How to End the Fentanyl Crisis

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Do you ever feel really small and think what can I do. Are you tired?
I am. Sometimes I feel like I want to quit this blog but then I read something and I think...this needs a voice. I am small, right now I am poor and at the end of the month homeless, I am single mom of a beautiful 15 year old girl and this fentanyl crisis is freaking me out. I haven't personally lost any friends or family to this crisis but I do know many who have and it's devastating. Any loss of life is devastating. GRIEF! Been there.

I come up with all these cRaZy thoughts and my kids says "what are you on?" Nothing! I just have these ideas that pop into my head. Insights! Right now to me, it feels like this Fentanyl crisis is very similar to the small pox epidemic. Many people don't really know about it, we are just learning more as those enlightened enough delve into the muddy waters of so called "Reconciliation."

We are losing so many lives on the DTES (everywhere) but the stats are showing it's a high percentage of First Nation women. The matriarchs! These poor souls who have suffered so much already from the legacy of the Residential schools, from being in Foster Care, from being pushed aside and forgotten by society..these single moms, these children, homeless, preyed upon by other sick souls and the very government that is supposedly elected to protect used and abused them and just single parents in general. OUR SOCIETY IS REALLY F*KED UP!!

IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY! I could go on a long rant about how we are supposed to be hunters and gatherers and 200 years ago, at this time of year huge amounts of salmon would be arriving and the men would be helping fishing and women would be cleaning, drying the salmon. The women would be harvesting berries, the women would be gathering roots and making cedar clothes. Everyone would be working and getting ready for winter. Everyone had a job, home, and love...NOT LIKE NOW!!

Am I making any sense? Women had women to rely on. They had children but they could find their own food and if you study anthropology- is they provided most of the diet. But in today's women, especially single moms are treated like shit. Either you work yourself to death and have someone else raise your child (i.e. lovely hard working Philipino nanny ) and your kid has her morals, not yours...because you weren't there...or you have to live in precarious oppressive situations or God forbid the government swoops in and steals your child.

Why do you think these women are using drugs. To numb the pain of all that I just mentioned.

Enter Fentanyl. BIG PHARMA!

This is going to be a long rant, you might want to get a coffee and some kind of treat because this is ugly shit and not nice to talk about but I need to vent here and if you want to stick around well, I hope I enlighten you or if you are already maybe you can share.

My arms are already sore from typing...I've got tendonitis, so I can't type to much for to long. It's why I can't take many labour jobs, it's why I should be on disability but disability is as evil and de-humanizing as welfare. It's not enough to live on, proving your poor is humility, proving you can't actually work is even more exhausting and depressing and I refuse to grovel to the government- unknown entities who see you as a number and can dismiss you with a keystroke. So many suffer from this useless system. And Christy Clark, thank god she's gone she help propel this shit to the level it is. And John Horgan, while I love what you have been doing so far, $100 extra month is NOTHING!! NOTHING!! NOTHING!! NOTHING!! NOTHING!! NOTHING!!

WE NEED BASIC INCOME NOW FOR ALL SINGLE PARENTS!!!

(and tiny houses on all the streets, close them, hook the houses up to street facilities, plant gardens everywhere, shut down all the shipping and shit, use local only, clean up the harbour, bring back OUR SALMON, teach our kids how to survive with no F*CKNG electricity, because WHEN THAT SOLAR STORM, earthquake, Tsunami, hurricane, flood, or god forbid MOON misses the U.S. and hits us...help our child have some sort of tools to survive.. even if it's just a few.. DO IT FOR OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN)

whew! breathe...1, 2, 3... That feels a little better. I needed to vomit that all up! BLAK!

Last night on the news this lady was saying about all these kids in OTTAWA starting back to school and they were afraid for them. One mom said that when she was young if you smoked a joint it wasn't the end of the world..now maybe it is.

I remember when I was little... 12 ...my sister she gave me this book called GO ASK ALICE, it was supposed to warn me about drugs, because people were doing LSD and jumping off roofs and shit..in honesty ...it made me want to do drugs. Go figure!

DRUGS... WHAT ARE THEY? Let's talk about that for a minute.

My mom had open heart surgery when I was 14, she had all sorts of health issues, she may have had Lupus we don't know, she hurt all the time. She was on meds up the ying yang. She took prenizone, you know that one, it's evil. After she had been on it 10 years we read it caused all sorts of evil things. She died 10 years ago. GRIEF- remember I mentioned it above...hit me really hard. My mom was grieving for years. My dad took his life when I was 11 years old. She had 3 teens to raise, she had 4 kids but the oldest was already married and all that pressure took it's toll on them ...I remember mom saying to me...that she had to get a job or the welfare would take us. When my dad took his life there life insurance was void. My mom was an incredibly strong beautiful loving woman and she survived, she raised us and she got me through school even though I encountered some awful teachers and wanted to quit so bad. She survived another heart attack later on when my child was just 5 months. She hurt all the time and BIG PHARMA was pumping her full of drugs.

I remember near the end. I was so scared. I had had a falling out with my family, I had no money. My kids dad is Mexican, he is lucky he make $20 a day so he can't help...and we are not together, so I get nothing. I am on my own...anyways, I had social assistance when my kid was born up until 3. Then they were kicking me off so I figured out how to get into a Co-op, some really lovely people helped an I managed to move but I didn't want some people to know...I was just scared...scared all the time...just like so many of these single moms/dad, aunties, caring for kids...that the welfare system will come steal our kids and force them into some evil situation where they will be abused, used and preyed upon..(a lovely legacy of the residential school-(sarcasm here...I hope you realize).

