Wpg rally

[redbaron]

Organizers were expecting 2000 people to show
today for the procession downtown to the CWB
building. Reading numbers as low as 150 showed up.
This included union and other supports. So where is
the support from the farmers?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/201
1/10/28/mb-cwb-rally-support.html

[Jfreedom]

Two things went against the organizers it was
nap time at the old folks home and Walmart had
a sale on depends. Wonder when the main
stream media will have to start reporting that the
ground swell of support is not there ! Oh yah I
forgot the CWB still has an advertising dept full
of cash .

[Fransisco]

Here are some tweets from wpg sun reporter Tom Brodbeck.

"What happened to the “thousands” who were supposed to be at CWB today? I see maybe 125."

"And then there’s Maude…..Barlow at CWB. Make that 126"

"Take away the Occupy Winnipeg folks, the union leaders and Stan Struthers and you may have a few dozen at CWB right now."

"This little rally at CWB (still only about 150 people) is basically a partisan rally. Mostly NDPers and union guys"

"That’s pretty much it for the CWB rally. 200 people tops, including journalists and cops."

[Fransisco]

Please tell us again about the tens of thousands of farmers who are die hard believers in the single desk. LOL !!

[bucket]

And how many communist directors
collecting their per diems.

[Fransisco]

Here's a tweet from a wpg traffic reporter

TRAFFICwinnipegTRAFFIC_Winnipe




UPDATE:CWB protesters on the sidewalk. May lose bus lane, but no significant impact on traffic NB Main and McDiarmid.#traffic #Winnipeg

[Fransisco]

"No significant impact"

Yup, that pretty much sums it up!

[Fransisco]

Take a look at who orchestrated today's little non-event...

<b>Canadian Wheat Board Alliance
Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board
National Farmers Union</b>

CALL TO ACTION--REVISED AND UPDATED VERSION October 24, 2011


IMPORTANT MEETING AND DEMONSTRATION

WINNIPEG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28

1. The Event

Please attend this demonstration in support of a strong CWB. Farmers are asked to assemble:

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011

10:00 AM

Exhibition Place building

RED RIVER EXHIBITION GROUNDS

Highway #1 at the west Perimeter Highway (3977 Portage Ave.)

Farmers will travel from the staging area by police escort to the Canadian Wheat Board building to rally in front of the CWB at 12:00 p.m.

2. Buses

The NFU has arranged 2 buses, originating from:
- Swift Current, Saskatchewan, and traveling down Highway 1; and from

- Lloydminster, Alberta, and travelling down Highway 16.

Both buses can stop to pick up passengers as needed along the way.

Buses will leave Thursday, October 27 and return on Friday, the 28th.

If you want a seat on either bus, or if you need the bus to stop in your community, call the NFU office at (306) 652-9465. Pickup/departure times for your location to follow.

3. Accommodation

If you are traveling on the buses and need accommodations, please call:

Motel 6 (Headingley)
4400 Portage Ave (Hwy 101 North)
Phone: (204) 896-9000
Rates: $96 per room (tax incl.) for double occupancy, ($89 for single). <b>Ask for the senior’s rate.</b>

Motel One
3760 Portage Ave
Phone: (204) 831-9800
Rates: $87.94 (tax incl.) for a double and $82.08 (tax incl.) for a single.

If both these hotels are 100% booked, Call Darrin at the NFU office for an alternate.

Please book your own hotel room directly. The NFU office cannot do this. Please room with someone if you can, to reduce your costs and help ensure rooms for others.

4. Actions

Here are 5 things you can do:

Plan to attend this protest and build the movement to protect the CWB;
Call farmers in your area, tell them about the event, urge them to attend, and ask them to make calls too;
If you’re outside the Winnipeg area, work to get people onto the buses or into other vehicles to travel to the demonstration;

If you are near Winnipeg, help with the preparations for the event; and
Support this work financially by contributing to one of the organizations doing this work.

For more information, please contact:

Darrin Qualman, (Acting) NFU Organizer: (306) 652-9465

Kevin Wipf, NFU Executive Director: (306) 652-9465

Larry Bohdanovich, Friends of the CWB: (204) 546-3154 or 638-1893

Ian Robson, NFU Board Member: (204) 858-2479

Bill Gehl, Canadian Wheat Board Alliance: (306) 537-3899

[Fransisco]

The call went out across three provinces and all they got was a few dozen "farmers"... and Maude Barlow.

That is some absolutely massive, massive support there.

[Fransisco]

Winnipeg Free press got a great picture of what these &quot;farmers&quot; look like.

[URL="http://media.winnipegfreepress.com/images/648*432/111028-_WCB_DEMO_3_15065029.jpg"] Check it out![/URL]

[bucket]

Maybe if some of those union people were told to wait 18 months for their paycheques and their wages could drop with a new contract they might be supporting a different cause.

[Jfreedom]

That picture pretty much says it all. They should
take a page from the colony and have a dance
with the next town to add a little depth to the
gene pool. The one their using seems to have a
bit of scum on it LOL

[Fransisco]

Today's Free Press has another great picure of these, ahem, &quot;farmers&quot;.

[URL="http://media.winnipegfreepress.com/images/240*180/3559172.jpg"]click here.[/URL]

Looks like they got the smelly hippie vote. LOL

[bucket]

Just what I need, a bunch of iphone hippies protesting against farmers for wanting to sell their own grain.

They have it all wrong, the cwb is the "man" they should be protesting against. They are all ****heads.

If they need a job they should be sent out to a farm to learn how to work, they might also like the neat gadgets on a modern day tractor.

[mustardman]

Most did not go because what's the point? Wouldn't matter if there were 10,000 there, this gov't will do whatever it wants to do and listens to no one