House prices have been speculatively bid up to 29% over real value with all the low interest, easy credit banks have been only too willing to give us. They’re just…
Ken Sanders Photo Photo h/t Queer Thoughts Well, well, well! What do we have here? Occupy Best Buy? In a manner of speaking. All those campers are not there to…
Twenty four hours after this little campsite was demolished, I see that Margaret Wente couldn’t restrain herself from going down to St James Park, squatting on all fours, and delivering…
If it's not on a cup, it's not true. Guess what folks, you can buy your official Made In The USA Obama merch now. Have a birther friend who you…
Well, boys ‘n’ girls, we have a science and technology minister in ol’ Gary Goodyear who is a creationist and doesn’t believe in evolution. Ok, not all that surprising, given…
You can tell him this: Wrong. You are the 0.01 % and you’re a greedy PIG… And remember, in Canada the gap between the rich and the poor is growing…
While many of us progressives like to think that the Occupy movement has awakened Canadians to the 99%, the reality is different. Editorial boards across Canada have seen to the…
Indeed I think that’s exactly how Georges Seurat would’ve visualized ol’ Lieutenant Pike. As Jymn said, he is definitely UC Davis’ answer to Toronto’s Officer Bubbles. Other fun images of…
As occupy encampments are being cleared out by bruit force all across the US and eviction notices have been handed out in Canada (some have been or are being challenged…
Dawg and others have posted this but it’s powerful enough to post once again. This is indeed powerful; Dr. Katehi walking to her car, passing by OccupyUCDavis seated in absolute…
Over a year ago, I posted “What are the Game Changers?“, an attempt at sparking some strategic thinking for the broader left. Now that we’ve had a month of Occupation,…
Wow! I guess that true Christian charity really only begins at home for those right wingnutz who only worship the altar of greed, don’t it Dr. Roy? Yes, the ‘good’…
Most political/cultural/populist movements begin in back rooms, in clandestine meetings over a period of years. Many times the resultant movement looks little like the disorderly chaos of the initial gatherings.…
From the estimable Brad Blog, I find this video from a speech by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker at a Chicago engagement both amusing and important. We need more of this.…
Last weekend, I spoke on a panel at the Annual Conference of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association. The panel was inspired in large part by the recent debate in Toronto…
If anything in the last few decades has scared the right wing out of its comfort zone of pretend patriotism it is the Occupy movement. Not the first black president,…
Uh oh. I see that Eurozone leaders don't like George Papandreou's idea for a shit kebab referendum.The leaders of Germany and France told Greece on Wednesday it would not receive…
1. Just wondering. If the Greek people are being asked to make extraordinary sacrifices to resolve a crisis largely not of their own making (see here, for example, on the…
As the Occupy movement rolls on, it must deal with those who come not so much to share in the communal building of a new form of alternative resistance…
Yes, that would be the same Eric Duhaime, the one who begged the feds, not once, but twice, to somehow intervene in the construction scandal woes in la Belle province,…
