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Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Continuing Accountability
Kelly Greene
April 21 - May 17, 2022
Artlab Gallery
The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition titled “Continuing Accountability” by current Indigenous Artist-In-Residence Kelly Greene. Presented in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Arts and Humanities, this exhibit brings together work completed by Greene over the course of her nearly thirty year artistic career.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This exhibit is a continuation of my exhibit “Accountability” that was briefly on display at McIntosh Gallery for a week in March, 2020 before everything shut down. But “Accountability” has another meaning besides referring to the previous exhibit, as this word was and is the premise for both shows, since it encompasses the concepts of the artworks.
Some topics include alternative viewpoints of historic occurrences once viewed as celebratory by most, though now wondering when history books will be changed. And since recent revelations have been made of resulting conditions from enforced ownership, we may question how reparation can be made.
Yet despite it all, somehow Indigenous cultures, traditions, and languages are still alive. Although they’ve struggled to remain alive, the onus to pass knowledge from one generation to the next is imperative so nothing more will be lost.
Moreover, it is the responsibility all humans must now offer to care for our Earth, our Mother, who has endured much devastation especially during the past century after the industrial revolution and the rise of technological advancements. We are now in a position to make drastic changes to ensure that the future may somehow be free from the current conditions we’re experiencing, resulting from us making strides without heed of repercussions.
My hope is we’ll be able to outrun the machine we’ve created.
Kelly Greene is a multi-media artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. She is of Mohawk-Oneida-Sicilian ancestry, a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, and a descendant of the Turtle Clan.
Greene has lived in London, Ontario since 1989 where she obtained a BFA from the University of Western Ontario. She began her visual art studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she moved with her family when she was a child.
She has exhibited in Canada and the United States for over thirty years in solo and group exhibits, primarily at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario but also Banff, Alberta; Vancouver, B.C.; Montreal, Quebec; Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and London, Ontario; Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Howes Cave, New York. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, and in 2012 and 2015 she was commissioned to complete two permanent outdoor installations at the Woodland Cultural Centre. She has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and was most recently awarded the first Indigenous Artist in Residence at Western University in 2021.
Her art focuses primarily on environmental and political topics, as well as revealing stereotypes that are still prevalent towards Indigenous cultures, using ironic humour when possible. Recognizing the impact colonization has had on our Earth and the First People who have always lived on the land now known as Canada, Greene specifically refers to the Haldimand Treaty granted to the people of Six Nations, as well as the Mohawk Institute Residential School, or “Mush Hole”, where her beautiful Grandma attended in the 1920’s. Another concern is Colony Collapse Disorder, or the current plight of bees vanishing due to pesticides and monoculture. The ever-alarming condition of our planet has inspired Greene to create works that represent our Mother Earth as human, appealing to our species’ egocentricity, hoping empathy will be instilled and respect given so future generations will continue to be revived and thrive.
Artlab Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2022; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
Vintage 1958 striped cotton woven fabric by Coleport. White combed cotton with cording and lilac, teal and tan stripes.
Disclaimer: As with any vintage textiles (yardage or clothing), I cannot attest to nor be held accountable for the lack of any flame retardants or adherence to other flammability requirements.
January 31, 2025 — New York, NY — Fighting Recidivism: District Attorneys Endorse Governor Hochul’s Plan to Streamline Discovery Laws to Protect Victims, Hold Perpetrators Accountable and Safeguard the Right to a Fair and Speedy Trial (Don Pollard/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul)
Continuing Accountability
Kelly Greene
April 21 - May 17, 2022
Artlab Gallery
The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition titled “Continuing Accountability” by current Indigenous Artist-In-Residence Kelly Greene. Presented in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Arts and Humanities, this exhibit brings together work completed by Greene over the course of her nearly thirty year artistic career.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This exhibit is a continuation of my exhibit “Accountability” that was briefly on display at McIntosh Gallery for a week in March, 2020 before everything shut down. But “Accountability” has another meaning besides referring to the previous exhibit, as this word was and is the premise for both shows, since it encompasses the concepts of the artworks.
Some topics include alternative viewpoints of historic occurrences once viewed as celebratory by most, though now wondering when history books will be changed. And since recent revelations have been made of resulting conditions from enforced ownership, we may question how reparation can be made.
Yet despite it all, somehow Indigenous cultures, traditions, and languages are still alive. Although they’ve struggled to remain alive, the onus to pass knowledge from one generation to the next is imperative so nothing more will be lost.
Moreover, it is the responsibility all humans must now offer to care for our Earth, our Mother, who has endured much devastation especially during the past century after the industrial revolution and the rise of technological advancements. We are now in a position to make drastic changes to ensure that the future may somehow be free from the current conditions we’re experiencing, resulting from us making strides without heed of repercussions.
My hope is we’ll be able to outrun the machine we’ve created.
Kelly Greene is a multi-media artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. She is of Mohawk-Oneida-Sicilian ancestry, a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, and a descendant of the Turtle Clan.
Greene has lived in London, Ontario since 1989 where she obtained a BFA from the University of Western Ontario. She began her visual art studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she moved with her family when she was a child.
She has exhibited in Canada and the United States for over thirty years in solo and group exhibits, primarily at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario but also Banff, Alberta; Vancouver, B.C.; Montreal, Quebec; Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and London, Ontario; Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Howes Cave, New York. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, and in 2012 and 2015 she was commissioned to complete two permanent outdoor installations at the Woodland Cultural Centre. She has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and was most recently awarded the first Indigenous Artist in Residence at Western University in 2021.
Her art focuses primarily on environmental and political topics, as well as revealing stereotypes that are still prevalent towards Indigenous cultures, using ironic humour when possible. Recognizing the impact colonization has had on our Earth and the First People who have always lived on the land now known as Canada, Greene specifically refers to the Haldimand Treaty granted to the people of Six Nations, as well as the Mohawk Institute Residential School, or “Mush Hole”, where her beautiful Grandma attended in the 1920’s. Another concern is Colony Collapse Disorder, or the current plight of bees vanishing due to pesticides and monoculture. The ever-alarming condition of our planet has inspired Greene to create works that represent our Mother Earth as human, appealing to our species’ egocentricity, hoping empathy will be instilled and respect given so future generations will continue to be revived and thrive.
Artlab Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2022; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
Continuing Accountability
Kelly Greene
April 21 - May 17, 2022
Artlab Gallery
The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition titled “Continuing Accountability” by current Indigenous Artist-In-Residence Kelly Greene. Presented in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Arts and Humanities, this exhibit brings together work completed by Greene over the course of her nearly thirty year artistic career.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This exhibit is a continuation of my exhibit “Accountability” that was briefly on display at McIntosh Gallery for a week in March, 2020 before everything shut down. But “Accountability” has another meaning besides referring to the previous exhibit, as this word was and is the premise for both shows, since it encompasses the concepts of the artworks.
Some topics include alternative viewpoints of historic occurrences once viewed as celebratory by most, though now wondering when history books will be changed. And since recent revelations have been made of resulting conditions from enforced ownership, we may question how reparation can be made.