Anyways, my mom was in terrible pain, she couldn't take alot of pain killers and she called an asked me could I please get her some medical marijuana...she was ready to try anything...and I was living in Nelson- and green was BC underground ecomony and how we survived the recession if you are clueless to such things. But I told her no. I was scared. I was so scared someone would see me and then I would lose my kid.

Why am I telling you all this? If you are still with me...Hello! Thanks for listening.

Drugs. They are F*KING EVIL. but what kind of drugs. In the sixties parents were afraid of LSD, in the 80's is was cocaine, in the 90's it was crack, in 2000 we were back to heroin (thanks to 9/11) and now it's a FENTANYL CRISIS!

Where's it coming from? I heard it's coming from China, ...the heroin is coming from Iraq, Iran, Afganistan...I don't know...somewhere like that, because of the wars, and it's coming up from Mexico and South America...along with cocaine.. all thanks to the lovely WAR ON DRUGS.  War makes wars...just in a different way. NEGATIVE ENERGY FEEDS IT!

So lets step back a minute. What are some natural so called drugs/medicines. Natures medicines.
Coca leaves-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca
Ayahuasca-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca
Peyote-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote
Marijuana- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)
Psilocybin Mushrooms  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushroom
Opium-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium

So if you looked back in history and at true Indigenous- hunting gathering societies, they all have medicinal herbs that the shamans/medicine man/woman/two-spirits/peoples gave to people who were dealing with GRIEF or some other kind of troubling event.

 Did you ever see IN THE HEART OF THE WORLD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRgTtrQOiR0  they warned us back in 1990's to take care, that we were screwing up the world and we better stop. They use the coca leaf to think well, to find answers to their problems, the shaman guides them.

The Huichol Indians in Mexico use peyote http://entheology.com/peoples/huichol-indians-of-mexico/

In South America they use Ayahuasca https://templeofthewayoflight.org/shamanism-ayahuasca/ayahuasca-healing/

Oaxaca Mexico they use Mushrooms  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Sabina

Opium had been used since ancient times - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium

 So what's my point about all this. My point is where is the connection and disconnection.

Do you think that someone who has a home, food to eat, children to raise, is surrounded by loving people is going to turn to "drugs". Maybe is someone they love dies, or many and they are in grief the shaman would help them. But what is happening right now if you STEP BACK and LOOK at the big picture is that women are being thrown aside, their children must suffer the consquences and you have EVIL BIG PHARMA spewing forth it's vomit onto poor suffering souls.

The opiate crisis is at it's peak because doctors- (so called healers.. ya right)  have been medicating people with DRUGS to stop chronic pain, to medicate (depression), to zombize (ADHD) our children...



Some people say it's the governments big plan. Drug those who won't fall into line, jail those who won't fall into line, anesthetise the children who won't swallow the garbage beliefs of hypocrisy...I guess war is next... history repeats...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system (War on Children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
National Geographic Explorer Heroin Crisis

Apparently dealers put a little bit of fentanyl in one packet so someone purposely od's leading users to thing that it's super high quality and they risk getting it because they want the best high. Doctors/BIG PHARMA created this issue by prescribing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone
for pain. https://www.drugs.com/oxycontin.html





Climate change is and will be the biggest war of all.
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/08/what-can-we-learn-from-hurricane-katrina.html
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/41-million-affected-south-asia-floods-who-would-know 
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/04/us/hurricane-harvey-from-corpus-christi-to-houston/index.html


Is any of this making sense...it's what they did and our doing to our First Nations, especially our BEAUTIFUL STRONG MATRIARCHS, the women who fought so hard to raise strong young men and women to carry on. It's colonialism, yes, and the legacy of the residential schools and corporate greed, it's today's government and society using and abusing the most vulnerable..the women and children. They are wiping out the women, women who love the earth and wan to protect their mother. They are wiping out the mothers.
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/06/do-it-for-every-child-taken-june-is.html

Fixing fentanyl means treating trauma that creates addicts





They are wiping out our WILD SALMON.




They are poisoning us with Fossil fuels.




Bomb blasting our whales and salish sea

Are you still reading.. are you still here.. Rolling Stones said it best and listen to the woman singing..
listen to that voice  http://gizmodo.com/the-female-backing-vocal-that-made-gimme-shelter-a-ha-1612360966
  


...our women ...our beautiful women...when will we rise?
Dr. Maya Angelou: "Be a Rainbow in Someone Else's Cloud"
Today I Rise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcC-SbcihKI 


Are you still with me?

HOW DO WE RISE? HOW DO WE CHANGE THIS? With art right? We resist, we share?
What else can I do at the moment. So this morning I came across the first article shared and thought what can I do, to give this man a voice, to give a voice to everyone who has lost someone they loved to this evilness. And that's why I made this post. So I am sharing. It's all I can do because I am having a hard time keeping my head above the water...I am trying not to drown...just as the mother, our beautiful mothers, and mother earth is drowning.

