MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - November 6, 2025
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 11:09 amMAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - November 6, 2025
WHITE POPPIES FOR PEACE
As Remembrance Day (November 11) approaches, please consider wearing a White Poppy:
To commemorate all victims of war
To mourn the environmental devastation it causes
To reject war as a tool for social change
To call for dialog and peaceful conflict resolution
To show your commitment to building better future
Because Remembering is important, but it isn’t enough.
If you only want 1 or 2 white poppies: They are available on the table on my veranda. Please drop by and pick them up, along with safety pins and “To Remember Is To Work For Peace” buttons: 2818-19th Ave. If you want more than 2, please let me know and I’ll prepare a little package for you. To learn more about the White Poppy:
[ https://www.ppu.org.uk/remembrance-white-poppies# ]
[ https://vowpeace.org/peace-poppy-campaign/ ]
SPECIAL READING
REMEMBRANCE DAY IS FOR ENDING WAR
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/armistice-remembrance-day/ ]
SPECIAL LISTENING & VIEWING
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA’S AFFORDABILITY CRISIS?
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxYlVPpL3mo ]
CHRIS HEDGES GIVES THE EDWARD SAID MEMORIAL LECTURE: 'REQUIEM FOR GAZA'—A MUST LISTEN
[ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/chri ... d-said-607 ]
CITY OF TORONTO RECOGNIZES THE GAZA GENOCIDE. What about the City of Regina?
[ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQiHrZrCYqV/ ]
GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING
A LOOK BACK: DEVEREAUX DEVELOPMENTS
[ https://tammyrobert.substack.com/p/a-lo ... velopments ]
'VERY EXTREME:' LOOKING BACK ON SASKATCHEWAN'S RECORD-SETTING WILDFIRE SEASON
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewa ... ire-season ]
FIRST NATION CHALLENGES SASK. GOVERNMENT OVER ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF URANIUM MINE
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -9.6962598 ]
PETER BALLANTYNE CREE NATION TAKES GOV’T TO COURT OVER URANIUM PROJECT
[ https://panow.com/2025/10/31/peter-ball ... m-project/ ]
ALBERTA FORCING TEACHERS BACK TO WORK IS A HISTORIC LOSS
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/alberta-fo ... newsletter ]
IN RESPONSE TO ALBERTA’S USE OF THE NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE, LABOUR GROUPS ARE VOWING RETALIATION
[ https://pressprogress.ca/alberta-labour ... al-strike/ ]
WHY TIM HORTON’S BECAME GROUND ZERO FOR MIGRANT BASHING
[ https://breachmedia.ca/why-tim-hortons- ... t-bashing/ ]
YOUNG MEN IN THE HATE-O-SPHERE, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/you ... e-o-sphere ]
MARK CARNEY AND DOUG FORD KEEP SERVING BIG LANDLORDS
[ https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-and- ... landlords/ ]
POST-ELECTION BUDGET COULD PLUNGE CANADA INTO ANOTHER FEDERAL ELECTION
[ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news- ... -election/ ]
CARNEY GOES FROM ‘ELBOWS UP’ TO APOLOGIES
[ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/11/04/C ... Apologies/ ]
4 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HEALTH CARE IN THE FEDERAL BUDGET
[ https://www.healthcoalition.ca/4-things ... al-budget/ ]
BUDGET 2025 OPENS THE DOOR FOR A “TEAM CANADA” RESPONSE TO THE HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS CRISIS: CAEH
[ https://caeh.ca/budget-2025-opens-the-d ... ss-crisis/ ]
NATIONAL RIGHT TO HOUSING NETWORK’S RESPONSE TO 2025 BUDGET
[ https://housingrights.ca/press-release-budget-2025/ ]
FAMINE DECLARED IN EL-FASHER AND KADUGLI; TOP ISRAELI MILITARY PROSECUTOR ARRESTED FOR LEAKING VIDEO OF PALESTINIAN PRISONER ABUSE
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/el-fashe ... site-daily ]
THE HISTORIC IMPACT OF THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN GUSTAVO PETRO AND THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, WHERE THE COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT BECAME THE VOICE OF GAZA TO THE WORLD.
