We MUST stop CETA.
March in solidarity with Windsor on Oct 29th!!
Friday, 28 October 2011
March against CETA- Follow Windsor Oct 29!!!
I've written before about CETA and the horrible impact it will have on Canadians, but this video from Occupy Windsor lays in out in black & white.
We MUST stop CETA.
March in solidarity with Windsor on Oct 29th!!
Mama Occupy
We MUST stop CETA.
March in solidarity with Windsor on Oct 29th!!
To the Mothers and Fathers of Canada
This was originally posted on Facebook, entitled "By a Concerned American: To the Mothers and Fathers of America", But this is not just about America, this is about world wide change. This is about the thousands of Occupiers who are standing up all over this planet to represent all of us. This is about the hundreds, if not thousands, of Canadians who are sleeping, eating, standing, and occupying in the cold and the rain and the wind and soon to be snow- standing up for US. Standing up for OUR rights and representing the 99% of Canadians- even those 99% who are still sleeping and have not yet realized that they are the ones who are having their futures destroyed. So please, Support your local occupation. They are OUR representatives and are doing this for YOU.
Mama Occupy
Mama Occupy
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL OCCUPATION!!!
By: A Concerned American"To the Mothers and Fathers of America:
This may not be clear to you yet, but those protesters out in the streets are your bravest children. They now hold the front for all of us in the centuries-old battle against tyranny. Many are fighting the corrupting influence of money in American politics, others against a system no longer functional for a majority that will only grow. Some do not know exactly what they want–only that something has gone terribly wrong in a country in which they would like to believe. They have not articulated one focused message, or one set of demands–and they do not need to. This is not a battle of right against left, red against blue, or liberal against conservative. It is not made-for-TV politics. It is a battle of right against wrong. America has lost, in its political discourse and behavior, the ability to distinguish between the two. Many of its practitioners seem not to care.
Those who support this movement in all its myriad shapes, sizes, sexes, colors, ideologies, income levels, and nationalities–have no sound bite. They get the problem, in general, and are massing to change it. Like the old thinker, they would rather be approximately correct than precisely wrong.
They give their nights, their sleep, their weekends, and their comfort to fight an uncertain battle for you, for all your children. They face police lines and mainstream scorn. They face the indifference of the vast armies of complacency and distraction, who keep waiting for the channel to change, the web page to update, and this movement to end. They face cynics who believe nothing will change, they face the often well-intentioned defeatists who believe nothing can change. They face politicians who patronize, tell them they don’t understand–that they, the politicians, support the movement, even as they make plans with their police forces to clear them.
On Tuesday, October 25th in Oakland, California, Scott Olsen, a 24-year-old Marine and Iraq veteran, standing beside another veteran, a naval officer in dress, was critically injured by a weapon used against him by a police officer from one of 17 jurisdictions in the San Francisco Bay Area. A group of occupiers running away from the scene, amidst police flash grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets, rushed back when they saw Scott Olsen lying still on the ground. As they rushed in to pick him up–a dozen of your bravest, America–an unidentified officer tossed, from behind police ranks, another flash grenade at their feet. A handful of these unarmed protesters persisted, carrying Scott Olsen, dazed with a fractured skull, away from the police line, shouting for medics as the explosions and smoke recalled the nightmare of American battlefields.
Like this, the guns have again been turned back on your bravest children, most fighting only for the core values they were taught as children: people in need should be helped; democracy should be uncorrupted; citizens must gather in peace; and this country belongs to all of us, not a political elite increasingly indistinguishable from a financial and industrial corporate elite. Like all of us, they see clearly and abhor this crony capitalism now ascendant. They are doing something about it.
These are not trouble-making hippies, America–you mistake them as such at your peril. These are your better angels, trying to save you from yourself. They are your child that cannot help tell the truth, the sometimes inconvenient one that thinks of safety last and justice first. They are fighting the war that rages inside you when you see the circus on TV, in print, or online and can only shake your head. You ignore them, laugh at them, demean them, or discount them at your peril. They may be our last hope of transformation for this country reeling from war, from a crisis of confidence, from scandal, division, corruption, and poverty. Let no demagogue–especially talkers at the service of money and power–convince you, a thinking American, that these are not patriots of the truest kind.
So go out and support your children, America, and with them the fundamental ideas upon which this country was founded. Take a walk by the protest in your town at night, in the morning–drive by or bike past. Stop and talk to someone for a minute. Listen and watch. Gather your friends and neighbors. Everyone has their own place and their own role.
