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CHORUS : THIS FARM IS YOUR PARK, This Park is my park From the railway tracks, Down to the water, From the Main Street overpass Down to Carrall Street, This park was made for you and me

(* last chorus, replace this1 with CRAB)

As I went strollint on down to Crab Park I heard somewhere a happy meadowlark, He seemed to sing directly to me - "Hey, this park was made for you and me." * The air is fresh here; the grass is so green, And sometimes even wild geese can be seen. And you won't seem rude if you seek solitude, This park was made for you and me. * We strolled and ambled; we romped and gambolled, We pitched our tents down by the sea, We stayed there all night to prove we were right, This park was made for you and me. - * And now wesve got it, so letss enjoy it,

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Let's work together; let no one spoil it, 'Cause we know this is how it should be, CRAB Park was made for you and me. *

Lyrics by Gerry Bee

PRISON JUSTICE DAY

OLD-TIMERS KNOW

STRIKE IT RICH

THE WALLS OF JERICHO C.R.A.B. CCMWNITY OPENING - 1,000 EAT OFFICIAL CALLS FOR CO-OPERATION, THEN NAMES IT PORTSIDE PARK!

2 FROM YHE EDIIXIW'S DESK - .-

DIVINE RIGHT - momtal humans could impose their will on others because of who their parents were, In ancient times, blood royal was the kindling flame to impart faith by-the-sword, tc e x x t ~bedimce c=. s~bsey?.~iexe to bloodlines stretching back into the mists of antiquity. The Pope of the Catholic Church,

for centuries, claimed Papal Infall- ibility. Richard Nixon got a Born- Again Minister to preach that Nixon ruled by the Grace of God. In today's world, this power must

be acquired through what is called democracy, on paper. But the origin of governmental authority is ostens- ibly based on the morality of the 'better human", and it is to this spiritual ideal that actions of lea- ders are measured. There are eleven senses enjoyed by

humans: sight, sound, touch, taste and smell; balance, loss, prescience, humour, intuition and common sense. The last two strengthen and evolve in the face of struggle and oppress- ion. Like when election by a larger number of votes dictates leadership ability. This system belies the quest ion of who votes and ivbt mind- numbing techniques are used to fos- ter negative choices. The continu- ous result is positions of power ' held by avaricious, dishonest, self- idealized individuals to whom moral- ity is somebody's religious hangup; to whom the term amoral is right on.

The Downtown Eastside is a real community. .unique in the talent and ability bf members to survive. The rights to have good food, adequate shelter, proper clothing, education- al opportunities and medical aid are common to all humanity, yet each of these basic necessities are limited l

or rendered unacceptable by bureau- cratic red tape or non~existence. The minimum standards of those in 1

authority are so far above the daily I

reality of those at the bottom of the economic slag heap -the cod?- tions of minimum income existence -

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t h i s real i ty is locked +n a steel box when it comes to decisions to spend $4.7 (or was it $47 million on the Popebs visit; losing $159 million on highway construction; to put $4,000 million out for nuclear submarines or. . . . The morality of this dichotomy

escapes me. PAUL TAYZOR

Joseph Stalin, after causing the i deaths of 62 million ~eo~le. . . I "One death is a tragedy;'a million

deaths is a statistic." - - P ,

Dear Readers, A few folks have indicated that I

they don't feel I have the proper qualifications to be Pope. I have to state that I obviously

have stellar Papal qualifications. I 've never been married, I 've never had an abortion and I never read books. So what's the problem?

Yrs, Truly,

Sam Slanders

THE TURGID MIASMA OF EXISTENCE

So, he said amidst his fog (and everyone knew at this particular time in his years everything was too much) Can I unload my heartache on someone else? he quietly asked, and amidst a wall of paranoia and fear arose a strange stench; as the good people listening quickly ducked away from themselves and from him. Was he the bearer of a harsh life?, the people thought, as they shuffled away as quickly as possible, if not sooner! Well, who needs a friend with a broken heart, the people thought. He's of no use to us, they pointed ... A broken heart mends, all the people did say, but, the people obviously weren't in the mending business.

How quickly the people forget their own broken hearts!

but the good(?) people collectively and individually understood their own fragile condition, and really couldn't risk helping too much, or helping at all...

Later, the young man's fog did lift, the heartache did mend, but he got better on his own - but - The learning about people and knowledge of peoples' ways

was also his alone. How could he share his knowledge, when all the people had gone away again.

Perhaps, he thought, the people are in the business of being long gone away: ,

and he, feeling like Sherlock in a novel he never wrote, never read, never been a past of, and never would.

Dave McConnell

To the Mayor and Aldermen:

I t is the charge and duty of the Carnegie Community Centre Ass'n t o bring t o your attention the follow- ing: that the policy adopted by City Council i n regard t o access to CRAB Park is not helping t o solve the real problem - the dilemma presented by the overpass route a t Main and Alexander s t ree ts .

