Not that cute

I am so keen to get to BC.

Last night as I was trying to sleep the smell of fire kept on waking me up.

Just my neighbours having friendly backyard fires.

In the city.

Fires and beer and trucks with Support Our Troops and Jesus Fish bumper stickers. In the city. Without the benefit of fresh lakes, pine forests, dragonflies or sunsets.

Between flashbacks to the Okanagan Mountain Fire, the sweet lullaby of sirens, revving engines and the dark buzz of heavy bodied black flies smashing into the ceiling, it was not fun going to sleep.

Not to mention that if I roll onto my left side I wake up dizzy and out of breath.

Sigh.

Not that I expect I'll be getting enough sleep when this baby is on the other side of my body.

But at least I'll have someone cuter than me to look at when I stumble around at 3:45 am.

I'm not super cute right now. Especially today.

And here is another link to the Alberta Federation of Labour website with a complete list of Molson products to boycott:



http://www.afl.org/news/default.cfm?newsId=444



Solidarity in other beer and in wine!

Boycott Molson products!

I did a radio story on the Molson workers here who are striking.

They were really positive, friendly folk, who are striking because the Molson Management is cutting wages for all new hires by seven bucks an hour.

Management assumed that the previously hired workers, many who are getting ready to retire, wouldn't care about the new hires. They even offered increases to the existing workers, like a bribe.

Hah!!

Solidarity!

The workers said they wouldn't compromise their solidarity and wouldn't feel right working next to people doing exactly the same job for 7 bucks an hour less.

They are asking people to boycott Molson products - Molson, Coors, Rickard's Red, Heineken and Corona - until they are off strike.

Molson and Coors are one company, and there are rumours that it will be bought up by Miller, an even bigger American conglomerate. Miller would be a heck of a lot less interested if they were worried about the labour dispute . . .

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/wkrs-j05.shtml

Thought I'd let my blog friends know about this.

When my radio spots are uploaded I'll add a link.

hey kids i'm back

it's been a really long time since i posted.

a lot has happened. whew.

um. i'm super pregnant now.

i've been readin gabout marxism. and agrarian socialism.

did you know that in 1960 when Saskatchewan's awesome NDP government introduced medicare, the doctors went on strike? nice one guys.

we're advocating for rent controls in Alberta, and the sad cry of "But the poor landlords! What if they went out of business?" is heard from the Mall to the Legislature.

what a sad world indeed, with no landlords . . . . just available housing . . .wait a sec, doesn't that sound suspicously like the UNDHR call for Universal Housing?

Nah.