MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - April 24, 2025

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - April 24, 2025



SPECIAL REQUEST: PEACE GARDEN WORKERS NEEDED
The Peace Garden at Knox-Met needs a bit of help. If you can do a bit of weeding or watering—even if it’s just a couple of times over the summer—please let me know and I’ll pass the word on to Phil and Devon who are, at the moment, doing all of the work. Thanks!


SPECIAL LETTER: CANADA NEEDS TO REFOCUS ON PEACE, by Ed Lehman (scroll down)
https://leaderpost.com/opinion/letters/ ... barrassing


GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING


SHERCOM’S BETRAYAL: HOW SCOTT MOE'S SASK PARTY CRUSHED A LOCAL TITAN
[ https://tammyrobert.substack.com/p/sher ... scott-moes ]


MOE ENDORSES POILIEVRE AHEAD OF CONSERVATIVE LEADER'S SASKATCHEWAN CAMPAIGN STOP
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewa ... paign-stop ] BOO!


U.S. THREATS, ECONOMIC RECONCILIATION, JUSTICE TOP ELECTION ISSUES FOR INDIGENOUS VOTERS IN SASKATCHEWAN
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/national/fe ... ous-voters ]


HOW DID THIS CANADIAN SUBURB FIGURE OUT MASS TRANSIT?
[ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... us-is-king ]


CANADA PEACE & JUSTICE NETWORK: RESOURCES FOR THE FEDERAL ELECTION
[ https://peaceandjusticenetwork.ca/resou ... -election/ ]


CANADIANS WANT TO BUY LOCAL. THEIR PROVINCES MAKE IT HARD
[ https://thewalrus.ca/interprovincial-trade/ ]


WHAT HAPPENED TO POVERTY AS AN ELECTION ISSUE?
[ https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/04/21/What ... ion-Issue/ ]


WHAT DOES THE ELECTION TELL US ABOUT CLASS IN CANADA?
[ https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/04/22/What ... ign=220425 ]


WHO BENEFITS FROM RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL DENIALISM?
[ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/04/22/W ... Denialism/ ]


SOVEREIGNTY CRISIS FEELS ALL TOO FAMILIAR TO FIRST NATIONS
[ https://thewalrus.ca/canadas-sovereignt ... t-nations/ ]


NATIONALISM IS BACK IN CANADA. NOW WHAT?
[ https://thewalrus.ca/nationalism-is-bac ... -now-what/ ]


INTERVIEW WITH GORDON EDWARDS—ONE OF CANADA’S LEADING ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVISTS
The interview focusses on Donald Trump’s trade war against Canada in the context of Ontario’s imminent purchase of four American-designed GE-Hitachi reactors (the BWRX-300 model).
[ https://www.ccnr.org/GE_NH_April_2025.mp3 ]


FIRST NATIONS COULD HELP SWING SOME SASKATCHEWAN RIDINGS IN FEDERAL ELECTION. HERE'S HOW:
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/national/fe ... -heres-how ]


CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY HOUR: JAGMEET SINGH RAISES GENOCIDE, REVERSING NDP ZIONISM
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzUHzvYzNrw ]


RESHAPING THE WORLD ORDER, with George Galloway
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEV2SU_EHmE ]


U.S. ACADEMIC LEADERS UNITE AGAINST TRUMP'S HIGHER EDUCATION POLICIES
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-academ ... -1.7515142 ]


DEMOCRACY DIES WITH THE FIRST AMENDMENT
[ https://www.meidasplus.com/p/democracy- ... -amendment ]


'DO YOU REALIZE THAT THIS IS KAFKAESQUE?': TRUMP'S ATTACKS ON FOREIGN STUDENTS STUN JUDGES
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-student-visas ]


'LISTEN TO HIS MESSAGE': JAILED MOHSEN MAHDAWI SPEAKS ON CORE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND EMPATHY
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/mohse ... eportation ]


INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS ARE DEFENDING PALESTINIANS IN THE WEST BANK WITH THEIR OWN BODIES
[ https://therealnews.com/international-o ... -west-bank ]


