British actress Angela Lansbury in London, UK, March 1973. (Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
Angela Lansbury, who died this week at 96, was a proud socialist who achieved enormous success in film, theater, and TV. Yet her astonishing range was botched by the Hollywood studio system — preventing her movie career from flourishing even more.
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/angela-lansbury-film-theater-actor-comrade-o...
Scottish comic and brilliant actor Robbie Coltrane has died at the young age of 72 years old.
Author, activist, and historian, Mike Davis, has died at 76.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-obituary/
Staughton Lynd, 60s antiwar activist, labor activist and historian, lifelong supporter of the anti-authoritarian Left, age 92:
Staughton Lynd’s Radicalism From Below | The Nation
I'd also recommend that, to understand Staughton's later thinking, people should get a copy of "Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History", in which Lynd carries out an extended dialog with Marxist intellectual Andrej Grubačić about the Marxist and anarchist political traditions and the role each might play in the future.
We don't celebrate the local people who build community enough. This woman had a very special place in my heart so I thought others should share in her life of service.
Carolyn Jane Chornenky
October 11, 1952 - December 11, 2022
The world lost one of its most luminous people with the passing of Cally (Carolyn) Chornenky on December 11, 2022.
She is survived by her devoted husband of 45 years, Greg Bannoff, daughters Sarah (Andrew Haynes) and Alexis (Jeffrey Dunn), and two grandchildren Evelyn Rose and Miriam Jane. The best mother to her daughters, and ‘mum-mum’ to her granddaughters, she taught by example, shaping strong values around strength, intelligence, and ethics.
Her life was one of creation, vision, and achievement.
Quietly changing the world with her insight, integrity, and kindness, much of Cally’s life was devoted to nurturing children, people, and plants. Her dedication created a brighter future, filled with growth and beauty.
With a gentle heart, and drive to nurture and support children, she taught for years at the West End Co-op Nursery School, and at Sunday school at Parkdale United Church. She was also Snowy Owl to the local Brownies.
She also volunteered at Parkdale United Church and at the Parkdale Food Bank.
In recent decades, Cally pursued her lifelong passion for plants and studied horticulture at Algonquin College. She joined, and then took over ownership of, a small gardening company. A lifelong feminist with a desire to elevate women in business, she shaped Digging In with all female horticulturists. Her personal touch led many clients to become friends.
Always surrounded by books, she was always keen to bring family and friends into the vast, magical universe of the written word. Without fail, she always recommended a fantastic next read, and we all benefited from her vast appetite for literature. She enjoyed decades with her friends in book club too.
With enthusiasm, wit, and empathy, she was a brilliant and lively conversationalist, always ready to share, learn, and debate. She led with integrity, calling out prejudice and injustice to make the world a safer and more welcoming place for all. She made us want to be better people.
Cally asked that, in remembrance, people plant a tree in lieu of sending flowers (or donate to Tree Canada here). How very like her - continuing her legacy of caring and growth.
We don't celebrate the local people who build community enough. This woman had a very special place in my heart so I thought others should share in her life of service.
Carolyn Jane Chornenky
October 11, 1952 - December 11, 2022
The world lost one of its most luminous people with the passing of Cally (Carolyn) Chornenky on December 11, 2022.
She is survived by her devoted husband of 45 years, Greg Bannoff, daughters Sarah (Andrew Haynes) and Alexis (Jeffrey Dunn), and two grandchildren Evelyn Rose and Miriam Jane. The best mother to her daughters, and ‘mum-mum’ to her granddaughters, she taught by example, shaping strong values around strength, intelligence, and ethics.
Her life was one of creation, vision, and achievement.
Quietly changing the world with her insight, integrity, and kindness, much of Cally’s life was devoted to nurturing children, people, and plants. Her dedication created a brighter future, filled with growth and beauty.
With a gentle heart, and drive to nurture and support children, she taught for years at the West End Co-op Nursery School, and at Sunday school at Parkdale United Church. She was also Snowy Owl to the local Brownies.
