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The People's Republic of the Downtown Eastside ) FREE - donations acceoted. -M NEWSLETTER' , December 2,1996 401 Main Street, Vancouver V6A 217, ; (604) 665-2220 w Welcome to the People's Republic of the Downtown Eastside 3 1 I $ -,I FS While the NPA tide was sweeping over most of 10 per cent of the adult population of the D.E. Vancouver, the barricades were going up in the found their way to a polling booth - leaving it to Downtown Eastside. the vote-happy burghers of Kerrisdale to rule the Only figuratively, of course. But the streets roost. around Main and Hastings were one of the few For the rest of the Greater Downtown Eastside safe places to be on election day if you wanted to Co-Prosperity Sphere, the results were not as tear up your membership card in the Philip Owen solid, but still had less NPA influence than most fan club. other parts of the city. The heart of the Downtown Eastside beats in The poll west of Carnbie, which takes in most of Poll 9 on the city's voting map. And Poll 9, as the the yuppies of Gastown and Yaletown, was split stats on the centre page show, was solid COPE - more or less 50-50 between NPA and COPE. mayor, council, school board and park board. (Downtown Eastsiders who live in that poll had to As well, the ward system was strongly supported. travel all the way in the rain to the downtown The only downer in the numbers (other than that library to vote - which undoubtedly cut the COPE anybody would even consider voting NPA in this vote.) neighborhood) is the low voter turnout. Less than The Strathcona polls had a strong COPE showing too, but the NPA candidates with Asian surnames topped the list. The only other comparable area to the D.E. out of 150 polls citywide was in the Red Belt along Commercial Drive in Grandview-Woodlands. In fact, if we had a ward system, the D.E. would be in a ward with Strathcona and Grandview- Woodlands. Judging by the results of the election, our representative would NOT be from NPA. (Speaking of wards and Gastown yuppies, Mike McCoy and Lynn Bryson were part of an NPA front group that campaigned against wards. They like things the way they are. That way, their $200,000-plus condos on Powell will keep increasing in value every year.) It's no surprise that the D.E. would support COPE. Just think of fighters like Bruce Eriksen, Libby Davies, Jean Swanson, Jim Green and Sue Harris. COPE is far from perfect. It's not doing enough to attract idealistic youth with environmental concerns into the political system; it was weak on the vegas-stfie casino that would have destroyed our neighbourhood; it sometimes looks rigid and old-time lefty. But face it; COPE is the party that has done the most to counter the old Skid Road image and build our neighborhood as a residential community. That's why these rule-or-ruin splinter parties are so destructive. You can see how many votes they drained off COPE, even in the Downtown Eastside. In some other polls, they really split the left vote and let NPA walk in. The union-bashing Green Party got 14,000 votes for their candidates, and the weird left-right Rankin Revenge Party (a.k.a. VOICE) pulled in thousands more. Get a grip people - if we stay split, the right-wing will keep their hold on City Hall. Murray Petralia 3. try colouring in the little long circles. He was so good at it that I let him continue. Then we chose the Green Party candidates. We kept counting "Okay five more here.. .only three more here." Then we chose COPE or independent females with interesting names. It took a long time. The theatre was cold. The questions on the back weren't too. bad but I wasn't expecting as many options. We couldn't help chuckling about it all. Jenny Kwan had accompanied in some seniors. She was hovering around the polling booths. I was We'll Get Screwed Anyway thinking that she must be appalled at our laughing Voting, in the civic elections on November 16th: lack of respect for the electoral system. Then I was a lonely, die-hard waste of time. I figured I turned around and saw that most of the better vote so that I wouldn't feel bad when I unoccupied registerers were looking at us. I said, complained afterwards. I feel bad anyway. The "Oh, no, you're not going to say my vote is invalid reason people around her don't vote is not so because I let a minor mark it?" They laughed and much apathy, as disillusion. one young fellow said "It won't matter anyway." I It was about three o'clock that Saturday thought well that's biased or unbiased depending afternoon when we made our way to the Carnegie on how you look at it. Community Centre. My little boy, Demitri, was So we put the card into a machine that looked curious to knowwhatwting was about. I was like a high-tech garbage can. Then we took a walk hoping there wouldn't be a long line-up. The around the building. I asked people I knew, along building, in general, was quite empty, but the the way, if they had voted. Time and time again I theatre was even emptier. It reminded me of a hall got answers like "What's the point? we'llcget where the show has been canceled. There were screwed anyway." more workers waiting to register people that there The only person who was enthusiastic about the were voters. I had my election card and ID ready election was Irene Schmidt. She was looking but they just asked me my name, ticked it off and forward to the Green Party party that night. At gave me huge card with long lists of names and first, I was happy to hear that she was running for questions on the back. It was like an exam. My the Greens in another election, but then I thought son, who's in grade one, said he was sixteen... they "Oh, no, 1'11 have to vote again." laughed and said, "Sorry, you're still too young." Tony came out of the kitchen and asked "Did Of course, there wasn't anything for kids to do you vote for me?" I said, "yeah, twice." Demitri while waiting so Demitri came with me to the really wanted to go back and tell them we made a partially-partitioned polling cubicle. I remembered mistake because he knew we hadn't seen Tony's when they used to hand white sheets. I looked over name. the paper, then went down the first list. Demitri I was shocked and dismayed at the election wanted to vote for Champ the Chimp or Lulu or results. Not one of the competent people that I had someone like that but I coloured in the circle voted for won. The young registerer was right. My beside Carmella,4Ilevato7sname. I understood that vote made no difference. she was the main opposition for mayor and I like Who, in their right mind, would want to go her name. Otherwise, I knew nothing about her. through that? Then we went down the other columns and picked There must be another way. the names of people we knew. Demitri wanted to Leith Harris One of the least known principles of Machiavelli's philosophy is that he recommended that any evolved, democratic government that is worth its salt, is a government that provides generous funding to the arts. Machiavelli himself lived in Florence under the governance of the Medicis. And the Medicis (the House of Medici) is a name synonymous with artistic patronage. Some social mechanists have figured that welfare is a bribe fiom the rich to keep the less wealthy masses fiom starting and organizing a revolution. (As well as being a bribe to keep them fiom fonning secret societies and the like, against the government.) But artistic funding is even more I NEVER WENT TO SEA Carry Gus broadly encompassing: it pays for projects fiom 1996 artists not on welfare as well. When I was a boy and full of spit, 1 wish we had another Catherine the Great. She I dreamed of going to sea. was an Empress of Russia who spared no expense I wandered the Fraser River docks in sending her envoys of art-shopping emissaries Itching to be free. all over Europe to scoop up as many paintings (money was no object) as they could to fill up the But adolescence came to strike walls of her famous great art gallery - the The courage from my veins, Hermitage. Us artists would love another great And I became land locked 'neath Matron of the Arts!!! Like Catherine! The winsome BC rains. Dean KO A young adult, I made my way PS On the heals of all this. H.G.Wells predicted To places far and wide: in his book the Time Machine (written in 1895) Alberta, Alaska, Whitehorse, The Pas that the Victorian Industrial Revolution would Toronto, the Downtown Eastside. result in an even more profound distinction of the Much older now, I reap the wealth kJppe2and'kowe;'class by the time the 2 1st Of travel's experience. century rolled around. The rich, as a result of I've spent a lifetime striving for overpampering, lost their survivalist skills and A share of common sense.
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