MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - May 1, 2025
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 1:27 pmMAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - May 1, 2025
HAPPY MAY DAY—INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY!
[ https://colombiaone.com/2025/04/29/orig ... rkers-day/ ]
“MOST WORKERS DON’T WANT THEIR MONEY GOING TO FOREIGN WARS”
AN INTERVIEW WITH BRANDON MANCILLA
[ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/uaw-palesti ... ies-speech ]
2 SPECIAL EVENTS
THURSDAY MAY 1, 6 -10 pm: 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ON TO OTTAWA TREK AND THE REGINA RIOT, THE ARTESIAN 2627 13TH AVE
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/9645823935497816/ ]
MONDAY MAY 5, ALL DAY: RED DRESS DAY—A DAY TO REMEMBER MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRLS, & TWO-SPIRIT PEOPLE
One way to mark Red Dress Day is to hang a red dress in your window or in your yard.
[ https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/ ... -dress-day ]
GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING
RED DRESS DAY 2025—AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
[ https://amnesty.ca/red-dress-day/ ]
REGINA CITY MANAGER GOES ON LEAVE SUDDENLY—What’s up this time?
[ https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6743215 ]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LAWSUITS BETWEEN URSU, UR PRIDE, & U OF R WOMEN’S CENTRE
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... ens-centre ]
FAMILIES GATHER IN REGINA AS SASKATCHEWAN DECLARES 'MISSING PERSONS WEEK'
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -1.7520688 ]
REGINA LEADER-POST REPORTER BRANDON HARDER WINS NATIONAL NEWSPAPER AWARD
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... ce98877544 ]
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION WANTS TO SEE NON-PROFIT HOUSING SUPPLY IN CANADA DOUBLE
[ https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6743296 ]
SASKATCHEWAN IS A COMPLEX PLACE IN NEED OF HELP FROM INCOMING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BY MURRAY MANDRYK
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnis ... government ]
CANADA’S ELECTION: A LESSON IN HUMILITY FOR LEADERS BAD AT BEING HUMBLE
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnis ... ing-humble ]
IN TRUMP’S SHADOW: REFLECTIONS ON CANADA’S 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION
[ https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/in-trumps-shadow ]
THE CANADIAN ELECTION: THIS IS WHAT A TWO PARTY SYSTEM LOOKS LIKE
[ https://www.fairvote.ca/29/04/2025/cana ... sentation/ ]
RISE OF THE RIGHT CONTINUES IN CANADA—A DOGWOOD ANALYSIS OF THE CANADIAN ELECTION
[ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bJIov3EoCEU ]
“TRUMP IS TRYING TO BREAK US”: TRUMP THREATS TO ANNEX CANADA HELP LIBERAL PARTY WIN CRITICAL ELECTION
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/30/ ... ark_carney ]
CANADA VOTES—with Yves Engler & Dimitri Lascaris
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=snOULa3cAZc ]
BEYOND ‘ELBOWS UP’—OUR ELECTION POSTMORTEM
[ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news- ... st-mortem/ ]
‘TRUMP IS TRYING TO BREAK US,’ CARNEY WARNS, AS LIBERALS WIN CANADIAN ELECTION
[ https://therealnews.com/trump-is-trying ... n-election ]
CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY HOUR, APRIL 28, with Yves Engler
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLQPkjM8a5M ]
TRUMP’S TARIFFS HAVE DONE WHAT NO US ADVERSARY COULD
[ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/trump-tarif ... s-standing ]
'NAKEDLY CORRUPT SELF-ENRICHMENT': WATCHDOG RAISES ALARM OVER TRUMP CRYPTO SCHEME
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-coin-crypto ]
CANADA’S NUCLEAR INDUSTRY & THE MYTH OF THE PEACEFUL ATOM, by Gordon Edwards
[ https://www.ccnr.org/myth_2.html#ind ]
NOBEL LAUREATES URGE PRESIDENTS TRUMP & PUTIN TO MEET & AGREE ON DENUCLEARIZATION
[ https://www.icanw.org/nobel_laureates_u ... ource=ican ]
THE JOURNEY BEYOND NUKES BEGINS WITH AN APOLOGY