Since the City, i n i ts inf in i te wisdom, has decided that taxiing disabled persons is best a s a (tem- porary?) solution.. . this ignores the many elderly and families with very young children who must st i l l make the i r arduous t rek up Mount Crab.

What common sense should dictate i s the creation of a more : avail- able access a t a secondary location aimed STRICTLY t o serve pedestrians and disabled people.

The f i r s t p r ior i ty for residents i s siripk zii6 4 i i - e ~ t access, best with the reopening of the old under- pass a t the foot of Columbia Street. The present route is primarily for vehicular t r a f f i c and only th i s seg- ment of users can do so easily.

Further, the t a x i service for people i n v~heelchairs w i l l stop a t the end of the summer and a l l local residents w i l l be back a t square on

We fervently hope that yourself and Council members w i l l see the logic of reopening the underpass,

Ju l ien- Joseph Levesque , Corresponding Secretary.

CRAB Park is going t o the dogs ... I f ee l rather disappointed in

the Parks Board concerning C.R.A.B. as I helped a l l the way to get t h i s park.

Now, I feel the marsh for the birds 3s not protected and may be just a loss , There is no security and people with dogs are real ly taking advantage of th is .

Everyday, when I take a walk there, I see dogs messing and urinating around the benches and on the beach. These dog owners think i ts great sport t o watch the i r pets chase the geese away.

I am an animal lover and have a strong feeling for dogs, but th i s is a peoplest park and should be posted "No Dogs." I have talked t o other people down there and they agree with me.

Downtown in a c i t y is hard on a dog as it is, but i t ' s much harder nn --.-.-In PDAD < F n wow- mnm "-2 VIA VLU-VJ.~. . . uluw J.J u LU L L gLlrl u l L u

should be fo r people. -

I f i t , s not posted, they should change the 'BE i n the name to a ' P I ,

but everybody would say that ' s crap , David W. Todd

The trees leaning over the circular fountain, Leaves silvered in 1 iquid 1 ight , That bubbled, danced, glittered Thru the rising water, Reflected - the wire benches where in quiet repose, Lay a derelict st i l l as death.

The lovers came from Theatres and restaurants, Laughing past the s t i l l as death man - To sit by the tumbling water.

Words of love muted Eyes shining with promises of tomorrows that follow tonight. ' I 1 1 - - . r r A A ~ G L U V G L J r c a v c ,

Shimmering upstream thru dawn light ... Enters a man, To stand a t the cold water.. washing the sleeve and front of his coat - over and over -

in madly graceful r i tual

Satisfied with his ablutions, Retires to the trees. Ringing the benches, where, with closed f i s t , He begins t o beat on a maple.. (which offers no resistance)

The cop in the Parked Cruiser : obviously not The Vigilante of Vegetation.. continues writing reports ... As I t ry to sew These Events together, with a thread of words, The water f a l l s f l a t and sti l l , The light f l i e s even faster.. The derelict on the bench, In a s i n ~ ~ l a r l y hrFrl comment, Proves his v i ta l i ty with an abrupt Explosion of gas. ,

He and I both know that there is Always Someone somewhere, '

who turns off the lights.

Tom Lewis

Dear Mr. Slanders, I was happy to Rear of your run-

ning for the Pope of the Downtown [ Eastside. 1 That is just what we need down 1,

here, as we have everyone else, including Ralph Caravetta and Tony Seavers. Should you need any help in any

way, please don't hesitate to ask. Myself and family will be there at your beck and call.

Yours,

The Godfather of Skid Row

Let Me Bring You b v e 1

I can fee l your thoughts wash over me, l i ke waves upon the sand,

Each one drawing my thoughts nearer, reaching for my hand.

And then I f ee l you pul l away, tugging as you go,

Taking what you gave t o me, afrakd to l e t it show,

Has l i f e been tha t hard on you? Not give^ any good?

Cantt you take a chance again? I wish I understood,

Let us find the good things in Ikfe, the knowing smile, the friendly ear,

Let's feel again the sweetest touch, , of having someone near.

Someone who rea l ly cares for you, how you fee l , what you do,

Life can be a lonely place, f u l l of pain and empty space. t i

Let he come and be the r a h , ; 1 that washes you anew, 'J

And brings you love and happiness, 2 1 J I

the kind you never knew. J 'J J

Written by Sheila Bell lj friend. 9

Number One

By Claudias Ivan Planidin

A world champ doesn't shy away, he stands and takes h i s bow when he knows i t ' s time t o stand and take a bow,

Those i n the community of the most successful c o m i t y centre i n the world can stand and take a bow, they needn' t wait nor shy away.

When you"e the world champ you stand and take your bow when it t s time to stand and take your bow, you know some days it doesntt pay t o shy away when you're Number One.