We MUST RESTORE THE BALANCE
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/11/we-must-restore-balance-its-about.html



Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance from Marchfelder on Vimeo.








https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/02/use-art-to-resist-resist150.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/02/when-will-you-speak-up.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/01/saveourwhales-saveourcoast.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/11/help-save-lelu-island-please-sign.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/shaw-na-na-hey-hey-good-bye-petronas.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/05/vancouver-1964-did-you-grow-up-here.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/02/save-peace-river-poem.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/01/stop-site-c-david-suzuki-grand-chief.html http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/01/do-you-really-want-to-flood-this.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/01/why-are-people-being-arrested-for.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/01/social-movements-dont-die-out-they-grow.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/11/we-must-restore-balance-its-about.html 

So what I am I doing for my part in all this mess. I am USING ART TO RESIST, JUST LIKE I RESISTED THE Canada150 with Canada150plus JUST LIKE #smokeydevil
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/08/drum-is-calling-festival-photos-videos.html 
I am asking you to be a good neighbour and chose LOVE!
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/08/chose-love-be-good-neighbour.html

I am asking you to blow off the system and COME LEARN WITH ME!!
https://zipolita.com/2017/09/02/490/
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/09/going-to-art-school-join-me-on-patreon.html

https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/08/art-school-is-starting-soon-join-me.html

Use ART LIKE A DRUG!! Heal yourself, save your friends, RISE UP and let's take back the control. Let's save the mothers, grandmothers, children and let's SAVE MOTHER EARTH. She doesn't need us but I think she still loves us just like all your inhabitants, but if we keep hurting her, hurting each other, hurting ourselves..well she will hurt us..she won't mean to but she will just be protecting herself. Does that makes sense? Are you still here!! THANK YOU!

Thank you! If you have read even some of this page, thank you. I hope that teachers, parents, professors, doctors, everyone will read my page and share it and discuss what I am saying. We need to calm down, but we need to rise in a peace way. We need to reach out support and love one another.

In the video above Deepak Chopra says something about "we think we are outside of nature, we are not, we are part of nature, maybe if we calm down, nature will calm down" (not a direct quote, to tired to go get it)

BUT ISN'T IS OBVIOUS! 
With all the awful energy, with the hate being spewed in the world, especially of late, no wonder the storms are getting bigger...yes our ignorance and disrespect of mother earth is causing climate change but you must get to a much higher level and step back and see it for what it is. Energy. We are all energy.. positive and negative energy...it has to go somewhere... how will we use that energy, our energy. One day our energy will go back into the earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust...let's call upon our ancestors, the positive energies of the universe to help us in this hour of need. Let's reach out and love one another, let's help each other. Do it for our children's children.

Sending love and light. I love you all. I love the water, the ocean, the dirt, the birds, the sacred cedar trees, the moon, the sun, I love everything and I ask you to think, eat and pray love like that book says. Be love today. Let's turn things around.

We Need a Singing Revolution
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/11/we-need-singing-revolution-mexico-to.html

Please come Join Me! We are going to have FUN!!
https://www.patreon.com/zipolita
https://zipolita.com

No Clark or MASS HYSTERIA in the streets!!

 I heard that Clark is going to raise the welfare rates..what a joke...lie... and John Horgan ...a big $100 a month is nothing and WILL NOT HELP!! So many poor are not on welfare, can't get it, refuse it and if they need disability or IE they are not eligible SO GET WITH THE PROGRAM!! Many would rather live on the streets, and horrible often dangerous situations than be screwed over and over and over by the welfare system.

No Clark or MASS HYSTERIA in the streets!!



Let me tell you how really F*K'D things are here in Vancouver. There is a lovely Filipino lady who has just returned to her job after taking a year off to look after her newborn child.  Guess what!! She has no day care, she can only work when her husband isn't working.

Now let's look a little closer.  She has looked around but she can't find anyone she trusts or will work for a wage that even makes it worthwhile to work.

I mean think about it, you have a child ...so you can ACTUALLY raise it yourself, NOT some lovely Filipino nanny, which by the way is how this lovely woman came to Canada. She looked after another poor woman's child, that couldn't do it herself...because she had to WORK to support herself and child and possibly with the help of a husband.

So now we've come FULL CIRCLE. The Filipino nanny immigrated, married, had a child but she can't afford to stay at home and raise the child herself, as is, it's 1. 5 hour commute to the job she is returning to.. and so you need someone to work 8 hours + another 3 or more for traveling time.

People must charge $15 an hour to survive, Daycares were outrages in the early 2000's, I can't imagine now... I remember it being $700 a month if they were potty trained, $900 for babies...something insane.

So even at ...minumum wage is $10.45 (I think it is) but that's not going to happen.

Any they wonder why women and children are having a problem with POVERTY & HOMELESSNESS. 

GEE WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE THE PROBLEM? 

@UBCIC @AJWVictoriaBC @jjhorgan If Clark tries to call another election BE PREPARED 4 https://t.co/tF6Hn1KpJt #BCpoli #Cdnpoli #Vancouver

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

Perfect meme to describe Clark's apparent "see the light" moment #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/udgBDGhXY1

— Peter Kelly 🇨🇦 (@PeterKellyBC) June 19, 2017

"You'd think after six months they'd have a phone hooked up if they were working @christyclarkbc https://t.co/JJIAtMqw5k #poverty #homeless

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

"Campbell government will cut 100 % of the 1.7 million dollars that was used to fund the 37 B.C. Women's Centres." https://t.co/FVqopPnXkR

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

Remember-
B.C. Five feminist activists were recently arrested for voicing their protest against Campbell's policies https://t.co/FVqopPnXkR

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

Remember-
B.C. Five feminist activists were recently arrested for voicing their protest against Campbell's policies https://t.co/FVqopPnXkR

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

He targeted #women and @christyclarkbc is NO DIFFERENT as we've seen.
Campbell's cruel cuts end era for B.C. womenhttps://t.co/FVqopPnXkR

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

Remember this..We are paying ...with our blood, and our children's health & lives. Poorest to Pay for Campbell Plan?https://t.co/gyKJXOxhHi

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

Been SCREAMING IT'S BROKEN 7+ yrshttps://t.co/ZWaBnchGQ5
BC Libs created 'overly complex' maze that kept needy off rolls: ombudsman

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

FORCED single parents to look for work when their youngest child is 3, as opposed to the current age of 7, https://t.co/afQKSlqhZm #mothers

