BC’s New Landscape and Ecology Eradication Projects!
Once upon a time, before we knew much about ecology and systems theory, corporations just went around raping and pillaging the countryside, polluting whatever they wanted. Shhh, there’s a secret…
Stephen Elliott-Buckley
What Yoko Ono Knows About Fracking
Today we are fresh off the tar soaked heels of Enbridge’s lie and spin machine in Kitimat, leading to a vote AGAINST their toxic future. In Kitimat, in a non-binding…
Poor Kids, Poor Families and Shame
“When Centennial’s students found out Seymour couldn’t hold a pyjama day because many students didn’t have pyjamas, they fundraised to buy every Seymour student a pair last Christmas.” – When…
The Death of Jim Flaherty
“We are, of course, not in the world alone and our lives here are finite.” “Our individual and family responsibilities are primary. Yet the desire to accumulate private goods in…
Expanding Our 2014 Boycott List: #BoycottLoblaws
First, it started with IKEA, which has been locking out its Richmond, BC workers for 11 months. Then it expanded to a white Richmond farmer who isn’t all that happy…
Occupying Homelessness?
Homelessness isn’t a policy thing regarding random people. It’s a thing for actual people. It’s not abstract, it’s in our face, yet we live in denial. Clearly, I’m no brain…
Occupy Canada For May Day, With Bananas
A few days ago, I wrote about picking May Day as a good time for Occupy Vancouver to reboot itself and catch up with the Occupy Movement’s worldwide #WaveOfAction. But…
Welcome to Stephen Harper’s Banana Republic
#PMSH goes #BananaRepublic: the (un) #FairElectionsAct lets incumbents SUPERVISE their own election! pic.twitter.com/SG3IT8GMAz #cdnpoli — Politics, Re-Spun (@PoliticsReSpun) April 6, 2014 Just how stupid does Stephen Harper think we are?…
What Occupy Vancouver Could Look Like
May Day, on May 1st: do you think we could get Occupy Vancouver up by then? I know how we can get this to work. I really do. And I’m…
What Occupy Vancouver Could Be Up To
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…
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 , has begun in a variety of places around the world! And it…
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…
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…
Occupy IKEA’s #HouseRules
IKEA’s #HouseRules = union busting! Oh, IKEA, you’d think you’d learn from all the past corporate attempts to create a Twitter hashtag to promote your brand, attempts that have been…
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…
17 Things To Do While Watching TV News
There’s more than 17. Way more. And you don’t have to do them all, you just have to start with a few. Chances are, though, that you already do some…
Is Your Job Bullshit?
Work should be liberating, not enslaving! It’s Saturday so it’s the weekend so you’re not working. But that’s just an incorrect hypothesis. Lots of people are working this weekend. In…
We Won’t Let Police Brutality Quell Occupy’s Wave of Action
In the good old days, we used to be able to bring babies in strollers to protests/rallies/occupations opposing wars based on lies or psychotic arms races. In the good old…
Let’s Not Ban Books, Kamloops
Ban me? Burn me? Fear me? OK, Kamloops, take a cool soothing breath while I take a short break today to not talk about the rebooting of the Occupy Movement…
Laughing at the 1%, Occupy-Style
Roll up your sleeves, and don’t forget your kazoos! They say that laughter is good for the soul. But that’s hard when the 1% are crippling people’s hopes and dreams…