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From: "jamie tanner"
To: kjvb (at) hotmail.com
Subject: Ill be the left arm!
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:36:25 +0000
Kate, first sorry ive been so out of touch... life has been upside down for
me the last few weeks.. and ive been de tached from everything!
Thats so crazy you say tanya in ON. I saw Steph up in whistler i go up there
like every weekend to train. Skiing is going awesome.. but im having serious
time managment issues.. im not making enough time for friends.. and im gona
try and work on that.
Ok all that aside, This email was the splash of cold water to the face i
needed.. I hope you get a lot of reply's like this saying fuck yeah.. there
is something wrong with this world.. Lets change it!
I wana help in anyway i can... the reason i say left hand.. Im putting
everything i have into skiing... id LOVE to help with any of your political
quest work... Just let me know.. keep me posted.. and i hope everything is
ok...
thanks Kate... that email was the most important thing ive gotten all
month... keep going with it...
jamie
>From: "kate Ballegooyen"
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>Subject: Hey you guys...
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:02:47 -0700
>
>Hey guys
>
>Havent talk to a few of you in a while, just wanted to give you a little
>update on my life and also talk to you guys about a matter of urgent
>nessecity. Im back in studying at UBC in Vancouver after a great summer of
>wreck beach, road trips, kyaking up the indian arm, and enjoying a great
>week on salt spring Island with my mom. It was actually on one of these
>trips that I came to grasp the importance of what I will now talk to you
>about.
>
>Warning warning: Yes this might be kate going on a stoned political
>rampage once again! Actually I promise it is, but I also promise if you
>read this all, which i know is hard to make time for in todays day and age
>there is a suprise waiting for you in the end..
>
>I have to give you the context in which I had my revolations. My moms best
>friend Patsy Gallagher passed away this year unexpectantly, which was
>difficult for everyone who knew her and even people that did not. She was
>an amazing woman dedicating her life to social activism and her community
>in central cathedral regina. I had the pleasure of growing up surrounded
>by this beautiful strong woman as well as many others. The impact her
>death had visibly on my mom, her family and the community overwhelmed me.
>I did not realize (many of us didnt) the impact she had on my life and that
>of many hard working people. My mom took her death really hard, so I
>encouraged her to come out to salt spring for a vacation to get her mind of
>work and have time to relax and grieve.
>
>We stayed at a beautiful place on the beach waking up to the ocean every
>morning. We also had the great pleasure of enjoying the company of my moms
>good friends and bonified hippies/social activists phillip and heather WHO
>is also known as the bread lady on salt spring island. The live in this
>simple beautiful home with a huge brick kilm where heather bakes her bread.
>Such a simple but amazing life style. It felt like i was perpetually high
>the entire time I was in their home on salt spring I was so relaxed and at
>peace. Did not really realize how wound up the outside world had made me.
>
>One evening we were sitting in the living room in complete darkness other
>then a few tea candels. we got to talking about how heather and phillip
>met, phillip being an american that immigrated to canada in the 1970's we
>both thought that he must have been a draft dodger but it turns out he
>wasnt but this assumption had produced the beginning of the political
>discourse that flowed throughout the evening. My mom out of frustration I
>think from her old hippy activist days and probably too much wine started a
>rant about the state of the world and how people her age who grow up in the
>60-70s are although disgusted with the state of the world exhausted by the
>task that haunts them and their political minds. It made me think and at
>one point i yelled out to her, well teach me your past so I can do
>something to day, help me so we can change things now. I didnt know it but
>that night sparked a flame that my mom had planted in me since I was young.
>
>Yes I was that brat who wrote my speech in grade 5 about womens rights and
>then again in grade 6. At Patsy's funeral those of you who went would have
>noticed the Union choir that sang songs like solidarity and other political
>theme songs. I didnt understand it at the time but came to realize
>afterwards that my mom (who planned the funeral) had given patsy a heros
>salute to her departure from this world. Like any other person who had
>designated his or her life to a cause her funeral reflected the disire that
>she carried thoughout her life time to gain equality for all especially the
>working man.
> If any of you new patsy she would aprrove the following statement:
>"Get off your Fucking asses and do something about it"
>
>Our moms, dads, teachers, ministers, students, joe smoes, stood up for what
>they thought was right in the 60's and 70's protesting the Vietnam war and
>proxy wars in cambodia and loas, they stood up for people they did not know
>and sought to bring back the soilders they thought they'd never see again.
>Our generation whether we are too occupied with the heavy demands of school
>work home life relationships or whatever which is a very large burden we
>also have a social responsibility not only to this world but to our parents
>who sought out so that we could have a world where this kind of change is
>possible, to people like patsy who never gave up the good fight. I know
>many of us share the same views the same goals and aspirations with each
>other, do you not think we share the same values and goals of our brothers
>and sisters in iraq, afghanistan, sudan, and iran?
>
>Something needs to start changing, our presence as students and youth is
>all but obsolete from the poltical scene. Im going to start pushing for
>change and this is how its going to start, for those of you that dont
>believe that change is possible look to the past for inspiration, talk to
>your parents, your elders, teachers, proffs, joe smoe on the street. We
>live in a country with rediculous amounts of wealth and we have the
>privillige to sit on our butts all day and watch tv or enjoy the
>sunshine...shouldnt everyone have that privillege to laze around home
>without any worries?
>
>Anyway thats enough ranting for me, change starts with big ideas and small
>actions, If you want to join me Id be more then happy to have you by my
>side. I want to start staging walk outs across canada and north america
>to unify and show the concerns of students, youth, and people everywhere
>and to pressure our government from instead being Bush's side kick to
>valuing the rights of life equality and liberty. Here is some information
>for you guys as knowledge only breads activity Im starting a group online
>at
>http://about.takingitglobal.org/index.html
>
>the groups Website is
>
>http://groups.takingitglobal.org/Patsy
>
>The group is called the Gallagher collective, in memory of Patsy who I hope
>would be proud that her name is being used to further political ideas,
>friendship, knowledge and hopefully happiness. Ive sent this out to all
>the people I care about in this world, hoping that this not only unties us
>in a poltical contexts but also gives us a forum to come together as
>friends as well and discuss whatever. There is some more information down
>at the bottem for the over excited browners! Love you guys and hope you all
>are well...and SUPRISE! (told you there might be one at the end) I havent
>gone off my rocker..quite yet...I hope! You guys should check out the new
>neil young album too!
>
>Love Kate
>
>P.s. If i have offended anyone or you dont want to hear my crazy rambelings
>just let me know, its all good!
>
>http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html
>http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/911/courses/interviews.html
>http://www.alternativenews.org/
>http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwdebatepage.html
>http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
>http://www.eya.ca/index.php?id=2
>
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