MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - July 31, 2025

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - July 31, 2025


SPECIAL EVENT
SATURDAY AUGUST 2, 2 -3 pm: END STARVATION IN GAZA NOW! RALLY AT REGINA CITY HALL
Bring noise makers, pots and pans, and your voice.

SPECIAL PETITION
MPs: DELIVER AFFORDABLE HOMES FOR ALL!
[ https://leadnow.ca/campaigns/parliament ... s-for-all/ ]


SPECIAL READING
I’M A PRIEST AND THE CHURCHYARD BECAME AN ENCAMPMENT
[ https://thewalrus.ca/churchyard-encampment/ ]


GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING

COUNCIL VOTES TO TERMINATE REGINA CITY MANAGER NIKI ANDERSON WITHOUT CAUSE—Boo!! Regina City Council stop wasting our money—money that should be spent on ending houselessness!
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... ay-meeting ]


180 CHILDCARE SPACES OPENING UP IN FORMER YWCA BUILDING
[ https://www.cjme.com/2025/07/29/180-chi ... -building/ ]


BLACK AUTHOR FROM SASKATOON FINDS HIS BOOK ON LIST OF TITLES BANNED FROM U.S. MILITARY-RUN SCHOOLS
[ https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6849521 ]


MANITOBA PLANS TO SHUT DOWN HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS ONE AT A TIME, FINDING HOUSING FOR EACH PERSON
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba ... -1.7430630 ]


BRAMPTON THREATENS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST CHURCH AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM—Boo!!!!
[ https://www.bramptonguardian.com/news/b ... 4bc08.html ]


THE RIOT OF CHRISTIE PITS, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the ... istie-pits ]


THE INCOME GAP IN CANADA HAS REACHED A RECORD HIGH
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/the-income ... newsletter ]


THE HOMELESSNESS INCOME CUT-OFF: A NEW BENCHMARK TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS IN CANADA
[ https://homelesshub.ca/blog/2025/homele ... in-canada/ ]


THE STATE OF FORESTS IN CANADA DEGRADED
[ https://stateoftheforest.ca/ ]


LEARNING FROM MOVEMENTS
[ https://mediacoop.ca/node/119300 ]


THE RISE AND RISE OF TAX HAVENS IN CANADA
[ https://www.codepink.org/stephens?utm_c ... e=codepink ]


THE ICJ PUTS MARK CARNEY IN A TOUGH SPOT
[ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion ... sil-fuels/ ]


EXPOSING CANADIAN MILITARY EXPORTS TO ISRAEL
[ https://armsembargonow.ca/report/ ]


GRASSROOTS REPORT PAINTS CLEARER PICTURE OF CANADA'S ARMS TRADE WITH ISRAEL
[ https://www.readtheorchard.org/p/grassr ... ts-clearer ]


CANADA’S ARMS SHIPMENTS TO ISRAEL CONTINUE DESPITE OFFICIAL FREEZE
[ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/wor ... 981973.cms ]


REPORT SUGGESTS ARMS STILL FLOW FROM CANADA TO ISRAEL DESPITE DENIALS
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/arms-a ... -1.7596091 ]


CANADA MUST ACT TO END THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA
[ https://socialistproject.ca/2025/07/can ... e-in-gaza/ ]


CANADA PLEDGES $30M IN GAZA AID, $10M FOR PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY WORK TOWARD STATEHOOD
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada ... -1.7595966 ]


WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED: EMBRACING PALESTINIAN LIBERATION AND BUILDING ANTI-ZIONIST JEWISH COMMUNITY—All good but Gabor Mate, starting around 1 minute 47 seconds, is especially good.
[ https://www.youtube.com/live/LrmXSnmFLPU ]


EVEN MAGA’S MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE IS CALLING GAZA CRISIS A ‘GENOCIDE’ AMID U.S. COMPLICITY
[ https://www.telesurenglish.net/magas-ma ... =available ]


TWO FRONTS, NO ESCAPE — COLLAPSE IS SPREADING FAST, with Alastair Crooke
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=deskt ... Co&t=2321s ]


'A CRUEL AND TRANSPARENT FARCE': ISRAELI ATTACKS KILL 62 IN GAZA AMID 'TACTICAL PAUSE'
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-pause-farce ]


ISRAELI SETTLER KILLS PALESTINIAN FILM MAKER
[ https://trt.global/world/article/89eb9d9e8b17 ]


ISRAELI SETTLER ACCUSED OF KILLING PALESTINIAN RELEASED ON HOUSE ARREST
[ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/2 ... nning-film ]


‘WORST-CASE SCENARIO OF FAMINE' UNFOLDING IN GAZA: IPC REPORT
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/ipc-and-famine ]


'UNEQUIVOCAL': ISRAELI HUMAN RIGHTS ORGS DESCRIBE GAZA ASSAULT AS 'GENOCIDE' FOR THE FIRST TIME
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/israe ... a-genocide ]


