“Everyday, at 8PM, let’s get out, on our balconies and front yards, and make noise with pots and pans. For 15 minutes.” THIS IS TAKING PLACE ACROSS CANADA. Weekly in some places, daily in Montreal. People are also wearing a piece of red cloth to signal support.
CBC News Last Updated: May 30, 2012 10:31 PM CST Related Stories SPECIAL REPORT: Quebec Student Protests Protestors in Saskatoon make their way along Broadway Avenue. (Devin Heroux/CBC)Several hundred people, including many students, in Regina and Saskatoon took to the streets to bang pots and pans in show of support for students in Quebec, who […]
Two excellent videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dhFWprsFqs Casseroles night in Montreal, May 30. http://vimeo.com/42848523 This video of Casseroles in Montreal, in black-and-white, May 24 gets rave reviews. (I’m set up wrong somehow – the 2nd video accesses in frustrating short, interrupted blocks. Most people have no problem viewing it.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ebC8_q0zCM&feature=player_embedded Hart writes: I checked a credible site and learned that this was a European demo against big banks, rich getting richer etc
http://www.nationofchange.org/ows-summer-disobedience-school-prepares-black-monday-1338736228 Is Digg defining a new direction for the curation economy? And could the new site help us cope with information overload? Last Saturday saw the kickoff of Occupy Wall Street’s Summer Disobedience School (OWSDS), described in its “Curriculum” as a “twelve-week training program that will empower us to map, target, and disrupt sites of […]
Somehow we have to help more Canadians “get it”. Talk to our neighbours. Understand WHY Canadians are protesting – get out and help them. This brief note drives the point home. BY ELIZABETH MAY It always struck me as a bit odd, from when I first heard it heralded in the 2011 Speech from the Throne, […]
Franke James’ work gives me such a high, I think I must be on drugs! Try this: What is Harper Afraid of? – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – When I read that Harper put a stop to Franke’s European tour last year, I was going […]
(For a listing of the Assange postings, click on Julian Assange, Wikileaks, and scroll down.) Is there a bigger “David versus Goliath” story than Julian Assange (Wikileaks) versus the American military-industrial-congressional complex?! What a cliff-hanger, and for democracy! May 30, 2012: The UK Supreme Court says . . oops! see Assange gets surprise chance […]
Assange is a citizen of Australia. He has been fighting extradiction to Sweden from the U.K. The last paragraphs of the article below provide reason why Assange believes if he ends up in Sweden, the Swedes will simply hand him over to the Americans to face charges of espionage. The article is from the Christian Science Monitor, a reasonably good account, […]
Bowling for Columbine [Part 3 of 12] (10 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=865Onxt9H2M I remember leaving the theatre shaking my head. No one should be surprised by the massacre of students at Columbine High School in 1999. Michael Moore does a very good job of showing the conditioning to violence in the American culture. In this excerpt he […]