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From the grandparents

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:54:38 +0000

The Toronto-based group For Our Grandchildren has produced this wonderful video:

For Our Grandchildren – Something Must Be Done from Stephen Best on Vimeo.

If the video stutters, click on the HD in the lower-right-hand corner. Even in “low-def”, it’s quite high-definition.

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More action against Keystone XL pipeline

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:25:17 +0000

I previously wrote about Patricia Warwick, one of the “Fabulous 45″ – so named because although they came to Washington expecting to face a $100 “post and forfeit” for defying the rules of the park in front of the White House, they discovered that those arrested the previous day were to be held for 3 days. The 45 risked arrest anyway.

The actions against the Keystone XL pipeline (which would enable a vast expansion in the capacity for oil production from the tar sands) at the White House continued for another 12 days after Patricia’s arrest, with over 1200 arrests in total, including east Toronto residents Sharon Howarth, the Green Party of Canada candidate in Toronto-Danforth in the 2008 federal election and David Wilson, an oil industry retiree. Tar Sands Action, which organized this demonstration, vows to continue working to oppose the pipeline

The action against the Keystone XL Pipeline is now moving to Canada, where activists are planning a sit-in on September 26. You can find out more and join here.

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One brave Green supports Canadians who question continued military engagement in Libya

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:02:28 +0000

I have never been prouder to be a Green. Bravo to Elizabeth, the only member of Parliament who refused to support the escalation of war in Libya.

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An Inconvenient Youth in Cancún

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:16:23 +0000

This very much summarizes my experience in Cancún.

Watching the youth count the dead brought tears to my eyes now just as it did in Cancún

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Canada fails as a human rights leader

Michela Pasquali — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:26:56 +0000

Salil Shetty, the global secretary-general of Amnesty International, delivered a blistering attack on Harper’s record on human rights actions, in a report released March 31 entitled Getting Back On The Rights Track. ‘Globally, Canada’s reputation as a reliable human-rights champion has dropped precipitously,’ Amnesty stated.

Green Leader Elizabeth May responded, ‘Canadians are aware of the current Government’s indifference for human rights and its disdain for the organizations that defend them. There has been a definite drift away from the traditional Canadian values of taking leadership in human rights and a change of government is urgently required to rebuild trust.’

Read the full press release from the Green Party of Canada.

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Tim DeChristopher convicted in Utah

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:33:39 +0000

Tim’s action to block the sale of federal lands for mining rights to the fossil fuel industry was one of those pure, spontaneous and beautiful expressions of nonviolent public opposition to monstrous policy. The publicity raised by his actions led directly to the withdrawal of the mining leases by the incoming Obama administration. Nonetheless, yesterday Tim DeChristopher was convicted and faces prison time. He is a hero.

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Planning cities for the young and old

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:13:57 +0000

A few years ago, Elizabeth May said that we need to plan cities around the child, instead of around the car. There’s now a movement around 8-80 cities that calls on cities to be planned with two groups of people in mind – 8 year olds and 80 year olds. The theory is that if you take care of the young and old, the able-bodied in between will be able to look after themselves. It’s a compassionate approach to community building with the goal of safe streets, local economies and cohesive neighbourhoods, rather than maximum mobility. And it’s very much at the heart of what the Green Party is all about.

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Elizabeth May on developments in Egypt

Charlie Halpern-Hamu — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:33:24 +0000

Elizabeth May calls on the Canadian Government to urge Hosni Mubarak to resign as President of Egypt.

سياسات حزب الخضر من كندا هي ترتكز على ستة مبادئ اساسية هي …

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COP16 — Hope, fear and tears

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:13:13 +0000

COP 16 President Patricia Espinosa just received a prolonged standing ovation simply for announcing 10 hours late that negotiations were still ongoing and a deal was still possible. I am in tears.

The youth action outside this building was forcibly stopped.

The best analysis I’ve seen of the new text is offered by BBC. It is better than nothing.

A ceremony announcing the Colossal Fossil was widely expected to award Canada for the fourth year in a row, given the large number of fossils accumulated during this year’s negotiations. But in the confusion outside, the announcement has been put off. I’m proud of the young Canadians for their courage, and disgusted by our leaders for their lack of it.

[Adriana is blogging from the UN climate change negotiations in Cancun, in an attempt to keep the Canadian delegation honest.]

