MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - June 23, 2024

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - June 23, 2024


GOOD READING & LISTENING & VIEWING:

CITY COUNCIL REJECTION OF HOMLESS SHELTER SITE WAS SUBTLE RACISM
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/letters/ ... tle-racism ]


CENTRAL LIBRARY FUNDING REQUEST SHOULD WAIT UNTIL FALL, SAY REGINA CITY ADMINISTRATORS
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... -september ]


CITY SAYS SURVEY SHOWS HIGH SUPPORT FOR KEEPING SCARTH STREET PEDESTRIAN-ONLY
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -1.7240329 ]


THE SCOURGE OF SELF-CHECKOUT
https://thewalrus.ca/the-scourge-of-self-checkout/

THE REAL SCANDAL IS UNDERMINING DISCUSSION OF TAX SUBSIDIES FOR ISRAEL, by Yves Engler
[ https://yvesengler.com/2024/06/20/real- ... or-israel/ ]


WHO WILL ARREST ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU? by Steve Staples
[ https://www.peacequest.ca/p/who-will-ar ... e-minister [


IDF’s CHIEF SPOKESPERSON ADMITS THAT ISRAEL CANNOT DESTROY HAMAS, with Dimitri Lascaris
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NCF2ZrX6sE ]


BLOWING UP PEACE PLANS CAN GET US ALL KILLED, with Jeffrey Sachs
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Z8O0wcz0qvM ]


GAZA CHILDREN ARE FACING THE UNSPEAKABLE
[ https://therealnews.com/gazas-children- ... nspeakable ]


THE U.S. HAS 'HIJACKED' THE U.N.'s PURSUIT OF A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA, with Dimitri Lascaris & Sam Husseini
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx2HAO-NfIo ]


‘THE NIGHT WON’T END’: NEW FILM INVESTIGATES CIVILIAN KILLINGS IN GAZA & US BACKING OF ISRAELI ASSAULT
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/21/ ... t_wont_end ]


JUNETEENTH AND JULY 4TH HIGHLIGHT AMERICA’S HISTORIC CONTRADICTIONS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/20/ ... t_americas ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS:

TUESDAY JUNE 25, 2 pm: OUR ROOTED RELATIVES, ARCHER LIBRARY ROOMS 107.32-33, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA
About: Presentations on the importance of flora and land-based knowledge from an Indigenous worldview. This event is free and open to the public.
Presenters:
Elder Betty McKenna, from Sapotawayak Reserve, Treaty 4 Territory in Manitoba
Dr. Fidji Gendron, Associate Dean (Academic) and Professor of Biology at First Nations University of Canada


TUESDAY JUNE 25, 7 PM: WHY ARE CANADA & THE US BACKING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE? WITH JEET HEER, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR THE NATION, CENTRAL LIBRARY, LORNE ST & 12TH AVE
Jeet Heer will speak about the sources of the American alliance with Israel and Canada’s role in imperialism. The talk will take up the long history of the US-Israel relationship, Canadian and American affinity with Israel as settler colonial states, and why Joe Biden is committed to Israel’s onslaught in Gaza despite the political damage to his reelection chances and the diplomatic damage to America’s international reputation.
Hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Regina


WEDNESDAY JUNE 26, 10 am: CULTURALLY BASED PROGRAMS AND HEALING: A PANEL ON INDIGENOUS HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION
[ https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/ ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY JUNE 26, 11 am: MOBILIZING OUR COMMUNITIES FOR SOCIAL HOUSING
[ https://mcmaster.zoom.us/meeting/regist ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY JUNE 26, 1 pm: MEETING OF REGINA CITY COUNCIL, CITY HALL
On the agenda: ●Change the name of Dewdney—YES!!! ●Central Library, which the Library Board wants to demolish and move elsewhere—NO!!!


WEDNESDAY JUNE 26, 5 pm: CLIMATE CHANGE KILLS! HOW DO WE FIGHT BACK?
[ https://act.350.org/signup/call-j26/?ak ... ction-form ]


TUESDAY JULY 9, 7 pm: TEACH-IN TUESDAY—ORGANIZING FOR THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION, HAMPTON HUB, 1221 15TH AVE


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 7 pm: AN EVENING TO CELEBRATE THE POSSIBILITY THAT IS EDUCATION, DARKE HALL, 2255 COLLEGE AVE
6:30pm (doors open)
7pm-9pm Keynote speakers followed by open Q & A
9pm-10pm reception
Keynotes:
Dr. Cynthia B. Dillard, Dean of Education, Seattle University
Dr. Joel Westheimer, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/1156795555372601/ ]


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS:

MPs, HOLD AN EMERGENCY DEBATE ON CANADIANS’ RIGHT TO BE COOL
[ https://act.leadnow.ca/Debate-RightToBe ... 0&source=k ]


THE WORLD BANK FINANCED THE ABUSE OF CHILDREN FOR YEARS. IT MUST PROVIDE COMPENSATION
[ https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/7 ... 3412075927 ]


- Making Peace Vigil