magni f i cen t . It more than made up f o r a l l our s t o p s and s t a r t s .

I hope t h i s t r i p comes around nex t year . It 's t r u l y en joyab le .

George Nicholas Sen iors ' S e c r e t a r y .

- - -- i i s Every move fravght wi th danger . * * T h e Z a l m wanders on... His S + e d "Fantasy" i s an uncertain ally ih .3 His 0- t t le against R e ~ l i t ~ .

Socred Spending Spree Can't Erase Zalm I s sue

By t h e t i m e you read t h i s column, B r i t i s h Columbia could f i n a l l y be i n t o t he o f f i c i a l p rov inc i a l genera l e l e c t i o n .

I say " o f f i c i a l " because t h e Socred re -e lec t ion campaign is a l ready und-

I erway, and i t ' s cos t i ng you dear ly .

I n recent weeks, t h e Socreds have stepped up t h e i r p re -e lec t ion campaign e f f o r t s with an avalanche of taxpayer-funded government adve r t i s i ng , and a '

six-week cab ine t t ou r t h a t everyone recognizes a s a p o l i t i c a l roadshow. Most B r i t i s h Columbians agree t h a t i t ' s t i m e f o r B i l l Vander Zalm t o c a l l

an end t o t h i s expensive phoney campaign and go t o t h e people i n a r e a l general e l e c t i o n .

Perhaps t h e s u r e s t s i g n of an impending vo te i s t h e recent appearance of Socred pa r ty TV adve r t i s i ng . I c e r t a i n l y don ' t q u a r r e l wi th Soc i a l c r e d i t ' s r i g h t t o a d v e r t i s e , and I ' l l leave i t t o o t h e r s t o comment on whether these ads a r e be l ievable .

But I draw t h e l i n e when Vander Zalm uses taxpayers ' money i n an attempt t o buy votes .

Why should t h e people of B .C . have t o pay hundreds of thousands of d o l l a r s f o r endless t e l e v i s i o n and newspaper ads t h a t a r e l i t t l e more than ba re ly disguised Socred propaganda?

And why a r e taxpayers expected t o f inance t h e huge cos t of Vander ~ a l m ' s cur ren t cabinec cour, when i t ' s c l e a r l y p a r t of a re -e lec t ion campaign?

To put these c o s t s i n human terms, t h e repor ted $1 m i l l i o n spent by t h e Socreds t o produce and t e l e v i s e t h e infamous "B.C. News Updates" could be used t o provide much needed h e a r t surgery f o r 100 B r i t i s h Columbians.

I s ince re ly hope t h a t by t h e time you read t h i s , Vander Zalm w i l l have put away the publ ic cheque book and shown some courage b y , c a l l i n g t he pro- v i n c i a l e l e c t i o n .

I f they don't know i t by now, t h e Socreds should r e a l i z e t h a t , above a l l else, t h i s e l e c t i o n is about whether t h e people of B.C. want another four years of B i l l Vander Zalm/

I be l i eve B r i t i s h Columbians want a change i n government, and no l a s t - I

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d i t c h spending sp ree wi th your t a x d o l l a r s can change t h a t f a c t .

By MIKE HARCOURT I

Carmanah

In t h e Carmanah Valley t h e trees are f i v e hundred years o ld , and t h e s i l e n c e i s o l d e r than t h e t r e e s .

How do we know we're l o s t un l e s s w e know t h a t t h e r e ' s a p l ace we've go t t o g e t t o ? What have we fo rgo t t en? We d isappear i n t h i s century. The f o r e s t s d i sappear . I n t e g r i t y d i sappears .

I n t h e Carmanah Valley n o ~ h i n g d i sappears . Everything becomes something e l s e .

W e , who a s c h i l d r e n walked i n t h e company of t r e e s , want t o be ourse lves again. We a r e used by o t h e r s . Danger surrounds us . We a r e used. How can w e b e l i e v e i n j u s t i c e i n t h e c i t i e s when our homes a r e taken from us by those with t e e t h and r egu l a t i ons sharp a s r azo r s?

In t h e Carmanah Valley t h e t r e e s a r e a t home. The smal l s q u i r r e l is a t home. The t r a v e l l e r i s a t home the re .

I n t h e c i t i e s each person is alone. W e a r e opposed t o one another . The golden r u l e i s money.

I n t h e Carmanah Valley che branches of t r e e s embrace us , gen t ly , l i k e a mother.

Carmanah, i n i t s beauty, speaks t o us , and t e l l s u s who w e a r e and ought t o be. Whose vo ice is t h i s which comes from such a d i s t a n c e t h a t we can s ca r ce ly hear i t ?

Pi There was a cime when mystery walked t h e e a r t h . Carmanah w i l l t e l l you. Every l e a f and s t o n e had a purpose. Questions about meaning were unnecessary.

I n che Carmanah Val ley each c r e a t u r e has i t s s p e c i a l s t r e n g t h . Things have a s p i r i t ( i f our eyes a r e open); we s e e t h a t we a r e i n a l i v i n g p l a c e .

How do we know we ' re l o s t un less we know t h a t t h e r e ' s a p l a c e we've go t t o g e t t o ? What have we f o r g o t t e n ? Carmanah, h e l p us .

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Sandy Cameron 1

Dear Fr iends ,

Yesterday, I was walking e a s t on Hast ings S t r e e t when, as I approach- ed t h e e n t r a n c e t o t h e Army & Navy s t o r e , I became aware o f a g a t h e r i n g of people . A 911 ambulance was s t a n - d ing by t h e curb , a n o f f i c e r s i t t i n g i n t h e cab; ano ther appeared from behind t h e ambulance a s I go t t h e r e .

The scene was t h a t of a young wo- man (she appeared t o m e t o be h a r d l y o u t o f h e r t e e n s ) ; s h e was l a y i n g f a c e down on h e r hands, h a l f on h e r s i d e f l a t on t h e pavement, i n t h e doorway. I drew c l o s e r , t o s e e i f s h e was b r e a t h i n g , She w a s , v e r y l i g h t l y . A man came by me, h i s f a c e s c a r r e d and b r u i s e d as i f from a r e c e n t f i g h t , and s a i d roughly t o me " G e t back, you, g i v e h e r space ."

