Why Occupy 1500 Cities Occupy for Real Democracy, Equality, Justice, Peace.

1700 cities worldwide are Occupying. All our political "leaders" make promises never kept, always at the detriment to the people they serve. The problem goes beyond the parties and politicians, it's the system that is protested. All our politicians are in the pocket of a few elite who own, lobby, litigate, bully and bribe their way into every element of our lives. Even single cell organisms unite and fight for survival when their species is threatened.

From what banks have done to the people of the US, to Monsanto's global destruction, to the big oil companies with private profits and public liability. 20 years of litigation was the answer to First Nations dieing downstream from the tar-sands. Average earner salary has dropped while the 1% has made 300% profits in the last 10 years. Our public servants serve these Corps. with bias data, subsidies, lobbyists, litigation and bias media. It's profit for very few, to the huge detriment of every aspects of all our lives. After 9 "secret meetings", presently our Harper Gov. wants to sell our water,  education, health, food, public services, energy,etc... with "CETA" trade deal. Our current monetary systems are broken with virtual bank money being paid back with real money and real interest by real people.

Over 1700 cities worldwide are currently in "Occupation" to bring to light these issues and demand better of the "system" and "leaders".
From what I gather. ;^)

Here is the video I filmed of David Suzuki Speaking at Occupy Vancouver on Oct 22 2011

Why Occupy David Suzuki Speaks
Occupy Vancouver Oct 2011

Support Material to facts added to this video:

David Suzuki speaks at Occupy Montreal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTDxUicSmo

ALL of Canada For Sale
All of Canada will be for sale if Harper has his way with the EU trade deal.

CETA will give EU corps the right to sue Canadian governments if they try to interfere with their "right to profit" above the citizens rights.

C.E.T.A support material:

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/-1573370.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neMuac-CYUQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQPh_YSnkVI

CORPORATIONS MUST NOT MAKE THE LAWFree-trade agreement between the European Union and Canada: October 2011
http://tradejustice.ca/pdfs/EUCAN_DECLARATION_EN.pdf

147 Companies Control the World!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/21/theorists_claim_banks_control_world/
http://www.forbes.com 

Environment Canada's insufficient funding to monitor our markets.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=3077462&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1

Clean energy Jobs see significant job growth:

http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=53254

Solar PV rapidly becoming the cheapest option to generate electricity:

http://www.grist.org/solar-power/2011-10-11-solar-pv-rapidly-becoming-cheapest-option-generate-electricity
China has no need for Transcanada Pipeline:
China has alternative energy sources in the works. No need for TransCanada pipeline through our Great Bear Rain Forest to BC's west coast.
http://priceofoil.org/2011/05/19/empty-threats-should-not-be-made-at-%E2%80%98friends%E2%80%99/ 

Harper government fights EU clean fuel:
Canadian government lobby against the European Union's proposed clean fuel legislation:
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Environment/2011/10/25/wind-power-revolution-europe/
EU passes clean energy legislation despite Canada's 110  lobby oil sands (tar sands) meeting to stop clean energy legislation:
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Environment/2011/10/05/europe-oil-sands-gordon-campbell/
Canada's Full Tar Sands Lobby Report: http://www.no-tar-sands.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FOEE_Report_Tar_Sands_Lobby_Final_July82011.pdf 

Unsubstantiated grossly inflated Oil Industry Jobs:

With grossly inflated unsubstantiated job numbers, environmental assessments done by paid advisers.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/678247

Inequality and Elitism Rampant:
Income drops for lowest earners while to Corporation make 300% profits:

http://static7.businessinsider.com/image/4bbcaeb47f8b9a812b5a0100/wealth-and-inequality.gif

Sick citizens are good for the economy:

http://www.actupny.org/reports/drugcosts.html 

A balanced taxation system would fund education, health, infrastructure, environmental concerns etc:

http://wweek.com/portland/article-17350-9_things_the_rich_dont_want_you_to_know_about_taxes.html