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COP16 — Canadian youth fed up

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:27:46 +0000

At this morning’s meeting with Canada’s chief negotiator, the first question of the day was taken by a representative of Canada’s youth delegation. He delivered a strongly worded rebuke to Canada for failing to show any leadership, for insisting on weak targets and extensive loopholes, for failing to work constructively with countries that took the problem seriously, and for failing to recognize and address the terrible pain they were imposing on succeeding generations who would never benefit from the advantages that Canadian government choices made today. They demanded that Canada stop kowtowing to the oil industry and take a stand for Canadians and the world. And then they walked out, all 15 or so of them

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COP16 — Sad and uplifting moments

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:33:30 +0000

I’ve never been to a COP before, but I’ve been involved in climate change issues long enough to recognize a very sad trend from fighting to prevent it to squabbling over the money to deal with it. Far more energy is being spent today to discuss the costs of adaptation, primarily for countries that have had very little to do with causing it. More and more effort is spent by scientists not in evaluating the broad implications of a warming planet, but in evaluating the much more narrow human-scale impacts it will cause

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The aftermath of a peaceful protest

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:18:27 +0000

I was locked inside College Park for an hour this afternoon after rioters smashed the windows there. There were about 200 frustrated and fearful people with me, including some cranky children and a tearful young teen who just wanted to get home. What the perpetrators accomplished was to anger a lot of people and justify the massive police presence that until this point had just seemed like an embarrassing exaggeration

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Canada’s climate calendar

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:13:39 +0000

This evening I attended the launch of Canada’s climate calendar. It’s an interactive tool you can see online which compares Canada’s per-capita emissions with those of other countries in the world. It is horrifying

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Principios

Charlie Halpern-Hamu — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:18:36 +0000

El Partido Verde de Canadá está fundado en seis principios

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اردو

Charlie Halpern-Hamu — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:50:00 +0000

گرین پارٹی کینیڈا کی بنیاد چھ اصولوں پر ہے

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Nguyên tắc

Charlie Halpern-Hamu — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:39:17 +0000

Đảng Xanh của Canada được thành lập dựa trên sáu nguyên tắc

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Principi

Charlie Halpern-Hamu — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:09:34 +0000

Il Partito Verde del Canada si fonda su sei principi

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सिद्धांतों

Charlie Halpern-Hamu — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:42:55 +0000

कनाडा की ग्रीन पार्टी, छह सिद्धांतों पर आधारित है

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ગુજરાતી

Charlie Halpern-Hamu — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:22:52 +0000

કેનેડાની ગ્રીન પાર્ટી છ સીધ્ધાંતો ઉપર રચાયેલી છે

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Αρχές

Charlie Halpern-Hamu — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:07:33 +0000

Το Κόμμα των Πρασίνων Καναδά δημιουργήθηκε στηρίζοντας έξι αρχές

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Canada should pressure Thailand to exercise moderation

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:15:22 +0000

I have been watching in horror as events have been unfolding in Thailand. The world should have insisted that the Thai government exercise restraint as tensions escalated over the weekend. It is outrageous to respond to a largely peaceful protest by sending in the army to break it up. Instead we stood by as dozens of civilians were gunned down

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Avatar

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:00:20 +0000

I watched Avatar with my family on New Year’s Day and highly recommend it. One of my friends described it as a futuristic Pocahontas story that ends well for the natives. He also found it amusing that the substance for which mankind was willing to lay waste to the beautiful moon of Pandora was called unobtainium. Spoilers ahead

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መርሆዎች

Muluken Muchie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:26:38 +0000

የካናዳ ግሪን ፓርቲ መመሪያዎች በስድስት መርሆዎች ላይ የተመሠረቱ ናቸው�

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Multifaith Peace Walk

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:55:51 +0000

I’ll be participating in the Second Annual Danforth Multifaith Peace Walk and urge everyone to join me. The walk begins at Glen Rhodes United Church and continues past the Danforth Jewish Circle, the Pakistani Community Centre and the Madina Masjid on Danforth to celebrate the newly renovated space, ending at Eastminster United Church.

Women are asked to wear a head scarf inside the Madina Masjid.

Second Annual Danforth Multifaith Peace Walk
Sunday, 2009 October 4, 1 pm
Glen Rhodes United Church, 1470 Gerrard St E

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