Meanwhile t h e o f f i c e r s tood look ing a t he r . "Why a r e you s t a n d i n g here?" I asked. " I s n ' t is your job t o t a k e h e r away t o a h d s p i t a l ? " H e looked a t me, I thought , i n some d e r i s i o n . l llt 's n o t our j a b t o t a k e h e r t o t h e h o s p i t a l , " he s a i d , c o r r e c t i n g my igr@,rance, "We're w a i t i n g f o r t h e p o l i c e van."

%he may be s i c k , " I answered. "It may be h e l p l i k e t h a t s h e needs. "

"She's drunk," he s a i d a b r u p t l y , and w i t h assurance .

The p o l i c e van a r r i v e d , and s h e w a s helped t o h e r f e e t and l e d t o t h e van. The eyes o f such young people are t e r r i b l e , It seems t o m e t o be a mighty in-

d ic tment of our contemporary s o c i e t y t h a t young people a r e h u r l e d t o t h e ground i n t h i s way by t h e i r exper i - ence of l i f e i n t h i s s o c i e t y . Where they should be t aken , I sugg- e s t , i s t o some kind of half-way house f o r recovery, and a i d i n reha- b i l i t a t i o n and r e s t o r a t i o n of t h e i r s e l f - r e s p e c t .

When I t r i e d t o p r o t e s t thar. t h e r e should be something of t h i s k ind , t h e o f f i c e r looked hard a t m e and s a i d ha rsh ly : "There 's on ly one p o l i c e van i n t h i s p r e c i n c t , and t h e h o s p i t a l d o e s n ' t t a k e them."

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:re's closing: By ELIZABETH CODLEY vincial courts and next door to a needle-exchange

While International Literacy Day festivities promam. was ideal. he says. take dace at Canada Place toda< a mouu of down- - "The frustrating part is that the ~rovince's . - ., - town east side residents will be removing the sign literacy advisory c&hmittee is recommending a

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from a Skid Road learning centre. -.. ,&%$,:;; 2 . .. Shortly after Education Minister Tony Brum- Provincial education ministry ofllcials could no

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unveil a postage stamp; designed to promote Before funds ran out, ~ r a m e r says, the store- literacy, and announce new literacy programs, front boasted a 1,000-volume library, a computer, Donald MacPherson and Mike Kramer will savor study cubicles and file cabinets full of reference the irony that their storefront literacy program, material. the Learning Front at 217 Main, must close for Carnegie Centre, the neighborhood commn lack of fund< centre, is already overcrowded and will have to

Supported by $220,000 from a federal govern- "work really hard now to cover this entire area," ment iob-creation fund. the Learning Front Kramer saw. trainei 11 tutors in its twoyears of existence, says loreovck, the storefront was a comfortable MacPherson, a Carnegie Centre employee who place for women, who sometimes feel intimidated helped get the program off the ground. by the number of men at Carnegie, he says.

But MacPherson says when that money ran out "It was very successful and there were a lot of in May, the provincial government refused the close working relationships between students and $158,000 needed to initiate the second phase of the tutors, which have been severed!' ornicct. Phyllis Starblanket amees. She drdpped out ofa I

Nkn funds would have seen the 11 trained tutors school in Alert Bay at 15; but 10 years i&r, Uving use their new skills to teach reading and writing in the downtown east side, discovered The Learn- skills to other downtown eastsiders. ing Front with friend Margaret Prevost. The two

The neighborhood - centred around Hastings began working toward their Grade 12 diplomas.

I and Main and plagued by alcohol and drug prob- Tutors were friendly and lessons suddenly 1e111s - has a 43-per-centilliteracy rate, according seemed attractive, the women say.

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to Statistics Canada. "Going to school used to always be, 'Oh no, "The need is overwhelming," says MacPherson. another day in school.' But here, it was, like, real

"The whole idea was . . . for this to grow into a exciting. I would come bouncing in every day," storefront learning centre to create employment Starblanket says. % CRAB ~ 0 6 0 ~ ' for the trained tutors." "The way Margaret and I would put it, it was a NO FUNDS: MacPherson and student

The Inration, close to the welfare office, the pro- home away from home for both of us." Phyllis Starblanket

HIDDEN MEANING

Imagine h a i l i n g a t a x i and t h e d r i v e r is a poet . You could s a y , "Te l l m e a poem and t a k e m e t o Costa Rica." As you d r i v e away.

Imagine g e t t i n g i n t o a t a x i where t h e d r i v e r is a r e a l poe t . You could quote Robert Penn Warren wi thout f e e l i n g r i d i c u l o u s : "Driver , do you t r u l y , t r u l y know what f l e s h i s ? "

Imagine g e t t i n g i n t o a t a x i and i t ' s snowy Saskatchewan and t h e poe t has n o t made a d o l l a r . The snow goes on f a l l i n g and now y o u ' r e both s t u c k i n i t ; poe t ry g e t s you nowhere f a s t e r than anything.

Imagine b reak ing i n t o a t a x i and f i n d i n g two p o e t s f rozen t o g e t h e r . You'd look a t one ano ther as i f t h e world had meaning f o r t h e f i r s t t ime, h idden meaning, and wouldn' t i t be a k ind of t e r r i b l e occas ion .

Susan Musgrave

I f you s l i d p a s t t h e f i r s t para- The o f f i c i a l c e l e b r a t i o n / e v e n t s worth l i s t e n i n g t o w a s David Lam, graph wi thou t f e e l i n g even a l i t t l e which happened on I n t e r n a t i o n a l t h e Lieutenant-Governor of B.C. rage a t t h e w r i t e r , r ead it a g a i n . L i t e r a c y Day had l o t s of speakers ~ t ' s d i f f i c u l t t o be p o s i t i v e and For over 17 y e a r s , t h e r e ' s been a and e n t e r t a i n e r s . Performers w i t h eager when t h e s o c r e d s s h u t down concer ted e f f o r t t o change our b r u t a l l y s h o r t b i o g r a p h i e s on t h e one of t h e b e s t p r o j e c t s i n B.C. community from Skid Road t o t h e promotional handouts inc luded J i m Downtown E a s t s i d e . Repor te r s and Byrnes, Sophie B a r j a c , Kathyrn TV and r a d i o con t inue t o l e a v e t h e Bracht , Gerry MacKay, John Gray, b a s i c myths and s t e r e o t y p e s un- Sp ider Robinson and Susan Musgrave, chal lenged and t h i s l a z y e p i t h e t i s whose work appears h e r e . One per- j u s t t o o easy t o use . I f you t h i n k son from Carnegie s a i d t h a t about you l i v e on t h e ' s k i d s ' . . . y o u do. t h e on ly speaker who was r e a l l y

