Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Nanos confirms that even as cities are starting to crack down on the Occupy movement, the general public is highly sympathetic to the message about reining in inequality and corporate control:The Nanos…
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Red Tory v.3.0.3: OCW Vancouver/Victoria Update
The few remaining hardcore activists in Vancouver and Victoria continue to discredit whatever legitimate grievances initial supporters of the copycat OCW movement in Canada may have purported to represent at the outset of the protests several weeks ago. Tonight, protesters … Continue reading →
Continue readingRusty Idols: "just another bad thing that happened in downtown Vancouver
Somebody overdoses decently out of sight in the east end and the response from the Vancouver government, the media and too much of public is a collective shrug. Have it happen 15 blocks to the west and suddenly its an urgent public health and safety crisis. Ashlie Gough was happy
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Dr. Dawg follows up on Stephen Harper’s apology to residential school survivors, and rightly questions how sincere it can be when it’s been followed up with repeated efforts to avoid either actual compensation o…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Political Discourse in America
OCW protesters confront what they imagine to be a wealthy and insensitive “conservative” woman outside a swanky Washington hotel. I know “liberals” aren’t supposed to pay any attention to these sorts of awkward encounters documented on film, nor are they … Continue reading →
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Ottawa, Carleton University Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, to Co-sponsor Discussion on CAPITALIST CULTURE
The recent hurricane of negative media coverage just isn’t slowing Occupy Ottawa down. Especially where “outreach” and “public education/engagement” is concerned. On Tuesday, November 15, the Occupy Ottawa Outreach Committee will join hands…
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the regina mom feels wealthy these days. She was fortunate enough to be a recipient of an Emerging Artists Award from the Canada Council for the Arts last spring. There’s no scramble for contract work and there’s a bit of extra money around her house. So she got her hubby to blow twenty bucks on […]
Continue readingwmtc: monday in toronto: "my own government labeled me a terrorist and attempted to murder me"
My own government labeled me a terrorist and attempted to murder me. My story is strongly relevant for activists today in this climate of an unending ‘war on terror.’S. Brian Willson, Vietnam War veteran and peace activistS. Brian Willson, a Vietnam Wa…
Continue readingwmtc: urgent! new threat to toronto public library: make your voice heard
Read and sign the petition!From Our Public Library::* * * *The first order of business of Mayor Ford’s handpicked Toronto Library Board was to cut 100 librarians and other staff.Even though there is not a single children’s librarian in the entire s…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Opposition to Keystone XL Pipeline Heating Up
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The fight against the Keystone XL Pipeline is heating up, with many positive and important developments occuring this past week, excluding the disgra…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Ottawa: We’re a Family
Who’re these activists driving the global Occupy movement? Without a single coherent message, what exactly do they want? And their agenda? These are just few of the oft-repeated questions about the hundreds of thousands of world citizens curr…
Continue readingwmtc: guerrilla librianship meets the occupied wall street journal
From the Occupied Wall Street Journal #3:Howard Zinn is here. Dominick Dunne and Tom Wolfe, too. Ernest Hemingway and Barbara Ehrenreich and Dr. Who and Beowulf: All here, and all free. Barnes & Noble may be endangered and the Borders across the st…
Continue readingApril Reign: Christian Groups to Protect #OccupyLondon At Saint Paul’s Cathedral
April Reign Normally I agree with this quote from Gandhi, “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.” However a number of Christian groups in London have come together to prove that sometimes Christ’s teachings do prevail. A statement by the groups
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-10-28 21:54:00
PERSONALWHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT (PART 2):The first part of this series was published over at my Facebook page a little while ago. Yet a movement such as the ‘Occupy’ protests deserves far more than one comment. There is little doubt that …
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Carleton University Grad Students To Donate $300 to Occupy Ottawa
The Graduate Students’ Association at Carleton University will donate $300 to Occupy Ottawa to create a new a “Learning Commons” tent in the park. A representative of the association announced the donation during the movement’s General Asse…
Continue readingwmtc: pollitt: we are all occupiers now
Katha Pollitt on “The Mainstreming of OWS”: Maybe OWS will vanish with the lovely fall weather, or drift off into the anarchist subculture, or break down in fights and factions. But already it has accomplished more than anything put forward by organize…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Marc Lee charts the share of financial assets held by Canadians of different income levels. And it shouldn’t come as much surprise that one of the main aims of the right has been to attack pensions, which are by…
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: Support Occupy Wall Street Through Blog-Bombing
What is Blog-Bombing? The term is inspired by the concept of Tweet-Bombing, in which many Tweeters engage en masse in tweeting a particular message in order to fill the Tweetosphere with the message. In the case of Blog-Bombing, the idea is for bloggers to make regular (e.g., daily, every few days) quick blog posts in […]
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 readingCanadian Progressive World: Global Occupy Movement Made in Canada
The global Occupy Movement arrived in Canada nearly a month after the first Occupy Wall Street protest. But, the movement is a made-in-Canada thing. Pages: 1 2
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