For every Scott Olsen, now lying in a hospital bed in critical condition, there should be 100,000 witnesses, who by their presence lend this movement strength and legitimacy.....
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Harper Sells Canada
Further to the article I wrote last week "Harper Digs another latrine to flush Canada into", European Union trade officials are in Canada to meet with their Canadian counterparts on what might be the final round of negotiations on a huge new trade agreement called CETA .Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, Writes it out in black and white for us- What CETA is about and what it will cost Canadians:
CETA poses a grave threat to Canada's social programs and public services because, for the first time, the provinces are at the table negotiating away their own rights and those of their municipalities. CETA allows corporations to bid on all "sub-national procurement," that is, all the ways in which provincial and municipal levels of governments spend our tax revenues. Access to these levels of government contracts was not available in previous trade deals and represents the mother lode for foreign companies, anywhere from $100 billion to $200 billion a year .
European corporations want to sell Canadians the services we now receive publicly, services such as health care, education, water and mail delivery, and CETA will give these private companies the right to bid on government tenders for goods and services including schools, hospitals, airports, public transit, ports, and hydro projects to name just a few. Any rules or practices that favour local economic development, support local food production or promote local or Canadian goods and services will be challenged as unfair barriers to trade. As well, these corporations will have the right to challenge any local laws that promote fair trade or reflect the environmental concerns of the community, such as bottled water bans.
Europe is also in a race with China to nail down access to raw resources such as Canada's fish, potash, natural gas, forests, and minerals and will gain permanent access to these resources through an "investor-state" provision of CETA that will give European corporations the right to sue Canadian governments if they try to interfere with their "right to profit." Under a similar provision in NAFTA, the Harper government shockingly recently paid an American pulp and paper corporation, Abitibi Bowater, $130 million for the timber and water "rights" the company claimed when it picked up and left Newfoundland and the workers high and dry.
The National Farmer's Union is deeply worried that the Harper government will sacrifice supply managed poultry and dairy farming in Canada and give big European agribusiness companies the right to further erode farmer rights to save, exchange and sell seeds from their crops. The move this week to kill the Wheat Board in spite of its very high rating of approval by Western wheat farmers, is a sure sign that the Harper government will sacrifice family farms to get this deal.
HERE to Read the entire article
CANADIANS, Harper is selling out country's resources and businesses out from under us, behind secret "closed door" meetings- Please educate your self about CETA and how it will effect our Country. Write to Harper and tell him that Canada is NOT a dictatorship and cannot be sold without the consent of the Canadian people!!! PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION EVERYWHERE- CANADIANS NEED TO LISTEN AND STAND UP!
Write to Harper: http://pm.gc.ca/eng/contact.as
Use your voice and sign your name!!
http://www.cwbafacts.ca/media/
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=b74d68d7-1221-4e2f-9165-d08870fc6d23
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Harper Digs Another Latrine to Flush Canada Into
Harper digs another latrine to flush Canada into
Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but I remember the last "free" trade agreement that canada signed- NAFTA- That free trade agreement completely screwed Canada and cost our citizens thousands and thousands of jobs, and America got to buy anything they wanted at a discounted price. Harper's government goons are trying to tell us that this new trade agreement with Europe is going to create tons of jobs and make us gazillions of dollars and make Canada basically fart sunshine and daisies, rainbows and unicorns.
So tell me, if Canada has all the fresh water, all the oil, all the natural gas, all the minerals, all the wheat, all the livestock, all the fruits and veggies, and all the fish, we have top rate scientists, world-class medical facilities, highly regarded schools and universities......What the hell are WE going to get from Europe? Ok European cheese and wine and chocolates are nice, and I happen to like the occasional Dutch beer, but seriously what else are they going to "trade" with us for?
....oh right- those expensive European sports cars that the 1% like. Yea, strangely enough, I'm not interested in those.
Why would we want to tie ourselves to a continent that's drowning in Debt, where a quarter of the countries involved are almost bankrupt- these countries can't even afford to look after their own people!!!! It's bad enough that we are stuck with our heads shoved up America's ass, just waiting to be flushed down the toilet when their economy completely crashes, why the hell would we want to tie ourselves to other economies on the verge of becoming manure?!? Seriously!!!!!
This "Free" trade agreement will destroy the Canadian economy and destroy jobs of thousands of people, just like the last one did. The fact that all these negotiations are taking place behind closed doors should scare the crap out of Canadians everywhere.
Stand up people!!!!
