Harper Valley

oh the irony! west vancouver, canada's wealthiest municipality, has about 50 protestors set up in tents at eagle ridge bluffs. these people don't want the expansion of the sea to sky highway, the road that will take all to the whitler olympics, paving over some beloved hiking trails.

meantime, back in ontario, a media blackout continues as the six nation's clan mothers protest the illegal developement of illegally sold land, their land. helicopters are flying over, paddy wagons are cruising, jail cells and hospital wards have been cleared out in anticipation of the police setting foot on these traditional lands...once that happens, it is bound to provoke.

the west van protestors are getting headlines while enduring some discomfort in their high-end tents, using high-end camping gear, and having people run to starbucks for them. still, good on them (despite never protesting the on-going clearcut of a portion of west van known as the biristh properties). they're keeping in touch with their lawyers on their cell phones and i'm sure it will be of great interest should the gordie campbell regime decide to have anyone arrested.

stephan harper has been making a visit to vancouver while this is happening. i wonder if he's getting wind of all those emails, letters and faxes in support of the six nations protestors?

interesting that the protestors are camped out on squamish nation traditional lands.

in kinda feel sorry for the west van kid in the pic who's holding the canadian flag. i mean come on, who's really being bluffed? his/her mom and dad probably contributed to gordie's campaign. mom and dad will have some fun while protesting for the first time, learn some social activism stuff, then feel either triumphant or let down depending on the outcome. but it's all good, they're trying, and it only proves what i've been saying for a few years now, 'in the end 'they'll' be protesting 'themselves'.

but i wonder if that kid will ever know that first nations have been protesting the theft of their land for centuries, and that same nation, canada, that allows those kids to sit up there waving the flag, only perpetuates continued theft and genocide? just wondering, that's all.

time for a peanut butter sandwhich, oh ya!