Victoria Greens

Remember, it is THEIR TV, their radio, and their newspapers …not ‘ours’.

The corporate-owned-media don’t work for us and they don’t care about us.
They work for Corporate Canada, and their job is not to report the news or tell us the truth. Their job is to do what Corporate Canada tells them to do.
And that’s what they do. Twenty-four hours a day … 365 days a year.

Every day, in every town and city in Canada, The Corporate-Owned-Media mislead us and misinform us about all of the important issues of the day. And they make sure that ‘the real truth’ is kept very well hidden. Only ‘The Corporate Truth’ is allowed.

One corporate-truth is that Public Health Care doesn’t work and we have to privatize it before it bankrupts us. That is a corporate truth, and it’s all we are allowed to hear.
But the real truth is that Corporate Canada is deliberately destroying our public health care system so they can privatize it and own it and get the profits they are ‘entitled to’.

The truth is that some very corrupt politicians are secretly taking billions of dollars a year from our hospitals,so that our public health care system can’t work.
And they are giving those billions of dollars a year to their good friends the drug companies. And they have closed tens of thousands of hospital beds to make sure that people have to wait for surgery, and have to suffer and die in our emergency rooms. That is the real truth. And the media …. Their Media …. never says a word.

Thirty-five years ago our hospitals got about 45% of total health care spending.
Now hospitals get less than 30%. And in a $180 Billion a year health care system, that means a loss to our hospitals of over 20 Billion Dollars A Year …

Twenty billion dollars a year of our money, taken from our hospitals – with the lion’s share of that money being given to the drug companies … and NEVER A WORD in their media. That’s what we are up against in Canada, a totally corrupt and dishonest corporate-owned Government and Media who lie to us and betray us at every turn on every important issue. The corporations and their media are our enemy, and we have to get rid of them if we want to save our country.

DON’T BELIEVE THE MEDIA, THEIR JOB IS TO MISLEAD US.
THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
jack etkin
jetkino@yahoo.ca

By Jack Etkin

The Corporate Media is the propaganda arm of Corporate Canada.  Right now the media is trying to ‘define’ the Occupy movement in a negative way.  And all of the rest of us 99% must remember that The Media is the mouthpiece of the 1%; it is not our friend, it cannot be trusted, and we must always watch the corporate media with an eagle’s eye because it never stops trying to lie to us and mislead us about everything of importance.    Since the big ‘Occupy Protests’ of a few weeks ago, the media has focused all of its attention on ‘the camps’ that have been set up across Canada.  Here in Victoria, the focus is on the camps around Victoria City Hall and in Vancouver.  It is relatively easy for the media to make the camps ‘look bad’, and now someone has died in Vancouver and the officials are saying that the camps have to go.  There may be trouble and it will all end with anger  which is what Corporate Canada wants.   But the camps are not the Occupy Movement, only a small part of it.  The media is focusing on the camps because that is where they want the focus to be.  They DON’T want the focus to be on what the movement is really all about, and that’s because they want us to forget about that.  Occupy is about the lack of democracy in Canada, but there is little mention of that in the corporate media.  Occupy is about the corruption of our governments by the billionaires and the elites, and how those people are bankrupting entire nations and destroying our planet.  Occupy is about the ‘free trade deals’ the 1% have imposed on us; deals that have cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs and led to record corporate profits and record homelessness and record food bank use.  Occupy is about the nuclear disaster in Japan that is going to kill millions of us, and about how all the Big Media is corporate and how it lies to us and misleads us every day of the year.  All of that is what Occupy is about, and The Media’s job is to make us forget it - if they can.

The media could be leading us in a discussion about how to improve our democracy and make it work better for us, but they aren’t.
The media could be giving us information about how we can fix up our tax system, but they aren’t.
The media could be telling us about climate change and fracking and how we can move towards a sane environmental policy, but they aren’t.
Instead the media are focusing on a few dozen people living in tents.  Why are they doing this?  Because that is where they want the focus to be.  And until the rest of us come to grips with how corrupt and manipulative the Canadian media is, we are going to keep losing.   We’ve got to keep our eyes focused on our real enemies; and the real enemies are the corporations, their politicians, and their media.  And we have to keep some real solutions in mind, and in my opinion two of the best solutions are more democracy and a free press.  Let’s Occupy That.
jack etkin
jetkino@yahoo.ca

written by Janine Bandcroft

i’ve been following, with great interest, the global people’s
revolution since it began in tunisia and egypt earlier this year.
i’ve also been an advocate in favour of simple living, and a big fan
of creative and environmentally friendly solutions like portland’s
dignity village, for many years. the people currently creating an
inclusive community in spirit/centennial square ought to be applauded
and supported for their courage and determination to create
environmentally and economically sustainable ways to live in the
world.

i was disappointed to hear that the city has chosen to cut off their
power and water, and proceed with building a skating rink. it’s a
very slick public relations move indeed, you’ll be able to use the
corporate media to convince the comfortably unaware public that the
people’s assembly has run its course and must soon be shut down,
without actually making any effort towards the systemic changes we’re
demanding. it’s not a favourable move for those of us who quest for
freedom and justice, however, and it won’t play well in the global
independent media that’s covering in-depth the concerns and demands
of the people’s revolution.

i’m also very disappointed to hear that the city has again ordered
david johnston’s arrest, and am saddened to think he’ll be spending
his christmas holidays in prison, far away from his two young
children.

as we approach the election it’s clear who’s giving lip service to
the people’s assembly, and who really understands and supports the
need for significant systemic change.

namaste,
janine bandcroft

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occupy your language … it’s not a revolution if first nations
people aren’t dancing. #celebratelinguisticdiversity