Environmental activists in the US see an opportunity for real action against the tar sands pipeline. Since the oil-friendly and environment-hating Harper government won’t listen to us on this issue, we owe it to North America to do whatever we can to t…
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Death By Trolley: Mental Health Risks For Political Activists
Are social/political activists at elevated risk for certain mental health conditions and social problems?
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.
– James Laxer points out how overreach by the wealthy and powerful inevitably leads to backlash – and how we’re just scratching the surface of what’s to come:
(R)ight-wing revolts can get out of hand and can cre…
My journey with AIDS...and more!: Final tributes to Jack Layton in pictures
Click for pictures from Jack Layton’s final journey today from Toronto City Hall, and then Roy Thomson Hall. It was an emotion-packed, life-affirming day.
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: There are some blog posts I’d like to forget – on returning to the NDP
I’ve always tried to make this blog somewhat of a record of my life, however fragmented, warts and all. Here in the archives is my defiant abandonment of the New Democratic Party for, let’s say, greener pastures. However right it felt a…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Over One Hundred Arrested Protesting Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline At White House
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The DC police force must have recently put in a big order for plasti-cuffs. The commencement of the Keystone XL pipeline protest, which kicked off this past weekend, saw over 100…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Great Shopping Shift
I end each day quietly lamenting how I haven’t yet succeeded in completely reforming the global economy. Certainly, it’s a tall order. I search for economic and environmental sustainability. I explore no-growth, steady-state economics to see how we can transform our society’s deranged obsession with unlimited capitalist growth into a more eco-socialist model. I don’t […]
Continue readingNAFTA Superhighway Rearing Head in Republican Leadership Race
P’n’P covered the NASCO Corridor/NAFTA Superhighway quite a while ago, back when all the powers-that-be were denying it was a plan in action. Well, Regina now has its ‘global transportation hub‘ and the signs on the highway aren’…
Continue readingPropagandizing in SK
It seems as though the editorial board of Regina’s daily newspaper can’t be bothered to so much as appear to provide balanced coverage of the uranium industry in Saskatchewan. In a meeting with the Leader-Post editorial board this week, NWM…
Continue reading7000 Generations Walk Against Nuclear Waste
Pinehouse to Regina 7000 Generations Walk Against Nuclear Waste please think about where you can join us. Talk to your friends and family to see if they’re interested to support this walk by walking/driving/providing food /water/transportation et…
Continue readingSend Canada’s PM a Message — On a Square of Toilet Paper!
It seems Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a problem and spends an inordinate amount of time in the bathroom, most particularly when things aren’t going the way he wants them to go. * So, let’s let him know what we thing about that! But let’s do it on sheets of toilet paper. Pop your […]
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: 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 readingThe Elm Dance: Healing the World
Regina’s Making Peace Vigil and the Saskatchewan Singers of the Sacred Web invite you to join in the Elm Dance on Thursday, August 4 at noon on Scarth Street at 11th Avenue. From its Latvian roots this intimate folk song has grown into the Elm Da…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The Bidder 70 26: The Catalyst That Will Ignite The Climate Movement
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The night before Tim DeChristopher’s sentencing was like any other before an action – we were all up way too late, distressed about work that hadn’t gotten d…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: BREAKING: Tim DeChristopher Sentenced To Two Years In Prison
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At 3:00 pm MST today, the end of a very long and emotional saga came to fruition as the gavel banged down on the judge’s desk in a federal courthouse in Salt Lake City,…
Continue readingOne Woman. One Blog.: Tonight in Peterborough: Chocolate, Cheese, and Activism
Via OPIRG Peterborough and others Friday, July 22 · 4:30pm – 6:30pm Sadleir House 751 George St. N. Peterborough The goal of Chocolate, Cheese & Activism is to bring those interested in social justice activism together to explore issues and…
Continue readingOne Woman. One Blog.: Tonight in Peterborough: Chocolate, Cheese, and Activism
Via OPIRG Peterborough and others Friday, July 22 · 4:30pm – 6:30pm Sadleir House751 George St. N.Peterborough The goal of Chocolate, Cheese & Activism is to bring those interested in social justice activism together to explore issues and practices, and following from Part 2 of the series, identify ways to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- As quickly as the Fraser Institute churns out corporate propaganda, Sixth Estate responds – this time nicely debunking a report encouraging yet more giveaways to big pharma:(T)here’s a glaring lie by omission in th…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Henry Farrell points out why supposedly progressive ideas which don’t do anything to counter corporate power are doomed to failure:Neo-liberals tend to favor a combination of market mechanisms and technocratic …
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