Earth Day
We are having another Earth Day event in Calgary. It is going to be Apr 22nd at 8:00 at Crump Manor 1046 18th Ave SE Calgary. This is the theatre where the Green Fools play. It is just south of 9th Ave under the railroad tracks. It is the second building on the right but you have to park ahead further down on the left.
It will hopefully be a good event as Hex is going to play and they are a really fun African drumming act. It should prove to be a good time. As always I am not sure who is going to show-up. Very few posters have gone out. Very few people have been told and it may just be yours truly, some great bands and a keg of local beer. If this happens oh well.
Earth Day is a funny time for the green movement. We as the Green Party want to participate in Earth Day. We want to celebrate what it means to be Green. We believe that the Earth is a wonderful place and we want to preserve it, work with it and spend time making it better.
The green movement is not so sure about us. They do not know if they want to have politicians involved in an activist event. They do not want to bring partisan politics into a time when everyone should be caring for the Earth and working to make it better.
To me caring for the Earth and working to make it better is what my partisan politics are all about. I say instead of shutting out the politicians lets bring them in. Maybe if we reach out and include these people in what we are doing. They will sympathise a little bit more with what we are trying to achieve.
Politicians are just people. They are people who saw things that needed changing and decided that they would dedicate time and energy to try and make the world a better place. The ones in the Green party right now are regular people who have decided that nothing is going to change if they do not stand up and change it. People who have said, “There is no use in complaining, if there are problems lets get them fixed.”
Isn’t that what Earth Day is all about. Regular people pitching in to make some change in the world. So come out and celebrate with me. It's been a long year since last year. We’ve had some good successes and a few failures but we are still here. We are bigger, stronger and more committed than ever.
I hope you can come because it just won’t be the same without you.
We are having another Earth Day event in Calgary. It is going to be Apr 22nd at 8:00 at Crump Manor 1046 18th Ave SE Calgary. This is the theatre where the Green Fools play. It is just south of 9th Ave under the railroad tracks. It is the second building on the right but you have to park ahead further down on the left.
It will hopefully be a good event as Hex is going to play and they are a really fun African drumming act. It should prove to be a good time. As always I am not sure who is going to show-up. Very few posters have gone out. Very few people have been told and it may just be yours truly, some great bands and a keg of local beer. If this happens oh well.
Earth Day is a funny time for the green movement. We as the Green Party want to participate in Earth Day. We want to celebrate what it means to be Green. We believe that the Earth is a wonderful place and we want to preserve it, work with it and spend time making it better.
The green movement is not so sure about us. They do not know if they want to have politicians involved in an activist event. They do not want to bring partisan politics into a time when everyone should be caring for the Earth and working to make it better.
To me caring for the Earth and working to make it better is what my partisan politics are all about. I say instead of shutting out the politicians lets bring them in. Maybe if we reach out and include these people in what we are doing. They will sympathise a little bit more with what we are trying to achieve.
Politicians are just people. They are people who saw things that needed changing and decided that they would dedicate time and energy to try and make the world a better place. The ones in the Green party right now are regular people who have decided that nothing is going to change if they do not stand up and change it. People who have said, “There is no use in complaining, if there are problems lets get them fixed.”
Isn’t that what Earth Day is all about. Regular people pitching in to make some change in the world. So come out and celebrate with me. It's been a long year since last year. We’ve had some good successes and a few failures but we are still here. We are bigger, stronger and more committed than ever.
I hope you can come because it just won’t be the same without you.
posted by George Read @ 10:03 PM
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