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view the promotional tactics of drug com- colleagues. Unfortunately, few of those. so far, is Effexor, has been proven in a companies have shaped physicians' behav-
panies, serious clinical depression is, of KOLs come with unbiased opinions. recent clinical trial to show some efficacy iour. In 1998, in a high-profile resignation
course, an undeniable major health prob- In fact, when Dr Marcia Angell, former in treating the physical symptoms (e.g. from the APA, Dr. Loren Mosher called the
lem with sometimes devastating conse- editor of the New England Journal of fatigue, back pain and aches) that often American Psychiatric Association a "drug
quences. And some people do respond to Medicine, wrote her now famous article Is accompany depression. But in a crowded company patsy," adding, "Psychiatry has
SSRIs, some even miraculously. Academic Medicine for Sale?she expressed antidepressant market, your drug has to been almost completely bought out by the
Compared with the drug manufactur- alarm that in searching for potential con- do more than treat depression—it's gotta' drug companies?' The merchants of the
ers' marketing campaigns, which push the tributors for articles on depression, her do something else. But what? Associated chemical definition of mental illness rely
more lucrative chemical views of depres- journal could only find "very few" senior symptoms, that's what. on a key aspect in the practice of medi-
sion, alternative views of illness and treat- psychiatrists without financial ties to the Lilly has spent more than a year selling cine: the power of expert opinion. That's
ment get short shrift. And with drug reps pharmaceutical companies who make the hurt to physicians in journals such why you won't find many David Healys or
constantly parading in front of doctors, anti-depressants. as the American Family Physician with Loren Moshers speaking at an APA con-
the chemical views of illness are shaped A convention of psychiatrists gath- an ad that reads: "What did 69 percent ference where new depression niches four
and reinforced where nobody sees them ered for a scientific meeting offers the of patients diagnosed with dpression drugs like Cymbalta are being created and
—behind closed doors, or in clinic hall- ideal place to see how new definitions of say? I. hurt." An earlier two-page docu- promoted.
ways. With a ratio in the US of one drug mental illness are shaped. It is also where ment about depression, which seeded No one could argue that people suffering
rep f o r every opinion lead- the ground for Cymbalta, shows a bicycle acutelywith depression or mania shouldn't
four doctors, ers go to hear wheel with the slogan: "We're not rein- have the best treatment available. But how
and with drug ...I was watching Good Morning about the new- venting it. We're just taking a closer look." many people fit this description? It is a
reps averaging America this morning and they told est new thing. What is happening in the APA exhibit reverberating refrain in the disease-selling
one visit per day, The American hall, however, is exactly that: reinvention. business that there are huge—sometimes
per doctor, Joyce me, your weather report is brought P s y c h i a t r i c Drug companies are reinventing depres- grossly inflated—estimates of how many
is likely to see a to you by Paxil. Association sion by promoting niches which drugs in people are suffering from the disease, and
parade of reps. (APA) 2 0 0 4 the pipeline may someday fit, drugs that rather few whom are being treated. This
Why should we —David Antonuccio, clinical conference i n aren't even on the market yet. And they is the gap that propels the marketing of
be surprised that psychologist, University of NevadaNew York City are taking existing drugs and colonizing the disease by public and private agen-
the dominant is electric. More whole new areas of treatment. This drug cies. Promoters of the undertreatment
paradigm o f than 20,000 vis- is now good for agitation. This one works paradigm are found even among those
mental healthcare has largely been reduced iting health professionals and physicians well for pain. This one is for anxiety or without drugs to sell. The World Health
to the tweaking of neurotransmitters and from all over the world attend this annual tiredness. Lilly is looking to Cymbalta Organization states that 121 million
serotonin levels with patented drugs? scientific conference. This year it's entitled: to be its bedrock product in the depres- people worldwide are affected by depres-
Over half the drug marketer's budget is Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology: sion m a r k e t . sion. It projects
allocated to detailers and free drug sam- Dissolving the Mind-Brain Barrier. In the Some analysts are an increase in
ples (over eight billion per year in the US). exhibition halls, thousands of doctors are already calling it It takes a lot of money to attract mental disor-
The cartons of free drug samples lugged enthusiastically enjoying the delights of the '`next block- 20,000 health professionals to a ders up from
around the US by more than 60,000 the drug company displays, gawking at the buster, antide- nearly 12 per-
detailers like Michael Oldani represent soaring high-tech screens promoting the pressant," and, no meeting, and most of the APA cent of all dis-
the promise not just of a gift of new prod- latest medications. It takes a lot of money doubt its alleged annual conference is underwritten eases worldwide
ucts— but of new knowledge. They are to attract 20,000 health professionals to dual action on to almost 15
effective because they tap into physicians' a meeting, and most of the APA annual emotional hurt by the drug industry percent by the
primal motivations—wanting to appear conference is underwritten by the drug and physical pain year 2020. The
on top of new advances in medicines and industry. A 10-foot square in the exhibit is the key marketing factor. There's no WHO uses the term "treatment gap," and
keeping patients happy with samples that hall goes for $2,400, and scientific sessions better way to get Cymbalta's sales curve points out that fewer than 25 percent of
show how much they care. But free sam- are for sale at around $50,000 each. This is climbing early than pounding that mes- those affected haveaccess to effective treat-
ples also enforce, promote, and reinforce the place where capitalism and healthcare sage into the physicians' heads— long ments. Other groups such as the National
the dominant view of disease that a drug meet. before the drug is approved. Institute of Mental Health say that one in
is designed to treat—in this case, the neu- At Eli Lilly's depression stand, yellow, Meetings like the annual APA fulfill a five adults in the US, or 22 percent of all
rotransmitter model of mental health. red, and purple lights flash the words crucial marketing role—part of a "pre- adults suffer from a diagnosable mental
As the world's biggest drug companies "Where does it hurt?" There are no obvi- launch awareness campaign."As Dr. David disorder in a given year.