In the morning the sun ar ises In the morning I awake Just t o hear the sounds of the c i t y Just t o smell the pollution of bhe c i t y Watching children go t o school Watching the elders go t o Carnegie Tedious as it is some think Not quite so t o me I think

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TIE FREE PERSON CHILD OF THE LAST RIMEMBERING The Free Woman - She knows the meaning of Trust, She knows the meaning of Work, She knows the meaning of Failure, Chn. Imrr , . r r +hr\ m-nr\:nrr u*r- A u r u w V a bllb Il lbWdrlll&

of Success, She bows the Honour of Motherhood, She bow the Value of Companionship. . . and she is sti l l learning.

Betty Jacqueline Robertson

The child of the l a s t remembering has a f rag i le mind.

Earth-saddened eyes look out pii;st wonder onto a closed horizon..

The slow, slow t h e crawls over growth l ike the glaciers too,

' b e child sti l l plays, oh yes! - with iner t ia fo r a toy,

A t night - in sleep - the child fires Into the. sky afraid. No sweet dreams l e f t fa r a, child who ~ Q W S the sky is closer than it was before and the sun was Steven Belkin not always cold.

8 The Decision Makers

By Claudius Ivan Planidin

"This is all too easy, much too easy," remark the Chosen Few from oaken seats overseeing the cemetery vast of earth cracked, of foilage charred, bleaching under sky white hot, The sun white hangs high.

'We've been laughing in their faces, we've been getting away with murder red, white and blue so easily, to easily, there's something wrong. Who smells a trap? Why d"esii ' scri,ie"iie 44ae5i 3 .U1l Gci- ,AiiC5 ?I 1

The sun white hangs high.

The Chosen Few look round looking for National 'Prison Just ice Day origi -

.ii invisible ropes, confidence n ted in 1976 on the anniversary of t8e death of pr&son.kr Mdie Nalon. supreme so long deserting like

Eddie Nalori .died in 1974 while in noon fog and they look at each other

solitary confinement in Millhaven closely, the Decision Makers do.

Maximum secutiry Penitentiary. This The sun white hangs high.

was followed by the death of Bobby IrWho ' s judging us, we want to know, Landers in 1975, who was also in whovs the judge?" echo wails .

solitary in Millhaven. off walls and ceiling grey, The day originated to conmemorate ,echo face to face.'

all those who have died unnatural : The sun white hangs high. deaths in prison, including murder 'Who's the Judge, and suicide. It is a day on which who "s the Hangman?" to express and strengthen solidarity The sun fiite hangs high.

e cemetery vast of earth cracked, of foilage charred, bleaches

soners participate by going on a , under sky white hot, 24-hour work and hunger strike. the sun white hangs high. Those on the outside show their sup- port through demonstrat ions, vigils and sometimes by fasting in solidari with prisoners. This year in B.C., there will be a cavalcade to several lower mainland prisons. For more information on this and

other Prison Justice Day activities call the August 10th committee at

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LETTER ' 1911 Sorrv, We Don? Fix hat,..

Remember l q s t sunpner? Yeah? 1~e11, some people don't seem t o , Lasf. sum- mer, without consulting Carnegie members, the s t a f f took the free- weights from the weight room and placed them i n Oppenheimer Park. And the users of the weight room stayed away i n droves; they avoided the f a c i l i t y i n hordes.

Sometimes days went by when not a soul went t o use the weights i n the Park. But not too many days went by tha t someone, or often sev- e r a l people, d idn ' t come into Car- negie looking t o use these weights and ended up leaving; complaining, disgruntled, bound fo r yet another wasted day a t some bar o r in Pigeon Square - amassing black eyes and knife wounds and lethargy.

Young people with potential and goals, s l id ing into the muck. For many of them, working out is a p r i - vate and personal attempt a t s e l f - improvement. They shun doing it out i n public - amidst the tumult and fumes of passing t r a f f i c , dodg- ing foul ba l l s , missed frisbees, o r fzii6ia.g of: wise-cracks and in t e r - rupt ions from drunken hecklers.

So now the summer is here again and the s t a f f has learned a lesson from l a s t year - t ha t an idea tha t was t r i e d and f a i l ed should be dis- carded, r ight? Yeah, sure.

This year they have removed even more of the equipment t o gather rus t i n the park. I f t h i s trend contin- ues, then we can look forward t o next summer when a l l of the s tu f f -. is removed and deposited. .where - . . the North Shore? Mount Seymour?

Remember l a s t summer? Come on you guys, what does it take t o wake you up? Let 's put a well-advertised

pe t i t ion a t the desk on the 2nd f loor fWeights a t Oppenheimer" yes o r no. Have the members show t h e i r I.D. cards t o ensure an accurate and un- tampered with poll, and cast votes. Then l e t ' s do something about it.

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the desk be moved into the weight room (a distance of 1 0 feet?) This would do away with having t o sign out the equipment as well a s pro- vide supervision - nullifying the need t o h i r e a paid attendant.

The unfortunate incident that necessitated locking up the free- weights could have been avoided by a quick phone c a l l t o securi ty and the removal of the offending party.

If c ~ l y the desk zzrson ha2 keii

i n viewing range, inside the room. . Let's get goin'!

Pumping i n the dark

PS: Otherwise the Carnegie weight room is the best!

