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ottawa! or: the city with really drunk federal workers.
i'm in ottawa. staying in a hotel where they charge for internet by the day, but it's free in the restaurant. So I thought, "Hey, i'll have breakfast in the restaurant and be able to use internet." Turns out the breakfast was way more expensive than just buying internet for the day. It had one of those menus that didn't have the prices, but I got ( Read more... ) -
Writing - often it is the only thing between you and impossibility.
It's a bit scary to return. I used to write so much and feel more passionate about crushes, socialism, and music. But I have been thinking of writing (or not writing) for the past while. And while I can make excuses about feeling burnt out from writing a thesis, dealing with over a year of G20 mania and legal defense or the trauma of community ( Read more... ) -
thinking of continuing
LJ just sent me an email saying that if I didn't login it would delete everything. And maybe that wouldn't be so bad. But then again, I think my lack of writing has been around the incredible burn out from writing that I got from thesis writing, then the heaviness of the G20 Legal Defense, which ultimately failed (I feel), cause a bunch of people ( Read more... ) -
oh hip hop
I returned late last night from my first Prometheus barn raising and all day today we had an alternative "orientation" concert where we brought in a bunch of hip hop bands. We brought in Narcycist and Invincible, who got me more inspired into making more community-based media.
Here is an awesome documentary called "People not Places" that ( Read more... ) -
it's been ten years
A Tribute To Brian Rohatyn ( Read more... ) -
Sorry, we forgot to put out a suggestion box for all your ideas to smash the state!
I just got back from the yearly retreat with the Centre for Social Justice where the Toronto Community Mobilization Network was to speak on "reflections from G20 organizing." I got there and realized I was speaking with a rep from the Canadian Labour Congress and another person from this creative non-violence organization. I felt like I was being ( Read more... ) -
clash of civilizations
i tried to post while i was away on holidays in BC. really i did. and then I accidentally pressed command B and my webpage went back and lost most of the post. That wasn't good for an already lazy blogger. And although i make promises to blog more, it is difficult to summarize experiences of being harassed by police in the streets of Toronto, being ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
today was spent not wandering too far as i didn't have a map. and most of the street signs are in arabic (they say colonization helped develop the third world, but i disagree! kidding!). I eventually spent a few hours in a coffee shop doing a very touristy thing which is smoke flavored shisha. and when you buy one pipe, they come around for hours ( Read more... ) -
Mosques and Castles
First, if i'm not wandering around, i'm stuck in front of the television watching Al-Jazeera English. It's totally amazing! I think the only way I can get it in Canada is through a satellite dish ( Read more... )