Yet despite it all, somehow Indigenous cultures, traditions, and languages are still alive. Although they’ve struggled to remain alive, the onus to pass knowledge from one generation to the next is imperative so nothing more will be lost.
Moreover, it is the responsibility all humans must now offer to care for our Earth, our Mother, who has endured much devastation especially during the past century after the industrial revolution and the rise of technological advancements. We are now in a position to make drastic changes to ensure that the future may somehow be free from the current conditions we’re experiencing, resulting from us making strides without heed of repercussions.
My hope is we’ll be able to outrun the machine we’ve created.
Kelly Greene is a multi-media artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. She is of Mohawk-Oneida-Sicilian ancestry, a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, and a descendant of the Turtle Clan.
Greene has lived in London, Ontario since 1989 where she obtained a BFA from the University of Western Ontario. She began her visual art studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she moved with her family when she was a child.
She has exhibited in Canada and the United States for over thirty years in solo and group exhibits, primarily at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario but also Banff, Alberta; Vancouver, B.C.; Montreal, Quebec; Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and London, Ontario; Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Howes Cave, New York. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, and in 2012 and 2015 she was commissioned to complete two permanent outdoor installations at the Woodland Cultural Centre. She has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and was most recently awarded the first Indigenous Artist in Residence at Western University in 2021.
Her art focuses primarily on environmental and political topics, as well as revealing stereotypes that are still prevalent towards Indigenous cultures, using ironic humour when possible. Recognizing the impact colonization has had on our Earth and the First People who have always lived on the land now known as Canada, Greene specifically refers to the Haldimand Treaty granted to the people of Six Nations, as well as the Mohawk Institute Residential School, or “Mush Hole”, where her beautiful Grandma attended in the 1920’s. Another concern is Colony Collapse Disorder, or the current plight of bees vanishing due to pesticides and monoculture. The ever-alarming condition of our planet has inspired Greene to create works that represent our Mother Earth as human, appealing to our species’ egocentricity, hoping empathy will be instilled and respect given so future generations will continue to be revived and thrive.
Artlab Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2022; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
Police accountability advocates gathered in front of the Bronx DA office in solidarity with Copwatcher Jose LaSalle as he demands that Bronx DA Darcel Clark re-open an investigation on the officers who perjured themselves to falsified charges against Jose LaSalle followed by a march to the Psa7 precinct and demand that the officers involved are fired. The city and the NYPD agreed to pay LaSalle $860,000 on a settlement. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Claus Kress, Professor of International Law and Crime (Gerrmany), addresses the Security Council Arria-formula meeting on Accountability in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Security Council members Estonia, France, the United Kingdom and the United States, with additional co-sponsors Belgium, Canada, Germany, Georgia, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Qatar, Sweden and Turkey holds an informal briefing on the need for increased efforts by the Council to establish full accountability for the most serious international crimes committed in the Syrian Arab Republic.
January 27, 2022 - Mayor Michelle Wu, joined by members of the Boston City Council and The Office of Police Accountability and Transparency (OPAT), briefed the media on the continuing efforts and work of OPAT as well as the appointment of new members.(Mayor's Office Photo by Jeremiah Robinson)
Summary of 2024 – Bullshit followed by Relief
Flickr version
By Andrew J. Karagianis
January 4, 2025
There isn’t an obvious theme for 2024 that jumps out at me, but as I look out our big south-facing window over roofs nearby, covered in a thin layer of snow, I’m reminded that I once again live on a third floor, which I like. And the reason I live on a third floor again is the biggest part of my story of 2024. But since that happened a few months into the year, you’ll have to wait a bit.
I started off the year with the second edition of my Accountability Chart. What’s an accountability chart, you ask? It’s a way to put your New Year’s Resolutions on paper (ideally where someone else can see them) so that you can keep track of whether you’re actually achieving them, and to keep them in the front of your mind.
I proselytized about this last year, and I’ll do it again this year before I get in to the meat of my summary. If you have goals or targets that you are actually serious about achieving, putting them into a chart where you can break it down by units of time (in my case, by week) is a great way to track your progress.
It’s also useful to make them specific. I have several goals, but the most important is to get at least 150 active minutes per week. This is because I’ve had high triglycerides, high fasting blood sugar, and high nighttime blood pressure in the recent past, and have been advised by my family doctor to get 150 active minutes each week to keep these markers under control, and overall, it’s working. I have a Fitbit that tracks how many minutes of sufficiently-intense activity I’m getting. I also set timers when I’m lifting weights so I can add those minutes to the chart. And at the end of each week, there’s no bullshitting myself as to whether I hit 150 or not. I either reached 150 or I didn’t.
If you want to see what my accountability chart looks like as a guide for how you might develop your own, I’d be happy to show you. Anyway, on with my summary of 2024!
The winter of 2024 was mild – only one cold week; hardly any snow to shovel, and another long stretch without sun.
On January 5th, I watched my daughter climb onto the couch by herself…then almost faceplanted trying to dive off front-first. She would have faceplanted if I hadn’t been there to catch her.
On January 13th, I bought a Nikon Pronea S on eBay; another APS camera, of course, and my first Nikon. It didn’t work. Oh, the battery worked, the screen worked, and the shutter worked, but it wouldn’t wind the film properly, and even had the gall to advance the indicator from “o” to “x”, thus making it useless in other cameras until I rewound it using a Q-tip. I returned it, which in this case meant getting a refund and having a dud camera to add to my collection. I eventually sold it to someone else on Facebook Marketplace on December 8th.
Then I ordered another APS camera to try again; this time a Minolta Vectis S-1. I liked its 90s design and sandy brown color. It kind of reminded me of Mom’s old maroon BMW 325i. The Vectis S-1 didn’t come with a lens cap, and the shutter wouldn’t work when the flash was up in Auto mode, but otherwise it worked. I shot two rolls with it in the winter, and haven’t used it since. Indeed, I haven’t shot any APS film since March. That’s partly because this year, I set a goal to only develop four rolls of film in order to save money (I had probably 20 rolls already bought in the fridge). I ended up developing five rolls in 2024, but that’s less than the ten I developed in 2023, and a lot less than the 21 rolls I developed in 2022. It’s a source of money saved, but at the same time, it’s also kind of sad – sad that for two years in a row, I’ve set a spending limit on a hobby that I enjoy, simply because it came back into my life shortly before my housing expenses doubled in 2021 and then nearly doubled again in 2024. I wish I shot more film, and I certainly have the rolls and cameras to shoot more, but it is expensive to buy and develop, even if the cameras are much cheaper than they would have been new. And I have a hard time not buying film when I look at it online. It’s like taking a kid into a toy store and telling them we’re just looking. The other barrier I identified last year is that the thing I want to take the most pictures of nowadays – my little girl – is something I don’t want to post a lot of pictures of online. They would get a lot of likes, but that’s not fair to her right to privacy. So if I’m going to try to find a better balance and shoot a bit more film – which I do enjoy – then I’ll need to find another thing to take pictures of.
