This page revised 2022 October 28.
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Vancouver, BC.
Sorry, the 2022 September and October indoor nude swims with NIFTY had to be cancelled due, I think, to the lifeguard shortage. Maybe November 26, Saturday, will happen, 7:30 pm, 700 Templeton Drive. They are for those who decide to get close to others indoors. I am not one of those. 2022 swims: click on 'Nude events Sec. 1-5'. News release, 2018 May 12. By Korky Day. Nudist play accepted into Fringe Festival! Dates to be announced, approximately 2018 September 6 to 16. The title of this indoor play is Shy Therapy at a Nude Beach. We presented it in 2017. Everything went well except the media blacked us out completely (except the Langara Voice), so the audiences were small. This year looks better! Watch the calendar for details (on the menu click 'Nude events Sec. 1-5')! News release, 2018 March 23. By Korky Day. Newest 6 Trump the Hippie videos now on-line! Videos of the comedy-drama play Trump the Hippie, Episodes 3 to 8, are now at YouTube.com . Watch them, laugh, think, and spread the word! You’ll understand the psychedelic president as never before. Each show is different, with many different audience questions. Around an hour each. They star me. The rougher and shorter Episodes 1 and 2 are at DailyMotion.com . There are no published reviews of the shows yet. The media would not mention the live shows. Why not even the ‘alternative’ media? Because we are in a new era of conformist, party-line thinking. Most people, including progressives, are afraid of being called racist or sexist or Hitler, except in the privacy of the voting booth. A revived ‘free speech’ movement now is trying to promote open discussion, as happened at the University of California, Berkeley, in the mid-1960s. The free speech revival is just getting off the ground, and suffers from being labelled and libelled as just a bunch of right-wing fascists, etc. Of course, by definition, all are welcome to express their views, no matter how wrong, as long as they don’t promote violence. Drawing that line is difficult, though. And many are very hypocritical about violence. The USA is very proud of winning some wars. President Obama is proud of assassinating Osama bin Laden. Neither he nor any government of the USA has declared war since 1941, so why has it been killing around the world constantly since World War 2? If you watch the Trump the Hippie videos and don’t laugh very much, there is a problem. Try to feel the play as a psychedelic experience. Similarly, at first, the hilarious movie The Blues Brothers was given lukewarm ratings by square reviewers. Life as a whole is a farce, a gas. It’s a scream. Shakespeare. This show’s concept was heavily inspired by the humourist Scott Adams, who writes the famous Dilbert comic. Read his semi-serious blog from 2015 May 21 to now: http://blog.Dilbert.com Don’t mistake psycho-active drugs as the only way, or even a good way, to experience psychedelia. Trump the Hippie explains that point himself in some of his shows. He is very anti-drug, as his older brother, Fred Trump, died young from psycho-active drugs, namely alcohol and nicotine. Donald Trump might be the most misunderstood world leader ever. How can he keep confounding the ‘experts’ and breaking all the ‘rules’ and remain effective in office? You in the media owe it to yourselves to get ahead of the biases, hype, and myths. Not even very many of his supporters and his underlings understand him, yet! Will you? I’ll promote your published review, favourable or not. End. ============================================ See more about my 2017 events in www.FaceBook.com at 'Shy Therapy at a Nude Beach' (indoor play) 'Trump the Hippie' (indoor play) The first annual 'Friendy Festival' (including the above plays). For all nude events, including in the Friendy Festival, click on 'Nude events' in horizontal bar above. My 2011 Vancouver civic election picks at bottom. Guaranteed Jobs: see article below on this page. For the many other political articles, please see the 2 pages called Philocracy (click above on horizontal band). For the drug articles, see Joy-earned. For the Nude-Friendly Information and Referral Calendar, click on the "Nude events" buttons above (black horizontal band). I'm restoring my Leap 4 Love articles here, mostly on the topics of Breast-right, Joy-earned, Nude-peace, and Philocracy. Here's one Philocracy article: Guaranteed Jobs: a practical plan to end forced idleness by Korky Day. Revised 2011 Aug 10. A short