Bonjours chers amis,
I wanted to let you know about this website that is being used to
help get Elizabeth May, O.C., Leader of The Green Party of Canada
included in the televised leader’s debate in the upcoming election.
Please visit:
www.demanddemocraticdebates.ca
Please take a moment to fill in the on-line petition.
Merci & à la prochaine,
Julien
Enough said!
http://www.savetheinternet.com/
http://www.neutrality.ca/
Il me semble que j’ai entendu plusieurs fois que les gars n’ont plus de bons modèles à la télévision.
Faux. Enfin presque: nous avons des modèles jugés “bons” par le cartel médiatique. Mais alors que les “mauvais” modèles sont contestés (gangsters, fusilleurs), ceux qui sont jugés “bons” par les médias semblent passer inaperçus: le gars maquillé à la Tom Cruise, celui avec la plus puissante auto ou de plus haute gamme, le chef politique au sommet d’une structure hiérarchique, le chef d’une corporation issu d’une famille riche et qui doit sacrifier beaucoup de son temps.
Est-ce que les garçons de familles moins fortunées peuvent avoir accès à ces succès? Les gens au sommet aimeraient croire que oui. Je crois que non. Quelqu’un qui part avec plus d’accès à des ressources financières et la stabilité de sa famille se rend plus facilement au sommet.
L’enjeu n’est pas qu’il manque de bons modèles, l’enjeu est que les corporations choisissent qui est “bon” et “méchant” pour nous.
Garçons et hommes, nous avons notre propre enjeu médiatique! Alors que nous ne devons pas oublier qu’en tant que mâle, nous perpétuons les injustices causées par le sexisme et le patriarcat (ex: combien d’hommes sont à la tête de corporations qui décident le sort de millions de travailleurs et travailleuses, avez-vous déjà compté des farces sexistes - même s’il n’y avait pas de femmes autour de vous), les images de nous que la télévision nous projette n’est pas la nôtre: leaders politiques, riches, entrepreneurs de grandes entreprises, conducteurs de voitures luxueuses, stars d’Hollywood. La télévision nous projette les “gagnants”, alors qu’une société de gagnants ne peut survivre pour longtemps. Il n’y a pas de fermiers, d’étudiants collégiaux, de missionaires, des gens de la rue. Il n’y a pas de section sur le cyclisme, sur l’agriculture, sur le syndicalisme, sur la pauvreté, sur l’environnement.
Garçons, nous avons une bataille! Soyons conscient de l’effet que l’empire médiatique a sur nous et dénonçons là!
Here are the main, very high level goals that are required for true democracy:
These free dailies are popping everywhere. They are a waste of paper and media space.
One edition of the 24hrs had on the first page “Native unrest”, following a peacefull march in downtown Ottawa. I had ripped apart in digust of the wording.
I think there is a very effective strategy to get rid of these: rip them apart. Engage the public in a discussion (not a debate) if that is a usefull tactic. Wheather that goal is in itself effective or not is another debate.
Will the corporate media hire people to do the same to community media after that?
Chatham, Ont. – Dec. 6, 2006 – The Green Party of Ontario (GPO) applauds and supports the stand taken by Durham dairy farmer Michael Schmidt and others to defend the option for thousands of Ontarians to consume non-pasteurized milk products.
“We live in a highly educated, responsible society. People should have the right to choose the foods and food processes they think are best for them,” said GPO Agriculture and Food Issue
Advocate Ken Bell. “The Green Party will be there to ensure public safety within a framework of informed choices.”
Pasteurization is a relatively modern practice made necessary by agri-business where animals are often forced to live in crowded, unsanitary conditions. Also, milk is sterilized to lengthen shelf-life to allow for transportation to distant urban markets. The reduced capacity to ensure cleanliness in large-scale dairy operations has made it appear that pasteurization is universally necessary, regardless of reduced nutrition and taste.
However, naturally raised cows kept in clean conditions will produce safe milk. With modern knowledge of animal health and with high standards of sanitation, testing and refrigeration, safe raw milk can be ensured.
Ontario residents should have the right to choose the kind of milk products they purchase. To criminalize the distribution and sale of raw milk will serve only to create an unsafe black market. Almost half of the American states and most countries in Europe have implemented a regulatory environment for the safe distribution and sale of raw milk. The Ontario government should allow and regulate this practice here.
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For interviews and more information, please contact:
Tim Rudkins, Communications Coordinator
647-221-9706
tim.rudkins@sympatico.ca
Ken Bell, Agriculture and Food Issue Advocate
519-676-9903
kbell@ciaccess.com
Green Party of Ontario
Phone: 416-977-7476, 1-888-647-3366
Email: gpoadmin@magma.ca
Website: www.gpo.ca
La ville a rendu public ses consultations par catégories, ici:
http://ottawa.ca/public_consult/index_fr.shtml
Il y en a beaucoup!
Il y a un calendrier des réunions de comités et du conseil de ville, ici:
http://ottawa.ca/cgi-bin/docs.pl?lang=fr
Enfin, un répertoire des coordonnées des différents conseillers:
http://ottawa.ca/city_hall/mayor_council/councillors/index_fr.html
Some good, very informative links about sleep:
More about insomnea:
Recently, scientists have come to recognize that sleep is regulated by two entirely different systems. The knowledge that we have two roughly parallel forces guiding our need for sleep has opened the bedroom door to multiple ways of treating insomnia.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/index.php?term=pto-20031028-000007&page=1
If you can’t get yourself out of bed when your alarm goes off, this is likely due to a lack of self-discipline. If you have enough self-discipline, you’ll get out of bed no matter what. Motivation can also help, but motivation is short lived and may only last a few days. Discipline is like a muscle. The more you build it, the more you can rely on it. Everyone has some discipline (can you hold your breath?), but not everyone develops it. There are a lot of ways to build discipline – you can read the whole six-part series on self-discipline to learn how. Basically it comes down to taking on little challenges, conquering them, and gradually progressing to bigger ones. It’s like progressive weight training. As your self-discipline gets stronger, a challenge like getting out of bed at a certain time will eventually become trivially easy. But if your self-discipline has atrophied, it can seem an almost insurmountable hurdle.
Tips from an insomneac:
http://www.to-done.com/2006/01/tips-for-sleeping-better/
I’ve pieced together various bits of advice I’ve received over the past few months. They have not only helped me get to sleep faster, but helped me get a better night’s sleep.
How to become an early riser:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser/
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser-part-ii/
The most common wrong strategy is this: You assume that if you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. So you figure out how much sleep you’re getting now, and then just shift everything back a few hours. If you now sleep from midnight to 8am, you figure you’ll go to bed at 10pm and get up at 6am instead. Sounds very reasonable, but it will usually fails.
Paraliminals
http://www.stevepavlina.com/paraliminals/?s=1
Self-discipline: What I require is to get away from the computer before sleepiness sets in.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/self-discipline/