This is too good not to post. It's a snashot of our youth. It's impassioned voices of Rob Stewart and Elizabeth May with a message so clear, so uncluttered and straight from the heart. The scene: Parliament Hill, Ottawa, the capital of Canada, October 24, 2009.

Time-out again today. No serious stuff. Just pointing out that as I type, not 10 kilometres from where I sit, the Olympic torch relay is commencing down by the Legislature in jolly old Victoria BC.

A friend noticed that the new Olympic torches look suspiciously just like large joints stuffed with BC Bud. Hmmmm .....

Let the ganja relay begin!
Visit Beautiful BC.
Come for the Olympics.
Stay for the pot.

It's a billblog time out! Milestone. 32 orbits together.

32 is such a great number. 32 = 2 to the 5th power, ie 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2. That's much more interesting than plain old 30 or even 25. 2 raised to the 4th power plus 4 raised to the 2nd power = 32. 32 is therefore a Leyland Number. There are lots of other cool things about 32. It's an even 100,000 counting in base 2. Wow.

But, the billblog timeout ...

We've had these 32 years officially hitched plus a couple of unofficial ones together. I'm grateful. As I fall asleep tonight I will say this: Homefree. And then I will think, Thank you. Everything else I will think has no business on the billblog. It's a timeout.

I am reprinting in its entirety an email from Alexandra Morton. I hope that you'll check this out, print out the petition as many times as you need to and get as many signatures as you are able. Situation critical. Thanks a bunch.

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Hello All

Good News Finally! Peter Julian, Member of Parliament – New Westminster has just launched a petition for a Judicial Inquiry into the Fraser sockeye crash.

CONSIDER THIS: If there had been a Judicial Inquiry into the declining North Atlantic cod, we would have rebuilt that fish stock by now because we would have discovered that the critical research by Dr. Ransom Myers of DFO was being suppressed by DFO (Department of Fisheries and Oceans).

Here we are again.  DFO is completely silent, they have not even acknowledged that the Fraser sockeye crash pattern is extremely specific and provided the media with misinformation.

A judicial inquiry will place people under oath so they can be heard over the politics.

Please go to Peter Julian’s website: http://peterjulian.ndp.ca/node/864

And download the petition document, and sign: DOWNLOAD

This has to be a paper copy, there can be 1 signature on a page, or a full page of signatures, the address is on the document and postage to the federal government is free.

You cannot say you care about wild salmon if you don’t make this effort.  This will make a very big difference in the future of BC and the eastern pacific.

Alexandra Morton
Www.adopt-a-fry.org

Guest blogger Leslie Davidson offers this:

Hell Raising One

Let us praise the hellraiser
Let us praise the living laser
Of wild eyes and wild songs.
Let us praise her
She’ll break your heart.
It’s an art
She learned and danced
In her mother’s womb
Give her room
Give her room.

Give her room
To kick up her heels
And wiggle her ass
It ain’t sass
It’s truth to cry
I am the boss
Of me!
I will take up my own space
And if you get your face
In the way of my bow and fiddle
Well, honey that’s a riddle
You’ll never solve.


My dance ain’t yours
And I won’t cripple mine
No shooting low
This is MY show
My confusion is a gift
And the storm around me
Ain’t gonna shift
Just ‘cause you say its so
And, honey, I am dancing in this rain
And there ain’t no pain
Can stop me
No in-sti-tu-tion,
And no lie
Big enough
To suck the fun when I’ve begun
To dance or sing or cry.
I am a hell-raiser
And if raise hell
High enough and loud enough
Heaven might just wake up
And join the party
Cause all that sits between
Me and thee
Is judgement.
So raise it up
Raise it up
How loud can you be?


Girl, don’t let anyone
Set you on the straight and narrow
You are no one’s arrow
No one twangs your bow.
The strings of your very own heart
Play your tune.
So raise it up
Raise hell so high
And beautiful and long
Let courage be the flame
In your torch song.

© Leslie Davidson, for The Heart’s Journey, October, 2009




Hellraising Two

Put it out there, child
Put it out there.
Put it out there
And yours might be
The song, the dance, the poetry
The revelry, the history, shared misery
That sets a hurtin’ woman free
Put it out there.

Put it out there
Like the suffragette
Who dared to say
A women’s place
Is where she chooses
Let women also choose
Who rules us
Put it out there.

