the anti-climax

after all the political excitement this week, friday just seems anti climactic. we have the same governments at both the provincial and federal levels with a few adjustments – but that’s about it…. the world continues to limp along under the leadership of the same white men it always has…. a new day for us indeed….

so very very tired i am today, even though i got a reasonable amount of sleep last night and didn’t even have a single drink after the presentation! i have had a severe lack of downtime this week, both at work and in the evenings and by this mid-afternoon friday i am *worn* *out*. i am looking foward to being done at work this afternoon and taking the little blue tercel down the highway to the ferry terminal… apparently anna and julia are looking to party tonight. i’m not sure how up for partying i am, but going along for the ride always results in interesting stories.

last night’s east van assembly on “policing the struggle” and police violence in the east side went reasonably well. lots of people turned up and there seemed to be some energy for taking some community action out of that process. we will see what actually happens next. in my experience it is really difficult to get tangibles out of large community meetings – but i am hoping to see some sort of community legal defense organization come together out of this as per one of my comrade’s suggestions. i spoke for a few minutes at the start to provide context for police violence against activists and went mostly off-the-cuff, and people seemed to be receptive to what i had to say. i always get so nervous! but then it works out okay. i don’t know what it will take for me to stop getting the voice shakes when i first start up. maybe just more practice…

my interest is in doing some popular education workshops in the downtown eastside that hinge on people’s rights under arrest and questioning – something that i can come into the city and do on a saturday but doesn’t require me to be going to organizing meetings every week. i have a couple of lawyer friends who i am thinking might be interested in helping out with something like that if i get the workshops structured and set up. we’ll see…. it’s not as though i don’t have a lot of work to do at the moment!

i am taking my camera to victoria this weekend, and hopefully i’ll get enough new shots to start posting photos with my blog entries again! i just don’t have a lot of stuff i like in the archives at the moment….