MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - June 16, 2024

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - June 16, 2024


GOOD READING & LISTENING & VIEWING:

REGINA COUNCIL REJECTS PROPOSED HOMELESS SHELTER LOCATION IN SLIM MAJORITY VOTE—Shame on them!!!
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... ep-looking ]
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -1.7232833 ]


CALGARY IS GETTING A TASTE OF REZ LIFE
[ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion ... -rez-life/ ]


U.S. ATTACK SUB, CANADA NAVY PATROL SHIP ARRIVE IN CUBA ON HEELS OF RUSSIAN WARSHIPS
[ https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-06-15/U ... ZGM/p.html ]


DAYLIGHT COMES TO CHIQUITAS USE OF COLUMBIAN DEATH SQUADS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/13/ ... tas_use_of ]


ISRAEL ASSASSINATES TOP LEBANESE COMMANDER, SPARKS MAJOR ESCALATION, with Dimitri Lascaris
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC00o2bLSys ]


GAZA & UKRAINE TO WW3: THE NATO PROBLEM
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/video-gaza-a ... o-problem/ ]


FROM GAZA TO SUDAN: THE NUMBER OF GLOBAL ARMED CONFLICTS REACH NEW POST WW2 HIGH
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/13/peace_research ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS:


TUESDAY JUNE 18, 1 pm: LNG EXPOSED—DIVING INTO HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF LNG
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... Jg8Uwc6D1w ]


TUESDAY JUNE 18, 5:30 pm: HOW CANADA’S ANTI-RACISM STRATEGY ERASES PALESTINIAN VOICES AND SUPPORTS ISRAEL
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


TUESDAY JUNE 18, 7 pm: A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR MICHELLE GOOD—AUTHOR OF FIVE LITTLE INDIANS, CENTRAL LIBRARY FILM THEATRE, LORNE & 12TH —Please register.
[ https://www.reginalibrary.ca/attend/programs/10939976 ]


WEDNESDAY JUNE 19, NOON: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY CONVERSATIONS—CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY JUNE 19, 5:30 pm: PRIDE IN CANADA—THE FIGHT CONTINUES
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY JUNE 19, 6 – 8 pm: OPEN MIC NIGHT—PEACE & POWER, DUNLOP ART GALLERY, CENTRAL LIBRARY, 1311 12TH AVE—OUTSIDE ON LORNE ST
For all skill levels. Share your poetry, spoken word, dance, rhymes, or anything you’ve been creating. Drop-in and be part of this inspiring event, as we celebrate peace, power, and collective action. Performances in first hour followed by Open Mic. Email jvaughn@reginalibrary.ca to sign up in advance!!
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/1150499309335313/ ]


THURSDAY JUNE 20, 11 am: WHAT’S THE HARM? RADIATION, RADIOACTIVE EMISSIONS AND HEALTH
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


THURSDAY JUNE 20, 5 pm: AMNESTY BOOK CLUB PRESENTS OMAR EL AKKAD, AUTHOR OF WHAT STRANGE PARADISE
An online event; [ https://www.facebook.com/events/468416282224845/ ]


FRIDAY JUNE 21, 10 am: LEGAL CHALLENGE TO REGINA’S NEW WARD BOUNDARIES IN COURT, COURT OF KING’S BENCH, 2425 VICTORIA AVENUE
Let’s pack to the courthouse and show them we are against the new ward boundaries—boundaries that suburbanize Cathedral and other core neighbourhoods and disempower the core.


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 ]


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:

PETITION CONDEMNING YORK UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORTING ENCAMPED STUDENT PROTESTORS
[ https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/petiti ... testors-1/ ]


TELL YOUR MPs YOU OPPOSE SHAM HEARINGS THAT INCITE HATE!
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell- ... urce=email ]


TO THE MINISTER OF LABOUR: ENSURE CANADIAN COMPANIES RESPECT HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
[ https://takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/148425/action/1 ]


SIGN ON TO A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR LEONARD PELTIER
[ https://actionnetwork.org/forms/notes-leonard-peltier/ ]


TELL TARGET; DON’T PANDER TO RIGHT-WING HATE. CELEBRATE PRIDE
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/pride ... wide-2024/ ]


TELL EPA TO STOP USING DEADLY PESTICIDE—TO PROTECT PEOPLE, POLLINATORS, & THE PLANET
[ https://action.foe.org/page/68951/actio ... arded=true ]


- Making Peace Vigil