I remember seeing one of my political science heroes, Thomas Homer-Dixon, at the UBCM and BC NDP conventions in the fall of 2007 speaking about community resiliency in the face of mounting evidence of human-induced climate change. His absolutely amazing, inspiring book, the Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization was the [...]
Rex Murphy, never a critical element in how I discern the world, is now officially dead to me. He’s a blustering tar sands cheerleader and disparager of all things otherwise. On Saturday in his above the fold cover piece in the National Post, Rex Murphy: Danny Williams and Ed Stelmach desperately need a dose of [...]
This afternoon at the Japanese Hall in East Vancouver is the Coalition of Progressive Electors‘ 2010 AGM. Below is the live blogging interface. COPE 2010 AGM
Update, 8:00am 9.15.10: I spoke with the Safeway’s assistant manager yesterday afternoon. Her responses: she sounded like she was going to reprimand the produce fellow who gave me the dull stare staff are supposed to change the signs, but sometimes they don’t [bad staff, bad!] if the majority of the fruit on the top [but [...]
Trade has occurred for thousands of years, not just in the capitalist context of the last few hundred years, and not just in the current neoliberal, free trade context of the last 30 years. For over five years I have been tracking Latin America’s ALBA, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, as an alternative model [...]
