Last night I came upon Betsy Devine’s blog for the first time. It’s a great blog — very smart, lots of humour, too. (I also learned that she’s the mother of Amity (Nature is Profligate) Wilczek, whose blog really caught my imagination when it showed up on the Harvard weblogs. It’s rather fun to find […]
Betty Krawczyk and Jen Bradley were arrested today for blocking Weyerhaeuser Corporation’s access to a logging road in the Walbran Forest. See yesterday’s blog as well as May 3’s for more info. Krawczyk has now improved her chances of achieving one of her goals, which is to bring these forest management issues into the court […]
Along with other protesters and Women in the Woods, Betty Krawczyk continues to occupy a strategic logging road in the Upper Walbran Forest. Click here to see the press releases on the group’s new website, with a great photo of Briony Penn interviewing Betty Krawczyk. (More photos on the site’s other pages.) They look like […]
Thomas Friedman writes in his May 4 NY Times editorial that America “has assumed responsibility for rebuilding Iraq,” and he compares the task to adopting a baby named Baghdad. I just know that Mr. Friedman is a great dad because several months ago I heard him use the expression, “Well, up your nose with a […]
In a recent OpenDemocracy article, Lost in translation: the narrowing of the American mind, K.A. Dilday notes that Americans seem to read only other Americans, perhaps throwing in some Brits and Canadians and Aussies, but at any rate rarely anything not originally written in English. Only about 3% of the fiction and poetry published in […]
“Until such time as she wants to talk — and that’s going to be no time soon, and it may be never at all — the press is simply going to have to wait.” – U.S. Army spokesman Lt.-Col. Ryan Yantis commenting last week about Priv. Jessica Lynch, recovering behind closed doors at Washington’s Walter […]
Mother’s Day is coming up soon. You might want to visit a Spanish Amnesty International petition to save a Nigerian mother, Amina Lawal. She is to be buried up to her neck and then stoned to death. She was found guilty of adultery, the baby is considered evidence of the adultery, and she has only […]
Because protest should be fun, too, look at the pictures of Greenpeace protestors dressed as “Ents” — ancient trees from Lord of the Rings that start to rise up against evil Lord Sauron — marching on the Parliament Buildings in Victoria, British Columbia last Thursday (1 May). (See previous blog entries for more B.C. ancient […]
Canada needs to stick to its guns (decriminalize marijuana possession) and not be bullied into following the US’s strategy in the war on drugs. (See yesterday’s blog entry.) An article by Sanho Tree, The War at Home, about America’s war on drugs, exposes the problems with US strategy, and might interest Canadians who worry about […]
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