Put it out there
Like the activist
Who rattles our passivity
Demanding that we look and see
Both the forest and the tree.
It’s a global tragedy
That’s in our face.
It’s no disgrace
To scream our rage
That all we love
And all we nurture
Is doomed to
An uncertain future.
Put it out there.


Hellraisers
Gonna save this world
Put it out there.
Hellraisers
Open wide the shelter’s door
Feed the children
Stop the war.
Put it out there.
Hellraisers
Shake us up
Wake us up
To what is true
And what’s a lie.
There’s just today
There’s no tomorrow
So sing your joy
And sing your sorrow
Laugh your anger
And there will be
A place in this universe
Of rich diversity
A place that needs
The spirit and the energy
Of hell-raisers.

Put it out there!

© Leslie Davidson, for The Heart’s Journey, October,2009

First off the bit is a photo of the "350" made in Centennial Park, Victoria BC on October 24 (International Day of Action for Climate). I do not know who took the photo. I'd happily give credit if I could. I copped it from the 350.org flickr feed. Great photo - though the "350" is upside down. I can see myself in the photo too.


Incidentally, if you want to see a few thousand photos from around the planet, check out the 350.org flickr feed. Run a slide show or two. If you get a bit teary, it's okay. Even if you're a big man. Here's a sample:

As well as writing the billblog, I've been sending out emails (billspam) asking people to phone (or email) the Prime Minister to ask him to take this planetary emergency seriously and commit, at Copenhagen, to radical, progressive CO2 reduction goals. I get the feeling I may have pissed off more than a few people. A few people have written back to tell me they've phoned, emailed or that they plan to do so. I hang onto to those comments. I am grateful. It's my fuel in black moments.

My friend Michael, a retired scientist, reports that a friend of his says "According to [snip], one of the striking differences between Europe and North America is the virtual absence of a widespread vocal public concern about the issue on THIS continent.  The debate has been largely between the scientists and the denial lobby with the public only marginally involved.  Hopefully that will change - but not if the Harper government had their way.  They really are the pits!"

A few people have courteously told me they won't do any phoning or emailing, or anything else for that matter. Some just do not do that kind of thing. Some don't do that kind of thing because no one else is, so what is the point? That is the most common argument. I will act only when "they" act. Uh-huh.

Some believe the world is unfolding as it should. Mind you, the world as it is unfolding contains a shitload of CO2-spewing devices and thousands upon thousands of people like me who rally for CO2 reduction. We are fully a part of the unfolding. So I say, your point is what exactly?

One person said it is time to stop fighting climate change and to start adapting. Huh? Adapting to increasingly ridiculously high levels of CO2 means what? I cannot guess. Well, I can guess that the people of the Maldives can adapt by growing gills. That would be a start, until the ocean acidification killed them along with future generations of my merry critics. Oy vey.

It is one thing to fail to act when the information is not available and in the public domain. Almost all adult humans alive at this moment have heard that CO2 levels are high and that almost all scientists think this is dangerous. As the next couple or three generations come of age realizing that their immediate ancestors failed to act even when the facts were available, I would not blame them for cursing the memory of us. I would understand it if they spit on our graves.

I therefore cannot stop asking for collective action, until I am dead, locked up or too psychotic to function.

Damn the torpitudes!

As promised, a few photos from Victoria BC on the International Day of Action for Climate Change:

opening the day with dance and song



creating "350" with human bodies



350 — hope to have shots from above available soon


dozens of environmental groups were on hand


street art for the cause



the bus with no CO2 emissions



local radicals take over the inner harbour



zero carbon footprint heating system

TODAY!















For thousands more photos go to 350.org

The billblog will post photos from Victoria BC later. Check back.

.... somewhere in Saanich BC Canada

Two days until the International Day of Action on Climate Change. Let's get ready and not leave this one to the last minute of bleary-eyed confusion, grasping for ideas, wondering where to go and how to do it. Rouse your soporific consciousness from that dog-eared copy of Wart Removal For Dummies.

If we can morph into pro-seatbelt, anti-smoking, bicycle helmet-wearing models of all that is good, in the blink of a decade, then surely we can come together and bring down the scary level of CO2 in our atmosphere to, yes, 350 parts per million. Oh yeah. Ring that birth-day bell.

