Group Decision

April 28, 2003

Here in British Columbia, the Women in the Woods today posted a last ditch message on Victoria’s Indymedia. Betty Krawczyk writes, “The ancient forests hold the history of human and animal evolution as well as the earth’s evolution. We humans evolved along with these awesome wonders, and to degrade them for the momentary profit of […]

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Skull, once removed

April 28, 2003

I usually look forward to reading anything by New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman, but his weekend op-ed piece has me shaking my head. Friedman hinges his piece around a photograph of a group of Iraqis surrounding a freshly exhumed skull, the human remains of one of Saddam Hussein’s many political prisoners. For Friedman, the […]

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More from the totem pole

April 28, 2003

In today’s Toronto Star, Mitch Potter relates the ‘cruel lesson in newfound capitalism’ that his translator Amir Mohsen learned in the wake of finding the documents that link Osama and Saddam.

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Rankism

April 27, 2003

It’s probably real and not a CIA plot (see my blog yesterday about Documents), and I shouldn’t be so paranoid myself. But if it’s not a plot, here’s what it actually is: rankism. Yesterday, the Toronto Star had a story that their reporter, Mitch Potter, found the documents indicating an al Qaeda-Saddam Hussein link. It […]

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Documentation

April 26, 2003

“Top-secret Iraqi intelligence documents, unearthed by the Toronto Star in the bombed-out headquarters of the dreaded Mukhabarat intelligence service in Baghdad, have established the first clear link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda organization.” – The Toronto Star, today at 8:50 pm EST If the documents found by Mitch Potter of the […]

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My Daughter’s Blog

April 26, 2003

Ok, this blogging thingy is evolving, right?, and it involves ever-expanding circles of individuals, right? How about blogging from a nine-year old’s perspective? It’s My Daughter’s Blog (Really!). In light of the NYTimes article about students not spending enough time writing, blogs for children might be a good thing.

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Diplomacy

April 25, 2003

The report that Weyerhaeuser representatives tried to intimidate the protesters blockading a logging road in the Walbran Forest actually made its way into the local paper today, albeit by way of denial. Weyerhaeuser representatives told the press today that they were peaceful in their dealings with the protesters, but it’s certainly the case that they […]

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On the road

April 24, 2003

Betty Krawczyk and the Women in the Woods began blockading a Walbran Valley logging road on Earth Day, April 22. Posting on Victoria Indymedia, one of the protesters, Justine Starke, reports that “Five Weyerhaeuser representatives tried to drive through the human blockade in the Walbran Valley” this morning. The logging corporations are looking to a […]

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Should I go there?

April 23, 2003

I haven’t written often about my personal world, but today’s experience was so surreal that I’m going to go in character by being, blogwise, out of character. I live in Victoria — it’s on Vancouver Island. An island, that’s a determining fact. It’s difficult to find doctors here. Canada has a nationalized health plan, which […]

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The bad feng shui of monumental clutter

April 22, 2003

It’s the weirdest thing: images seem to disappear off the web, or perhaps are never posted in the first place. Yet I do know that there exist pictures — which I couldn’t find — that clinch the argument that Friedrich St. Florian’s design for the World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington DC […]

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