don't rain on our parade.

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October 27 Day of Action against Canada's military involvement in Afghanistan.

Well, it looks like this Saturday, there's a 70% chance it might just rain on our parade.

And the sad thing is, this will probably be enough to keep a large number of concerned citizens from taking a stand against what they believe is wrong.

Please, if you don't want to get wet, don't like the cold, and cherish your personal comfort more than the humanitarian rights of other human beings, then join the rest of Canada and stay at home. There might just be somthing on TV.

On the other hand, if you can see just one day, nomatter how unpleasant, as but a small sacrifice in respect for those whose lives are currently being desrtoyed in the name of our Canada, then stand up and show how seriously you care. This is a chance to show our opposition to the powers behind this war, to ignore it only testifies to our true stance on this issue.

If you are of them that understand the importance of this show of action, for the sake of peace and justice, in Afghanistan, and at home, then join us in solidarity.

Start : Oct 27 2007 - 1:00pm

End : Oct 27 2007 - 2:30pm

Location : Victoria Park (corner of Richmond and Central)

There will be special guest speakers with a couple performers and all will be followed by a March.

A group of us will be gathering before the demonstration, and will be marching down to the park with an arsenal of homeade drums, in the name of active resistance.

We will be gathering at the Empowerment centre, 636 Queens ave. Saturday morning, and leaving at noon. Come one, come all.

for more coverage

Submitted by Anthony V on October 29, 2007 - 11:51am.

For more coverage of London's Day of Action see:

http://londonontario.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1588/index.php

And we did try to spread the word about this event through the LAN, the LondonCommons, London Indymedia Radio and the new London Indymedia newsletter. The mainstream media did not cooperate generally, although the A-ch did mention the event during coverage of the recruitment counter-presentation at South Secondary.

The youth turnout and the enthusiasm that came with it were definitely the highlight of the day for me. And it will only get better.

lack of youth

Submitted by jessica l. on October 28, 2007 - 4:48pm.

I came out yesterday for this rally, and I was happy and surprised to see that a fair amount of people made it out, in spite of the crappy rain and cold weather.

As I was sitting there waiting for things to start, however, I was looking around and noticed that there was a significant lack of young people. There were some, which was good to see, but not as many as I would have hoped and expected.

I know that a lot of youth today are pretty apathetic and simply don't care about political and social action (sad, but true), but I know that there are a lot of students and other younger people who do care about these issues (check out this site, for instance).

So where are these people? As a student at Western, I can say that I did not see this event promoted or discussed anywhere at all on campus. This is a bit disappointing. The school has over 30,000 students or something like that -- I would imagine that there are a lot of them who would be interested in coming out to an event like this, but simply don't know about it. It's too bad... the student population in London is pretty significant; if there were an effective way to mobilize that group of people, these events would get a lot more support, I think.

Anyway, just an impression I had... all in all, I think the event went well, especially under the crappy weather conditions.

really?

Submitted by K.Kimura on October 28, 2007 - 9:59pm.

I thought quite the opppsite. I was glad to see some new young people who I have never seen before. In fact people who marched afterwards were mostly young(er.) That's true though, London needs more enthusiastic radical youths!

Yeah, you're probably

Submitted by jessica l. on October 29, 2007 - 7:40pm.

Yeah, you're probably right... this was my first time, so I don't have anything to compare it to.

I was glad to see that there were a lot of young(er) / students out, I guess I just feel that there could have been more...especially in comparison to say, Toronto or Montreal where students seem to be a bit more involved. But I suppose it's not fair to compare...