MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - May 31, 2026
Posted: Sun May 31, 2026 11:41 amMAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - May 31, 2026
SOME GOOD NEWS
Annabel Townsend has opened another bookstore on 13th Avenue. It’s called “Pete’s Bookstore” and it’s at 2926 13th Avenue, right across the street from Safeway. Thank you Annabel! To place an order: petespressyqr@gmail.com
For more information: [ https://petespress.ca/ ]
SPECIAL PETITION
HOLD THE LINE OR FACE THE BALLOT. REGINA DEMANDS ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS NOW!
[ https://www.change.org/p/hold-the-line- ... ssness-now ]
SPECIAL READING
LANDMARK COURT DECISION COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING FOR HOW CANADA ADDRESSES HOMELESSNESS
[ https://housingrights.ca/waterloo-decis ... elessness/ ]
GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING:
FREE CITYWIDE TRANSIT FOR REGINA HIGH SCHOOLERS WOULD COST $21M: REPORT
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... 21m-report ]
AS FARE-FREE TRANSIT CATCHES ON, CHECKING IN ON 5 US CITIES WITH FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT
[ https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/as-f ... -public-tr ]
REGINA PICKLEBALLERS SEEK NEW VENUES AS 16-COURT QUEEN CITY HUB CLOSES—What a shame!
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... hub-closes ]
A LONG TIME COMING: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW MLA WASHROOM FOR WOMEN AT THE LEGISLATIVE BUILDING
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... 2972e09652 ]
GENDER EQUALITY FUNDING IN CANADA: ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO BACK
[ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news- ... -two-back/ ]
AI DEEPFAKES OF DOZENS OF CANADIAN WOMEN IN VIOLENT AND SEXUAL IMAGES SHARED ONLINE
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-sco ... -9.7215992 ]
TIM HORTONS HIRING PUSH PITS WORKERS AGAINST EACH OTHER, ADVOCATES SAY
[ https://broadview.org/tim-hortons-local ... -campaign/ ]
SO WHO WANTS A NEW PIPELINE?
[ https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1- ... p/16174100 ]
CANADA CLEAN ENERGY CORPS HIRES TEXAS GAS LOBBYIST
[ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q2HB0CjSBVo ]
NATIONAL SECURITY MEANS REVERSING NATURE LOSS, by David Suzuki
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/story/national- ... ture-loss/ ]
WHAT CUTS TO INSECT SCIENTISTS TELL US ABOUT FEDERAL AUSTERITY IN CANADA
[ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news- ... in-canada/ ]
ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS CONFRONT CANSEC
[ https://socialistaction.ca/2026/05/30/n ... nt-cansec/ ]
REFLECTIONS FROM A DEMOCRATIC HOSER, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/ref ... atic-hoser ]
AXWORTHY: CANADA NEEDS A PEACE AGENDA, by Steve Staples
[ https://www.peacequest.ca/p/axworthy-ca ... s-too-much ]
DON’T LOOK TO MARK CARNEY FOR A DIFFERENT SORT OF SYSTEM, by Yves Engler
[ https://yvesengler.com/2026/05/29/dont- ... of-system/ ]
CARNEY, POPE LEO DISCUSS RESPONSIBLE AI AFTER PONTIFF WARNS WORLD TO SLOW DEVELOPMENT
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney ... -9.7217138 ]
HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL ACCUSES CANADA OF GENOCIDE AGAINST INDIGENOUS POPULATION
[ https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/29/ ... opulation/ ]
TRUMP WANTS TO TAP YOUR PHONE. OTTAWA MIGHT LET HIM
[ https://thewalrusca.substack.com/p/trum ... one-ottawa ]
YOUNG CANADIAN HERO EXPOSES ISRAELI TORUTURE, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/you ... es-israeli ]
NO END IN SIGHT: ISRAEL EXPANDS WAR ON LEBANON, ORDERS EVACUATION OF 14% OF COUNTRY
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/28/ ... ion_orders ]
HUNGRY PALESTINIANS IN GAZA PROTEST WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN SCALING BACK AMID RISING FOOD COSTS AND ISRAELI BLOCKADE
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-wor ... l-blockade ]