battle over markets for their new antide- ous drug names. Why advertise without Healy notes in his latest book Let Them Eat What is lost in those statistics, howev-
pressants, key allies and key opinion lead- mentioning a specific product? Because Prozac, the market development for a drug er, is that they very much depend on the
ers are drawn from the field of psychiatry Lilly is advertising a disease, not a drug. doesn't just involve scientists, but depends diagnostic criteria used by researchers. In
(known as KOLs in the Marketing world) The "Where does it hurt?" sign flashes on public relations and communications Australia, professor Ian Hickie led a major
to help educate fellow doctors about both alternately with "What four little words companies. The goal is to make the new campaign which claimed that 30 percent
the drugs and the diseases. These KOLs could give your patient a better chance drug have impact and brand presence in of people who walked into doctors' offices
are often just ordinary members of the to achieve remission?" Lilly's new drug the mind of prescribers. David Healy is had an undiagnosed mental illness. As a
medical community who can make easy Cymbalta, a serotonin, and norepineph- one of a few high-profile physicians who continued on page 14

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I f you live in the False Creek district of
Vancouver, you are accustomed to the
urban landscape —paved streets, houses,
businesses, industrial sites, and the ever-
present sound of traffic. When it rains,
water is carried t o the sea i n storm
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flowed from these marshy areas, swelled
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sula of present day downtown Vancouver
was an island. The eastern end of False
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from a narrow isthmus of land at what is
now Main Street. The shallows supported
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Hiroshima in 1945. Kudos for a really arrest- not in vain.
ing image for such an important story that Vivian Davidson
should never, ever, be forgotten. The Enola
insightful perceptions of the prevalent mind-
set of our warped consumer-driven pseudo-
culture. The good life has only produced an
Gay that dropped the first atomic bomb was Mad About Nuthouse amorphous breed of humanity caught up in
in fact a B-29, not a B-52 as mentioned on So Bill McNamara is never going to the its insatiable pursuit of needless amenities
the cover. 1 thought you should know. nuthouse" again. Well, lucky him! He has a and ego-boosts that drive this artificial and
Paul Barriscale choice, presumably. But many of us don't. unsustainable mass culture. You have bril-
We suffer from mental illness, or our family liantly illustrated this modern reality with
[We would like to thank the readers who members do. I found McNamara's article your very well crafted series that explores
wrote to advise of the error on last month's The Nuthouse truly offensive. I strongly the modern psyche with amazing lucidi-
cover. We actually did know that the Enola condemn his attitude toward the mentally ty. Your insights provoke some very much
Gay was a B-29 (as noted in the sidebar on ill, and Common Ground for publishing it. I needed soul-searching to guide our reflec-
page seven), however, with deadlines as they have a close family member who has spent tion beyond the labyrinth of today's frenzied
are, misprints sometimes occur. We apolo- some time i n Riverview. Schizophrenia pursuit o f mindless gratification. There is
gize for the error. CG] destroyed his promising academic and ath- a very relevant quote from George Bernard
letic career. It also ruined his physical health Shaw, who, I believe, said: "The reasonable
I am a third year student at the University of and social life. Now tell me what's funny man will always seek consensus among diver-
British Columbia. I would just like to take a about that. Mentally ill people, and their gent viewpoints. The unreasonable man will
moment to thank Common Ground for the families, all wish they could walk away stick to his own idea and will promote it
very extensive and well-written articles in from the whole thing like McNamara did. above others: Whatever progress humanity
the August edition regarding the Hiroshima Maybe he should talk to some of them. If has achieved is due to unreasonable men."
bombings. Few media offered any coverage he had written in the same way about vis- Please continue to be so unreasonable.
of it at all. Given how, in my opinion, it was ible minorities, he would have immediately Guy Paquette
one of the most appalling and notorious been identified as a racist.
acts of war—and loss of lives— I was sur- Carel Moiseiwitsch, xxero@mac.com
VIFF launches new film centre
FILMS WORTH WATCHING
by Robert Alstead
A f t e r years o f anticipation, t h e 40,000 VIFF Society members. (To see a the World, Common Ground) will bring his
Vancouver I n t e r n a t i o n a l F i l m film at the festival, you must buy a mem- latest film Roma to VIFF, tying in with a
Centre — the newest cinema i n town bership as most films are unclassified). planned retrospective of his work at VIFC.
—is finally opening its doors. As I write,
there are a few loose wires and the
odd stack of building materials littering
International Film Festival staff have
moved into their salubrious downtown
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feast starting on September 29.
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Understandably. The plush 175-seat cin-
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theatres," says Franey. The seats, "the pre-
mium seats in the world," were shipped in
from Paris. The 35mm, 16mm, and digi-
tal projectors came from Germany, "the
Mercedes Benz of projectors:' he says.
"The difference is that we've empha-
sized quality over quantity: that's true
in everything we've done. It's the exact
opposite sort of logic of most theatres,
which is,`Get 'ern in! Get 'ern out! Distract
them with arcade games. Get as much of The Devil's Miner documents the life of 14-year-old Basilio Vargas,
their money at the concession stand as
a Bolivian silver miner of four years standing.
possible'... We encourage people to stay."
At a time when the public is turning its
back on the cinema for DVD, this kind With the festival still to get through, The first event to use the new centre will
of luxury may rekindle people's appetite Franey expects that he won't be sched- be the annual Film and Television Trade
for the big screen experience. That, and a uling full VIFC monthly programs until Forum (September 28— 30).
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ing the year-round for his constituency of filmmaker Adolfo Aristarain (A Place in continued on page 33

10 • COMM Mind • SEPTEMBER 2005

Kropotkin vs. Darwin CULTURE 4Aa iv y,
COOPERATION AS AN EVOLUTIONARY FORCE
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far o ff future? Can a single person, a t memory hole. Yet his ideas on the cooper- work locale surprised his superiors, who
the right place at the right time, catalyze ative nature of life on Earth, though radi- resisted his eccentric-sounding decision.
change on a historic scale? In this series cal in his time, have received greater sup- He reminisced later in life about how his
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others relatively unknown, who accom- out, may even be more cooperative than sion. "Besides, I reasoned, there is in Siberia Tr a d i t i o n a l Chinese
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 The way out of
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form of unconscious resistance to what
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The intensity o f the pain depends on
the degree o f resistance to the present
moment, and this, in turn, depends on
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and free of the egoic mind.
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the Earth devoid of human life, inhabited never in actuality. it is. Observe how the mind labels it and
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continued from page 7 Kahn (who takes Effexor). The seminar of people who may be undertreated for eral of New York State launched a lawsuit
paid consultant for drug manufacturer Depression in College: Real World, Real mental illness. But they question whether against GSK, alleging that the company
Bristol Myers Squibb, Hicide was using Life, Real Issues is held in order to raise antidepressant drugs are the best way to fraudulently withheld data about Paxil's
and promoting the use of an instrument awareness about depression and the drugs treat those people. Despite the enormous safety. He noted that by "concealing criti-
to diagnose depression—one of those to treat it. Featuring free screenings for popularity for SSRI treatments for "just cally important scientific studies on Paxil,
classic screening tools that seems to catch depression and celebrity speakers— be about everything," David Antonuccio, a GSK impaired doctors' ability to make the
nearly everyone, because the symptoms they Premier Campbell or Cara Kahn—it clinical psychologist and professor in the appropriate prescribing decision for their
are so common. A few years later when is all about creating impact. department of psychiatry at the University patients and may have jeopardized their
academic researchers rigorously evaluated Perhaps being screened for depression of Nevada, says bluntly: "The scientific health and safety."
