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Julian Assange Al-Jazeera Interview:


Stop the Illegal Crackdown on Wikileaks!

Fwd: a new coalition

Dear friends,

I hope you'll all take 30 seconds to sign the petition at www.progressivecoalition.ca, encouraging the Liberal Party, NDP and Bloc Québécois to join together in a coalition government to replace the Conservatives. Such a coalition is our best bet to transcend partisan politics and make sure the majority of voting Canadians are REPRESENTED rather than IGNORED in Parliament. This petition is our chance to give the opposition parties "a few whacks in the right direction" !

If you're in B.C., I urge you to take another 30 seconds to sign a letter to Transport Minister Kevin Falcon at www.morebusesnow.com. Investing in public transit should be one of the provincial government's top priorities: it's by far the most cost efficient way of moving people around, [after bicycles and walking of course, and some rail is right up there on par... but you get the point ~Ed.] so it allows us to tackle the economic crisis at the same time as the environmental one.

Feel free to pass this message on!

Best wishes, Luke

Thank You For Taking Citizen Budget Survey

URGENT: Take Vancouver Budget Survey, Tell City Council Your Priorities

Hello,
I am hoping you can take two minutes of your time to complete the online Citizen Budget survey that has been put together by the Think City Society: surveymonkey.com/...FQTwq8QxYVMHY49P3jy6g%3d%3d

Each year, the City of Vancouver goes through a public consultation process on the annual budget. During the 2007 budget consultation process, a number of citizens, business owners and community groups raised concerns about the poor participation in the annual budgeting process. Only 242 people - less than 0.04 per cent of Vancouver's population - completed the annual City
Choices budget survey published in local newspapers or made available in public buildings.

For the 2008 budget, Think City has taken the City Choices survey and expanded the questionnaire to provide citizens with a wider range of choices, and an opportunity to address issues the city hasn't addressed in its survey. Think City will gather and share your city priorities with Vancouver's mayor and councillors at the upcoming April 9 public budget hearing.

For more information about this project please visit thinkcity.ca/current/budget