Posts from ‘organizing’

Podcast for November 2018: Talk to your friends about Pro Rep

As we head into the final campaign push for electoral reform in B.C., many of us are reaching out to friends, family and acquaintances to encourage them to vote ...

From cynicism to connection

September 6, 2018 | 

Summer student organizer Maddie Hague reflects on a summer of social change This summer my friend asked how I liked my new summer job as a Dogwood Organizer. I ...

Farewell, Burnaby office!

June 18, 2018 | 

We moved out of our home above the carwash, and into a new community space downtown After three years in our office at 6123 Hastings, at the back of ...

The tip of an iceberg

June 6, 2018 | 

Trudeau thinks he’s unsinkable. So did the captain of the Titanic. Justin Trudeau needs to lose just 14 votes in the House of Commons to seriously complicate his dreams ...

Six reasons Kinder Morgan’s pipeline won’t be built

April 25, 2018 | 

Six reasons Dogwood’s director of community organizing is feeling hopeful about beating Kinder Morgan My sons and I pass the Kinder Morgan tank farm on our way to school ...

R.I.P. Big Money in politics: 1858-2017

November 29, 2017 | 

For Immediate Release November 30, 2017 R.I.P. Big Money in Politics: 1858-2017 VICTORIA — After more than a century of unlimited donations, corporate cronyism and declining public faith in ...

Meet Babin

Dogwood’s Cheryl Cameron chats with one our newest volunteers in North Vancouver-Lonsdale   You’ve mentioned you did some advocacy work in Nepal. Can you tell me about that? I ...

The extraordinary power to make change

October 13, 2017 | 

A Dogwood volunteer, Raza Mirza, explains why he is voting in Vancouver’s October 14 by-election, and every election for that matter That night there was a special excitement in ...

Meet Terry Robinson

October 2, 2017 | 

Engagement is a process “I almost couldn’t believe it when I turned to Dave at our last event and said: I love this.” Meet Terry Robinson. She’s been a ...