Organizer Roy Brady addresses the crowd during the launch of the Common Causes Peterborough on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 at George Street United Church. Photo by Clifford Skarstedt/ Peterborough Examiner/ QMI Agency.
The Peterborough Examiner reports, “About 75 people attended the first meeting Wednesday night of Common Causes Peterborough, a fledgling network dedicated to ‘defeating the Harper government agenda’. …’We want to show that there is a strong force out there who did not vote for Stephen Harper and who are extremely upset,’ said Roy Brady, organizer of the meeting and chairman of the Peterborough-Kawartha Chapter of the Council of Canadians. …Brady said the group plans to meet monthly. It also plans to establish a website and organize letter-writing campaigns, rallies, ‘and put pressure on (Peterborough MP) Dean Del Mastro. He’s following Harper every step of the way and that’s not why he was elected.'”
“Brady (also) said Common Causes, which he described as a network of political, social, economic and environmental activist organizations, could form ‘a strategic partnership’ with Idle No More. …Shirley Williams, an Idle No More representative, said she wants to see Common Causes ‘stand together for the common good, to support one another to make life better and stop the oppression.'”
The full Peterborough Examiner can be read at http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2013/01/31/inspired-by-idle-no-more-new-common-causes-peterborough-group-forms-to-oppose-harper-government-agenda. For more about Common Causes actions and gatherings in communities across the country, please see http://www.commoncauses.ca/.
