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October 20, 2015

October 20, 2015

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good-bye

Thanks!

It’s been five months since Humans vs Harper took to social media to express our frustration and concern about the direction Harper was taking our country.

Since then, we posted over 100 articles and saw over 45,000 hits and 25,000 visitors to our blog. But we were just a small part of an unprecedented wave of anti-Harper sentiment on-line. Songs, Facebook pages, blogs, twitter handles, videos, photo posters, signs, stickers, and endless conversations among Canadians, all of which had the common goal of getting rid of Stephen Harper. Facebook pages with names like Heave Steve, Shit Harper Did, Stop Harper, Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper, and Women Against Stephen Harper illustrate the depth of anger and frustration.

This on-line movement fed on itself, expanded and exploded. As the reception grew, it’s momentum supported a fierce desire for change, for a new government. And that’s what we got. Even if we might have preferred a different result we celebrate the fact that through raising our voices we defeated a vile government.

Thanks to everyone who read our blog, who commented, who liked us, who signed up, who shared, who retweeted and favourited us. You kept us going all these months and you defeated Harper. In the coming months, we’ll all see what we can make of this new beginning.

Humans vs Harper Final Slide Show – Focus: Bye Bye Harper

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As the election draws ever closer, Humans vs Harper will soon begin packing up our blog, so it’s a great time to bring you our final HvH slide show. While we still have a few more posts coming, here’s a trip down HvH  Memory Lane showing many of the images that accompanied our posts. Since every picture says – at least – a thousand words, the slides  will bring you thousands of reminders of why so many Canadians so immediately understood that we must stop Harper once and for all.

To activate the slide show, click on any image.

Below an excerpt from Sandy Cameron’s poem, We Need A New Map http://sandycameron.vcn.bc.ca/2012/we-need-a-new-map.

We Need a New Map – Excerpt

Drawing a new map

is like singing.

Voicehandler asked Loon

why she talked so much

and Loon replied,

“Well, Sir, I’m not just talking

to my own ears.

The spirit-beings tell me

they have no place to live.

That’s the reason I keep talking.”

Loon sings the sacred

into the world

and creates a new map.

Sing your song, friend.

Tell your story.

The map we inherited

isn’t any good.

The old roads mislead.

We need a new map.

Sandy Cameron (1931-2010) was a poet, teacher, logger, and prospector who wrote beautiful poetry and worked for social justice. He helped people understand the history of our struggles so they would be encouraged and he was a true nature lover. He lived  for many years in the DTES and most everything he wrote was published in the Carnegie Newsletter. This intro borrows from a tribute by Jean Swanson, a long time friend and DTES activist. 

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Image from HvH song post: Bye, Bye, Mr. Harper, Goodbye by Helen Austin
Image from HvH post: Behind the TPP Curtain: Harper’s Secret Free Trade Deal.
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Image from HvH post: Just 30 Seconds, individual pictured is Zunera Ishaq
Image from HvH post: What’s Up Canada
Image from HvH post: Harper’s Secret Report on Women Has No Secrets.
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Image from HvH post: Mr. Harper: Are You Having a Really Hard Time?
Image from HvH song post: Stephen Harper’s Grave, by John Muller
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Image from HvH post: My Boss is a Fact-resistent Human
Image from HvH post: New Photos in the Harper Gallery of Vanity.
Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.
Image from HvH song post: Farewell Stephen Harper by Mike Palecek
Image from HvH song post: Harperman – A protest Song by Tony Turner & Friends
Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.
Image from HvH post: Goodbye to Endangered Species.
Image from HvH post: Every Breath You Take
Image from HvH song post: Take Back this Land, Chilliwack and Friends
Image from HvH post: Who are the People in Your Neighbourhood? Say Hello to Harper’s Cover-Up Gang
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Image from HvH post: Liberate Canada: Defeat Stephen Harper on October 19th
Image from HvH post: Notice of Termination of Employment
Image from HvH song post: Crime Minister by Kanada Day
Image from HvH song post: Who Will Save Our Waters by Kinnie Starr
Image from HvH post: Canada’s Armed Forces: Biologically Wired for Sexism
Image from HvH post: Arms Sales and Saudi Silver Linings
Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day
Image from HvH post: Medal of Irony, first awardeded to Pierre Poilievre and then to Harper.
Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.
Image from HvH post: Election Fraud Fix – Carding the Conservative Party’s Candidates
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Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day .
Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.
Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day
Image from HvH song post: Well, This Ain’t Canada by scrunny@hisTOYBAND
Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.
Image from HvH slide post: Celebrating Canada Day.
Image from slide show HvH post: Celebrating Canada Day.
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Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.
Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.
Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day
Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.
Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day
Image from HvH post: Tailings Pond Beer a Failure – also see collected edition.
Image from HvH post: The Dogster is IN
Image from HvH post: Confessions of a Stephen Harper Troll (Now available as a complete series)
Image from slide show HvH post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.
Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.
Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.
Image from HvH song post: It’s time to Put Your Crown on the Shelf, by John Roby
Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day
Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.
Image from HvH post: Is Stephen Harper a Narcissist?
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Image from HvH slide show: Celebrating Canada Day.
Image from HvH post: Harper Doesn’t Care About You, pictured, veterans advocate, Jenny Migneau
Image from HvH post: My Boss the Fact-resistant Human
Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day
Image from HvH post: Headbutting Harper Desperate for a Buzzer Beater Win
Image from HvH post: Upside Down is Easy
Image from HvH post: Who is Stephen Harper
Image from HvH post: Which Rat Will Jump Next
Image from HvH post: Harper’s Video Streaming Goes Blockbuster
Image from HvH post: Advice to the Harper Base
Image from HvH post: Harper’s Advance Team Surfaces in Iraq.
Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.
Image from HvH slide show post: Celebrating Canada Day.
Image from HvH post: Dear Public Servants.
Image from HvH post: New Terror Vaccine Promises Instant Fix for Democracy
Image from HvH post: Harper Lays the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to Rest.
Image from HvH post: Is Stephen Harper a Control Freak?
Image from HvH slide show post: Honouring National Aboriginal Day.
Image from HvH post: About HvH – Who We Are.