What it's Like: Auditory Examples

It's difficult to express just how disruptive the picketers have been to our daily lives.  Perhaps the worst of it has been the constant noise.

One member has provided audio recordings that show just a little of what it's been like.  These are just some examples.

When you listen to this, just imagine this sort of thing going on, day after day, hour after hour, for weeks at a time.

In front of your home.

Not your work.

Not your place of business.

Outside your front door.

Around the sides of your home.

In back of your home.

When you try to walk your dog.

While you try to talk to your neighbours.

While you try to sit on your balcony or patio.

Now imagine putting up with this when your health is compromised.

Imagine being mobility challenged - perhaps walking with a cane, using a walker, or in a wheelchair - and being surrounded by people doing this, as you go about your business.

Imagine being targeted by these people.  By name.

Imagine discovering someone has told them personal details about you, your friends, your family, your life, and they shout things out at you, just to show you how much they know.

This is what AUPE does.






Remember, also: we have no control over the funding SAIL gets. 

Most members have nothing to do with SAIL, other than being part of Artspace. 

SAIL has offered them everything they could, within budget. 

AUPE rejected their offer.

SAIL has been open with their finances. 

AUPE refuses to accept them.

SAIL has done everything within its power, and offered as much as it can, within budget.

AUPE wants more. 

The reality is, their battle isn't with SAIL or Artspace.  It's with Alberta Health.

Somehow, someone thought it would be a good idea, rather than picketing AHS, they should picket our homes. 

They thought it would be a good idea to do what you can hear in those clips.

They thought it would be a good idea to target people with disabilities.

They thought it would be a good idea to target children, their parents, and the elderly.

They thought it would be a good idea to target people who have nothing to do with SAIL.

Why?

"Because we can."