We can not allow the Dictator Harper to sign away Canada's livelyhood. Tell the government that they do not have the Right to make this decision WITHOUT the consensus of the people!!
Stand up People!!!
Friday, 21 October 2011
Stop Harper's Crime Bill!!
I just received this email from LeadNow.ca - It is vitally important that Canadians Take heed to the legislation that Harper is trying to pass and tell our government "No!". Canadians need to stand up to our government and tell them that they can NOT pass this type of legislation without the consent of the people. We have the Right to have our voice heard.
There are several petitions against this Crime Bill:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-omnibus-crime-bill/
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/kill_harpers_crime_bill/signatures
http://www.petitiononline.com/C10NO/petition.html
SEND a message to the Government NOW http://www.leadnow.ca/keep-canada-safe
There are several petitions against this Crime Bill:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-omnibus-crime-bill/
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/kill_harpers_crime_bill/signatures
http://www.petitiononline.com/C10NO/petition.html
SEND a message to the Government NOW http://www.leadnow.ca/keep-canada-safe
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Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Mission #1: Awaken the sleeping 99%
Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It.....
Our country has a problem, and our first mission needs to address this problem:
Awaken the 99%
The vast majority of Canadians seem to be living under the mistaken impression that we are all fine and dandy here in Canada. The Vast majority of Canadians seem to think that we have nothing to complain about, that the current "occupations" and protests in Canada are just silly.
"Canada is just fine- we're doing well! These protesters are just protesting because it's a fad. They're just a bunch of troubled youths that have nothing better to do with their time. They just want to imitate the Wall Street Occupation. No Really! Our banks are nothing like the American banks! Our government is nothing like the American government! Our government finances are nothing like the American governments finances!!!"
They live in a dream world where their "reality" is dictated to them by the mass media. They sleep on, ignoring the noise of discontent, ignoring the rumblings of their bellies that have been filled with the empty calories of white bread media. They sleep on because their government continually sings them a lullaby
Go to sleep, go to sleep, Go to sleep little people.......
As the first week of Occupations has erupted across Canada, we need to start planning our missions. Our very first mission should be to awaken the sleeping 99%.
The very first thing I did this morning (after waking children, making breakfasts and guzzling coffee) was to check Facebook occupation pages. I was thrilled to see that the Occupy Toronto Market Exchange has almost 13,000 likers! Occupy Vancouver has over 3300 likers. Occupy Ottawa is one liker away from 3400! Even Occupy Newfoundland now has over 1100 likers!!! The "likers" are climbing daily..... but the reality is that the GTA has a population of over 5 and a half MILLION people. Granted that many don't do Facebook, but the reality is that the VAST majority of these people are still SLEEPING!!!
To Quote Frank Herbert: "The sleeper must awaken".
These sleeping Canadians need to hear the roar of discontent. They need to be woken up to the true reality of their country, their Government, their financial crisis, and the evils of the banks and mega corporations.
Fact: The Canadian Government DID bail out the Canadian Banks- in the tune of $75 BILLION dollars. Harper refused to call it a "bail out", but that's what it is, regardless of what his government wants to name it- hell, they can call it a a "rainbow farting unicorn" for all I care.... but it's still a BAIL OUT.
Let the sleepers know!!
Mama Occupy
Our country has a problem, and our first mission needs to address this problem:
Awaken the 99%
The vast majority of Canadians seem to be living under the mistaken impression that we are all fine and dandy here in Canada. The Vast majority of Canadians seem to think that we have nothing to complain about, that the current "occupations" and protests in Canada are just silly.
"Canada is just fine- we're doing well! These protesters are just protesting because it's a fad. They're just a bunch of troubled youths that have nothing better to do with their time. They just want to imitate the Wall Street Occupation. No Really! Our banks are nothing like the American banks! Our government is nothing like the American government! Our government finances are nothing like the American governments finances!!!"
They live in a dream world where their "reality" is dictated to them by the mass media. They sleep on, ignoring the noise of discontent, ignoring the rumblings of their bellies that have been filled with the empty calories of white bread media. They sleep on because their government continually sings them a lullaby
Go to sleep, go to sleep, Go to sleep little people.......
As the first week of Occupations has erupted across Canada, we need to start planning our missions. Our very first mission should be to awaken the sleeping 99%.