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

REMEMBER - Premier Gordon Campbell's so-called " New Era"https://t.co/afQKSlqhZm #bcpoli #poverty #HUMANRIGHTS #3RDWORLDPOLITICS #SHAME

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

The LIBERALS LEGACY- lest we forget @christyclarkbc https://t.co/afQKSlqhZm #Bcpoli #Cdnpoli #poverty #children #women #SOCIALJUSTICENOW

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

THIS!
He basically r*ped & pillaged system & all the single moms & kids & @christyclarkbc followed happily https://t.co/CCc2pclX5l #bcpoli

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

Remember how they screw the student overhttps://t.co/kJZ0J2mJ5s

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

Remember this.
I do, I was pregnant with my daughter... https://t.co/xUYEP1BOXi #Bcpoli #Poverty #Childpoverty #welfare #socialassistance

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

The Cost of Poverty in BC - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternativeshttps://t.co/YSdY5nGftE
Does ANYONE read these??????? #poverty #bcpoli

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

REMEMBER THIS- FROM FEB 2017
Open letter to Christy Clark on child and family poverty in B.C.https://t.co/9keiQxUVHG #bcpoli #didntcarethen

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

#StoptheBS Why give @christyclarkbc another chance. Imagine YOU & YOUR SIBLINGS are these children.https://t.co/eDxQdLc50V #CHILDPOVERTY

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

Be a Rainbow in Someone's Cloudhttps://t.co/PkTPDklHo8#RiseUp #BCpoli #SocialJustice #HumanRights#Women #ChildrenFirst #BasicIncome

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

#Women #RiseUp #SocialJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #Housing #HUMANRIGHTS#TakeItTotheStreets #BCpolihttps://t.co/aKjwFwlv92

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

Rise uphttps://t.co/AN9IPWERxS

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

They system is corrupt, there is no justice for the people or for the environment. #SocialJustice #EnvironmentalJustice is a farce #BCpoli

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

Welfare & Disability set people up to fail so they can put them in prison.They can take away the children & pay foster parents to raise them

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

The living wage in Vancouver is $20 an hour, rents are $1000, bus $100, phone & internet $100, welfare & disability set people up to fail.

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

Lets See "Let them eat cake Christy @christyclarkbc live on welfare like Jagrup did. @JagrupBrar1 https://t.co/Ett3GX1qi4 then let's talk

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

#BCpoli $100 a month is like adding a penny to the pot. $1000 rent- NEED $300 just to get therehttps://t.co/LLFOgL9CEn #toolittletoolate

— Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) June 19, 2017

The Truth Podium stating the obvious. #BCpoli #BCelxn17 pic.twitter.com/70kLKYauuI

— The Truth Podium (@TruthPodium) June 15, 2017

Will Christy introduce $10 day daycare, review #siteC and give us all 5 BCRIC shares as well? #bcpoli 🙄

— BC_WHISTLEBLOWER (@bcwhistleblower) June 19, 2017

In her desperate attempt to remain in power, Christy Clark will say ANYTHING. #SayAnythingChristy #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/915DFiHDJf

— Jane Doe (@ausername) June 19, 2017

Remember all these disasters that happened under the BC Liberals watch? #SayAnythingChristy #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/7tsndzj327

— Jane Doe (@ausername) June 19, 2017

Any of this sound familiar...right here in good ole' BC with CC!

Web Exclusive: @NaomiAKlein on How to Resist Trump's Shock Politics https://t.co/iPbQVFly6O pic.twitter.com/QKmuMBaqF7

— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) June 15, 2017

ICYMI: "Corporate coup': @NaomiAKlein says Trump's goal is to make the rich richer. https://t.co/rZx4jFJJn0 pic.twitter.com/QCV9AfsKR0

— CBC-The Current (@TheCurrentCBC) June 17, 2017

The irony of the whole thing is if people get helped out now, with daycare and housing and stuff. AGAIN I fall through the loophole.  I was born and raised and worked my whole life here, in BC and had and raised my child  here. When I needed, whether is was WCB, Welfare, EI ( I had to cash my RSVP's to take a course) , banks (Student loans ) they have SCREWED me over and over.

So when people come here and get the benefits and they buy homes and they go to nice schools it pisses me off a bit.  

Then I look at the abuse First Nations, their land- unceded territories, the treaties, the DTES, the Opoid Crisis and I get really pissed.  I guess they figure if they can't force us into poverty and /or jail then they will build a pipeline and poison us and the land and take are the rights and money.

I think about my Gr. Gr. Grandma who was actually from here and her family the last 13,000 + years and how she felt when she saw what was happening.. What did my grandparents think... what damage was done by my immigrant grandparents...

But let's fast forward to 2001 and onwards....

 I have ALWAYS believed that all of us women who were victimized by Gordon Campbell's cuts and continued with Christy Clark's antics WE DESERVE COMPENSATION!!

We deserve compensation for undo stress, suffering, pain, anguish, harassment (I was harassed by bill collectors ) and our children, they have paid with their mental and physical health. I believe that Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark should pay. I think politicians should pay for their #CrimesAgainstHumanity

They should be charged and made to pay and made to do some hard labour. Like clean people homes and toilets, vacuum, wash floors on hands and knees and  really see how the other side lives because if she ever understood it, she forgot...and if not then she needs to experience it.

Oh I as an extra give her a nice dose of bed bugs.(not really- I wouldn't wish them on my worse enemy...but then again she may be my worst enemy...) I remember that someone said that of  poor Jagrup...as they said "you truly haven't lived until you've experienced that. "

I could share tons more but better stop. 

Yah...that's how F*k*d things are.

Hey Hey Ho Ho CC has got to go!