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhUuzXZYNKE ]
LANCET STUDY SHOWS OVER 3 MILLION YEARS OF HUMAN LIFE LOST IN ISRAELI ASSAULT ON GAZA
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-death-toll-2025 ]
SUDAN: EXECUTION, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, KIDNAPPING—SURVIVORS RECOUNT HORRORS INSIDE EL-FASHER AND ON TREK TO ESCAPE RSF TAKEOVER
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/executio ... irect=true ]
NIGERIAN NOBEL LAUREATE WOLE SOYINKA ON DENIAL OF HIS U.S. VISA & TRUMP’S THREAT TO STRIKE NIGERIA
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/wole_soyinka ]
TRUMP THROWS “GREAT GATSBY” PARTY AT MAR-A-LAGO AS FOOD STAMPS END FOR MILLIONS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/great_gatsby ]
ICE PLANS CASH REWARDS FOR PRIVATE BOUNTY HUNTERS TO LOCATE AND TRACK IMMIGRANTS
[ https://theintercept.com/2025/10/31/ice ... mmigrants/ ]
10 RICHEST AMERICANS HAVE GAINED $700 BILLION IN WEALTH SINCE TRUMP REELECTION
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/billi ... nder-trump ]
HOPE IS ALIVE! MAMDANI VICTORY IN NYC SEEN AS HISTORIC TURNING POINT
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/zohra ... york-mayor ]
FULL TEXT OF MAMDANI’S VICTORY SPEECH
[ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... dium=email ]
ZOHRAN MAMDANI INTERVIEWED BY ROBERT REICH
[ https://www.facebook.com/reel/1104735154836880 ]
NEW YORK CITY'S NEW MAYOR, ZOHRAN MAMDANI, CALLS OUT TRUMP IN VICTORY SPEECH
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/new-york- ... -9.6966833 ]
THE MOVEMENT BEHIND MAMDANI: ORGANIZERS & SUPPORTERS CELEBRATE STUNNING VICTORY & REPUDIATION OF TRUMP
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/5/ ... mamdani_hq ]
WHY MONARCHS AND WHY NOW?
[ https://evidencefordemocracy.ca/why-mon ... d-why-now/ ]
PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY. REJECTING CARBON OFFSETTING
[ https://waronwant.org/news-analysis/pro ... offsetting ]
THE MONEY TRAIL BEHIND FOSSIL FUEL EXPANSION IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
[ https://amazonwatch.org/news/2025/1104- ... -caribbean ]
EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6, 7 pm: SCREENING OF WATER IS LIFE, CENTRAL LIBRARY FILM THEATRE
On the banks of Louisiana, fierce Indigenous women are ready to fight—to stop the corporate blacksnake and preserve their way of life. They are risking everything to protect Mother Earth from the predatory fossil fuel companies that seek to poison it.
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiBykIX3qRM ]
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6, 7 pm: STAPLEFORD LECTURE, FEATURING DR. CARMAN ROBERTSON— PICTURING LAND: INDIGENOUS AESTHETICS ON THE FLATLAND, COLLEGE AVENUE CAMPUS, 2155 COLLEGE AVENUE, ROOM 139
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7, 8 pm: SASK. COALITION TO REPEAL BILL 137 COMMUNITY EVENT, ARTESIAN, 2627 13TH AVE
Join us at Artesian for an evening of community support for the repealing of Bill 137, otherwise known as the Parents' Bill of Rights. Bill 137 revokes the right to a student's self-determination of gender under the age of 16 and demands teachers receive parental consent before calling a student by their preferred name and pronouns.
[ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... g/viewform ]
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 4 pm: “THE PEOPLE OF CANADA WILL LOVE US AGAIN”: SEDUCTION, ABUSE, AND SUBSERVIENCE IN CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 11 am: TRUTH OR TROUBLE—THE LEGAL RISKS OF GREENWASHING FOR CORPORATIONS AND NGOs
[ https://www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca/ev ... s-and-ngos ]
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15, 9:30 am –noon: BEAUTIFYING THE CITY: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, PUBLIC POLICY, AND THE INNER LIFE, RESEARCH & INNOVATION 119, UNIVERITY OF REGINA
There will be a panel discussion, with Victoria Flores, Mahwish Faiyaz, and Muhammmed Asadullah on the panel.
