BC Ferries Hunger Strike - Make Gov't. Listen

 Hunger Strike hopes to pressure Liberal government

To help draw attention that ferry dependent communities economies are starving directly associated with ferry service, www.ferryhostage.com launched a BC Ferries Hunger Strike on Monday Jan 20, 2014. It asks riders to buy no Ferry food Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to send a message where it counts, at the till. Hunger strike buttons are coming and riders are asked to do your part by sharing the hunger strike graphics on Facebook to get as many friends and families to not buy food anywhere BC Ferries sails.

“It is wonderful that people are passionate enough to come to the ferry consultation meetings, write letters to the newspapers and to attend this past weekend’s protests on the Sunshine Coast. However we are still weak in the eyes of the political powers that be about ferry reform because we are not visible enough every day” says www.ferryhostage.com organiser Stephanie Clarke. “We are not organized anywhere close to the extent we should be to be effective and to apply pressure. This is hurting us.  We aren’t utilizing social media in a way that could dramatically widen our reach and increase our political potential.”

If you are not on Facebook, for this you should be. www.Facebook.com/Ferryhostage should have likes in the thousands not in the hundreds and we should be visibly supporting other ferry reform advocates like www.facebook.com/FiscalFairness and www.bcferrycoalition.com

“We could make some significant headway if we all did this with enough zero’s attached to it. At least 20% of our population in coastal communities should be connected to the issue this way.  If we were we could accomplish so much more.

If you don’t like what is happening with ferry costs, policy and service; like something and like it on Facebook. This of course is not the answer but it is a start in getting our potential on this subject harnessed and will set us up to communicate on mass at the level that can apply real pressure”. It’s as easy as lifting a finger online.

Our focus is on equitable transportation policy and fiscal fairness.