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This week on rabble.ca roundup we welcome new blog Artful Change by lovely rabble.ca staffer Alex Samur, which delves into the world of art, storytelling, community and social change.

Now, for this week’s highlights, which range from Freedom Waves to Gaza, national Aboriginal organizations motives for Conservative support, the slimy tactics of push-polls, Andrea Dworkin and a little Occupy Calgary thrown in for good measure.

Boats with no weapons fighting a cause? Dawn on the Tahrir, dawn of the Freedom Waves to Gaza by David Heap candidly discusses Freedom Waves to Gaza’s sail as an unarmed, peaceful international solidarity movement and their new strategy towards focusing attention on Israeli crimes and claims of ‘security’.

A somewhat controversial and often polarizing subject in feminism, Andrea Dworkin, is the centre of Dworkin’s ‘Heartbreak’ by Ellie Gordon-Moershel, which elicits an emotional response because of all those times you had to explain why you are a strong person.

National Aboriginal organizations need to rethink Conservatives as ‘partners’ by Pamela Palmater questions why some national Aboriginal organizations continue to blind themselves to Conservatives glaring true colours.

Controversial polling technique ‘push-polls’ are brought under fire and scrutiny in Listen up, Alberta! You can hear the entire mystery push-poll for yourself by David J. Climenhaga where the potential candidates employing this slimy technique harassing Albertans as of late are tracked down.

Blogger John Bonnar interviews NDP leadership candidate Peggy Nash via podcast on her thoughts about entering the race, her priorities for Canada and how Jack Layton influenced her leadership style.

Occupy Calgary surges on challenging Calgarian’s perspectives of the participants and the movement as discussed in The Occupy Calgary story you’re not seeing elsewhere by Mercedes Allen.