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‘You, Me, and the S.P.P: Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule’

June 2, 2009 by Debra · Comments Off 

What do secrecy, police provocateurs, an assault on democracy and infringements on citizens’ rights have in common? The Security Prosperity Partnership.
‘You, Me, and the S.P.P: Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule’ is a feature length documentary which exposes the latest manifestation of a corporatist agenda that is undermining the democratic authority of the citizens of North [...]

One Body. One Person. One Count.

Bread and Roses and Birth Pangs announces the ‘one body. one person. one count.’ Campaign.
This is in response to Bill C-484, or the ‘Unborn Victims of Violence*’ bill, being proposed by Harper Conservative Governmentâ„¢ member Ken Epp.
This bill claims to be about choice. However, this law is about establishing the foetus as a separate and [...]

musings on elections

September 30, 2007 by croghan27 · Comments Off 

As you can tell I wrote this in Toronto a while ago. It is about elections and the way I think they should work. This accepted the FPTP mode – which would date this effort. I apologize for the constant underlining – this is a technical problem I am unable to overcome.
I [...]

Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America

July 12, 2007 by Debra · Comments Off 

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What a fine sounding title. Who doesn’t want security and prosperity? What a wonderful and ambitious goal! Unfortunately like so many other programs current governments offer, the title belies the intent.
From Integrate This;
In March 2005, Paul Martin, George W. Bush and Vicente Fox met in Waco, Texas to ratify the Security and Prosperity [...]

You can’t handle the truth

That is the message that the Washington Post has for it’s readers.
The images are contained in thousands of pages of NCIS investigative documents obtained by The Washington Post. Post editors decided that most of the images are too graphic to publish…
The descriptions of some of the photos do indeed sound brutal. A brutality the [...]

The Revolution Will Not Run On Window$

You go to peace marches and shop at the food co-op for organic food and fair trade coffee. You join picket lines of workers defending their rights, refuse to buy sweatshop clothing and never ever shop at Walmart. You fight to defend public medicare and for a national daycare programme. You do your banking at [...]