Let's suppose you are scrambling in mild disorientation to find a local action to join with on Saturday — Yes, THIS SATURDAY! No matter where you live there will be something going on. It's a WorldWIdeWeb of People. It's the biggest trans-national gathering toward an environmental goal that has ever occurred. It's a wet dream for the Noetic scientist.

You'll kick your own butt 350 times if you miss out.

173 countries have 4517 events. Plus the one that I will be doing -- it isn't registered. I was going to be with a flash mob but fractured a metatarsal instead. Now I plan to sit in the heart of the Victoria Inner Harbour, across from the BC Legislature or the Empress Hotel and hold up a laminated 350 sign, smile and talk with anyone who cares. I will bring some extras in case anyone wants to join with me.



Even the big Anglican Cathedral in downtown Victoria is on the bit. It will ring its bell 350 times. It's a registered event. Dig it.

So, supposing you have left it until today to find something to latch onto, to add yourself too, check THIS PAGE.
Or, you can still make up an activity of your own. Need ideas? 350.org has some for you.
And, oh yeah, not trying to be too much of a pest, but PM Harper really is a recalcitrant fellow on the CO2 emmisions reduction gig. Phone him. It's an emergency.

Ady Gil is its name. Whale defense is its game.

photo courtesy Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

The techno-marvel, bio-diesel fueled, world record holding trimaran, formerly known as Earthrace, will join the Steve Irwin in the coming whale-defense campaign in Antarctica. Operation Waltzing Matilda, which begins in December 2009, will see a strategy coordinating the strengths of the Steve Irwin and the Ady Gil. The Ady Gil is named after the benefactor instrumental in its acquisition by Sea Shepherd.

photo by David Castor, public domain, Wikipedia
The Ady Gil in its former incarnation as Earthrace.

From Sea Shepherd News:
Says Chuck Swift, Deputy CEO in charge of ship’s operations, “The Ady Gil gives us the speed necessary to catch and stay with the Japanese whaling fleet. We are very optimistic that with these two ships, and some other surprises, we will shut down whaling in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary.”
Read the Sea Shepherd press news release in full.

Congratulations Sea Shepherd, the whales best friend!

There's been no week quite this one in my memory. Those of you following the web-based action leading up to the International Day of Action on Climate Change, this Saturday, October 24, will have some idea of the thousands of actions taking place all over the planet, all directed toward one end, convincing our leaders to take drastic action to reduce the CO2 levels. All of these action cry out: It's an emergency! Quit messing about with the small stuff. Do what has to be done.

There's a joint effort of a breadth of scale not seen ever before. We demand rights for the health of the air we breath, that the ocean absorbs. We demand a return to 350 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere — closer to the amount the was steady and persistent for millions of years, up until the Industrial Age. We expect our leaders to act on behalf of the Nature Kingdoms and the Unborn Generations of Humans. Respect for the generations that follow. That's the gig.

There's never been a week quite like this one, in recorded history. Such a melding together of some many from so many parts of the world, building a togetherness, a determination to take charge of our futures and a demand to our leaders.

And so it is an auspicious week for the opening of the headquarters of the the Green Pary for the Canadian political riding of Saanich and the Gulf Islands here off the left coast of Canada. We celebrate because our candidate is the Leader of the Green Party of Canada, Elizabeth May.

The Office was opened with a prayer earlier in the day, a prayer by a local man of the orginal people, the natives, the aborignials, the First Nation of this particular location on the earth. Embarassingly I forget his name, a usual occurrence with me. I remember him vividly. Then began the celebration, fittingly with a very fine fiddler. I didn't get her name either, I'll remember her music. A fiddler only has rhythm like that after playing for dances. I knew it immediately. I played spoons for a while. Damn it was fun.

It is an auspicious time to elect the first Green Party Member of the Canadian Parliament.

Your awkward scribe will report occasionally in the billblog as things progress with local Green Party initatives— I've signed my reclusive self up to do my utmost to canvas, put up signs, encourage and do anything I can to help get Elizabeth May get elected to the House of Commons in the next election, wherever it lands in the calendar. I take some training Thursday. Grand!

I have reasons for deciding to unequivocally support Elizabeth May. You'll find out about them in blogs down the road. Today, in this auspicious week, I simply celebrate. The official Green Party offices are located in the town of Sidney, a twenty minute drive from my home here next door to the Uiversity of Victoria and close to ferries connecting Vancouver Island to the nearest Gulf Islands.