What is Really ~appenin'g to Canada? CITIZENS CONCERNED ABOUT FREE TRADE is a na t iona l , non-partisan a n t i - f r e e t r ade organiza t ion , wi th a membership of about 5000. It began i n Saskat- chewan i n 1985, and f o r t h r e e years p r i o r t o t h e 1988 e l e c t i o n c a r r i e d ou t a massive educa t iona l campaign across the country, t o l e t Canadians know what i s i n t h e Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and how t h e FTA fun- damentally endangers Canada a s an independent na t ion .

CCAFT's na t iona l chairman, David Orchard, a Saskatchewan farmer, spoke from Halifax t o Vancouver, o f t e n t o audiences of over 1000 people (and t o count less Canadians i n TV in te rv iews

, and on open-line rad io shows). H e de- bated some of t h e most aggress ive 11 f r e e trade1' proponents i n t h e coun- t r y , among them John Crosbie, then f e d e r a l t r anspo r t min i s t e r ; John C r i s - po, Toronto economist and prime aca- demic advocate of f r e e t r ade ; Bob An- drew, Saskatchewan's t r a d e min i s t e r ; and Gordon Ri tch ie , Simon Reisman's deputy negot ia tor .

CCAFT d i s t r i b u t e d hundreds of thou- sands of p ieces of l i t e r a t u r e and p r i o r t o t he e l e c t i o n produced a book caliled Free Trade: The F u l l Story, alohg with a videotape of t h e same name, and many o the r video & audio tapes. CCFAT coined t h e slogan NO RA-TIFICATION OF THE FREE TRADE AGREE- MENT WITHOUT A GENERAL ELECTION, and pushed t o have an e l e c t i o n on t h e i s sue when Prime Minis te r Mulroney was determined t o s i g n on t h e dotced l i n e without Canadians having any say i n t h e matter .

In order t o ge t an e l e c t i o n , CCFAT i n i t i a t e d a nation-wide lobby t o have Libera l s ena to r s block t h e Agreement so Mulroney would be forced t o c a l l an e l e c t i o n .

Af t e r t h i s was accomplished and a

s i g n i f i c a n t number (57%) of Canadians voted aga ins t t h e dea l , CCFAT cont in- ued t o lobby t o block t h e passage of t he b i l l i t s e l f - which t h e Senate could have done l e g a l l y and cons t i - t u t i o n a l l y - u n t i l t h e very l a s t mo- ment. CCAFT never conceded t h a t Mul- roney got a mandate t o go ahead wi th t h e dea l . It is cont inuing t o work

t o have t h e F.T.A. abrogated, s o t h a t Canada can t ake i ts r i g h t f u l p l ace on the world s t a g e a s an independent na t ion i n con t ro l of i ts own economy, and the re fo re i t s own des t i ny . Since Spring 1989 CCAFT has put p ressure on the L ibe ra l s and t h e NDP t o form an e l e c t o r a l c o a l i t i o n t o de fea t Mulron- ey i n t he next e l e c t i o n and t o r epea l t he Agreement.

On Saturday, Sept . 8 , David Orchard spoke i n Vancouver. It was r e f r e sh ing t o have someone t rustworthy s t r i p away the smoke & mirrors used by Mulroney and show, po in t a f t e r po in t , how t h e ~ c e d i c t i o n s made on t h e e f f e c t s of t he Agreement a r e now f a c t s .

Companies a r e moving t o t h e S t a t e s f o r lower i n t e r e s t r a t e s , lower c o s t s , no minimum wages i n t h e South, fewer unions; t h e f e d e r a l government c u t s U I , i s removing i t s e l f from Medicare, says nothing about US t a r i f f s on hogs and wheat, dumps the f i s h i ndus t ry i n t o American hands, t u rns a b l i nd eye t o t he l o s s of 140,000 jobs and w i l l make up f o r l o s t t a r i f f revenue (and ease corpora te taxes) v i a a GST s t a r t i n g a t 7% and soon doubling. Pro tec t ion of energy, water and a g r i - c u l t u r a l resources has been l o s t and Canadian s o l d i e r s a r e o f f t o t h e Middle East t o f i g h t f o r American o i l i n t e r e s t s . The Mohawks i n Oka are being punished f o r E l i j a h Harper 's de fea t ing Meech Lake and 30% of Sask. farms a r e threatened with fo rec losu re .

? ! ; Orchard s a i d Mexico is ifhere US and Canadian jnanufacturing i s r e lo - ca t i ng . A lOkm band a l - ong t h e border i s f r e e from t a x r e s t r i c t i o n s and workers a r e paid SIXTY CENTS AN HOUR! (no u n i o c ~ ,no., b e n e f i t s ) t.lexico, l i k e Canada, i s fac ing a se l l -ou t t o mul t i -na t iona ls .

David Orchard was no t "doom & gloom" but was c l eaz : P o l i t i c i a n s have throtm i n t h e towel on 'If reel' t r ade , but we, t he people, must con- t i n u e t o r a i s e aware- ness and f i g h t back.

The FTA has t o be kept i n t h e f o r e f r o n t of a l l i s s u e s i n a l l e lec- t i o n s . I urge everyone

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F O O D F O R T H O U G H T

a l l of us and our community; a s p i r a - tions for the future will be better with input from a l l of us .

,obody can d c anything to heal a planet. The suggestion that any- body could d o so is preposterous. The heroes of abstraction keep galloping in on their white horses

to save the planet - and they keep falling off in front of the grandstand.

What we need, obviously, is a more intelligent -which is tosay, a moreaccurate-description of the problem The description of a problem as "planetary" arouses a motivation for which, of necessity, there is no employment. The adjective "planetary" describes a problem in such a way that it cannot be solved.

