dewline: "Truth is still real" (anti-fascism)
I've already signed this, partly in anticipation of the needs of self-preservation.

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3991

An earlier tweet along similar lines to this one:

https://twitter.com/AShoutAbout/status/1539048097778499584

Got me to sign it.
dewline: "Truth is still real" (anti-fascism)
For times of strife, like right now for many of us, whether we're making the reasons fully public or not:

https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1515367363293589508

In case of would-be autocrats, specifically. We can modify this list for local circumstances in Canada, the UK, Australia, South Africa, Israel, anywhere that we think the bad actors are acting up...

https://terikanefield.com/things-to-do/
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
So, per Ottawa Public Health, this is a thing.

Having outlived the effects of one of its forms myself, I ought to take note and give notice...
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
...you might want to look at this posting and then make a decision if you can spare some cash:

https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/13479545.html
dewline: Art Against Bigotry and Fascism (artists vs fascism)
I note that[personal profile] wendelah1 and I don't know each other. Yet.

Still, her post re: resources for dealing with the Texas Situation should be linked far and wide. I don't know what I can do beyond this, at least for now.

dewline: Community is Real! (community)
I'm taking part in my political party riding association's annual general meeting this afternoon. It feels like something I can do that might be useful for the medium to long term.
dewline: Community is Real! (community)
Day of Action re: Site Blocking - OpenMedia.caOkay, so today's got a Day of Action scheduled by OpenMedia.ca re: Bill C-10, specifically the site-blocking provisions...
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
Noting this entry today re: the push to get vaccine production ramped up as fast as possible, and the need to seek patent waivers to that end...

https://deepad.dreamwidth.org/89948.html

I've done a search on this website:

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Home/Index

You can see for yourselves using the latter website's search function - as of 26 April 2021 - that Canada does not have a petition before our Parliament to that same end. There are such petitions on record addressing the legislatures of the US, UK, and EU and I'd like to discuss how to phrase such to best effect WRT the Canadian government with whoever's interested and willing.

Note: if such a petition is on record and unknown to me, please correct me ASAP!
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)

Watching this at the moment:

https://twitter.com/MichaelEMann/status/1378731216954925059

dewline: Community is Real! (community)
Watching this live as I type this:

https://twitter.com/Right2CityGP/status/1375816124961538055

Hosted by Horizon Ottawa...and here's my word for the day: "Municipalist".
dewline: (canadian media)
So, I committed an activist act just as I was logging in here. Signed up for this:

https://friends.ca/campaigns/michael-enright-in-conversation/

As good as Piya Chattopadhyay is in hosting the show now rebranded as The Sunday Magazine and I am also aware that Mr. Enright and CBC have continuing plans for a future in partnership...well, I've missed hearing his voice on the radio.

I'll be in Zoom mode with that writing workshop being run by the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre in tandem with the Toronto Writers Collective in about half an hour after I post this. It fills a couple of hours with job-skills practice and mental health support. That has to be good.
dewline: The word "Qapla" written in Klingon script (qapla-2)
So Biden is declared the president-elect by the world's news services now.

So now, we celebrate and prepare to both build upon that victory and fight off whatever rage against that victory yet comes our way.

And 2022 is coming. And so are the further consequences of climate derangement. And the new fascist international isn't done trying to murder the rest of us yet (with or without help from climate derangement)!

In Klingon: qapla'!

In English: Good luck!
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
If you're American, go have a look, if you haven't already done so. There might be something constructive for you to act on.

https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1690981.html
dewline: Quotation: "I grieve with thee" (Grief)
I don't know that I want to care about which calendar system we're operating under right now.

Her death is a sad thing in and of itself, and the timing of it, the consequences of it terrify so many of my American friends right now. They terrify me.

We have to turn that fear from a paralytic to a carefully aimed goad to righteous action. And we need to do that right now. And I expect there are people who have already made their own plans to counter the expected and announced plans of Trump and McConnell and who knows who else.

Maybe some of you reading this.

We cannot surrender to any empty heart in these of all days. We dare not.
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (resistance truth anti-fascism)
1. The 57th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, given thereat.

2. The 103rd anniversary of the birth in New York City of Jacob Kurtzberg, best known today as Jack "King" Kirby, comic book artist of legend, co-creator of Captain America, and of so many more afterwards.

Both, I think, are worthy of remembrance in their own ways. Both Dr. King and Mr. Kirby were, in their respective ways, anti-fascist to their respective cores.
dewline: Musical note symbol ending in a maple leaf (canadian music)
This one seems particularly appropriate to the moment, right?



Lyrics at the Cockburn Project

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