Links:
Some important addresses to write to: http://tinyurl.com/ykkc6sh
British
Columbians and Canadians Speak Out Against Funding Cuts
" Government
is gambling with other people's money", The Province
"Flex
Your Muscles, BC Arts Community", The Tyee
"Budget
Cut Blues' Played for Politicians", The Tyee
"Government
cuts steal colour from life" canada.com
Article
in The Straight including reactions from individual artists
Visualize
the cuts (CARFAC BC on Facebook)
Organizing against Campbell's cuts to the arts (Facebook)
You can see more images of Solidarity with the arts from:
Mining
Farming
Forestry
Small town small businesses
opposed to HST
Pulp and paper
Hunting
Train drivers
Backhoe drivers
Home page of claireart.ca
Cariboo sled dog mushers Danny & Lorraine Kozar want the BC government to give back gaming money to youth, PACs, the arts and sports.
Pictured here near Wells, BC with "Leo" and "Odin", just two of their Alaskan Malamutes, they say they understand why the government has pilfered gaming money.
"There was a social contract about gaming," says Kozar. "It required a portion of lottery and casino monies to go back into communities for non-profits, but the government has broken that contract without any consultation whatsoever."
Total revenues from commercial gaming in BC were approximately $2.61 billion in the last year, and net gaming revenue for the province was about $1.08 billion. Of this, $156.3 million was redistributed to charities, and now, they'll receive much less.
Danny and Lorraine say, "Come on, boys and girls in Victoria - start giving back to our future generations, instead of taking."
Their only access to Wells in the winter is via sled dog or snowmobile.
For further information, contact Bill Horne at Amazing
Space Studio, Wells,
BC
250-994-2332
mazing at claireart dot ca
photo by Bill Horne
If anyone wants to reproduce this or any other photos
in this series,
please contact me before doing so. In most cases I am happy to give
permission, but out of respect for the people in the photographs,
I like to check with them first. Thanks!
