MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - November 30, 202

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - November 30, 2025


SPECIAL LISTENING: A HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA FOR CANADA, 5TH 2025 MASSEY LECTURE, BY ALEX NEVE
[ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m ... 0737724695 ]


GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING

REGINA CITY COUNCIL DELAYS DECISION ON POSSIBLE CHANGES TO DERELICT HOMES STRATEGY—Double taxing derelict properties would be a good way for Regina to raise money.
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... s-strategy ]


REGINA SENIORS CALL FOR ASSISTANCE AS RENT IS SET TO SPIKE IN 2026
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewa ... ke-in-2026 ]


CANADA’S HIDDEN YOUTH CRISIS
[ https://www.pathwaystoeducation.ca/cana ... th-crisis/ ]


OPEN DOOR SOCIETY CEO SAYS DISCUSSION IMPORTANT AFTER POLL SHOWS ANTI-IMMIGRANT SENTIMENT IN SASK: White supremacy once again rears its ugly head in Saskatchewan
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... 793027ecfb ]


GENDER, TOILETS, AND THE PLANNING GAP: A UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK ANALYSIS OF CANADIAN MUNICIPAL PARKS POLICIES
[ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cag.70036 ]


IS THE UNIVERSITY A PLACE FOR DISCUSSION AND LEARNING OR FOR PROFITEERING?
[ https://www.muslimnetwork.tv/is-the-uni ... fiteering/ ]


Public Transit: The Next Chapter in Canada’s Nation-Building Story
[ https://cutaactu.ca/public-transit-the- ... ing-story/ ]


‘SELLOUT OF THE CENTURY’: CANADA PM CARNEY RIPPED OVER TAR SANDS PIPELINE DEAL
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/canad ... eline-deal ]


PENSION FUNDS, CLIMATE RISKS, AND THE LAW: THE LEGAL CASE AGAINST CPP INVESTMENTS
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g9xK-yBCJY ]


INCOME GAP IN CANADA REMAINS AT RECORD HIGH
[ https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-q ... 9a-eng.htm ]


IT’S TIME TO LOOSEN BILLIONAIRES’ STRANGLEHOLD ON HUMANITY
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/story/its-time- ... -humanity/ ]


KAKISTOCRACY AND THE WAR ON PUBLIC HEALTH, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/kak ... -on-public ]


THE TRUE POTENTIAL OF CANADA’S CLEAN ECONOMY
[ https://renewablesassociation.ca/unlock ... n-economy/ ]


AFGHAN COMMUNITY IN US ‘TERRIFIED’ AS XENOPHOBIC TRUMP EXPLOITS DC SHOOTING
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump ... c-shooting ]


HOW MANY SPACE WEAPONS DOES TRUMP NEED FOR GOLDEN DOME? By Steve Staples
[ https://www.peacequest.ca/p/how-many-sp ... does-trump ]


TRUMP GAZA PLAN CONDEMNED AS ‘CONCENTRATION CAMPS WITHIN A MASS CONCENTRATION CAMP’
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-gaza-compounds ]


‘GENOCIDE IS NOT OVER,’ AMNESTY LEADER SAYS AS ISRAEL KEEPS BOMBING GAZA
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/genocide-gaza-2025 ]


NEW RESEARCH SHOWS TRUE DEATH TOLL FROM ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN GAZA COULD BE 126,000 OR EVEN HIGHER
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza- ... death-toll ]


UN CONDEMNS ‘BRAZEN’ ISRAELI KILLING OF SURRENDERING PALESTINIANS IN WEST BANK
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/israe ... lestinians ]


‘DON’T LEAVE ME ALONE IN A ROOM WITH THEM’: THAT'S HOW ONE PALESTINIAN AMERICAN FROM GAZA DESCRIBED HIS REACTION TO THE RECENT UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL VOTE THAT AUTHORIZED A U.S. ROLE IN THE GOVERNANCE OF GAZA, by Josh Paul
[ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/ur ... 446622208/ ]


HOW PALESTINIAN HISTORY IS SYSTEMICALLY FORGOTTEN (W/ MICAELA SAHHAR) | THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT
[ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how- ... stemically ]


GENOCIDE IN GAZA: INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESOURCES
[ https://www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/genoc ... resources/ ]


“I’M NOT GOING TO GIVE UP”: LEONARD PELTIER ON INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, HIS HALF-CENTURY IN PRISON & COMING HOME
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/27 ... ng_to_give ]


THE HISTORIC RISE OF ZOHRAN MAMDANI: DEMOCRACY NOW! COVERAGE FROM 2021 HUNGER STRIKE TO ELECTION NIGHT
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/28 ... an_mamdani ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30, 10 am – 1 pm: WAFFLE PARTY, REGINA UNION CENTRE, 2709 12TH AVE
Elbows down - fist up, Saskatchewan!
Join us for the first “Waffle Party”, a monthly brunch series where we organize to foster a social movement here in Regina.
The Waffle was a wing of the NDP in the 60’s and 70’s that meant to invigorate social change in the country and eradicate the system of capitalism (head to Hampton Project’s Instagram bio for links to learn more). At the time, some members of the party said if they had to choose between waffling to the left and waffling to the right, they would rather waffle to the left. Today, the NDP seems to be waffling to the right!
*We do not wish to “rewarm the waffle”, but rather reinvigorate the vigor on which socialist movements are built upon.
Brunch is Pay What You Can with all proceeds going towards food & programming at Sunday Funday - DM to book a spot!


SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30, 11 am: DOCTORS AGAINST GENOCIDE WEEKLY WEBINAR
This week we will hear first hand testimonies from Gaza and the West Bank and El Fasher in Sudan and share updates from Sudan and Congo, where medical teams face parallel patterns of mass violence, collapse of health systems, and abandonment.
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... m750Nc6iFg ]


MONDAY DECEMBER 1 & TUESDAY DECEMBER 2, 9am-3 pm: FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY OF CANADA’S ANNUAL CRAFT SALE, ATRIUM, FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY OF CANADA
A wide variety of authentic Indigenous arts and crafts will be available for purchase.


TUESDAY DECEMBER 2, 10 am: THE CLIMATE CROSSROADS: WHY HAVEN'T WE CHANGED — AND HOW WE DO NOW, by Elders Climate Action
[ https://secure.everyaction.com/YRWcz4qbrUClbeXqAFWeRA2 ]


TUESDAY DECEMBER 2, 6 pm: UKRAINE WAR—NEGOTIATE, DON’T ESCALATE AND RISK WORLD WAR 3
[ https://secure.everyaction.com/JW6LcYtr_UeAO_ZjRcO6Lg2 ]


WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3, 6 pm: THE SUZUKI SESSIONS—THE CLEAN POWER OPPORTUNITY
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3, NOON – 1:30 pm: POETRY IN TIMES OF WAR & CONFLICT—WITH SASK POETRY LAUREATE PEACE AKINTADE, LA CITÉ 125, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA
Peace will explore the role of poetry and language as tools for connection, resistance, and healing in times of war and political conflict. Through her reflections and spoken word, she will invite participants to consider how shared communities are formed through art, empathy, and expression and how poets can give voice to collective struggles and resilience.
The discussion will highlight the power of words to bridge divides, to bear witness, and to imagine peace in turbulent times.
[ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/global-cafe ... tdtcreator ]


WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3, 7 pm: QUEEN CITY URBANIST BOOK CLUB, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
The book that will be discussed is Living Disability: Building Accessible Futures for Everybody, by Emily Macrae


THURSDAY DECEMBER 4, 10 am – 4 pm: UNIVERSITY OF REGINA CERAMICS SALE, RIDDELL CENTRE HALLWAY
Browse and shop handmade mugs, bowls, and more, all created by U of R students:
Unique, one-of-a-kind pieces ready to gift
Made on campus by our talented student artists
Payment by cash or e-Transfer


THURSDAY DECEMBER 4, 3 pm: THE SUZUKI SESSIONS—THE CLEAN POWER OPPORTUNITY
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... 1fSq3nHQPw ]


THURSDAY DECEMBER 4, 6 pm: RESILIANCE 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, 12:30 pm: FROM BELÉM TO CANADA: COP30, PROMISES AND REALITIES
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


SATURDAY DECEMBER 6, 1-4 pm: WINTER FAIR FOR PALESTINE, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
Hosted by Palestine Solidarity Regina


SATURDAY DECEMBER 6, 5 pm: PEOPLES BUDGET TOWN HALL, REGINA UNION CENTRE, 2709 12TH AVE
Hope you can come out to the town hall to discuss and develop a Peoples Budget for the City of Regina.


SUNDAY DECEMBER 7, 1-2 pm: DELEGATION TRAINING FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK TO CITY COUNCIL ON THE BUDGET, HERITAGE COMMUNITY CENTRE, 1770 HALIFAX ST


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


MONDAY DECEMBER 8, 11 am: FIGHTING FOR PUBLIC HEALTHCARE TO WIN
Join public health care advocates to find out how to protect and expand public health care while also opposing health care privatization.
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


TUESDAY DECEMBER 9, 6 pm: EMERGENCY CLIMATE RESISTANCE CALL
[ https://act.350.org/signup/dec9-call/ ]


MONDAY DECEMBER 15, 6 pm: UBI WORKS + COMMONWEALTH CANADA
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7, 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


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS

STOP THE CUTS TO COMMUNITY GRANTS & ASSOCIATIONS
[ https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-cuts- ... sociations ]


WELCOME CANADA’S NEW UN AMBASSADOR, DAVID LAMETTI WITH FACTS ABOUT GENOCIDE AND URGENT CALLS TO ACTION
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/welco ... -to-action ]


RAINFOREST PROTECTION IS NOT A PROFIT MACHINE: STOP THE TFFF!
[ https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petit ... p-the-tfff ]


CHINA'S CO2 EMISSIONS HAVE BEEN FLAT OR FALLING FOR MONTHS. WHAT ARE OTHER NATIONS' EXCUSES?
[ https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeact ... 3529006616 ]


- Making Peace Vigil