DESPITE THE CEASEFIRE, ISRAEL RESUMES BOMBING ENTIRE RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS IN GAZA, DISPLACING DOZENS OF FAMILIES
[ https://therealnews.com/despite-the-cea ... f-families ]
WAR, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND PALESTINE
[ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w ... 0770008062 ]
‘A WAR CRIMINAL ADMITTING TO HIS CRIMES’: NETANYAHU SAYS HE ORDERED MILITARY TO SEIZE 70% OF GAZA
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/netan ... er-70-gaza ]
TRUMP’S VISION OF PERPETUAL WAR
[ https://zeteo.com/p/trumps-vision-of-perpetual-imperial ]
DELL SIGNS $9.7 BILLION PENTAGON CONTRACT FOLLOWING TRUMP’S STOCK PURCHASE
[ https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/2 ... k-purchase ]
COLOMBIA: AN ETHICAL REVOLUTION (WITH A GRASSROOTS FOCUS)
[ https://afgj.org/colombia-an-ethical-re ... to-popular ]
WATERSHED UNDER STRESS: CLEARCUTS, DROUGHT, AND LOCAL LEADERSHIP ON THE SUNSHINE COAST
[ https://sierraclub.bc.ca/stories-events ... ine-coast/ ]
THE RISE OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH, by Chris Hedges
[ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the- ... obal-south ]
STREET SMARTS: LESSONS FROM SESAME STREET
[ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news- ... me-street/ ]
PEACE WAVE FESTIVAL APRIL 2026
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOx3wEW6yXw ]
EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS:
SUNDAY MAY 31, NOON: INTRODUCTION TO HABITAT GARDENING, by the David Suzuki Foundation
The natural world is full of drama and beauty, and it is a powerful antidote to distraction and stress. Consider the way you feel when listening to birds sing and frogs call, when watching a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis or a turtle laying its eggs, or when taking in the scent of pine needles and milkweed blooms. Now consider how it would feel to nurture all this and more right outside your kitchen window or front door. This webinar will demonstrate how careful plant choices and a few tweaks to garden design and maintenance will help you create your own nature reserve. As a bonus, you will join a welcoming community of Canadians learning, sharing and healing the earth and themselves one garden at a time.
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... TE1VjYCUBg ]
SUNDAY MAY 31, 2-4 pm: BOOK CLUB—EVERY MOMENT IS A LIFE: GAZA IN THE TIME OF GENOCIDE, ABSTRACTIONS CAFÉ, 2161 ROSE ST
Join us for a discussion of Susan Abulhawa’s “Every Moment is a Life,” an anthology of short stories by 18 young writers in Gaza whom Abulhawa mentored during the genocide.
As Abulhawa said in a recent statement, “These young people risked dangers that most of us cannot begin to fathom just to attend writing workshops, because it was a singular outlet for intellectual exercise and creative expression. They came so they could be reminded of their potential. They came to feel that they are more than creatures seeking food and water and shelter. That they have a place in the world; that they have a voice, a relevance, something to contribute. They came to touch the lives that they thought they might still have, even if it was just for a few hours. It has been my honour and my privilege to know these beautiful, courageous individuals who deserve to be heard, to be read, to be protected.”
[ https://www.instagram.com/?target_user_ ... eed&__bp=1 ]
MONDAY JUNE 1, 1 pm: INDIGENOUS CLIMATE LEADERSHIP FOR OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE
[ https://indigenousclimateaction.zoom.us ... FwNZ-oKEPg ]
TUESDAY JUNE 2, 3 pm: END THE WARS! 25 YEARS OF STRUGGLE AND SOLIDARITY
[ https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hay ... ks/2226777 ]
WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 1 pm: COMMUNITY RESILIANCE TO ESCALATING CLIMATE THREATS—with David Suzuki
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... yj3AmeZypQ ]
WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 5:30 PM: TRUMP'S ESCALATING SIEGE ON CUBA: WHY WE MUST STAND WITH CUBA AGAINST THREATS & SANCTIONS!