On February 1st I went back to the periodontist and had the implant installed. It looked like a brass cylinder sticking out of the space where my tooth once was. I thought he was going to install the “fake tooth” (said with my combination of Alec Baldwin and Stephen Colbert imitating Donald Trump voice) and that would be the end of it, but no; I would have to wait until May for him to inspect the healing process, and only then could I book a dentist appointment to install the actual crown.
On February 5th, my sister’s daughter was born, and I became a biological uncle (I had been an uncle by marriage since 2017).
On March 18th, I heard my daughter sing “I see a red bird looking at me” from the Brown Bear book. It was the first time I heard her clearly string that many words together at a time. Later that night, we experienced the incident that would indirectly lead to our departure from that apartment.
Sometime shortly before 11:40pm, we were awoken by the sound of dripping water. We turned on the light, and saw water dripping down from the ceiling onto the foot of our bed and another spot nearby. We called the landlord and told her. She eventually got ahold of the upstairs tenant, who had turned on her shower and then left the room for some incomprehensible reason, and the shower overflowed onto her floor due to a clogged drain, and seeped down into our ceiling, giving us a midnight sprinkling that we didn’t ask for. The landlords came over the next afternoon and patched it up. It didn’t leak again. But unbeknownst to us, reporting the leak had been tantamount to rearmament, and the ceasefire was broken.
You see, the upstairs tenant would talk to our idiot basement neighbor whenever he’d manage to flag her down outside, and I suspect she told him that we complained to the landlords that her shower had leaked into our apartment. That’s where the assumptions end and the facts begin. On March 26th, the basement tenant (who I rightly vilified in my summary of 2023, if you want to review the backstory) put an angry letter in our mailbox, written in all caps, in which he foolishly put in writing the threats that I overheard him bitching about to his friend over the phone in September [2023]. Because we were beyond fed up with his hostility, we talked to the police within a few days, and they talked to him. It was validating to hear one of them say that they think he might be mentally ill, and yes, I can say that because I work with people who have mental illnesses, and we don’t treat the mentally ill as infallible saints by virtue of their having mental illness, like a pendulum that has swung too far in the virtuous direction after centuries of mistreating the mentally-ill. The mentally-ill person who lived below my family in the last few years was one of the most miserable assholes I’ve had the misfortune of knowing, and I’m not required to take pity on people who harass me and my family.
We went back and forth with the landlord for a few days about her not taking it seriously enough (including her suggesting we put down a carpet in our kitchen to dampen the sound of us walking around). I told her that the problem wasn’t the sound we made walking around; the problem was the other tenant’s complaining. On March 30th, we sent the landlord an N9 (notice to end the tenancy). My wife didn’t feel safe there, and although I was really annoyed about having to spend who knows how much more money on a new apartment after the skyrocketing inflation of 2022 and 2023 (and with my wife being in school and not working), I felt that my wife and daughter deserved better. My wife needed a peaceful place to finish her Master’s degree, and my daughter needed a place where she could be free to be a child. I was sick of feeling like a prisoner in my own home; as though it was a museum that we only had permission to visit during certain hours.
The basement troll would get what he wanted, but we didn’t tell him we were moving. If his ludicrous behaviour was going to force us out of affordable rent, he was going to suffer the consequences as long as possible. We suspect he got his comeuppance a few months later.
On a positive note, by late March/early April, my daughter’s ability to talk had really developed. She would say things like “It’s Daddy”, “It’s Mommy”, “It’s glasses”, “I like planes”, “Watch Peppa Pig”, “Books”, “No pushing” (as she pushed me), and could sort of sing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and the “Brown Bear” song, pronouncing the words more clearly as time went on. It was really wonderful to experience!
One day, she was standing up in her crib and said “Fuck!” She didn’t learn that from me! ;)
On April 8th, we went outside on the driveway and watched the solar eclipse — sort of. It was overcast, so we saw the sky get gradually darker and felt the temperature get gradually colder. I saw the eclipse itself very briefly through little pockets of non-cloud. We had eclipse glasses, but they were so thick that I could only see the sun through them after the totality had passed. But it was a neat experience to see the sun set at three P.M. (to quote Mr. Burns), or 3:19pm to be more precise, and see it go from day to night and back again so soon. It was the first solar eclipse I’d experienced in about 30 years.
My wife enlisted the help of a former colleague who happened to be a real estate agent to help us find a new apartment. Before the eclipse happened, we received word that our new landlord had approved our application. The loser in the basement had been bluffing about finding a new apartment for the entire time we lived there, and we found one in nine days.
We spent the month of April packing. The leaves and flowers started coming out on the trees by mid-April, but I didn’t feel the joy I usually get from that. Probably because I was preoccupied with preparing to move again, and watching my daughter, and being less able to get outside and appreciate the living world for what it is. I missed my active-minutes target every week in April.
We got the keys for our new apartementé on May 1st. On May 4th, we got up around 6:30am and resumed packing. My wife took our daughter up to her mom’s house, and my brother came over around 9:00am and helped me dismantle a few remaining things and finish packing. As we were about to take his car to the storage unit, I did a double-take and saw Dickhead (the basement tenant) standing by his door with a beer in his hand, showing a mix of scowl and smirk as he looked at me. I hope it will be the last time I ever see him.
We drove over to the storage unit and brought some stuff downstairs. Then we waited. And waited some more. The movers (El Cheapo) were over two hours late. The movers quickly loaded our storage stuff, then followed us to the soon-to-be-former apartment. They loaded the truck with furniture and other big items while I jammed my Corolla full of smaller, softer items. I gave the old apartment one last vacuum and a look of both disappointment and relief. I was a little sad. But unlike leaving the P****Haus three years ago, this time I was more assured in taking my final walkaround before leaving. I just said to my brother “Well, that’s it.” At 4:03pm, I locked the door to the now-former apartment for the last time, and led the convoy to my new apartment.
After 2 years, 10 months and 29 days, we had gotten the fuck out of what would soon become known as the L******* ShitHaus (named thusly because the apartment I lived in for 5 months in 2013 was the original ShitHaus).
As of this writing, we’ve lived at our new place for 8 months. I hesitate to make a prediction about how our time here will go, because I’ve been wrong before, but I hope this place will be better than the last. So far so good!
We soon began exploring our new neighborhood, and found some parks and a recreational trail that was vastly shorter than the Martin Goodman Trail I’d been accustomed to, but also far less busy.
On June 1st, my wife and I stayed at a Rustic Cabin Air BnB in Hillsburgh for a night while Mom watched my daughter at our apartment. It was nice to look at, but very dark inside due to the small windows and large overhangs, and a family of wasps had already set up shop in the bedroom. I heard what was either a small bear or a large rakin on the roof in the middle of the night. Needless to say, it was not a restful getaway.
