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Read aloud at Earth Day Celebration, Edmonton, April 22, 2004. Good afternoon everyone. My name is Sally Issenman. I have seen a lot of people here at the park who I know, and it is […]

Gaia weeps for Tooker: her rain is our tears, her hurricanes, our wrath. For we have lost our hero. I weep for him now. These words are for those who did not know him, and […]

(Edmonton Memorial.) Welcome to Angela, the Gomberg and Bischoff families and Her Honour Lieutenant Governor Lois Hole. We are assembled today to celebrate the life of Tooker Gomberg, a friend, an activist, a politician in […]

(Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.) There I was walking down the street, when suddenly I heard someone call my name. I looked around. I didn’t see anybody. The voice came again. No, it wasn’t a vision. […]

(When and where?) My experiences with Tooker and Angela were brief on a personal element, but long-term in terms of feeling the wake of their energy. I first met Tooker and Angela when I was […]

One of the first times I met Tooker, was at a memorial that he had organized. It was a memorial very much like this one, except Tooker was there, beside me, and he was reading […]

(Hamilton, Ontario.) The wind is whipping dark clouds across the sky, grainy beams of sunlight stab through like searchlights. It’s unseasonably warm for March 5, 18 degrees in these global warming times. A full moon […]

“Art is not a mirror held to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Those are the words of Bertolt Brecht. Wayne Roberts called Tooker a “brilliant social change artist”. Indeed, Tooker himself […]