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]
THURSDAY JUNE 4, NOON: UNBROKEN NATIONS, ACCOUNTABLE SYSTEMS: ADVANCING NATIONAL STANDARDS IN INDIGENOUS WOMEN’S HIV & STBBI WELLNESS CARE
[ https://uregina-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi ... gistration ]
FRIDAY JUNE 5, 9 am: PRIDE FOR THE PEOPLE, REGINA CITY HALL COURTYARD
[ https://www.facebook.com/story.php?stor ... TF9LimwR1# ]
FRIDAY JUNE 5, NOON: END THE 500 YEAR WAR AGAINST AFRICA NOW
[ https://actionnetwork.org/events/end-wa ... frica-now/ ]
SATURDAY JUNE 6, 10 AM: APARTHEID-FREE TURNS 3: HOW COMMUNITIES ACROSS TURTLE ISLAND ARE CUTTING TIES WITH ISRAELI APARTHEID
[ https://www.mobilize.us/us-palestineact ... nt/950134/ ]
MONDAY JUNE 8, 11 am: DISABILITY WITHOUT POVERTY
[ https://plan-9.hubspotpagebuilder.com/five-years-of-dwp ]
MONDAY JUNE 8, 7 pm: WHEN THE FOREST BREATHES—A WEBINAR WITH SUZANNE SIMARD
[ https://sierraclub.bc.ca/our-work/re-co ... ne-simard/ ]
WEDNESDAY JUNE 10, 7-9 pm: WORD UP PRIDE NIGHT, ARTESIAN, 2627 13TH AVE
Our spoken word events offer a chance to gather with community and share stories, poems and words that make us laugh, or cry, or any emotion in between. Sign up for the open mic starting at 6:30 pm, with spots limited to 12 poets.
About our featured poet:
fanny kearse is a Black, Queer, Jewish, Disabled human whose multidisciplinary practice spans performance, writing, and curation. A recovering people pleaser, late bloomer, dreamer, and community tender, their art traces pathways of self-reclamation; where grief becomes a guide, pain opens portals to the divine, and room is made for the joy of unbecoming. They won the Harold Green Theatre Monologue Competition in 2021, published their first book of poetry & prose, umi's prayer in 2023 and co-produced the Telus Storyhive docuseries, Glimmers in 2025. fanny is an artist-in-residence at Maquinna elementary school, a board member with Curtain Razors Art Collective, All Bodies Dance Project, and Black & Rural Arts and is an organizer of transcendental community gatherings. she is living out the wildest of her dreams with her co-creator at life & art, Que, on the unceded, unsurrendered territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations
Bring your friends and your poems! See you there!
FRIDAY JUNE 12, 7 pm: MUSIC FOR PALESTINE, FEATURING ALBERT VON LEDEBUR, ABSTRACTIONS CAFÉ, 2161 ROSE ST
Performers include Jeff Mertick, Cullen Angus, Beya, Deadwood Ted, Tobrey Weston, Ariana Giroux, and myself! All money raised split between Palestine Children's Relief Fund and Gaza Soup Kitchen, two incredible organizations! Free admission, all ages.
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/1496499225279297/ ]
WEDNESDAY JUNE 17 – SATURDAY JUNE 20, THE BIG BOOK SALE, HIGHLAND CURLING CLUB, 11 am – 4 pm
[ https://www.seniorsuniversitygroup.ca/bigbooksale ]
NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS
CALL YOUR MP AND DEMAND A CANADA HOUSING ACCORD
Canada’s housing and homelessness crisis is surging, the result of a broken system. Governments are struggling to respond, working on the problem in their own ways without a way to ensure they’re rowing in the same direction.
[ https://action.caeh.ca/housingaccord_ca ... ource=caeh ]
HELP STOP BILL C-9
[ https://iclmg.ca/call-to-stop-c-9/ ]
TELL FEDERAL LEADERS: BUILD SAFE, HEALTHY, AND AFFORDABLE HOMES
[ https://act.stand.earth/page/98677/action/1 ]
STOP CANADA’S ‘BUY NOW REGRET LATER’ AI FUTURE
[ https://action.openmedia.org/page/182953/action/1 ]
STOP THE SURVEILLANCE STATE. STOP BILL C-22
[ https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1 ]
CALL TO STOP BILL C-22
[ https://iclmg.ca/call-to-stop-c-22/ ]
STOP CARNEY’S RECKLESS ENVIRONMENTAL DEREGULATION AGENDA
[ https://www.wcel.org/blog/stop-carney-g ... ion-agenda ]
TELL BIG OIL TO STAY OUT OF THE ARCTIC REFUGE
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell- ... tic-refuge ]
JUSTICE FOR YVES SAKILA, ANOTHER BLACK MAN KILLED BY EXCESSIVE, UNLAWFUL FORCE
[ https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeact ... 3562715041 ]
- Making Peace Vigil
SOME GOOD NEWS
Annabel Townsend has opened another bookstore on 13th Avenue. It’s called “Pete’s Bookstore” and it’s at 2926 13th Avenue, right across the street from Safeway. Thank you Annabel! To place an order: petespressyqr@gmail.com
For more information: [ https://petespress.ca/ ]
SPECIAL PETITION
HOLD THE LINE OR FACE THE BALLOT. REGINA DEMANDS ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS NOW!