I do not like her,

I do not like her here, I do not like here there,

I DO NOT, DO NOT, LIKE HER ANYWHERE!!

I don't want my kids to

PUKE BROWN GOO

As so sadly they did

IN KALAMAZOO!!

Please Save My Kid from #Poverty & #Homelessness

#SavetheSalmon

#SavetheWhales

#StopthePipeline

#StopChristyClark

#StoptheLNG

#SavethePeaceRiver

#StopSiteC

#FishFarmsGetOut

Please #SaveMyCoast

#SaveMyCoast

#SaveMyCoast

#SaveMyCoast

#SaveMyCoast

#SaveMyCoast

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https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/05/greeeen-eeen-eeen-green-green-green.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/05/ryan-mcmahon-dear-canada-podcast-more.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/05/we-need-you-to-save-our-lives-voteabc.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/04/listen-to-hide-seek-nwe-jinan-surrey-bc.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/04/halt-housing-grilled-cheese-50-grand.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/03/bc-childcare-crisis-has-existed-15.html

Insanity laughs under pressure we're breaking

Wow, did you ever really listen to this song closely.
It's very profound.

Especially for things that are going on right now in the world....
Vancouver with it's insane housing crisis...
Canada, Climate Change,3 Amigos
Bernie, Election Fraud, Oligarchy,
Brexit, Oaxaca, Istanbul...
Corporate Greed, Hate, Racism..

We need more love.

Sending out as much love and positive energy as I can.
See full lyrics below video.

"Because love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the (People on streets) edge of the night
And loves (People on streets) dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure
"






Lyrics

Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you
No man ask for

Under pressure
That brings a building down
Splits a family in two

Puts people on streets

Um ba ba be
Um ba ba be
De day da
Ee day da - that's okay

It's the terror of knowing
What the world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming

'Let me out'
Pray tomorrow gets me higher

Pressure on people people on streets

Day day de mm hm
Da da da ba ba
Okay
Chipping around - kick my brains around the floor
These are the days it never rains but it pours
Ee do ba be
Ee da ba ba ba
Um bo bo
Be lap

People on streets
ee da de da de
People on streets
ee da de da de da de da

It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming
'Let me out'

Pray tomorrow - gets me higher
Higher
High

Pressure on people people on streets

Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work

Keep coming up with love
But it's so slashed and torn
Why - why - why?
Love love love love love
Insanity laughs under pressure we're breaking

Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love give love give love give love
Give love give love give love give love give love

Because love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the (People on streets) edge of the night
And loves (People on streets) dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/queen/underpressure.html

#PeacePrayerFlagProject
http://zipolita.com/peace-flags/
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/11/have-you-heard-of-peace-prayer-flag.html

When Millions of People Stand Together- THEY WIN!!

Listen to this powerful message.



https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/bernie-is-most-trusted.html

https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/02/have-you-heard-bernies-speeches-from.html

https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/02/listen-to-truth-voteforbernie.html

https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/02/vote-for-bernie-and-remain-engaged.html 

A CHALLENGE to the RICHEST PEOPLE in Vancouver BC

Okay, let's pretend this is Dragon's Den with a twist and here's my pitch!!

 

Dear RICHEST PEOPLE in Vancouver BC:

 

 Jim Pattison,  The Aquilini Family,  The Lalji Family,  Bob Gaglardi,  Brandt Louie,  Chip Wilson,  Hassan Khosrowshahi,  The Chan Family, Gary Charlwood, Belkin Family

 

You were named the 10 Richest People in Vancouver in this article in March 2015. One year ago.   http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/03/richest-people-vancouver/

 

This is a CHALLENGE for YOU to STEP UP and END HOMELESSNESS in Vancouver and I am sure if you issue a challenge to your wealthy friends we CAN cultivate a better world.

 

It was a few years back, after seeing this video below, that I create the vision of  The Changerz but you can make it a reality NOW! With your BILLIONS it will be EASY!!! 

So this was my first idea... BETWEEN you all, you have about 20 BILLION!

$20 Billion - 

$20,000,000,000

-      $50,000,000

 --------------------

Whew!  that's a lot of zeros. Let's make it easier to understand.

$20,000

-     $50

$19,950 

 

So now this I can wrap my head around. Let's pretend you have $20 grand and I am asking you kindly to GIVE $50 to green projects and end the Vancouver housing Crisis, to help the people who worked in the Tarsands but want to be GREEN now,  to end Homelessness, to end Child Poverty in Vancouver and eventually all of BC and Canada and THE WORLD!!! Ta Da!! 

 

But wait, I am getting ahead of myself.

 

So in reality you would be funding Green Projects & Tiny Homes for Homeless to the tune of  $50 million. Now Jimmy you have the most, so don't you think it's time to share? Seriously you have had a great run...but don't you see how warped out the world has become AND will become if you DO NOT ACT!!

Anyways, you have to figure out how much everyone can pitch in but remember you are building homes and gardens so people can be self sufficient. This isn't housing everyone in a tower or hotel. 

 

Gardens help with mental illness, addiction, sleep disorders, proper diets help with a whole host of behaviour and health issues. Remember VICTORY gardens...we need to put them everywhere. Vancouver needs to be growing our own food so we can eliminate GMO and Pesticide and that in turn will lower the cancer and that will lower hospital/health care costs. 

 

Gardens build community. We have lost this! 

 

http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/vancouver-city-we-need-to-grow-our-own.html

So here it is in a nutshell and then I will explain.



Build 5000* Tiny homes
Buy a lot for each home
Build a permaculture garden for that home so the person can feed themselves.

