There's a very interesting story in the lore of the native people.
And in that lore there are these giants, they call them the Cook West, ravenous devouring
giants who appear and destroy communities, men, women and children.
Now I have no idea what was in the psychology of those storytellers who invented those ravenous
giants, but I kind of feel it's a prophetic because we are living in the age of the ravenous
giants, they have come.
Everybody needs to wake up!
Forty percent of the world's wealth is controlled by one percent of the world's population.
I think we need to look at the way that our electoral system is putting people into power
because it's not us putting them into power all the time and often it's forty percent
or twenty percent of the population that's voting for the people who are making one hundred
percent of the decision.
It was acknowledged that you can't take the Cook West, the ravenous giant on head to head.
You can't defeat them by might but they said you can trick them, they can be tricked and
I think we need to consider the ways that they might be tricked.
One of the ways is to work together because that system thrives when people are separated,
divided, feeling alone, coming together is the first trick and that's what we're doing
here today.
The Stephen Harper government was going to spend, I believe it had twenty-eight million
dollars commemorating the war of 1812.
Canada wasn't even existing at the time but none the less twenty-eight million dollars
at the same time I believe it was yesterday the Canadian Environment Network had had this
funding totally cut as of yesterday and it's been funded for thirty-four years.
Stop believing the lies, I mean simply get your information from somewhere that is not
managed by the Cook West.
When it comes to democracy one small vote we have is our dollar and so if we can support
each other every way we can like I will shoot me dead if I ever walk in a mall, Walmart
I will never ever go into that store.
In the last twenty-five years we haven't seen any significant investment in social
housing in this province and make sure that we still own our own land base and that our
land doesn't get sold off to people that are never going to farm it.
We can make a difference our vote, our demonstration, our letters to the editor, our calls to our
MLA and MPs.
It's about who wants to be a human being and who wants to control human beings.
We have to make sure our money is actually in a cooperative bank that we have ownership
of.
And unless we have something like proportional representation many of us will never ever
ever have our voices heard.
Hi my name is Craig Curry and I'm here so I can learn a bit more so maybe I can think
of something later on to change myself.
I'm here to see the young and old come together to make change together.
And I'm really increasingly concerned that most of us are losing control over what's
going on environmentally or with business or with land.
I came to the Occupy movement as a concerned citizen.
I study labor migration and issues of the state.
Time and time again you know I hear the same stories of exploitation and the negative impacts
that it has on quality of life, land use issues, you know relationships between people within
communities and in regions and you know I had always kind of felt that it was really
going to be hard to find a place to start making a difference.
I knew that I wanted to but I thought the problems were so big that I just you know I wasn't
sure where to start.
I'm a member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and we just went through a lockout
where we showed up for work in June and our boss told us we weren't needed.
Well month after they found out that they made record profits of over $400 million.
We're legislated back to work by the Harper government not even given a chance to collectively
bargain for our own workers rights.
The amount of poverty in this country has increased in the last 15-20 years so it's
worse today than it was in the 60s so we haven't progressed with regress.
I feel like I've been naive for many many years I should have been able to see this
coming a long time ago but I'm very encouraged that so many people today are beginning to
see what's going on behind the scenes and what's going on behind the scenes is the management
of mind and the management of resources for the benefit of the one percent.
So let's be tricky you know there are all kinds of ways to trick the giants we could
just wait till they fall under their own weight which will happen but there's too many people
will suffer in the meantime let's encourage it along.
I'm probably going to cry when I talk about this I think that the only way we're ever
going to solve a lot of the problems that are happening right now is if we realize that
they are global issues and that you know in a lot of ways the wealth of a country like
Canada is built off the backs of the poor in other places you know the fact that people
are getting paid less wages than they could eat you know they can't even afford to eat
on the wages that they are being paid for the products that IU is here you know and
that that really bothers me so what's so I guess heartening about movement internationally
is that it's you know in my lifetime the first time that we've all come together you know
internationally and said this isn't good enough and it's an earnest start again but hey there's
always tomorrow to make you know another step.
Wake up and be conscious.