[ https://www.change.org/p/hold-the-line- ... ssness-now ]
SPECIAL READING
LANDMARK COURT DECISION COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING FOR HOW CANADA ADDRESSES HOMELESSNESS
[ https://housingrights.ca/waterloo-decis ... elessness/ ]
GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING:
FREE CITYWIDE TRANSIT FOR REGINA HIGH SCHOOLERS WOULD COST $21M: REPORT
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... 21m-report ]
AS FARE-FREE TRANSIT CATCHES ON, CHECKING IN ON 5 US CITIES WITH FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT
[ https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/as-f ... -public-tr ]
REGINA PICKLEBALLERS SEEK NEW VENUES AS 16-COURT QUEEN CITY HUB CLOSES—What a shame!
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... hub-closes ]
A LONG TIME COMING: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW MLA WASHROOM FOR WOMEN AT THE LEGISLATIVE BUILDING
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... 2972e09652 ]
GENDER EQUALITY FUNDING IN CANADA: ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO BACK
[ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news- ... -two-back/ ]
AI DEEPFAKES OF DOZENS OF CANADIAN WOMEN IN VIOLENT AND SEXUAL IMAGES SHARED ONLINE
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-sco ... -9.7215992 ]
TIM HORTONS HIRING PUSH PITS WORKERS AGAINST EACH OTHER, ADVOCATES SAY
[ https://broadview.org/tim-hortons-local ... -campaign/ ]
SO WHO WANTS A NEW PIPELINE?
[ https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1- ... p/16174100 ]
CANADA CLEAN ENERGY CORPS HIRES TEXAS GAS LOBBYIST
[ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q2HB0CjSBVo ]
NATIONAL SECURITY MEANS REVERSING NATURE LOSS, by David Suzuki
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/story/national- ... ture-loss/ ]
WHAT CUTS TO INSECT SCIENTISTS TELL US ABOUT FEDERAL AUSTERITY IN CANADA
[ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news- ... in-canada/ ]
ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS CONFRONT CANSEC
[ https://socialistaction.ca/2026/05/30/n ... nt-cansec/ ]
REFLECTIONS FROM A DEMOCRATIC HOSER, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/ref ... atic-hoser ]
AXWORTHY: CANADA NEEDS A PEACE AGENDA, by Steve Staples
[ https://www.peacequest.ca/p/axworthy-ca ... s-too-much ]
DON’T LOOK TO MARK CARNEY FOR A DIFFERENT SORT OF SYSTEM, by Yves Engler
[ https://yvesengler.com/2026/05/29/dont- ... of-system/ ]
CARNEY, POPE LEO DISCUSS RESPONSIBLE AI AFTER PONTIFF WARNS WORLD TO SLOW DEVELOPMENT
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney ... -9.7217138 ]
HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL ACCUSES CANADA OF GENOCIDE AGAINST INDIGENOUS POPULATION
[ https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/29/ ... opulation/ ]
TRUMP WANTS TO TAP YOUR PHONE. OTTAWA MIGHT LET HIM
[ https://thewalrusca.substack.com/p/trum ... one-ottawa ]
YOUNG CANADIAN HERO EXPOSES ISRAELI TORUTURE, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/you ... es-israeli ]
NO END IN SIGHT: ISRAEL EXPANDS WAR ON LEBANON, ORDERS EVACUATION OF 14% OF COUNTRY
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/28/ ... ion_orders ]
HUNGRY PALESTINIANS IN GAZA PROTEST WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN SCALING BACK AMID RISING FOOD COSTS AND ISRAELI BLOCKADE
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-wor ... l-blockade ]
DESPITE THE CEASEFIRE, ISRAEL RESUMES BOMBING ENTIRE RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS IN GAZA, DISPLACING DOZENS OF FAMILIES
[ https://therealnews.com/despite-the-cea ... f-families ]
WAR, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND PALESTINE
[ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w ... 0770008062 ]
