Remembering Vancouver’s Missing Women

admin @ April 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet

On Monday March 30th, at 12 in the afternoon, a small crowd of about thirty people gathered outside the University Avenue courthouse in Toronto to remember Vancouver’s Missing Women. Within the last twenty years, over 500 Aboriginal women and girls have gone missing in Canada. On Monday, at an event planned by Robyn Bourgeois and Robbyn Zwaiggenbaum of CAVE (Coalition Against Violence Everywhere), activists and students gathered to pay respect and commemorate the lives of the 76 women who have gone missing from or been murdered in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside since 1978. An alarmingly high proportion of these women have been Aboriginal. Although Aboriginal women make up less than 1% of the population of Vancouver, they represent one-third to one-half of Vancouver’s Missing Women.

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Bill Hicks: Censored David Letterman Appearance to Air Jan 30 As Memorial

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from the official Hicks website: “The Late Show with David Letterman has scheduled a telecast of the never-aired October 1, 1993 Bill Hicks appearance. The show was pre-taped Jan. 26th (with Bill’s mom as a guest) and will air Friday, January 30th on your local CBS affiliate. We’d like to acknowledge and thank Bill’s many fans and everyone who has had a hand in keeping Bill’s comedy and philosophy alive. We hope everyone can tune in and experience what you may have missed or what you barely remember – Bill Hicks performing for a national audience on network television.”

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Op Ed:President-Elect Obama, You Must NOT Be Silent

admin @ January 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The fact is, while Mr. Bush, Mr. Olmert, Ms. Livni, Mr. Netanyahu, Ms. Rice, Mr. Cheney, Mr. al-Masri and the rest orchestrate their brutal murders, we will never advance as a species until we accept that ALL WARS ARE FAILURES. When you orchestrate a war that incinerates a child, the death of that child, the blood of that child, the loss of that child, will tarnish you forever. All situations are failures when innocents are harmed. If one child injures another in a sandbox, their play date was a failure. If a police car kills innocents during a pursuit, the pursuit was a failure. If a father burns his house down while attempting to warm it, the attempt was a failure. If children die in war, the war was a failure. Of this, I have not doubt.

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Nominate GlobalPundit.Org for Twitter’s Shorty Awards!

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Nominate GlobalPundit.Org for Twitter’s Shorty Awards!
http://shortyawards.com/?username=globalpunditorg
Like wot we do for such a shorthanded and unpaid group of newshounds? Independent of corporate influence and driven by news content and context?
Please consider going here: http://shortyawards.com/about/
and filling out “@shortyawards I nominate @globalpunditorg for a Shorty Award in #news because…”
we’d feel somewhat vindicated for the hard work we’ve done [...]

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Kwik News: Upcoming, Donate!, and Election Night…

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stay tuned while we bring you a look at a first had account of Women in Afghanistan, a legal med-pot user who was jailed in Toronto’s Don Jail and forced to take narcotics by the medical staff against his will, a direct look at returning Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, a visit from some Korean war, Vietnam War, WWII, and Gulf War 1.0 vets for Remembrance Day, and a talk with the daughter of one of America’s finest songwriters - Woody Guthrie.

We also launch our weekly newsmagazine FM Radio show, which will be streamed live and available as a podcast. We’ll have amazing interviews with authors and newsmakers, and special weekly features from Davis Fleetwood…and so much more.

Not to mention the great submissions from writers and other contributors.

So won’t you consider chipping in a coupla bucks?

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GlobalPundit.Org; Live Blogging VP Debate for DigitalJournal.com, Live-to-Air for theUptake.Org-Tune In

admin @ October 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet

 GlobalPundit.Org LiveBlogging VP Debate for DigitalJournal.com, Live to Air for theUptake.Org - Tune In!
SEN. Joseph BIDEN (D-Delware) V GOV. Sarah PALIN (R-Alaska)
 Hi Readers, be sure to join us here on Oct 2 for our LiveBlog Coverage of the Biden-Palin Debate. During the McCain - Obama debate, we had many participants that offered fantastic comments, interesting opinions, searching rhetoric, [...]

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Live Event Review:’The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein @ The Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Sept. 29/08

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Naomi Klein’s visit to the Bloor Cinema on Monday night in support of her latest book “The Shock Doctrine” couldn’t have been more timely or pertinent. We are in the midst of what Klein would describe as ‘disaster capitalism’ at its finest, with many of us worried that the greatest shocks of the US financial bailout crisis are yet to come.

Klein defines a state of shock as an event without a narrative - events that are perceived as too difficult for the average person to understand, and therefore don’t warrant any truthful or serious explanation. Instead, these events are co-opted by the government and big corporations who fill in the narrative for us with ideas, concerns, concepts and explanations that serve their needs, not ours.

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ST CATHARINES RIDING CANDIDATE’S DEBATE BLOG NOTES/RECAP

admin @ September 24, 2008 # One Comment

Live Blogging From debates is only truly useful to an extent, but it’s hard to ideally pass along links and fact checks in real time. The following is a recap of the live blogging I was going on behalf of some online based U.S. blogs curious about the St. Catharines’ race - particularly due to the proximity of St. Catharines to the the U.S. border, including the close race b/w Lastewka (Liberal inclumbent at the time) and Conservative challenger Rick Dykstra. After that very close race, many people will be watching this rematch.

Rick Dykstra unseated Lastewka’s 12 year incumbency by 244 votes on Jan 23, 2006

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