Around June 9th, the new used camera lens I ordered arrived – a Canon EF 28-105mm F3.5-4.5 USM. Why did I buy an old lens at this time, you ask? Because we had decided to go to Nova Scotia this summer and I wanted to bring my 35mm Canon EOS Elan IIe camera, as I had never taken 35mm film pics while traveling out-of-province before (only APS or digital), but whenever I used my workhorse Sigma 17-70mm lens with that camera at short focal lengths, it showed a massive vignette such that the photos were circles. So I wanted a lens that was built for 35mm film, rather than the crop DSLR sensor that my Sigma 17-70mm lens was built for. The 28-105mm lens is not as sharp as the newer lenses I’m used to, but it did away with that vignette problem!
As far as I remember, work continued on as normal until sometime in May, when word of a restructure with some new positions was sent out. My coworker and I were told that one of us was going to be assigned to a new supervisory role if neither of us applied to it. I didn’t want to take on that burden, but I recognized that I needed the money, since rent at our new place was $950/month more than the previous place, so I applied. On June 10th, I did the interview, which was basically just a formality, and I got the jerb. Another coworker kept referring to me as the supervisor thereafter, but I wouldn’t crack. I could finally talk openly about getting the jerb when it was announced during a big staff meeting a few weeks later.
The summer of 2024 broke 2008’s record as the rainiest summer in Toronto. The trees were more full and lush this summer, or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that plants popped up this year where there weren’t obvious plants before. I noticed it most when driving; weeds and bushes and trees along the sides of the road were more noticeable, and covered more concrete and metal than they normally do, which was nice. It’s almost as though I was in a different place.
On July 15th, I went to the dentist and finally finished the implant process, getting a new fake tooth installed after 10 months with a gap in my mouth.
The next day, there was a huge rainstorm. It lifted up the pavement on the jogging trail by the river, and carried huge slabs of it several feet to the side. We hoped our dickwad former neighbor’s apartment got flooded, as it was already prone to flooding.
On July 20th, my sister got married in our mom’s backyard. I took some videos with my DSLR and handled the laptop, while my brother took care of our niece.
Also on July 20th (or July 22nd in practical terms, since the 20th was a Saturday), my new job started. I had a hard time with it for the first few months, having to allocate time to do supervisor stuff without any training on how to be a supervisor, while my existing responsibilities continued. It came to a head a few months later.
Throughout the summer, I took my daughter out in the jogging stroller quite a few times; mostly along the forested trail. I think she liked going for a ride through the woods, and it was an efficient way to get three birds stoned at once – active minutes, Daddy-daughter time, and give my wife some time to herself.
On Saturday August 10th, we hopped in my Corolla and embarked on our roadtrip to Nova Scotia. I’m very familiar with driving a quarter of the way across the country, and I want to normalize roadtrips for my daughter. But because of past experience, we weren’t sure how she would do on such a long drive, so we broke the drive into three days there and three [driving] days back, rather than the usual two. She did remarkably well in the car! On the way, we stopped and got some pictures of the old ferry dock at Cape Tormentine, which I had wanted to do for years. I went ferry spotting twice; got some outstanding drone pics; helped my daughter explore the beach, and we spent two days in Montreal on the way back. It was also the first time I took pics on a 35mm film camera on an out-of-province trip. Other than spending the first night in Nova Scotia in the emergency waiting room at Aberdeen Hospital in New Glasgow because of what I thought was food poisoning, the trip was very enjoyable, and I was grateful to be in a position where I could go on a trip for 17 days straight, to a family cottage by the ocean that I lucked in to having in my life.
By the way, for anyone wondering “Why on Earth would you drive that far instead of flying?”, I did the math, and flying-and-renting-a-car would have cost almost twice as much. So that’s why.
On August 17th, while we were in Nova Scotia, Toronto had its rainiest day on record – 128.3mm. It lifted up the pavement on the bike path again, and more importantly, we were certain Dickwad’s basement apartment got a well-deserved soaking again.
By the time of our roadtrip, my daughter was more consistently talking in short sentences. We weren’t sure she understood the meaning of “you”, “yes”, and “no” all the time, because she can certainly say “no” when we ask if she wants to eat a certain food, but she’ll also sometimes say “no” when we ask if she loves Mommy, or say “yes” when we ask if she loves the drone (she does not like the drone). Although by the time I typed this in December, she once said “I sometimes don’t like the drone” (after reading a Peppa Pig story about drones), suggesting that perhaps in the future she’ll want to fly it with me!
We made it up to Dad’s cottage twice this summer, and my daughter did some fishing both times, although the second time was rainy and colder. She didn’t enjoy that, but she did enjoy walking through the woods with her Grandad while he showed her mushrooms and a toad.
While we were in Nova Scotia, Mom had gone to visit my grandmother (her mother) in St. John’s. By early September, my grandmother started going downhill faster and had several falls. On the afternoon of September 11th, my wife, daughter and I did a FaceTime call with my grandmother and aunt in St. John’s, but she was not really able to engage. Knowing it would likely be the last time I spoke to her, I told her we loved her. The next day her blood oxygen was down to 68%. On Friday September 13th at 5:00am Newfoundland time, she died at the age of 94.
When my grandfather died, I was 17, and although I remember seeing him for the last time in his bed in palliative care at the Miller Centre shortly before he died, I don’t remember what our last conversation entailed, or when it happened. Due to my more-advanced age and today’s technology, I have more certainty about my last interactions with my grandmother. The last time I spoke with her on the phone was on June 1st.
Another thing that dies with my grandmother is her phone number. That might sound trivial, but for anyone who grew up having to dial phone numbers manually or actually remember the number (basically, anyone born in the 20th century), it’s significant. It was the only phone number that had remained the same for my entire life.
It hammered home my gratitude for having done an interview with my grandmother over the phone on January 14th, 2022, where I asked her some questions about her life; some of which could only be answered by her. I did an interview with my paternal grandmother last summer as well. If you have any family members who are approaching the average life expectancy, or have surpassed it, then may I suggest you make time to record their voice – an interview, a video, or however it looks in your case – because once they’re gone, they’re gone forever, but if you have audio or video of them talking or telling their story, it’s a nice thing to have.
On September 18th, my daughter told me “I love you, Daddy” for the first time in an articulate, clear way. It was heartwarming to hear :)
The fall of 2024 was dry. The roads and jogging trail were often dusty due to insufficient rain.
On October 6th, I rode my bike to Mississauga and fell off it just before Port Credit. I was trying to pass a family that was taking up the whole width of the concrete trail, and so I rode down on the grass, passed them, and when I tried to get my front wheel back up on the trail, the trail wouldn’t let it and kept the wheel pointing strait, but I was already leaning into the expected turn and fell over. My hip hurt to lie on for at least a week afterward. It was the first time I’d fallen off my bike in probably 30 years, and I think reading that sentence again made more of my hairs turn grey – the realization that I was a kid riding a bike not 10 or 20 years ago, but 30 years ago.
On October 7th, I got bloodwork to check on my triglycerides and blood sugar, and then I got a COVID shot (my 7th dose).
Unfortunately, my fasting blood sugar had gone up to 5.8, so that was a wake-up call. But I expected it. I had taken liberties with re-incorporating chocolate and other goodies into my diet in a controlled manner since my victory in June of 2023. But it was still below the threshold for pre-diabetes, and I knew what I had to do to bring it back down – reduce the amount of sugary foods I’d reintroduced, and do a better job of exercising regularly. On the plus side, my triglycerides were better than ever, so that was good!