'79e N e w Seen An~fhing Like It. .. I#

A Carnegie Board member knocked a t qlI1ve been a Carnegie Board member," the heavenly gate, she said,

Her face was scarred and old, "For many and many a year." She stood before the nlan of f a t e For admission t o the fold. The pearly gate swung open wide,

Saint Peter touched the b e l l - 'What have you done," St. Peter said, "Come i n and choose your harp ,11 sa id he, "To gain admission here?" "You've had your share of h e l l . "

Irene Schmidt

The whole com&ity came together Monday afternoon to open CRAB Park. Over 1000 people, by actual count, came to have dinner, listen to the music and take part in the cutting of a huge cake bearing the emblem of a crab. The cake was cut by David Todd, Irene Schmidt and Sam snobelen, three of the original campers in the CRAB campaign five years ago. CRAB was at its best during the

opening, with blue skies, green grass and playful ocean breezes off the water. Kids were everywhere, and community people, performers and the media walked about under banners announcing the opening of CRAB Park and asking for reasonable access for handicapped people. Musicians from Carnegie were there

at the opening, and played at the cake cutting ceremony. Spirit Rising, a Native Indian group from Vancouver, sang traditional and fancy songs. They played a huge moose-hide pow-wow drum made of a single section of a red cedar tree. - - v ~ m m ~ V U A A ~ y b w y ~ . ~ , I P iE tra&txzpal &-zss with fringed capes, beadwork and mink pelts danced to the drumning. From Mexico City there was a group

called Mez-Me, who played music from Latin America on a whole collection of traditional instruments. For one song they used Bolivian 'tarquas1, which are square wooden flutes played two at a time by each musician. Nearby, weavers from Carnegie worked at their looms. The mountains of food eaten were

served at two tables under a canopy tied to a dumpster of driftwood logs. A separate table was set up just for

for the coffee. The CRAB cake was on display under a banner made by Willy -and- Lorraine Munro, showing the CRAB logo. Separate tables were needed so

that the huge line-ups could be kept as short as possible. Though invita- tions said five o'clock, the line-up was over two hundred long by four thirty, so volunteers started serving early. 500 pevpie l i d been served by five o'clock, a reminder that it had been five weeks since the last welfare cheque day! Volunteers from all over the

community helped dish out the food, give information and clean up at the celebration. DERA donated $200 towards the food, CRS Workers ' Co-op donated the beans and flour, and the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre made 10 buckets of fruit salad and donated $25 worth of ice cream for the kids' table, along with six watermelons. Nicole delivered the ice cream by motorcycle!

A t CRAB Park, Pacific breezes play- fu l ly come ashore. Sparkling waters s t retch across to the slumbering forests and s i l en t mountains t o the north. Sunlight and warmth from the d e e ~ blue slw flow down onto the

inviting carpet of grass. Adventur- ing sea birds come quietly t o earth i n the CRAB s a l t marsh. Our l i f e is the ear th and the ear th is a t CRAB Park. By BILL DEACON

~ppenheimer Park s t a f f s e t up the tables and canopy and donated the juice for the dinner. F i rs t United Church provided the green salad and some of the cooking f a c i l i t i e s , and people from the Four Sis ters ' Co-op donated money and displayed a gigantic banner made by TORA, asking for disabled access t o the park. Fred Arrance of Four Sis ters made bannock for 500 people.

Our own Carnegie s t a f f provided excel1 ent support during the prep- arations, i n the 101 ways needed with an event of th i s s ize. They made the Carnegie kitchen available and donated some of the food. The nucleus of Carnegie volunteers cooked c [ S i for four days before the opening, made potato salad and baked cookies for the kids. Carnegie's Al Wilson made a banner announcing the community opening of the park.

The neighbourhood's opening of CRAB Park was a b r i l l i an t success. Organisations from a l l over the community showed they care by pitch- ing in with people, money and l o t s

of heart. Dozens more people gladly agreed t o help with specific jobs as the time for the event drew near. '/

Then an unprecedented 1000 people showed up for the celebration! !

The message is simple. We have the people who'd l ike t o use the park. We love CRAB - i t 's beautiful! But we need more sensible access so our seniors, handicapped people, expectant mothers and l i t t l e t o t s can make it over t o the park!

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One real ly dangerous oversight is the lack of a barr ier or warnfng signs for huge trucks coming past the children's play area. Our kids could be k i l led instantly by a speeding semi is a promise t o responsible for

and a l l we'd g-et find out who was th is .

SHEILA B.

