#thisisnotfine

Awwwww yeah, my postcards and stickers have arrived. Artwork by @deborahh@cosocial.ca, used with permission. Who should I write to first? I'm thinking maybe the environment minister. #ThisIsNotFine

Okay, I have now prepared two postcards in the context of the #ThisIsNotFine project, "Postage-free by law!" written in the corner where a stamp would otherwise go. Address on the right side, lots of info crammed onto the left (drafted in pencil first, then inked). Postcard 1, to Julie Dabrusin, MP for Toronto-Danforth, Minister of the Environment, lawyer: your environmental policies are killing human beings and entire species and eco-systems; Liberal policy is genocide and ecocide; Do better for $217,700 + $103,600 + car allowance. Postcard 2, to Governor General Louise Arbour, former Supreme Court of Canada Justice, former prosecutor of war crimes, former United Nations Commissioner of Human Rights: I hope you will be similarly clear in your current role; Current government policies promote genocide of Indigenous peoples, extinction of entire species, and climate collapse; Please use your privilege; Please don't be smilingly complicit through this. #CanPoli #ClimateCrisis

Today's postcard (postage-free by law) is to my local MP, a Liberal, asking if he's aware that poisonous air and explosive diarrhea are bad, actually. #ThisIsNotFine #CanPoli #ClimateCrisis

As Canadians, I think the most tragic thing, the thing that hits us right in the culture, is summer used to be a kind of collective celebration of surviving the winter. Sunny relief after adversity. And now, between runaway allergies, lethal heatwaves, and the forest fires, summers are turning into a seasonal gauntlet much worse (and less easily remedied by a toque and hot cocoa). I am equally furious and exhausted. #thisIsNotFine#climateCrisis #CDNpoli

Is there someone with a functioning brain that would set this image up as a file for a postcard I can send to my local printers? Also, happy to share it for anyone else wants to use it. Need House of Commons mailing address on the back, and maybe some other deets my brain can't think of right now. But we can discuss and plunk away. Hoping to get a template others can use or mod as well. #thisIsNotFine Image via: https://flipping.rocks/@nev/116931366469512744

RE: https://ottawa.place/@Cassandra/116907184953118397 This is an example of a thing people in Canada could send postcards to parliamentarians about. A far cry from the outdoor paradise portrayed in tourism ads. #ThisIsNotFine

@jd@ottawa.place I am going to add the quoted sentence on my #ThisIsNotFine postcards ——- ´Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies have only one true fix https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wildfire-climate-emissions-smoke-9.7274862 #WildFires #CdnPoli

Another #thisIsNotFine idea: Calling in sick. We can't live like this, so we won't work like this. https://disabled.social/@vlrny/116930372555070130

For anybody who wants to discuss tangible actions around telling our gov't they are not doing a good job on climate change (and everything else, really) we're starting a #thisIsNotFine movement. So far we're developing stickers and postcards. Drop in to share your ideas, and help with anything other folks are working on. A landslide is made of many small pebbles moving at once. 💪🇨🇦 (boosts appreciated, I'm on a small server here) #CNDpoli #CANpoli #climateCrisis #wildfires #smoke

Alright! I have pushed forward my small acts of civil disobedience for today. Back to napping! (am doing ok, just pretty gorked from all the antihistamines). #smallActsOfCivilDisobedience #thisIsNotFine #climateCrisis

I am filled with dread. I've never seen it this bad before. #ClimateDiary #ClimateCatastrophe #ThisIsNotFine #CanadaIsOnFire

As per this thread, we're starting a #thisIsNotFine tag to discuss strategies and organise. Postcard campaigns, sit-ins, general strikes... Somebody is making stickers! 😀 Whatever ideas you've got and you'd like to help make happen. Because, wow, this is definitely not fine. And we need our governments to ACT NOW (not make things worse). #CDNpoli #CANpoli #ONpoli#wildfires #smoke #heatwave #climateCrisishttps://disabled.social/@vlrny/116919112563725692 Attn: @Paulatics@mstdn.ca @avilewis@mstdn.ca