Hickie's instrument, they found it totally will help some people, but critics say that data don't support that popularity. From With thousands of drug reps working
inadequate, and were disturbed by the such screening only provides a platform my perspective, there are alternatives that clinics, hospitals, and conferences world-
huge numbers of false positives— people for those who have something to sell. They are just as effective and even have some wide and drug-funded key opinion lead-
who ended up with a label for depression say that public health agencies are being advantages in terms of preventing relaps- ers working hotel meeting rooms, how
who weren't in fact depressed. duped when they sponsor and -promote es" can public health compete? How can we
Every October, National Depression screening for normal mental distress, and After nearly 20 years of such research, reclaim medicine from the marketplace?
Screening Day rolls across campuses, hos- that they are becoming unwitting medi- Antonuccio is among the world's experts Several years ago, Bob Goodman, a New
pitals, and schools all over North America, calizers of depression. Dr. Iona Heath, a on comparative efficacy studies, those York internist started nofreelunch.org, a
asking the question, "Are you tired? Sad? general practitioner in London, England, studies that compare drug to non-drug website dedicated to escaping the influence
Anxious? Stressed?" In BC in 2003, a maintains that the whole screening para- treatments in the treatment of depression.of practitioners. A group of physicians in
one-day conference entitled Untreated digm has never been evaluated, and there In an article in 1994, he published a study Australia led by Dr. Peter Mansfield also
Depression and Anxiety Disorders in the is the likelihood that pegging someone as that showed that non-drug treatments runs a website called HealthySkepticism.
Workplace, organized by the Canadian in need of medical help may unnecessa-such as CBT, talk therapy, and even exer- org, which exposes the problems with
Mental Health Association, was spon- rily drag them into the maw of the medi- cise, to be as effective in the short run, and market-based definitions of disease and
sored by the provincial health services, a cal system. While she says it's important possibly more effective in the long run treatment. Both Goodman and Mansfield
few banks and credit unions, and Wyeth, for doctors to diagnose and treat genuine than drugs. What happened next caught are of the opinion that prescribing under
Glaxo, Pfizer, Novartis—all manufacturers mental illness, she is concerned that too him off guard. "We got contacted by every the influence of marketing is like driving
of antidepressants. This year, they've cap- many people with ordinary life experien- media outlet you can imagine C N N , under the influence of alcohol.
tured media attention with the presence of ces are being offered a label and a drug, USAToday. People from newspapers and Some say that we get the medicine we
Premier Gordon Campbell, and what bet- including those who have lost a loved TV from all over the world were calling ask for. Antidepressants fit the single-pill
ter way to focus the attention of the media one, face the prospect of job loss, live in a us. And we were thinking: "What the hell solution that many of us expect, yet when
and the masses than to use the magnet of a damp cold home, or experience domestic is going on? All we were saying is therapy the definitions of disease itself are being
high-profile politician? His personal story violence. She writes in the British Medical seems to be as good or effective as the sold, and where the dangers inherent in
is tragic —his father, an assistant dean Journal that drugs in the using those pills are downplayed, how
of medicine at the University of British the question- The explanation of chemical imbalanceshort r u n , many physicians really have what they
Columbia, suffered from alcoholism, was naires used and appears need to help their patients get through
fired, and committed suicide in 1961. Yet by medical causing depression is little more than to be bet- particularly tough times?
this kind of story is a golden opportunity researchers a clever advertising gimmick which, ter i n t h e Meanwhile, Michael Oldani (who has
to raise the kind of media-piercing aware- to "diagnose" long r u n . " since gone on to better things) has noted
ness the sponsors want for their event. depression through marketing research, has been He m a i n - that a revolution occurred in the late 1990s
Using high-profile politicians to sell sick- are so broad proven to be an effective means of gettingtains t h a t when drug salespeople gained access to
ness is not new, and some might defend that t h e y there is no "script-tracking" software. No longer did
the practice, saying that raising aware- may wrongly consumers to reach for a bottle of Prozac, new science reps need to schmooze the office recep-
ness is vital to ensuring that people get label people or Zoloft, or Paxil. to dispute tionists like Joyce with apple fritters to
the help they need. In the case of Premier as sick far those initial find out what the doctor was writing.
Campbell, his personal story is used in too often. findings. In fact, he and his colleagues Now, with the help of computers, they
neither a crass, nor distasteful, manner, Heath takes the time to listen to her have been publishing variations of the could buy prescribing data, collected from
yet it is disturbing how easily such a story patients who, she maintains, largely reject same paper for the last decade. What pharmacies and tabulated, so that the reps
can legitimize and promote the benefits of the "culture of reductionism" which redu- he says is most disheartening—that this could actually focus on the high prescrib-,
depression "screening" and treatment. It is ces their complaints to a mere problem research can't seem to pierce the all-per- ers and gain even more "face time" to pro-
definitely a coup for the drug companies with neurotransmitters. She sees the vasive worldwide view of mental illness mote products. The fact that they now had
who—providing almost the only available doctor-patient relationship in terms that as chemically caused and treated. "Look, I the real details about a doctor's prescribing
treatments—can simply sit back and allow don't fit within the instant pill-for-every- was watching Good Morning America this habits created what Michael refers to as a
public figures to do their marketing for ill model, where patients are characterized morning and they told me 'your weather technology-induced "involution" where
them. Public facilities are being harnessed as broken, and the physician is there to fix report is brought to you by Paxil:" major companies could do even more of
to the cause. The BC Ministry of Health them. She sees medical care more as a dia- The culture of antidepressant use has What works: swarm prescribers with even
sponsors the annual Depression Screening lectic, a meeting of two experts: the doctor, been beaten into our collective conscious- more representatives and gifts.
and Education Day as part of National an expert on disease, and the patient, the ness.Adverse effects associated with those And despite the controversies, the
Depression Month. Among the event's expert on his or her own aspirations. The drugs, however, do not seem to get much mounting lawsuits, and the growing sense
"gold" sponsors is Wyeth, which makes a goal is to come to a mutual agreement on airplay. A growing chorus of people charg- of unease about medicating depression,
leading antidepressant, Effexor. This day is the extent to which patients want to medi- es that there are some serious downsides Zoloft generated $3.1 billion in sales in
designed to cast a wide net, and what bet- calize their lives. She also proposes treat- to the entanglement of pharmaceutical 2003.
