Jun
24
These words brought us luck last year…
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
‘Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it’s just a part of it:
We’ve got to fulfil the book.
Jun
23
The Legislative Building, Regina.Saskatchewan
In less than twelve hours, one of our friends is going to face ‘the music’ at the courthouse on Smith Street. It makes me very sad – a wonderful man with some horrific problems is being forced to fight for his right to earn a few extra dollars a month. When I last spoke with him, he was angry, but hopeful. He dreamed of hearing the court throw out the charge and of feeling vindication.
But, most of all, I am sad because our city is telling a wonderful man that he does not belong. That he cannot live the kind of life he wants. That he is not deserving of the rewards of free enterprise.
My friend has been told that he is not as human as I am. And that, my friends, is the greatest crime of them all.
Jun
21
One of our vendors is facing a ‘panhandling charge’ and is due in court on Wednesday morning. Despite our problems from last year, this is the first time that one of our vendors have faced actual criminal charges. I am incredibly worried about him right now and am sad that it has come to this.