Canada World Youth intern, Justin Chisholm (writing for the Sierra Youth Coalition), analyzes the recent cuts to the Canadian Environmental Network. Minister of Environment Hon. Peter Kent and the federal government have severed a thirty-four year relationship with the Canadian … Continue reading →
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Robertson Warns GOP of “Extremism”
In a rare moment of pragmatic clarity, Pat Robertson worries that shameless pandering to the extreme right-wing base of the Republican Party will make the eventual winner of the primary race completely unelectable in the 2012 presidential contest. It’s a … Continue reading →
Canadian Dimension Feed: Imperialism and Democracy: White House or Liberty Square?
Introduction:
The relation between imperialism and democracy has been debated
and discussed over 2500 years, from fifth century Athens to Liberty Park in
Manhattan. Contemporary critics of imperialism (and capitalism) claim to
find a fundamental inco…
Paul S. Graham: Video: Four Directions Walk to End Poverty
Despite its well established habit of electing social democratic governments, Winnipeg has claimed some dubious honors — “Murder Capital of Canada” and “Child Poverty Capital of Canada” to name two of the most disturbing. Even though we have had 11 years of NDP government to undo the damage of Gary Filmon’s Conservatives, both poverty and […]
Buckdog: Harper’s New Libyan Government Pals = "Meet The New Boss … Same As The Old Boss" … YIKES!
I hated Gaddafi. He should have been put on trial for crimes against humanity and crimes against his own people. Harper’s new Libyan allies had something else in mind.Daily Mail – NOTE: Extremely graphic content WARNING!
Continue readingTory Taber wanks on for the Conservatives. Again.
Whatever they pay her is not enough.
Jane Taber has made quite a reputation for herself as a hagiographer for women – Conservative women, that is. Today, Taber doubles down on Lisa Raitt whilst adding Rona Ambrose to the mix.
It’s not so much that Taber and the Globe love to exalt Conservatives but it is that Taber does . . . → Read More: Tory Taber wanks on for the Conservatives. Again.
Continue readingMediabuzzard.com: Occupy Wall Street ?…nawww Occupy the Rez
Red Man Laughing ,gets it right on the Occupy Wall Street Movement,does this movement(s) have any value ? Perhaps,as far as raising awareness goes,a good thing. BUT that said ,will OWS actually change anything at the local level where we ALL live,work,raise our families,love,suffer,die …that is where real change
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Valhalla Awaits!
Its seems to be Final Conflict time re the gun registry, brothers & sisters. Lets have the argument one more time, because whenever we do the polls eventually tip 2-to-1 against a repeal, and the government winds siding against the will …
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Home energy retrofit (part 2)
This summer I put our household through an energy efficiency retrofit. I was working on a research paper on energy efficiency, and then both the BC and federal governments announced new funding for their retrofit programs, so I engaged in some direct action research, staring with an energy audit of our home (more in part […]
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Occupy the NDP
There’s nothing quite like a global social movement to knock other stuff off the front pages and the Occupy movement has done just that. After ignoring it for weeks while it was being born in New York, the media has been all over it. I half expec…
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Says Blatchford, First We Shoot All The Nurses
I actually did a double take, and my jaw dropped, slightly when I read this: It’s why, where I used to think that before I got really old I’d get me a gun so I could shoot myself, I now wonder if I won’t instead turn the weapon on some officious hospital executive, wanker bureaucrat […]
The Progressive Economics Forum: The financial wealth of Canada’s top 1%
Eric Pineault wrote to add some data on financial wealth distribution for Canada. He had a research assistant comb through microdata from Statcan’s Survey of Financial Security from 2005, and notes: “the 1% richest (all households are classed according to net worth rather then income) hold 22% of mutual fund assets, 27% of stocks and bonds, […]
Continue readingthis-on-that: Marine to NYPD:"this is not a war zone, it doesn’t make you tough, to hurt these people! It doesn’t! If you want to go fight, go to Iraq and Afghanistan"
Inspiring video. U.S Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas challenged a large number of New York City police officer’s at a Times Square OWS gathering just over a week ago. The young veteran was outraged with the acts of intimidation and outright police brutality directed at unarmed, non threatening protesters. Thomas
Continue readingthis-on-that: Marine to NYPD:"this is not a war zone, it doesn’t make you tough, to hurt these people! It doesn’t! If you want to go fight, go to Iraq and Afghanistan"
Inspiring video. U.S Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas challenged a large number of New York City police officer’s at a Times Square OWS gathering just over a week ago. The young veteran was outraged with the acts of intimidation and outright police brutality directed at unarmed, non threatening protesters. Thomas
Continue readingthis-on-that: Marine to NYPD:"this is not a war zone, it doesn’t make you tough, to hurt these people! It doesn’t! If you want to go fight, go to Iraq and Afghanistan"
Inspiring video.
U.S Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas challenged a large number of New York City police officer’s at a Times Square OWS gathering just over a week ago. The young veteran was outraged with the acts of intimidation and outright police brutality directed at unarmed, non threatening protesters. Thomas confronted the police, face to face, asking cops, “why you all doing this to these people? I’ve been to Iraq for fourteen months for my people! You come over and hurt them, they don’t have guns. They don’t have guns. They don’t — why are you hurting these people?” And the cops are stunned. They don’t know what to do. My opinions on what the men in blue were thinking, aside, the 24 year old continued reprimanding.
“This is America”
“nobody is trying to hurt you guys”
“There are no bullets flying out here, there are no bullets flying, how tuff are you”
“There is no honor in hurting unarmed civilians”
“There is no reason for this”
“There is no honor in hurting unarmed civilians, I won’t let it happen, have a good night”
Now some have criticized the good sergeant’s demeanor, and I admit there were a couple of times during the incident where it became a repetitive rant, but it was an intense situation which could have backfired on the young man, and because of that I’m am dismissing the critics objections as mere nit picking.
It was full of win, as they say. When the confrontation came to an end and Thomas walked away, random protesters reached out in a show of support.
More on Sgt. Shamar Thomas
Marine’s dressing down of cops sparks OccupyMARINES
h/t Daily Kos
update
Shamar Thomas’s youtube channel.
Matthew McAskill Chisholm: People Hugging: UNFCCC Forest Policy Needs A Climate Justice Framework
The importance of the world’s forests and the role that environmental activism surrounding forests have helped to shape a public perception that being an environmentalist means that you’re a “tree hugger.” While my “first word” as a child was in … Continue reading →
Continue readingMorton's Musings: York bus drivers strike could last months, union says
While I doubt the strike will go on that long even a two week strike will pose a major problem:Tens of thousands of York Region Transit and Viva riders endured an unusually frustrating morning commute Monday on the first day of a strike by 560 York tra…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Roseman: Rogers speeds prove much slower than advertised
By Ellen Roseman for Moneyville
Steven Singer always had fast and reliable Internet service from Rogers. But when he switched to a more expensive plan, his nightmares began.
“I am a radiologis…
wmtc: howard zinn on not predicting the future
There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people’s thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion …
Continue readingYou knew this was coming. Bomb thrown into Occupy encampment.
The right-wing media has been all abuzz from the beginning of the Occupy movement, provoking and reporting on any little incident to prove their case against the occupation. Despite the media’s initial indifference and gathering antagonism against Occupy, the real danger to those in the movement is the increasing agitation from outside.
Threats, . . . → Read More: You knew this was coming. Bomb thrown into Occupy encampment.
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