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-journey- ... n-apology/ ]
100 PALESTINIANS KILLED IN WEEKEND OF ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES ON GAZA
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-g ... s-continue ]
NOTHING TO SEE. MOVE ALONG. (THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA)
[ https://judyhaiven.substack.com/p/nothi ... ng-part-ii ]
GAZA AID BLOCKADE IMPOSED BY ISRAEL CONTESTED IN INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE HEARINGS
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-unit ... -1.7520183 ]
PALESTINIAN ENVOY TO ICJ: ISRAEL USING STARVATION AS 'WEAPON OF WAR' IN 'GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN'
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/icj-hearings ]
IRISH LAWYER SPELLS OUT ISRAEL’S DESTRUCTION OF GAZA AT THE HAGUE
[ https://www.youtube.com/live/CP4FR5fYeQ4 ]
“THE HOLLOW HALF”: PALESTINIAN AMERICAN SARAH AZIZA ON GAZA, GENERATIONAL TRAUMA, ANOREXIA & EXILE
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/29/the_hollow_half ]
TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDERS TO MILITARIZE POLICE, PUNISH SANCTUARY CITIES AND REFUGEES
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/29/ ... d_refugees ]
THREE U.S. CITIZEN CHILDREN, INCLUDING 4-YEAR-OLD BATTLING 4TH STAGE CANCER, DEPORTED TO HONDURAS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/28/ ... om_country ]
‘WORSE’ THAN MCCARTHYISM: TRUMP’S WAR ON HIGHER EDUCATION, FREE SPEECH, AND POLITICAL DISSENT
[ https://therealnews.com/worse-than-mcca ... al-dissent ]
JUDGE FREES COLUMBIA STUDENT ACTIVIST WHOM TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO DEPORT—one little piece of good news
[ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/3 ... t-00317981 ]
‘I’M NOT AFRAID OF YOU,’ FREED MOHSEN MAHDAWI TELLS TRUMP
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/mohse ... i-columbia ]
“TAKING OUR POWER BACK”: IMMIGRANTS & WORKERS PLAN FOR MAY DAY PROTESTS AS TRUMP MARKS 100 DAYS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/29/trump_100_days ]
VIET THANH NGUYEN ON 50 YEARS AFTER VIETNAM WAR, TRUMP’S “UGLY AMERICAN” POLITICS, EL SALVADOR & MORE
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/30/ ... nd_destroy ]
MAY DAY HISTORY SHOWS WHY LABOR & PRISON STRUGGLES ARE INTERTWINED
[ https://therealnews.com/may-days-histor ... ntertwined ]
MAY DAY 1971: ‘IF THE GOVERNMENT WON’T STOP THE WAR, WE’LL STOP THE GOVERNMENT’
[ https://therealnews.com/may-day-1971-if ... government ]
POPE FRANCIS’S REMARKABLE PEACEMAKING LIFE
[ https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/p ... king-life/ ]
HOLY SEE: COMPREHENSIVE DISARMAMENT IS THE ONLY WAY TO LASTING PEACE
[ https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c ... peace.html ]
EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS
THURSDAY MAY 1, 6 -10 pm: 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ON TO OTTAWA TREK AND THE REGINA RIOT, THE ARTESIAN 2627 13TH AVE
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/9645823935497816/ ]
SATURDAY MAY 3, 7:30 pm: PUNK ROCK FOR PALESTINE, THE ARTESIAN, 2627 13TH AVE
Fundraiser for Good Trouble & Students for Justice in Palestine: A night of music, food & community. Donations strongly encouraged. This event is a part of the Regina & District Labour Council's May Works, events on the week of May Day.
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/690937156728368/ ]
SUNDAY MAY 4, NOON: BUTTERFLY WAY PROJECT—NATIVE PLANTS & POLINATORS
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]
SUNDAY MAY 4, 5 pm: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BOOK CLUB—WITH OMAR EL AKKAD—his recent book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, is so very powerful!
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]
MONDAY MAY 5, ALL DAY: RED DRESS DAY—A DAY TO REMEMBER MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRLS, & TWO-SPIRIT PEOPLE
One way to mark Red Dress Day is to hang a red dress in your window or in your yard.
