Impressive Senate Page Stages 'Stop Harper' Protest During Throne Speech, Calls for Cdn 'Arab Spring'

Glenn MacIntosh | June 3, 2011

Canada
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inSpired Activism
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Stephen Harper

Brigette DePape

 

View the vids above for summaries of Brigette DePape's protest. More linked below.

 

Excerpts from Brigette DePape's press release:

June 3, 2011, Ottawa -- "Harper’s agenda is disastrous for this country and for my generation,” Brigette Marcelle says. “We have to stop him from wasting billions on fighter jets, military bases, and corporate tax cuts while cutting social programs and destroying the climate. Most people in this country know what we need are green jobs, better medicare, and a healthy environment for future generations."

“Contrary to Harper's rhetoric, Conservative values are not in fact Canadian values. How could they be when 3 out of 4 eligible voters didn’t even give their support to the Conservatives? But we will only be able to stop Harper's agenda if people of all ages and from all walks of life engage in creative actions and civil disobedience.”
 
"This country needs a Canadian version of an Arab Spring, a flowering of popular movements that demonstrate that real power to change things lies not with Harper but in the hands of the people, when we act together in our streets, neighbourhoods and workplaces.”

 

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ecoSanity.org's Canadian Election 2011 Posts

 

 

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ecoSanity Founder Glenn MacIntosh is

a Film / TV industry escapee turned organizer, activist, advocate for emergency int'l action at emergency (warp) speed to confront the climate, energy, population, democracy, justice crises.
A proponent of peaceful civil disobedience / direct action, Glenn has been an arrested participant in Greenpeace protests outside Cdn PM Stephen Harper's res, and the fed Parliament bldgs.

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