Tonight I picked up my mother and we toodled back up the Pat Bay Highway to Ye Grande Opening. It was a scene of music, fun, renewal of friendships, wine for some, coffee for others, veggies, fruit and not a pop or potato chip on the premises, not to mention the obvious absence of plastic, cardboard or styrofoam beverage containers. Folks, wine was in glass wine glasses, coffee in mugs. Metal spoons.

Thanks for the great hug, Elizabeth. My mother feels you are a fine person for the job. Her instincts are to be trusted. Therefore, damn the torpitudes. Ahoy to the future. Here we go.

From right to left: My mother, Marion Davidson, Elizabeth May, your awkward scribe

Smaller print: The billblog is not an official communication device for the Green Party of Canada. Opinions are those of bill or anyone he chooses. There may be a degree of irreverence or radical-in-your-faceness now and then. There won't be profanity or anything requiring parental controls. The billblog is brilliant and ... oops sorry, got carried away there. My apologies. In short, the Green Party has no responsibility for this blog.

Canada has obstructed climate change talks and steadily increased its CO2 emissions. Saturday is the International Day of Action on Climate Change. As a run-up to Saturday, why not phone the PM and tell him what you expect of him at the Copenhagen Summit in December. There are some rumours that he won't even attend. Let him know that you want him there in person.

My mother is 88 years old. She phoned the Canadian Prime Minister this morning and left a message with a courteous gal in the PMO. You can too.

The billblog would like 350 people to phone PM Harper this week. Can you help? Email me or leave a comment about it. Sharing energizes all of us. To the phones!!

I hope you will take a minute and nineteen seconds to listen to President Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean.

The average elevation of The Maldives is one and a half metres above sea level. It will disappear completely if the current trajectory of glacial and polar icecap melting is maintained. The Maldives held an underwater cabinet meeting to illustrate this to the world.



350.0rg

NYTimes on the underwater cabinet meeting in The Republic of Maldives.

Will you do something on October 24?

If you are in Canada and need the phone number, email address or snail mail address of any members of the House of Commons including the obstructionist PM, links are provided in the sidebar.

Regarding the dishonourable, obstructive behaviour of the Canadian government at the Bangkok climate negotiations and its track record in dealing with CO2 emissions, my friend John had this to say: "Tory popularity is increasing faster than the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere. Because Steve sang and played the piano. Most of the electorate is doped on bad food and defeated by stupid jobs. They just want to watch tv and not be disturbed by reality." What do you think? Leave a comment anytime with your views and/or action suggestions. Let's let the leaders have our views on October 24 — loud and clear.

Reality cometh like a friggin freight train through your ever-loving living room, sayeth the billblog.

It's Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change.

This is my blog.

To the Government of Canada,

I live in Canada. I've lived here my whole life. That makes me Canadian, though it's pretty weird when you think about it to identify someone with the place they parachuted into at birth. Nonetheless, consider me Canadian because I vote here.

I have never been particularly impressed with the behaviour of Canadian leaders though they do come out with some reasonable stuff, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, universal health care and the absence of the death penalty for instance.

I'm embarrassed by our government now. Actually I am horrified. Let me explain.

This thing about climate change, carbon emissions and all that jazz - it's about the science. Get it? It's not about the survival of the Conservative Party of Canada or the continued PM-hood of one Stephen Harper. It's not about upholding the current industrial model which places a per capita carbon footprint on Canadian citizens that is so far above most of the world as to be a catastrophe in the making. .

I don't know which scientists you have been using as advisors, but they are quacks if they are telling you that climate change is a political issue. Or is it that case that you've just been ignoring them?

The pint-sized effort made thus far to control the carbon emission of the nation are in fact treason against the human race if allowed to persist.

I ask you to examine in depth the reasons why so many nations walked out on Canada at the pre-Copenhagen climate negotiations in Bangkok. It was a statement. Did you hear it or just take offence?

If your scientific advisors are not telling you that the Copenhagen Summit is not the most important meeting in the world, dealing with the most important issue on the planet then they are yes men and not telling you what current scientific research says and what thousands of the smartest people on the planet are saying.

