Posts Tagged ‘Activism’


Occupy Grandview Park

I drove by Grandview Park this morning around 9:30 to see what was happening. There was a first aid flag and three tents being dismantled by city staff. Although I saw some people walking toward the park dragging some possessions in a blue tarp it looked like the protest had run out of steam. I [...]

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Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street is going global, and has come back to Vancouver. They are criticised for not having concrete demands or solutions. They are mostly white, mostly educated and mostly under-employed. They strike many as entitled, and not very revolutionary. On the other hand, we see an economy that is run by experts but that [...]

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Are Elites Failing Us?

I recently watched an RSA video. They’re great and I recommend them. Just search RSA on YouTube to get started. Anyway, this one was entitled “Have the Elites Failed? Lessons from the Arab Spring”. It was interesting to listen to the comments of the panel, which included a Palestinian and an Israeli parliamentarian. The idea [...]

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