MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - July 24, 2025

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - July 24, 2025


SIGN ON THE WALL OF REGINA MULTICULTURAL COUNCIL OF SASKATCHEWAN REGINA OFFICE
Human. Kind.
Be Both.


SPECIAL ACTION

WEDNESDAY JULY 30, 1 pm: MEETING OF REGINA CITY COUNCIL—CITY OF REGINA ENCAMPMENT RESPONSE ON THE AGENDA
Administration's report to Council regarding an encampment strategy is on the agenda for the July 30 meeting of City Council. The report can be found at the following link, pages 68-71: [ https://reginask.iqm2.com//Citizens/FileOpen.aspx ]
The City’s recommendations look very insufficient to me. Below is a Citizens Encampment Strategy to compare to the City’s.
We need lots of folks presenting at the meeting. Presentations have to be submitted by noon on Monday July 28. To submit a presentation, go to: [ https://www.regina.ca/city-government/c ... y-Council/ ]


A CITIZENS ENCAMPMENT STRATEGY
We, a group of concerned Regina citizens, call on the City of Regina to adopt an encampment policy/response/strategy that includes the following:
Commit to not removing encampments established on City property unless all residents have been provided with permanent, adequate, appropriate housing. To do otherwise, is to violate the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.”
Provide support for such encampments. Support would include the provision of the following:
Bathrooms with handwashing capability
Potable water
Garbage disposal and collection
Easy access to public transportation
Repeal laws and policies criminalizing homelessness, including being in a City park after 11 pm and erecting tents and other such structures on public property without a permit or a license.
Continue to work to end houselessness in Regina so that encampments do not become a permanent feature of our city. Such work would include:
Commit to allocating $10 million annually, starting with the 2026 budget, to the construction of affordable rental units;
Work with other Saskatchewan municipalities to put pressure on the Government of Saskatchewan to make available for immediate occupation all empty Sask Housing units in Regina—and throughout the province;
Work with other Saskatchewan municipalities to put pressure on the Government of Saskatchewan to raise the rates of the province’s two income assistance programs above the poverty line—currently a person on the Saskatchewan Income Support program gets $1,005 a month, while a person on Saskatchewan Assured Income For Disability receives on average $1,382 a month—both well below the poverty line;
Work with municipalities across Canada to put pressure on the Government of Canada to restart the national affordable housing program, cancelled in 1993, which, for a period, starting in 1974, created up to 20,000 affordable housing units every year.


GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING

REGINA'S PLANNED INDOOR AQUATIC CENTRE IS ANOTHER $40M OVER BUDGET, SAYS NEW REPORT—but there’s no money for social housing!
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... new-report ]


WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT REGINA'S RECENT SURGE IN DUTCH ELM DISEASE
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... lm-disease ]


INDIGENOUS FAMILIES DENIED DISASTER RELIEF FOR BURNED TRAPLINE CABINS—Shame!
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... 28721eb99f ]


CANADIAN WILDFIRE FORECAST SHOWS HIGH RISK OF MORE FIRES IN AUGUST
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... 1623868325 ]


THE BREATHING LANDS: GETTING BURNED BY THE RING OF FIRE, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the ... ing-burned ]


IN LANDMARK OPINION, UN COURT SAYS CLIMATE CHANGE AN ‘EXISTENTIAL THREAT’
[ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/2 ... ial-threat ]
[ https://www.greenpeace.org/internationa ... e-impacts/
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/icj-climate-ruling ]


AMAZON WORKERS IN B.C. HAVE WON UNION CERTIFICATION
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/amazon-wor ... ification/ ]


HEALTH COALITION URGES PREMIERS TO JOIN NATIONAL PHARMACARE PLAN
[ https://www.healthcoalition.ca/health-c ... care-plan/ ]


WHY ARE SO MANY FEDERAL INMATES DYING SHORTLY BEFORE THEIR RELEASE DATE?
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/federal- ... -1.7588429 ]


FROM INCARCERATION TO ENCAMPMENT: WHY SO MANY ONTARIO PRISONERS END UP HOMELESS
[ https://homelesshub.ca/resource/from-in ... -homeless/ ]


FAMILY OF MAN KILLED IN TENT CRUSHED BY BULLDOZER SUES CITY OF ATLANTA
[ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... er-lawsuit ]


THE PEACEFUL INVASION: LESSONS FROM THE VIETNAM RESISTERS MOVEMENT, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the ... l-invasion ]


