[KWPeace-groups] Day of Action For Electoral Reform — 11 February 2017 at 1:00pm at Kitchener City Hall

[Shannon Schroecker]

see you there Bob

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Bob Jonkman <bobjonkman at kwpeace.ca> wrote:

> Hi Everyone: You may already have heard about the rally taking place at
> Kitchener City Hall on Saturday.
>
> The rally is to protest Justin Trudeau's broken promise of Electoral
> Reform -- the latest in a long string of broken promises. But what makes
> the Electoral Reform broken promise so much more significant is that so
> many other policies and issues depend on it.
>
> Many of us, maybe most of us, maybe all of us belong to groups that are
> trying to influence the direction our government takes on important
> issues: Arms de-escalation, indigenous rights, environmental issues,
> animal welfare, or poverty elimination. Yet in most cases we weren't
> able to elect a Member of Parliament that respected our views. And in
> the case where we voted for an MP who promised to address our views we
> find that those were empty promises, and those promises were broken.
>
> Electoral reform may seem like something esoteric, something that very
> few people care about. But it's Electoral Reform that will get our
> voices heard, so that we *do* have representation in Parliament, so that
> one party that gets only 39% of the vote doesn't get 55% of the seats,
> and uses that majority to wield 100% of the power, and uses that power
> to ram through legislation to approve pipelines, to build hydroelectric
> dams in environmentally sensitive areas, to subsidize big business that
> damages our ecosystem, to sell arms to countries violating human rights,
> to buy warplanes, and to once again ignore the lack of water for our
> native people.
>
>
> Please come out and join the rally on Saturday. I'll be speaking to
> point out the fundamental nature of Electoral Reform, and how it affects
> everyone who cares about anything important. There will be an open mic,
> so that anyone from our community can speak about their own group, and
> how Electoral Reform will get their voices heard.
>
> --Bob.
>
>
> *What*: Day of Action For Electoral Reform
> *When*: Saturday, 11 February 2017 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm
> *Where*: Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener City Hall
> *Location*: 200 King Street West, Kitchener, Ontario
> *Map*: http://osm.org/go/ZXnwWKVkR--?m=
>
> Get the poster:
> http://kwpeace.ca/day-of-action-for-electoral-reform-
> 11-february-2017-at-100pm/
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Kitchener-Waterloo Peace and Social Justice Groups
> bobjonkman at kwpeace.ca            http://kwpeace.ca
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