‘A WAR CRIMINAL ADMITTING TO HIS CRIMES’: NETANYAHU SAYS HE ORDERED MILITARY TO SEIZE 70% OF GAZA
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/netan ... er-70-gaza ]
TRUMP’S VISION OF PERPETUAL WAR
[ https://zeteo.com/p/trumps-vision-of-perpetual-imperial ]
DELL SIGNS $9.7 BILLION PENTAGON CONTRACT FOLLOWING TRUMP’S STOCK PURCHASE
[ https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/2 ... k-purchase ]
COLOMBIA: AN ETHICAL REVOLUTION (WITH A GRASSROOTS FOCUS)
[ https://afgj.org/colombia-an-ethical-re ... to-popular ]
WATERSHED UNDER STRESS: CLEARCUTS, DROUGHT, AND LOCAL LEADERSHIP ON THE SUNSHINE COAST
[ https://sierraclub.bc.ca/stories-events ... ine-coast/ ]
THE RISE OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH, by Chris Hedges
[ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the- ... obal-south ]
STREET SMARTS: LESSONS FROM SESAME STREET
[ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news- ... me-street/ ]
PEACE WAVE FESTIVAL APRIL 2026
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOx3wEW6yXw ]
EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS:
SUNDAY MAY 31, NOON: INTRODUCTION TO HABITAT GARDENING, by the David Suzuki Foundation
The natural world is full of drama and beauty, and it is a powerful antidote to distraction and stress. Consider the way you feel when listening to birds sing and frogs call, when watching a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis or a turtle laying its eggs, or when taking in the scent of pine needles and milkweed blooms. Now consider how it would feel to nurture all this and more right outside your kitchen window or front door. This webinar will demonstrate how careful plant choices and a few tweaks to garden design and maintenance will help you create your own nature reserve. As a bonus, you will join a welcoming community of Canadians learning, sharing and healing the earth and themselves one garden at a time.
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... TE1VjYCUBg ]
SUNDAY MAY 31, 2-4 pm: BOOK CLUB—EVERY MOMENT IS A LIFE: GAZA IN THE TIME OF GENOCIDE, ABSTRACTIONS CAFÉ, 2161 ROSE ST
Join us for a discussion of Susan Abulhawa’s “Every Moment is a Life,” an anthology of short stories by 18 young writers in Gaza whom Abulhawa mentored during the genocide.
As Abulhawa said in a recent statement, “These young people risked dangers that most of us cannot begin to fathom just to attend writing workshops, because it was a singular outlet for intellectual exercise and creative expression. They came so they could be reminded of their potential. They came to feel that they are more than creatures seeking food and water and shelter. That they have a place in the world; that they have a voice, a relevance, something to contribute. They came to touch the lives that they thought they might still have, even if it was just for a few hours. It has been my honour and my privilege to know these beautiful, courageous individuals who deserve to be heard, to be read, to be protected.”
[ https://www.instagram.com/?target_user_ ... eed&__bp=1 ]
MONDAY JUNE 1, 1 pm: INDIGENOUS CLIMATE LEADERSHIP FOR OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE
[ https://indigenousclimateaction.zoom.us ... FwNZ-oKEPg ]
TUESDAY JUNE 2, 3 pm: END THE WARS! 25 YEARS OF STRUGGLE AND SOLIDARITY
[ https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hay ... ks/2226777 ]
WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 1 pm: COMMUNITY RESILIANCE TO ESCALATING CLIMATE THREATS—with David Suzuki
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... yj3AmeZypQ ]
WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 5:30 PM: TRUMP'S ESCALATING SIEGE ON CUBA: WHY WE MUST STAND WITH CUBA AGAINST THREATS & SANCTIONS!