The panel is intended as a public conversation on re-imagining Regina as a city that heals, deepens, and dignifies our relations. With the input of our panelists, our intention is to reflect on the place of beauty in public policy and the role that policy-making can play in realising our potential for more beautiful ways of being in the city.
To RSVP, please fill out the following form: [ https://forms.gle/pkQB79KCKevDgFDk8 ]
MONDAY NOVEMBER 17, 7 pm: SCREENING OF ARNA’S CHILDREN, CENTRAL LIBRARY FILM THEATRE
Arna’s Children follows the story of a small theatre group of Palestinian children in the Jenin refugee camp. Shot over a 13-year period, it follows the children as they rehearse and perform amid the daily violence of the occupation, and ultimately join the armed resistance against rael’s invasion of the camp in 2002. Candid interviews provide an intimate look at the personal stories and political context of the resistance in Palestine. To see the trailer, click on the following link: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyFEKzSBz3A ]
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19, NOON: STATE OF CANADA SERIES: WHERE IS THE WEST IN CANADA?
[ https://www.schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca/ ... canada.php ]
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 23, 4 pm: CUBAN AND U.S. WORKERS RESPOND: CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 27 & THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28: IMAGINE AFRICA BEYOND WAR: WORLD BEYOND WAR’S THIRD AFRICA REGIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/africa2025/ ]
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 27, 1 pm: BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES THROUGH HOUSING CO-OPERATIVES
[ https://cooperativesfirst.com/building- ... peratives/ ]
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28, 6-9 pm: TRANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE, LAKEVIEW UNITED CHURCH, 3200 MCCALLUM AVE
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3, 7 pm: QUEEN CITY URBANIST BOOK CLUB, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
The book that will be discussed is Places of the Heart, by Colin Ellard
THURSDAY DECEMBER 4, 6 pm: RESILIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ACTIVISM
Many of us entered movement work out of urgency and many of us are exhausted by it. The Resilience Toolkit offers an embodied, justice-aligned framework for sustaining activism over the long arc of the struggle. Rather than treating burnout, reactivity and conflict as personal failures, The Toolkit helps us understand them as predictable stress and trauma responses - and equips us with real-time regulation skills that expand our capacity to stay engaged without collapse or numbness. [ https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/862622/ ]
SATURDAY DECEMBER 6, 1-4 pm: WINTER FAIR FOR PALESTINE, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
Hosted by Palestine Solidarity Regina
SUNDAY DECEMBER 7, 2 – 4 pm: BOOKCLUB DISCUSSION OF PERFECT VICTIMS AND THE POLITICS OF APPEAL, BY MOHAMMED EL- KURD ABSTRACTIONS CAFÉ, 2161 ROSE ST - Hosted by Palestine Solidarity Regina
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7, 7 pm: QUEEN CITY URBANIST BOOK CLUB, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
The book that will be discussed is Living Disability, Emily Macrae (ed)
NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS
STAND WITH WORKERS ACROSS ALBERTA
[ https://workerstogether.ca/alberta-workers/ ]
URGE NDP MPS TO VOTE AGAINST CARNEY’S WAR BUDGET AND STAND UP FOR PEOPLE AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/budge ... -the-rest/ ]
YOUNG CANADIANS FILED A LAWSUIT TO PROTECT THE CANADA PENSION PLAN. JOIN THEM IN DEMANDING ACTION ON CLIMATE RISK.
[ https://win.newmode.net/shiftaction/cppib-challenge ]
GOVERNMENT OF CANADA: CALL WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GAZA A GENOCIDE
[ https://www.justiceforallcanada.org/callitgenocide.html ]
CALL ON THE U.S. TO ATTEND THE UPCOMING CLIMATE CONFERENCE, COP 30
[ https://www.thepetitionsite.com/495/570 ... 3523449143 ]
URGE COUNTRIES TO RETURN EGYPT’S STOLEN ARTIFACTS
[ https://www.thepetitionsite.com/580/203 ... 3523810370 ]
- Making Peace Vigil
WHITE POPPIES FOR PEACE
As Remembrance Day (November 11) approaches, please consider wearing a White Poppy:
To commemorate all victims of war
To mourn the environmental devastation it causes
To reject war as a tool for social change
To call for dialog and peaceful conflict resolution
To show your commitment to building better future
Because Remembering is important, but it isn’t enough.
