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All Out For A Three Day Outdoor Occupation of City Hall During the City Budget Meetings! Jan 17,18,19
January 10, 2012 - 5:09pm
All Out For A Three Day Outdoor Occupation of City Hall During the City Budget Meetings!
http://occupyto.org/2012/01/occupy-city-hall/
"Tuesday the 17th, Wednesday the 18th, and Thursday the 19th of January 2012!
Bring your tent, stay the night! Show Rob Ford and his corporate backers that our city isn't theirs to dismantle!
For more info on Ford's cuts, and on the rally on the 17th check out:
Even if you can't stay overnight or have to work, your support during the day would be highly appreciated. Bring blankets and tens. Bring baked potatos and hot chocolate. Bring a hot meal to the kitchen. Hang around for an hour or two...
It all helps!
(bolding mine)
Will fives, or twenties do? ;)
here's a tactic:
Israeli Union Goes on General Strike
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/221296.html
"The Israeli Union of Local Authority has begun a general strike affecting all municipal services in protest against a recent decision to reduce municipal revenues..Over the past few months, Israelis have several times protested against the rising costs of lving, injustice, social inequality and official corruption.."
good one Michelle!
I just got back from it - it's pouring cats and dogs out there, but there were still lots and lots of people there.
I think there are still lots of people there, but I went on my way home from a meeting, and I wasn't dressed for it, so I only stayed an hour and a half or so.
Large Group of Protesters Gather at City Hall (and vid)
http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120117/120117_hall_protes...
"A large group of protesters have gathered at city hall, at one point attempting to force their way inside the building, according to preliminary reports from the scene. Initial reports from the scene say that as many as 10 protesters have been handcuffed and are being questioned by police. City Hall is locked down...
More information to come.."
citizens locked out of their own city hall - what a perfect picture of our 'democracy'. 10 arrests so far, pepper-spray, police thuggy stuff again - please support if you can. STOP THE CUTS!
mayor_ford@toronto.ca
Stop the Cuts: on twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/search/stopthecuts
excerpt:
In a stunning loss for Mayor Rob Ford and his allies, in one of debate councillors have reversed a significant raft of cuts he was pushing to include in the 2012 budget. Among them: closures of shelters, daycare spaces, and pools, cuts to community grants (to fund things like HIV-prevention services), a major cut to the library system, and a major cut to the TTC. Not all of those cuts were fought back: the library budget is still scaling back on staff and collections, and perhaps most prominently the TTC will still need to reduce service on three dozen bus routes, but the full force of the original draft budget has been substantially blunted.
You mean almost none of the cuts were scaled back, just a mere 15mil
Except he agreed with some of the reversals previously. They could have done moreeven with a close vote as it was. The media played it up but really it doesnt hurt him at all
This chance wont come again if anything expensive happens. They should have pushed then showed how funding the good things didnt hurt
Budget Battle Not A Loss for Ford - by Sue-Ann Levy
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/01/18/budget-battle-not-a-loss-for-ford
"TORONTO - The leftist poverty pimps/Occupy T.O. crowd/usual suspects banged on the back windows of City Hall and created a ruckus out front Tuesday night after the 2012 budget passed - as if they'd managed to overthrow an oppressive regime in some third-world country.
They filled the newspaper comment boards (ours in particular) Wednesday with claims they'd 'won' against the evil forces of Rob Ford and the Gang.
The left-wing media and the Twitter-ati crowd, always looking for a way to justify their disgust with the idea of being forced to make do with less, were positively salivating at what they called a 'stunning loss' for the Fordites..."
sue.ann.levy@sunmedia.ca
'A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.' - Joseph Pulitzer
'There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.' Mark Twain
Ford's Budget Fails - by Ben Spurr
http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/news/story.cfm?content=184765
"Made-in-the-middle council solution saves raft of services from cuts, delivers stinging rebuke to Mayor's agenda.."
Thats just it, its neither a loss nor a win for either side, Its just bad overall
Yeah, it seems to me that Boss Hogg got pretty much everything he wanted. Little wonder the Toronto Sun crowd are crowing.