MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - January 30, 2025

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - January 30, 2025


GOOD READING AND LISTENING AND VIEWING:

HEY GREENLAND! JOIN US, NOT THE UNITED STATES, by Erin Weir
[ https://financialpost.com/opinion/opini ... ted-states ]


REGINA PUBLIC SCHOOLS STAND FIRM ON ALLOWING STUDENTS TO CHOOSE CHANGE ROOMS BASED ON GENDER
[ https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6625050 ]


VANCOUVER MAYOR’S HOUSING PROPOSAL PUTS PROFITS OVER BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS
[ https://pvonline.ca/2025/01/27/vancouve ... an-rights/ ]


SHE WANTED TO EXIT AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP. SHE ENDED UP BEING ARRESTED
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-sco ... -1.7440782 ]


WHY SOME CANADIAN TOWNS ARE SEEING PUSHES TO KEEP CROSSWALKS WHITE, LET CERTAIN FLAGS FLY
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton ... -1.7439687 ]


EDMONTON POLICE ASKED ALBERTA TO INTERVENE AFTER CITY COUNCIL APPOINTED TWO COMMISSIONERS. DOCUMENTS SHOW PAST CRITICISM AND ALLEGATIONS OF 'BIAS' DROVE THE REQUEST
[ https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local- ... hief-mcfee ]


CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY HOUR JANUARY 27, with Yves Engler
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zx5wMqK3t4 ]


AS ICE CONDUCTS MADE-FOR-TV RAIDS, CITIES FROM CHICAGO TO NEWARK RESIST TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/28/ice_chicago ]


MOTHERHOOD MADE ME EVEN MORE OF A PRISON AND POLICE ABOLITIONIST
[ https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025 ... -anthology ]


THE LAW ISN’T ENOUGH TO BRING AMAZON TO HEEL
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/the-law-is ... newsletter ]


BIDEN WAS A FAILURE. TRUMP WILL BE A CATASTROPHE
[ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion ... tastrophe/ ]


A CALL TO MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS: DON’T BACK DOWN IN THE FACE OF TRUMP’S THREATS
[ https://therealnews.com/a-call-to-media ... ps-threats ]


GAZA DEATH REVISIONISTS ARE THE NEW HOLOCAUST DENIERS
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/gaza-death ... newsletter ]


BOYCOTT4PALESINE: STRAGEGIES & CAMPAIGNS
[ https://www.youtube.com/live/cCjbwS2rvz8 ]


GAZA AID SURVEY DETAILS ISRAEL'S 'DISREGARD OF INTERNATIONAL LAW'
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/israe ... s-gaza-aid ]


ISRAELI FORCES KILL 22 PROTESTERS DEMANDING THEIR WITHDRAWAL IN LEBANON
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-le ... -1.7442002 ]


EGYPT, JORDAN REJECT TRUMP PLAN TO “CLEAN OUT” GAZA; PALESTINIANS RETURN TO N. GAZA IN HISTORIC DAY
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/27/ ... gaza_trump ]


THE REAL POSSIBILITY OF PEACE ON EARTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY (PART 2): THE PILL THAT THE WEST MUST NOW SWALLOW
[ https://www.pressenza.com/2025/01/the-r ... w-swallow/ ]


AT 89 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT, DOOMSDAY CLOCK NOW 'CLOSEST IT HAS EVER BEEN TO CATASTROPHE'
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/nucle ... sday-clock ]


TURN BACK THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK
[ https://nofirstuse.global/2025/01/29/no ... day-clock/ ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS:

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1, 10 am: BRAINSTORMING SESSION—TURN DEBT INTO HOPE, HARMONY UNITED CHURCH, 177 SUNSET DRIVE
KAIROS Canada has just launched the Jubilee 2025 campaign, "Turn Debt Into Hope." This is part of an international movement to cancel unfair debts in the Global South, inspired by the powerful Jubilee 2000 campaign. The 2025 campaign also aims to stop the repeated buildup of debt, and address ecological debt owed by wealthy countries.
[ https://www.kairoscanada.org/jubilee-2025-canada ]


SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1, 11 am –noon: ARTIST TALK AND OPENING RECEPTION—BLACK PRAIRIES, DUNLOP ART GALLERY, CENTRAL LIBRARY, 2311 12TH AVE
Join us for a panel discussion with artists Anna Binta Diallo, Judah Iyunade, Richard Allan Thomas, and Chukwudubem Ukaigwe at 11 AM in the Community Commons to celebrate the opening of the exhibition BLACK PRAIRIES. Following the discussion, join us for the Black History Month Celebration | Regina Public Library
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/948127110593010 ]


TUESDAY FEBRUARY 4, 6 pm: GREAT GREEN WALL, CENTRAL LIBRARY FILM THEATRE, 12TH AVE & LORNE ST
[ https://thegreatgreenwall.org/film ]


TUESDAY FEBRUARY 4, 6 PM: CANADA UPDATE 2025: NUCLEAR WASTE BURIAL & THE NWMO | NUCLEAR WASTE ONLINE 2025
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 7 pm: WAR, CLIMATE FAIRNESS & PLANETARY HEALTH : IS THE COP PROCESS HARMFUL?
[ https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpcu ... LYYs0l2bQH ]


THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13, 9 am – 3 pm: FIRST UNDERGRADUATE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CONFERENCE (it’s open to everybody), UNIVERSITY OF REGINA, CONFERENCE FEE $7.00
[ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-unde ... tdtcreator ]


THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13: SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO—SCREENING & STORYTELLING, WITH TASHA HUBBARD
4:15-5:00 pm - free stew and bannock will be provided in Multipurpose Room 128.1, Dr. William Riddell Centre
5:15-9:00 pm - film screeening, storytelling, and Q&A in Shumiatcher Open Stage Theatre (Shu-Box), Dr. William Riddell Centre
[ https://www.uregina.ca/50th/events/2025 ... bbard.html ]


TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25, 5:30 – 6:30 pm: REGINA HOMELESS MEMORIAL, CITY SQUARE PLAZA, 12TH AVE JUST EAST OF LORNE ST
Hosted by Phoenix Residential Society, it is a memorial for all those who died of being unhoused in 2024. Last year 93 names were read out. How many more will there be this year?
[ https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=101 ... 4478570221 ]


THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27, 7 pm: RACE IN THE LINE OF DUTY—UNCOVERING ITS IMPACT ON POLICING ATTITUDES, BEHAVIOURS, & THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM, COLLEGE AVE COMPUS, CB 139


WEDNESDAY MARCH 19, 7 pm: 2025 WOODROW LLOYD LECTURE, WITH JENNIE STEPHENS—CLIMATE JUSTICE AND THE UNIVERSITY: SHAPING A HOPEFUL FUTURE, COLLEGE AVENUE CAMPUS, 2155 COLLEGE AVE
[ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-woodr ... 7082960899 ]


SATURDAY APRIL 5, 2 pm: CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF JUNE MITCHELL (1926 - 2024), 2 pm, BLUE ROOM, HOTEL SASK, 2125 VICTORIA AVE
June was a long-time peace and justice activist. She participated in Making Peace Vigil when we handed out pamphlets on the Scarth Street Mall.


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS:

MANDATE NURSING-TO-PATIENT RATIOS FOR SAFE NURSING PRACTICE
[ https://www.change.org/p/mandate-nursin ... g-practice ]


TAX THE RICH
[ https://action.eko.org/a/tax-billionair ... e=fwd&t=10 ]


TAKE ACTION FOR A GAS & OIL POLLUTION CAP
[ https://act.cape.ca/newmode_climate_emissions_cap_en ]


STOP BIG OIL’S CLIMATE CHAOS
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/?utm_source=mkt ... m_campaign ]


SIGN THE PEACE MANIFESTO NOW
[ https://www.codepink.org/pcmanifesto?ut ... e=codepink ]


TELL MICROSOFT TO STOP PARTNERING WITH ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell- ... s-genocide ]


TELL BIG BANKS TO DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS
[ https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/tel ... ssil-fuels ]


PM UK: PROTECT THE RIGHT TO PROTEST
[ https://action.greenpeace.org.uk/protec ... to-protest ]


- Making Peace Vigil