Mom and my aunt decided to have my grandmother’s funeral in St. John’s on October 16th, which allowed for the visitations to not overlap with Thanksgiving, and for my wife to be available on her reading week. By the time we were ready to go, my wife and I were getting impatient and short with each other on a regular basis.
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Anyway, once we got off the plane and out into the fresh St. John’s air, my headbutting with my wife really faded fast. It was an enjoyable trip for the most part, even though it was for my grandmother’s funeral. It was nice, in a way, to see my grandmother’s name finally next to my grandfather’s name on their headstone. My daughter slept in a cot in the guest room with us, and she slept well. When we got home to Toronto, my wife asked me when we can go back to St. John’s. To me, going back to St. John’s was always linked with visiting my grandmother, but I’m grateful that my wife likes going there independently of my family context. It means I still have a reason to go back.
By the end of October, my wife had had enough with our daughter’s fitful sleeping, and enlisted the help of a sleep consultant. On November 2nd, I rocked her to sleep for the last time (thus far). On November 6th, we started sleep training. The first night was difficult, but not hell. The next several nights were surprisingly good. Our daughter became cooperative with the bedtime routine all of a sudden, and it was great! I actually felt bad because after the first several days, she started saying things like “I have to go in my crib,” or “I have to give my soother” as she handed it to me. She learned hegemony really fast. I am grateful for this as far as her sleep is concerned, but I hope she doesn’t lose her stubbornness with the outside world. Then again, maybe her stubbornness was due to her lack of sleep more than anything else.
The other major benefits were that it helped my wife’s sleep, and it gave us about an extra hour together in the evenings after our daughter went to bed. So if you’re reading this and wondering whether to try sleep training with your young child, let me just say that sleep training is worth it.
On November 5th, Donald Trump got re-elected. That was disappointing, but unlike in 2016, I wasn’t surprised. The entire Western world has gotten more in line with his “me first” attitude in recent years. It’s happening in Canada, too; this ridiculous idea that there should be freedom to do what you want without regard to how it affects other people. Pathetic. There’s really nothing more I can say about it. I just hope America has a presidential election in 2028.
On November 15th, we had the Canada Post strike, which lasted just over a month until the feds extended their contract and forced them back to work. I do support the postal workers having a fair wage and not having their work outsourced, but I was also happy to get my mail again.
Throughout the summer and fall, I sold a few of my old 1:18 car models and two non-functional APS film cameras on Facebook Marketplace. So it does work!
On December 22nd, my daughter said “My pirate hat’s gone; would you please help me look for it?”, demonstrating how articulate her speech has gotten.
We had a white Christmas – there was snow on the ground, at least.
Around Christmas, my daughter started occasionally narrating her own comments, primarily when refusing something, like brushing her teeth. For example, she’d say “No! she cried”, or “No! she exclaimed.” It was definitely an Andrewism, but she didn’t learn it from me.
On New Year’s Eve, we went to bed by 10:15pm. It’s so nice to not have to feel pressured to stay up and get drunk on New Year’s Eve anymore. Come to think of it, the last time I drank any alcohol on New Year’s Eve was in 2019.
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As far as some other things that spanned longer durations…
I started using ChatGPT this fall. I said in my Summary of 2023 that AI is something to be afraid of and restrict, because it can take our jobs and eventually could be smart enough to destroy humanity faster than we are already doing. But ChatGPT, I realized, is only sort of AI. It doesn’t learn to the same extent that other nightmare software we’ve heard about can. Its knowledge is programmed into it periodically by people. Anyway, I started by using it to write entertaining scenes from TV shows or movies like Seinfeld or Monty Python, but replacing certain actors with Donald Trump, for example. But where I really like ChatGPT is as a search engine, because you can get answers without all the bullshit ads and sponsored blog posts that show up with a Google search.
The COVID-19 pandemic has all but disappeared from the media landscape now, as we approach the fifth anniversary of the first case being identified in Canada. On the other hand, I’ve been part of a “Still COVID-ing” Facebook group for a couple of years and the stuff I see on that group is starting to seem excessive, even to me. A lot of people in that group are immunocompromised or have long COVID, so I understand that the stakes are higher for them. As of January 1st, 2025, I still mask when going into stores 99% of the time (sometimes an N95; other times a surgical mask). I’ve largely stopped masking at social gatherings unless someone has symptoms. I went to indoor restaurants at least three times in 2024, but I don’t recall any others. I have only taken public transit a couple of times since moving here, and I still mask on transit. I haven't seen a movie in a theater in five years.
Justin Trudeau has been our Prime Minister for nine years now, and there have been calls from lots of MPs in the last couple of months, even within his own party, for him to step down. Apparently Pierre Pie-oliver (I don’t dignify him by spelling his last name correctly, and I can say that as a person with a Greek last name) has a plan to take down the Liberal government and return it to a Conservative autocracy in January. Unfortunately, I do think he will win the next election, whether it happens as scheduled in October 2025 or earlier. We had a good run of not-doing-massive-harm-to-the-environment under Trudeau after nine years of Stephen “Science Hater” Harper, so I guess this is just the natural back-and-forth-ism of politics. I realized the other day that Stephen Harper was the PM for almost the entirety of my 20s, and Justin Trudeau has been the PM for almost the entirety of my 30s. It’s going to be shitty to have the trifuckta of Donald Trump, Doug Ford, and Pierre Pie-oliver all in power at the same time, but I vote in every election, so the best I can do, I guess, is to lead by example.
I implied at the top that our move was the biggest event of 2024 for my family, but just as significant was watching my daughter’s development from the age of 1.5 to 2.5. She went from being still kind of a bébé to an independent, energetic toddler, running all over the place and talking up a storm. She now has long, beautiful curly hair and has taken to singing songs.
I partook in another wrestling renaissance in 2024 – watching videos, reading Wikipedia articles, and reading a few wrestling books. This ties in to a few of my lists, because nothing says analytical, meticulous introvert like charts and lists:
Books read in 2024:
1. Finished Spare by Prince Harry
2. My Effin’ Life by Geddy Lee
3. Love and Courage by Jagmeet Singh
4. The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman
5. All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein – My favorite book of 2024.
6. Somebody to Love by Matt Richards & Mark Langthorne
7. Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust by Hedi Fried
8. St. Pierre and Miquelon by J.P. Andrieux
9. Entrances and Exits by Michael Richards
10. Land of Many Shores by Ainsley Hawthorn
11. Four Fish by Paul Greenberg
12. Wrestling with the Devil by Lex Luger
13. Started Wrestling for my Life by Shawn Michaels
2024 was the year of library books for me. Indeed, I had set a goal in 2024 to only read books that I already owned or borrowed, and other than buying the Kramer book, I succeeded. From the list above, books 4, 5, 6, 7, 12 and 13 were all library books. 1, 3, and 11 were borrowed from other people. It’s safe to assume that I saved close to $200 in 2024 by not buying most of the books I read.
