MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - February 27, 2025-

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - February 27, 2025


GOOD READING AND LISTENING AND VIEWING:

VIGIL HONOURS 'NAMELESS' AND 'FORGOTTEN' PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED FROM HOMELESSNESS IN REGINA
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -1.7468913 ]


REGINA POLICE TO OPEN NEW OFFICE IN CORNWALL CENTRE—NO!! This needs to be stopped!!!
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... all-centre ]


OVERCROWDED SHELTERS SEND OUT CALL FOR HELP AFTER REGINA’S LATEST COLD SNAP
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... -providers ]


MOOSE JAW MAN LOSES EMOTIONAL SUPPORT DOG AMID HOMELESSNESS STRUGGLE
[ https://www.moosejawtoday.com/local-new ... e-10289011 ]


PRAIRIE SKIES EXPLORES NEWCOMER CONCERNS AHEAD OF COMMUNITY CONVERSATION REPORT
[ https://www.moosejawtoday.com/local-new ... t-10283773 ]


SASKATCHEWAN READY TO GIVE POLICE GREATER AUTHORITY TO CRACK DOWN ON DRUG TRAFFICKERS, USERS
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoo ... -1.7468549 ]


EXPERTS SAY SASK. LEGISLATION MEANT TO CRACK DOWN ON PUBLIC DRUG USE MAY WORSEN CRIME
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoo ... -1.7469630 ]


B.C. TEACHER PLACED ON LEAVE AFTER USING N-WORD IN PRESENCE OF BLACK STUDENTS
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.7469580 ]


THE TRADE WAR POSES A THREAT TO CANADIAN HEALTH CARE
[ https://thewalrus.ca/trade-war-health/ ]


HOW FAR CAN ‘BUY CANADIAN’ REALLY GO
[ https://thewalrus.ca/buy-canadian/ ]


ACTIVISTS MAKE HISTORY: CAMPAIGNING FOR PROGRESS WITH ALEXA GILMOUR
[ https://perspectivesjournal.ca/campaign ... a-gilmour/ ]


INDIGENOUS LEADERS SAY TRUMP'S THREATS TO MAKE CANADA A 51ST STATE CHALLENGES INHERENT SOVEREIGNTY
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoo ... -1.7466351 ]


MEXICO'S PRESIDENT IS PRAISED AT HOME FOR HANDLING TRUMP. BUT SHE MUST WALK A FINE LINE
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mexico ... -1.7467986 ]


AS MUSK SLASHES FEDERAL GOV’T & FIRES THOUSANDS, WORKERS, TRUMP APPOINTEES, JUDGES & MEDIA PUSH BACK
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/25/ ... rs_layoffs ]


‘IT’S NOT ELON VERSUS GOVERNMENT. IT’S ELON VERSUS EVERYONE’: A DIRE WARNING FROM FIRED FEDERAL WORKERS
[ https://therealnews.com/a-dire-warning- ... al-workers ]


ISRAEL SENDS TANKS INTO WEST BANK AMID “DE FACTO ANNEXATION” OF PALESTINIAN LANDS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/24/ ... _barghouti ]


RIGHTS GROUPS URGE ICC TO PROBE BIDEN FOR ‘AIDING & ABETTING’ ISRAELI WAR CRIMES IN GAZA
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-war-crimes ]


BIDEN, BLINKEN, & AUSTIN ACCUSED OF COMPLITICY IN ISRAELI WAR CRIMES IN GAZA
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/25/ ... _palestine ]


THE GAZA ‘CEASEFIRE’ IS AT A CRUCIAL CROSSROADS, with Jeremy Scahill
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/the-gaza ... -a-crucial ]


EYEWITNESS VENEZUELA: INAUGURATION, NEW PRESIDENTIAL TERM AND ANTIFASCIST CONFERENCE
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihYqPblqjLE ]


THE RESIST NATO CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS THE MUNICH SECURITY SUMMIT & TRUMP’S FAKE PEACE PLAN
[ https://internationalsolidarity.org/res ... eace-plan/ ]


THE OLD WORLD ORDER COULDN’T STOP WARS IN UKRAINE & GAZA. THE NEW WORLD ORDER WILL ACCELERATE MORE WARS LIKE THEM
[ https://therealnews.com/the-old-world-o ... e-and-gaza ]


UN TREATY ON THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED AMD WHAT TO EXPECT
[ https://www.icanw.org/tpnw_meeting_of_s ... _to_expect ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS:

TODAY UNTIL MAY 14: BLACK PRAIRIES, DUNLOP ART GALLERY, CENTRAL LIBRARY
BLACK PRAIRIES honours more than one hundred years of Black/African-Canadian cultural production in the Prairies, spanning the 1920s to the present, with a focus on lens-based media. The exhibition includes newly commissioned contemporary artwork, original glass plate negatives by early 1900s Black Manitoban photographer William “Billy” Beal, and archival photographs from the City of Edmonton’s Frank B. Jamerson fonds.
[ https://www.reginalibrary.ca/dunlop-art ... s/12703307 ]


THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27, 12:30 pm: TRUMP’S NEW WORLD DISORDER
Speakers include: Lindsey German, StW convenor, Tariq Ali writer and activist, investigative journalist Matt Kennard, & Medea Benjamin from America's Code Pink
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... Oyqc2hFR4Q ]


