It is NOT angry and it is NOT violent! It is quite wonderful. It starts in Quebec: Our revolution of love, hope and community (Rabble.ca) UPDATE: video Casseroles – Vancouver, May 30 2012 Shot & edited by Ian MacKenzie, ianmack.com Inspired by Jeremie Battaglia’s gorgeous Montreal film, Vancouver answers the Quebec student movement with a […]
Scroll down to the end of the list of articles to the video. You don’t have to watch it all! It’s good documentation. http://www.nationofchange.org/live-stream-wall-street-occupation-1316970901
“Tens of thousands marching everyday…” 3 min http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4YRcLwQ0aM&feature=player_embedded This news broadcast by Russia Today originated in the U.S. with this note: The people of North America need to revoke the Broadcast Licenses of all the North American Media who continue to fail to report in full on every demonstration in this land. We can only get our demonstrations […]
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/ethan-cox/2012/05/it-starts-quebec-our-revolution-love-hope-and-community By Ethan Cox In almost every report on the social movement now sweeping Quebec, including my own, words like conflict, crisis and stand-off figure prominently. Anger is omnipresent. The anger of protesters, the anger of government, the anger of those supposedly inconvenienced. Pundits scream about mob rule, anarchy in the streets and the dissolution […]
“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, […]