The fabulous opening of CRAB Park by 1000 people of the Downtown East- side on Mnday will have an echo on Wednesday at noon. That is when the Port Corporation and Parks Board have scheduled a ceremony for The officials to declare the park open. They will have a chance to make speeches and pose for the cameras. By accident or design, Wednesday

happens to be the first welfare cheque day in five weeks. Most of the people in the neighbourhood will be lining up for their cheques at that time, or be busy shopping for those bare cupboards. This means they will not be able to get to the officials' ceremony. . Perhaps the officials will remind

the people who can make it to their ceremony that CRAB Park was origin- ally slated for 1.8 million square feet of luxury development, with

1 public use of the waterfront limited to a possible ramp along the shore. I That was five years ago, when a grassroots group created CRAB, Create a Real Available Beach. All that summer people from the

cornunity camped at the CRAB site, explaining their point of view to the public, the police and the

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widespread support. After a few dozen delegations to City Hal% and the Port Corporation, CRAB achieved the near impossible: a park for the people right on the waterfront with a view of the inlet, the mountains and one of Canadaqs largest' ports, But the story is not over. Right

now the only way to get to CRAB is on an overpass that was built 2.5 times too steep for wheelchairs. Seniors, parents pushing strollers, expectant mothers and people with canes a d crutches struggle with access that was designed for transpost trucks with big diesel enpines .

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DERA, CRAB and the Downtown Disabled group from First Church have been working for a whole year to make the Port Corp. correct this mistake. The City has acknowledged the pro-

blem and agreed to pay Taxi fare for anyone in a wheelchair. At best though, this arrangement strands the people in wheelchairs at CRAB until they can flag down a Port Police car to radio for a taxi to get them - out of the park!

This makeshift solution is inade- quate. We need safe, convenient and open access to CRAB just like any other park. Many downtown east- side groups are proposing that the old underpass at Columbia be re- opened and that the immediate answer is to take the fences down for an at-grade (level) crossing at Columbia. When this is underway, we can be-

gLi ill earrlesi io iook at the spray- ing of herbicides and the trucking of toxic and explosive chemicals between CRAB and the Downtown Eastside.

REPORT ON PROJECT "CRAB PAM T-SHIRT"

Looking a t our CRAB flags on Tues- day's front page of the Vancouver Sun, I real ize that another Downtown Eastside community feat was accom- plished. Diane, Val, Lorraine, Shelly (from Melbourne, Australia), Tora, Glen, Bob and Claude put i n time, money and ef for t t o design, buy, pr in t and s e l l new ("seconds") and used T-shirts, f lags and buttons and t o paint the banner. Buttons and the not-so-fortunate choice of T-shirts were sold on Monday1 s Opening Day h t "Best Offer" prices ; the flags were given away to the children.

We spent $387.00 on materials for screen printing material, paint, T-shirts, Budget printing, e tc . After we sold our T-shirts and buttons i n the community and a t the La Quena Fiesta, we were l e f t with a $67.00 net profit!

Considering our inexperience i n the world of business, t h i s project was a success : not only was money earned, but Tora1s CRAB, the Guardian of the Harbour, w i l l be linked with our Park for years t o come!

As a preliminary t o t h i s 'o f f ic ia l ' opening, City Council heard twenty delegations from the Downtown East- side on Tuesday night. I t was a powerful, moving sequence as physi - ca1;Ly ' challenged people wheeled or staggered t o the microphone and called for an accounting of respons- ib i l i t y . In the T e a r of Rick Hansen" it is shameful that h is 'home town1 would have such a glaring disregard for the special needs of disabled and elderly and parents with kids.

Council placed the blame squarely on the Port of Vancouver. As MP - iviar-garei ivii i c i ~ e i i sad, "This C R R Mountain violates the Charter of Rights under the Canadian Constitu- t ion and the Federal agencies resp- onsible must be brought t o account.

The f i r s t step is t o reopen the level crossing a t the foot of Colum- bia Street. This was i n operation for decades with more tracks than are used now and was only closed i n May 1986. The longer term solutions t o be studied are t o reopen the old underpass a t Columbia. The proposed overpass a t Carrall is not suited t o the needs of local residents and would be bui l t with the property owners and merchants footing the majority of costs.

The Mayor has instructions from Council t o actively pressure the Port and CTC to pay fo r the i r mistake.

Willemien

Her f lesh beneath burnt bruises, on billboards stacked up on treasure icecream domes; off work her hiding i n empty refr igerator boxes - beneath t rees - i n o i l stoves, hard wooden f loors , hard broken glass bottles. .ferns with -fury edges ... Sword without sound s l iding t o the pavement i n the hay of downtown - through the roof of her house, the roof of her mouth, the l a s t sound of the season:

"Give up your rockers, you l i t t l e f .ks! The outhouse d i e generation beyond any l i f e l ine , l e f t out here t o dry. GO on crazy windt.rops, you panic sack weeble knobs with your gut ter emporial slyshitstone furium. You airheads! You best get your cheap (inexpensive) h e d s e t s r ight by the table , by m). l i f e , by my bed!"

And an a i r t i g h t denim casket, covering her body. Smiling, bloodgut romance pays respects from inside h i s transam tomato.

CRAB PARK

Cameras and high p ro f i l e speakers made up the "off ic ial opening" on Wednesday afternoon. The plan t o have only "invited guests" near the microphones l e f t control i n the hands of the City and Port.

