Originally published by the NAAIJ on May 26th 2015 under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution International License
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Canadians are speaking out as loudly as possible against Bill C-51 with yet another National Day of Action to #StopC51. The main focus of the protest is to highlight some very simple demands and gather/march in Ottawa. It is surprising we need to demand our Government do something as basic as affirm and uphold the Charter, And yet here we are. Those very simple demands are as follows:
A GoFundMe has been setup to assist with transportation costs from surrounding areas. At the time of writing it has reached $1,718 of its $2,000 goal. Donated funds will be used for: “Printing costs for posters and flyers, Equipment and art supplies for demonstrations, Secure travel”
An excerpt from the widely circulated Call to Action is as follows:
Enough is enough! Bill C-51 is part of a long string of initiatives to expand the government’s security powers and signals a dramatic new direction for Canadian security. Presented as anti-terror legislation, Bill C-51 creates excessive over reaching powers for security agencies, that will harm online innovation, political discourse, and our civil liberties.
The Conservative Government is rushing this bill through parliament without responsible parliamentary process. The actions of the government are degrading our democracy and our international reputation.
This bill disproportionately targets indigenous communities, environmental activists, dissidents, and Muslims, many of whom are already subjected to questionable and overreaching powers by security officials. Bill C-51 will make it easier and ostensibly lawful for government to continue infringing upon the rights of peaceful people.
“Bill C-51… is a dangerous piece of legislation in terms of its potential impacts on the rule of law, on constitutionally and internationally protected rights, and on the health of Canada’s democracy”
-106 Law professors from across Canada in and Open
Letter to the Government criticizing Bill C-51Any government that would propose legislation that is unconstitutional and undemocratic does not have the moral authority to maintain power in a true democracy. Generations before us have defended the rights and freedoms that are now in jeopardy.
In response people from the four directions will march in solidarity on Parliament Hill on May 30th to #RejectFear and call on Members of Parliament to;
-Withdraw / Repeal Bill C-51
-Affirm and Uphold the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
-Honour the Treaties with First Nations and the Rights of Indigenous People
-Honour First Nations Right to be Consulted (Section 35)
-Stop racist legislation and fear mongeringOur security lives in our solidarity, standing together for our rights and civil liberties, not in legislation that creates secret police and secret courts. Bill C-51 does nothing to protect Canadians, it actually will make us less safe.
“The powers of CSIS have always depended on how a ‘threat to the security of Canada’ is defined, and section 2 of the CSIS Act already has an extremely broad definition. This has been interpreted to include environmental activists, indigenous groups, and other social or political activists. Concerns are heightened with the proposal to grant CSIS a ‘disruptive’ kinetic role.”
-Canadian Bar Association#RejectFear and let’s stand together for the well-being of all the people on this land.
Here is a list of protest locations
Barrie Facebook Event Page
Calgary Facebook Event Page
Courtenay Facebook Event Page
Edmonton Facebook Event Page
Halifax Facebook Event Page
Kitchener-Waterloo (May 28th) Facebook Event Page
London Facebook Event Page
Montreal Facebook Event Page
Ottawa Facebook Event Page
Regina Facebook Event Page
Sudbury Facebook Event Page
Toronto Facebook Event Page
Vancouver Facebook Event Page
Victoria Facebook Event Page
Winnipeg Facebook Event Page
Some promotional videos as well as some flyers
Nigel Todman is an Independent Journalist, Technical Consultant, Social Activist, Web Developer and Computer Programmer from Ontario, Canada. Nigel is also the Assistant Webmaster for the NAAIJ. Add him to Facebook and/or Follow him on Twitter E-mail: nigel [at] naaij [dot] org [PGP] This article can be republished under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, With a link back to this article and attribution to Nigel Todman and the NAAIJ
I have recently switched hosting providers. Users of a certain popular antivirus solution were erroneously blocked from this site. Users of that very same antivirus solution should notice this site loads just fine and is, in fact, virus free. Always has been. Always will be. It’s one of my many quirks.
