Pinkos 1, Ford 0
Sep. 9th, 2011 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyGentle Readers, we have won a victory this week.
It is kind of an odd victory. I, like many others, managed to make it happen by doing nothing special. I, like many others, spent the last few days at work—hell, I wasn't even fooling around on the internet—but apparently, the very fact that I and others like me exist has our Honourable Wife-Beating, Drunk-Driving Mayor running scared.
You see, tomorrow at noon there is a mass meeting scheduled in Dufferin Grove Park to oppose Ford's proposed cuts to essential city services. This scares the Honourable Wife-Beater. So Dufferin Grove Park is mysteriously being "closed" tomorrow.
Now, you can't really close a park, and short of actually surrounding it with cops like they did during the G20*, you can't really stop people from meeting in one. So the whole thing is basically an exercise in making the meeting inconvenient, except it's not that inconvenient because activists at rallies are used to holding their pee for a few hours. Unlike our mayor, who seems to have pissed his pants, terrified that the city has turned against him.
Gosh. All we did was say we were going to have a meeting! And the Toronto Parks management (but of course it wasn't their idea; people hold much bigger rallies at Dufferin Grove all the time) suddenly takes the drastic step of closing a popular park on one of the last sunny Saturday afternoons of the year.
Make no mistake. This is a sign that the Fords and their lackeys are terrified of popular resistance to their agenda. This pathetic attempt at a crackdown is a demonstration of the cowardice at City Hall.
So come on out, bike-riding pinkos, and pinkos who walk, transit, wheel, and skateboard around the city, come out everyone on social assistance, all the poor and the marginalized and the dubiously housed, all the racialized and immigrants and queers and disabled, all the students and intellectuals and workers and cultural elitists who read too many books. Dufferin Grove Park, tomorrow, 12-5. Let's show the Fords that we love this city more than they hate it.
Today we made a rich bully quake in his boots by doing absolutely nothing.
Just wait until tomorrow when we start to organize.
P.S. The monorail is a gravy train. $270 million extra, sheesh.
* Except...I think the cops are actually on our side for this one, weirdly enough. It's their jobs on the line too.
It is kind of an odd victory. I, like many others, managed to make it happen by doing nothing special. I, like many others, spent the last few days at work—hell, I wasn't even fooling around on the internet—but apparently, the very fact that I and others like me exist has our Honourable Wife-Beating, Drunk-Driving Mayor running scared.
You see, tomorrow at noon there is a mass meeting scheduled in Dufferin Grove Park to oppose Ford's proposed cuts to essential city services. This scares the Honourable Wife-Beater. So Dufferin Grove Park is mysteriously being "closed" tomorrow.
Now, you can't really close a park, and short of actually surrounding it with cops like they did during the G20*, you can't really stop people from meeting in one. So the whole thing is basically an exercise in making the meeting inconvenient, except it's not that inconvenient because activists at rallies are used to holding their pee for a few hours. Unlike our mayor, who seems to have pissed his pants, terrified that the city has turned against him.
Gosh. All we did was say we were going to have a meeting! And the Toronto Parks management (but of course it wasn't their idea; people hold much bigger rallies at Dufferin Grove all the time) suddenly takes the drastic step of closing a popular park on one of the last sunny Saturday afternoons of the year.
Make no mistake. This is a sign that the Fords and their lackeys are terrified of popular resistance to their agenda. This pathetic attempt at a crackdown is a demonstration of the cowardice at City Hall.
So come on out, bike-riding pinkos, and pinkos who walk, transit, wheel, and skateboard around the city, come out everyone on social assistance, all the poor and the marginalized and the dubiously housed, all the racialized and immigrants and queers and disabled, all the students and intellectuals and workers and cultural elitists who read too many books. Dufferin Grove Park, tomorrow, 12-5. Let's show the Fords that we love this city more than they hate it.
Today we made a rich bully quake in his boots by doing absolutely nothing.
Just wait until tomorrow when we start to organize.
P.S. The monorail is a gravy train. $270 million extra, sheesh.
* Except...I think the cops are actually on our side for this one, weirdly enough. It's their jobs on the line too.
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Date: 2011-09-10 01:17 am (UTC)I'm gonna send you my number in one of your locked posts instead. I assume you have email notifciation, but in case you don't, look for my comment in your most recent locked post.
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Date: 2011-09-10 01:59 am (UTC)No, I might be better. I don't know.
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Date: 2011-09-10 05:19 am (UTC)[1]New meds make me fall down.
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