Local residents had on t h e i r logos and carr ied f lags m d banners, and two enterprising women stood d i rec t - l y behind the speakers with a huge

the money they'd spent, Parks pol i - t i cos and the Chairman of the Port rambled on about a l l the companies they'd employed. "Aren't we grand!"

Malcolm Ashford had an ominous s l i p of the tongue when he sa id tha t t h i s Park " w i l l be enjoyed by the many new people i n t h i s soon t o be bustling commercial area. .."

That's the euphemism f o r urban renewal..afford it or move.

CRAB Park is the name i n our hearts, but the s ign in-e park says,

sign: DISABLED- ACCESS TOO STEEP: EH! PORTSIDE PARK ... fo r a t l eas t a day. Pleased with themselves and a l l

Shared Silence

Our cells chant the silence of eternity. me self-scream they sustain is gratuitous. ' The scream is echoed noises that drown the silence, blemories are what are salvaged - us the presumption. When the self-scream becomes a whisper, The words we catch are true. In. - 1 1 - YVUYH I ~.+I?LS;~~Z- beczzzs a szik.. .

The silence within us is as old as the chaos the universe came from. (from formlessness comes all that has form).

The silence within us is time. To give the time we live on earth its form, we first must reach Anarchy. from formlessness comes all that has form.

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Anarchy is trust writ large. Those who trust each other share. 'fiat which is shared is common to all: If we start from the silence within us, how can we go wrong?

Steven Belkin

On Remembering the Depression:

"Those who can't remember the past are condemned to live it again."

I feel dizzy and rushed Constant movemeilt kkes me feel like a Turtle.

I have to get my Head in Place and it slows me down.

playing all the Social Games Trying to interact with inhuman Humans So locked into games.

THE KINGDCR4 OF THE DOGS t

The Bone is the Man He wants to protect himself; L

The woman is taking it all in, Man' s fight against woman.

He won in all his Glory! What he has created Is a Paranoic Society.. Homosexual Men and Women A seperation from Woman is a seperation from God. .

1 The poor Hookers still Trying to relate to Man 1 And the Housewife with 1 Children trying to figure I out which way to go. a

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Man sits on his self-made pedestal And admires Himself. :\loman still under His Power. Young boys willing to serve Him. Young woman..content To be a Bitch.

Betty Jacqueline Robertson

''Could you get another pot of cof- fee? This one is empty."

tlCould you s e t up the chairs so people can discuss the finances?"

Helping out and doing your part ; . what some people refer t o as volun- teering (and sometimes, unfortunate- ly, not i n such a kind way) .

A t the Folk Festival, there was an energetic, older woman..who sang the song, "For God's sake, Willie, don't say you're a cowboy - just a long- haired hippie singing pretty country '

songs ..." She publicly praised the volunteers who had l i t e r a l l y made the

" 'Fest" happen ... and to damn near the loudest applause of the en t i re show.

Volunteers - the ones who cook the soup a t different places a t s ix i n the morning! Yeah, those people. The ones who s e t up tables and chairs and get equipment so people can have

c.. a good time, the same ones who tear down tables and chairs and equipment - -

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those folks! T h e o n e s who do the '. planning long before an event happens,

l i ke organizing musical gigs - what- ever is necessary, getting others t o help, and on and on. .unpaid workers.

Now the hard part . I and others have seen people make a mockery of helping out. They see that some things have t o be done, but the are not going t o do it. F i n a n c i ~ p o i n t - t o be paid - for anything. . .maybe volunteers should hold out for good pay, but I think the vast majority of services rendered would stop,, . the e f for t s put i n now by so many

good people would be stopped. In societyvs high terms, an unpaid

job is no job a t a l l . In a way they ' are r ight , 'icl, , rea l i s t ica l ly there isn' t enough money t o pay for every- thing.." but we know different ,

What with union scales and wage games, there 's a problem i n how t o pay volunteers and s t i l l keep them out of MHRVs "rules" - that you are allowed to better yourself by f i f t y dollars a month max .

The general. idea is for everyone to l ive a l i t t l e better, a l i t t l e easier l i f e . What the people runn- ing the country need t o do is figure a way t o get a volunteer wage without clashing with unions or businesses.

We already have two different work- ing systems - one for people who get paid a regular amount, and one where people donft get paid a t a l l but a re always helping out,

The good side of th i s is that a l l work would get done (and probably mn-r-0 P f f i c +h- n - 1 - r h*~;l c i d p ..."A - - ---- L.II\ , v,*r , vu- ---- is the amount of organizing it needs, and while being effectually imple- mented, some people would be angry. My questions t o these individuals - who and why and what are you afraid of?

Everyone knows t h i s is a new age, thirteen years t o the year 2000, and a (the) new way is beginning now.

This might be distant future s tuf f but the idea must come tnto being - why not now? A psychological revo- lution begins with us and leads t o something l ike graceful change.

