I will be on the radio with other Ricochet Media editors Jahanzeb Hussain and Derrick O’Keefe today- 5pm, CiTR radio 101.9FM (You can also stream this online here) We will […]
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Melissa Fong: ICYMI: Funny images- Gregor Robertson, #BestWank, Hobbit House
In case you missed it- some fun images from others that made me chuckle: ^Homage to WestBank, of course. And then this.. : (Filed under: Happy rant, Marxist rant Tagged: […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: #RicochetParty Thank you!
A big thank you to all the tremendous support at the West Coast Ricochet Party. Thank you to everyone who came- thank you to everyone who approached shy-little-me to say […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Teachers and On Why We Strike
Dear colleagues, During these difficult times, I would like to encourage everyone to remember the importance of our job, to remember the impact that we have on students, families and society, and to remember to stop apologizing. Many of these facts, comments, and statistics come from a variety of sources….
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Ricochet: An invitation to our party and to meet me and the team
As some of you may already know I am on the editorial collective at Ricochet, a new independent media project for progressive voices. For those who know me personally or […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: What kind of activist do you want to be? Reflections on One City moving into the fore
Yesterday One City launched their party with RJ Aquino front and centre. There are some suspicions about some of the startings of One City, and I, myself, am keen on […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: “RJ Aquino ran for the wrong party”: And so One City launches #vanpoli & will run RJ Aquino
Exciting news that will increase democratization in Vancouver- One City launches- headed by RJ Aquino (and David Chudnovsky, the rumour is). .@OneCityVan launch @ 10am-Vancouver CityHall. New #vanpoli party. @rj_aquino […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Encounters with Vision Vancouver members: On democracy and stymied progressive politics
For every piece of hate mail I get ten more messages that are just too positive or too funny to ignore. I met up with this particular person who started […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: A whole world of concern for Frances Bula’s readership.
The reactions to Frances Bula’s posting on the COPE job posting are excessively upsetting. My response to some of the comments: 1) “Racialization” is the process of imbuing race, ascribing […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Planning the Metropolitan #Vancouver Region: A Critical Perspective
Here is a review of the Planning the Metropolitan Vancouver Region: A Critical Perspective- Thank you to AY for inviting me- great catching up with SCARP people and making new connections. […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: On #Marxism, #intersectionality & building meaningful solidarity w/ #PoC #WoC
On Class-wars, intersectionality and building meaningful solidarity from PoCs This is an appeal to activists, allies and future activist/allies to figure out how we can do some coalition building in […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Things I realize after getting many hater-comments & trolls: On #Intersectionality, #oppression & other stuff
Things I realize after getting many hater-comments and trolls: 1) The world is not ready for Critical Race Theory or talking about the process of “Whiteness” and “racialization”. I thought […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: #Urbanarium2014: How to build a truly “Engaged City”?
“Engaged City” was unanimously passed yesterday, and it seems like the pundits are all out criticizing the process. … Democratization of the planning process is a fundamental problem with bureaucratic institutions; government is fundamentally hierarchical. Do we target Vision Vancouver? NPA? Nah*- There is a problem with the plumbing and
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Emotional Intelligence? Can you tell the expression just by their eyes? QUIZ!
It is remarkable how humans can understand emotions. Many of you know that the way to tell a person’s emotions is within their eyes. Forget the smile on their face- […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Happy City Lecture with Charles Montgomery & Gordon Price- March 26 Review
I did a little live tweeting of the Happy City lecture by http://www.charlesmontgomery.ca/ (Sometimes MY live tweeting devolves/evolves into fun commentary…). I thought I would make my first attempt at […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Top 25 of #25KLunch Meme Finalists Announced!
Okay, folks! The moment has come to see your Top 25 Finalists for the #25KLunch meme competition! I can’t even tell you how many messages I’ve received telling me […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Dear Translink… Rob did a good job
I know we don’t agree often. We have a love/hate relationship dependent on my mood and whether or not it’s cold and rainy outside. To be fair, you are consistently late and often leave me standing out in the rain. You have just been voted 3rd best public transit in
Continue readingMelissa Fong: #25kLunch Meme Competition Update #1
The #25KLunch meme has received more press than I would have ever imagined! Amazing what a group of really dedicated “mockticians” can do to bring the issues out there. #25KLunch […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: #25kLunch Meme Competition to shame Mayor Gregor Robertson’s partnership with Developers & Condo King Bob Rennie
So I’ve started a #25kLunch tag – the good people on twitter who have engaged throughout this whole process have kept spirits high and helped suggest a meme competition. 1) Create your own meme http://memegenerator.net/ 2) Upload your meme to twitter images (make sure you save image & upload to
Continue readingMelissa Fong: DTES LAP Amendments that Cllr Carr shuts down: Watch the speech & Read the full document by Reimer
I already posted snippets of the full documents (4 separate PDFs here). This post is specifically the first pdf Amendment doc from Reimer and the speaking points Cllr Carr was […]
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