Section 15: Can attending Progbloggers meet before the Toronto Rally?

Friday, December 05, 2008

Can attending Progbloggers meet before the Toronto Rally?

I'll be attending the Toronto rally Saturday. Are any progressive bloggers up to meeting there and hanging together?

Drop me a comment, or send me mail at markfrancis228 AT gmail dot com.

Support the fight against Crookes!

In 2006, Wayne Crookes, a major creditor of the Green Party of Canada who significantly financed the GPC's launch into mainstream politics, sued OpenPolitics.ca for libel. Although the trial has been put off at Crookes' request, legal bills remain.

By 2007 Crookes also had sued numerous other parties, including myself, Micheal Geist, P2PNet, PBWiki (now PBWorks), Wikipedia and Google. And, yes, Crookes is the person who is trying to argue that just having a hyperlink which is in some way pointing to material he claims to be libelous counts as disseminating libel, and thus is libelous in of itself. Other arguments in his claims make political wikis and blogs next to impossible to run in Canada -- and difficult elsewhere -- due to liability issues.

Although the content complained over is no worse than what we all read everyday in the blogosphere, Canada's libel laws heavily favour the plaintiff, often leaving even innocent defendants with considerable costs to bear.

Please contact me at freepoliticalspeech AT rogers DOT com with any offers of support, financial or otherwise.