In fact, though we now have serious problems nearly everywhere on the planet, we have no problem that can accurately be described as "planetary." And, short of the total annihilation of the human race, there is no planetary solution

There are also no national, state, or country problems, and no national, state, or county solutions

That will-o'-the-wispof the large-scale solution to the large-scale problem, so dear to govern- ments and universities and corporations, serves mostly to distract people h.om the small, private problems that they may in fact have the power to solve.

The problems. ~f we describe them accurately. are all private and small. Or they are so initially

fhc problems are \ I ! : h ~ c s In the ' dcvelopi!c! c i , \ i : , !r ies. ~ j t le;i.;t, t ! ~ . , I.jrgc ~vc~blcrns c.ccur hec-duv all c > f us ,lrr I!:.int. crthcr pr t ! \ 'ivrpilg or

.Irllc.st cn!r:d\ : v r ( w : was not just thegreedof corporate shareholders and the hubris of cor- porate executrves that put the fate of Prince Williams Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that enerm should be cheap and plentiful

Our economies uf comrnunrty and household ,ire wrong The answer.; to thc human problems of ecology are to be found in economy The answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and in character.

TO fail to see this is togoondividing the world ialsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.

The "planetary" versions-the heroic versions -of our problems have attracted great intel- ligence. But these problems, as they are caused and suffered in our lives. our households and our communities, have attracted very little intel- ligence.

1 There are some notable exceptions. A few

people have learned to do a few things better. ~ u t i t is discouraging to reflect that, though we have been talking about mostof our problems for decades, we are still mainly talking a b u t them. We have failed to produce the necessary examples of better ways.

The reason, apparently, is that a change of principles or of talkor of thought is impotent, on its nwn, to change life.

For the most part. the subcultures, the counter- cultures, the dissenters, and the opponents continue mindlessly-or perhaps just helpless- ly - to follow the pattern of the dominant society in its extravagance, its wastefulness, its dependencies and its addictions.

The old problem remains: How do you get intelligence jut of an institution or an organ- ization?

'T t~cque~t im that must be addressc.i, thcrcfor: i.7 I., 1: now tc~ cdre fur the planet, biit ti^:^.^ !(,(.,I, !,:I ~ ~ c t ; ~ I I :he planet's ni~ll!ons ot t i u ~ ; i . ~ : ; r I ~ ~ ~ i :,, ,t;~r'iI r ~ e ~ ~ h k ~ h ~ d ~ . t s d 1 ,>): 115 ~III~I(II~,., ,:I

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c i ~ f f w ~ r i l from all ttita others

Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of ourcompetence-that is, to the wish to preserve all of its humble households and neighborhoods.

What can accomplish this reduction? I will say again, without overweening hope.

but with certainty nonetheless, that only love can do it. Only love can bring intelligence out of the institutions and organizations, where i t ag- grandizes itself, into the presence of the work that must be dnne.

Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to the singular

sparrows of the street, the l~l les of the field. "the least of these my brethren "

Love is not, by its own desire, heroic. It is heroic only when compelled to be. It exists by its willingness to be anonymous, humble, and unrewarded.

The older love becomes, the more clearly it understands its involvement in partiality, imper- fection, suffering, and mortality. Even so, it longs for incarnation. It can live no longer by thinking.

And yet, to put on flesh and do the flesh's work it must think.

Theenvironmentalism of the highly industrial- ized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy.. . We all live by robbing nature.. . but our standard of living . . . demands that tie robbery shall continue.

We must achieve the chdracter and acquire the

skills to live much poorer than we do. iseither that or continue merely to think and talk a b u t changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make.

I am not trying to mislead you, or myself, about the gravity of our situation. I think that we have hardly begun to grasp the seriousness of the mess we are in.

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists We believe, apparently, in the infinite availablity of finite resources We persist in land use methods that reduce the potentially infinite power of soil fertility to a finite quantity-wh~ch we then proceed to waste as i f it were an infinitequantity We havean economy that depends, not upon the quality '~nd quantity of necessabf goods dnd services, but on the moodsof a few stockbrohers We belleve that democratic freedom can be

preserved by people ignorant of the history of democracy, and indifferent to the responsibilities of freedom

Our leaders believe that the difference between war and peace is still the overriding political difference-when, in fact, the difference is dim- inished to the point of insignificance. HOW would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between, say, stripmining and bombing, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems

to beonly that In war thevictimlzat~onot humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" a s a *'trade-off."

Were the catastrophes of Love Canal. Bhopal. Chemobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were, in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

Our ~ndustrial accidents, sc-~;illed should be lcokecl uFmi a s revenges of h:,iture We forget thcit Nature 1s necessarily pjriy to all our enter- prl\t+ 2nd that she impose< cc~ncj~tions of her o w

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human economy apart horn Nature, or in defiance of Nature

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Make a home Help to make a community Be loyal to what you have made

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I R I S H ? - THAT'S NOT A LANGUAGE!!!

A language is t h e s p i r i t o f i t s people . I n t h e language is embedded t h e i r b e l i e f s , t h e i r p e r s o n a l i t y , t h e i r p e r s p e c t i v e on t h e world; i t s l o s s d e p r i v e s them of p a r t of themselves and i t s r e c l a m a t i o n can r e t r i e v e some of t h a t l o s t c u l t u r a l i n s i g h t , b u i l d new p r i d e and f o s t e r a f e e l i n g o f u n i t y and r i i t e d n e s s . Nat ive peop les throughout t h e world are r e a f f i r m i n g t h e i r i d e n t i e s t h r u t h e r e v i v a l o f t h e i r language, r e l i - g ion and c u l t u r a l a c t i v i t i e s . Th i s r e v i v a l i s happening i n I r e l a n d a s w e l l , norch and s o u t h , and among t h e I r i s h d i a s p o r a everywhere.

Discover your r i c h h e r i t a g e , b e you f i r s t g e n e r a t i o n I r i s h o r t e n t h . Enjoy weekly meet ings o f language, music, and dance c l a s s e s . Help u s b u i l d t h e c u l t u r a l community of t h e I r i s h abroad.

