March 18 2015 copy of email mailed to where the buck stops: TED, slightly editted…
On
Monday I was told by TED that I wasn't allowed on what I believed was a very
large public plaza mostly used by tourists in front of the Vancouver Convention
Centre over looking the waterfront that
TED did not want anyone demonstrating on its turf: TRUTH AND DARE. I did not go to the plaza with the intention of
disturbing your delegates. No fear, no
delegate talked to me and no delegate even as much as glanced at my sign: they
were too busy I assume with TRUTH and their own isolated personal world. It did not offend me: it is just the way it is.
My
sign was a kindergarten craft board 20 inches X 30 inches sitting on a small
personal grocery cart. And I was with my late husband's little doggie, Owen.
The closest I came to the entrance was 500 feet. I was so bored and tired
looking at the tourists that I was reading a newspaper sitting on a small blue
blanket. My age has given me bad feet so I can’t walk or stand for long.
The
information sign reads: The BC
College of Physicians says it is okay to place DNRs on patients without
consent. The secret courts of the
College have to go.
I
have been randomly slowly walking the streets of downtown Vancouver with this sign on the
shopping cart which also serves as a doggie wagon as Owen the doggie is getting
old like me and doesn't want to walk much, he is 17 pounds, part poodle, part
terri, cute, every afternoon for the past three weeks (M-F).
How
could TED put out the order to prevent a bereaving senior (first, Randy’s death
and then the decision of the College) and Owen or anyone for any
reason from walking on what seems to be
a public plaza.
TO:
TED, where the buck stops
250
Hudson Street
Suite
1002
New
York,
New
York
10013
.