Private returns with Public Liabilities:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/if-theres-an-oil-spill-whos-at-risk-canadian-taxpayers/article1638799/

http://flexosaurus.posterous.com/oil-spill-liability-caps-too-low-the-taxpayer

Monsanto GMO foods cause illness and destroy natural farms and ecology:

http://www.theglobalreport.org/articles/lab-rats-fed-monsanto-soy-die-within-weeks

(too much data to list)
See Google:http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=16&gs_id=1p&xhr=t&q=monsanto+lab+rat&fp=de70c7a850730210
 

Stephan Harper, son-of-a oil baron:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Harper

The government also blacked out sections of the email that refer to its "communications" strategy for oilsands issues.:

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Oilsands+expansion+jeopardized+absence+climate+plan+ambassador+told/5534412/story.html

No Keystone XL / Transcanada Pipelines Data, documents, arcticles, petitions and videos:

http://kim-hunter.blogspot.com/

Tar Sands Scam: 5,000 Jobs Over 3 Years:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/31/1012094/-Tar-Sands-Scam:-5,000-Jobs-Over-3-Years-Is-Worth-Risk-To-People,-Economy,-Wildlife-Water

Keystone XL pipeline impact review for the State was a "Major Client" of TransCanada:

http://yosemite.epa.gov/oeca/webeis.nsf/%28PDFView%29/20100126/$file/20100126.PDF

Grossly inflated unsubstantiated job numbers, environmental assessments done by paid advisers.

Cardno Entrix, environmental contractor worked on projects with TransCanada and describes the pipeline company as a “major client” in its marketing materials.":

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/678247

State impact review FLAWED:

Tar Sands PR Wizard Ezra Levant spins tar sands crude as “ethical oil” like his tobacco lobbyist days.

With claims of Ethical Oil being 100 percent independent of government and industry" the Co. shares the exact mailing address of a prominent tar sands law firm known to be a major client of Keystone:

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/politics/stories/meet-the-tar-sands-pr-wizard

Three U.N. bodies have told TransCanada to cease and desist and respect international covenants as they relate to human rights violations in their own country:

http://stoptarsands.org/public-comment-submitted-u-s-national-interest-determination

TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline Assessments Are Misleading and based on faulty information: Also see post below regarding Keystone XL.

http://www.desmogblog.com/expert-warns-transcanada-s-keystone-xl-pipeline-assessments-are-misleading

20 years of litigation was our governments answer to the contaminating and poisoning of The Lupicon Cree Tribe downstream from the tarsands. Amnesty is now involved

http://www.amnesty.ca/lubicon/ 

Oil Unions Say Cut The Keystone Pipeline:
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/22/oil-unions-cut-keystone-pipeline 

Update: Keystone XL Pipeline Under Review.
...documents via the Freedom of Information Act that indicate department officials allowed bias, lobbyist influence and conflicts of interest to corrupt the review process, resulting in an environmental impacts assessment that independent experts said was deeply flawed. A review in now pending

12 000 people rallied at the White House to protest the Keystone XL and expansion of the Alberta Oil Sands (Tar Sands)

http://www.foe.org/obama-delays-keystone-xl-review
http://business.financialpost.com/2011/11/17/inappropriately-cozy-u-s-ties-on-keystone-group/
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/08/04/oil-sands-canada-eu_n_918485.html
Petition:
Call for an investigation of the State Department's tar sands scandal. Join congressional leaders in calling for an independent investigation of the State Department's tar sands scandal.
http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/investigate_keystone
Update: Harper Government Unprecidented Lobying against EU Clean Fuel Legislation fails, EU impliments clean energy legislation despite the Canadian governments 110 "tar sands lobbying" meetings http://climateactionnetwork.ca/archive/e/news/latest/index.php
http://www.no-tar-sands.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FOEE_Report_Tar_Sands_Lobby_Final_July82011.pdf

Our Public and Private CEOs Payouts
Nothing can justify these inequalities!
CEO of Hydro leaves to work with mogul Jimmy Pattison after cutting 1000 jobs in 18 months:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-politics/bc-hydro-ceo-steps-down-after-18-months-on-job/article2206770/?from=sec431
Parkinson was the highest-paid public sector worker in Ontario, with a salary of more than $1.6 million. He took a $3-million severance package when he resigned.
Hydro CEOs receive massive payouts.