If you only want 1 or 2 white poppies: They are available on the table on my veranda. Please drop by and pick them up, along with safety pins and “To Remember Is To Work For Peace” buttons: 2818-19th Ave. If you want more than 2, please let me know and I’ll prepare a little package for you. To learn more about the White Poppy:
[ https://www.ppu.org.uk/remembrance-white-poppies# ]
[ https://vowpeace.org/peace-poppy-campaign/ ]
SPECIAL READING
REMEMBRANCE DAY IS FOR ENDING WAR
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/armistice-remembrance-day/ ]
SPECIAL LISTENING & VIEWING
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA’S AFFORDABILITY CRISIS?
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxYlVPpL3mo ]
CHRIS HEDGES GIVES THE EDWARD SAID MEMORIAL LECTURE: 'REQUIEM FOR GAZA'—A MUST LISTEN
[ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/chri ... d-said-607 ]
CITY OF TORONTO RECOGNIZES THE GAZA GENOCIDE. What about the City of Regina?
[ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQiHrZrCYqV/ ]
GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING
A LOOK BACK: DEVEREAUX DEVELOPMENTS
[ https://tammyrobert.substack.com/p/a-lo ... velopments ]
'VERY EXTREME:' LOOKING BACK ON SASKATCHEWAN'S RECORD-SETTING WILDFIRE SEASON
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewa ... ire-season ]
FIRST NATION CHALLENGES SASK. GOVERNMENT OVER ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF URANIUM MINE
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -9.6962598 ]
PETER BALLANTYNE CREE NATION TAKES GOV’T TO COURT OVER URANIUM PROJECT
[ https://panow.com/2025/10/31/peter-ball ... m-project/ ]
ALBERTA FORCING TEACHERS BACK TO WORK IS A HISTORIC LOSS
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/alberta-fo ... newsletter ]
IN RESPONSE TO ALBERTA’S USE OF THE NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE, LABOUR GROUPS ARE VOWING RETALIATION
[ https://pressprogress.ca/alberta-labour ... al-strike/ ]
WHY TIM HORTON’S BECAME GROUND ZERO FOR MIGRANT BASHING
[ https://breachmedia.ca/why-tim-hortons- ... t-bashing/ ]
YOUNG MEN IN THE HATE-O-SPHERE, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/you ... e-o-sphere ]
MARK CARNEY AND DOUG FORD KEEP SERVING BIG LANDLORDS
[ https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-and- ... landlords/ ]
POST-ELECTION BUDGET COULD PLUNGE CANADA INTO ANOTHER FEDERAL ELECTION
[ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news- ... -election/ ]
CARNEY GOES FROM ‘ELBOWS UP’ TO APOLOGIES
[ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/11/04/C ... Apologies/ ]
4 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HEALTH CARE IN THE FEDERAL BUDGET
[ https://www.healthcoalition.ca/4-things ... al-budget/ ]
BUDGET 2025 OPENS THE DOOR FOR A “TEAM CANADA” RESPONSE TO THE HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS CRISIS: CAEH
[ https://caeh.ca/budget-2025-opens-the-d ... ss-crisis/ ]
NATIONAL RIGHT TO HOUSING NETWORK’S RESPONSE TO 2025 BUDGET
[ https://housingrights.ca/press-release-budget-2025/ ]
FAMINE DECLARED IN EL-FASHER AND KADUGLI; TOP ISRAELI MILITARY PROSECUTOR ARRESTED FOR LEAKING VIDEO OF PALESTINIAN PRISONER ABUSE
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/el-fashe ... site-daily ]
THE HISTORIC IMPACT OF THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN GUSTAVO PETRO AND THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, WHERE THE COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT BECAME THE VOICE OF GAZA TO THE WORLD.