The very first thing I did this morning (after waking children, making breakfasts and guzzling coffee) was to check Facebook occupation pages. I was thrilled to see that the Occupy Toronto Market Exchange has almost 13,000 likers! Occupy Vancouver has over 3300 likers. Occupy Ottawa is one liker away from 3400! Even Occupy Newfoundland now has over 1100 likers!!! The "likers" are climbing daily..... but the reality is that the GTA has a population of over 5 and a half MILLION people. Granted that many don't do Facebook, but the reality is that the VAST majority of these people are still SLEEPING!!!
To Quote Frank Herbert: "The sleeper must awaken".
These sleeping Canadians need to hear the roar of discontent. They need to be woken up to the true reality of their country, their Government, their financial crisis, and the evils of the banks and mega corporations.
Fact: The Canadian Government DID bail out the Canadian Banks- in the tune of $75 BILLION dollars. Harper refused to call it a "bail out", but that's what it is, regardless of what his government wants to name it- hell, they can call it a a "rainbow farting unicorn" for all I care.... but it's still a BAIL OUT.
Let the sleepers know!!
Mama Occupy
The CMHC: Canada's mortgage monster
"At the end of 2009, the CMHC insured roughly $473 billion worth of mortgages (it expected that figure to rise to $519 billion last year, though updated figures haven’t been released), which is nearly the entire mortgage insurance market in the country. The CMHC also assists the financial sector by buying pooled mortgages and reselling them to investors as bonds, giving banks and other institutions an immediate source of cash that they can re-lend. As of 2009, the CMHC had securitized $300 billion worth of mortgages. So critical is this function that Ottawa relied on the agency to prop up the country’s big banks during the financial crisis, giving the CMHC permission to buy $66 billion worth of mortgages.....
....Grant and other critics argue the CMHC’s balance sheet looks strikingly similar to both Fannie and Freddie if you compare the mortgages the agency insures against its equity. Using the CMHC’s 2010 forecasts, it insures $519.1 billion in mortgages against $9.9 billion in equity, which works out to around 1.9 per cent (although the CMHC says it has another $6.7 billion in “unearned” premiums that could be used toward future claims). By comparison, in 2007, at the peak of the bubble, Fannie Mae backed up US$2.7 trillion of mortgage-backed securities with US$40 billion of capital, or 1.5 per cent equity against its overall exposure. But the CMHC says its capital levels are double what the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions requires of mortgage insurers (though the CMHC is not regulated by the OFSI). But such assurances in the absence of transparent disclosure offer limited comfort. As C.D. Howe researcher Finn Poschmann wrote in a recent report: “Parliament and the voters to whom it answers have no formal documentation of the way these exposures are calculated or managed.”What bothers Grant is that the CMHC’s government-backed guarantees encourage banks to feel they have less to lose if loans go bad. “The risk has been shifted, rather than reduced, from the stockholders and depositors of the big Canadian banks to the Canadian taxpayer,” he says. And if house prices fall and borrowers get into trouble, the ripples would run far and wide. “A sharp break in Canadian house prices would inflict terrific damage to consumer confidence, would hurt the Canadian labour market, and ultimately produce a lot of the unpleasant results that have been America’s burden to bear since 2007.” *note: highlights are mine*
Canada's 75 Billion Dollar Bank BailoutThe $64 Billion Federal Budget Deficit is intended to Finance Canada's Chartered Banks
Canada's Bank BailoutThe 64 billion dollar budget deficit should come as no surprise.
It is directly related to a 75 billion dollar bank bailout program for Canada's chartered banks, announced, virtually unnoticed, four days before the October Federal election.
The bank bailout received close to no media coverage; its budgetary implications were not analyzed.
In a statement by Prime Minister Harper on October 10, the bank bailout was casually presented as a commitment by the Federal government to purchase an initial $25 billion in "secure" bank mortgages from the Canadian chartered banks. The transaction would be implemented through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp:
"Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) will purchase up to $25 billion in insured mortgage pools as part of the Government of Canada’s plan, announced today, to maintain the availability of longer-term credit in Canada." (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Supports Canadian Credit Markets, CHMC Press Release, 10 October 2009)
The decision implies a money transfer into the coffers of Canada's financial institutions. The money is "fungible" and can be used by the banks as they see fit:
"The federal government's [initial] $25-billion takeover of bank-held mortgages to ease a growing credit crunch faced by the country's financial institutions is not a bailout similar to recent moves made in the United States and other Western countries, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said Friday.
"This is not a bailout; this is a market transaction that will cost the government nothing," he told reporters at a campaign rally in Brantford, Ont., ahead of Tuesday's federal election.