ter place to stage the actual screening than ments from a larger bundle of solutions, manufacturers that are defining diseases,
Alan Cassels is a drug policy researcher
in the main building housing employees like prescribing exercise which she says and physicians who are writing prescrip-
of BC's largest government ministry? is "evidence-based," and shows benefit, tions. In early 2005, amid dramatic and at the University of Victoria. He has spent
emotional public hearings at the United most of the last 10 years studying how
Given recent government cutbacks and although it is not heavily promoted in the
downsizing, there is no doubt a higher- same way as the biochemical approaches. States Food and Drug Administration, clinical research about prescription drugs is
than-normal level of angst in government. She also gets people to write things down, Karen Barth Menzies, a Los Angeles attor- communicated to policy makers, prescribers,
to tell stories, and to take dancing classes ney, testified about the concerns relating to and consumers and has produced several
Hundreds pour in to get screened.
Wyeth's marketing has not only invaded —reverting to the traditional human solu- SSRI use in children. She cited evidence of full-length documentaries for CBC Ideas,
public health facilities, however. Effexor is tion of sublimation, the art of "distracting unpublished company trials, which failed including Manufacturing Patients, which
a relatively new treatment for depression yourself from the imminence of death and to show any benefit for several of the new deals with the subject of selling sickness.
and- in the same SRNI class as Lilly's for- suffering" pills. She noted: "The clinical research- Alan Cassels presents a free talk in
thcoming Cymbalta, whose maker has She is not alone in promoting the non- ers who did these trials on kids and the the authors' tent at The Word on the
been particularly interested in targeting medication approaches to treating human drug companies themselves, confirmed Street Festival, Sunday, September 25,
the 15 million American college students. distress. Some researchers might agree that there are multiple events of suicidal- 11:20 am, Library Square (at Georgia
Wyeth funds a series of special events on that perhaps screening is not such a bad ity caused by the drug." Several months and Homer). Book signing follows. For
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Reclaiming democracy
WE STILL WANT BC-STV by Myke Logan
W a t happened t o democracy i n
h13C? Proportional representation
—electing representatives in accordance
with voter preference—is a central prin-
ciple in 90 percent of the world's major
democracies. In those countries, citizens
believe that i f I 0 percent o f the peo-
ple vote for a particular party, it only
makes sense that 10 percent of the seats
in parliament go to that party. Under
our current system, First-Past-the-Post
(FPTP), that w i l l never happen. But,
we the people still hold the keys to the
political kingdom.
Political change doesn't come easy. When
the opportunity arrives, citizenry has the
responsibility to, as Gandhi put it, "Be the
change [they] wish to see in the world."
The issue of proportional representation
is still alive. Premier Campbell, opposition
leader Carole James, and the Green Party's
Adriane Carr have all assured the public
that electoral reform is still being pursued.
The Electoral Reform Amendment to the
Referendum Act shows the BC legislature
still has the power to adopt BC-STV. A
clear majority of citizens—57.69 percent
—want BC-STV.
Some say implementing BC-STV now,
after the referendum has "failed," would
contradict democracy. Consider that for a
moment. Forty-two percent of the people
decide what's best for the majority; is this
not a distortion of democracy? What if the
threshold had been set at 65 percent or 70
percent? Democracy is rule by the people,
not people following arbitrary rules.
While we're at it, let's debunk some
other BC-STV myths.
MYTH: It's not the right system for BC
FACT: It offers proportional representa-
tion, local representation (as opposed to
toeing the party line), and greater voter
choice. MLAs are accountable, there are
no safe seats. The Citizen's Assembly spe-
cifically tailored this system for the prov-
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ince. As pointed out by J. Patrick Boyer in
Registered?
MYTH: The counting system is too dif- the July issue of Common Ground (www.
ficult to understand. commonground.ca), British Columbians
FACT: I don't understand the algorithm have always passed referenda with simple
of my email program, the mechanics of majorities. Only political protectionism A "Registered
my car engine, or the formula behind
gravity, but I trust that I can still receive
would explain opposing the will of the
people. While BC majority governments
Aromatherapist"
spam in my inbox, drive my car, and fall are elected with less than 50 percent of the or "RN' is
vote, electoral reform stagnates with 58
down the stairs. If you can list five things
in order of preference, you can understand percent of the vote. In Ireland, which has guaranteed to:
your role in STV. a successful S W system in place, politi-
cians twice tried to pass referenda repeal-
MYTH: BC-STV means more comput-
erized vote-counting. ing STV, requiring only 50 percent plus
Have an education,
FACT: In Vancouver, votes have been one vote to do so. which meets standards
The Citizen's Assembly on Electoral
scanned and tallied by computer since
Reform was one of the grandest experi-
established by the
1988. The paper ballots would remain as
a verifiable record. ments in modern deliberative democracy. BC Alliance Of
At no other time have citizens been given Aromatherapy
Simple majorities of 50 percent the opportunity to address and correct
electoral politics on behalf of a popu-
plus one vote are the standing lace (without resorting to violence). The Be aware of all safety
rule, and such a capricious Assembly — one man and one woman
from every riding, plus two aboriginals & health concerns
replacement o f democratic —were given a year to determine and associated with
principles is an abuse of the recommend a voting system, which rep-
resented all sections of the population. Essential Oils
people's trust. An overwhelming majority (93 percent)
voted to recommend BC-STV to British
MYTH: There will be too many candi- Columbians.
Be capable of preparing
dates on the ballots. Nonetheless, BC-STV is not the only Aromatherapeutic
FACT: Where STV is used, there were option. Far more democratic countries in Blends
an average of seven choices where three the world use the mixed-member propor-
officials are being elected, and 15 choices tional (MMP) system. Katherine Gordon, to address
responsible for presenting the merits and
where six officials are being elected.
Though not an electoral conspiracy shortfalls of MMP to the Assembly, says
your concerns
(because the Assembly wouldn't have that although she favours MMP, her "fun-
happened in the first place, if it was), the damental vote is for electoral reform." Find out more at:
double super-majority referendum con- Gordon voted under the MMP system in
tinues to beg the question of why the dif- New Zealand, and like most of the prov-
ference in standards. Simple majorities of ince, knows FPTP "simply doesn't work."
