by Amy Scaife | Oct 4, 2018 | activist stuff
Despite the typically Vancouver-ish start to the day (rain, so much rain), a small army of water-proof clad volunteers assembled on Kitsilano Beach to take up buckets and trash-pickers for a deep beach clean and trash audit with Greenpeace Canada and Surfrider...
by Amy Scaife | Jul 5, 2018 | activist stuff
In the weeks following the Kwekwecnewtxw – Protect The Inlet March, every day saw protesters and water protectors, led by Coast Salish Indigenous leaders, marching from the Watchhouse to the gates of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Terminal where work on...
by Amy Scaife | Nov 2, 2017 | activist stuff
Radical “Earth Preacher” Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir joined BP or Not BP in a powerful, choral ritual protest in response to BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum. Watched by hundreds of visitors, they sang to expose the irony of BP sponsoring the...
by Amy Scaife | Mar 4, 2017 | activist stuff
On the inauguration day of the 45th President of the United States, over three hundred different groups on 5 continents got together to drop banners off bridges, with messages of love, inclusion and diversity. Our little marina crew had a merry old time getting crafty...
by Amy Scaife | Nov 12, 2016 | activist stuff
Spent this rainy afternoon with the awesome Lesbians & Gays Support the Migrants, visiting the Ministry of Defence and laying wreaths, with a minutes silence at the Cenotaph. Every year, Britain marks Remembrance Day to commemorate members of the British armed...
by Amy Scaife | Aug 27, 2016 | activist stuff
After pictures emerged of an armed police officer forcing a woman to remove her long sleeves and leggings on a beach in Nice, a protest beach party was swiftly planned and executed outside London’s French Embassy. Sand, deck chairs and lilo’s were...