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


FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1 pm: ADDRESSING HATE CRIMES—STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE REPORTING, TRACKING, & RESPONSE
[ https://globeandmailevents.com/findingc ... GlobeEmail ]


FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28, 7 pm: SCREENING OF FROM GROUND ZERO: STORIES FROM GAZA, U OF R COLLEGE AVE CAMPUS, RM 139
No filmmaker, writer, or artist should ever have to tell the story of their own genocide. Yet 22 brave Palestinian filmmakers found a way to film their STORY this past year in Gaza using whatever tools they could pull from the rubble of their homes and cities. FROM GROUND ZERO is the collection of these short films – stories of taxi drivers and mothers, toddlers and teachers, comedians and artists, finding ways to feed their families, bathe their children, bring joy to their community, and to survive.
ADMISSION BY DONATION
Watch the trailer here. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu1ynfL1g70 ]


SATURDAY MARCH 1, 10 am – 3 pm: SEEDY SATURDAY, RIDDELL CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA
Get ready for spring gardening. Buy seeds and celebrate the joy of gardening!
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/9329034 ... tory%22%3A[]%7D ]


TUESDAY MARCH 4, NOON: NON-PROFITS IN ACTION—EFFECTIVELY ENGAGING IN ELECTION ADVOCACY
[ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/nonprofits- ... tdtcreator ]


TUESDAY MARCH 4, 5 pm: COUNCIL OF CANADIANS NATIONAL CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: GETTING FROM THE CANADA WE’VE GOT TO THE CANADA WE WANT
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY MARCH 5, NOON: CO-OP CONVERSATION - INTRODUCING THE COOPERATIVE WORLD MAP: A SNAPSHOT OF THE GLOBAL COOPERATIVE ONLINE PRESENCE,” with Tom Ivey
[ https://uregina.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo ... plLy1qSppQ ]


WEDNESDAY MARCH 5, 2:30 pm: CLEAN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY JUSTICE IN CANADA: WINS, CHALLENGES AND WHERE TO GO FROM HERE
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... -43SIc7qRw ]


WEDNESDAY MARCH 5, 5;30 pm: SENIORS FOR CLIMATE UPDATE WEBINAR
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... tiJnAuX5rQ ]


THURSDAY MARCH 6, 7 pm: WHY CIVIL DISCOURSE MATTERS, WITH RANDY BOYAGODA, CENTRAL LIBRARY
[ https://www.reginalibrary.ca/attend/programs/12603187 ]


WEDNESDAY MARCH 12, 4 pm: CANADA IN THE AGE OF TRUMP—NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY & FOREIGN POLICY IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/3875320099463630/ ]


SATURDAY MARCH 15 – SUNDAY MARCH 16: INTERNATIONAL US-CUBA NORMALIZATION CONFERENCE
[ https://us-cubanormalization.org/CubaConference2025/ ]


SATURDAY MARCH 15 – SATURDAY MARCH 29: FILM FEST—THE UNTOLD STORIES OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
[ https://www.pressenza.com/2025/02/2025- ... r-weapons/ ]


MONDAY MARCH 17 – THURSDAY MARCH 20: CITY OF REGINA 2025 BUDGET DISCUSSIONS, REGINA CITY HALL


MONDAY MARCH 17 – FRIDAY MARCH 21: CANADA READS, CBC RADIO ONE
[ https://www.cbc.ca/books/meet-the-canad ... -1.7431920 ]


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 ]


WEDNESDAY MARCH 17, 7 pm: A RIGHT TO STRIKE—10 YEARS AFTER SFL VERSUS GOVERNMENT OF SASKATCHEWAN, ARTESIAN, 2627 13TH AVE
Panelists:
Barb Byers (past president of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour & Exec VP of the Canadian Labour Congress)
Barb Cape (president of SEIU West Saskatchewan)
Rick Engel (co-counsel on behalf of the SFL & other unions at the Supreme Court of Canada)
Larry Hubich (past president of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour)
Jeff Sweet (business manager, IBEW Local 2038)


WEDNESDAY MARCH 19, 10 am: WOMAN IN CONFICT ZONES
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/womenandwar/ ]


SATURDAY MARCH 29, 10 am – 4 pm: REPAIR CAFÉ, 1770 HALIFAX ST
A Repair Cafe is a community event where people can bring broken or damaged items to be fixed for free by volunteers. The goal is to promote repairing and reusing items instead of throwing them away, which helps reduce waste and encourages sustainability.
[ https://www.envirocollective.ca/repair-cafe/ ]


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:


LET CANADIAN TEACHERS TEACH
[ https://www.change.org/p/freedom-to-tea ... hers-teach ]


IT’S TIME TO DITCH TESLA. ELON MUSK IS A DANGER TO THE WORLD
[ https://action.eko.org/a/ditch-tesla?ak ... e=fwd&t=12 ]


TELL ASSET MANAGER VANGUARD TO STOP FINANCING THE PLASTICS APOCALYPSE!
[ https://action.foe.org/page/79781/actio ... id=3355714 ]


ICC: INVESTIGATE THE BIDEN ADMIN FOR AIDING ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES!
[ https://www.codepink.org/bidenicc?utm_c ... e=codepink ]


- Making Peace Vigil