Continued use of fossil fuels, continued development of fossil fuel resources, and the development of industry based upon fossil fuels is only justified if and only if there is a massive R&D effort to develop and to implement clean energy sources. Industry can benefit and thrive. Talk to some Europeans who have a measure of this. Canada is being left behind in the green industry revolution.

Yes, it is difficult to accurately model future climate and identify how much time is left before the tipping point - the point at which the jig is really up and there's no turning back no matter what. Most predictions are turning out to be conservative as new evidence comes in. Something to think about ...

Along with climate change there's this nastier business of the acidification of our oceans caused by the absorbtion of C02 into the oceans, leading irrevocably to the death of the ocean ecosystems if it is not checked. Good-bye to ocean life = good-bye us. Oceans produce most of our oxygen. So it's not just a matter of the disappearance of ocean front, low-lying property or the preponderance of hellish weather, drought, flooding and the like. It's about human survival. The survival needs of the Conservative Party of Canada pale.

It's about the survival of so many species it would make your head melt. Check the science. Hear the thoughts of the best scientists alive on the planet. It's an emergency. Most scientists place these catastrophic outcomes into the next few decades, not to the distant future.

PM Harper, I've heard rumours that you aren't going to the Copenhagen Summit. Say it isn't true. By the time another summit rolls around the entire planet might be in such trouble that there'll be no point. It's about the science. Go. Do the right thing.

I'll pay more taxes to save the human race. No problem.

It's not about the economy. It's not about politics. It's not about moving only in lockstep with the USA. It's about the science.

Make us proud.



Yes you.

We are all joined at the hip in the planetary emergency. Check out Tck In A Box. Here's a SHORT VID about it.

Ideas precede actions. Good ideas precede the best actions. Jump in. The water's still a bit chilly. You are ready.

love peace and bicycles,
bill

The billblog periodically diverts from its usual political/environmental/human rights focci and introduces its multitudes of readers to musicians, music and art. Seems that there's a need for more diversion lately, today being no exception. So, without further blather ...

Brasstronaut is a Vancouver indie combo with a committed following. I don't know a lot about the origins of Brasstronaut though I understand the original members have been together for a while. Being out of touch in oh so many ways, I didn't know about them until they were doing an artists' residency at the Banff Centre earlier this year, in itself being a feather for the old cap. At that time they were a four-piece ensemble:

Bryan Davies - trumpet, flugelhorn, glock
Edo Van Breemen - vocals, keyboards
John Walsh - bass, guitar
Brennan Saul - percussion

This configuration has an LP, Old World Lies (2008) from Unfamiliar Records, available from iTunes or zunior.com. Seriously recommended. It's growing trans-dimensional sonic pathways through my aged neurons. I'm looking forward to hearing their current sound, with their evolution since 2008 and with two addtional musicians added to the band:

Tariq Hussain - lap steel, guitar - Juno nominee 1998
Sam Davidson - EWI, clarinet, son of billblogger

Says Al Smith of exclaim.ca reviewing a September 2009 Brasstronaut concert at Vancouver's Biltmore Cabaret:
"Every time you see Brasstronaut play, they're liable to have a new member or two, and tonight was no exception. The guiding principle of the group seems to be excellent, formally trained musicianship. Wrap these serious chops around catchy pop songwriting, and you have Brasstronaut in a nutshell. At times recalling the orchestral ambiance of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra and at others indulging in some surprisingly un-lame fusion-style noodling, they really don't sound like anything else going on right now."

Looking forward to the CD release in February 2010.

If you're in Reykjavik this week, why not catch a few bands at Iceland Airwaves ’09 a huge music festival with a mostly European lineup.

Says Adrian Mack at straight.com:
"Locals Brasstronaut will be one of only two Canadian acts attending the “hippest” (according to Rolling Stone) music festival on Earth this year. The four-piece will join Toronto’s Culture Reject at Iceland Airwaves Music Festival 09 in Reykjavik from October 14 to 18, along with touted bands like Crystal Antlers, the Drums, and thecocknbullkid."

So then, if you happen to find yourself in Reykjavik specifically next Saturday night, toodle on down to the theatre at the Reykjavik Art Museum and catch Brasstronaut in concert. Send a postcard.

On September 19th, the billblog noted that the Rakish Angles of Gibson BC had released a mighty fine CD of gypsy-jazz-newgrass music.