[ https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/ ... -dress-day ]
MONDAY MAY 5, 5 pm: SAFEGUARDING CANADA’S SOVEREIGNTY: NON-VIOLENT CIVILIAN DEFENCE
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]
WEDNESDAY MAY 7, NOON: CO-OP CONVERSATION - "THE DISSOLUTION AND EVOLUTION OF AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVES: HISTORIC REFLECTIONS AND FUTURE PROJECTIONS" FEATURING DR. MURRAY FULTON
[ https://uregina.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo ... d4L6AUoc4e ]
THURSDAY MAY 8, 3:30 pm: ALEX TYRRELL TALKS ABOUT HIS RECENT VISIT TO CHINA
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/1422210915805631/ ]
FRIDAY MAY 9 NOON: A CONVERSATION WITH KETTY NIVYABANDI, SECRETARY GENERAL FOR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CANADA’S ENGLISH-SPEAKING SECTION. HOSTED BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SASKATCHEWAN
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... DfDf32DHWA ]
FRIDAY MAY 9, NOON: MISINFORMATION AND TRUST IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
[ https://uregina.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo ... LyeydTks5M ]
SATURDAY MAY 10, 2:15 pm: COMMEMORATION OF 80 YEARS SINCE FASCISM'S DEFEAT, CENTRAL LIBRARY, CE-1
Host: Regina Peace Council. For more information call Ed at 306 718 8010.
SUNDAY MAY 11, 2:30 PM: CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF JOHN CONWAY, WA WA SHRINERS, 2065 HAMILTON ST
John lived his life working for a world where social justice prevails—for a world that is a better place for everyone who lives here.
[ https://leaderpost.remembering.ca/obitu ... 1092752460 ]
MONDAY MAY 12, 5:30 pm: FIFTH ANNUAL BERRIGAN-MCALISTER AWARD CELEBRATION
The award winner, Omar Haramy, is a Palestinian Christian who works for a more just future in which all people -- Muslims, Jews, Christians, and others -- can live together in peace and justice through the power of nonviolent action.
[ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fifth-annu ... tdtcreator ]
- Making Peace Vigil
FRIDAY MAY 16, NOON: FRIDAY’S FOR FUTURE CLIMATE RALLY, LEGISLATIVE BUILDING
Join local youth fighting for their futures at this Fridays for Future rally on May 16th. It will begin at 12pm at the Saskatchewan Legislature and then move to a march on Albert Street. Let's get a crowd together like we had pre-Covid and show our youth that we haven't given up! Please share widely.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2156442801480623/
FRIDAY MAY 30, 7 pm: THE BLACK BIRD COMMONS PRESENTS AN ADULTS ONLY BOOKFAIR—A FUNDRAISER FOR REGINA’S NEW BOOKSTORE, THE EVERYDAY KITCHEN, 1378 HAMILTON ST
HAPPY MAY DAY—INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY!
[ https://colombiaone.com/2025/04/29/orig ... rkers-day/ ]
“MOST WORKERS DON’T WANT THEIR MONEY GOING TO FOREIGN WARS”
AN INTERVIEW WITH BRANDON MANCILLA
[ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/uaw-palesti ... ies-speech ]
2 SPECIAL EVENTS
THURSDAY MAY 1, 6 -10 pm: 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ON TO OTTAWA TREK AND THE REGINA RIOT, THE ARTESIAN 2627 13TH AVE
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/9645823935497816/ ]
MONDAY MAY 5, ALL DAY: RED DRESS DAY—A DAY TO REMEMBER MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRLS, & TWO-SPIRIT PEOPLE
One way to mark Red Dress Day is to hang a red dress in your window or in your yard.
[ https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/ ... -dress-day ]
GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING
RED DRESS DAY 2025—AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
[ https://amnesty.ca/red-dress-day/ ]
REGINA CITY MANAGER GOES ON LEAVE SUDDENLY—What’s up this time?
