Belated Update

Many holidays (good) and sheer laziness (bad) has me apologizing for not updating this site monthly.

Highlights of the Fall included:

1. Singing for the Ground Zero Awareness Campaign before the film "Scared Sacred."

2. Opening a stopwar.ca event on depleted uranium with our new song on that subject.

3. Supporting Betty Krawczyk in her ongoing battle in support of BC forests and the rather questionable social justice system in British Columbia.

4. Being the featured after-lunch "speakers" for the AGM of the BC/Yukon Transition House Society.

5. Trying, through our choral efforts, to stop the sale of Terasen Gas to Kinder Morgan - both at the BC Utilities Commission and at the Terasen shareholder's meeting.

6. We also wrote/revised two songs in support of the Iraqi War Resisters currently in Canada and sang at a film evening supporting these courageous young men.

7. Sang at the Hotel Vancouver for the Seniors demonstration re: keeping medicare public.

8. A "Santa Doesn't like War Toys" gig at a local shopping centre. We were actually invited, and NOT kicked out.

9. Four of us attended the Western Regional Gathering at Whidbey Island and one of our members went on to Washington DC to sing with Raging Grannies from across the US at the September 24 Peace Rally.

10. In late January, we went to both local universities. At the University of BC, we sang about issues of social diversity to a large class of Education students, ending with a short session on song-writing. At Simon Fraser University, we did much the same program to a class on social justice.

11. Mid-February, we are hoping to join with a Vancouver Cuba solidarity group to picket outside the United States Consulate on the issue of the Cuban Five.

Tired, but happy, we continue to RAGE...