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Marginal Notes: Unions Call on City to let Occupy Calgary stay.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 7, 2011 MEDIA ALERT Unions Call on City to let Occupy Calgary stay. The city of Calgary has been contemplating evicting Occupy Calgary Activists from Olympic Plaza. The labour movement supports the Occupy Calgary movement and urges City Council to let the protesters stay. “The Occupy
Continue readingMarginal Notes: Will Calgary Be the First City to Illegally Arrest and Evict Protesters?
Media reports, as well as insider reports, indicate that Calgary may be the first city in Canada to take action against Occupy protesters. Please read our letter to city officials and consider signing our petition. We, the undersigned, are a group of concerned citizens who are asking City of Calgary
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WHY? The share of the world income received by the richest 20% of the world’s countries relative to the share received by the poorest 20% has gone from a ratio of 3:1 in 1820 to 30:1 in 1960 to 74:1 in 1997 Taking the richest 10% of those on the
Continue readingMarginal Notes: SlutWalk is so June 2011
While some heralded SlutWalk as the future of feminism, the lack of hype around Calgary’s second attempt at SlutWalk reveals that it was little more than a trend that has already begun to fizzle out. So, I’ll keep my remarks brief and leave you with a radio interview that I
Continue readingMarginal Notes: Happy New Year
Still too busy to blog, but Happy New Year to folks out there. Apparently, 2011 is the year of the rabbit which happens to be my chinese Zodiac sign… Talk soon!
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