Combaltas C e o l t o i r i E i reann is an Eire-based i n t e r n a t i o n a l o rgan iza - t i o n d e d i c a t e d t o I r i s h c u l t u r e . I n Vancouver w e a r e a p r e s e n t l y s m a l l group of r e g u l a r s who welcome t h e a d d i t i o n of new members t o t h e f o l d . Membership i s $ 1 2 p e r y e a r , c l a s s e s a r e f r e e , and t h e r e is a nominal f e e f o r m a t e r i a l s . Learn and c o n t r i b u ~ e t o o u r l e a r n i n g . P lay some t u n e s and en joy t h e c r a c k ( 6 wisecracks ! ) .

C l a s s e s each Wednesday, w i t h I r i s h a t 7 p.m. and music o r danc ing be- g inn ing a t 8:30 p.m.

For more i n f o , c a l l 879-2849 o r j u s t show up a t The I r i s h Cen t re , 7 7 1 P r i o r S t . , becween Main and Clark D r . , Vancouver.

u s and t h e youcl l of t h i s c o u n t r y . IJe s a w ,$, ,, che Depress ion and t h e youth d o n ' t want ' t o s e e one. We no l o n g e r l i v e i n a demo- /,, . "@' (p,,< c r x y . hat bloddy Plulroney ."

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September 6 , 1990, I was w i t h my g i r l - f r i e n d Sim and buddy Mike a t a r a l l y on Georgia S t . t o s u p p o r t t h e Mohawks i n Oka. One s p e a k e r came up and announced a journey t h e y a r e t a k i n g a c r o s s Canada. I immediately saw o v e r 4000 kms th rough the windsh ie ld o f a 1973 Ford pickup as I remembered a s i m i l a r journey . E x a c t l y one month back I h i t t h e TransCanada Highway w i t h SCRAP IT , a g r a s s r o o t s org-

- a n i z a t i o n t h a t w a s t r y i n g t o u n i t e Cana- I d i a n s and e d u c a t e them on t h e e v i l s of

t h e G.S.T. W e v i s i t e d 42 towns and c i t i e s between Vancouver and Ottawa. It took Ralph Conner and I 9;s days of l o n g , hard t r a v e l l i n g and p r o t e s t i n g . It was u n f o r t u n a t e t h a t Benny White ( t h e main man of SCRAP IT) t u r n e d around i n Saska t - chewan. It w a s a v e r y s p e c i a l journey . We got some f r e e g r o c e r i e s i n Hope, BC, a man i n Cache Creek gave u s a sample of h i s smoked salmon, and i n Regina t h e owner of t h e camps i te w e s t a y e d i n d i d n ' t even c h a r g e u s . W e g o t p l e n t y o f news coverage a l o n g t h e way; e s p e c i a l l y i n Regina and on t h e r a d i o i n Winnipeg and Saul t S t e . Marie.

People from a c r o s s t lw l a n d a r e abso- l u t e l y f r u s t r a t e d w i t h t h e GST and Br ian

/ Mulroney. Some p e o p l e o f f e r e d guns and j b u l l e t s t o blow Mulroney away. One chap ' i n Deep R i v e r , Ont . , s a i d , "It would s u i t m e j u s t f i n e i f you d rove your t ruck r i g h t th rough Wilson 's of •’ice!"

People were most r e c e p t i v e i n s m a l l towns l i k e Cluny, A l t a . , Maple Ridge,

S a s k . , Virden, Man., and on and on. The s e n i o r s I met had t h e r i g h t i d e a :

' 'It's t ime f o r t h e b i g guys t o l i s t e n t o

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/ t i o n s . P r o v i n c i a l and F e d e r a l o f f i c i a l s znd s t d f f wouldn ' t s i g n ; media peop le and a l l l e v e l s of p o l i c e wouldn ' t s i g n (excep t f o r two O.P.P. i n t h e S a u l t who took o u r I . D . and checked u s o u t ) . People p l e a d i n g ignorance t o t h e GST wouldn ' t s i g n , even though we t r i e d t o e x p l a i n i t t o them.

We had g r e a t weather a l l t h e way ac- r o s s , which made camping i n t h e bush wi thou t a t e n t much e a s i e r . I t was s t i l l c o l d a t n i g h t s o I needed a n e x t r a wool b l a n k e t .

Ralph & I b a s i c a l l y l i v e d o u t of t h e back of t h e t r u c k , e a t i n g sandwiches and f r u i t from a c o o l e r . It made f o r conven- i e n t e a t i n g , b e i n g a b l e t o p u l l over and make food i n t h e middle of nowhere.

Along t h e way we met a man named Geo. Deveau who w a s r i d i n g a mountain b i k e from Calgary t o Ottawa. He had 40,000 p e t i t i o n s t o c o l l e c t and d e l i v e r t o t h e Sena te i n Ottawa. We met Gary and J o a n i e McGuf f i n i n Marathon, Ont . They'd j u s t f i n i s h e d a 6,000 m i l e journey a l o n g t h e r i v e r s and s t r e a m s of Canada. They wro te a book c a l l e d Where R i v e r s Run, which i s doing v e r y w e l l f o r them.

I n S a u l t S t e . Marie t h e r e a r e l o t s of problems. Algoma S t e e l c o n t a c t e d some 4,000 employees and t o l d them n o t t o come t o work f o r t h e door w i l l be l o c k e d . When we v i s i t e d t h e Uni ted S t e e l w o r k e r s Union o f f i c e , everybody was wor r ied abou t

f a l l o f t h e town. because of t h e : ~ r u s t r i k e and t h e Soo 's dependence on Algoma S t e e l employment. I t ' s a h e l l u v a mess!

When we f i n a l l y reached Ottawa we pre- pared o u r p r e s e n t a t i o n f o r t h e Execu t ive A s s i s t a n t t o t h e Leader of t h e L i b e r a l P a r t y S e n a t e . Loca l t e l e v i s i o n w a s t h e r e a s we handed o v e r some 700 p e t i t i o n s rep- r e s e n t i n g 9 days o f p e ~ i t i o n i n g a l o n g t h e TransCanada. I f w e had s t a y e d 3 o r 4 d a y s i n each town, we'd have had 3 o r 4 t i m e s t h a c amount. When I watched t h e news t h a t n i g h t t h e GVC l o c a l news s t a t i o n a i r e d t h e s t o r y a s f o l l o w s : "One man, Ralph Conner, journeyed from Vancouver t o d e l i v e r p e t i -

! t i o n s he had gathered along the TransCana- da Highway. A r ep resen ta t ive from the Sen- a t e was t h e r e t o g ree t him."

