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Here are some pictures and a video from today’s Rally for Kyoto in Nathan Phillips Square.  It was cool, but still — perfect weather for a bear suit with a lot of fur yet no wind-breaking ability.

I’ve never gotten around to blogging about Mary Ann’s Fabulous Campaign School, and a few days ago, Elizabeth May beat me to it.

Mary Ann, I have a token gift for you I keep forgetting to give you.  If anyone on the executive is reading this, please remind me at the next possible moment.

When Charlie adds pictures to this entry, look for my little monkey literally climbing the walls.  According to Charlie, this afternoon when she was practicing her polar bear routine for tomorrow’s rally, she literally laughed her head off.

first a brief introduction. i am the canvassing coordinator for Charles Battershill in the upcoming federal election. Charles is part of the Elizabeth May Green Party Team and my job is figuring out where our supporters are and ensure they hear from us during the campaign.     Read more »

Now’s the time to join the Charles Battershill campaign team. We still have crucial positions open. Let us know you’d like to help on the volunteer page.

Last Saturday, I participated in a rally to Close Guantanamo.  It was a rally I helped to organize with the USA Team of Amnesty International, but I never even blogged about it because I was so busy with other things.

Guantanamo is where the United States continues to hold hundreds of prisoners captured in Afghanistan.  By labeling these prisoners “enemy combatants”, the United States has claimed that they have no legal rights whatsoever.  The rally marked five years that the prison has been in operation.  Many of the prisoners that remain at Guantanamo have not had any contact with family in all these years.  Dozens of them are juveniles.  There have been suicides, hunger strikes, force-feedings and deaths.  Allegations of torture are numerous.  In fact, the United States does not deny engaging in sleep deprivation, playing loud and/or offensive music at all times of the night and day and using other techniques they do not deem torture when they are the torturers.  During the rally, we were asked for 5 minutes of silence to mark this grim anniversary.  As I thought about what these prisoners have endured, and what their families have endured, I started to cry, as I always do at Amnesty rallies.     Read more »