{"id":27431,"date":"2011-10-29T02:17:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T06:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=27431"},"modified":"2011-10-29T02:17:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T06:17:24","slug":"mallick-talking-points-for-a-young-angry-occupy-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/10\/29\/mallick-talking-points-for-a-young-angry-occupy-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallick: “Talking points for a young angry Occupy Toronto”"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e4RAp-MFOLI<\/p>\n

I’m just going to make it easy and reproduce Heather Mallick<\/a>‘s column in full. The above clip from Occupy Toronto of young men and women articulating their concerns and priorities once again puts the lie to the conventional wisdom that they do not know what they’re doing or why.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Occupy Toronto demonstrators don\u2019t have a coherent point? How risible. Our economic system is so skewed that they have too many to articulate easily. Here\u2019s a baker\u2019s dozen to start:<\/p>\n

1. You can\u2019t get a degree without sinking into debt, or being told that your degree is worthless because it won\u2019t get you hired, even though you know in your heart that a degree in anything, particularly history, will make you better able to understand, cope with, and vote against the life the 99-percenters are stuck with.<\/p>\n

2. You can\u2019t get a\u00a0job<\/a>, not one that sounds sane and pays. You want something between tree-planting or freelancing \u2014 ooh, you\u2019re an entrepreneur, a sweatpanted typist without benefits \u2014 and a job for life.<\/p>\n

I read, entranced, about veteran Toronto cop Const.\u00a0Susan McConnell<\/a>, who was charged with faking a medical note, getting a job at The Brick after getting the leave, crossing the border off-duty with her gun, getting drunk in public, and altering a salary letter for a mortgage. Demoted for 18 months, she is still a cop with an 11 per cent raise. So you could be a cop. Or you could work at The Brick. People always need furniture. Not at Occupy though. You don\u2019t have furniture, you have tents. So go buy a new tent. There\u2019s probably a sale on. Now Is the Discount of Our Winter Tents. If you got that reference, you have an arts degree, as do I, and I just bought a new coffee table.<\/p>\n

3. The federal government is cutting jobs. They\u2019re aiming at fields tracking complex things like ozone depletion or population. It means Canada will have a permanent footnote in the world league tables, *HICK. The clock will tick backward in ultra-conservative Harperland until we vote him out or it\u2019s 1952 again and we are the Mississippi of nations, Mississippi being the state that always saves a grateful\u00a0Lousiana<\/a>\u00a0from coming dead last.<\/p>\n

4. Canada will not be attending\u00a0Expo 2012<\/a>\u00a0in Korea, no pavilion, no nothing, claiming it can\u2019t afford it. What other nation isn\u2019t attending? Greece. Heritage Canada says nobody notices us at these things anyway unless we have Cirque du Soleil. But everyone goes to Expos. It\u2019s how countries get attention and their architects\/designers\/artists get international commissions. But Harper hates creative people and their show-offy foreign friends \u2014 he secretly suspects conventions are where people do the sex \u2014 so making other Canadians stay home and watchMurdoch Mysteries<\/em>\u00a0is a big win. It is not a CBC show.<\/p>\n

5. The CBC is being chipped away by little hatchets. The much-loved CBC, dumbed down and Rex Murphy-ed as it may be, is our only true means of tracking our own country. Also, it might have hired you.<\/p>\n

6. Mayor Rob Ford is sitting on Toronto. From transit to libraries to jobs, the man who screams at 911 operators is squishing the living breath out of us. Who is this ridiculous person and why isn\u2019t he selling furniture? I hear there\u2019s a vacancy at a The Brick in Barrie.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Retirement<\/a>\u00a0isn\u2019t mandatory. Older people won\u2019t leave their jobs to make room for the young. They sit at their desks voting down your pension rights and trying to stuff an entire egg salad sandwich in their mouth at one go, and then getting mad because they can\u2019t get the hang of the neck scarf as worn by the young people, which is sad because it would be a really good look for them. They don\u2019t get enraged at injustice, they just trail away into \u201cthe narcissism of minor differences,\u201d as did that last sentence.<\/p>\n

8. You have no voice. Nobody speaks for your generation. Take a good look at the newspaper columnists in this country. A bigger bunch of cranky Andy Rooneys you have never seen. Also they never admit that their mug shots are so heavily doctored that they\u2019re unrecognizable in real life. I didn\u2019t mess with mine but then I\u2019m pretty spackled at the best of times.<\/p>\n

9. You\u2019ll never be able to vote online. It\u2019s not going to happen. Young people are digitally connected and they won\u2019t let you use that for power till maybe 2068.<\/p>\n

10. WikiLeaks is dying from the financial blockade imposed by huge financial firms like Mastercard and Visa. Knowledge is power and you can\u2019t have any. Money is power and you have none. Boycotts are difficult to organize. I would boycott Tim Hortons for one rural outlet\u2019s alleged treatment of lesbians but they won\u2019t miss me. I drink Red Bull full-time.<\/p>\n

11. Ottawa \u2014 the government voted in by the Angry Pajamas bloc \u2014 is killing the Canadian Wheat Board, the national long-gun registry and your right to strike. I won\u2019t get into why you\u2019ll never own your own farm now. I\u2019m just hoping you don\u2019t get shot. But the subtext of all this is the move to destroy your right to do things in groups. Next up for death: parties, healing circles, twin-sets. And face it, Harperites don\u2019t like people with breasts.<\/p>\n

12. Sex will be riskier, you fertile youthful types. I don\u2019t mean that you won\u2019t have the means to support your children or a daycare to put them in even if you do. You won\u2019t. I mean that abortion rights are on Harper\u2019s list of To Go items. He has an anti-sex social agenda to mirror his economic one, and it\u2019s pure Tea Party.<\/p>\n

13. Never ever judge your moral worth by a dollar. No one is better than you because they earn soccer star salaries or work on Bay Street. You, young person, are lovely (I am whispering this in your personal ear). I\u2019m with you.<\/p>\n

And so I say, fight on, young people! Quebec, home of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique massacre, has just told Ottawa to\u00a0get stuffed<\/a>\u00a0on the long-gun registry. Find the fierce prideful Quebec in you and never surrender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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