Salary and Bonuses of Hydro CEOs:

http://www.bchydro.com/about/company_information/executive_contracts.html

Hydro CEO salary of $2 200 000 year received $6 000 000 severance package.
Alberta Health Board squanders millions for payouts.
Chief executive officers in Calgary and Edmonton were paid $4 to $1.5 million in severance each. Jack Davis former CEO Calgary Health Region received $1.7 million severance and $4.028 million supplemental executive retirement plan."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2009/06/09/f-executive-compensation-severance-packages.html

Harper Squanders Canadians Pensions
Canadian Pensions pay for EU Shopping Mall:
Harper Government uses Canadian's Pension Plan to buy 25%

of London's newest Mega-Mall, Westfield Stratford City.

http://wn.com/Westfield_Stratford_Europe%27s_biggest_shopping_centre

http://www.bwob.ca/industries/retail/q-and-a-canada-pension-plan-goes-shopping/

China is one of the largest investors of clean energy within China. China has bought  2.2 billion dollars for Canadian oil companies: Update:11/16/2011  $15 billion

http://business.financialpost.com/2011/10/11/asia-firms-pour-billions-into-canada-resources/

http://www.chron.com/business/article/China-invests-billions-in-oil-sands-2176114.php

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/27/china-canada-oil-sands-alberta-tar_n_885032.html
Update:
http://www.chron.com/business/article/China-invests-billions-in-oil-sands-2176114.php

Community Living BC, a Public company CLBC doles out $300 000 in bonuses while they cut special needs funding in BC.

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Community+Living+ordered+stop+giving+executives+bonuses/5591725/story.html
Update: Since, the CLBC CEO has been fired with a  $300 000 severance package. ($345 000)
http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Former+Community+Living+severance/5660602/story.html

Enbridge covers it's 800 000 gallon pipeline oil spill with sand, nets with grass and calls it cleaned up.800 000 gallon pipeline oil spills "Cleaned Up" with basically AstroTurf and sand:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlnri_scklA
Update:11/16/2011 Spill now estimated at 1 100 000 gallons of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River. http://www.epa.gov/enbridgespill/

Even a simple bottle of water consumes 1/3 of it's contents in fossil fuels to get into your hand.
Hyde Creek Educational Center & Salmon Hatchery.

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/spacescience/water-bottle-pollution/

http://thisgreenearth.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/oil-tar-sand-mine-slated-for-north-of-arches-national-park/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmnoaMFZ5lY

http://www.westernresourceadvocates.org/land/utosts/fossilfoolishness.pdf

If our system was a fair and just, people would have a choice. This small shift in investing back into society could correct most injustices.

http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2010/08/10/time-for-super-taxes-for-the-super-rich/

Private returns for public liabilities. ; )

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/27/us-oil-spill-bp-tax-idUSTRE66Q1FW20100727

GMO in our Foods
Monsanto GMO lab rats saw intestinal bleeding, reproductive and behavioral disorders within 10 days of eating this patented "Foods". GM "foods" studies with rats caused major compromises to the digestive tract including tumors and bleeding (instantly corrected once GM food was removed) Reproductive function of rats was mutated within 10 days. In hamsters, by the 3rd generation, all offspring were sterile when fed Monsanto GM foods. Most people don't know what they are eating in North America were the GM foods are not labelled. The UK must label the GM foods. Making it a consumer choice should be mandatory.