I want to emphasize that we only had two months of a sleep-trained toddler in 2024, meaning we watched less TV than in previous years. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Two of our favorite serieses in recent years had already come to an end the previous year: The Crown and The Mandalorian.
TV shows watched in 2024:
•Peppa Pig
•Bluey
•Abbott Elementary
•Mr. McMahon
•Son of a Critch
Favorite songs of 2024 (in no particular order):
1. “I Want to Break Free” by Queen (the live version with Adam Lambert)
2. “Staying Power” by Queen
3. “The Fountain of Lamneth” by Rush
4. “Leaves That Are Green” by Paul Simon
5. “From The Morning” (Nick Drake cover) by Let’s Eat Grandma – Pay no attention to the name of the group, and just listen to the song!
6. “Your Wildest Dreams” by the Moody Blues – I remember this song from my childhood, but I downloaded it in 2024 after hearing the Queen song “A Kind of Magic” and thinking that song sounded familiar. I think “Your Wildest Dreams” is the similar song.)
7.“ Joe Batt’s Arm Longliners” by McGinty – I heard this song while eating lunch at a restaurant in Pictou this summer, and thought “That song sounds like the ‘90s theme from Land & Sea…”
8. And of course, “Jumping Up and Down in Muddy Puddles” by Peppa Pig.
I didn’t discover much new food in 2024, but two favorites include Zevia pop and Bassé nut mixes; otherwise known as “On crack for you.”
I already talked about film photography in 2024 above, but as far as posting pics on Flickr, I set a goal to post at least two each week. I met that target on 39 weeks. In 2024, I posted 128 photos on Flickr. November was my best month, with 17. And I still haven’t finished posting my Europe 2020 photos! I plan to finish posting them by the end of February though.
Anyway, that’s it! Let’s see what 2025 brings.
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Elections are at the core of political accountability in democracies. Through elections, politicians put their views to voters and must also inform the public of their record in office. However, elections occur periodically. It is the legislature’s role to hold the executive more regularly to account. Parliaments can guide development strategies, ensure that draft laws respect and promote human rights, evaluate budgets and the allocation of resources, amend inappropriate legislation, take up cases of abuse and misgovernment, and monitor the Government’s conduct.
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Continuing Accountability
Kelly Greene
April 21 - May 17, 2022
Artlab Gallery
The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition titled “Continuing Accountability” by current Indigenous Artist-In-Residence Kelly Greene. Presented in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Arts and Humanities, this exhibit brings together work completed by Greene over the course of her nearly thirty year artistic career.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This exhibit is a continuation of my exhibit “Accountability” that was briefly on display at McIntosh Gallery for a week in March, 2020 before everything shut down. But “Accountability” has another meaning besides referring to the previous exhibit, as this word was and is the premise for both shows, since it encompasses the concepts of the artworks.
Some topics include alternative viewpoints of historic occurrences once viewed as celebratory by most, though now wondering when history books will be changed. And since recent revelations have been made of resulting conditions from enforced ownership, we may question how reparation can be made.
Yet despite it all, somehow Indigenous cultures, traditions, and languages are still alive. Although they’ve struggled to remain alive, the onus to pass knowledge from one generation to the next is imperative so nothing more will be lost.
Moreover, it is the responsibility all humans must now offer to care for our Earth, our Mother, who has endured much devastation especially during the past century after the industrial revolution and the rise of technological advancements. We are now in a position to make drastic changes to ensure that the future may somehow be free from the current conditions we’re experiencing, resulting from us making strides without heed of repercussions.
My hope is we’ll be able to outrun the machine we’ve created.
Kelly Greene is a multi-media artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. She is of Mohawk-Oneida-Sicilian ancestry, a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, and a descendant of the Turtle Clan.
Greene has lived in London, Ontario since 1989 where she obtained a BFA from the University of Western Ontario. She began her visual art studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she moved with her family when she was a child.
She has exhibited in Canada and the United States for over thirty years in solo and group exhibits, primarily at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario but also Banff, Alberta; Vancouver, B.C.; Montreal, Quebec; Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and London, Ontario; Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Howes Cave, New York. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, and in 2012 and 2015 she was commissioned to complete two permanent outdoor installations at the Woodland Cultural Centre. She has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and was most recently awarded the first Indigenous Artist in Residence at Western University in 2021.
Her art focuses primarily on environmental and political topics, as well as revealing stereotypes that are still prevalent towards Indigenous cultures, using ironic humour when possible. Recognizing the impact colonization has had on our Earth and the First People who have always lived on the land now known as Canada, Greene specifically refers to the Haldimand Treaty granted to the people of Six Nations, as well as the Mohawk Institute Residential School, or “Mush Hole”, where her beautiful Grandma attended in the 1920’s. Another concern is Colony Collapse Disorder, or the current plight of bees vanishing due to pesticides and monoculture. The ever-alarming condition of our planet has inspired Greene to create works that represent our Mother Earth as human, appealing to our species’ egocentricity, hoping empathy will be instilled and respect given so future generations will continue to be revived and thrive.
Artlab Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2022; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
HARTFORD - Today, Connecticut Senate Republicans released a transportation investment plan that does not rely on tolls or new taxes. The proposal, Fiscal Accountability & Sustainable Transportation Reform CT (FASTR CT), shows a path forward to invest in transportation, adopt responsible fiscal policies and establish accountability without asking for more from overburdened taxpayers.
“We all agree that Connecticut needs to improve our transportation system. A reliable and modern transportation system is a key to a healthy economy and job growth. But Senate Republicans disagree that tolls need to be part of the solution,” said Senate Republican Leader Len Fasano (R-North Haven). “We recognize the hard work that Governor Lamont has put into his CT2030 plan, but we do not support tolls, which is why we worked to offer this no-tolls alternative. We developed FASTR CT to show that there is another way to invest in transportation and grow jobs in a manner that is sustainable and accountable to taxpayers – all without tolls.
“In Connecticut, trust in government is a major issue for residents. This plan would restore what has been stolen from transportation over the last decade,” said Senate Republican Leader Pro Tempore Kevin Witkos (R-Canton).
“We do not need tolls or tax increases,” said Senator Henri Martin, Ranking Member of the Transportation Committee. “We can improve our roads, rail and bridges with a significant investment all by adopting smart fiscal policies, better managing state dollars and leveraging federal aid.”
FASTR CT invests $18 billion in transportation, including roads and rail, between now and 2030. It leverages federal low interest loans and creates accountability and a vetting process for all transportation projects. FASTR CT allows for cash financing to be used for transportation projects and also dramatically cuts back on state borrowing, eliminating all state Special Tax Obligation bonds for transportation by 2022, thereby reducing growing debt that is hurting the Special Transportation Fund (STF). FASTR CT stabilizes the Special Transportation Fund, eliminating shortfalls projected in future years and keeping the fund solvent. It also utilizes tax revenue people have already overpaid to the state to invest in unfunded pension liabilities, creating savings that can be used to strengthen the STF.
