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| Dr Thomas Trappenberg's Green supporters campaigning door to door Falkland Street August 15 for Halifax Needham by-election and later ran into Dr Rod Wilson, Liberal candidate, a very nice gentlemen... Sunday, August 14, 2016NS Greens putting signs up & knocking on doors for Trappenberg in Hfx Needham by-election !
Thomas Trappenberg is also the current leader of the provincial Nova Scotian Greens. Friday, April 22, 2016Martin Henry Dawson photos
Over at Michael Marshall's blog, Impure Manhattan, he has uploaded a dozen photos of Martin Henry Dawson.
They cover every decade of Dr Dawson's short but world-shattering life :            
Thursday, October 22, 2015"Elizabeth May's Plan will SAVE FPTP" claims Michael Marshall at HFAx2
Blogger Michael Marshall, over at HFAx2 , dares suggest it would have been a disaster for the world's environmental movement, if Elizabeth May's 2015 efforts to concentrate Green Party resources on just 16 winnable seats had worked !
Sunday, October 18, 2015Civil disobedience, Proportional Representation, Ending Global Warming
Michael Marshall at HFAx2 has made a bold proposal to get the fight against global warming moving : a campaign of civil disobedience to achieve Proportional Representative in the electoral systems of the major Western nations most opposed to acting on climate change !
If the UK, Canada, Australia et al don't get proportional representation and soon, Michael says, the voices of politicians serious about combating climate change will never be heard in those nations' corridors of power. And then the rest of Humanity will proceed to very quickly directly kill off many species and cook the rest indirectly. His idea is not original he says. It was raised back in the UK in the 1980s, but went no where - the campaign for PR wasn't passionate enough then for its advocates to welcome the thought of actually going to jail to promote the cause. But today, the cause of PR is most critical to those voters all consumed with wanting to see a good number of really green-minded MPs in the world's parliaments. Some have already gone to jail to oppose clear cuts or pipelines. Doing the same to move PR forward would be doing something of global not merely local import. Read his full post here. Sunday, October 11, 2015Michael has a new blog @ HFAx2HFAx2HFAx2 means 'Help From All : Hope For All' ie HFA : HFA . Or just HFA x2 , for short. Michael says the main reason why the tiny microbes survived four billion years of the worst the Cosmos could throw at planet Earth, when the giant dinosaurs faded at the first hurdle, was HGT. HGT means horizontal gene transfer --- the tiny microbes share their individual genomes with all other microbes world wide --- it is the biggest possible BIG TENT when the microbes need fast clever totally new solutions to totally new global disasters. Its why we see bacterial resistance around the world after only a handful of years after a new antibiotic is introduced. Michael says the whole open source open access PD copyleft etc movement is the human equivalent to HGT and our best hope for survival in the looming ecological disaster. We can't rely on the 1% ---- they got us into this mess ! The other 99% has the answers, if only we don't let Harper and his gang of WASP supremacists bare them at the gates because they aren't his kind of people. No they are not --- his kind of people are monsters.... Wednesday, September 17, 2014Tracy Leal Book Arts tells all about how to bind a book forever and ever !
Seaforth NS born and raised Tracy Leal loves to make homemade books , particularly miniature books (as well as make marbled and other decorative end papers) something she shares with her father and fellow artist Rowland Marshall.
Now living ( pro temp) in metro Victoria BC , she has expanded her book making interests from Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore to a brand new website on the world wide internet at Tracy Leal Book Arts ! Here is a small sample stand of her miniature books she has made to date :
Friday, August 8, 2014Aaron Leroy Alston - first in world to get shot of penicillin
Read a fascinating post all about the fact that the first person ever to receive a shot of the new wonder drug penicillin was not white and wealthy but rather black and working class.
That would be amazing even today - but in 1940 ?! It was like a red flag to a bull to right wing Americans determined to see that dying Americans didn't get any medical care unless they or their family could pay for it. Louise Glaze AlstonBravo to Doctor Dawson and Aaron Leroy Alston and to his marvellous mom, Mrs Louise L (nee Glaze) Alston, second oldest child in a family of 11 kids and so probably a stand-in for mother long before she had kids. I an the second oldest girl in a poor family of 14 so I speak from experience ! Monday, September 3, 2012Suschitzky lives long enough to see his iconic photo honored - UNBUTCHERED by Oxford University
One hundred years young last month, a world famous photographer finally saw his most iconic photo signally honored by Britain's National Portrait Gallery - and displayed unbutchered as well !
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