Now I ' m not out f o r g lo ry o r immortal i ty but they could have mentioned t h a t I was the re a l l t he way along with Ralph. The r epor t e r , Nancy Rose, must have l e f t my name out because she d i d n ' t want her name associa ted with the p r o t e s t . . . she a l s o l e f t out everything I to ld her : the condi t ions , running with the Natives i n Saskatchewan, the Carnegie Centre, the feedback we re- ceived from people along the way, almost g e t t i n g k i l l e d when Ralph f e l l a s l eep a t the wheel - everything - and they weren' t even i n t e r e s ~ e d . I ' d say the r epor t e r s i n Ottawa were the snobbies t of t h e l o t . A t

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l e a s t I ' v e got a det-aj . l .4 :journa:l. of t he t r i p t h a t I hope Lo publ i sh soon.

So I bid everyone going t o Oka on t h e i r convoy the bes t of luck . I was asked by the organizers t o cag along but I j u s t c a n ' t go back on the road. I went back & f o r t h i n 3 weeks - t h a t ' s a l o t of t r ave l l . ing.

Canada is a huge country but the ravages of f r e e t r a d e and Meech a r e not hidden. The s c a r s of the PC government a r e t e r r i b l y v i s i b l e . It is our job, a l l of us, t o s t i c k together and t o work together . We c a n ' t be separated by small differences. .we have t o keep f a i t h i n each o the r and each do what we can t o win over our present oppressors .

By STEVE ROSE

A real s e n s e o f community deve loped o v e r c h e weekend b e c a u s e o f he m w i c f e s t i v a l s . On September 2nd, t h e Lacin-Nat ive f r i e n d s h i p e v e n t t o o k p l a c e a t Oppenheimer P a r k and i t was wonder fu l t o see t h e weatherman cO- o p e r a t e .

I had watched p e o p l e p r e p a r i n g f o r he f e s t i v a l i n advance , e s p e c i a l l y ~ h e p a i n t i n g of a m u r a l . The re seemed t o b e a g r e a t d e a l o f e x c i t e m e n t i n t h e a i r . There was a v a r i e t y o f mus- i c i n c l u d i n g Native drumming, Sou th American songs and some o f o u r e n t e r - t a i n e r s f rom he C a r n e g i e C a b a r e t .

Everyone seemed c o b e h a v i n g a g r e a t t i m e and a p p r o x i m a t e l y 600 p e o p l e were g i v e n f r e e f o o d . I accep- t e d a n award on b e h a l f o f t h e C a r n e g i e S e n i o r s from Wardance. T h i s b e a u t i f u l c a r v i n g was i n a p p r e c i a t i o n o f t h e d o n a t i o n s t h e S e n i o r s have g i v e n t h e C u l t u r a l S h a r i n g Group, which meets e v e r y Monday e v e n i n g i n t h e T h e a t r e .

We remembered o u r B r o t h e r s and S i s - t e r s i n Quebec and g i v e them o u r p r a y e r s and s u p p o r t . Everyone i s asked t o w r i t e t o P remie r Bouras sa & Prime M i n i s t e r Nulroney, t e l l i n g them we a r e n o t p l e a s e d w i t h t h e way t h e y h a n d l e Nacive i s s u e s . They c o n t i n u - a l l y blame t h e v i c t i m s . The Mohawk

s i t u a t i o n r eminds m e o f a v o l c a n o which h a s been dormant f o r y e a r s and f i n a l l y e r u p t s b e c a u s e o f t h e t e r r i b l e f o r c e which c a n no l o n g e r b e s u p p r e s s e d .

The a n n u a l C a r n e g i e Music F e s t i v a l o c c u r r e d a t CRAB P a r k o n September 3 . ,

There were many g i f t e d m u s i c i a n s , f rom 9-82 y e a r s o l d . Our e n t e r t a i n e r s

i n c l u d e d J o e S a u r i e l , Murray Bark- house , Leonard Matthews, Rob P a l c h e s , Ba rba ra J a c k s o n , B J a m , Dave's Not Here, V i o l e t Bes ton , Bharb Gudmundson, Delia C a r p e n t e r , Wayne Schmidt , Baron Von Fokker and Roo t s Roundup.

V i o l e t Bes ton is 8 2 and a m a r v e l l - o u s p i a n o p l a y e r . She e n j o y s e v e r y t y p e o f music , i n c l u d i n g r o c k n R o l l and s t a y e d u n t i l t h e v e r y end . T h e r e was a l s o N a t i v e drumming. . the b e s t !

Another 600 p e o p l e were f e d a t t h i s f e a s t and no one went away w a n t i n g more. I o n l y w i s h we c o u l d have more of o u r programs i n t h e p a r k s i n t h e summer.

Thanks t o a l l o f t h e o r g a n i z e r s and v o l u n ~ e e r s who made t h e s e two v e r y s u c c e s s f u l e v e n t s p o s s i b l e . I

AS I l i s t e n e d t h i s morning t o Pre- m i e r Robert Bourassa o f t h e p rov ince of ~ u e b e c calmly announcing h i s dec- i s i o n t o c a l l upon t h e Canadian Army t o b r i n g t h e Mohawk People t o terms, and r e p l y i n g t o t h e q u e s t i o n i f t h i s

1 could mean bloodshed, I was reminded / of t h e p a r a l l e l between t h e Canadian i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of democrat ic govern- ment and a p a r t h i e d i n South A f r i c a

jas vo iced by t h e Quebec premier .

j What w a s Bourassa ' s answer t o t h e d q u e s t i o n ? As I unders tood i t , he

s a i d t h a t t h e r e cou ld n o t be two l e g a l sys tems i n one coun t ry ; t h a t the Mohawk peop le had armed them- elves i n s l lppor t o f a l e g a l system,

land customs f lowing from t h a t , d i s - l t i n c t from t h a t o f f e d e r a l Canada as a whole. There fore Quebec had call-

i ed upon t h e f e d e r a l government t o send i n t h e Army t o i n t e r v e n e i n t h e Oka blockade s e t up by Mohawk warr-

' i o r s who had announced t h a t they would defend t h e i r p o s i t i o n s t o t h e death .