introduction When I see my fellow poor people lining up to cash in huge bags of bottles and cans for a few cents each, I always think, “People with that much drive and initiative surely could work for pay, at least as a casual labourer, if anyone would hire them.” My proposed programme to hire almost all applicants is called Guaranteed Jobs (GJ). Canada and most countries now have a political-economic system which is unlikely to hire any of the poorest people--ever, even during so-called labour shortages. We never have better than about 5% unemployment officially. Unofficially, it’s likely closer to 20%, maybe 4 million in Canada. Of that 20%, the people suffering the most will hardly notice the ups and downs of the economy because most of them are permanently exiled from wage labour. Work should not be required; that’s slavery. Work should not be a privilege; that’s the present fatal failed system in Canada and almost all countries. Rather, the third way is to make work a right, as proposed in 1944 by USA President Franklin Roosevelt just before he died. Have jobs always been scarce? No, it’s a recent development of the human race. Is that how it always will be? Only as long as we allow it. A very few politically and economically powerful people think that they benefit by forcing idleness. However, my Guaranteed Jobs proposal will end up helping everyone: the poor, directly; and the rich, indirectly. The plan requires federal funding because the localities which need it most can afford it least. India now has a government programme of guaranteeing some citizens the right of 100 hours a year of paid work. In the old Soviet bloc, no one was involuntarily without paid work other than prisoners and dissidents. The USSR accomplished full employment for about seven decades. Yet now, neither the former Soviet bloc nor the wealthiest countries in the world guarantee anyone any work. Why not? Is it considered too socialistic, or is it that such a system would be too expensive? In truth, it would be neither. Canadians are willing to pay some "welfare", even though the recipients don't work for the money, so surely they also would favour adding the less generous option of letting everyone work who wanted to. That should appeal to almost everyone, even those who resent government give-aways. Neither would a Guaranteed Jobs scheme be too expensive, according to my research. In fact, the whole economy would be buoyed and stabilized by Guaranteed Jobs, benefiting everyone. Instead of bailing out just the fat cats (as government does), bailing out the poor and jobless would inject massive amounts of money directly into the businesses serving those poor. That includes grocers and apartment owners, many of whom are rich. That would boost the rental housing industry and create housing for the homeless. That would be much faster than the occasional direct government funding of mere dozens of new housing units. The cost of Guaranteed Jobs would more than pay for itself. We can add up the huge savings in many sectors, both public and private, such as in health care and in the costs of family instability. Consider one of those areas of savings: crime. If everyone can work for pay anytime they want, many fewer would turn to crime for money or to rioting in anger. So the whole society would save on the tremendous governmental and private costs of theft, alcoholism, drug trafficking, vandalism, criminal gangs, prostitution, and so on. For instance, addicts would have an incentive to reduce their intoxication so that they could work. Canadians feel very guilty and distraught seeing people begging and freezing on the streets. We want to do something, but are afraid of making matters worse by giving money to beggars. Some generous people will buy a local "street" paper or ladle out soup for a charity, which help. However, what about the other millions of unemployed? Most poor people would rather work, even for minimum wage and part time, than get welfare only. The private sector, though, has no financial incentive for hiring the least "employable". They never want to hire those who they think are the worst workers. But those people could work at jobs such as picking weeds instead of the labour-saving practice of poisoning weeds on park lawns. Mothers could work part-time walking groups of neighbourhood children to and from school (which saves a lot of fuel, too). Such job options would reduce the severe financial penalties for breastfeeding mothers. Some people, even if disabled, could be transit guides, riding