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]
THURSDAY JUNE 4, NOON: UNBROKEN NATIONS, ACCOUNTABLE SYSTEMS: ADVANCING NATIONAL STANDARDS IN INDIGENOUS WOMEN’S HIV & STBBI WELLNESS CARE
[ https://uregina-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi ... gistration ]
FRIDAY JUNE 5, 9 am: PRIDE FOR THE PEOPLE, REGINA CITY HALL COURTYARD
[ https://www.facebook.com/story.php?stor ... TF9LimwR1# ]
FRIDAY JUNE 5, NOON: END THE 500 YEAR WAR AGAINST AFRICA NOW
[ https://actionnetwork.org/events/end-wa ... frica-now/ ]
SATURDAY JUNE 6, 10 AM: APARTHEID-FREE TURNS 3: HOW COMMUNITIES ACROSS TURTLE ISLAND ARE CUTTING TIES WITH ISRAELI APARTHEID
[ https://www.mobilize.us/us-palestineact ... nt/950134/ ]
MONDAY JUNE 8, 11 am: DISABILITY WITHOUT POVERTY
[ https://plan-9.hubspotpagebuilder.com/five-years-of-dwp ]
MONDAY JUNE 8, 7 pm: WHEN THE FOREST BREATHES—A WEBINAR WITH SUZANNE SIMARD
[ https://sierraclub.bc.ca/our-work/re-co ... ne-simard/ ]
WEDNESDAY JUNE 10, 7-9 pm: WORD UP PRIDE NIGHT, ARTESIAN, 2627 13TH AVE
Our spoken word events offer a chance to gather with community and share stories, poems and words that make us laugh, or cry, or any emotion in between. Sign up for the open mic starting at 6:30 pm, with spots limited to 12 poets.
About our featured poet:
fanny kearse is a Black, Queer, Jewish, Disabled human whose multidisciplinary practice spans performance, writing, and curation. A recovering people pleaser, late bloomer, dreamer, and community tender, their art traces pathways of self-reclamation; where grief becomes a guide, pain opens portals to the divine, and room is made for the joy of unbecoming. They won the Harold Green Theatre Monologue Competition in 2021, published their first book of poetry & prose, umi's prayer in 2023 and co-produced the Telus Storyhive docuseries, Glimmers in 2025. fanny is an artist-in-residence at Maquinna elementary school, a board member with Curtain Razors Art Collective, All Bodies Dance Project, and Black & Rural Arts and is an organizer of transcendental community gatherings. she is living out the wildest of her dreams with her co-creator at life & art, Que, on the unceded, unsurrendered territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations
Bring your friends and your poems! See you there!
FRIDAY JUNE 12, 7 pm: MUSIC FOR PALESTINE, FEATURING ALBERT VON LEDEBUR, ABSTRACTIONS CAFÉ, 2161 ROSE ST
Performers include Jeff Mertick, Cullen Angus, Beya, Deadwood Ted, Tobrey Weston, Ariana Giroux, and myself! All money raised split between Palestine Children's Relief Fund and Gaza Soup Kitchen, two incredible organizations! Free admission, all ages.
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/1496499225279297/ ]
WEDNESDAY JUNE 17 – SATURDAY JUNE 20, THE BIG BOOK SALE, HIGHLAND CURLING CLUB, 11 am – 4 pm
[ https://www.seniorsuniversitygroup.ca/bigbooksale ]
NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS
CALL YOUR MP AND DEMAND A CANADA HOUSING ACCORD
Canada’s housing and homelessness crisis is surging, the result of a broken system. Governments are struggling to respond, working on the problem in their own ways without a way to ensure they’re rowing in the same direction.
[ https://action.caeh.ca/housingaccord_ca ... ource=caeh ]
HELP STOP BILL C-9
[ https://iclmg.ca/call-to-stop-c-9/ ]
TELL FEDERAL LEADERS: BUILD SAFE, HEALTHY, AND AFFORDABLE HOMES
[ https://act.stand.earth/page/98677/action/1 ]
STOP CANADA’S ‘BUY NOW REGRET LATER’ AI FUTURE
[ https://action.openmedia.org/page/182953/action/1 ]
STOP THE SURVEILLANCE STATE. STOP BILL C-22
[ https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1 ]
CALL TO STOP BILL C-22
[ https://iclmg.ca/call-to-stop-c-22/ ]
STOP CARNEY’S RECKLESS ENVIRONMENTAL DEREGULATION AGENDA
[ https://www.wcel.org/blog/stop-carney-g ... ion-agenda ]
TELL BIG OIL TO STAY OUT OF THE ARCTIC REFUGE
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell- ... tic-refuge ]
JUSTICE FOR YVES SAKILA, ANOTHER BLACK MAN KILLED BY EXCESSIVE, UNLAWFUL FORCE
[ https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeact ... 3562715041 ]
- Making Peace Vigil