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Occupy: Canadian media turns its back on the homeless, the marginalized, the disenfranchised

Jymn — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:22:38 +0000

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 marginalization of Occupy by concentrating on its weakest and most vulnerable members.

By accommodating the homeless, the disenfranchised and the marginalized, Occupy has played . . . → Read More: Occupy: Canadian media turns its back on the homeless, the marginalized, the disenfranchised

Occupy Montreal: a lesson in dealing with itinerants and homeless

Jymn — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:26:58 +0000

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 to the ills of our financial and governmental system, but for shelter and food. Mixing in with determined occupiers are the itinerants and homeless, . . . → Read More: Occupy Montreal: a lesson in dealing with itinerants and homeless

Quebecor And RLQ’s Chou-Chou, Eric Duhaime Has Hit a New Low–Enough With The Canadian Arrogant Complacency!

ck — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:41:30 +0000

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, a problem that dates decades that needs systemic changes that not even the feds can touch. That same scandal that ol’ Chrissie Paradis once . . . → Read More: Quebecor And RLQ’s Chou-Chou, Eric Duhaime Has Hit a New Low–Enough With The Canadian Arrogant Complacency!

Brigette DePape, iconic images, and Occupy

Jymn — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:15:52 +0000

While establishment journalists muck around in muddy waders searching for a clue about the Occupy movement, condescending in their attitudes because they do not understand, I look back on perhaps a bit of the genesis of our Canadian versions of Occupy.

Brigette DePape.

Like the Occupy movement itself, Brigette’s action and . . . → Read More: Brigette DePape, iconic images, and Occupy

Vote Only Once And Never Have To Vote Again! Get Future Gov’t Policies For The Unforeseen Future, No Matter Who’s Governing!

ck — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:25:12 +0000

Susan Delacourt points this out in her blog this morning. Some examples are cited. One of which, the most obvious and recent, was in this legislation to scrap the long gun registry, those Harpercons have decided to scrap all the data that came with it, yanno, to make sure that not only put provincial . . . → Read More: Vote Only Once And Never Have To Vote Again! Get Future Gov’t Policies For The Unforeseen Future, No Matter Who’s Governing!

Now, Peggy Wente, It’s Not Nice to Slam An Ideological Sister Like Kathy Shaidle

ck — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:45:34 +0000

Vintage Peggy Wente. She does prove that she is, indeed, Chrissie Blatchford’s sob sister, along with Tash Kheiriddin. Peggy, of course, misses the point of the #occupy movement. What a bitter woman she is!

“Why should artists have to work instead of just making art?”

Peg asks one occupier. Who knew Kathy Shaidle was . . . → Read More: Now, Peggy Wente, It’s Not Nice to Slam An Ideological Sister Like Kathy Shaidle

The right’s furious, desperate attempts to discredit the Occupy movement with charges of anti-Semitism

Jymn — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:34:11 +0000

Yesterday while I was following the #OccupyVancouver twitter feed, I noticed something strange happening. The hashtag was hijacked by unrelated, idiotic counter arguments to Occupy (not necessarily those belonging to Occupy Vancouver) signs showing up in photographs published on the internet and in the media.

The names of the tweeters and retweeters were immediately . . . → Read More: The right’s furious, desperate attempts to discredit the Occupy movement with charges of anti-Semitism