50 percent plus one vote are the standing It's up to the voters to make the dif-
rule, and such a capricious replacement ference now, and to hold the politicians,
of democratic principles is an abuse of who promised electoral reform, account- 1-866-339-2226
the people's trust. What is more frighten- able. Solutions exist: reintroducing the
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Let's get out of NAFTA by David Orchard and Mel Clark
POLITICS
I n the flurry of outrage over the US turn away from the multilateral frame- hefty steel duties against Europe, Japan FTA Article 2106, NAFTA Article 2205,
refusal t o comply with the latest work of trade rules with the US and enter and a number of other steel exporters, Canada can, with six months notice,
NAFTA ruling on lumber, something into a bilateral one-on-one free trade Europe triggered the WTO retaliatory pro- withdraw from these agreements without
is missing. Editorials abound, former agreement (FTA) in the mid-1980s, that cess and the Bush administration backed penalty and without conditions. Our trad-
negotiators and promoters of NAFTA US industry saw its opportunity and used down. The same defences are available to ing relations with the US will then auto-
are talking tough. Others suggest ill-con- it. It has been using it ever since. Canada under the WTO. matically revert back to the GATT/WTO
ceived threats or demand that the prime Under the FTA and NAFTA, it is US Since signing the FTA and NAFTA, the framework of international law, which
minister talk to President Bush. law which now applies in countervailing, US has taken 10 trade actions against the will enable us to both maintain our insti-
Nowhere in these responses is there anti-dumping and related disputes with Canadian Wheat Board, Canada's largest tutions and trade profitably with the US.
a concrete plan of how Canada should the US. The dispute panels are limited to net earner of foreign currency, and we All of the intolerable NAFTA rights US
respond. deciding if the US has applied its own law now have US tariffs against our wheat companies now have over Canada—to sue
Lost in the cacophony of bluster is the fact correctly. Furthermore, the US can at any exports. the Canadian government, to overturn
that Canada is already part of a coherent time amend its trade law without Canada's In all the years of trading with the Canadian laws, to control our exports and
rules-based trade agreement with the US. agreement, and on lumber alone, it has US under GATT, the Americans never energy prices—would disappear. Chasing
It is called the World Trade Organization done so three times to Canada's great dis- launched a single formal action against the dream of a "special relationship" and
(WTO), formerly the General Agreement advantage. In other words, the FTA and the Wheat Board, because they knew they some kind of shortcut to "secure access"
on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and it has NAFTA, instead of giving us more secure could not win. to the US market is a dangerous delusion
the mechanisms already in place to enable US market access, unleashed the full force The essence of the FTA and NAFTA is which has cost Canada dearly.
Canada to emerge a clear winner from the •of US protectionism to be used against that they cede vital government powers
current situation. Canada in a way that was not possible to the US and the private sector that were To read more on NAFTA problems by
Founded in the late 1940s, the GATT/ under GATT/WTO. used to build an independent Canada. David Orchard see www.commonground.
WTO was for almost 40 years the primary As for the dispute settlement mecha- What the US wants out of the repeated ca
trade contract between Canada and the nism, touted repeatedly as the crown jewel challenges against Canadian lumber David Orchard is the author of The Fight
US. In all of that time, the US was never of the FTA, all agreements end when the exports is to wear Canada down until it for Canada—Four Centuries of Resistance
able to levy a countervailing or anti- negotiated means of resolution are dis- agrees to privatize its crown-owned for- to American Expansionism, and ran for
dumping duty on our exports of lumber. carded by either player. ests, opening them to direct US owner- the leadership of the federal Progressive
During those four decades, Canada traded The answer is not to shake our fists or ship. In grain, the US wants an end to the Conservative Party in 1998 and 2003. He
profitably, our standard of living rose, we shout meaningless threats at the US. The Canadian Wheat Board. This would see farms at Borden, SK davidorchard@sasktel.
won almost all our trade disputes with answer is to simply return to the safer, the Canadian grain trade move virtually net
the US—and Washington abided by the more effective, already existing multilat- overnight into US hands. Mel G. Clark was deputy chief nego-
rulings. By the mid-1980s, 90 percent of eral WTO franework. Under the WTO There is a simple way out, without blus- tiator for Canada at the Tdkyo Round of
Canadian lumber entered the US tariff we have all the levers to get back the $5 ter or insults. Canada does not have to GATT and Canada's chief negotiator for the
free and the duties on the remaining 10 billion the US has taken in lumber tariffs give up ownership of its forests, its indus- International Grains Agreement. Retired
percent were negligible. and to make sure it doesn't happen again. tries and its institutions. and living in Ottawa, he is currently writing
It was only when Canada decided to When the US not long ago threatened With a simple letter to the US, under a book on NAFTA's impact on Canada.

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 Organic farming
the trial. Researchers measured the eco-
nomic feasibility of each farming system,
along with its environmental impacts,
energy consumption, and other indicators.
sive (weeding by hand, for instance, as
opposed to spraying with herbicides),
because consumers were willing to pay a
premium for organics, the profit margins

time-tested They found that for some crops, like corn

and soybeans, organic farming systems
produced the same yields as conventional
were often higher.
Arguing that certain organic tech-
nologies—the use of off-season crops,
SCIENCE MATTERS systems, but used 30 percent less energy, extended crop rotations, increased organ-
less water, and no pesticides. ic matter in the soil, and enhanced natu-
by David Suzuki In fact, during drought years, corn ral biodiversity—should be more widely
yields in the organic systems were 30 adopted, researchers concluded: "Some or
I t might seem like a hip new trend, but izer and pesticide run-off, to soil erosion, percent higher than those in the conven- all of these technologies have the potential
various forms of organic agriculture to reduced soil fertility. Today, new studies tional system. Researchers state that the to increase the ecological, energetic, and
have been around for some 6,000 years. show that organic agriculture can often organic systems were able to perform bet- economic sustainability of all agricultural
While organic farming almost disap- match, and sometimes exceed, yields from ter in drought conditions because their cropping systems, not only organic sys-
peared in North America during the conventional agriculture, while eliminat- soils contained much larger amounts of tems."
latter half of the 20th century, it has ing the need for pesti- carbon and organic matter. In other words, many organic practices
recently taken off as both consumers and cides and, at the same Increased organic matter also simply make sense, regardless of which
farmers have discovered the benefits of a time, conserving soil Long before scienceled to a more diverse mix of agricultural system is utilized. Far from
more holistic approach to agriculture. quality. could tell us why creatures in the organic being a quaint throwback to an earlier
Organic farming is rooted in ancient The Rodale farm- plots, including twice the time, organic agriculture is proving to be
knowledge that has been passed down ing systems trial is the certain f a r m i n g number of earthworms. In both a serious contender in modern farm-
through generations. Long before science longest running com- methods produced turn, increased diversity ing practices, and a more environmentally
could tell us why certain farming meth- parison of organic and helped reduce damage from sustainable system over the long term.
ods produced greater crop yields, organic conventional farming greater crop yields, insect pests, by introducing With consumers expressing a preference
farmers were learning what worked and in the US. For 22 years, organic farmers a greater number of natural for organics, and farmers realizing the
what didn't—the hard way—and sharing researchers have plant- predators. benefits, this is one trend that's likely to
their knowledge with others. ed crops at the Rodale were learning what In addition to the organic stay.