"We are not going in and buying bad assets. What we're doing is simply exchanging assets that we already hold the insurance on and the reason we're doing this is to get out in front. The issue here is not protecting the banks." (CBC News October 10, 2008, emphasis added)
The 25 billion dollar allocation was announced four days prior to the elections. Two days following the federal elections, the first mortgage purchase took place leading to an initial cash injection of 5 billion into the coffers of the chartered banks.
Barely a month following the federal election, on November 12 2008, another $50 billion allocation was announced.
It received no news coverage. Moreover, opposition party leaders did not analyze the official statement of the Ministry of Finance.
The likely consequences of the Canada bank bailout on the federal fiscal structure were not the object of discussion or political debate.
The text of the official statement reads as follows:
"The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, today announced the Government will purchase up to an additional $50 billion of insured mortgage pools by the end of the fiscal year as part of its ongoing efforts to maintain the availability of longer-term credit in Canada.
This action will increase to $75 billion the maximum value of securities purchased through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) under this program.
"At a time of considerable uncertainty in global financial markets, this action will provide Canada's financial institutions with significant and stable access to longer-term funding," said Minister Flaherty.(The Main Wire, November 12, 2008, emphasis added)....
....The $700 billion US bank bailout under the Troubled Assets Relief Program, was the object of debate and legislation in the US Congress.
In contrast, in Canada, the granting of 75 billion dollars to Canada's chartered banks was implemented at the height of an election campaign, without duly informing the Canadian public.
Canada's media and financial press bears a responsibility in this regard. The matter was barely mentioned. It passed virtually unnoticed a few days before a federal election.
Media coverage was minimal. There was no parliamentary debate. No discussion, no debate as one would have expected from the opposition parties at the height of an election campaign as well as in its aftermath.
Nobody seemed to have noticed. Most Canadians do not know that there was a 75 billion dollar bailout of Canada's financial institutions.
The decision was casually presented as an effort "to ease the credit crunch" and encourage Canadian banks "to loosen their purse strings and extend more lending to businesses and consumers."
The impact, however, is likely to result in exactly the opposite: the centralization and concentration of financial wealth to the detriment of the real economy..
Three Reasons banks need to Bail-In in Canada: Tax Havens, the bail-out of Canadian banks, and absurdly low corporate tax rates.The $75 billion dollar bailout
"....Harper refused to call it a bailout.4 He certainly couldn’t risk characterizing it as one identical to the US bailout of the banking industry (see the excellent film Inside Job for the full, fascinating story on that). According to the IMF, the cost of trying to stabilize the Canadian banking system was the third-highest amongst the G7, just behind the U.S. and the U.K.5 Whatever history decides to call it, it delivered more public money into the already dirty hands of the banking industry.
Here’s what happened: in 2008, the government took $75 billion worth of risky mortgage assets off the hands of the banks, and placed that risk in the hands of the taxpayers through the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.6 Harper justified this by explaining that they were only acquiring assets that the taxpayer was obligated to insure if debtors didn’t pay up.7 But taxpayers were only obligated to insure those assets because the government forced the taxpayer to insure them. This was done to make certain that banks wouldn’t decrease their lending as dramatically. But why are taxpayers the ones taking on these risks, making the only real sacrifices to improve the economy – in effect, being “stung” twice? The “bailout” helped create a 9.3% increase in Canadian household debt between June 2008 and June 2009.8
The amount of risk from which Canadians freed the banks is enormous. With the additional burden of mortgages insured by CMHC, by the end of 2010 the amount had reached $500 billion, up from $138 billion in 2007.9 That $500 billion is the debt least likely to be paid back. It was the problem of the banks that provided the loans, and they carry no risk. Now it’s Canada’s problem. It’s national debt if the mortgages don’t get paid back. What happens if too many debtors default, and the housing market and the financial system in Canada come crashing down? The disturbing answer can currently be seen as it plays out south of the border.
Harper’s government also created the Extraordinary Financing Framework, which established a commitment of $200 billion to lend to the banks. Billions were borrowed to establish this fund, which will charge taxpayers with the interest carrying-costs – all so that banks can lend the money back to the consumer, to make more money.9
Bruce Campbell of the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, writing about the $75 billion dollar bail-out and the $200 billion fund, had this to say:
“These measures are considered “non-budgetary” or “off book.” They do not show up as expenditures, which increase the federal deficit and debt. Rather, they appear on the books of CMHC and the Bank of Canada. But they have increased the government’s borrowing from 13.6 billion in 2007-08 to $89.5 billion in 2008-09, or double the fiscal deficit now projected for 2009. (Note the government has arbitrarily chosen to expense $8 billion of the auto restructuring package – normally an off-book expense – as a one-time loss provision.)” [emphasis added]5
Meanwhile, compensation for bank CEOs has risen dramatically. It was recently reported that the Bank of Montreal’s CEO pay has increased by 28% (to $9.5 million annually), and CIBC’s Chief Executive received a pay raise of 50% (to $9.34 million).10 11 These astronomical salaries are ridiculously disproportionate to the contributions these individuals make to society. Under the current system, Canada enables these corporations to provide such ridiculous rates of compensation...."
