The whole protest thing is so fragmented. Downtown eastside, native rights, etc., and then what little good that might be done is wrecked with the actions of the violent (which, of course, I'm highlighting with the previous link). The cops spin, the protesters spin, the violent ones spin. It's tedious to listen to.
I guess I could provide links about the Native community being one of the hosts of these Winter Olympics. Or recommend an old book on how little has changed with the First Nations reservations' plight (google How A People Die).
But I remember going to the Downtown Eastside Residents Association offices as a smart mouthed social work student and having a strip torn off me by the founder, . That was back in 1977. I decided I wasn't a social worker, more an anti-social socialist at that point, and moved on to a few useless jobs, some I stuck with. At least with bus driving I can give a free ride or two (or three million and two) and do some good there. It adds up to absolutely nothing but, again, not much has changed down there for the past 30plus years.
Fuck, I don't know. It was surprising, and nice, to see my working friend Tom Hawken singing on the video link. Hardcore lefties all of them, the bastards.
And Canada won gold today on home soil for the first time. I liked that too.