each bus and subway car. They would help passengers and report problems. The plan also guarantees no reductions in the present number of regular government jobs. I have a long list of jobs that could be offered with this plan. Contact the author for more about Guaranteed Jobs. (c) 2010 and 2011 by Korky Day, korkyday [at] yahoo [dot] com . Revised from the article in Megaphone (2010 December 31, page 16; Vancouver, BC, Canada) and Victoria Street Newz (2011 February, page 1; Victoria, BC). End of article about Guaranteed Jobs. Vancouver civic election picks 2011 November 19. by Korky Day. I'm better represented by a First Nations homeless addicted person than a wannabe-1% yuppie cocktail partier getting millions in campaign donations from developers while doing little for the 99%, just enough to look good, such as bike lanes, and sheltering a few of the homeless. I would vote COPE candidates, but they got into bed with the devil (Vision Vancouver) and won't work to get proportional representation, the most important issue. Furthermore, COPE is not standing up to support Occupy Vancouver. So I don't want a COPE candidate to edge out a Green. So here, in my opinion, are the best candidates for the 99%, in red and green with asterisk (*): Mayor--vote for no more than 1 ANTON, Suzanne --NPA BUDAY, Gölök Zoltán CAISSY, Menard COOKE, Lloyd Alan DUBGEE *HELTEN, Randy -- Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (NSV) LAWRANCE, Robin MCGUIRE, Gerry --Vancouver Citizen’s Voice PAQUETTE, Victor B. PELLETIER, Sam ROBERTSON, Gregor --Vision Vancouver ZIMMERMAN, Darrell “Saxmaniac” City Council--vote for no more than 10 AFFLECK, George --NPA ALM, Kelly AQUINO, RJ --COPE BALL, Elizabeth --NPA *BENSON, Nicole --NSV BICKERTON, Sean --NPA CARANGI, Joe --NPA *CARR, Adriane --Green Party of Vancouver CHARKO, Ken --NPA COPELAND, Cord “Ted” DEAL, Heather --Vision Vancouver DHARNI, Michael Singh FOX, Amy “Evil Genius” FRASER, Grant GAROSSINO, Sandy *GILL, Lauren R.I.C.H. *GREGSON, Ian --De-Growth Vancouver JANG, Kerry --Vision Vancouver *KERCHUM, Marie --NSV KLASSEN, Mike --NPA LAMARCHE, Jason --NPA LOUIE, Raymond P. --Vision Vancouver LOUIS, Tim --COPE *MARTIN, Terry --NSV *MASSON, Chris --De-Growth Vancouver MAXWELL N BUR, R H MCCREERY, Bill --NPA (Richmond) MEGGS, Geoff --Vision Vancouver *MURPHY, Elizabeth --NSV NGUYEN, Bang NGUYEN, Marc Tan ORSER, Rick REIMER, Andrea --Vision Vancouver *SHAW, Chris --De-Growth Vancouver *SPIRES, Aaron R.I.C.H. STEVENSON, Tim --Vision Vancouver TANG, Tony --Vision Vancouver WENDYTHIRTEEN WONG, Francis --NPA WOODSWORTH, Ellen --COPE YUEN, Bill --NPA Park Commissioner--vote for no more than 7 ANDALIS, Juliet Victoria BARNES, Constance --Vision Vancouver BLYTH, Sarah --Vision Vancouver COUPAR, John --NPA CRAWFORD, Casey --NPA DE GENOVA, Melissa --NPA GRANBY, Brent --COPE GREENWELL-BAKER, Donalda --COPE *HADLEY, Eleanor HAMILTON, Jamie Lee --IDEA HASKELL, Peter Raymond JASPER, Aaron --Vision Vancouver KALAW, Gabby --NPA LOKE, Trevor --Vision Vancouver *MACKINNON, Stuart --Green Party of Vancouver MURRAY, Andrew PASIN, Dave --NPA PRI TOOR, Freyja SHARMA, Niki --Vision Vancouver TRUONG, Tammy UPTON, Jason --NPA School Trustee-- vote for no more than 9 BACCHUS, Patti --Vision Vancouver BALLANTYNE, Fraser --NPA BLAKEY, Al --COPE BOUEY, Jane --COPE *BOUTIN, Louise --Green Party of Vancouver CLEMENT, Ken --Vision Vancouver DENIKE, Ken --NPA GIESBRECHT, Gwen --COPE HARVEY, Lily HASKELL, Peter Raymond LAUENSTEIN, Misha LOMBARDI, Mike --Vision Vancouver NGUYEN, Bang PAYNE, Cherie --Vision Vancouver ROBERTSON, Stacy --NPA SHARMA, Sandy --NPA STARK, Robert Allan WONG, Allan --COPE WOO, Sophia --NPA WYNEN, Rob --Vision Vancouver Elector Organizations COPE Coalition of Progressive Electors 604-255-0400 cope@cope.bc.ca cope.bc.ca De-Growth Vancouver 604-346-1328 DeGrowthVancouver@de-growth.com de-growth.com Green Party of Vancouver 604-689-9233 office@vangreens.ca vangreens.ca IDEA Independent Democratic Electoral Alliance 778-452-0081 vancouverideacampaign@gmail.com jamieleehamilton.ca Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (NSV) 778-316-8993 info@nsvancouver.ca nsvancouver.ca NPA Civic Non Partisan Association 604-633-9992 info@npavancouver.ca npavancouver.ca Vancouver Citizen’s Voice 604-682-0188 info@vcvoice.ca vcvoice.ca Vision Vancouver Electoral Association 604-568-6913 info@votevision.ca votevision.ca . End of article "Vancouver civic election picks 2011". An unrelated link by KD: http://Co-op-Radio-Matters.weebly.com . © 2006 to 2018 Korky Day. End of page. |
