Monday, March 02, 2020

Monday Meanderings

We had a bit of a melt after the last blizzard and then, wait for it, another blizzard last night. Herewith a pic to give you an idea of the height:


I haven't checked my car yet. I am dreading to do so. Sometimes I get help to clean it off, sometimes I struggle with engine running to warm the car enough to make it easier to brush.
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We are working away on the next step to be taken with Support Our Seniors. We finalized a letter to the Prime Minister in a last ditch appeal and are scheduling a series of events to draw attention to the ongoing issue of Senior Poverty in Canada, particularly with regard to women.

We are planning a cross Canada protest, a really serious one, and would like any ideas you out there might have to make this effective. We were thinking to rent a bus and also wheelchairs, etc. for the handicapped among us and blocking a major thoroughfare with signage, etc. We are willing to be jailed which would get the poverty plight massive media attention - jailing senior handicapped elderly women for civil disobedience in protesting their abysmal living so far below the official poverty line? Hello?

Something like this (stock photo). Imagine a row of wheelchairs and zimmer frames blocking a main road?

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  1. I have no ideas, but you're a warrior. Go for it!

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    1. A limping old warrior but nevertheless......:)

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  2. Why not take a page out of the First Nations book and block some railways? I wonder what people would say about THAT! They have no compunctions about condemning First Nations people or environmentalists for such actions, but senior ladies ... would they dare say a word??? -Kate

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    1. No railways here unfortunately, ripped out in the 80s, a crime, but then crimes seem to be part and parcel of the landscape of dem wot rulez., right?
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  3. I don't agree with blocking railways. You have to block a major road or street to receive maximum publicity and there will be footage of queues of cars and blocked up intersections.

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    1. Railways were blocked here by First Nations recently to protest the pipelines across their treatied territory. Sometimes these harsh disruptive protests are the ONLY way to get attention to injustice.

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  4. Good luck.
    I hope the flotilla of wheelchairs, walkers and canes get the attention it deserves.

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    1. EC, if we can rally enough across the country to blitz. They are relying on our illness and decrepitude.

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  5. I don't know how to organize or promote an event, only to jump in and make noise. I have stood in front of traffic, and a bulldozer.

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    1. I wish you were here Joanne, we could make significant use of you.
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  6. I'm not a fan of blocking traffic, but if that's what it takes, I hope it works.

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    1. It may be the only thing to get attention, nothing else is working.

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  7. At least you won't be paying for security for Harry and Meghan
    They should pay it themselves

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    1. Well LOL, so many millions being thrown their way. Odd situation that, but bully for them for breaking out of that dysfunctional RF.

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  8. With the weather you’re having I think I’d want a protest indoors somehow, so don’t know where in your community that would attract the most attention and garner the most publicity.

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    1. We're planning it for late April/early May, it takes a huge amount of planning and we are old and tired. But it will be done.
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  9. I wish you all the very best for your planned protests for the Senior Poverty in Canada. I hope that it would generate enough noise to get some action from the powers to be.

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    1. I hope so too Ramana and we are willing to go to jail for the cause.

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  10. Haha. Even in distress, you have a sense of humor.

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    1. I try to laugh at the irony of life and its challenges Gigi, We have to!

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  11. My dear woman , you have the fortitude of a million warriors.

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    1. Some days not so much Gemma but I will take the compliment.

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  12. Unfortunately you're right. You have to do something really dramatic to get the politicians' attention. Blocking roads with oldies in wheelchairs and risking jail would surely do the trick?

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    1. We have exhausted every other means, Nick, nothing seems to work, even appealing on the floor of parliament.

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  13. I salute your spirits, dear!! It is a cause worth fighting for. I request all the readers to mention Support our Senior campaign in all the social media accounts and spread the news. I am sure many will come forward to support this cause. Great going, dear!!

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