Red Cedar
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Category: Think
Who here remembers this nutcase?
Rachel Marsden – Vancouver’s very own girl stalker – now a pundit on right-wing US television. Oh my! Rebecca Traitser’s article on Salon today is a very nice expose on the nuttiness that we Vancouver feminists remember well. As I wrote in the commentary… Continue Reading “Who here remembers this nutcase?”
The power of protest – revisited.
“….If you were here with me now you would see that all of our struggles have meaning and are relevant not only to our world, but to the sound and humane progress of our planet. This country… is the future of a violent and… Continue Reading “The power of protest – revisited.”
Breasts are good.
In today’s edition of Salon magazine, writer Wendy Paris decries the “trend” of mannequins with larger bust sizes (and it is barely a trend – she’s seen these clothing-dolls in use in exactly two shops). At first I thought – oh, a trend towards… Continue Reading “Breasts are good.”
Tidbits from the Internet
An East Van fact – the traditional name for the area now called Grandview-Woodlands in the tongue of the Squamish Nation is XapXapay’ay or Xpey’elhp [hon’qo’mi’nom’] both of which refer to cedar trees. As one commentator on tribe noted, it is likely that East… Continue Reading “Tidbits from the Internet”
Please support Jeremy.
My friend Jeremy Paster, a well-known (and loved) US activist and photographer is struggling to beat metastatic prostate cancer which he was diagnosed with early in 2006. Because he lives in the US, medical treatments are costing him some money and he is of… Continue Reading “Please support Jeremy.”
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