the fog

there is a lot of fog out here. having missed activism, i met with a refugee advocacy group in Newfoundland (lesley says you have to emphasize the "land"). I have now decided to try and meet with similar groups every city we stop. Unfortunately NOII halifax is thwarting my plans by not replying to my emails. I wanted to email them again the day after my first but thought that might seem creepy.

People are very friendly, i have to say i do like the east coast. The nice thing about buses and camping is you meet great friendly people. As well, i like the screech, it really wakes you up. The miner's museum in glace bay by the way is awesome if you are ever out there, and it is pretty much as if it were sponsored by the United  Mine Workers of America. Not a nice thing to be said about management anywhere in the museum which seems like the most realistic way to tell the story. They also had a wonderful monument to an organizer in the middle of glace bay which included a poem written for him when he was jailed for organizing.

I wanted this trip to show sid the history of this country - a history of theft and genocide, but also a history of people fighting for dignity and justice, and often winning. A history of a physically beautiful and varied place, stolen out of the hands of First Nations, built with the sweat of persecuted immigrants. A land which has been regularly and systematically stripped of its resources, with the profits proliferating in the hands of a very few Europeans.

We have seen some of this, my next hope is that we can explore some of the themes of genocide and theft, we talked about the Beothuk, but maybe a little more along the way

did i mention the cod? almost as good as the screech! (less effective at paint removal)