[ https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6743215 ]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LAWSUITS BETWEEN URSU, UR PRIDE, & U OF R WOMEN’S CENTRE
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... ens-centre ]
FAMILIES GATHER IN REGINA AS SASKATCHEWAN DECLARES 'MISSING PERSONS WEEK'
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -1.7520688 ]
REGINA LEADER-POST REPORTER BRANDON HARDER WINS NATIONAL NEWSPAPER AWARD
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... ce98877544 ]
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION WANTS TO SEE NON-PROFIT HOUSING SUPPLY IN CANADA DOUBLE
[ https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6743296 ]
SASKATCHEWAN IS A COMPLEX PLACE IN NEED OF HELP FROM INCOMING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BY MURRAY MANDRYK
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnis ... government ]
CANADA’S ELECTION: A LESSON IN HUMILITY FOR LEADERS BAD AT BEING HUMBLE
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnis ... ing-humble ]
IN TRUMP’S SHADOW: REFLECTIONS ON CANADA’S 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION
[ https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/in-trumps-shadow ]
THE CANADIAN ELECTION: THIS IS WHAT A TWO PARTY SYSTEM LOOKS LIKE
[ https://www.fairvote.ca/29/04/2025/cana ... sentation/ ]
RISE OF THE RIGHT CONTINUES IN CANADA—A DOGWOOD ANALYSIS OF THE CANADIAN ELECTION
[ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bJIov3EoCEU ]
“TRUMP IS TRYING TO BREAK US”: TRUMP THREATS TO ANNEX CANADA HELP LIBERAL PARTY WIN CRITICAL ELECTION
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/30/ ... ark_carney ]
CANADA VOTES—with Yves Engler & Dimitri Lascaris
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=snOULa3cAZc ]
BEYOND ‘ELBOWS UP’—OUR ELECTION POSTMORTEM
[ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news- ... st-mortem/ ]
‘TRUMP IS TRYING TO BREAK US,’ CARNEY WARNS, AS LIBERALS WIN CANADIAN ELECTION
[ https://therealnews.com/trump-is-trying ... n-election ]
CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY HOUR, APRIL 28, with Yves Engler
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLQPkjM8a5M ]
TRUMP’S TARIFFS HAVE DONE WHAT NO US ADVERSARY COULD
[ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/trump-tarif ... s-standing ]
'NAKEDLY CORRUPT SELF-ENRICHMENT': WATCHDOG RAISES ALARM OVER TRUMP CRYPTO SCHEME
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-coin-crypto ]
CANADA’S NUCLEAR INDUSTRY & THE MYTH OF THE PEACEFUL ATOM, by Gordon Edwards
[ https://www.ccnr.org/myth_2.html#ind ]
NOBEL LAUREATES URGE PRESIDENTS TRUMP & PUTIN TO MEET & AGREE ON DENUCLEARIZATION
[ https://www.icanw.org/nobel_laureates_u ... ource=ican ]
THE JOURNEY BEYOND NUKES BEGINS WITH AN APOLOGY
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-journey- ... n-apology/ ]
100 PALESTINIANS KILLED IN WEEKEND OF ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES ON GAZA
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-g ... s-continue ]
NOTHING TO SEE. MOVE ALONG. (THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA)
[ https://judyhaiven.substack.com/p/nothi ... ng-part-ii ]
GAZA AID BLOCKADE IMPOSED BY ISRAEL CONTESTED IN INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE HEARINGS
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-unit ... -1.7520183 ]
PALESTINIAN ENVOY TO ICJ: ISRAEL USING STARVATION AS 'WEAPON OF WAR' IN 'GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN'
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/icj-hearings ]
IRISH LAWYER SPELLS OUT ISRAEL’S DESTRUCTION OF GAZA AT THE HAGUE
[ https://www.youtube.com/live/CP4FR5fYeQ4 ]
“THE HOLLOW HALF”: PALESTINIAN AMERICAN SARAH AZIZA ON GAZA, GENERATIONAL TRAUMA, ANOREXIA & EXILE
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/29/the_hollow_half ]
TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDERS TO MILITARIZE POLICE, PUNISH SANCTUARY CITIES AND REFUGEES
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/29/ ... d_refugees ]
THREE U.S. CITIZEN CHILDREN, INCLUDING 4-YEAR-OLD BATTLING 4TH STAGE CANCER, DEPORTED TO HONDURAS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/28/ ... om_country ]
‘WORSE’ THAN MCCARTHYISM: TRUMP’S WAR ON HIGHER EDUCATION, FREE SPEECH, AND POLITICAL DISSENT
[ https://therealnews.com/worse-than-mcca ... al-dissent ]
JUDGE FREES COLUMBIA STUDENT ACTIVIST WHOM TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO DEPORT—one little piece of good news
[ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/3 ... t-00317981 ]
‘I’M NOT AFRAID OF YOU,’ FREED MOHSEN MAHDAWI TELLS TRUMP
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/mohse ... i-columbia ]
“TAKING OUR POWER BACK”: IMMIGRANTS & WORKERS PLAN FOR MAY DAY PROTESTS AS TRUMP MARKS 100 DAYS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/29/trump_100_days ]
VIET THANH NGUYEN ON 50 YEARS AFTER VIETNAM WAR, TRUMP’S “UGLY AMERICAN” POLITICS, EL SALVADOR & MORE
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/30/ ... nd_destroy ]
MAY DAY HISTORY SHOWS WHY LABOR & PRISON STRUGGLES ARE INTERTWINED
[ https://therealnews.com/may-days-histor ... ntertwined ]
MAY DAY 1971: ‘IF THE GOVERNMENT WON’T STOP THE WAR, WE’LL STOP THE GOVERNMENT’
[ https://therealnews.com/may-day-1971-if ... government ]
POPE FRANCIS’S REMARKABLE PEACEMAKING LIFE
[ https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/p ... king-life/ ]
HOLY SEE: COMPREHENSIVE DISARMAMENT IS THE ONLY WAY TO LASTING PEACE
[ https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c ... peace.html ]
EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS
THURSDAY MAY 1, 6 -10 pm: 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ON TO OTTAWA TREK AND THE REGINA RIOT, THE ARTESIAN 2627 13TH AVE
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/9645823935497816/ ]
SATURDAY MAY 3, 7:30 pm: PUNK ROCK FOR PALESTINE, THE ARTESIAN, 2627 13TH AVE
Fundraiser for Good Trouble & Students for Justice in Palestine: A night of music, food & community. Donations strongly encouraged. This event is a part of the Regina & District Labour Council's May Works, events on the week of May Day.
