"...the absurdly poor approach to engagement and governance..."
"This idea must get beyond the 'preaching to the choir' that can happen on RTH. Not that there's anything wrong with that -- it is (an) important step in thinking about and clarifying the debate -- but (the) message needs to get out there more widely."
"You're conflating different concepts here."
In the past 48 hours, two facebook groups have been set up to 'oust' the two Board of Education trustees (and Board chairman) from Wards 1&2 and 3.
We've also seen these contributions from Graham Crawford, Dissident Primoris:
If you go to Raise the Hammer right now, even if you just peruse the relevant articles and just focus on their comments, the refrain is the same: 'We need to do something about this.' A local version of 'We're as mad as Hell, and we're not going to take it anymore!'
But more than this, at least to my earnestly optimistic eyes, a door seems to be opening.
On the other side? Um... Everything I've been yammering on about for the past 18 months, everything that Town Halls Hamilton is predicated on, and everything I've been pretty pointedly strident about this year: that we need to accept that it's not that something is 'broken' in our system, what with the feelings of powerlessness and nitrous-fuelled cynicism...but that we simply haven't been playing our part in our own local governance properly.
We haven't taken our rightful seat at the table with Council, City Staff and developers. Even though we've believed we had.
Changing this is actually quite simple.
Not easy...but simple.
And I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see people finally pushing open that door a crack and considering what's visible. 'Fresh eyes' can be a wonderful thing. Or...
'People remain where they are until they're uncomfortable enough to move.'
M Adrian Brassington
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