Video clip: Gracen speaks
// October 29th, 2009 // Comments Off // Multimedia, Word on The Hill
Thanks to EcoSanity.org for this video!
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Rallies for 350
// October 29th, 2009 // Comments Off // In The News, Multimedia
Like Clockwork…
// October 28th, 2009 // Comments Off // Multimedia
Youth Roughed-Up for Speaking Out in Question Period
// October 27th, 2009 // Comments Off // In The News
Here’s an article from the CBC that will certainly interest you. Note: this was not a Power Shift Canada activity. Power Shift had a Monday lobby session and flashmob among many other fantastic actions (”…action, to get some satisfaction!”)
October 26, 2009
Protesters disrupt question period
By CBC News
A loud protest in the visitors gallery of the House of Commons has resulted in several arrests and the brief shutdown of question period.
A loud protest in the visitors gallery of the House of Commons resulted in several arrests and the brief shutdown of question period on Monday.
Around 200 young protesters chanted slogans to support Bill C-311, an NDP private member’s bill on climate change. Six people were reported to have been detained.
The protesters yelled, “I say 311; you say ‘Sign it’.”
Parliamentary security guards eventually cleared the public gallery by removing the demonstrators in small groups.
With his face still covered in blood, environmental activist Jeh Custer told CBC’s Power & Politics that once he was removed from the gallery he was taken to a stairwell by bodyguards and roughed up. (more…)
Our first round of pics and video!
// October 25th, 2009 // Comments Off // Blog, Multimedia, Word on The Hill
Make sure to add your photos to the C-Day: Fill The Hill flickr group!
Thanks to Milan for these!
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