Watching this video makes me feel cheap, used, and taken advantage of in many ways. Like we may have been a sideshow for a union’s aspiration to get ‘cred’ with their membership. Curiously, this event happened at the same time as a hearing about OV at city hall- most of us were either there, or …
Category: FAIL
Dec 17
Vancouver (DTES,Unionist,CoC,Etc) Black Bloc, You are Useful Idiots!
Do you actually believe your pseudo Waffen SS tactics could do anything but hurt a movement that is founded in love and peace? And, do you actually believe you have the foundation to make this a reality? Perhaps it’s just the reverberations of yesterday’s meditational yoga experience- but, this appears to be a somewhat deluded perception… Please …
Dec 16
Occupations Gone Bad… (Denver & Vancouver got hit by a boulder…)
An article was shared with me today about the goings-on in Denver. They are apparently experiencing some hard times. Here’s a quote from it: (click for link) “Our decision is based on festering frustrations with a small sector of OD who continue to marginalize, silence, and threaten our communities and ally communities. Despite the hard …
Dec 13
Breaking News! National Post Calls Occupy Vancouver Ninjas “Leftovers”!
Well, you knew it was coming! The ninjas have really started to taco Occupy Vancouver! Time to ask them to return their costumes to Value Village! http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/full-comment/blog.html?b=fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/12/13/brian-hutchinson-occupy-leftovers-annoy-vancouver-union-and-lose-another-friend
Dec 13
OccupyPBX: Emergency Announcement! A call to the 99% to call our leaders!
About a week ago I met a very nice woman who was campaigning for #HeritageNotCondos (okay, I made up the name). She told me that the city was planning to approve one of the West End’s remaining heritage buildings to build a nasty condo! Mayor Plasticman loves to make the 1% richer- right TIDES Foundation? …
Dec 12
How Cults Work- Or, does any of this look familiar?
The vast majority of people who have got involved at Occupy Vancouver are good folk- people who care enough about the problems in out world that they were motivated to go out and do something about it. To them- I applaud you. However, there are faction(s) in the group that appear to operate outside the …