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhUuzXZYNKE ]
LANCET STUDY SHOWS OVER 3 MILLION YEARS OF HUMAN LIFE LOST IN ISRAELI ASSAULT ON GAZA
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-death-toll-2025 ]
SUDAN: EXECUTION, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, KIDNAPPING—SURVIVORS RECOUNT HORRORS INSIDE EL-FASHER AND ON TREK TO ESCAPE RSF TAKEOVER
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/executio ... irect=true ]
NIGERIAN NOBEL LAUREATE WOLE SOYINKA ON DENIAL OF HIS U.S. VISA & TRUMP’S THREAT TO STRIKE NIGERIA
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/wole_soyinka ]
TRUMP THROWS “GREAT GATSBY” PARTY AT MAR-A-LAGO AS FOOD STAMPS END FOR MILLIONS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/great_gatsby ]
ICE PLANS CASH REWARDS FOR PRIVATE BOUNTY HUNTERS TO LOCATE AND TRACK IMMIGRANTS
[ https://theintercept.com/2025/10/31/ice ... mmigrants/ ]
10 RICHEST AMERICANS HAVE GAINED $700 BILLION IN WEALTH SINCE TRUMP REELECTION
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/billi ... nder-trump ]
HOPE IS ALIVE! MAMDANI VICTORY IN NYC SEEN AS HISTORIC TURNING POINT
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/zohra ... york-mayor ]
FULL TEXT OF MAMDANI’S VICTORY SPEECH
[ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... dium=email ]
ZOHRAN MAMDANI INTERVIEWED BY ROBERT REICH
[ https://www.facebook.com/reel/1104735154836880 ]
NEW YORK CITY'S NEW MAYOR, ZOHRAN MAMDANI, CALLS OUT TRUMP IN VICTORY SPEECH
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/new-york- ... -9.6966833 ]
THE MOVEMENT BEHIND MAMDANI: ORGANIZERS & SUPPORTERS CELEBRATE STUNNING VICTORY & REPUDIATION OF TRUMP
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/5/ ... mamdani_hq ]
WHY MONARCHS AND WHY NOW?
[ https://evidencefordemocracy.ca/why-mon ... d-why-now/ ]
PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY. REJECTING CARBON OFFSETTING
[ https://waronwant.org/news-analysis/pro ... offsetting ]
THE MONEY TRAIL BEHIND FOSSIL FUEL EXPANSION IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
[ https://amazonwatch.org/news/2025/1104- ... -caribbean ]
EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6, 7 pm: SCREENING OF WATER IS LIFE, CENTRAL LIBRARY FILM THEATRE
On the banks of Louisiana, fierce Indigenous women are ready to fight—to stop the corporate blacksnake and preserve their way of life. They are risking everything to protect Mother Earth from the predatory fossil fuel companies that seek to poison it.
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiBykIX3qRM ]
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6, 7 pm: STAPLEFORD LECTURE, FEATURING DR. CARMAN ROBERTSON— PICTURING LAND: INDIGENOUS AESTHETICS ON THE FLATLAND, COLLEGE AVENUE CAMPUS, 2155 COLLEGE AVENUE, ROOM 139
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7, 8 pm: SASK. COALITION TO REPEAL BILL 137 COMMUNITY EVENT, ARTESIAN, 2627 13TH AVE
Join us at Artesian for an evening of community support for the repealing of Bill 137, otherwise known as the Parents' Bill of Rights. Bill 137 revokes the right to a student's self-determination of gender under the age of 16 and demands teachers receive parental consent before calling a student by their preferred name and pronouns.
[ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... g/viewform ]
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 4 pm: “THE PEOPLE OF CANADA WILL LOVE US AGAIN”: SEDUCTION, ABUSE, AND SUBSERVIENCE IN CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 11 am: TRUTH OR TROUBLE—THE LEGAL RISKS OF GREENWASHING FOR CORPORATIONS AND NGOs
[ https://www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca/ev ... s-and-ngos ]
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15, 9:30 am –noon: BEAUTIFYING THE CITY: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, PUBLIC POLICY, AND THE INNER LIFE, RESEARCH & INNOVATION 119, UNIVERITY OF REGINA
There will be a panel discussion, with Victoria Flores, Mahwish Faiyaz, and Muhammmed Asadullah on the panel.
