The Council of Canadians has 50,000+ members. The work they do is incredibly important. It will be an even more powerful statement when Maude Barlow (The Council) can say: this is the voice of 100,000 Canadians. Encourage people to take out a membership. http://www.canadians.org/ /Sandra Council of Canadians’ hosts tele-town hall http://www.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/word-rings/2011/02/council-canadians-hosts-tele-town-hall By Pina Belperio […]
CONTENTS THOUSANDS PROTEST IN THE USA – WISCONSIN, GEORGIA, IDAHO, INDIANA, MONTANA, OHIO, TENNESSEE, WASHINGTON CEO SALARIES IN CANADA = = = = == = = = = = = = = = = = = 1. THOUSANDS PROTEST IN THE USA – WISCONSIN, GEORGIA, IDAHO, INDIANA, MONTANA, OHIO, TENNESSEE, WASHINGTON QUESTION: Is this being […]
How COULD I send you a message without having done a related “action” item?! George Monbiot asks a question at the end of this article, “what should we do to fight these tactics?”. ACTION: I sent him an idea. You’ll find it below, following his article. I changed the “subject” of this email to “Help […]
Item #3 below: I extended solidarity. Citizens in Vermont are uniting against a Mayor’s partnership with Lockheed Martin in – – – would you believe – – – climate change projects! Jonathan Leavitt is a community organizer and writer based in Burlington, Vermont. He wrote the (item #1) very excellent article about the situation with Lockheed Martin […]
– David Korten http://www.davidkorten.org/ “We humans are Creation’s most daring experiment with reflective consciousness. This gift is the source of our distinctive capacity to choose our future as an intentional collective act. For some 5,000 years, we have demonstrated our ability to use this capacity foolishly at an enormous cost to ourselves and to other […]
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/201102218262/Headline-News/Lawyers-integral-in-making-justice-accessible-McLachlin You may want to read the article at the above URL. The “Comments” from practitioners are worthwhile. NOTE: the Chief Justice has been calling on the legal profession for years to address problems with the system. Her detailed statement, see 2007-03-08 Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin address to the Empire Club, Toronto. Law Times Lawyers […]
Hey what a blast! Geoff Meaden from the U.K. wrote: “So, Sandra if it gets published I should be on the first flight to the John Diefenbaker airport (Saskatoon) where I will publically kiss your feet!!!” What’s YOUR opinion? Do I get my feet kissed?! Here’s the story: The U.K. census is on March 27th. Ours is in […]
It’s time for the responsible parties to start hearing from us. The census is a couple months away! I’m sending the following to everyone in my address book. Also to all the police and RCMP contacts I have. (I wish I knew some people in the military.) The point of sharing this information with the […]
http://www.ceasefire.ca/?p=7220&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ceasefire%2FycPl+%28Ceasefire.ca%29 Respected Canadian negotiator removed from disarmament talks, resigns Thu, Feb 10, 2011 Respected Canadian disarmament negotiator Earl Turcotte has been removed from his post following American complaints that his stance on the international Convention on Cluster Munitions was too aggressive. Turcotte has since informed his colleagues that he will be resigning from the Department of […]
There are many youtube videos that document the resistance in the U.S. to their 2010 census. Some of the videos are newscasts; there’s a large number of home-made videos. Every one of the videos I sampled was motivated by a refusal to supply the amount of personal information the Government was seeking to collect. There is no […]