Climate Emergency Response — Breezy For Mayor of Edmonton — Newsletter July 17, 2021
Dear Friends, Volunteers, and Supporters
So many thanks to so many who support this Quest. Thanks for taking the time to read our newsletters and for talking with others about Edmonton’s politics.
I would love if you would email us maybe four email address of folks you feel would appreciate receiving this mid-month newsletter. bzgregg@telusplanet.net
The Free Street Show for Our Official Launch of the Quest to elect Breezy as Mayor of Edmonton on July 1st was a lot of fun!
Thank you, about 100 people who showed up on the hottest day yet. Special thanks to Patsy Amico and MJ Smallman who served up 64 smokies, hot dogs and veggie dogs. Special thanks to 8 year old Nevaeh Smalridge who gave a most awesome land acknowledgement and opened the Free Street Show.
You can hear that most awesome land acknowledgement at this link —
Breezy For Mayor of Edmonton Tour Dates —
To book Breezy to do a Free Street Show in front of your home or business please call or text Patsy 780-999-7233
I am proud and excited to be running to be your Mayor and proud and excited to be doing things differently.
How do you like getting pitched by a politician that is not asking you to donate money?
Do you like that I refuse to add to the waste and excessive burning by refusing to have plastic lawn signs and refusing to clog up your mail box with paper brochures?
Do you like that in our emergency situation I am breaking any unwritten rules that fail to help us to respond quickly and thoughtfully?
Do you like that we have a mean economy? This economy is built on cheep labour and low taxes.
Do you like that I am speaking up about Building a Caring Economy with love and respect for everyone and our planet?
Climate Emergency Response
Issue de jour aside we face a climate emergency.
Time keeps passing on and we continue to burn more than ever before. The current emergency response is neither quick nor thoughtful. Burning more than we have to is both unkind and disrespectful to others and the planet. Humans adapt. With focus we can have more fun while burning less.
Emergencies demand an emergency response that is both quick and thoughtful. The idea that we should work hard to elect the right kind of representatives who will sometime in the future pass laws that will make people act kindly and respectfully is a long time proposition. That long time leaves so much opportunity for opponents to use ingenuity to find loop holes and side step around the regulations. Let’s of course continue to try and elect better government. We need to work though on every angle.
- personally cut back on burning
- elect governments that will bring in regulations and new systems to limit burning
- publicly fund content access services (public libraries) to displace the commercial services that persistently encourage us to buy more than we need
Surely we can cut back on burning by changing the message (buy more) that is constantly and persistently being pushed into our information streams that we access through commercial media. That opportunity to amplify the buy more/burn more message can only exist in a public funding vacuum.
Join this talk. Ask your questions and share your views Monday evening — July 19, 7:00 PM — Edmonton Climate Hub: Online Event Click to Register
Brian (Breezy) Gregg – Edmonton Climate Solutions
Breezy Presents his views on an Appropriate Emergency Response to the Climate Emergency
Is the power of money in politics anti-democratic? Breezy says yes.
When you’re going up against powerful candidates that are very entrenched in the practice of soliciting for funding to buy advertising, and you’re saying something they don’t want said (“that that practice is anti-democratic”), it can feel as though you’re being gaslit. Thank you very much I don’t think I am crazy.
Most Canadian political candidates accept that it is acceptable to solicit for and raise funding to be spent on forcing their election pitches on voters through an array of channels. As well we have to assume those volunteering to donate to political candidates campaigns consider their action right and justifiable.
This is not going to change in the near future so for now, when I explain in our Quest to elect Breezy For Mayor of Edmonton, it is our policy to not accept monetary donations, we recommend this —
- If you want to help with money, think about donating to the Alberta NDP and the Federal NDP. They presently are betting on sticking to the war with money battle as the way to win their campaigns. Although not perfect, at this time the NDP is my recommendation for smarter, fairer and kinder government.
- Alternately, maybe save your money so you can afford to go on strike, or so you can afford to take a break from employment that will give you time to volunteer and ponder.
We aim to arouse the voters so that they become engaged with the issues that concern us all.
We aim to encourage people to exercise their own self control to behave in kind and respectful ways.
When you see other candidates’ lawn signs, Think Breezy For Mayor.
When you get other candidates’ brochures in your mail, Think Breezy For Mayor.
When you are watching the weather report on TV and up behind the weather person it says “Breezy”, Think Breezy For Mayor.
When you see a City Bus imagine that the bus route sign above the front windows says, Breezy For Mayor.
When its too hot or there is too much smoke in the air … Think Breezy For Mayor.
Peace and Love
Brian (Breezy) Gregg
(780) 429-3624
Think Breezy For Mayor
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