Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest. Advocacy can include many activities that a person or organization undertakes including media campaigns, public speaking, commissioning and publishing research or poll or the 'filing of friend of the court briefs'. Lobbying (often by Lobby groups) is a form of advocacy where a direct approach is made to legislators on an issue which plays a significant role in modern politics.[1]
In other words, special interest groups who suck taxpayers money to do absolutely nothing for the people they are supposed to be helping.
There are several forms of advocacy, which each represent a different approach in the way change is brought into society. One of the most popular forms is social justice advocacy.
There are those words: social justice again, add them to advocacy and you have lefties doing nothing but justifying it as "social justice". Kind of like these 11 organizations:
In recent weeks, the following organizations have been denied funding by Status of Women Canada (SWC): the New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity, le Conseil d'intervention pour l'acc�s des femmes au travail (CIAFT), the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), R�seau des tables r�gionales de groupes de femmes du Qu�bec, the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation, Action travail des femmes.
Several other key organizations have been denied SWC funding in the last few years, such as the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, Womenspace, the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada, the Alberta Network of Immigration Women, Centre de documentation sur l'�ducation des adultes et la condition feminine, Association f�minine d'�ducation et d'action sociale (AFEAS.)
Read the whole article. This is from a magazine called Canadian Business. This article is so biased it is hard to believe a business magazine could print it and expect us to subscribe to their mag, or should I say rag?
I want you to look carefully at the organizations that are receiving funding cuts. Do you even recognize any of these organizations? Have any of you ever been helped by any of these organizations? Have any of you volunteered for any of these organizations? Can anyone explain why these organizations deserve taxpayers money?
Maybe we need to start digging into these organizations and find out what they do besides suck up taxpayers money. I know that I would not donate any of my hard earned money to any of these organizations, so why should they get my money through advocacy to the government?
How would lefties react if they found out the government was giving money to a group called "Canadians for the Preservation of Unborn Babies"? HA, thought so. Lefties can't stand "Real Women" even though they receive NO government money, but other "women's" organizations are more deserving because...... well, they just are. Never mind that they do nothing to actually help any women, except the directors of those bogus organizations.
Let the lefties yell about the lost funding for the Toronto Gay Parade. I have never been to one, and I have no idea why any government would fund any parade, for any reason. You want a parade, raise the funds yourselves. Just because you are gay, does not mean that you are anymore special and worthy of funding than any other group.
Advocacy = Social Justice. Basically as far as I can determine, it means get paid to protest anything you do not like.
By the way has anyone asked radical NDP MP Pat Martin what his assistant was doing at the Ann Coulter protest? The MSM is silent and dying.
I am sick and tired of my money going to groups that I fundamentally disagree with. It is not the job of the government to fund any group or charity. If you have a good charity, like "Kids for Cancer", people will donate money to you. If not, you have no right to suck off of taxpayers.
My Mother's Day Wish, is that all those radical women, who think killing babies in the womb is their right, and that the Taliban beheading women is not their problem, lose all their funding for all their radical organizations. You want to kill babies over in Africa, hold a fund raiser, call it "Killing Babies in Africa", I dare you to come out of the advocacy shadows and really show people what you are, and what you want to do, all in the name of "woman".