CANADA AWARDS $169 MILLION DEAL TO U.S. COMPANY SUED OVER IRAQI ABUSE
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/canada-awa ... newsletter ]


CANADA JOINS ALLIES IN DEMANDING ISRAEL STOP 'DANGEROUS' AID DELIVERY IN GAZA
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada ... -1.7590124 ]


CANADA’S REMARKABLE JOINT STATEMENT ON GAZA IS A GOOD START, by Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock
[ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion ... statement/ ]


TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS ARRESTED IN BELGIUM FOR WAR CRIMES IN GAZA
[ https://www.pressenza.com/2025/07/two-i ... s-in-gaza/ ]


SUBSIDIZING THE OCCUPATION: HOW YOU’VE FUNDED ISRAELI VIOLENCE
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/email/1558 ... 7059e3d1b/ ]


PALESTINIAN AMERICAN STUDENT & DAD: 200 RELATIVES KILLED IN GAZA; VCU WITHHOLDS DIPLOMA FOR PROTEST
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/23/sereen_haddad ]


STARVATION GRIPS GAZA
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JctZ9kIjqzU&t=340s ]


RANT OF THE WEEK: THE MONSTERS WHO RULE US, with Dimitri Lascaris
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYFcMd-3wU4 ]


PALESTINE AS A PRECURSOR—ONCE AGAIN, by Josh Paul
[ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/josh-pau ... 2352-_W8Y/ ]


PALESTINIANS ARE COLLAPSING IN GAZA'S STREETS FROM ISRAELI-IMPOSED STARVATION CAMPAIGN
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli- ... -massacres ]


“PRECISELY DESIGNED MASS STARVATION”: AID ACCESS AS WEAPON IN ISRAEL’S WAR ON GAZA, RESEARCHERS FIND
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/21/ ... chitecture ]


'NEW LEVELS OF DESPERATION' IN GAZA AS ISRAELI BLOCKADE STARVES 19 PEOPLE TO DEATH IN ONE DAY
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/israe ... de-in-gaza ]


FAMINE EXPERT: ISRAEL'S STARVATION OF GAZA MOST 'MINUTELY DESIGNED AND CONTROLLED' SINCE WWII
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/famin ... since-wwii ]


12 COUNTRIES COMMIT TO ARMS EMBARGO ON ISRAEL TO STOP ITS ATTACKS ON GAZA
[ https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/17/ ... s-on-gaza/ ]


LEBANON'S MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DETAINS AND INTERROGATES LAITH MAROUF, with Dimitri Lascaris
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StWRwAeREIM ]


KENYAN WOMEN’S GULF JOBS BEGIN WITH HOPE AND END IN HORROR
[ https://jacobin.com/2025/07/kenyan-wome ... work-abuse ]


FRANCESCA ALBANESE: "A REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS UNDERWAY"
[ https://www.pressenza.com/fr/2025/07/fr ... -en-cours/ ]


NUCLEAR ABOLITION: A SCENARIO
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9fBYHfpRU4 ]


UN CHIEF SAYS NATIONS CLINGING TO FOSSIL FUELS ARE 'SABOTAGING' THEIR OWN ECONOMIES
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/guter ... transition ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS

THURSDAY JULY 24, 10:30 AM: WAR ABOLITION AWARDS PRESENTED TO RALPH NADER, ROGER WATERS, AND FRANCESCA ALBANESE
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/war-abolisher-awards/ ]


THURSDAY JULY 24, 5 pm: DRAW THE LINE—NATIONAL RESISTANCE PLANNING CALL
Prime Minister Mark Carney is moving quickly to fast-track a billionaire-first agenda: promoting pipelines as “nation-building,” weakening public oversight, and laying the groundwork for laws that trample rights, scapegoat migrants, and double down on militarism. He’s betting we won’t push back. Let’s prove him wrong.
[ https://350org.zoom.us/meeting/register ... gistration ]


SUNDAY JULY 27, 4 pm; 80 YEARS HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION (CANADA-WIDE)
[ https://simpli.events/e/hiroshima-nagasaki-80-years ]


MONDAY JULY 28, 10:30 am: WAR AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY JULY 30, 10 am: OUR WORK ON OUR TERMS: NIGINAN'S CULTURALLY-BASED APPROACH TO HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION
[ https://preventhomelessness.ca/webinar/ ... revention/ ]


