Note: at the end of November 2011, I put a counter on the blog www.sandrafinley.ca. Today it sits at 18,500.
It does not count the number of times I (administrator) have clicked (“hit”) on different pages. It does not count “spam” hits on the blog. If it did, the counter would be at 118,500!
There are ways to grow the number of hits on the blog. I have not used them – – lack of time and priority, with some stupidity thrown in!
Do you see the power you have helped to create? Thank-you all, for your participation in the network. I hate to call it “my” blog because it would not exist without the input from and forwarding of emails by you.
All of our voices, including mine, become stronger when others know that in less than a year there have been 18,500 searches for information on The Battles (name of the blog). It is very gratifying for me to be working with you.
/Sandra
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Growing mobilization across Canada
I am just back from B.C.:
- A week ago Sunday, in Victoria, there were more than 300 people of all ages and stripes training in resistance and civil disobedience.
- On the Monday, we all joined well over 4,000 (maybe 5,000) Canadians in Victoria at the B.C. Legislature to help stop the tar sands pipelines and tankers.
- This past weekend in Nanaimo it was the Council of Canadians Annual Meeting which included a long parade of citizens walking through the downtown streets chanting “Stephen Harper has to go! Hey hey! Ho ho! Stephen Harper has to go!”. Clever signs, some to make us laugh, waved in the air.
Last evening, back home, some of us met to hear
- What happened simultaneously, on the weekend in Ottawa at the Power Shift demonstrations?
OBSERVATIONS?
- Last week two streams of people moved across Canada, crossing each other, largely in opposite directions. People from Newfoundland, N.S., N.B. flowed west, swelling the numbers going from central Canada and the Prairies for action and meetings on Vancouver Island.
Simultaneously, there was a crossing from the west, east and the north that coalesced in Ottawa.
- I have attended similar events in the past. They were nothing like what I saw on the West Coast this week past.
The ORGANIZING CAPACITY, the DETERMINATION to “sink the Harper agenda”, the NEW VOICES, the CREATIVITY and the FUN brought to bear on the issues, the JOINING OF HANDS across many, many organizations, groups and individuals, the EXCITEMENT in the air, the GOOD PEOPLE, the LEADERSHIP, the THOUGHTFULNESS, the INTELLIGENCE . . . it is all inspiring and moving.
Details will become apparent as the pushback against the Corporatocracy continues to develop. A tsunami is in the making. This past week was an adrenalin booster in Canada!
AND, there is so much happening on the local scene – – tonight Dr. Helen Caldicott (international anti-nuclear activist paediatrician from Australia) will be speaking at Third Avenue United Church, 7:00 pm.
AND On Monday (Nov 5) the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal will hear my case ( Census-Lockheed Martin). I have to get an update out on that!~