Witness Against Torture and Amnesty International USA marched from the US Capitol to the White House on April 30, 2009 to mark the end of the first 100 days of President Obama's term and demand accountability for torture and abuse. Photo by Shawn Duffy
Dozens of Appalachians and their allies bring hundreds of gallons of toxic water from their homes to EPA offices in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON D.C.– Citizens from across the country have travelled to the nation’s capitol to urge an end to mountaintop removal coal mining, a radical form of strip mining in Appalachia that has destroyed over 500 mountains and buried or poisoned more than 2,000 miles of streams in Central Appalachia. Citizens met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill as well as the Obama administration agencies. This year they collected toxic water from their home communities, and brought containers of it to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Citizens of Appalachia are sitting on the EPA steps to demand that the EPA accept the water and acknowledge their demand for stronger water quality rules. There are over 100 gallons of brown, black and red water that have been collected from water sources in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky.
“We want to show them exactly what the water situation is in the Appalachian region. This is what people deal with coming out of their faucets. We are being asked to use toxic water for drinking, washing and cooking,” said Laura Miller, who travelled from Southwestern Virginia.
Citizens hope that bringing the dirty water to the EPA will alert agency officials to the urgency of toxic water in their communities. More than 20 peer-reviewed studies have shown devastating health impacts; citizens near mountaintop removal are 50% more likely to die of cancer and 42% more likely to be born with birth defects compared with other people in Appalachia.
“There is no longer the luxury of time – we need the EPA to act now because people are sick and dying now,” said Dustin White, community organizer with Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) who traveled from West Virginia.
Water contamination from surface mining is widespread throughout the Appalachian region and state regulatory agencies continue to allow companies to further destroy water resources. In southern West Virginia alone, over 22% of the streams can be classified as impaired under state guidelines due to surface mining. The state governments have lied about the widespread pollution and continually fail to hold the coal companies accountable.
In a response to the state governments’ willful neglect to protect these waterways, a host of organizations, many represented in Washington this week, are petitioning EPA for a rule-making that would set a water quality standard on mountaintop removal pollution.
“Sometimes the water runs orange, and you wouldn’t want to touch it, much less drink it. But what’s more dangerous is when toxic water from your tap looks and smells totally fine. People sometimes drink it for years without knowing that they’re drinking toxic water and that’s what’s making them sick. We are bringing this water to the EPA as a way of holding them accountable. We’re having them sign for it so that they can formally acknowledge the problems that we’re living with everyday in the mountains,” said Josh May of Magoffin County, KY, a member of the Stay Together Appalachian Youth (STAY) Project.
Citizen pressure for the EPA to increase action on the issue comes shortly after Senators introduced legislation that would limit EPA’s authority to protect Appalachia’s water quality. An appeals court recently overturned a lower court ruling, affirming the EPA’s power to retroactively veto the Corps’ mountaintop removal pollution permits. This ruling revokes a permit that would have buried nearly seven miles of streams at a 2,300-acre mountaintop removal mine in Logan County, WV.
The rally is currently underway at the EPA Headquarters at 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW. Citizens will deliver hundreds of gallons of toxic water from their home communities to officials at the EPA. Dustin White noted the importance of supporting struggles for clean water and healthy communities for all people.
“We are here today to stand up for Appalachia, but the struggle for safe environment crosses all boundaries. Our fight is the one and the same as the Navajo Dine’ resisting coal mining on Black Mesa and inner-city communities of color fighting coal-fired power plants. Everyone deserves clean air and water,” said White.
This event comes at the end of several days of meeting with numerous agencies in the Obama administration as well as Congressional offices, where citizens encouraged lawmakers to support the Clean Water Protection Act, a bill which would enact some basic protections for Appalachian streams.
This year is the eighth annual trip to Washington, D.C. In 2012, dozens of citizens took part in sit-ins in their legislators offices demanding that they take action to end mountaintop removal and protect citizen health; 21 people were arrested as a result of the sit-ins.
DISCHARGE OF OIL PROHIBITED -- THE FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT PROHIBITS THE DISCHARGE OF OIL OR OILY WASTE INTO OR UPON THE NAVIGABLE WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES, OR THE WATERS OF THE CONTIGUOUS ZONE, OR WHICH MAY AFFECT NATURAL RESOURCES BELONGING TO, APPERTAINING TO, OR UNDER THE EXCLUSIVE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES, IF SUCH DISCHARGE CAUSES A FILM OR DISCOLORATION OF THE SURFACE OF THE WATER OR CAUSES A SLUDGE OR EMULSION BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE WATER. VIOLATORS ARE SUBJECT TO SUBSTANTIAL CIVIL PENALTIES AND/OR CRIMINAL SANCTIONS INCLUDING FINES AND IMPRISONMENT.
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
So this photo was taken last week, when I intended to join in on the A.W. fun, but it makes the same point this week: I need to get a grip on what I eat.
I'm a thin person and my numerical weight is not an issue (for this reason, I do not own a scale. I would weigh myself way too much if I did and, frankly, that's just not healthy). But my general health? I get winded walking up the three flights of stairs to my office. I turn thirty 5 months from today and I would like to get a jump start on improving my health. To this end, my AW goal is:
- to exercise 3-5 times a week. I joined the gym last summer and while I love to go, I have difficulty motivating to do it when I get home from work. I hope that having to be accountable to someone other than myself will kick my ass into gear. I went today in anticipation of this post and it felt good.
- to eat better. I'm fortunate in that I don't like a lot of junk food or sweets. But man oh man, I do like starch. All starch. Pasta, toast, cereal, rice, you name it. I also eat way more food than I actually need to. That's fine and dandy when I'm having a nice meal out, but when I'm eating at home? Not really necessary.
- to drink more water. 'nuff said.
So. These are my goals. I hope I can stick to them.
So, while everyone was sweating it in here for the past month...
Peter Rodgers
Accountants Support Team
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Julie Bratcher of CWA Local 9421 and other CWA Activists take part in a Medicare Town Hall meeting in CA-3 Thursday, July 28. The event was sponsored by CWA Local 9421, the Sacramento Central Labor Council, the UFCW Local 8 and the IAM, amongst others.
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Two Rallies at the same time. One was the usual Resist Trump Tuesdays which protests the policies and actions of the new president and his administration. The other rally was about establishing a civilian accountability board to oversee the Chicago Police Department.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to speak at a vigil outside the London Muslim Mosque organized after four members of a Canadian Muslim family were killed in what police describe as a hate-motivated attack in London, Ontario, Canada, June 8, 2021. Nathan Denette/Pool via REUTERS
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-452
2013 SEQUESTRATION: Selected Federal Agencies Reduced Some Services and Investments, While Taking Short-Term Actions to Mitigate Effects
Sgt. Wayne D. Salas, a supply sergeant with the V Corps Special Troops Battalion, reviews his property turn-in paperwork before giving it to Spc. William J. Lewis, an automated logistics specialist with the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, Oct. 26, 2010, as part of the 21st's Task Force Harvest property accountability effort. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Tramel S. Garrett)
The Independent Project Accountability Mechanism (IPAM) - a core element of the accountability structure of the EBRD - is responsible for addressing allegations of harm from project-affected people who consider that the Bank has not complied with the environmental, social, and transparency provisions of its policies. IPAM’S effectiveness as a non-judicial grievance mechanism is measured by its accessibility, transparency, and responsiveness to allegations within a human-rights approach.