Workers from the Tar Sands build them.
Each home must be solar and off grid
There are 21 high schools in Vancouver- each school builds a Tiny House
Students all learn permaculture
Gardens are implement ALL OVER CITY!

* Why 5000 - there were approx 2000 absolute homeless in Vancouver and I am sure there are the same amount if not more of single parents with kids living in relative homelessness. 

From Wikipedia
Absolute homelessness describes people living in absence of proper physical shelter.^[2]
Relative homelessness describes people living in poor conditions of health or security, including an absence of both personal safety and steady income despite having physical shelter to reside in.^[2]

As of 2011, roughly 2,651 people in Vancouver are subject to one of these types of homelessness, or are transitioning between them.^[3]

From the Globe & Mail
The city released the official results Tuesday from its annual homeless count, conducted four months ago, which found 1,746 living on city streets or sleeping in shelters. That’s down slightly from 1,803 in 2014. The results left Mr. Robertson promising to do his best to manage the problem, despite pledging when he entered politics in 2008 to rid the city of street homelessness by this year.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/vancouver-mayors-homelessness-pledge-fails-as-count-remains-unchanged/article25348242/?ord=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/vancouver-mayors-homelessness-pledge-fails-as-count-remains-unchanged/article25348242/?ord=1







Later- Future Greening
All buildings have a re-bar type seismic safe structure, surrounds building but does not touch. Has green walls and roof top and solar panels. Green walls provide shade and help with water run off. See some ideas here.
https://www.pinterest.com/zipolita/the-changerz/









This didn't happen in 2014 but let's try for 2020!!


Watch this for more reasons....



Act Now or this may be your child or grandchild's future!



So that's my pitch! You have kids, I have a kid. 

 

I bet I can safely say you love your child as much as I love mine. I want my child to have a future, well this is it, you have the power and the opportunity to turn things around. We are at a crossroads in history and you can really do something. Please Act!!

And if you are taking steps to end homelessness in Vancouver please show me what they are. 

Thank you!!  






 

 

 http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/03/richest-people-vancouver/

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/03/18/richest-people-province-territory_n_6894634.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadians_by_net_worth

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-richest-1-earned-average-income-of-454-800-in-2013-1.2640352 

Related links
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/02/the-crystal-ball-is-answer-to-solar.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/02/micro-algae-its-really-crazy.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/vancouvers-housing-crisis-is-real.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/why-poverty-in-bc-canada-is-complex.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/vancouver-empty-condo-lottery.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/lets-try-again.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/al-gore-on-climate-change-were-going-to.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/grassroots-rock-candy-revolution.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/i-think-this-is-why-women-burned-bras.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/union-gospel-mission-steps-up-thank-you.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/02/be-farmer-for-day-or-for-life.html

EVERY CHILD SHOULD SEE THIS

Why you may ask, should every child see this. I believe they are the only hope. The mess we are in can only be turned around by them, but they need to know what they are fighting.

This is a trailer for an excellent film that I hope everyone will watch.

Poverty- Not the American Dream

I can totally relate to that lady whose "been crying all day" and those 2 little boys, well if they don't make you cry you must have a heart of stone. They talk about the American Dream...well I can only speak for the Canadian Dream...that it is very similar here and all I can say is that it wasn't supposed to be this way. I just don't believe there was supposed to such a mass of millionaires and billionares and then people who have nothing.

It's hard to believe that my grandparents came to Canada to get their little piece of land and now so many people who are all on the verge of homelessness or are homeless. There grandparents and parent worked hard too. What the frig is happening. How can things get better. What has to change???

So many children growing up in poverty, going to bed hungry, worrying all the time about money. So gross, so sad. My mother's family had a very hard time during the depression and the physical effects of lack of  good nutrition sadly took their toll on her body her entire life.

I hope this movie gets made. It looks really good and maybe just maybe it will open peoples eyes about the true face of poverty.

My prayers for everyone in this movie and for everyone dealing with issues like this.

Did you see, in BC we regained a tiny step...people are now allowed to keep $200 while on assistance. Before it was clawed back. People were being horribly oppressed but now maybe this will help the tinyiest. It comes to late for some.

The stupid part of the deal is now they are making it harder to get assistance. Making people wait 5 weeks.

If the Politicians would give up their pensions and put that money into some kind of growing fund...maybe some kind of progress could be made. The system pretty darn hopeless and in my opinion is more of an abuser than a aid.


http://www.americanwinterfilm.com/The team behind AMERICAN WINTER is raising funds to complete this documentary about what millions of families are going through in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2011/03/dignity-project.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2012/01/welfare-fact-sheet-ever-wonder-how-much.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2012/01/video-poverty-journey-by-mla-jagrup.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2012/01/would-you-or-your-loved-ones-like-to.html

LOCKED IN POVERTY- BC- 400,000 PEOPLE

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http://www.raisetherates.org/resources.html

Families and children were hit very hard by the welfare cuts of 2002 - almost 1 in 4 children in BC live in poverty, a third of food bank users are children, and single parents are more than 60% likely to live in poverty. The 2007 provincial budget welfare increase did little to change this. More information on the effects of welfare policies on families and children can be found here.

http://www.raisetherates.org/resources.html
http://mlaonwelfare.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/welfarefactsheet.pdf
http://mlaonwelfare.com/

Would You or Your Loved Ones Like To Live Like This?

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Would you want to live like this? Check out this video and get in touch with what is the Real World Out there for many British Columbians.  Please Watch this video then please STOP and think if this were you, or your sister, mother, someone you loved. Do you want them to suffer like this? Do you think they deserve to be treated in such a terrible way. STOP and think about the children. What damage is being done...they are raised with anxiety of always wondering where the food, walking everywhere because you can afford buses, no treats or fun because there is just nothing in the budget for that.