By DAyE McCONNELL

The CANADA DAY PICNIC STAMPEDE! % On June the thirtieth there was

-9 the annual Canada Day Picnic. Just .+ getting on the buses happened to be a great ordeal. .+

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I never saw so much pushing and '+ ,L,,,;," 1,. 4 . . - -2 - - .+ J I I U V I I I ~ u y 2 LGL cau l g ~ u u p UL pcurl .spa

ple. My Mom and I were trapped in 18 the middle when we tried to get on .+ the bus. People who act in such :$ an uncivilized way should be barred .+ .+ from future picnics. What a bad .+ example to set for children. One .+ young woman who was many months :$ pregnant hfid f p wait for almost the :$ last place because it was dangerous..+ Despite the terrible beginning :$

the rest of the day was fantastic. .+ The food happened to be great and :$ I spent most of the day in the wat- .+ er with friends. The weather was :$ perfect for outdoor swimming. *+

4 The picnic took place at Buntzen .+ Lake. Two musicians entertained .+ us on the way home. I did not have :z any problem ietting to sleep that night. -? By WAYNE SCHMIDT

Many laugh at us old timers And maybe they have cause, For when your hqir turns gray Then you ddntt, em&t applause. Perhaps youse not so handsome Perhaps youse not so spry, - niii- wnen t ' n n ~ r nnt 25 $6 25 -2s --- ..a. v.. -a*" I b"'

Then they wonf t wonder why,

For we have fought the battles And we have led the way, And made this life an easier road For many a young man.

And he will do tomorrow A lot of things that pay, Because old timers thought them out And tried them yesterday.

We know the world is changing The ways of trade are new, Men put new labels on their goods And roofs on houses too.

But still the old foundations That the same old timers laid, Remain the cornerstone of all The progress men have made.

Subqitted by Joe Boucher ! 1. ' '1

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opposition t o returning what was For once the government did the stolen would rather have th i s man ht thing. On July 13, 1987, an out of the way - he is a strong eal Court of the Canadian Immi- leader who can and does speak for

p-ation Service granted refugee many too weak or afraid to speak Status t o Robert Satiacum, an h e r - for themselves. ican born Native, on the grounds He waited for three long years in that h i s return t o the U.S. of A. Okalla prison for hearings, appeals would almost certainly resu l t i n and rulings to f ina l ly have his plea attempts on h i s l i f e . He would be heard and a decision in h is favour. jailed by o f f i c i a l s there on charges U.S. agencies w i l l be f i l i ng a t that are not very solid. once for Chief Satiacum's deportat-

Robert Satiacum. the Chief of ion, but as f a r as I know, YOU CAN Chiefs, i s t h e f i r s t m a n t o b e h e l d NOTHAVEAPERSONIaIOHASBEEN as such since Chief Si t t ing Bull..

- GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS DEPORTED

He has also dined with the President BACK TO THE COUNTRY FRm WHICH S/IE of the U~zited States. SEEKS REFUGE FRm ... take that ,

As an ac t iv i s t for native r ights , Uncle Sam.. .. he has put himself a t odds with the Wherever you are Robert Satia- government on more than one occas- cum, Chief of Chiefs, I sincerely ion, but the whole of h is e f for t s hope that a good wind is blowing; were aimed a t improving the l iving and maybe you and I w i l l meet ...

* conditions of h is fellow natives. I f ee l a deep respect toward you. Land claims made through the Feel f ree and be free..such is the

years by members of North American undominat ed s p i r i t of the inany - native t r ibes have met with some natives I 've known through the years. degree of success. i\on-natives i n WELCOME TO FREEDOM - J. Levesque

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ART BY TORA a receipt* Thanks everybody.

Many believe that Marx, Engels 6 other political theorists actually invented socialist philosophy, but -proves this is not so. . .

In most ancient, highly evolved societies, an equal sharing of the necessities of life is evident. The ancient Egyptians, for exam-

ple, set up a syqtem in which every tenth field in their agricultural areas was designated as a "Field of Offerings." All of the farm produce in excess of what was need- ed by the farmers themselves, was brought to these fields G equally distributed among those whose work produced no food. During the rise of Christianity

in Europe, the remnant of this many thousand-year old system was cor- rupted into the "tithe" system; of giving one tenth of your earnings to the Church. By this method,

Rome and particularly the Vatican, became the most powerful centre of imperialist agression at that time, If pre-Christian societies, such

as the Egyptian, are considered as political examples in history, one of the lessons to be learned from them is that all politics should

s p i r i t ~ a l l y mt b r a t p d . As an example of ancient "social-

ist philosophy", consider the follow- ing statement from the Prisse papy- rus, composed sometime before the fifth dynasty (possibly 4000 B. C. ) :

. . . "if, having been of no account, you have become great, and if, having been poor, you have become rich ... when you are governor of the city.. . be not hard-hearted on account of 7

your advancement, because you have become 'the Guardian of the Provis- ions of God ." TOR A

- VISION -

Dreams are for people thinking of things, Dreams are for people who think a lot.. Dream can be anything - such as a boat floating down a river of candy floss. Dreams could be the end of War..and Peace - that would be a great dream. Dreams are for people thinking of things.

