As Brad Wall goes to Paris to represent Saskatchewan at the COP 21 climate conference, here’s how his government handles critical climate targets: If you can’t hit a target, remove the target and bury it until forgotten. 2 years ago I saved the text of a Sask Gov’t website, predicting
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The Disaffected Lib: It’s Called the "Pucker Factor"
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Continue readingThings Are Good: Paris to Spend €100m on Bike Lanes While Reducing Car Traffic
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Continue readingTrashy's World: Great show of strength and unity by Parisians, but….
… the participation in it by some of the world leaders takes the shine a way somewhat. If indeed the march was also in defence of freedom of speech. For example: – Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who had several journalists jailed for insulting him in 2013. – Saudi ambassador to
Continue readingPostArctica: Je Suis Charlie
I had never heard of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo prior to the assault on it’s staff. From what I have come to understand it produces cartoons that normally would be considered quite offensive to anyone associated with whatever it is currently satirizing. That’s what satirists do, they mock
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: No, It’s the Environment, Stupid.
David Suzuki once observed that we cannot have a healthy economy without a healthy environment. It shouldn’t require a PhD to grasp that yet it’s astonishing how so many well-educated people, including our political leadership, simply don’t get it. In his year-end column, Gwynne Dyer concludes that climate change isn’t
Continue readingThings Are Good: Reducing Highway Size Doesn’t Negatively Impact Congestion
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Continue readingThings Are Good: New Speed Limit in Paris: 30 km/hr
This week Wired published an article about the 20 deadliest US cities for pedestrians and they write: There, low-density neighborhoods “rely on wider streets with higher speeds to connect homes, shops, and schools—roads that tend to be more dangerous for people walking,” the report says. More than half of all
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CNT-F FACES EVICTION FROM LONG-TERM HEADQUARTERS
The CNT-f is the larger of the two anarchosyndicalist/revolutionary syndicalist union federations in France. They have traditionally been called the ‘CNT-Vignoles’ after their headquarters at 33 rue Vignoles in Paris. They have survived a previous attempt to evict them in 1996, but now they are facing a fresh attack from the Mayor of Paris.
The following is their statement on the events. The original French version can be here. You can follow events from either their website or from the site of their newspaper Combat Syndicaliste. These events seem reminiscent of the eviction of the Spanish CGT from their headquarters at 18 Via Laietana in Barcelona back in 2011. Hopefully this time around the good guys will win against the government.
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EVICTION AT 33 RUE DES VIGNOLES
In a recent letter the City of Paris has come to unilaterally terminate the ongoing discussions about the continuation of the CNT in its historic location at 33 Rue des Vignoles. We were also “invited” to leave on the pretext of carry out ‘rehabilitation’ work.
Previously in 1996 the then-Mayor Tiberi voted for the demolition of 33. She had to retreat in the face of mobilization of the local residents, associations and the CNT.
We, paramedics, masons, primary school teachers, labourers, nurses’ aides, truck drivers, teachers’ aides, metal workers, architects, technicians, journalists, postal workers, etc. who form the CNT unions in region of Paris:
We who in this XXnd arrondissement walk in the footsteps of the Paris Commune and those of the Bourses du Travail of the CGT in the beginning of the 20th century:
We who at 33 Rue des Vignoles walk in the footsteps of our older brothers and sisters of the Confederacion Nacional de Trabahadores, anti-fascists, survivors of the Nazi camps, the Resistance and the liberation of Paris:
We who continue the struggle for the emancipation of the working world at the beginning of the 21st century:
We who to maintain this place in acceptable conditions while the City of Paris has done nothing for almost 20 years:
We will resist again. Yesterday in the face of Tiberi it was the violence of bulldozers. Today with Delancé it is the violence of King Money.
This CNT has called a public meeting for information, solidarity and support from all who want a living Paris, a revolutionary Paris.
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15 hours: Information on the status of 33
18 hours: Concert with Serge Utgé-Royo
20 hours: Convivial meal
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Molly'sBlog: CNT-f Faces Eviction
CNT-F FACES EVICTION FROM LONG-TERM HEADQUARTERS The CNT-f is the larger of the two anarchosyndicalist/revolutionary syndicalist union federations in France. They have traditionally been called the ‘CNT-Vignoles’ after their headquarters at 33 rue Vignoles in Paris. They have survived a previous attempt to evict them in 1996, but now
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: CNT-f Faces Eviction
CNT-F FACES EVICTION FROM LONG-TERM HEADQUARTERS The CNT-f is the larger of the two anarchosyndicalist/revolutionary syndicalist union federations in France. They have traditionally been called the ‘CNT-Vignoles’ after their headquarters at 33 rue Vignoles in Paris. They have survived a previous attempt to evict them in 1996, but now
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Some pics for a Saturday. Notre Dame Cathedral
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