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Summer in B.C.: rockstars, roughnecks, rights and title

Kai Nagata, Energy & Democracy Director: How can you tell a campaign is starting to pick up serious momentum? I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to notice ...

Multi-faith Partners Unite for Tar Sands Healing Walk

I came back a changed woman after my river pilgrimage to the tar sands last September and was more determined than ever to take action. After sharing my story ...

‘We are so lucky to be able to do this in Canada!’

Tiffany Walsh worked as an organizer for the Sensible BC citizens’ initiative campaign and has been organizing with Dogwood for the past month. She’s a stay-at-home mom, she helps ...

Six Dogwood teams hit their targets

April 25, 2014 | 

It’s working. Dogwood Initiative and its allies are building what is already the largest nonpartisan political organizing network in British Columbia. We’re conservative and liberal, urban and rural – ...

Too young to vote? Maybe not.

How many times have you heard someone say that politicians are “acting like children”? It’s a tired old cliche and frankly, it’s insulting to children. I have the good ...

Let’s give Enbridge a judo lesson

March 27, 2014 | 

Advance polls open in Kitimat next Wednesday, and Enbridge is doing everything it can to buy the vote. Our friends on the ground in the B.C. town of 9,000 ...

On the road again

“I’m glad we’re getting started small and then growing big. We’re going to grow fast here.” That’s what one first-time organizer from Prince George said to us after we ...

Organizing beyond the classroom

Grace and Fiana, two Grade 11 students who attend New Westminster Secondary, are founders of the Youth Initiative – a small but dedicated group of students organizing around key ...

We deserve the facts!

February 15, 2014 | 

Over the past year Dogwood Initiative has been part of an ever-growing grassroots movement to protect our health and communities from the threat of expanded coal exports. We are ...