What Premier Bourassa l e f t unsa id aas t h e f a c t o f c e n t u r i e s - l o n g sup- lpress ion of t h e Nat ive Peoples of 'Canada by European i n v a d e r s who, s i n c e t h e i r occupa t ion , have promul- gated t h e i r own s o c i a l o r d e r and pursued a p o l i c y o f genocide a g a i n s t t h i s l a n d ' s a b o r i g i n a l peop les . The e f f e c t s have reduced Nat ives t o pov- e r t y , economic d i s a s t e r and what amounts t o c o n s t r a i n t w i t h i n sh r ink- ing boundar ies under terms d i c t a t e d by a f o r e i g n power. Th is i s imper- i a l i s t i c s u b j u g a t i o n of a co lon ized People, a d e n i a l of human and c i v i l r i g h t s c o n s i s t e n t w i t h a democrat ic approach t o t h e s o l u t i o n o f s o c i a l and economic problems and, i n s h o r t , is i n c o n s i s t e n t w i t h a c c e p t i b l e s tandards of c i v i l i z e d behaviour .

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What i s t h e r e c i p e being pu t i n t o p r a c t i c e h e r e ? Bru te f o r c e and economic cunning have reduced people t o degraded l i v i n g c o n d i t i o n s , de- p r i v a l of t h e t r a d i t i o n a l means of c a r r y i n g on t h e i r l i v e l i h o o d and, f i n a l l y , t h e r e i s a r e a d i n e s s t o shoo t them down i n co ld blood i f they do n o t a c q u i s c e i n t h e i r own e x t i n c t i o n .

Can Canadians s t a n d by and l e t t h i s happen t o t h e i r Nat ive Bro thers and Sisters, t h e f i rst c i t i z e n s ?

The f e d e r a l government, t o my mind i n a h o r r i b l y q u e s t i o n a b l e c o n s t i - t u t i o n a l e v a s i o n of r e s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r a c i v i l s e t t l e m e n t o f t h e i s s u e s a t d i s p u t e , has handed s e t t l e m e n t over t o t h e Army a t t h e r e q u e s t of t h e Bourassa government of Quebec. This is a weasel ing o u t of m a t t e r s and s e t s a dangerous precedent of subserv ience of pa r l i amenta ry auth- o r i t y t o t h e Army a s f i n a l a r b i t o r s i n i n t e r n a l d i s p u t e s .

H i s t o r y and j u s t i c e l a y w i t h t h e Mohawks and a l l a b o r i g i n a l peoples who s h a r e t h e i r exper iences a t t h e hands o f t h e f e d e r a l government.

By BEATRICE FERNEYHAUGH

My name i s Helen.

I have been a s t u d e n t i n t h e Learning Cent re f o r two years . I have l e a r n e d t o read and w r i t e i n Engl ish . I w i l l h e l p Chinese people who c a n ' t speak e n g l i s h t r a n s l a t e .

When I have l e a r n e d more I c a n 8 h e l p a l i t t l e now any t ime some .one needs me. I hope I w i l l be a b l e t o do t h i s .

Helen Lim

space f o r those b lack and whi te an- th ropo log ies of l i v i n g , a s i f a l l un- c l e a r e d f e r t i l i t y were a n o b s t a c l e course , an armored d i v i d i o n of su r - f a c e s i n t o indecypherable n e c e s s i t i e s .

There was, e v e n t u a l l y , no th ing t o do bu t t a k e it a l l down, whatever t h e hands could g e t t o , and impose some- t h i n g less f o r e i g n .

I n d i f f e r e n c e opens t h e space f p r a t r o c i t i e s t o breed. Something a- bout p ioneers , t h e s p i r i t i n para- no ia s c r i p p i n g a land t o conform t o one ' s own body of n e c e s s i t i e s , o n e ' s t r a n s p o r t e d e x p e c t a t i o n s , something i n t h e p r e s s u r e t o f i t p r e c a r i o u s d e s i r e s i n t o p l a c e t h a t i s v i o l e n t l y s t r a n g e because one does n o t s e e i t , on ly t h e p o t e n t i a l i n i t t o be yoked t o o t h e r p r a c t i c e s a f t e r much a t t e n - t i o n , i s s t i l l a c t i v e i n t h i s l and .

A s i n g l e l i n e of reasoning can be t r a c e d from t h e conquering pass ion t o impose r i g h t down through t h e ages of decep t ion t o t o d a y ' s war, today ' s b a r r i c a d e s .

I n a p l a c e always p i c t u r e d i n mind as something dangerous w i t h hidden i n t e n t i o n s , t h e world e x i s t s o n l y i n i t s r e s i s t e n c e s , is heard o n l y i n I i t s thunder ing.

Today I h e a r thunder , something dark from t h e woods, something angry from t h e mountains.

I n popular l i t e r a t u r e , t h e p ioneer is s e t up as a hero, though t h e i r imagined h o r r o r s made them savage, and they ended up, o u t of d read , b u i l d i n g t h e s t r u c t u r e s t h e y had t r i e d t o f l e e from. They were un- conscious of what grew wi ld h e r e , knew on ly i t s v a s t appearance, i ts ominous v i s a g e , and even t h e i r dreams were enc losed , fenced. Every day opened w i t h t h e i r s q u a r e s , t h e i r p ic - t u r e s , s t r u n g a c r o s s t h e n e a r l y ev- e n t l e s s landscape. They were dy ing t o f o r g e t what w a s b e f c r e , and when i t broke back i n t o consc iousness , i t seemed a v i o l e n c e t h r e a t e n i n g anarchy. s t u p i f y i n g c l a r i t y of thunder t h a t e n t e r s a dream of v a s t competence

a f t e r t h e anarchy of t h e s e n s e s t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p of r e s o l v e