With the advent of industrial farming farm in Pennsylvania, worked and what systems having numerous *The Green Revolution, a term coined
and the Green Revolution*, organic farm- using a mix of conven- beneficial effects upon the in 1968 by William Gaud, director of the
ing was considered quaint or old-fash- tional agriculture and didn't environment—as one would USAgency for International Development,
ioned — something practised by hippies two organic farming expect—the researchers also defined a movement to increase yields
on communes, but certainly not by seri- systems: one uses animal manure for fer- found that the organic systems could be by using irrigation, pesticides, fertilizers,
ous farmers. But while the green revolu- tilizer, and the other is based on utilizing as profitable, if not more so, than the mechanization, and new crop cultivars.
tion initially produced higher crop yields, nitrogen-fixing legumes. Recently, the conventional systems. And although the Take the Nature Challenge and learn
it also created new problems, from fertil- journal Bioscience published a review of organic systems were more labour inten- more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

Where will our

food come from? action. If Cuba can do it, what's to stop groviting organic crops. The shift entails
EARTHFUTURE.COM •rest of us? As the food crisis deepens smaller farms with more people working,
by Guy Dauncey aid the price of oil keeps rising, the cost a great benefit to rural life as homesteads
A food will go up, making it more attrac- grow into rural ecovillages. In Europe,
Peaches and blueberries, apples and natural gas for its synthesis from atmo- tive to grow local, organic food. As oil- several nations help farmers make the
plums, `tis the season of harvest and spheric nitrogen, and the world's gas driven cars and trucks disappear from our switch with an organic transition subsidy,
amply fed turns. But there's a cloud supply will peak by 2020, and disappear streets, making way for bicycles, biofuelled financed by a tax on pesticides and fer-
looming on the farming horizon that by 2060. Phosphate and buses, and electric vehi- tilizers. The yields from organic farming
we need to address, before it renders potash both require oil A recent eight-year cles, the air will become can be just as high as yields from chemi-
our harvest celebration considerably less for mining, processing, cleaner too, making cal farming, so there's no need to worry
celebratory. and trucking, and the study by a Universitypeople feel better about about declining harvests.
In the summer of 2003, when Europe world's oil supply will of Arizona archaeolo o,nwing food in the Finally, two other changes would make
sweltered through a month-long heat be gone by 2030. Most city. The next time you our food supply go much further. First, we
wave, Ukraine lost 75 percent of its harvest. pesticides are also made gist has documentedwander around your should stop wasting so much (and eating
Overall, Europe lost 32 million tonnes of from oil and gas. that more than 40 per- neighbourhood, make so much). A recent eight-year study by a
grain that summer, the equivalent of half Further, the water a mental note of how University of Arizona archaeologist has
the US wheat crop. As temperatures rise tables are falling in sev- cent of the food grown mach land could grow documented that more than 40 percent
because of climate change, we can expect eral of the world's grain- in the US is either lost food. It's everywhere! of the food grown in the US is either lost
to see similar losses. At the same time, our growing areas: the North Yet, in Victoria, which or thrown away. Secondly, if we stopped
population is growing by 74 million peo- China Plan; most o f or thrown away. prides itself on being eating meat, we could produce far more
ple a year, the equivalent of two additional India; and in the US, the the city of gardens, I food, since 'a meat-based diet requires
Canadas and two Irelands. southern Great Plains and the'southwest. estimate that only one garden in five has seven times more land than a diet based
For the past 50 years, modern farming No water, no food. Enough! This is the much beyond a lawn. on plaits. More than half of US farmland
has shown an amazing ability to increase kind of stuff that gives environmentalists When we grow food organically, there's is devoted to cattle. A meat-eater needs
production in pace with the growing pop- a bad name:—gloom, doom, and worst- no need for pesticides and fertilizers, and 3.25 acres of farmland. A vegetarian needs
ulation. However, from 2000 to 2003 it case scenarios. But let's assume there will the food is healthier, too. A recent study of 03 acres. A vegan needs 0.16 acres. I rest
failed to do so, and the world's food surplus be a global food crunch, as temperatures 180 farms in Britain showed that organic my case.
fell dramatically. Fortunately, in 2004 the rise, water tables fall, oil and gas become farms are also better for wildlife, with 85 Guy Dauncey is president of the BC
harvest bounced back with a record 2,049 too expensive to use, and the world popu- percent more plant species, 33 percent Sustainable Energy Association (www.
million tons, nine percent higher than in lation keeps rising. Where will our food more bats, 17 percent more spiders, and 5 bcsea.org). He leads a five-day workshop on
2003. We should not become complacent, come from, then? percent more birds. Spirit, Science and Evolution: The Great
however. Of the three fertilizers used in The answer lies in our own backyards, Could the prairies go organic? Of course Unfolding at Hollyhock, October 9-14.
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Serving Vancouver since 1985

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October 4-5
Travel planning available. Call Gary, 604-
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Special September Birthday Celebrations
Honouring Sant Rajinder Singh & Sant
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Meditation: 6PM Celebration followed by
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Under our feet, water still flows system and goes directly into the Creek.
by Celia Brauer
The city is working on a 30-year plan to
T h e creeks that once flowed into False • Patronize environmentally friendly and trees. These reduce water usage and twin these pipes so they do not mix. Staff
Creek are still there; you just can't businesses in your area. maintenance, attract birds and helpful need to know we support this progress.
see them because they are hidden under- • Reduce, reuse insects, .and bring • Support o r join an environmen-
ground. If you live in the area, here are and r e c y c l e a s more biodiversity tal organization that is working in your
some ways you can help sustain the local much as possible. and tranquility to watershed. The following are some helpful
ecosystem. This includes water, the area.. connections: Community advisor, Burrard
• Use non-toxic, fish friendly cleaners green garden clip- • Follow the Inlet and Indian Arm; Fisheries and
when washing your car, and keep other pings, and small progress as t h e Oceans Canada, 604-666-0743; Rivershed
toxic substances off the street. The fish and large house- city of Vancouver Society of BC, 604-941-5937, www.river-
painted on many storm drains in your hold items. moves t o w a r d s shed.com; The Salmon Celebration, www.
