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Occupy Vancouver live photo blog Day 5
10:00 This will most likely be the last day for live blogging. Work beckons.Click on photos to embiggen. Scroll down for updates.12:00
Continue readingWhat kind of education does $50,000 get you?
The right has been having fun with some of the signs and statements of the Occupy crowd. Some have extended their mockery by posting Anti-Occupy Vancouver posters around town. Remember the Tea Party signs and why we laughed so hard at them? Things have…
Continue readingOccupy Vancouver live photo blog DAY 4 Oct 18
12:00 All quiet on the western front. Then I walked over to today’s protest of the inquiry into the plight of Aboriginal women. It’s a moving experience listening to the women’s stories and the men’s music. The band – Oceanside Dakota – is deceptively …
Continue readingThe importance of Occupy Vancouver: BC families worse off than anywhere else in Canada
I hope my someone at Occupy Vancouver with a young family brings this to everyone’s attention. BC is suffering, especially Vancouver. It will only get worse under Harper’s federal mismanagement and Christy Clark’s cluelessness. And oh yeah, thanks Gord…
Continue readingRage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello to join Occupy Vancouver Wednesday?
Occupy Vancouver and Tom Morello? Sheeit. Perfection.When asked if he would try to join the Occupy Vancouver crowds in the street before his concert appearance at the Vogue Theatre Wednesday night, Morello hinted he had even bigger plans.“We may brin…
Continue readingOccupy Vancouver live photo blog Day 3 Oct 17
12:00 Attended a moving ceremony/protest over the sham Missing Women’s Commission of Inquiry being held this week over treatment of aboriginal women.585
Continue readingCNN’s Dana Loesch frets that MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan worked with Occupy Wall Street to ‘craft message’
Funny, Dana doesn’t mention that Fox News sponsored the whole Tea Party, with producers cheering on crowds behind the scenes and 24/7 coverage by not just Fox but by Dana’s employers at CNN, as well. Didn’t bother her then and she ignores it now.I…
Continue readingThe right’s furious, desperate attempts to discredit the Occupy movement with charges of anti-Semitism
Yesterday while I was following the #OccupyVancouver twitter feed, I noticed something strange happening. The hashtag was hijacked by unrelated, idiotic counter arguments to Occupy (not necessarily those belonging to Occupy Vancouver) signs showing up in photographs published on the internet and in the media.
The names of the tweeters and retweeters were . . . → Read More: The right’s furious, desperate attempts to discredit the Occupy movement with charges of anti-Semitism
Continue readingThe right’s furious, desperate attempts to discredit the Occupy movement with charges of anti-Semitism
Yesterday while I was following the #OccupyVancouver twitter feed, I noticed something strange happening. The hashtag was hijacked by unrelated, idiotic counter arguments to Occupy (not necessarily those belonging to Occupy Vancouver) signs showing up …
Continue readingOccupy Vancouver live photo blog DAY 2 Oct 16
11:30 Much quieter today. Tents, cops, meditation, dogs, signs and more signs, media, sun, smiles, music, dancers, a ragtag bliss.Click images to embiggen. Updates below.
Continue reading‘Nuther Day, ‘Nuther Protest in Vancouver . . . .
Only had about an hour and a half to spare, but the Occupy Vancouver facilitators were able to get thru the first side of the “Consensus Decision Making” flyer, anyway.Lots of discussions, counter-discussions, “are we loud enough?”, “where should the t…
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10:30 What a glorious day for a protest! Huge crowd – larger than I anticipated. All ages, not many hippies, mostly smiling folks. Large police presence but mostly jocular types in small groups talking about their Friday night adventures. Heartening to…
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