WEDNESDAY JULY 30, 1 pm: MEETING OF REGINA CITY COUNCIL—CITY OF REGINA ENCAMPMENT RESPONSE WILL BE ON THE AGENDA
Administration's report to Council regarding an encampment strategy is on the agenda for the July 30 meeting of City Council. The report can be found at the following link, pages 68-71: [ https://reginask.iqm2.com//Citizens/Fil ... nline=True ]
The City’s recommendations look very insufficient to me. Below is a Citizens Encampment Strategy to compare to the City’s.
We need lots of folks presenting at the meeting. Presentations have to be submitted by noon on Monday July 28. To submit a presentation, go to: [ https://www.regina.ca/city-government/c ... y-Council/ ]


A CITIZENS ENCAMPMENT STRATEGY
We, a group of concerned Regina citizens, call on the City of Regina to adopt an encampment policy/response/strategy that includes the following:
Commit to not removing encampments established on City property unless all residents have been provided with permanent, adequate, appropriate housing. To do otherwise, is to violate the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.”
Provide support for such encampments. Support would include the provision of the following:
Bathrooms with handwashing capability
Potable water
Garbage disposal and collection
Easy access to public transportation
Repeal laws and policies criminalizing homelessness, including being in a City park after 11 pm and erecting tents and other such structures on public property without a permit or a license.
Continue to work to end houselessness in Regina so that encampments do not become a permanent feature of our city. Such work would include:
Commit to allocating $10 million annually, starting with the 2026 budget, to the construction of affordable rental units;
Work with other Saskatchewan municipalities to put pressure on the Government of Saskatchewan to make available for immediate occupation all empty Sask Housing units in Regina—and throughout the province;
Work with other Saskatchewan municipalities to put pressure on the Government of Saskatchewan to raise the rates of the province’s two income assistance programs above the poverty line—currently a person on the Saskatchewan Income Support program gets $1,005 a month, while a person on Saskatchewan Assured Income For Disability receives on average $1,382 a month—both well below the poverty line;
Work with municipalities across Canada to put pressure on the Government of Canada to restart the national affordable housing program, cancelled in 1993, which, for a period, starting in 1974, created up to 20,000 affordable housing units every year.


WEDNESDAY JUSLY 30, 5 pm: RESISTING PACIFIC WAR PREPARATIONS
[ https://uvic.zoom.us/meeting/register/T ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6, 7 pm: COMMEMORATION OF THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA, CENTRAL LIBRARY CE-1
Sponsor: Regina Peace Council. For more information call Ed at 306 718 8010


STARTING MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8, FIGHTING TO WIN: A 10 WEEK COURSE WITH JOHN CLARK
[ https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pan ... ol/1782334 ]


FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 10 am: RAISING OF THE PEACE FLAG TO MARK INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY, REGINA CITY HALL


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS

FLAG DAVID YAGER’S POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST TO ALBERTA’S ETHICS WATCHDOG
[ https://ecojustice.ca/take-action/flag- ... -watchdog/ ]


STOP THE DEPORTATION OF ELIJAH NYAKABE AYAYE – HIS LIFE IS AT RISK
[ https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-depor ... is-at-risk ]


STOP FUELING THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE
[ https://action.eko.org/a/stop-fuelling- ... genocide-2 ]


TELL CARNEY, STARVATION IS A WAR CRIME—SANCTION ISRAEL NOW
[ https://www.cjpme.org/tell_carney_to_sanction_israel ]


CANADA, SANCTION ISRAEL~
[ https://leadnow.ca/campaigns/sanctionett1/ ]


GAZA IS STARVING. LET AID IN!
[ https://www.justiceforallcanada.org/let-aid-in.html ]


GAZA IS THE HUNGRIEST PLACE ON EARTH
[ https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/202 ... -on-earth/ ]


MCNALLY CAPITAL: STOP INVESTING IN GENOCIDE
[ https://www.codepink.org/mcnally ]


DENOUNCE ANN COULTER’S HATE
[ https://actionnetwork.org/forms/denounc ... lters-hate ]


OPPOSE WAR CRIMINAL ANNALENA BAERBOCK'S APPOINTMENT TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
[ https://act.progressive.international/block-baerbock/ ]


GLOBAL APPEAL TO NINE NUCLEAR GOVERNMENTS (Keep scrolling down to get to part where you can sign.)
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/global-appea ... vernments/ ]


ACTION ALERT: FAMINE IN GAZA
[ https://hikma.ca/famine/ ]


- Making Peace Vigil