neighbourhood are a reminder that they • Create a more separating t h e publicdreams.org
empty into fish-bearing habitat. Yes, there natural, n a t i v e sewer/storm run- Celia Brauer, a passionate advocate of
are still fish and other sea life in False landscape in your garden. Fill up large off system.. Today, during heavy rain- the environment, produced the original
Creek! grassy areas with native shrubs, flowers, storms, sewage overflows the present salmon illustration.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
List at: www.commonground.ca > Advertising > Datebook > Deadline Sept 15 for Oct issue
SEPT 8-14 SEPT 16 person includes bed and breakfast. NOV 5
7-day Advanced Chakra Wake up your senses with Travel planning assistance avail- DRU Y o g a W o r k s h o p
Workshop with Anodea Judith the sound and colour of the crystal able. Call Gary, 604-538-3018. Vancouver* Dynamic DRU Flow.
author of Eastern Body, Western bowls. Crystal Bowl concert with Email farmergaryeh@netscape.net 1.30 - 5pm, ThePeace Centre, 604-
Mind. Using yoga and experiential Evelyn Mulders and Pat Everatt. www bishopsandkings.com 876-5153. www.druyoga.com
work, we will move our way from 7:00 - 9:30 pm Evergreen
root to crown spending one day Cultural Centre, Coquitlam 604- OCT 6-9 SUNDAYS
per chakra. Contact Nathalie 927-6555. Tickets $27.50. DRU M e d i t a t i o n The Centre f o r Spiritual
ravenandthefrog@hotmail.com Retreat*Rivendell R e t r e a t Living Inspired by the teach-
604-272-4135. SEPT 16-18 Centre, Bowen Island. Access ings of Deepak Chopra and Louise
Mindfulness Based Stress the power of your natural state Hay? You'll love our Sunday ser-
SEPT 9 Reduction (M.B.S.R.) week- of fullness. Practical Details at vices, 11:00am. Children welcome.
Celebrate SFU 40th Anniversary end workshop with Dr. Eddie 604 922 4067. Email:susan. 1495 W. 8th Ave, Vancouver, 604-
Simon Fraser University kicks off a Berinstein. Formal and informal kulas@lifefoundation.org.uk 321-1225 www.csIvancouvercom
year of celebrations when it turns mindfulness practices includ- International Spiritualist
40 on September 9th. For more ing sitting, walking, loving kind- OCT 8
information about the anniver- ness and bodyscan meditation. Open House - Rosen Method Alliance #1A -320 Columbia
Bodywork and Movement, "The Street, New West (Downstairs)
sary, and a calendar of events visit Dayspring Retreat, Roberts Creek,
www.sfu.ca/40th_anniversary BC. 1-877-885-0179. Wisdom of the Body," 10:30 am- 604-521-6336. Sunday Services
3:00 pm. $5. Movement .Class: 11am . Rev. Joyce Tarvin 604-
11:00 am. Talk/Demo1:00 pm. 433-6663 See resource directory.
Brazil, spirits and healing. SEPT 17-18 & 24-25
Talk/slide show by Amy Blank, International School o f Sessions/reduced fee at 3:00 pm. www.isacanada.ca
energy-medicine intuitive. 7:30pm, Energy Medicine Level One Sam Graci in BC Sept. 19, Victoria; Sept. 27, Vancouver; Sept. 535 W. 10th Ave. 604-736-0406,
Ama VanDusen room, Vancouver Certified Professional and Personal 28, Langley; Oct. 5, Penticton; Oct. 30, Vancouver Health Show. 1-377-855-0179.. www.rosen- TUESDAYS
Public Library (350 Georgia St.), Training. Powerful, Exciting and Call 1-877-500-7888 for details. www.genuinehealth.comlevents.method-canada.com Reflexology Student Clinic
$5 donation. 604-872-5220. Inspirational, Hands-off Healing. sessions - only $15. Evenings only.
$650. Details: 604-638-5175, All seminars free except for the Vancouver Health Show. OCT 9 - 14 By appointment. Pacific Institute
SEPT 9, 10, 11 michaeldaltonbio@hotmail.com Spirit, S c i e n c e a n d of Reflexology. 604.875.8818
Introduction t o F o o t parking lot off Dean Park Road. - 84 Ave., Surrey. Both 7-9:00 pm. Evolution: The Great Unfolding
Reflexology commences SEPT 23 By donation. For more details visit Brian, 604-877-1467. www.earthfuture.com/syntropy/ A WEDNESDAYS
Certificate Weekend Course. *BHAGAVAN DAS* *Kirtan www.sierraclub.ca/bc. 5-day intensive workshop with Hawaiian Healing N i g h t
Intro: $10. Course: $295.00 Pacific Chants & Sacred Music* Stefan OCT 1-2 Guy Dauncey at Hollyhock, Cortes 7pm. Hawaiian guided Meditation,
Institute of Reflexology (604) 875- Cihelka tablas, Prashant John, Bhagavan Das Mysticism of "What the e=mc2 do we know Island. www.hollyhock.ca 1-800- Sharing the Aloha,and snacks
8818 flute, Richard Sales, guitar & Sound Bhagavan Nada Workshop about vibrational medicine?" 933-6339. after, meet like-minded people
vocals. Baha'i Centre, 5880 Main, & Yoga. Semperviva Yoga, Sky Vibrational Medicine workshop, and share. $5.00 donation. At
SEPT 9-11 7:30pm. $20 advance/$24 door. Centre, 2582 W. Broadway, 1-4pm. Evelyn Mulders, founder of the OCT 12 & 26, NOV 2 & 9
Ferngully Retreat 2005 on For tickets, see ad pg 19 $65. Tickets Banyen, 604-737- Kinesiology College of Canada. Creating Peace Through Dru Hale Ola - a place of Healing 1215
Gambier Island invites you for a 8858, Highlife Records, 604-251- $295.00, 9:30 - 3:30, location Yoga, 8-9:30 Masterclass, Gita, Madison ave. Burnaby 604-431-
weekend of healing.33 workshops, SEPT 22-25 6964, Semperviva, 604-739-2009. TBA, Vancouver, to register phone Meditation. ThePeace Centre, 604- 7474 Kaimana and Moanikeala
meals and transportation included DANCINGTHEBODY'S WISDOM 250-499-7771. 876-5153. www.druyoga.com
SEPT 26-27 Meditation & Self-inquiry:
for $325. www.ferngullyretreat. A movement therapy training Have you lost the balance and
com or call 778.883.7706 for those who wish to integrate- Two-evening introduction Taste o f Health Vancouver's OCT 15-23 rhythm in your life? Let stillness
movement into their work and to the Diamond Approach path, largest vegetarian festival. Rosen Method Bodywork (through self-inquiry) return your
SEPT 10-12 life. Catherine Fallis The Haven developed by A.H. Almaas. 6.30- Croation Cultural Centre, 3250 Intensive workshop with teachers wholeness. 5-7 pm. 317-1613.