The panel is intended as a public conversation on re-imagining Regina as a city that heals, deepens, and dignifies our relations. With the input of our panelists, our intention is to reflect on the place of beauty in public policy and the role that policy-making can play in realising our potential for more beautiful ways of being in the city.
To RSVP, please fill out the following form: [ https://forms.gle/pkQB79KCKevDgFDk8 ]
MONDAY NOVEMBER 17, 7 pm: SCREENING OF ARNA’S CHILDREN, CENTRAL LIBRARY FILM THEATRE
Arna’s Children follows the story of a small theatre group of Palestinian children in the Jenin refugee camp. Shot over a 13-year period, it follows the children as they rehearse and perform amid the daily violence of the occupation, and ultimately join the armed resistance against rael’s invasion of the camp in 2002. Candid interviews provide an intimate look at the personal stories and political context of the resistance in Palestine. To see the trailer, click on the following link: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyFEKzSBz3A ]
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19, NOON: STATE OF CANADA SERIES: WHERE IS THE WEST IN CANADA?
[ https://www.schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca/ ... canada.php ]
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 23, 4 pm: CUBAN AND U.S. WORKERS RESPOND: CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 27 & THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28: IMAGINE AFRICA BEYOND WAR: WORLD BEYOND WAR’S THIRD AFRICA REGIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/africa2025/ ]
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 27, 1 pm: BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES THROUGH HOUSING CO-OPERATIVES
[ https://cooperativesfirst.com/building- ... peratives/ ]
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28, 6-9 pm: TRANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE, LAKEVIEW UNITED CHURCH, 3200 MCCALLUM AVE
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3, 7 pm: QUEEN CITY URBANIST BOOK CLUB, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
The book that will be discussed is Places of the Heart, by Colin Ellard
THURSDAY DECEMBER 4, 6 pm: RESILIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ACTIVISM
Many of us entered movement work out of urgency and many of us are exhausted by it. The Resilience Toolkit offers an embodied, justice-aligned framework for sustaining activism over the long arc of the struggle. Rather than treating burnout, reactivity and conflict as personal failures, The Toolkit helps us understand them as predictable stress and trauma responses - and equips us with real-time regulation skills that expand our capacity to stay engaged without collapse or numbness. [ https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/862622/ ]
SATURDAY DECEMBER 6, 1-4 pm: WINTER FAIR FOR PALESTINE, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
Hosted by Palestine Solidarity Regina
SUNDAY DECEMBER 7, 2 – 4 pm: BOOKCLUB DISCUSSION OF PERFECT VICTIMS AND THE POLITICS OF APPEAL, BY MOHAMMED EL- KURD ABSTRACTIONS CAFÉ, 2161 ROSE ST - Hosted by Palestine Solidarity Regina
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7, 7 pm: QUEEN CITY URBANIST BOOK CLUB, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
The book that will be discussed is Living Disability, Emily Macrae (ed)
NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS
STAND WITH WORKERS ACROSS ALBERTA
[ https://workerstogether.ca/alberta-workers/ ]
URGE NDP MPS TO VOTE AGAINST CARNEY’S WAR BUDGET AND STAND UP FOR PEOPLE AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/budge ... -the-rest/ ]
YOUNG CANADIANS FILED A LAWSUIT TO PROTECT THE CANADA PENSION PLAN. JOIN THEM IN DEMANDING ACTION ON CLIMATE RISK.
[ https://win.newmode.net/shiftaction/cppib-challenge ]
GOVERNMENT OF CANADA: CALL WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GAZA A GENOCIDE
[ https://www.justiceforallcanada.org/callitgenocide.html ]
CALL ON THE U.S. TO ATTEND THE UPCOMING CLIMATE CONFERENCE, COP 30
[ https://www.thepetitionsite.com/495/570 ... 3523449143 ]
URGE COUNTRIES TO RETURN EGYPT’S STOLEN ARTIFACTS
[ https://www.thepetitionsite.com/580/203 ... 3523810370 ]
- Making Peace Vigil