ISRAEL HAS MADE GAZA A HELL ON EARTH
[ https://jacobin.com/2025/07/israel-pale ... war-crimes ]


WHERE DO THE CHILDREN GO? STORIES OF GAZA EVACUATED CHILDEN IN EGYPT
[ https://www.dci-palestine.org/where_do_ ... n_in_egypt ]


“DESIGNED AS DEATH TRAPS”: FMR. GREEN BERET WHO WORKED AT GAZA FOOD SITES REVEALS RAMPANT WAR CRIMES
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/29/ ... war_crimes ]


ISRAELI NAVY SEIZES SECOND GAZA-BOUND FREEDOM FLOTILLA VESSEL IN 2 MONTHS
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/israe ... m-flotilla ]


“OUR GENOCIDE”: ISRAELI HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS ACCUSE ISRAEL OF DESTROYING PALESTINIAN SOCIETY IN GAZA
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/29/ ... r_genocide ]


IN GAZA, HUNGER HAS OVERTAKEN BOMBS AS ISRAEL’S CRUELEST WEAPON
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-cit ... nocide-war ]


GAZA FLOTILLA ACTIVIST SLAMS “ISRAELI PIRACY ON THE HIGH SEAS” AFTER AID SHIP SEIZED IN INT’L WATERS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/28/handala_abducted ]


WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM GERMANY’S UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME EXPERIMENT?
[ https://goodmenproject.com/featured-con ... e_vignette ]


FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE PLANS GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE DURING COP30 IN BRAZIL
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/cop30 ]


FROM THOSE WHO SURVIVED NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO US: THE FIGHT TO END THEM CONTINUES
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-o9l17YGq8 ]


‘ODE TO PEACE’ EXPLORES ANTI-WAR THEMES ACROSS ART FORMS
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=IJgqhvd5Hgk ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS

SATURDAY AUGUST 2, 2 -3 pm: END STARVATION IN GAZA NOW! RALLY AT REGINA CITY HALL
Bring noise makers, pots and pans, and your voice.

TUESDAY AUGUST 5, VARIOUS TIMES: THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY WANTS TO BURY NUCLEAR WASTE IN NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO. THERE WILL BE NEGATIVE IMPACTS
[ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... w/viewform ]


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


WEDNESDAY AUGUST 27, 1 pm: MEETING OF REGINA CITY COUNCIL—CITY OF REGINA ENCAMPMENT RESPONSE WILL BE ON THE AGENDA
Administrations report to Council regarding an encampment strategy is on the agenda for the August 27 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 August 25. 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:

1. 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.”
2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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.


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


THURSDAY OCTOBER 2, 4:30 – 11:30 pm: REGINA 2025 POINT-IN-TIME—PiT—COUNT OF HOMELESSNESS IN REGINA,
Volunteers are needed for Regina’s 2025 PiT Count, which will take place on October 2. Namerind Housing Corporation, as the Reaching Home Community Entity for Regina, will be leading the 2025 PiT Count of homelessness on October 2nd, and they need volunteers to make it happen.
To volunteer, go to: [ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/call-for-vo ... tdtcreator ]


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS

TAKE ACTION FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
Extreme Weather is everywhere. Wildfires. Wildfire smoke. Extreme heat. Floods. Drought. And lots more. People are suffering and dying. According to science, it is going to get worse. What can we do? Let’s talk about it.
Can we build on the good work being done by Regina’s Community Climate Hub, EnviroCollective, with a climate change action focused project? If so, who is in? Let’s meet. Date and Place? Give us a shout at info@envirocollective.ca or Gerry Jones newfietraveller@gmail.com


TELL YOUR MP: DRAW THE LINE FOR A SAFE FUTURE
[ https://win.newmode.net/350org/drawtheline ]


PREVENT TAX BREAKS FOR GENOCIDE
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tax-b ... war-crimes ]


CANADA MUST MAKE THE MOVE TO RECOGNIZE PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD AND TRUE SELF-DETERMINATION
[ https://nccm.ca/take-action/statehood/ ]


TELL CARNEY TO SANCTION ISRAEL
[ https://www.cjpme.org/tell_carney_to_sa ... urce=cjpme ]


LIFT THE BLOCKADE ON GAZA
[ https://takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/173139/petition/1 ]


GAZA: THE “WORST-CASE SCENARIO OF FAMINE.”
[ https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/202 ... hing-gaza/ ]


IN HONOUR OF AWDAH HATHALEEN: TAKE ACTION AND DEMAND ECONOMIC SANCTIONS NOW!
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/in-ho ... ctions-now ]


SOS: PLEASE HELP STOP THE DEPORTATION OF THE OGBEIDE FAMILY; THEIR LIVES ARE AT RISK
[ https://www.change.org/p/sos-please-hel ... re-at-risk ]


TELL THE NEW YORK TIMES: STOP DENYING GENOCIDE
[ https://www.codepink.org/stephens ]


- Making Peace Vigil