Lust is in my eyes
Don’t you see the animal?
Growling; biting lip…
Nina
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Causes & Conditions; GreatMiddleWay
: The Dharma teaches that the manifestation of a consequence requires the confluence of multiple causes and conditions. Wrong views, afflicted emotions (attachment, aversion, and indifference), and the habits and tendencies that impel us to act in ways that are unskillful or undesirable constitute the fundamental causes of unbeneficial actions. The conditions that favor such conducts include material circumstances, similarly-inclined company, and situations.
If we desire to avoid those habitual tendencies, it is essential that we avoid conducive conditions for its manifestation. A well-known example is that of a person with alcoholic tendencies, who must avoid proximity and access to alcohol (material circumstances), persons with similar conducts (company), and those events in which this behavior is normative (situations).
We can successfully apply this strategy to all unskillful tendencies, identifying and avoiding the triggers that favor the repetition of any conduct we may wish to eliminate.
Vancouver “In-Site” / Harm Reduction and How Its Saving Lives.
What is Insite?
In 2003 Vancouver launched In-Site; A facility located in the heart of Vancouvers Downtown East Side in which injection drug users would be provided with clean needles to inject in a supervised setting. The goal of in-site is not only providing a safe way and place to inject; they also strive to provide other health care services for those struggling with addiction and HIV / AIDS. Funded by Vancouver Coastal health Insite faced many legal barriers and still to this day operates in a rather legal grey area in the attempt to maintain the facility in harm reduction model techniques and advocacy for treatment. But the numbers don’t lie and a great change was brought upon the most vulnerable community in British Columbia.
Vancouvers Aids Epedemic:
“When you walked around the West End, it would hit you in the face how many people there were with AIDS. In the mid-1990s, we were diagnosing up to 800 people a year, now it’s more like one per week here in B.C.” – Dr. Julio Montaner;
During that time period BC and in particular in the Downtown East Side, we saw an HIV/AIDS epidemic never seen in North America before. Vancouvers large port city has an extremely large open drug market; as well as having the mildest climate in Canada. The open drug market mixed with affordable housing in DTES Single room occupancies makes Vancouvers eastside a breeding ground for crime and substance use.
Since the opening of In-Site
The new cases of H.I.V. infection have dropped substancially … “B.C. has had such remarkable success arresting acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, that in the past 25 years, new cases have steadily dropped and are now 90 per cent below what they were at the beginning of the epidemic.” – BC Centre For Dissease Control.
Speaking from personal experience in the surrounding areas; the visible injecting / scattered needles and drug crime did drop substantially as well.
This video uploaded in 2006 shows the severity of this areas situation and how In-Site combats the issues first hand.
-Nina
Graffiti Dailiez Artist: unknown via Sanpiano
Photo post.
Source: unknown
Schematics.
I could map the schematics of my psychotic mind
They are highways to “The High Way”.
Alleyways to the gutter.
Left and right is up and down
And I’m never coming down unfortunately
I look down and the only down is death
Climbing the barbed wire fence to the other side
Pain and suffering is life; we all do know
Simply row that boat
So gently down the stream
I am the lost one; always have been
Cause life is but a dream.
-Nina
My dreams; who are you?
I visit my subconscious on a regular basis
An old friend and an old familiar world
This word is I
I think?
And I wonder who am I as I awaken…
Awakening thankful
Talking to it like…
“Thank you for taking me back to my world.
I missed you so much; all of my dreams.
All of my world and all of my thought.
It was beautiful to catch up.
Amoungst the graffiti and waterfalls.
I can never grow bored of you”.
But who are you Nina?
Who are you?
Are you my soul as I stare into this reflection?
Are you something else?
Are you a reflection of me?
Or of this earth.
Guess I’ll never know.
Nina
Still Dancing by Jonathan Labillois / Todays DTES Womens Memorial March
Annual Downtown Eastside Women’s Memorial March
WHAT: Press Conference for 27th Annual Women’s Memorial March
WHEN: Tuesday February 14 at 11:00 am
WHERE: Carnegie classroom, 3rd floor, Main and Hastings
MEDIA PROTOCOL: Please note there will be NO MEDIA PERMITTED in Carnegie Theatre during the family remembrance between 10:30 am to noon. Media may record the march that begins at noon at Main and Hastings, except NO recording of the ceremonies that take place during the march.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Carol Martin: 778-302-3367
Myrna Cranmer: 604-215-0264
Mabel Nipshank: 604-809-6504
Evelyne Youngchief: 778-888-1687
Rebecca Brass: 778-223-2843
For French media interviews, contact Cori Kelly: 778-709-6494
For general media inquiries or to set up further interviews, contact Harsha Walia: 778 885 0040
February 8, 2017 VANCOUVER, Coast Salish Territories- The February 14th Annual Women’s Memorial March is held on Valentine’s Day to honour the memory of all women from the Downtown Eastside who have died due to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual violence. Now in its 27th year, the march brings courage and commitment to end the violence that vulnerable women in the Downtown Eastside face on a daily basis.
The Women’s Memorial March Committee is hosting a press conference on Tuesday February 14th at 11 am in the Carnegie Center’s 3rd floor classroom. The march begins at noon on Main and Hastings.
The February 14th Women’s Memorial March Committee was founded when a woman was found murdered on Powell Street .For 27 years, the Committee has been a leading voice on the issue of violence against Indigenous women and has raised local, national, and international attention. Despite a national inquiry being launched on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, the reality on the ground in the Downtown Eastside has not changed.
According to the Women’s Memorial March Committee “Increasing deaths of many vulnerable women from the Downtown Eastside still leaves family, friends, loved ones, and community members with an overwhelming sense of grief and loss. Indigenous women disproportionately continue to go missing or be murdered with minimal action to address these tragedies or the systemic nature of gendered violence, poverty, racism, or colonialism.”
In Vancouver, friends and family members led by Indigenous women move through the DTES and stop at sites where women died or were last seen to offer prayers, medicines, and roses in remembrance.
“Hey Trudeau” Activist Art.
Art By Daniel Smith?
Goodnightworld…
Lil Rhyme Poetry – Nina
🙂
Inspite of my risked flight heres some insight to my intwined mind designed to inspire
Nothing required; building from a comforting nothingness to be blunt ignorance is bliss and just oh so comforting
But no views distorted, as far as I’ve seen or noticed. Visionary mind state I escalate and remain focussed
The persuit of happiness is on track mathmatically; tapping into my potential of a well that fills and distills drastically
Conform to no norms, I’m in no way shape or form a part of a swarm a touch comforting warmth
I like runways of sunrays that come blaze the concrete Im amazed at the phases Ive been through I’m feeling complete
My girl and I build together; nothing ever felt so real, Im feeling the future will help us keep it here n still always will just be together
Nina
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