Cueball cross Canada tour

Farmpunk wrote:

Doing a fundraising tour for Bucky Haight?  And why the fuck is this in National News?  Is Cueball that well known? 

That infamous maybe.

Stopped off in Sudbury, on the way to Winnipeg where we are now. Got some divergent views on the strike. Mostly from people not directly involved. Most people seemed generally suportive of the strikers. Most interestingly I ran into a former management guy for Vale. He told me that Vale dumped about half the management staff when they purchased Inco.

Got some other informed commentary from a local activist who has been in touch with the situation, and along with the others I talked to there seemed to be some criticism of how the strike was intitiated and handled. Perhaps the union was not prepared for the knock down drag out struggle they are having with Vale.

I was told that despite Scab labour, the mine is not functioning at 100% capacity and that the rumour is a bad chemical process ended up with 50,000 tons of Nickel going to waste at some point.

On the whole people were supportive, with many "Sudbury Supports our Working Families" signs in many businesses. Seems like most everyone is on-side with the Steelworkers on this one.

In Winnipeg today and for tomorrow, heading to Saskatoon later monday. Be there Tuesday.

Cheers everyone, will try to drop by and meet those who want to as we go.

All the way to Edmonton now. Had some interesting times in Winnipeg and Saskatoon.

The further we get from Toronto the less G20 seems to make any sense to anyone. Or perhaps better to say, that there is less interest in it overall. Most telling was a brief bus stop in Battleford where a guy from Slave Lake asked me point blank: "What is G20?" After my explanation he then went on to say that he thought Harper's billion dollars would have been better spent cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico. I couldn't disagree of course.

In Saskatoon we managed to hang out with long term Babble friend Al Qabong. Very cool to meet him face to face for the first time. We had dinner at Amigo's and we got to visit Mr. Bong's home where we had a pleasant chat about Babble past and present.

We had a great time.

I will update later with some photos from around

That sounds good. I am here now, and I would love to meet with people seperately or as a group. An inspired get together sounds great. I am just resting up at my families place here in the lower mainland and will be out and about soon.

Yes we did! it was a great time.One more example of how Babblers are from uniform. Indeed with each new Babbler I meet I am struck by the diversity of Babblers. Very interesting talking to people in a more social context. The board gets dry sometimes.

I will be going to the Saturday demo for civil liberities at 1:00 pm at the Downtown Vancouver Library. Anyone wants to meet up before and go, let me know.