This dedicated IPAM session will discuss the principle of “do no-harm”, the approach taken by development banks, and the role of independent accountability mechanisms in the context of the recently published UN report, Remedy in Development Finance: Guidance and Practice. The panel will be moderated by the EBRD’s Chief Accountability Officer and include representatives from civil society, multilateral development banks, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Accountability, Achievement, and Action: High School Education Reform in the New Era
Rosa Rosales, national president, League of United Latin Americans
(February 12, 2009)
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Continuing Accountability
Kelly Greene
April 21 - May 17, 2022
Artlab Gallery
The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition titled “Continuing Accountability” by current Indigenous Artist-In-Residence Kelly Greene. Presented in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Arts and Humanities, this exhibit brings together work completed by Greene over the course of her nearly thirty year artistic career.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This exhibit is a continuation of my exhibit “Accountability” that was briefly on display at McIntosh Gallery for a week in March, 2020 before everything shut down. But “Accountability” has another meaning besides referring to the previous exhibit, as this word was and is the premise for both shows, since it encompasses the concepts of the artworks.
Some topics include alternative viewpoints of historic occurrences once viewed as celebratory by most, though now wondering when history books will be changed. And since recent revelations have been made of resulting conditions from enforced ownership, we may question how reparation can be made.
Yet despite it all, somehow Indigenous cultures, traditions, and languages are still alive. Although they’ve struggled to remain alive, the onus to pass knowledge from one generation to the next is imperative so nothing more will be lost.
Moreover, it is the responsibility all humans must now offer to care for our Earth, our Mother, who has endured much devastation especially during the past century after the industrial revolution and the rise of technological advancements. We are now in a position to make drastic changes to ensure that the future may somehow be free from the current conditions we’re experiencing, resulting from us making strides without heed of repercussions.
My hope is we’ll be able to outrun the machine we’ve created.
Kelly Greene is a multi-media artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. She is of Mohawk-Oneida-Sicilian ancestry, a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, and a descendant of the Turtle Clan.
Greene has lived in London, Ontario since 1989 where she obtained a BFA from the University of Western Ontario. She began her visual art studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she moved with her family when she was a child.
She has exhibited in Canada and the United States for over thirty years in solo and group exhibits, primarily at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario but also Banff, Alberta; Vancouver, B.C.; Montreal, Quebec; Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and London, Ontario; Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Howes Cave, New York. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, and in 2012 and 2015 she was commissioned to complete two permanent outdoor installations at the Woodland Cultural Centre. She has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and was most recently awarded the first Indigenous Artist in Residence at Western University in 2021.
Her art focuses primarily on environmental and political topics, as well as revealing stereotypes that are still prevalent towards Indigenous cultures, using ironic humour when possible. Recognizing the impact colonization has had on our Earth and the First People who have always lived on the land now known as Canada, Greene specifically refers to the Haldimand Treaty granted to the people of Six Nations, as well as the Mohawk Institute Residential School, or “Mush Hole”, where her beautiful Grandma attended in the 1920’s. Another concern is Colony Collapse Disorder, or the current plight of bees vanishing due to pesticides and monoculture. The ever-alarming condition of our planet has inspired Greene to create works that represent our Mother Earth as human, appealing to our species’ egocentricity, hoping empathy will be instilled and respect given so future generations will continue to be revived and thrive.
Artlab Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2022; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
Accountability is established and clearly displayed on the left-rear door of Command 84 at all working incidents.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. Government Accountability Office report, available here: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-117
Continuing Accountability
Kelly Greene
April 21 - May 17, 2022
Artlab Gallery
The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition titled “Continuing Accountability” by current Indigenous Artist-In-Residence Kelly Greene. Presented in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Arts and Humanities, this exhibit brings together work completed by Greene over the course of her nearly thirty year artistic career.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This exhibit is a continuation of my exhibit “Accountability” that was briefly on display at McIntosh Gallery for a week in March, 2020 before everything shut down. But “Accountability” has another meaning besides referring to the previous exhibit, as this word was and is the premise for both shows, since it encompasses the concepts of the artworks.
Some topics include alternative viewpoints of historic occurrences once viewed as celebratory by most, though now wondering when history books will be changed. And since recent revelations have been made of resulting conditions from enforced ownership, we may question how reparation can be made.
Yet despite it all, somehow Indigenous cultures, traditions, and languages are still alive. Although they’ve struggled to remain alive, the onus to pass knowledge from one generation to the next is imperative so nothing more will be lost.
Moreover, it is the responsibility all humans must now offer to care for our Earth, our Mother, who has endured much devastation especially during the past century after the industrial revolution and the rise of technological advancements. We are now in a position to make drastic changes to ensure that the future may somehow be free from the current conditions we’re experiencing, resulting from us making strides without heed of repercussions.
My hope is we’ll be able to outrun the machine we’ve created.
Kelly Greene is a multi-media artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. She is of Mohawk-Oneida-Sicilian ancestry, a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, and a descendant of the Turtle Clan.
Greene has lived in London, Ontario since 1989 where she obtained a BFA from the University of Western Ontario. She began her visual art studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she moved with her family when she was a child.
She has exhibited in Canada and the United States for over thirty years in solo and group exhibits, primarily at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario but also Banff, Alberta; Vancouver, B.C.; Montreal, Quebec; Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and London, Ontario; Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Howes Cave, New York. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, and in 2012 and 2015 she was commissioned to complete two permanent outdoor installations at the Woodland Cultural Centre. She has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and was most recently awarded the first Indigenous Artist in Residence at Western University in 2021.
Her art focuses primarily on environmental and political topics, as well as revealing stereotypes that are still prevalent towards Indigenous cultures, using ironic humour when possible. Recognizing the impact colonization has had on our Earth and the First People who have always lived on the land now known as Canada, Greene specifically refers to the Haldimand Treaty granted to the people of Six Nations, as well as the Mohawk Institute Residential School, or “Mush Hole”, where her beautiful Grandma attended in the 1920’s. Another concern is Colony Collapse Disorder, or the current plight of bees vanishing due to pesticides and monoculture. The ever-alarming condition of our planet has inspired Greene to create works that represent our Mother Earth as human, appealing to our species’ egocentricity, hoping empathy will be instilled and respect given so future generations will continue to be revived and thrive.
Artlab Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2022; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
Accountability Windmill motivational poster image: A rustic windmill sits on a green hilltop above a golden wheat field. Our Accountability Windmill motivational poster from our exclusive Corporate Impressions collection enhances the look of offices, conference rooms, lobbies and hallways while communicating your corporate values to employees and clients. Framed motivational posters are 24" x 30".
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/