Killer whales in the park!
F-word Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the very first F-word Awards!
A special congrats to fern and debeauxOs at Birth Pangs.
Heather Mallick weighs in with a beautiful letter which reads in part
Women’s voices aren’t heard. But we changed that in the world of the feminist blogosphere. It might be that our
words flow digitally and are unseen in transmission so that when they try to silence us, it’s like catching fireflies with a baseball glove. How ham-fisted, how ambitious, those censors are.
Never again let the question be asked, ‘where are the good women bloggers?’
Corporate courts
Guest post by Croghan27
Back story;
The bands involved, Shabot Obaadjiwan and Ardoch Algonquin First Nations had taken considerable trouble in trying to achieve a political/negotiated settlement appealing repeatedly to the Premier and ‘Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Michael Bryant for some negotiations about this incursion into their territory. They were not deemed worthy of a response by either of the honourable gentlemen.
Said their lawyer, Chris Reid:
….. Mr. McGuinty and Mr. Bryant never responded to the Ardoch Algonquin proposals.
“They instructed their lawyers to sit in court this week and say nothing while the lawyers for the mining company asked for six-month jail terms and punitive fines. The fact that Mr. Lovelace is in jail today is one hundred per cent the fault of Mr. McGuinty and Mr. Bryant.
Has nothing been leaned from the Dudley George incident at Ipperwash? (I suspect that the OPP’s reluctance to get involved in another shit storm such as ensued from that had more to do with people not getting hurt than any actions by McGuinty & Co.)
When established authorities, political and corporate, begin to use the courts and criminal system as a method to impose their will rather than those pesky and messy negotiations – it serves no one well: not (in this case) the band members, not the government leaders and certainly not the people of Canada.
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Code and Colours and Crying; Oh My!
Spent a busy weekend updating Bread and Roses.
We now have updated software and whole new look. In fact 3 whole new looks as there are 3 styles to choose from.
Some minor tweaking still being done.
Total hours slept….maybe 10.
I want to thank our Techno God Steve for going above and beyond in helping with this install.
In other news April Reign has squeaked by into the finals at the F-word Awards.
Final vote is Feb 22-23 go support your favourite radical!
Thank You!
Thank you to those who nominated me over at the F-Word Awards (Best Blogs Awards EVER!)
By way of thank you I give you one of my all time favourite songs, Thank You by Led Zeppelin
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.
Kind woman, I give you my heart, Kind woman, nothing more.
Little drops of rain whisper of the pain, tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong, with you there is no wrong,
together we shall go until we die. My, my, my.
An inspiration is what you are to me, inspiration, look… see.
And so today, my world it smiles, your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
Thanks to you it will be done, for you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad, happiness….I’m glad.
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.
One Body. One Person. One Count.
There is currently before the House a private members bill that “would amend the Criminal Code to allow separate homicide charges to be laid in the death of a foetus when a pregnant woman is attacked.”
This in effect suggests that a foetus be defined as a separate “person” from the mother. This definition of ‘personhood’ would immediately open the door to criminalizing abortion and those having/performing them.
This bill is being brought forward by a special interest group.
Ken Epp is a member of the Campaign Life Coalition.
As Raymond Gravel, a Bloc MP and a priest said;
the member putting it forward is part of a pro-life group, the Campaign Life Coalition, which in my view is a rather extreme fanatical group, when it comes to life.”
I for one do not wish extreme fanatics dictating my choices. Such action leads to fascism.
For more information on this bill and to take action please visit Birth Pangs.
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