On a related note, If your website has a virus, I can fix that for you.
It’s a shame us white hat professionals cant just get along and not block each others sites…
When I contacted the antivirus vendor they stated that the block wasnt due to any content on my website or even to my domain at all. NigelTodman.com, at the time, happened to reside on the same server as thousands of other websites. Much like it does again now, just on a different server. The ‘issue’ was a domain completely unrelated to my own, happens to use the same server/company that I used for my hosting, was at one time sending spam. As a result of this the antivirus vendor took it upon itself to block not just the offending website .. but every client on every server owned by that entire company and its resellers! I would figure at least a quarter of a million websites are blocked erroneously from the practices employed by this vendor, and thats just a very rough estimate.
I’ve since parted ways with the former hosting provider and this new provider thus far does not seem to suffer from the false positive fiasco. I think I will follow up with the former hosting provider and the antivirus vendor. Will be interesting to see If I can get some figures on how many domains they manage and how many abuse complaints they’ve received, I’m assuming domains that have never ever received a complaint (like this one for example) to be legitimate content and not malicious or spam.
Maybe if I inform said antivirus vendor that they are erroneously blocking and falsely stating websites are ‘dangerous’, Impacting millions of users and hundreds of thousands of administrators, webmasters and content creators, They would resort to more accurate practices.
Originally published at the NAAIJ on May 1st 2015. Check the North American Association of Independent Journalists for the latest updates.
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The Thunderclap will post a message on your feed along with other supporters on
May 01 at 10:30AM EDT. All credit goes to Organizers: Redditors For Basic Income (/r/BasicIncome) & @2noame. The full text of the Basic Income Thunderclap Campaign follows:
What would you do with a monthly paycheck, separate and in addition to any other paycheck, earned for nothing other than citizenship and sufficient to cover your most basic needs? That’s basic income, and that’s what today should be about.
Popularly known as May Day or Labour Day, May 1st is currently a day to internationally recognize the contributions of the global labor movement
and its many struggles and achievements over the years. However, where unions once
empowered labor and gave us the 40-hour week and the 8-hour day,
globalization and advances in technology have severely eroded the ability of
unions to effect change.
As automation of the workplace continues to the
tune of potentially eliminating half of all current jobs in the next 20 years,
and in addition eroding any sense of financial security or consumer buying power through the growth of part-time jobs, low-paid jobs, freelancing, and zero-hour contracts, unconditional basic income represents the ability to empower labor on
an individual basis. A newly gained ability to say “No” to employers
would have an undeniable effect on employee bargaining power for greater sharing of profits and better
wages, job conditions, hours, benefits, etc.
The achievement of basic
income would be the achievement of a new voluntary contract between employer and
employee, including the empowerment of the employee to become their own
employer by functioning as venture capital for the people. It would mean a new age of greater innovation, productivity, and entrepreneurship,
where all are finally free to pursue the goals they wish to pursue, and all work
could be recognized for its societal value, instead of only paid work
as it stands now. Isn’t it time we started recognizing all the important labor going unpaid?
Basic income is the future of the labor movement, and the policy we must all together now strive for in the 21st century.
There are many ways to support the idea and to help grow the movement for Basic Income. For one, take part in Basic Income Day by supporting this Thunderclap and by changing your profile photos on May 1st. Some more examples:
Join the growing global movement to create an income floor for everyone.
This is the century of technological emancipation from labor itself. We made it. We’re here. We need only actually embrace it. Unemployment is not something to fear. It is something to welcome.
Without basic income, on the 1st of May we celebrate Human Labour Day.
With basic income, tomorrow we celebrate Machine Labour Day.
Nigel Todman is an Independent Journalist, Technical Consultant, Social Activist, Web Developer and Computer Programmer from Ontario, Canada. Nigel is also the Assistant Webmaster for the NAAIJ. Add him to Facebook and/or Follow him on Twitter E-mail: nigel [at] naaij [dot] org [PGP]
