MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter -= July 28, 2024

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - July 28, 2024


GOOD READING & LISTENING & VIEWING:

COURT GRANTS 11 INTERVENER APPLICATIONS, DISMISSES ONE IN BILL 137 APPEAL
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/chief-justi ... 137-appeal ]


WHAT IS ADVANCE REGINA’S BIG SECRET?
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnis ... -to-be-one ]


COUPLE SPENT 5 MONTHS ON BRINK OF HOMELESSNESS DESPITE USING MANY COMMUNITY, GOV'T RESOURCES—Story from 2023, but still, unfortunately, relevant
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -1.6946862 ]


WINNIPEG STREET LINKS EXEC FINED FOR TRESPASSING AS SOME EVICTED TENANTS RETURN TO COLLEGE AVENUE APARTMENT
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba ... -1.7271968 ]


MANITOBA SENDING DELEGATION TO HOUSTON TO LOOK AT MODEL THAT HOUSED THOUSANDS OF HOMELESS PEOPLE
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba ... -1.7273680 ]


HISTORIC CABBAGETOWN ROWHOUSES SLATED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING STILL IN LIMBO
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ ... -1.7039912 ]


LIBERAL HOUSING MINISTER’ WINING & DINING’ BC’s BIGGEST REAL ESTATE CEOS
[ https://breachmedia.ca/liberal-housing- ... tate-ceos/ ]


CANADA WHITEWASHES AFRICA’S MOST RUTHLESS DICTATOR
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wQp4ZVAfBM ]


DIMITRI LASCARIS ARRIVES IN CARACAS TO OBSERVE VENEZUELA'S JULY 28 ELECTION
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nIqc-KMaEo ]


CRA WIN FOR PALESTINE: JEWISH NATIONAL FUND REVOKED BY CANADA REVENUE AGENCY
https://www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/relea ... ue-agency/

BIG WIN FOR PALESTINE: CANADA REVENUE AGENCY REVOKES JEWISH NATIONAL FUND CHARITABLE STATUS
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcPE0y28QQs ]


PARIS OLYMPICS—WAR ON THE HOMELESSNESS
[ https://therealnews.com/social-cleansin ... s-olympics ]


AN ‘OLYMPIC PROBLEM’: ADVOCATES CALL OUT PARIS’S WAR ON THE HOMELESS
[ https://therealnews.com/an-olympic-prob ... e-homeless ]


PARIS OLYMPICS SLAMMED FOR “SOCIAL CLEANSING,” MASS DISPLACEMENT, MILITARIZATION & GREENWASHING
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/26/ ... s_olympics ]


'NOTHING TO EAT': WAR-TORN SUDAN FACES MASS FAMINE AS MILITARY DELAYS AID
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/sudan ... id-blocked ]


IF SHE BEATS TRUMP, HOW MIGHT KAMALA HARRIS HANDLE TWO RAGING WARS?
[ https://www.peacequest.ca/p/if-she-beat ... ght-kamala ]


SO THIS ‘TWO-STATE SOLUTION’ IS CODE FOR NEOCOLONIALISM, RIGHT?
[ https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024 ... lism-right ]


DURING NETANYAHU SPEECH, U.S. LAWMAKERS CHEERED “WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY A WAR ON CHILDREN”
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/25/ ... h_congress ]


“THE ONLY ANSWER IS PEACE”: ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN ACTIVISTS SHARE VISION OF COEXISTENCE
[ https://www.DEMOCRACYNOW.org/2024/7/25/ ... ts_protest ]


G20 NATIONS TAKE 'IMPORTANT STEP' TOWARD FAIR TAXATION OF ULTRA-RICH
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/g20-c ... -tax-rates ]


UN CHIEF SAYS RICH COUNTRIES 'SIGNING AWAY OUR FUTURE' WITH FOSSIL FUEL DEVELOPMENT
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-wa ... ssil-fuels ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS:


WEDNESDAY JULY 31, 11:30 am: EVEN CHURCHILL THOUGHT HIROSHIMA WAS UNNECESSARY
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]


THURSDAY AUGUST 1, 5 pm: AMNESTY BOOK CLUB PRESENTS: R.F. KUANG, AUTHOR OF YELLOWFACE
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


THURSDAY AUGUST 1 & 8: THE HISTORY & RISE OF WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALSIM
[ https://www.augsburgfortress.org/webinars/WCNwebinar/ ]


MONDAY AUGUST 19, 7 pm: BOOK LAUNCH, A COMMUNIST FOR THE RCMP, BY DENNIS GRUENDING, CENTRAL LIBRARY FILM THEATRE
[ https://attend.reginalibrary.ca/event/11153059 ]


MONDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 9:30 am: SASKATCHEWAN SOLUTIONS- HUMAN TRAFFICKING ON THE PRAIRIES: BRINGING CONNECTION AND OPTIONS FOR SUPPORT
[ https://stopstoviolence.wildapricot.org/event-5794683 ]


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/ ]


SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1:30 – 4 pm: ANTI-RACISM ACTION WORKSHOP, UNITARIAN CENTRE, 2700 COLLEGE AVE
Everyone age 10 -110 is welcome to attend.


THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7, 6:30 pm: VANDANA SHIVA GUEST SPEAKER OF BC CCPA
Details to follow.


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS:

GOVERNMENT OF CANADA: RESTORE THE CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS' GRANTING BUDGET TO $500 MILLION ANNUALLY TO ENSURE A MORE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES WHILE MAINTAINING EXISTING FUNDING COMMITMENTS.
[ https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/ ... ion=e-5061 ]


LETTER TO CANADA REVENUE AGENCY: THANK YOU FOR REVOKING THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA‘S CHARITABLE STATUS. PLEASE INVESTIGATE THE MANY OTHER ISRAEL-FOCUSED CHARITIES THAT HAVE VIOLATED CRA RULES
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/win-f ... nue-agency ]


MAKE BIG OIL FOOT THE BILL FOR WILDFIRES
[ https://act.leadnow.ca/Big-Oil-MTP/?utm ... 2024-07-25 ]


MORE PLASTIC SOLUTIONS, NOT PLASTIC POLLUTION
[ https://action.foe.org/page/70661/actio ... arded=true ]


BAN DEEP SEA MINING
[ https://action.greenpeace.org.uk/deep-sea-mining-2 ]


- Making Peace Vigil