Airshow Protest

[IntheShade]

Crazy Times

Monday, September 6, 2010
Protesters want ‘outdated’ air show grounded (Canada)

By Jesse McLean, The Star


As jets rumbled overhead, Farzana Doctor let out her own roar.


Roy Mitchell donned a “decibel detector” on his head — a paper-mâché ball bedazzled with knick-knacks — to see if the noise from his friend drowned out the planes.


Passersby cocked their eyebrows. The jets continued on unfazed.


Their mock experiment was all part of a protest against the CNE’s air show.


About 10 people huddled for a picnic beneath a rain-soaked tarp in Trinity Bellwoods Park on Monday to protest what they call an antiquated event that pollutes the environment, disturbs residents and promotes symbols of militarism.


“So often the argument people use for keeping the air show alive is: ‘It’s tradition.’ We think it’s an outdated tradition,” said Doctor. “We hate that there are these war planes flying over Toronto neighbourhoods.”


The group’s members say there is a growing intolerance among Torontonians against the jet spectacle. However, instead of holding a confrontational protest, they thought it would be more productive to hold a picnic that raises attention to the social and environmental problems they attribute to the air show.


“What are you going to do, stand at the CNE and yell at people?” Mitchell said. “I think there’s a lot to be said about using farce and making a potato salad.”


Original Article: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article ... w-grounded

[flyboy2548m]

Must suck being named Farzana Doctor.

[3WE]

Did one of the protestors come in a wigger car?

[VectorForFood]

I enjoy knowing people like this exist to make the rest of us seem normal.

[IntheShade]

I enjoy knowing people like this exist to make the rest of us seem normal.

You do it for me.