Democracy in Action – Look and Learn my sleeping obedient country. The protests in Quebec are an example to the rest of Canada to what an active citizenry is like and how people can affect change in the political spectrum. At the time of this writing, 39 days of protest
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The Quebec students will win this one, if they stick to their principles at all costs
The students still protesting in Quebec against tuition hikes should make sure that they don’t track their progress by the political reaction of the opposition parties and of the Charest government. What these politicians have to say is largely inconsequential to the revolutionary effort and mission statement of the students. The movement shouldn’t
Continue reading350 or bust: Raised Beds And Riots
Another Monday and my hugelkultur piles aren’t done; in fact they are growing daily; I didn’t realize they were like rabbits, and would start reproducing at a crazy rate! As any of you gardeners out there know, when it’s time to get the garden ready, there’s no rest until it’s
Continue readingCompromise be gone, how radical change cannot be achieved without violence
I think the world by now generally understands that great social change, the kind that affects the public generationally, like Martin Luther’s Civil Rights Movement and Mahatma Gandhi’s fight against Apartheid in India, cannot be achieved without some violence and without some suffering, minimal or otherwise. Whether it’s the oppressor or the
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