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What is Politics, Re-Spun?
Journalistic objectivity is a myth. “Fair and Balanced” is a lie. The “No Spin Zone” is the All Spin Zone.
Corporate-concentrated media is bad for democracy and good for keeping people afraid, disempowered, immobilized, isolated and consumers rather than citizens.
So it is important to de-spin the political and re-spin it for social, economic and political justice.
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Stephen Elliott-Buckley
Post-partisan eco-socialist. at Politics, Re-Spun
Stephen Elliott-Buckley is a husband, father, professor, speaker, consultant, former suburban Vancouver high school English and Social Studies teacher who changed careers because the BC Liberal Party has been working hard to ruin public education. He has various English and Political Science degrees and has been writing political, social and economic editorials since November 2002. Stephen is in Twitter, Miro and iTunes, and the email thing, and at his website, dgiVista.org.
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Hi Stephen, I stumbled onto your blog by way of thestraight.com today. I really like your ideas about systemic learning. I think that the establishment far prefers it when we compartmentalize problems into separate smaller problems instead of actually connecting dots. For instance forestry, agriculture, industry all impact the environment, but our politicians like to approach them as separate. It also allows them to not regulate these industries, and not assign intrinsic values on resources (like the value of the forest if left intact, or the value of wild salmon not harvested, or the value of a lake left pristine instead of used as a tailings pond!)
…or the value of tar sands oil not extracted.
in general, thanks!
the system is the vibe. 🙂
You piece of sh!t
Lovely comment, that.
still, they may have a point. 🙂
I would really love to see Vancouver show their support and unity with the concerned citizens of the USA, against police brutality, against police shootings, against human rights violations.
Let’s show our love and support! We are with the people of Ferguson, NYC, etc.
Bottom line: We need to rally together to push for accountability in the police departments EVERYWHERE!
NO JUSTICE = NO PEACE