Too many links to post (google search: Monsanto lab rat results):

More Monsanto Horrors:

http://bestmeal.info/monsanto/facts.shtml
http://www.lightparty.com/Health/IndiaCheers.html
http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/terminator.shtml

GM Genocide
Hundreds of thousands of suicides in India are being attributed to the destruction of Monsanto:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html

Damage of Monsanto GMO to DNA due to the process of creating a genetically modified organism is far more extensive than previously thought.... Some contamination from field trials may last for centuries. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?aid=3912&context=va

The trouble with Monsanto and GMO – Dr David Suzuki spells it out

http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/10/16/the-trouble-with-monsanto-and-gmo-dr-david-suzuki-spells-it-out/

Corporate Profits Trump your Free Speech:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation

Cure for Cancer Blocked by Big Pharmaceutical

At least three possible cures for cancer silenced. Canada blocks a cure for cancer for profit. "Big Pharma can't allow cancer or any other disease to be cured because they will lose their business of drugs, pills and all the illness.."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ifXxbxhZc
Man uses oil to cure cancer, cannabis oil shrinks and destroys cancer cells and promotes healthy cell growth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ZD9JFo7Vw
Another cancer cure is illegal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAzwr-FIA5Q

Our Broken Monetary System, Banks lend virtual money and are paid real money and real interest by the people: See: Oh Canada - The Movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVBDwAuCdPw 

Harper's Crime Bill
With the lowest rates of crime in Canada's history, the Harper Government is fast-tracking a new Crime Bill to toughen laws & build jails.

http://news.nationalpost.com

http://www.fairviewpost.com

http://megaphonemagazine.com

http://www.theglobeandmail.com
Even Texas thinks it's a bad idea, and they know .http://www.cbc.ca 
Update:11/16/2011 Harper has budgeted HUGE growth in Corrections!? His Crime Bill hasn't even passed yet and crime rates are dropping in Canada!?

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/conservatives-deficit-plan/article2059411/?from=2077658

Stop Harper's Crime Bill:

100 000+ signatures and counting
Sign the Petition:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_harpers_cruel_crime_bill/?fDwuwbb&pv=8

Just learned MP can't even ask Harper a question in parliament unless it is first submitted for approval by Harper. MPs appealed the new rules but lost. This is a dictator no?In a press release last spring, Harper said "Circumstances Dictate" that the online spying elements be removed from the proposed crime bill. The "circumstance" was a 70 000 signature petition: But yet the Canada still needs to defend it's freedoms. http://stopspying.ca/ 

Save the Internet:
UPDATE Information is Power. Youtube Avaaz and Wikileaks have been a fundamental tools in giving the global community the knowledge to empower ourselves and take back the reins of our own lives, planet and rights. Click for freedom of information. 635 000 signatures and counting Save the Internet Petition:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet_d/

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2011/09/15/stop-online-spying-openmedia-ca-launches-campaign-against-web-surveillance-legislation/

http://www.vancouversun.com/Canada+forthcoming+surveillance+bill+rein/5521531/story.htmlAt it's peak over 2400 cities were in occupation worldwide in solidarity.

http://www.occupytogether.org/

G20 Sponsored by Corporations and Banks

Our public representatives need to do their job. Globally, the corporate shill of government we all have needs a reality check. When pharmaceutical company's profits legally silence the cure for cancer, and the private gains of a few oil tycoons or Monsanto shareholders trumps human life (including Canada) our government's agenda no longer represents the people. When our MP can no longer speak without first being approved by Harper in parliament, this is no longer a democracy. This is a tyranical dictatorship.

People in, corporate sponsors out 450 000 signatures and counting.
Our leaders - The G20 is  the most powerful summit of world governments. Who is sponsoring the meeting? Banks and corporations! Who will benefit, banks and corporations.
Get Banks and Corporations out of the G20 Petition:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/occupy_g20


Bank Transfer Day: 650 000 to a 1 000 000  people transferred their bank accounts to credit unions for Bank Transfer Day to protest the inequality and corruption of our current banking systems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTzFdworUI0


Avaaz Petition for true democracy in support of the Occupation currently has 800 000 signatures and counting: http://www.avaaz.org/en/the_world_vs_wall_st

Equality, Truth, Justice, Peace, Change