‘BONKERS CRAZYPANTS’: AMERICAN DIPLOMATS SHAKEN BY REPORTS OF POSSIBLE CUTS
[ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/2 ... 29?cid=apn ]


HISTORIC 1955 ANTI-COLONIAL BANDUNG CONFERENCE INSPIRED NEW ERA IN GLOBAL SOUTH, WITH VIJAY PRASHAD
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Um1PUq3xA ]


THE DEATH OF NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION WAS WRITTEN INTO ITS DNA
[ https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/th ... balisation ]


IRISH VOICES SHAKE AMERICA’S BIGGEST MUSIC FESTIVAL FOR PALESTINE
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPfr0uxBR2A ]


TOWARDS THE PEOPLE’S PEACE SUMMIT IN JERUSALEM, 8TH AND 9TH MAY. INTERVIEW WITH ONE OF THE ORGANISERS, MAOZ INON
[ https://www.pressenza.com/2025/04/towar ... maoz-inon/ ]


“AMERICA, AMÉRICA”: GREG GRANDIN ON LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY, FROM COLONIZATION TO CECOT TO POPE FRANCIS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/23/ ... ca_america ]


POPE FRANCIS WAS AN AMIABLE MOLD BREAKER IN THE VATICAN
[ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/pope-franci ... e-obituary ]


GLOBAL CLIMATE MOVEMENT MOURNS PASSING OF POPE FRANCIS
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/clima ... pe-francis ]


CLASS & CLIMATE: GREEN INDUSTRIAL POLICY WITH JIM STANFORD AND HADRIAN MERTINS-KIRKWOOD
[ https://perspectivesjournal.ca/green-in ... -kirkwood/ ]


'WE NEED URGENT GLOBAL ACTION': STUDY WARNS HUMANITY ON PATH TO TRIGGER 16 CLIMATE TIPPING POINTS
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-tipping-point ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 3 PM TO 8 PM: EXHIBIT OF PAINTED SNOWBOARDS, CREATIVE CITY CENTRE. 1843 HAMILTON ST
[ https://creativecitycentre.ca/event/ope ... -april-24/ ]


THURSDAY APRIL 24, 6 pm: THE MISSING PEACE—EARTH DAY 2025, DISARM EARTH DAY
[ https://www.codepink.org/missingp414 ]


THURSDAY APRIL 24, 7 pm: WHAT HAS 30 YEARS OF RESEARCH ON THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH TAUGHT US ABOUT HOUSING & THE HOUSING CRISIS?
The University of Saskatchewan’s Houston Lecture, with Dr. Patricia O’Campo.
[ https://www.schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca/ ... ousing.php ]


SATURDAY APRIL 26, 10 am -3 pm: SPRING BOOK SALE IN HONOUR OF INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY, PAUSE COFFEE, 3434 13TH AVE
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/2441215839563134/ ]


MONDAY APRIL 28, 11 am: NATO & THE RISE OF THE FAR RIGHT
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]


MONDAY APRIL 28, 1 pm: ELDER TEACHING WITH LORETE GOULET
Elder Kokum Lorette Goulet, will share her wisdom on Creation, balance, and the interconnection of all living things.
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


MONDAY APRIL 28, 5:30 pm: DAY OF MOURNING FOR WORKERS KILLED ON THE JOB, CITY HALL PLAZA, 2476 VICTORIA AVE
[ https://sk.cupe.ca/2025/04/15/workers-d ... l-28-2025/ ]


TUESDAY APRIL 29: UNDERSTANDING ZIONISM—A 6 PART STUDY FOR THE PALESTINE LIBERATION MOVEMENT
[ https://peoplesforum.org/events/course- ... -movement/ ]


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 ]


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 ]


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 ]


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


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS

WEARING A KEFFIYEH IS NOT AN ACT OF AGGRESSION. NO PLACE FOR RACISM IN THE OTTAWA-CARLETON DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/weari ... hool-board ]


WRITE TO THE FSC: THEIR CERTIFIED TIMBER IS THREATENING THE LIVES OF UNCONTACTED MASHCO PIRO
[ https://act.survivalinternational.org/p ... 6/action/1 ]


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