She also volunteered at Parkdale United Church and at the Parkdale Food Bank.
In recent decades, Cally pursued her lifelong passion for plants and studied horticulture at Algonquin College. She joined, and then took over ownership of, a small gardening company. A lifelong feminist with a desire to elevate women in business, she shaped Digging In with all female horticulturists. Her personal touch led many clients to become friends.
Always surrounded by books, she was always keen to bring family and friends into the vast, magical universe of the written word. Without fail, she always recommended a fantastic next read, and we all benefited from her vast appetite for literature. She enjoyed decades with her friends in book club too.
With enthusiasm, wit, and empathy, she was a brilliant and lively conversationalist, always ready to share, learn, and debate. She led with integrity, calling out prejudice and injustice to make the world a safer and more welcoming place for all. She made us want to be better people.
Cally asked that, in remembrance, people plant a tree in lieu of sending flowers (or donate to Tree Canada here). How very like her - continuing her legacy of caring and growth.
Beautiful!
Mendelson Joe, Toronto based musician, artist and activist, died yesterday aged 78. I knew a bit about him through mutual friends. A life well lived.
Mckenna Mendelson Mainline
Anarchist organizer, writer, and publisher, Jen Angel, 48, died yesterday as a result of injuries sustained during a robbery.
Longtime activist, writer and beloved baker Jen Angel has died at the age of 48. She owned the popular community-based Angel Cakes in Oakland. She was a pioneering force in independent media, co-founding Clamor magazine and Agency, an anarchist media organization. She was also a longtime organizer of the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. Jen Angel was actively involved in antiwar and anti-capitalist struggles through the years, including Occupy Wall Street. She died after she was critically injured in a violent robbery in Oakland earlier this week.
In a statement Angel’s family and friends wrote, “We know Jen would not want to continue the cycle of harm by bringing state-sanctioned violence to those involved in her death or to other members of Oakland’s rich community. As a long-time social movement activist and anarchist, Jen did not believe in state violence, carceral punishment, or incarceration as an effective or just solution to social violence and inequity.” Jen Angel’s family has asked that traditional prosecution be avoided in her case, and alternatives such as restorative justice be employed instead.
Jen Angel, Beloved Social Justice & Media Activist, Writer and Oakland Baker, Dies at 48
Acting legend Gordon Pinsent:
Gordon Pinsent, award-winning Canadian actor, dies at 92 (msn.com)
Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson, AKA Barry Humphries, at age 89. Always loved those characters. I watched Humphries interviewed a few times. He wasa remarkably intellegent and very enigmatic person.
GordonLightfoot, aged 84
GordonLightfoot, aged 84
Just heard. A shocker, though not unexpected.
It's only well and fitting that somebody post this clip:
(3) Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy (Lyrics ) - YouTube
This is my favourite of his, although as Bob Dylan said, he died never having written a bad song.
If you could read my mind
Two of his better more-or-less political numbers- a song about war fever and how it leads people to their doom: (4) The Patriot's Dream - YouTube]
And here's the toughest song he ever wrote in support of workers:
The Acid Queen, resilient survivor of years of abuse, one of the greatest rock, pop & soul voices of all time, Tina Turner, has left us, age 83
Tina Turner, singer dubbed the queen of rock 'n' roll, dead at 83 | CBC News
Daniel Ellsberg, antiwar activist, whistleblower - dies at 92
'We're Told Never To Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong'
Shuhada' Sadaqat- birth name Sinead O'Connor, Age 56:
Sinéad O’Connor obituary: ‘Proud to be a troublemaker’ – The Irish Times
And, below, the song I believe she might have preferred to be remembered for:
(self-delete. dupe post.)
..a sad day.
sinead o'connor - war
Robbie Robertson
Hugh Segal
John Pilger, journalist, documentarian, truth-teller. Dead at 84. His truth goes marching on.
..farewell comrade!
Ed Broadbent, dead at 87'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ed-broadbent-dies-1.7080936
