The Digital Warrior’s Speech – February 28, 2025

 

The Digital Warrior’s Speech – February 28, 2025

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an Oligarch’s puppet. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or control anyone. I’d like to help everyone if possible—human beings are meant to live in harmony, not in servitude.

We, the people, have the power. Not corporations, not billionaires, not the elite who hoard wealth while the rest struggle. We have been tricked into thinking our voices don’t matter, that our clicks, our dollars, our choices are insignificant. But today, that changes.

We will not be slaves to convenience. We will not feed the machine that exploits workers, destroys communities, and crushes small businesses. We will no longer enrich those who see us as nothing more than consumers to be manipulated.

We are the Digital Warriors. Armed with truth, connection, and the refusal to comply with their game, we dismantle their power, not with violence, but with choices. Today, we reject Amazon, we reject Target, we reject Tesla. We refuse to be cogs in their machine.

Their greed has destroyed the forests, poisoned the waters, and left countless people in poverty. Their algorithms manipulate us, their policies silence us, their wealth blinds them. But no empire is invincible. No monopoly is eternal.

Today, we reclaim our world.

Canada will never be the 51st state. We will not be absorbed into their chaos, their corruption, their culture of endless war and profit over people. We stand independent, strong, and united. We are not for sale.

February 28 marks the turning point. This is the day we stop waiting for someone else to fix it. This is the day we take our power back.

We will build our own platforms. Support local. Create communities that care for each other. Value labor, fairness, and dignity. The digital landscape is ours to reclaim.

Oligarchs fear an informed, united people. They want us divided, distracted, desperate. But we see through the lies. We will not be silenced.

The future is not theirs to dictate. It is ours to shape.

Stand up. Speak out. Unplug from their control. The world changes today.

Are you ready?

Historical air photos of British Columbia from the 1940's and 1950's

https://www.facebook.com/VintageAirPhotos/photos/a.409414512455314.91856.338791092850990/409414515788647/?type=1&theater

Historical air photos of British Columbia from the 1940's and 1950's. http://vintageairphotos.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VintageAirPhotos

 
 So from September 1995 to November 1999 I worked scanning aerial photography. If you read the  info on the link below you can see how things changed from film to digital. I graduated from Langara's Professional Photography program and after a brief stint on the cruiselines this is where I landed.

Scanning was totally new and we used very expensive high end scanners. I had the pleasure of working with Mark and his dad. I even got to teach Mark's dad how to use the scanners as the darkroom was phased out. I still remember my supervisor Doug, telling me he only wanted to learn from me. Not sure if that was completely true, ha! ha! but I like to think so. I taught everyone that came through the scanning department until I was phased out! :( but I digress!

I saw alot of those old photos in the basement of the building we worked. Once, and I know this is crazy stuff but I quit the company to go work on the Cruiseships...it didn't work out and I came back but was in between apartments. I lived in the basement for about a week...yikes...crazy..I worked the night shift and so I tried (not very successfully) to sleep in the basement during the day.

I learned a lot during the time I worked there...I learned Unix, and how to work on big computers with big files..well they were big then... 40 mb and 100mb were big deals then. Ha! ha!

I burned my first Cd's there...anyways...what I want to share is these great photographic images and how our province has changed. Amazing that it could be captured and now is being shared. You can see it for yourself and even buy a digital or photographic image. http://vintageairphotos.com/
Thanks for sharing these Mark!!

http://vintageairphotos.com/background/
Hi, my name is Mark, and I’ve got a kind of interesting story to tell:
My dad worked in the drafting/survey/mapping industry since the late 1940′s. I’d guess that throughout his career he probably worked for at least six different mapping companies here in the Vancouver, BC, area. That’s not to say that he had a lot of jobs, but rather that mapping companies here seem to change hands like hockey cards at an elementary school. I don’t think 5 years goes by without some mapping company being bought out, changing names, or both. The companies change names but the people remain the same. I know, because I’m in the mapping industry too. I’ve been working with air photos since pretty much the day I graduated high school, that’s coming up on 28 years ago. I even had the pleasure of working with my dad for about 10 of those years.
Read More Here

This is the area North of the Georgia Viaduct in Vancouver from 1951. Other streets visible in the image are Hastings Street, Pender Street and Carrall Street. This image has amazing clarity. You can really zoom into the streets. http://vintageairphotos.com/1-133/

The city of Kelowna in 1948 is practically unrecognisable. The street at the front of the picture is Water Street. The next one back is St. Paul Street. http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-48-3567/

This is Granville Island and part of downtown Vancouver from 1956. This is the “new” Granville Street bridge which is only 2 years old here. http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-56-316/

This is the Capilano Highlands area of North Vancouver from 1950. To give you a rough idea of where we are, Paisley Road falls near the center of the image. It’s very likely that the Capilano Suspension Bridge is actually toward the top-left corner, but is hidden behind all the trees. http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-50-54/

Small Change, Growing Kids, & Tides Canada

http://smallchangefund.org/

What We Do

Small Change Fund empowers you to make big change with small change. We provide a place for you to discover, share, connect with, and support amazing grassroots projects in communities across the country – projects that need just a small amount of money to make a real and significant impact in the world.

We make giving simple.

Call it bottom-up investment, grassroots grant-making, place-based funding, micro-philanthropy. Whatever its name, it’s a new way of giving. We use the power of the Internet to engage everyone at their own level to share with others. We open up the giving process so you can have a hand in solving the problems you care about most. You read, you choose, you give. You can give money, you can give time, you can give support. It’s that simple.


We put you in touch.
Did you know that less than 1% percent of Canadian giving goes to grassroots groups and only a fraction of that goes to support environmental and international causes?

Local projects on the ground are often overlooked, especially when they’re needed most – it’s a funny thing, but tough times and complex challenges are just when small, local solutions make the most difference.

As the only Canadian organization of its kind, Small Change Fund puts you in touch with people on the ground, people who are best able to figure out and fix the problems in their communities



This is a video created by Environmental Education Manager, Paul Tucker, from EcoSpark. The video was made as part of a Toronto Digital Storytelling workshop funded by Green Street.

The story was made in response to the question: "Why you do you do what you do?"



The school gardens at Winchester Jr. & Sr. P.S. and Rose Ave. P.S. in the spring and summer of 2010, in east downtown Toronto.

Featuring: spring programs, the after-school program at Riverdale Farm with students from Regent Park, evening garden drop-in with families in the summer and youth green jobs.

See how engaging people in growing food has multiple tangible and intangible benefits!

Our school food garden projects are about kids and their grownups, plants and their people.

Video produced and music composed by Mehrdad Wellington.

http://www.kidsgrowing.ca/wiki/wiki.php

 http://tidescanada.org/about/

In service to the people and organizations that change
the world

Tides Canada provides innovative philanthropic, financial, and project management services for changemakers – philanthropists, foundations, activists, and civil organizations.

As experts who share your values, we work on issues like habitat protection, marine conservation, water resources, climate and energy, arctic policy, food systems and urban sustainability.

Tides Canada helps you make the most of your charitable dollars and improve the lives of people in Canada and around the globe.

• If you are an experienced grant-maker or represent a foundation, we provide program delivery and grant-making support, giving you a partner for turning your wide-reaching programmatic ideas into reality.

 

• If you want to extend your business’s social impact, we work with you to craft a charitable giving strategy that resonates with your corporate values.

 

• If you lead a charity or non-profit, we offer a wide range of services that can expand your donor base and provide long-term support for your organization.

 

• If you are a social entrepreneur, we provide the tools and support you need so you can remain dedicated to making your mission a reality. Read More Here http://tidescanada.org/about/