Monday, 17 October 2011
Your Occupiers need YOU!!
The thousands of Canadians who are "Occupying" cities across Canada NEED YOUR SUPPORT!!!! This site has been created to bring families and people together to help support our local Occupiers. Millions of us can not camp out to show our solidarity with the Occupations, but we can do a vitally important job: SUPPORT THE OCCUPATIONS!!!
What can YOU do to help? Occupiers need help to keep the occupations going.
They need:
-FOOD: preferably HOT and nutritious. In the cold weather, the body burns more calories to keep warm. It is vitally important that the people standing up to represent us are FED!!!
-COLD WEATHER GEAR: Tents, Sleeping Bags, Blankets, Tarps,
-COLD WEATHER CLOTHING: Coats/Jackets, Sweaters, All weather clothing, Socks, Hats & Gloves & Scarves, Boots
-EQUIPMENT: Generators, Solar cels/panels, Various Electronics, Tables, Chairs, Large containers for Storage,
-MISC: Cardboard for signs and for ground insulation, Markers and Paint for signs, note books, pens & pencils,
How Can YOU support your local Occupation? Can you make a big pot of soup to take down to the Occupiers? Can you make/bake/cook something nutritious and take it to them? Can you deliver food/supplies from other families who are helping to the Occupation? Do you have camping gear that you can donate? Do you have some extra sweaters/coats/cold weather gear that you can donate?
Get your local businesses involved!!! Small businesses are being punished by the Canadian government/banks as much as families are. Can you contact some local businesses and ask for donations? Food? Clothing? Equipment?
Contact your local thrift stores- can they donate warm clothes?
THIS is how you can support your local Occupation!!!
Please share this post out, tweet about it, and link to this site- we need to gather together supporters to help our representatives stand up for OUR FAMILIES.
Mama Occupy
What can YOU do to help? Occupiers need help to keep the occupations going.
They need:
-FOOD: preferably HOT and nutritious. In the cold weather, the body burns more calories to keep warm. It is vitally important that the people standing up to represent us are FED!!!
-COLD WEATHER GEAR: Tents, Sleeping Bags, Blankets, Tarps,
-COLD WEATHER CLOTHING: Coats/Jackets, Sweaters, All weather clothing, Socks, Hats & Gloves & Scarves, Boots
-EQUIPMENT: Generators, Solar cels/panels, Various Electronics, Tables, Chairs, Large containers for Storage,
-MISC: Cardboard for signs and for ground insulation, Markers and Paint for signs, note books, pens & pencils,
How Can YOU support your local Occupation? Can you make a big pot of soup to take down to the Occupiers? Can you make/bake/cook something nutritious and take it to them? Can you deliver food/supplies from other families who are helping to the Occupation? Do you have camping gear that you can donate? Do you have some extra sweaters/coats/cold weather gear that you can donate?
Get your local businesses involved!!! Small businesses are being punished by the Canadian government/banks as much as families are. Can you contact some local businesses and ask for donations? Food? Clothing? Equipment?
Contact your local thrift stores- can they donate warm clothes?
THIS is how you can support your local Occupation!!!
Please share this post out, tweet about it, and link to this site- we need to gather together supporters to help our representatives stand up for OUR FAMILIES.
Mama Occupy
WE ARE THE 99%
We are people and families that stand up to support the Occupation of Canada. We are bringing families together to support all those people who are occupying cities across Canada. There are many of us who can not physically be there with you, camping out day by day in the middle of our cities, occupying these spaces in a physical show of solidarity. Many of us have small children, or jobs, or live to far away to be there, but we are there with you in spirit and we support you.
This site has been created to be a portal to news stories, blogs, videos, and important updates. It has been created to be a place where families can work together to support the occupations in Canadian cities, to organize and gather vital supplies, to connect families that want to help, with the occupiers that need us.
WE are families. WE are the 99%. WE stand with the 99%. WE join with the Global Revolution that is sweeping this planet as we rise up and say "NO MORE!"
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