Why? Why and how did the system get so cruel. Originally it was meant just for women and children. There is no reason that people should be treated this way in a country so rich and proud. The BC government has created really cruel policies that wear people down and prevent them from getting welfare or demoralize them so badly they refuse to take welfare. Those that must take it in order to care for a child are only allowed until the child is 3, then there must be extenuating circumstances. With very low rates there are no decent places to rent, one must use all the money and have barely any for food.

None of this can lead to healthy outcomes. Since the changes to the Welfare system in the last 10 years the damage is becoming more obvious. It's the child who really suffer. With constantly stressed out parents, no one can be healthy. That all takes it's toll in the long run on the health care system, on the whole system. An heavily burdened stressed child will carry that psychology their whole life.

Think about the Great Depression, did your parents/grandparent ever forget that moment when there was no bread in the house or whatever catalyst was of the memory that imprinted them and they told you your whole life.

It's CRUEL & INHUMANE, we NEED people from EVERYWHERE to READ this and SPEAK UP!


OTHERWISE nothing will change. NOTHING!!.

Historic Welfare rates since 1980
In 1986 Emery Barnes, MLA for Vancouver Centre, spent a month on welfare. At the end he said the welfare for a single person should be $700. Today that would be $1,290 a month. After he had lived on welfare, the rates were modestly increased from $375, which it had been since 1981, to $384. http://mlaonwelfare.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/welfarefactsheet.pdf

PLEAAAASSSEEE PEOPLE, DON'T TURN YOUR BACK, START SHARING, TALKING, DEMANDING THAT THERE IS CHANGE!! otherwise we (you and I, ALL OF US) will the price and we will pay dearly I can assure you.



Listen Carefully at .51 "Your all businessman here, Don't Make them Better Citizens,Doesn't it Make them Better Customers"

Welfare Fact Sheet-Ever Wonder How Much People Get On Welfare?

 UPDATE- SORRY- I had to deletE some links below, as they were old
These are the most recent. 

https://raisetherates.org/past-projects/mla-on-welfare/
https://raisetherates.org/

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Ever wonder what a person on Welfare gets! Think it's easy to get Welfare or to live on Welfare...Think again. You may have heard about the MLA taking the Welfare Challenge

Check this out to get a better understanding of what it's really like.
Sorry had to remove old link

Many people are quick to judge or simply say "they made their choice" or "it's not my problem" but it is. It's everyone's problem. The children living in poverty are going to grow up with issues...the consequences of people living in poverty are obvious to many but many are obliviously to it. Please, PLEASE read this. EDUCATE and get informed about what the government has done and how things need to be changed. So many people are suffering unnecessarily.

We help people around the World, yet in our own backyard we deny people food and shelter. IT'S INSANE!! IT'S CRUEL! IT'S INHUMANE! Think about that. Please!

Here are a few Stats from the Welfare Fact Sheet

*The Average Rent in Vancouver for a 1 bedroom apartment is $1,045 which is nearly 3 times the $375 the government allows for shelter.

*Even the rent for most Single Room Occupancy shelter in the Downtown Eastside is $425 a month.


*Support Payments are No Support
The single person’s welfare payment for ‘Support’ is only $235. This is for everything apart from housing. So out of this money a person on welfare has to buy food, household supplies, personal care items, clothing, and the other costs of daily living. In addition they have to pay the costs of looking for work such as a phone or pay phone and transit. Of course totally out of the question is even a few dollars for some entertainment.

In reality, the typical rent for even the grim SROs, is more than the $375 a month the government allows, an extra $50 comes out of the $235. This only leaves $185 a month for all support costs.


*A Single Person on Welfare Cannot afford a Healthy Diet
If all of a man’s welfare went on food (so no clothes, no soap toothpaste or haircuts, no travel, not one cup of coffee or a glass of beer, no culture or entertainment) he’d still not have a healthy diet. A woman would have a few dollars left after eating.

*Single Parent Families cannot afford to Live or raise Healthy Children
A single parent family with a child receives $570 a month for shelter and $376 a month for support. In addition they, like almost all parents, receive child benefit payments from the Federal government including:
• Canada Child Tax Benefit which is made up of a Basic Benefit and National Child Benefit Supplement
• Universal Child Care Benefit

And from the BC government:
• Basic Family Bonus
The Canada Child Tax Basic Benefit is a non-taxable benefit of $113.92 per month for each child under 18 years of age. The National Child Benefit Supplement amounts are:
• $176.50 per month for the first child;
• $156.00 per month for the second child; and
• $148.50 per month for each additional child.
However there are conditions to these monies.

 Punishing Children
Children of a parent in receipt of welfare do get extended medical coverage but the development of a healthy child is about much more than covering the costs when they are ill. There is child care subsidy but it does not cover the real costs of childcare so a single parent actively looking for work – which they are required to do – has to subsidize good child care out of their meagre support money, such as spending even less on food. Once the child is 3 years old the parent faces having their welfare cut if they do not find a job or follow the government’s instructions to seek work.

For more info please check the  and Follow Jagrup's Blog - blog is gone sadly

The MLA Welfare Challenge
Can you Live on $610 a month?
Raise the Rates: www.raisetherates.org

#momthevote - So What do the Moms Think?

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Facebook-https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mom-The-Vote/#!/pages/Mom-The-Vote/213410702017653
Twitter - Use #momthevote

Mom the vote – because this isn’t kids’ stuff.

Reading the comments on Facebook, some moms thought that the NDP Statement on #momthevote, " was nice they recognized us but found it condescending." (I agree!)
 