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/690937156728368/ ]
SUNDAY MAY 4, NOON: BUTTERFLY WAY PROJECT—NATIVE PLANTS & POLINATORS
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]
SUNDAY MAY 4, 5 pm: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BOOK CLUB—WITH OMAR EL AKKAD—his recent book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, is so very powerful!
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]
MONDAY MAY 5, ALL DAY: RED DRESS DAY—A DAY TO REMEMBER MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRLS, & TWO-SPIRIT PEOPLE
One way to mark Red Dress Day is to hang a red dress in your window or in your yard.
[ https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/ ... -dress-day ]
MONDAY MAY 5, 5 pm: SAFEGUARDING CANADA’S SOVEREIGNTY: NON-VIOLENT CIVILIAN DEFENCE
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]
WEDNESDAY MAY 7, NOON: CO-OP CONVERSATION - "THE DISSOLUTION AND EVOLUTION OF AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVES: HISTORIC REFLECTIONS AND FUTURE PROJECTIONS" FEATURING DR. MURRAY FULTON
[ https://uregina.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo ... d4L6AUoc4e ]
THURSDAY MAY 8, 3:30 pm: ALEX TYRRELL TALKS ABOUT HIS RECENT VISIT TO CHINA
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/1422210915805631/ ]
FRIDAY MAY 9 NOON: A CONVERSATION WITH KETTY NIVYABANDI, SECRETARY GENERAL FOR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CANADA’S ENGLISH-SPEAKING SECTION. HOSTED BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SASKATCHEWAN
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... DfDf32DHWA ]
FRIDAY MAY 9, NOON: MISINFORMATION AND TRUST IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
[ https://uregina.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo ... LyeydTks5M ]
SATURDAY MAY 10, 2:15 pm: COMMEMORATION OF 80 YEARS SINCE FASCISM'S DEFEAT, CENTRAL LIBRARY, CE-1
Host: Regina Peace Council. For more information call Ed at 306 718 8010.
SUNDAY MAY 11, 2:30 PM: CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF JOHN CONWAY, WA WA SHRINERS, 2065 HAMILTON ST
John lived his life working for a world where social justice prevails—for a world that is a better place for everyone who lives here.
[ https://leaderpost.remembering.ca/obitu ... 1092752460 ]
MONDAY MAY 12, 5:30 pm: FIFTH ANNUAL BERRIGAN-MCALISTER AWARD CELEBRATION
The award winner, Omar Haramy, is a Palestinian Christian who works for a more just future in which all people -- Muslims, Jews, Christians, and others -- can live together in peace and justice through the power of nonviolent action.
[ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fifth-annu ... tdtcreator ]
- Making Peace Vigil
FRIDAY MAY 16, NOON: FRIDAY’S FOR FUTURE CLIMATE RALLY, LEGISLATIVE BUILDING
Join local youth fighting for their futures at this Fridays for Future rally on May 16th. It will begin at 12pm at the Saskatchewan Legislature and then move to a march on Albert Street. Let's get a crowd together like we had pre-Covid and show our youth that we haven't given up! Please share widely.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2156442801480623/
FRIDAY MAY 30, 7 pm: THE BLACK BIRD COMMONS PRESENTS AN ADULTS ONLY BOOKFAIR—A FUNDRAISER FOR REGINA’S NEW BOOKSTORE, THE EVERYDAY KITCHEN, 1378 HAMILTON ST