In a coordinated effort on Refugee Rights Day, members of refugee and immigrant rights groups including No One Is Illegal are occupying Conservative MP offices in Ottawa, Toronto, St. Catharines, Edmonton, and Vancouver Coast Salish Territories. Banners have also been dropped in Montreal and Halifax.
I grabbed some footage of the incredible use of singing and dancing in various South African social movements, from the Global Day of Action on Saturday. Hopefully it can inspire us Turtle Islanders to broaden our thinking in terms of how we conduct public demonstrations.
When I first stepped through the drab halls of the International Convention Centre, decorated in a business-casual African motif, a misanthropic ether binge or acid-fueled target practice with high-calibre rifles seemed they might be just the thing.
Last weekend, I attended the Eastern Conference on Workplace Democracy in Baltimore, Maryland. Over 200 people (a record turnout for this conference) gathered to discuss and learn under the theme "Connecting Our Workplaces: Building Cooperative Economies".
Last week, former Prime Minister Paul Martin called on the UN to invoke the policy of "Responsibility to Protect" in order to intervene in Libya.
The locals of the Media Co-op have separate decisionmaking structures from the network as a whole. They also have different approaches to making media.
I'm posting this to create a space for locals to post (or link to) their bases of unity and any other policies they have. This, for the benefit of sharing with other locals, and to inform policy making at the Media Co-op.