We already take parenting issues very seriously, the reason for  #momthevote to get everyone talking so we can chose the best candidate. You can thank Karen Green for that. ;) Thanks Karen!!



It's cool that they recognize the POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA!! And that by Uniting in this way we have SERIOUS SOCIAL MEDIA SUPER HERO POWERS!!



There are some other excellent videos a the bottom of this very long blopost ;) Sorry, but this is a very serious issue and I want to address it the best I can.

I'm not trying to give myself a plug here, it's just that in this video I made a little while ago, I explain Social Media and talk about Social Media Super Hero Powers  The really interesting thing about this video, was just after I made it all the amazing things that happened in Egypt took place and it just consummated the whole kit and kaboodle for me. I think everyone really woke up to Social Media in a Huge way after that. Anyways below it the NDP's statement.

Statement from the NDP
http://www.ndp.ca/press/statement-on-momthevote

New Democrats are big supporters of the #momthevote movement, which encourages women to think about parenting issues like childcare, health care and birthing issues like midwifery. We also appreciate how this movement helps mothers use social media to talk to each other.

Mother’s are a huge force online – they represent a large percentage of blog writers and Twitterers. The community of moms online can be incredibly influential and we are excited to follow the dynamic sharing of ideas happening now with the #momthevote hashtag.

New Democrats believe that we need a government you can trust to plan for our children’s futures. Jack Layton has a realistic plan, with practical first steps that will give families a break, now. Our platform includes improving family and maternity leave benefits; lowering household costs on energy bills and renovations; investing in more family doctors and nurses; keeping kids healthy and safe in sports; and tackling climate change to create a green economy to give our children, and our children’s’ children a brighter future.

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My Opinions
I'll be open and state that in the past I have supported NDP, but I am really feeling Green right now. I used to vote a certain way because I didn't want the other guy to get it, but this time I feel that Green is really speaking to me. That said I haven't actually heard Elizabeth May speak and so that may change it, and I have a lot more research to do.

I like this from the Green Party
http://greenparty.ca/files/attachments/green-book-2011-en.pdf

Green Party

Share the load. More people working fewer hours. For those who want to, make it easier to telecommute or work from home. Share jobs. Flex hours. Flexible child care with access for all. Early childhood education. More workplace child care spaces.




Support for those who stay home to raise their children and support for those who need to get back to work while their kids are still young.

I like this from the NDP
http://www.ndp.ca/platform/give-your-family-a-break#section-1-2

NDP Party

Helping Lift Children and Families out of Poverty

* As a practical first step to eliminate child poverty, we will combine existing supports like the Child Tax Benefit to create a non-taxable Child Benefit and increase the support steadily by up to $700 per child over the next four years. This will be in addition to the current Universal Child Care Benefit;
* We will table legislation that will set goals and targets for poverty reduction in consultation with the provincial, territorial, municipal and Aboriginal governments and with non-governmental organizations.

Now if Jack Layton could seriously promise he could raise the Child Care Benefits to $700 a month, well that would help alot, but that's 4 years in the coming. I want that NOW!!  We need something like this right now. I would like them to go in and Tax the corporations and the Politicans or somehow Create Incentives for these big Corporations and people who make huge amounts of money, to share the love, to Give It Away, to help children that are HUNGRY! and help our future.

Kids that don't eat well, don't grow well. Their brains won't have the same potential. Granted the human being is amazing at surviving, but in most cases they are more prone to illness. 

It's not only that, it's really about Dignity, or loss of it - http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com/2011/03/dignity-project.html  

Dignity Project

Often children growing up in homes of poverty have lower self esteem and that leads to some many issues later in life. Not only that they have worries all the time. When you have to count the days til you get paid and make sure the milk will last, or there's no juice, you will have to wait 2 more days...families living like this have too much stress and it makes the children stressed. It shouldn't be this way. There are lots of solutions available they just need to be implemented.


Look at anyone who came out of the depression and tells you stories of how they had nothing to eat, many led very unhealthy lives all stemming from childhood poverty. IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!!  

We go in and feed children of other countries (and I totally support that) but we aren't helping the children right here in Canada. 

Helping people with food and shelter has to be the basic right of ALL CANADIANS! but especially the children.

We Need to make Children the PRIORITY!! not the minority!
 
Our kids, they're hungry, groceries are REALLY EXPENSIVE!! So many people need help and it's so shockingly sad that Canada even has an issue like this. 


The children are not hungry just for food, but art, dance, music, green space, a Healthy Revamped Education System 
(Edible Schoolyards)

http://www.fouryearsgo.org/


I want to Vote for a Government that totally supports the Four Years.Go Dream-

"To Bring Forth An Environmentally Sustainable, Spiritually Fulfilling, Socially Just Human Presence On This Planet"

A Call For Our Time: The Story of The Pachamama Alliance (2010) from Pachamama Alliance on Vimeo.


You Can Read More about #momthevote and Mommy Bloggers Uniting on my blogpost here.

Karen Green started it all and I am SO GLAD she did!! Kudos my girl! Big Kudos!

 Quoting from Karen Greens Blog- The Kids are Alright.
"We came up with Mom The Vote is to help spread relevant election information to all the other parents out there, and to show the Canadian politicians that we're paying attention. So add this button to your blog or election-related posts

Mom the vote – because this isn’t kids’ stuff.

and use the #momthevote hashtag on twitter. We have a voice, and it's strong. Let's use it! "
http://kidsarealrightto.blogspot.com/ 
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com/2011/04/momthevote-mommy-bloggers-uniting.html7


Well it's nearly 1am, I have to get to bed, should probably edit this huge post, but hope you'll forgive me and get the gist of it all. I LOVE CANADA  & KIDS and I'm just trying to stand up for both!!