Jennifer Wishart

is doing a greak- service on the 3rd floor of Carnegie on Tuesdays.

Ms. Isabelle Marchand cuts hair for free! The number of people grows every week, so try to get there early. TUESDAYS at 11:OO a.m.

Pontius' Puddle r DONv T DRINK AND DRIVE!

You might hit a bun and R spill your dsin .

ON OUR PmIER

Wm. Vander Z a h came from a small village near where I lived in b11- and. They were so ultra-religious i n his vi l lage that each Saturday evening they would remove the roos- t e r s from the hen houses,

This was done so that the i r early Sunday morning religious observ- ances would not be disturbed by the crowing of the cocks.

Hendrickus Njoor

< Scabs have been called many things by many people during the course of labour history but Jack %ondongs des- - cript ion of the scab, k i t t e n with barbed wire on sandpaper", easi ly dwarfs a l l others. . .

M t e r God had finished the r a t t l e - snakes, the toad and the vampire, He had some awful substance l e f t from which He made a scab.

A scab is a two-legged animal wien a cork-screw soul, a-Gates-logged

'd brain, a d o m b i m t i o n o f j e l l y m d g l u e for a backbone. .while others have hearts, he carr ies a tunour of rot ten principles.

When a scab comes down the s t r ee t , I. men t u n the i r backs and angels weep

i n Heaven, and the Devil shuts the Gates of Hell t o keep him out.

No man has a r ight t o scab as long as there is a pool t o drown h is car- cass in, o r a rope long enough t o hang h i s body with. Judas Iscariot

was a gentleman compared t o a scab. For betraying the Master, he had char- acter enough t o hang himself - a scab hasn ' t.

Esau sold h i s birthright for a mess of Fottage. Judas Iscariot sold h i s Saviour for t h i r t y pieces of si lver. Benedict Arnold sold h i s country for a promise of a commission in the B r i - t i s h Army. The modem strikebreaker s e l l s h i s birthright, h i s country, h i s wife and children and h i s fellow men fo r an unfulfi l led promise from his enployer, trust or corporation.

Esau was a t r a i t o r t o himself; Jud- as was a t r a i t o r t o h is God; Benedict Arnold was a t r a i t o r t o his country; a strikebreaker is a t r a i t o r t o h i s God, h i s country', h is wife, h i s fami- l y and h i s class.

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Jay Gould (Railroad magnate of the 19th century): "I can

h i re one-half of the working class t o k i l l the other half. (Remark made i n reference to the Knights of Labour s t r ike against Gould Railroads - 1886)

Haywood Brom (Famous newspaper col- umnist and founder of American News- paper Guild) writes about strikebrea- kers: "The non-union man is a man who reaps where he has not sown. He comes a t the eleventh hour rind recei- ves h is penny. He is willing t o pro- f i t by the aggressive effor ts of oth- ers t o whom he has given ncj support. Worse than tha t , he stands ready t o stab in the back the very people who have made it possible fo r him t o comrn~and a competence.

Irene Schmidt

This year's Festival at Jericho Beach was dedicated to Elizabeth Cotton, who passed away this year at the age of 95, and to Kate Wolf, a singer and songwriter also, who suf- ferred from leukemia and died young last fall. My kids and I went down on Satur-

day in order to enjoy the social and political flavour of the workshops and songs. I was not looking to be merely entertained but also to be in- spired and educated. There was indeed much fashionable

enthusiasm in the crowds against South African apartheid, Central Am- erican repression, etc., but as a resident of the Downtown Eastside, I moved like a stranger behind the Walls of Jericho - hardly a brown face among the white, The occasion- al familiar person I did run into would invariably be the one with the rare free ticket. The ehtrdce to the Festival was

priced at $25.00 per day, an im- possible amount to pay for a welfare recipient - never mind one's priori- ties, even if one could fork up $25.00

(plus additional cost for expensive food). I donf\t suppose the Festival authorities wer heard of the term PAY-AS-YOU-QIN for people on Welfare! The kid's area was great. Our

Diane Wood and others painted faces for two days and danced with the crowd. Kate Clinton, humourist- singer-peace activirst, interpreted this contradictory world in the fun- niest way. Bfll Bragg, songwriter-singer-. .

political activist from Britain, and creator of "Between the WarsfJ, when asked what he was doing at the Eest- ival, replied, '%en HirppTes deserve sane good music n,cw and then." He was jolly good, actually. Among the remainder of the general

entertainment, I thought Lillian Allen was superb 7 and so was her band. Lillian" work is a response to oppression as a black person, a woman, an immigrant, a worker and a mother, Her ndub' poetry and the rhythms of rengae of the Saturday ark on my taprcalled "~eyolutiorlary ' Tea Partyff. Bring along a tape and 1'11 be glad to duplicate. it for you.

Willemien

CHANG I NC

Reconstruct ion is what we all need, a new mind leaving nroblems behind.

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