i n t h i s s e c u l a r Pen tecos t of t h e l o s t and found

t h e thunder of v o i c e s being s imple , honest

By DAN FEENEY

MESSAGE FROM THE MOHAWK PEOPLE: -.%mazz

. . . . - With peacefvl hearts and tranquil minds, the L i e k e h a k a people await the violent assaults promised by the racist governments of Br i a~ Mulroney and Robert Bourassa. p u r peace and tranquility flows from the knowledge that se have followed our law and worked for peace wit' all of our mights. Now that war is being forced upon us, we will turn our hearts and minds to war and i t too will wage with all of our might. Ours is a just and honorable position. I t flows our laws and our way. Our enemies have no such honor. They have no such commitment to the principles of peace and justice based on truth ad the etpality of a living things. Our strength of heart, mind and spirit flows from these principles. As we stand before the darkest enemies of humanity and the nobility of all life, we are unafraid. Our spirits are strong. We are together at last with ourselves and the world of ancestors; we are proud before our children and our generations unborn. We are true to the spirits of our past, We are t rue to the spirits of our present. We are true to the spirits of those unborn. We are free. No yoke of white government oppression can contain us. We are free. 'IXLEPHONE YOUR SUPPORT TO: Mohawk Nation Office Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy Kahnawake Branch Tel: 514-6384750 Fax: 514-638-1892 h l esatake Branch 'l'el: 514-4 79-6353 Fax: 634479-3355

MESSAGE FROM THE UNION OF B.C. INDlAtJ CHIEF We must do all we can VERY QUICKLY to prevent the military from using violence against our Mohawk brothers and sisters a t Kanesatake and Kahnawake. Many citizens from our B.C. First Nations are also behind the bamcades a t Oka. We want to insure their safety too.

rUHGE YOU TO CALL T~IE-E~LLOWIN'~ XMXXDIATELE Prime hlinister Mulroney: 613-992-4211 Premier Robert Bourassa: 4 18-843-5321 Indian AfTairs Minister Tom Siddon: 604-666-4500 / 604-273-1578 Justice Minister Kim Campbell 604-666-8888 / 613-992-2143 Defense Minister Bill McKnight: 613-995-8082 Dept. of Indian Affairs Shirly Martin: 613-996-5376 Speaker of the House John Fraser 613-992-5042

DE3lAND THE RECALL OF PARLIAhTENT

Ul'DA'I'E: C I W Access

B r i e f l y , t h e Plain Sc . overpass makes Crab Park i n a c c e s s i b l e t o t h e d i s - ab led , s e n i o r s , m o ~ h e r s wich infancs . . .most of us . Joan Meis te r launch- ed a Human R i g h ~ s c a s e a g a i n s t t h e f e d e r a l gov- ernment.

For almost 2 y e a r s a c i t y h a l l committee has worked t o exhaust a l l o p t i o n s and has chosen a p e d e s t r i a n overpass a t Columbia & Alexander a s t h e b e s t way i n & o u t w i t h f ree - s t and ing e l e - v a t o r s a t each s i d e .

Joan w i l l be meet ing wi th K i m Campbell; t h e Mayor w i l l meer. Camp- b e l l and t h e P o r t Cor- p o r a t i o n . The f e d s want Joan t o drop h e r c a s e , because when she wins i t w i l l s e t a precedent i n Canada, making t h e f e d s r e s p o n s i b l e f o r provid- i n g accep t i b l e a c c e s s . A l l c h i s i s proceeding.

Carnegie S e n i o r s have proposed chac ill Beach and /I50 Gastown buses extend t h e i r rouces t o go through Crab Park & people l i k e che i d e a . . excepc f o r Don Larson. Larson s a i d it was I I nonsense, r i d i c u l o u s , . . . p o l i t i c a l l y s t u p i d " eo a s k BC T r a n s i t t o provide immediate acc- e s s . Th i s was r i g h t a f - t e r say ing "we've been p a t i e n t b u t we ' re n o t going t o w a i t 3-5 y r s . f o r a courc d e c i s i o n . I '

Who's f i g h t i n g whom?

Oka & Surv iva l f o r Natives

Since t h e OKA c r i s i s i n e a r l y Ju ly t h i s summer has had i ts ups and downs emotionally. It 's shown t h e f r u s t r a - t i o n of Native people everywhere i n regards t o t h e term 'Aboriginal Rights ' .

The Mohawks have a c la im t h a t che government of Quebec r e fu se s t o ac-

knowledge. They haven ' t jusc made demands without looking a t both s i d e s of t h e i s s u e and have been w i l l i n g t o come t o terms. The p r i n c i p l e of t h e Mohawk s tand has been t h a t t h e Po l i ce had no bus iness opening f i r e upon them i n t h e f i r s t p lace .

'We a r e a People who have an i d e n t i t and f o r thousands of years we have governed our own way of l i v i n g , i n a l l a spec t s of su rv iva l . Today w e a r e s t i l l here , d e s p i t e years of neg l ec t and abuse of a l l types from both pro- v i n c i a l and f e d e r a l governments."

Time and time aga in t h e pub l i c and t h e p o l i t i c i a n s have t o be confronted t o remind them of t h e i r mistakes . . . which seem t o be taken as a s u r p r i s e . . t o hear it from Premier Zalm.

SURE! We r ece ive so-cal led handouts from t h e g o v e r n m e n t s . . ~ ~ do non- na t i ve s . What about a l l t he se d i f f - e r e n t n a t i o n a l i t i e s t h a t a r e e n t e r i n g t h e country..how much $$$ i s spen t t o house, feed and teach t he se people

The term "Reservation" was i n t r o - duced by government; w e d i d n ' t re- quest i t . We were put on t he se use- l e s s p l o t s and our o r i g i n a l l ands w e r e taken over by governments and m u n i c i p a l i t i e s now abound. Non-native say we've go t i t easy . . I t o t a l l y d i s - agree. These "reservat ions" a r e no t what you'd c a l l prime land and, a s B i l l Wilson says , t h e Department o f Indian A f f a i r s must be d i scarded be- cause of t h e t o t a l f a i l u r e of t h e i r approach t o Ind ian i s sues .

I wonder about t h e f e e l i n g s of t h e ones who stoned t h e Mohawk caravan, t h e one wi th women and c h i l d r e n t r y - ing t o l e ave f o r s a f e t y reasons. I was shocked t o s e e t h a t on t h e news and thought "Who a r e t he se people?" They should a l s o pay f o r what was witnessed by mi l l i ons .

My hope is f o r a peacefu l s o l u t i o n f o r t h e Mohawks and f o r o t h e r block- ades set up i n t h e i r support .

By DARRYL, WATTS