While the worldwide reboot of the Occupy Movement is afoot, Occupy Vancouver version 2.0 is still notional. However, if you want to see a little bit of what it could be doing today if it had coalesced yesterday, you’d show up this afternoon at one of the 1%’s tree forts.
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Politics, Re-Spun: Calling For An Occupy Vancouver General Assembly
It’s now Friday, April 4, 2014. Greetings, world, the reboot of the Occupy Movement, the Worldwide #WaveOfAction [follow it live in Twitter here], has begun in a variety of places around the world! And it will last for 3 months while it evolves its next phase. But as it turns
Continue readingThings Are Good: The Purpose Economy
Triple-bottom line companies and other terms that describe companies that focus on more than just profit keep coming. The most recent is what is no referred to as the purpose economy in a new book. The idea is that as we run out of resources on the planet we need
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Is Your Union Job Fucking Up Your Life?
You don’t have to suffer economic equality alone. You don’t have to dread the reboot of the Occupy Movement tomorrow. Seriously, the 1% has your back: INTRODUCING ANTI-UNIONOLA NEW LONG-LASTING ANTI-WORKER SUPPOSITORY A NEW LONG-LASTING ANTI-WORKER SUPPOSITORY March 31, 2014 Corporate Media on Occupy’s Wave of Action? Crickets. (0)
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Honing In On Friday’s #WaveOfAction
We need to think about two things for this Friday’s Occupy Movement reboot in the Worldwide #WaveOfAction: When thinking about pursuing social, political and economic equality, what is the list of things we need to change, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally? Who do we need to build coalitions with to
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Corporate Media on Occupy’s Wave of Action? Crickets.
If you want to know what the Occupy Movement wants, it’s equality: economic, political and social. That shows up in many necessary changes to society, politics and the economy. As the movement reboots for the 3-month Wave of Action starting on Friday, Occupiers around the world are planning to re-assemble
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Canada’s Seeks the OECD Record for Income Inequality
America: Where the rich get richer faster than in so many other places! Yesterday I wrote about the rebooting of the Occupy Movement in 10 days. I’m very excited. And to help you understand why this is such a big deal, especially in Canada, it’s important to see how Canada is
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: From Canada’s Five Female Premiers To Three
At the start of this year Canada had five female Premiers, but now because of a few old white men the country only has three.Alberta’s Alison Redford joins Newfoundland’s Kathy Dunderdale on the list of female Premiers forced out not because voters rej…
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: From Canada’s Five Female Premiers To Three
At the start of this year Canada had five female Premiers, but now because of a few old white men the country only has three. Alberta’s Alison Redford joins Newfoundland’s Kathy Dunderdale on the list of female Premiers forced out not because voters rejected them, but because their respective caucuses
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: From Canada’s Five Female Premiers To Three
At the start of this year Canada had five female Premiers, but now because of a few old white men the country only has three. Alberta’s Alison Redford joins Newfoundland’s Kathy Dunderdale on the list of female Premiers forced out not because voters rejected them, but because their respective caucuses
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Stop. Obeying. The. Rich. NOW!
Once upon a time, we were taught to envy and respect our “betters,” like the rich. No more. They’re taking our money and throwing us under the bus every day. And it’s not even just the super-rich or those in America, it’s the aspirational rich; they’re just as toxic. This
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Yes, Your Parents’ Standard of Living Was Better
Ugh. We’re so much poorer than our parents! Yes, your parents’ standard of living was better, so what are you going to do about it? When I was growing up in the 1970s, most [maybe 80%?] of my friends had a mom who stayed home and didn’t work. Over the
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Don’t Tolerate Ignorance About the Minimum Wage
Now, stop tolerating ignorance! And smile, TGIF. Hello. It’s Friday. For many people it’s TGIF. But for many people who aren’t even teenagers, the work week isn’t ending today. We often THINK minimum wage is for the new entries to the job market. Maybe it was one day. Maybe just
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Do the Rich Think a Class War Isn’t Already Happening?
You’d think we were building guillotines. The rich, however, are starting to feel antsy and they want our pity and compassion. Here are some of the ludicrous fears they are spilling out to the masses, to avoid a genocide against the rich: It’s almost like there hasn’t already been a
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Billboard That Finally Has a Reason to Exist: Free Water
) In Lima, Peru, there is a new billboard that is selling an idea by providing free water to the local population. Water access is an issue in the area for a variety of reasons which impacts poverty and other water-related issues in the area. A local engineering school wanted
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Future of Feminism Is Now
The children: being the future. There seems to be a bit of an epidemic of young women and men rejecting the necessity of exploring or embracing feminism. Maybe it’s like similarly misguided ideas like how we don’t need unions anymore. But when you encounter young people who get it, really
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Women Who Inspire Us
Pam Palmater, getting it done! “Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead For three decades of activism I have been inspired by a great number of wise, engaged women. Carleen Pickard, for instance.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Women: The Majority, Not a Media Niche
I couldn’t really fault you if you felt that only about 22% of humanity were women. If we based it all on how frequently they are represented in politics and the media, we wouldn’t know they made up a 51-ish% majority. This is why Cate Blanchett and Geena Davis have
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Pandemic of Rape Culture
Speaking out against rape culture can create some serious backlash, which reflects our culture of rape. At UBC the dean of the business school muses about firing all the students who took part in the chant that celebrates rape, which was also sung at Saint Mary’s in Halifax. And the
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Canada’s Growing Income Gap Between the 99% and the 1%
The rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer, and the gap between them is growing. This is the test of whether we can be content in our complacency. Here’s why. In 2010, a tax filer required an annual income of $201,400 to be in the top 1%. This was 37% higher than
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