Speak your mind even if your voice shakes
There has been alot of talk about the NDP being dead, no longer with us, nailed to the perch….
So why then the constant flapping of silly gums about various ads, who said what to whom about dirty dancing…er merging with what party et bloody boring cetra.
If the NPD is dead and no threat why bother with the Minister Ministry of Silly Walk Talk about them?
Seems to me time would be better spent finding a way to get Harper de-elected.
Psychols has a post today wondering if PB members are willing to put the progressive where their mouth is, so to speak.
I’ve been wondering the same thing.
PB membership is well over 300. I’ve posted about the petition to save the Community Access Program and currently sigs stand at 73. This is from a wide range of places.
So do people like to talk about progressive more than they like to act upon it?
Perhaps you need a reason to vote. Well if you are a social democratic (philosophy not party) you can go to the site and read about the success stories of various CAPS centers. Then vote so there can be more.
If you are a partisan of any party other than the conservatives you can consider it a vote against Harper.
If you are a partisan Liberal consider it a vote to save a Liberal program from the ravages of Harper government.
I’m putting my faith in you to act upon your progressive values and help save a low cost, extremely important program.
Website here
Petition here
Please pass this link on to all your contacts!
Lets build upon the momentum of success through perseverance that Verbena and liberal catnip have shown us.
I struggled with what to write today. Which subject seemed to have the greatest importance.
In the end I felt there was no subject that had greater importance. They represented different cultures, different concerns, different areas (work, school, motherhood, reproductive rights) different focus (success stories and stories that show how much work is still required) and I realized that I couldn’t anymore choose a topic of greater importance than I could choose a woman of greater importance. [Read more…] about International Women’s Day
On March 2nd 2007 Canada lost a brave and noble woman.
Doris Anderson gave voice to those who were afraid to speak, didn’t know what to say or had no one to listen.
She did not sit back and imagine that so called nuanced responses were the way to achieve equality for women. She said what needed to be said, did what needed to be done and encouraged others to do the same.
In 1981 Doris was instrumental in ensuring that women’s equality would be enshrined in the Charter.
Anderson vs. Axworthy
1981: Canada is gripped by an identity crisis after Prime Minister Trudeau says he will add a charter of rights to the country’s constitution.
Women were worried about the Charter, says Anderson: the leaders behind it were all men, and men had a dismal record of defending women’s rights. As chair of the independent federal advisory committee on the status of women, she had already planned a conference that February so women’s groups could collaborate to critique the Charter.
But in January, then Employment Minister Axworthy pressed the committee to delay the conference until June. As reported at the time in the Toronto Star, he said a February conference could embarrass the government since it would be holding its last debate on the Charter at the same time.
Anderson was outraged. She said the committee would lose all credibility as an independent body if the government could manipulate it like this. Also, women had been waiting for months for this chance to influence the debate on the Charter. Delaying the conference until after that debate was finished would make it pointless.
Anderson and five other committee members decided to resign in protest. The conference was cancelled.
The Star has an excellent editorial today outlining just how low the Harper Government™ has sunk.
Apparently taking pitches from sewer rats, Canada’s New Government™[sic] has taken Canadian politics to a whole new low.
We know that the word democracy is not on this governments agenda, we know equality has been struck a death blow, apparently the truth is just another victim.
Another week, another string of cheap political attacks from Stephen Harper, who sounds less prime ministerial with every passing day.
After savaging Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion with attack ads that suggest he is a “traitor,” Harper continued this past week to play fast and loose with the facts, levelling baseless patronage charges against two Liberal Members of Parliament.
In debate over changes to the Immigration and Refugee Board, Harper accused MP Marlene Jennings of putting her spouse on the board and Lucienne Robillard, a former immigration minister, of appointing her ex-spouse. If true, these would be serious breaches of ethics.
But Robillard’s husband was appointed to the board in 1990 under a former Conservative prime minister, Brian Mulroney. And Jennings’ husband joined the board before she was even elected to Parliament.
the audio is off a bit but still well worth watching. You may laugh at the Macleans’ reference.
Third Planet Review hosted by hippielawyer Alan Graf, features a panel of activists from The Farm in Summertown, TN commenting on and analyzing the news giving you a completely different take than the corporate pundits. Panelists are Ina May Gaskin, midwife and author, Albert Bates, founder of the Eco-Village Training Center and author of a new book on surviving peak oil and Peter Schweitzer, executive director of Plenty International, otherwise known as the hippy peace corps
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