The nominees for the Canadian Folk Music Awards have just been announced. The Rakish Angles have been nominated in the category of 2009 Instrumental Group of the Year. Scroll down THIS PAGE to see.

The Canadian Folk Music Awards Gala will be held at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec on Saturday, November 21, 2009.

Serena, Dan, Boyd and Simon, bon chance!

Rakish Angles at the Spiral Cafe, Victoria BC
Rakish Angles website

Take 5 with Tom Wagner, a NASA climate scientist, as he explains the deal on the melting of ice in the arctic.




And In The News

Bangkok: Norway Takes The Lead Ahead of Copehagen, Big Emissions Reduction
[Now if only the Norwegian owned fish farms on the west coast of Canada would become enviro-friendly and move away from pacific salmon pathways. Or just go away, period.]

The Nissan electric car will be released in British Columbia first.

Canadian Provinces Get Failing Grade in Provision of Environmental Rights

That's got to hurt and I'm glad.

The Endbridge Proposal would have oil tankers heading up and down the Inside Passage of BC -- an area of pristine wilderness and a wonder of the planetary ecosystem. Tankers would dodge one another in narrow passages fraught with currents, winds and fog and hidden rocky protrusions. Good times until the inevitable grounding, collision or [ahem] "navigation malfunction" occurs. Oil would then slather across water, coastlines far and wide, whales, birds, seals, fish, shell fish, sea plants, and make ghastly the rich, living beauty of the Inside Passage.

On September 25, 2009 a cargo vessel named the Petersfield had a misadventure in one of those passages. Good news. The more the merrier and the better to provide evidence against the loopy, ill-conceived and downright bullgoose looney Endbridge wet dream. Read all about it HERE.


photo from Living Oceans site.

Have you noticed that our elected politicians will do anything to stay in power? Does staying in power mean more to most of them than integrity and being true servants of the common good, or am I missing something?

I gander that most of them have become centrists, gravitating towards the middle because they hope to score the biggest helping of votes. Naturally, this increases our boredom about what they do. Add that to the national embarrassment known as "Question Period" and you have a recipe for voter apathy, disinterest and demoralization.

The billblog sees it as its duty to inform you that it is one of the great illusions of our times that the issue of power is settled in elections. Good grief, no. Politicians choose on the basis of their perception of public opinion more often than not. Remember, to them it's all about winning the next election. This is even more evident in these years of minority governments. Plainly now, they are insecure. They seek the warm fuzzies of voter love. I ask you then, why be silent when they beg for your views?

So vote often with your phone and your computer. Vote today, tomorrow and the next day.

Look, voting has never been easier. Pick up the phone and punch in the telephone number of the Prime Minister. Of course you can only leave a message but that's okay. Hundreds of people phoning about Canada's insanely huge per capita carbon footprint is bound to get some attention. Thousands phoning in? Tens of thousands? I rest my case. Not a bad strategy when you think about it, eh?

And here we are, mere weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change and mere days before the October 24 International Day of Action. Perfect time for voting, say, a dozen or so times? Just saying ...

For example, there was this pre-Copenhagen gathering of approximately 100 leaders at the UN recently. They were working on climate change issues. PM Harper skipped it to attend a photo op with the Mayor of New York City. Other nations notice Canada's delinquent ways. Where's a rock we can hide under. Or, better yet, where's a telephone? Where's a computer?

To make things easy for you now and into the future, I have put links to the contact info of the PM and the whole gaggle of Members of the Canadian Parliament on the sidebar of the billblog. You can find it there anytime you wish to vote. Let them know how you feel and what you think. Do it often. Let us show PM Harper the inmost rectum of our carbon-fearing angst. Oh sorry about the rich language. You know. One of those moments. The billblog humbly apologizes.

Yes there are many online petitions. The billblog encourages the signing of them but feels that individual emails, letters, faxes and phone calls may carry more impact.

The stakes are high. The billblog sends out this call to arms, er, that is, to telephones and computers. Chaaaarrrrrge!

They got the guns. We got the numbers.
- Jim Morrison

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The Mackenzie Jones Band Rides Again

In case you didn't notice, in the billblog's sidebar, the Featured Music Track is another gem by Adam Jones and his band, The Mackenzie Jones Band. Don't leave this page without a listen.

And In The News

Apple Quits US Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Change

Alexandra Morton At the Salmon Rally, Vancouver BC