BEAUTIFUL SILENT RETREAT Institute, Gabriola Is. 1-877-247- 9.30PM $90 for both evenings. Commercial Drive (at 16th), 10am- Bill Samsel & Marlette Berinstein.
for spiritual renewal and healing. 9238 www.haven.ca judithbradley@shaw.ca 604 251 6pm. Tickets $7. Children under 12 Demonstrations, movement, THURSDAYS
Mountains, oceans, gardens. Good 9034. & EarthSave members free. 604- hands-on experience, witnessing, Pranic Healing Clinics Non
food and comfortable accommo- SEPT 23-25 731-5885. www.tasteofhealth. discussion & sharing, $850, 535 touch energy healing. By dona-
dation. SRMH Centre, Sunshine Rediscover Your Wholeness. SEPT 28 - OCT 2 corn <http://www.tasteofhealth. West 10th Ave. Van. 1-877-885- tion. *In N. Vancouver: reopens
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body wisdom, and integrate workshop with teachersJulia com 2:00pm a n d 6:00pm-9:00pm.
Psychic Fair from 1 - 4:00 pm. your sexuality with spirituality. Martin & Aurelia Priotto. Relax, OCT 1-3 Pram Healing Centre, 204-133 E.
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tion about your relationships, bodyelectric.org • Call Vera ®The Dayspring Retreat, Roberts Creek, 3-day stone massage workshop/ Coquitlam - Move with ease - flow 11:00am-3:00pm. St. George's
finances, spiritual purpose and Art of Loving 604-742-9988. BC.$525. 1-877-885-0179. retreat at Xenia on Bowen Island. with life. 604-936-3255. www. Place, 2950 Laurel St. *Meditation
morel CDM Psychic Institute, www.rosenmethod-canada.comFor more info, please call 604-671- druyoga.com for Planetary Peace at start of each
1114 W. Broadway, Suite 202, SEPT 24 4325 or email hazmatt@telus.net clinic. Last healing begins half-
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medicine wheel celebration.* Sat. Vancouver International DRU Y o g a W o r k s h o p wwwpranicheafing.ca
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Wellness Lecture Series, Trout chants. Bring friends, drums, cedar day at SFU. Garlanding Peace Kent Street, 604-936-3255. www. or Progressive Counselling a t
Lake Community Centre, 3350 flute, didgeridoo, crystal bowls. SEPT 30 Ceremony, 6:45pm, Peace Square, druyoga.com GaiaGarden, Kitsilano. Effective,
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on knowledge. Massage, holis- drumcircles.ca $10. Course: $295.00 Pacific Clague. Info at www.gandhijay- Int-oductory Presentation. 7pm, 1-604-740-0898
tic Treatment, chiropractic care, Institute o f Reflexology (604) anti.com, or call 604 291-5855. UBCLibrary at Robson Square &
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 continued from page 11 inevitably straining potential supplies of violinist picked up the tempo, and the
driver of evolutionary advance was not food and space "required quite a leap of cherry-eater stopped chewing, the coast
so much competition within a species for imagination!' was clear. Kropotkin, in a long, green,
limited resources; it was through coopera- Independently of one another, Darwin dressing gown, ran for his life, later recall-
tion within a species to maximize survival and Alfred Russell Wallace came across ing a sentry so close behind that several
against harsh external conditions. their theory of evolution while reading times he flung his rifle forward trying to
The Russian scholar has been long dis- Malthus. The mutual revelations occurred give the prisoner a blow in the back with
missed as a footnote in biological think- the bayonet. Amazingly, the prince made
ing: a nave sentimentalist whose scientific it to a waiting carriage driven by a co-
thinking was coloured by his anarchist conspirator, and sped off to safety.
sympathies. But have Darwin's Writes Blieibtreu: "He shaved
own ideas a certain culture- his beard, and was provided
bound tint? His famous "aha" with an officer's uniform
moment came upon read- on the assumption,
ing the work of Thomas which later proved
Malthus, who correctly quite correct, that in
held that population despotic Russia, cus-
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while food resources
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leads to an inexorable delaying him with
struggle for survival by an overly scrupu-
living creatures. lous examination of
In a 1991 essay called his papers:'
Kropotkin Was No Crank, In disguise,ICropotIcin
Harvard palaepntologist arrived in London. He
Stephen Jay Gould noted travelled widely through
that Malthus "makes a far bet- Europe, agitating in his writ-
ter prophet in a crowded, industrial ings for various socialist and
country professing an ideal of open revolutionary causes. He narrowly
competition in free markets!' Malthus was escaped jail in France for his agitation,
less comprehensible to Russians. "He was and returned to London in 1886. Here he
foreign to their experience because, quite for both in the tropics, and no other area hooked up with James Keltie, assistant edi-
simply, Russia's huge land mass dwarfed on Earth is so packed with species, and tor of the British science journal, Nature.
its sparse population." For a Russian to so replete with bodies in competition. Unaware of his true identity, Keltie gave
see an inexorably increasing population According to Gould, "An Englishman the emigrant Russian work translating
who had learned the ways of nature in the items from foreign journals into English.
tropics was almost bound to view evolu- When Kropotkin received his own book
tion differently from a Russian nurtured on the glacial history of Eurasia to review,
on tales of the Siberian wasteland!' the jig was up, and the prince revealed his
Gwen The ideas of cooperation in the wild true identify to the editor.
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another, which is about child silver miners
in Bolivia. Franey calls it "extraordinary...
amazingly shot." He also recommends
Mahaleo, about a Madagascan big band.
"It's got a very fine photographic eye, so
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just the music." Sound like The Buena
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Franey.
He also loved Shape of the Moon (Stand
van de Maan), an intimate portrait of a
poor family in Indonesia. The film won
the Sundance Film Festival grand jury
award, although Franey is not sure that
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we hear a lot of stuff that we don't know
how to interpret in the Third World."
Monte Grande — What Is Life? about
Chilean neurobiologist Francisco Varela,
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rigour.
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