Papers, blogs, Facebook, and all manner of online sites are abuzz with discussion of the Tamils’ plight. I’m encouraged to read that while many Canadians remain uninvolved in the struggle, they are at least aware (or becoming more aware) of the situation. But of course, there remains a stubborn group
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Seeing Red in the Southwest: a tribute slideshow
Just made my first upload to YouTube. I’m sure I need to learn something because the quality is not as high as when I view it on my own laptop. Oh well, it was a creative endeavour that was healing.Caleb’s Memorial Monolith BurnOh and I really didn’t like that YouTube
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: postponing birthday
Can you imagine having a birthday in the middle of this? On April 17th, I witnessed the shooting suicide of one of my best friends in the world, a man I loved. I am so friggin’ mad that I couldn’t stop him. I tried everything. But I’m even madder that
Continue readingredjenny: It isn’t surprising…
… that ‘Status Indians’ face threat of extinction, since the Indian Act was implemented specifically for the purpose of eradicating indigenous peoples and culture. Indian Status was designed to reduce the Indian population, a neat solution to the “Indian Problem”. Within a few generations, it was assumed, the Indian population
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: For us, an inconvenience. For them, life or death.
I just got home to read headlines about Tamil protesters blocking Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway, in both directions. If you need attention, that’s a pretty good way to get it. Pretty good trick, but you need the numbers to pull it off.Fortunately for the Tamil community, they do. Weeks ago, as
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Take back the Day
In North America, Mother’s Day was originally a day marked by women’s peace organizations. Mothers whose sons had fought or died on both sides of the American Civil War would meet to patch the country back together again. Mother’s Day Work Clubs assisted the encampments during the war to fight
Continue readingredjenny: ACTION ALERT: Keep Terminator Seed out of Canada
Member of Parliament Alex Atamanenko (NDP) has reintroduced his Private Members Bill (C-343) to ban the release, sale, importation and use of Terminator technology. What is Terminator? Terminator Technology genetically engineers plants to produce sterile seeds at harvest. It was developed by the multinational seed/agrochemical industry and the US government
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: face-to-face with PTSD
On April 16th, I flew to Reno and was met at the airport by one of the best friends I’ve ever had, Caleb Schaber. I’ve known Caleb since last year’s Burning Man event in August. We volunteered together on a team to help create the best community newspaper in the
Continue readingredjenny: The Power of Poetry
A while back, I posted a poem written by Drew Dillinger. It begins: it’s 3:23 in the morningand I’m awakebecause my great great grandchildrenwon’t let me sleepmy great great grandchildrenask me in dreamswhat did you do while the planet was plundered?what did you do when the earth was unraveling? Words
Continue readingredjenny: The media have finally discovered homelessness. Not surprisingly, they get the story wrong
One of the fundamental human requirements is shelter. How do homeless people survive? Where do they sleep? On friends and family’s couches and floors (if they are lucky), at shelters, in churches, in parks, on sidewalk grates, in abandoned buildings, in doorways, under bridges, in cars, or wherever else they
Continue readingredjenny: Early Farmers in the Americas – Farming because they wanted to, not because they had to
This is an interesting article, especially for me, with my interest in indigenous precolumbian agriculture in the Americas. Three thousand eight hundred years ago, long before U.S. plains rippled with vast rows of corn, Native Americans planted farms with hardy “pioneer” crops, according to new evidence of the first farming
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Video Tells All!
Thanks to Cam Holmstrom for staying on top of the Attawapiskat school story.This video says all that needs to be said.The last lines by a young male student, “We want a new school now, not next year or years from now. We want a new school now.”What are we able
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Opening the Doors OR Circling the Wagons?
Who hasn’t heard of One Member One Vote? Then there’s the amendment put forward by the Young Liberal Commission.Jim Curran has started a forum topic at En Famille to discuss this issue. He puts the wording for both right there up front.I’ve been trying to think of a way forward.
Continue readingredjenny: If Janitors Were Like CEOs – Comic
haha! I wanna be a janitor. By Matt Bors
Continue readingredjenny: Sometimes not knowing is better
At least when you’re talking about these. I am convinced we are seeing end times when slapping peanut butter on bread is too much work for us. And I thought Bagelfuls, precooked eggs and Lunchables were bad.
Continue readingredjenny: Impatient for Spring
March 2, 2009 – Impatient for spring and inspired by Mother Earth News, I planted three kinds of lettuce (obtained at Seedy Saturday). Green oak, red deer tongue, and mystery lettuce (from the seed exchange). March 21, 2009 – Off to a respectable start: The first to germinate was the
Continue readingThe Church Of Mothra - Home Of The Breakfast Mojito! ©: Voyeuristic Greed Porn
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Continue readingJacked Up: Students fight back against Conservative scandal
The Canadian Federation of Students today called on Stephen Harper to disclose how much funding has gone in to the intentional disruption of democracy on University and College campuses accross Canada. Many prominent Conservatives have been involved in coaching young Conservative student council candidates on how to siphon off money
Continue readingredjenny: Canada’s Banks: Accidentally not in Crisis Yet
Hahahaha!From Rick Mercer The National Post agrees: Canadian banks – saved from stomping around as monoliths on a world stage backed by Canadian taxpayers — are the least ugly in what can only be called a reverse beauty contest among banks. You know how we used to laugh at the
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