I do love a good story of an individual sticking it to “the system”, i.e. the reign of capitalism. But having grown up in British Columbia’s Shuswap region, land of rich earthy gardens and succulent fruit (getting hungry?), I was shocked to discover that in some areas that act of rebellion can be as simple as growing a garden. It’s illegal.
But, but, but WHY???
Posted in Canada, environmentalism, food, money
Tagged British Columbia, City gardens, Culture, Fame Day, fines, food, Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening, illegal, jail, Julie Bass, laws, Michel Beauchamp and Josée Landry, politics, poverty, restrictions, Ron Finley, Shuswap, society
For the month of July I was living with my in-laws in Williams Lake. So on Monday, July 22nd, I was able to be present at the “first day of public hearings into Taseko’s proposed $1-billion open pit gold and copper mine near Williams Lake, B.C.”
I was working until about one o’clock that day but my mother-in-law, who is a teacher here in Williams Lake, first went downtown around lunchtime at which point two very separate information centers were happening.
Join us and have hot dogs galore!
At one camp, the Taseko mine representatives were serving burnt hot dogs to visitors. There wasn’t much of a crowd, but the vice president of the mine was offering her students jobs if the mine was allowed to come in.
Meanwhile, at the park nearby the Tsilhqot’in nation had prepared a lunchtime feast. There was music and dancing. Most of her friends were at the park. In fact, most of the crowd seemed to be at the park.
Posted in Canada, Culture War Report, environmentalism, news, politics
Tagged British Columbia, Canada, copper, Culture, economy, first nations, First Nations Rights, Fish Lake, gold, government, mining, money, New Prosperity Mine, politics, race, society, Taseko, Teztan Biny, Tsilhqot'in, Williams Lake
GORDON: Ladies and gentlemen, good evening
KAT: Greetings fellows!
GORDON: This is Gordon of Evan and Gordon Talk, and with me tonight is Kat- filling for Evan who is wandering the Canadian wilderness naked in a desperate bid to find himself.
KAT: We all wish you good luck Evan, beware of bears.
GORDON: Our subject for this evening’s discussion is regulation (primarily of the food and beverage industry, though the subject obviously spans far more than that). Continue reading
Posted in America, business, Canada, Economy, environmentalism, Evan and Gordon Talk, food, health, news, politics
Tagged America, anarchist group, Barber, BP, california, Canada, capitalism, Clarence Thomas, Dumpster Diving, Famer, farm, farming, FDA, food and beverage industry, Food Not Bombs, government, Homeless, law, legal, MMA, Monsanto, Raisin Committee, regulation, USDA
I’m going to start out with a few fun facts for readers both old and new alike.
At the time of this writing our blog has approximately 85,750 views. We have been averaging roughly 175 hits per day ever since the very talented Kat came aboard, and she’s largely the reason we’re almost at 200 on a Friday evening in spite of my not having posted yet. As is the norm, far too many of the search terms used to find this site have been people looking for porn; we began catering to fans of a particular sub-genre once Gordon wrote that one post about the hijab.
The most hits we have ever gotten was a result of massive Facebook sharing of a post I wrote about the bombing that happened in Boston. That all-time high was 562 views.
Last week Kanye West tweeted about Pacific Rim, praising it for being “easily one of [his] favorite movies of all time.” That first tweet was retweeted 8,853 times, and memorialized 5,177 times by all his twitter followers who chose to favourite it. To put that into context, Kanye West has about 9.7 million people following him on Twitter.
Kan-Jaeger West
Posted in bizarreness, celebrity, environmentalism, film, media, music, news, politics, television
Tagged actor, awareness, celebrity, Culture War Reporters, environmentalism, force feeding, guantanamo bay, internet, Kan-Jaeger West, Kanjaeger West, Kayne West, Mark Ruffalo, Mos Def, Pacific Rim, rapper, social justice, social media, Twitter, US terror advisory list, YouTube
GORDON: Well Comrades, welcome to the Culture War Reporter’s off-grid, self-sustaining commune. Pour yourself some Kool-Aid and make yourself comfortable as Evan and I debate the merits of the movement.
EVAN: While we ended our last segment stating that we were going to discuss the state of the church, starting off tonight we realized a few things.
a) We can’t for the life of us find this phantom comment by Joseph suggesting such a topic [though I swear I read it].
b) We already talked about one of his topics [naps and such] and therefore should give someone else a chance.
c) Hannah has put forth a good handful of them, one of her most recent being the following:
What do you guys think about the new(?) trend back towards super-independence, by which I mean, growing your own food, creating your own textiles, etc (and taking pictures of it to put on your fancy blog….). Is this back to the earth movement a reflection of culture change or just another hippie permutation?
Posted in America, Canada, Economy, environmentalism, Europe, Evan and Gordon Talk, money
Tagged co-op, Coca Cola, commune, evil, farm, farming, first world, GIF, grid, hippy, independence, Monsanto, Nestle, Nike, Obama Administration, off the grid, poor, Primitivism, primitivist, problem, sacrifice, self-sustaining, solution, sustainable living, third world, thrift, thrift shop, urban, vegetables, west, zoning
Having come up with the idea to have an entire day based on ruthlessly mocking and shaming something we dislike, I don’t think there’s any question by this point that I’m a relatively cynical person with a bleak outlook on life.
Even so, there are certain things which I am pretty upbeat about. Continue reading
Posted in environmentalism, health, Shame Day
Tagged allergies, camping, capitalism, city, climate, environment, Fame Day, farm, farmer, garden, health, hedges, hiking, hills, lawns, mental-health, metropolis gif, Monsanto, nature, outdoors, plant, plants, PSA, Revolution, shame day, snow, the great outdoors, trails, transportation, trees, urban, wealthy, wilderness, wildland, woods, zoning
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