November 21 - Aries - Life is good and about to get even better. You can't quite believe that?  Well you will when you begin to see that everything is going your way at last. Keeping a positive attitude is easy when so many positive things are happening. 

classification, discrimination and human rights

here's a Media Release and some important Statements of Support

today i'm filing a Human Rights application against the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and Vanier Centre for Women. i hope to initiate some changes in their security classification system, which is opaque and discriminatory and contains no fair grievance process.

october 2, 2012

today i started training as a laundry worker.  how did this happen?  and am i going to regret it?

about a week ago one of the two laundry workers, who is being sentenced to pen time soon, told me that she'd overheard guards saying i might be a good person to take her place.  strange that for seven and a half months i was considered too much of a security risk to even let off of maximum, and suddenly i'm considered a good candidate for a jail job.  but there it is: Vanier logic.

so. . .would i be interested?

i told her i'd think about it.  i weighed the pros and cons.

cons

it's October. The leaves are turning, the nights are getting cold and i have only 8 weeks left in this sentence.

the organizing against the 2010 G20 summit has been part of my life in some form or other since the fall of 2008.  it's hard to believe this part of my life is coming to a close, and at the same time it's hard to believe it's taken so long -- it's been almost 2.5 years since my arrest.  oh, the wheels of "justice," grinding on.

and I'm one of the lucky ones!

as i start to wrap up my life as a prisoner and turn my mind to life on the outside I'm thinking a lot about other folks who still find themselves in the grip of the state.