Draw the Line: A new way for people to demand change - world wide?

By Pepper Parr

September 20^th, 2025

BURLINGTON, ON

There was an item in the news feed we get from BurlingtonGreen that was much different than what we usually get.

An organization that goes under the name: Drawing the Line.  It is international in scope.  The opening line goes like this:

Most of us can’t make ends meet – wages are low, rent is sky-high, groceries are unaffordable. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Carney has ordered a 15% cut to our public services while billionaires and corporations get richer off our suffering. Corporate elites attack the working class, particularly Black, Indigenous and racialized people, women, migrants, disabled, queer and trans people, and the unemployed. This isn’t an accident – it’s corporate rule designed to extract wealth from working people. We refuse to accept poverty while the wealthy hoard billions. We call on the federal government to tax the ultra-rich, end corporate subsidies, and invest in the affordable housing, food, healthcare, transit, education, arts and culture, public services and good jobs that our communities need to thrive.

Our future is on the line, and people everywhere are rising up to demand climate justice, peace, and real democracy. In Hamilton, we’re drawing the line for a better world: with clean energy for all, protection for people and nature, and accountability.   The Hamilton event will take place in Gore Park.   There isn’t going to be an event in Burlington

This is more than a single mobilization. It is an invitation to community groups and social movements across the country to unite, to learn from each other, and to form and strengthen coalitions that will continue to build beyond September 20th.

Congratulations to Burlington Green for making this available.  It will be some time before Burlington holds events like this – the city sees itself as just too polite to raise its voice.

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