MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - June 13, 2024

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - June 13, 2024


GOOD READING & LISTENING & VIEWING:

‘THIS IS AN EPIDEMIC ACROSS THE COUNTRY’: OVERDOSE AWARENESS WALK HEADED TO REGINA
[ https://sasknow.com/2024/06/10/this-is- ... to-regina/ ]


INSIDE THE BRAIN SCHOOL: AN EXPERIMENT ON INDIGENOUS CHILDREN IN SASK
[ https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/fea ... ames-hardt ]


'A COMMUNIST FOR THE RCMP', NEW BOOK FROM DENNIS GRUENDING—very telling in a number of ways
[ https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1- ... -gruending ]


BUFFALO RETURNING TO PRAIRIES REVIVES FIRST NATIONS TRADITIONS
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnis ... 03b818d6d3 ]


ALBERTA JOINS THE BATTLE TO DENY THE RIGHT TO VOTE
[ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/06/06/A ... ight-Vote/ ]


SPEAK OUT ABOUT RISING ANTI-LGBTQ HATE, SAYS NOVA SCOTIA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
[ https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/atl ... ebb42.html ]


WHY THE HOUSING CRISIS IS NOT AN IMMIGRATION PROBLEM
[ https://canadiandimension.com/articles/ ... on-problem ]


SHOULD CHILDREN TAKE PART IN NON-VIOLENT STRUGGLE?
[ https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/06/c ... il-rights/ ]


STUDENTS LIFT VEIL ON UNIVERSITY FINANCING AND DEMAND END TO GENOCIDE COMPLICITY
[ https://canadiandimension.com/articles/ ... complicity ]


NUSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP MASSACRE ENDORSED BY CANADIAN ENVOY TO SUPPORT ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE, with Yves Engler
[ https://yvesengler.com/2024/06/10/nusei ... -genocide/ ]


CANADA’S NEW MCCARTHYISM: SEARCHING FOR FOREIGN INTERFERENCE, LOOK TO THE US & NATO
[ https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/ca ... -and-nato/ ]


REPORT FROM GAZA: “DEVASTATING” ISRAELI RAID TO FREE 4 ISRAELI HOSTAGES KILLS 270+ PALESTINIANS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/10/ ... rat_attack ]


ISRAEL HAS LOST—with Dimitri Lascaris
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9hQaqeeio ]


ARMS EMBARGO NOW CAMPAIGN WEBINAR
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGXe_VC--40 ]


FINDING JOY IN RESISTANCE & PRISON
[ https://wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2024/ ... r-weapons/ ]


THE PRISON SYSTEM ISN’T ‘BROKEN’—IT’S DESIGNED TO TRAUMATIZE BLACK PEOPLE EN MASSE
[ https://therealnews.com/the-prison-syst ... e-en-masse ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS:


THURSDAY JUNE 13, 3 PM: MILITARIZATION—DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT IN OKINAWA AND THE WORLD
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/militarizati ... ar_id=true ]


SATURDAY JUNE 15 10 AM: GAZA AND UKRAINE TO WWIII: THE NATO PROBLEM
What does NATO have to do with current and looming wars? How does NATO work and what is it working on? How does an alliance whose members and partners make up 69.4% of the world's military spending shape international relations? What alternatives exist? What is being planned by advocates for peace and demilitarization?
Please register: [ https://worldbeyondwar.org/gaza-and-ukr ... o-problem/ ]


SATURDAY JUNE 15, PRIDE PARADE, STARTS AT BROAD & VIC AT NOON & GOES DOWN ALBERT TO THE LEG
[ https://queencitypride.ca/pride-parade/ ]


SATURDAY JUNE 15, 5 pm: FOREIGN POLICY & ANTI-RACISM TODAY
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


SATURDAY JUNE 15, 7 pm: DELEGATION FROM CUBA, SENIOR CENTRE, 2404 ELPHINSTONE ST
The Regina Peace Council is hosting two Cuban guests: Leima Martinez, the North American Director of the Institute of Friendship with the People, and Aileen Sanchez, the Press and Cultural Secretary for the Cuban Embassy in Canada. They have been travelling across Canada on a mission of peace and solidarity. They will be speaking about "The Cuban Revolution, Peace, and Food Security". For more information contact Ed Lehman, at 306 718 8010.


FRIDAY JUNE 15, 3 – 8 pm: JUNETEENTH BLOCK PARTY, 15TH AVE, FROM TORONTO ST – QUEBEC ST
Celebrate Juneteenth in solidarity with Pride & Indigenous history month!
[ https://www.facebook.com/groups/58091333368/ ]


TUESDAY JUNE 18, 1 pm: LNG EXPOSED—DIVING INTO HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF LNG
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... Jg8Uwc6D1w ]


TUESDAY JUNE 18, 5:30 pm: HOW CANADA’S ANTI-RACISM STRATEGY ERASES PALESTINIAN VOICES AND SUPPORTS ISRAEL
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


TUESDAY JUNE 18, 7 pm: A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR MICHELLE GOOD—AUTHOR OF FIVE LITTLE INDIANS, CENTRAL LIBRARY FILM THEATRE, LORNE & 12TH —Please register.
[ https://www.reginalibrary.ca/attend/programs/10939976 ]


WEDNESDAY JUNE 19, NOON: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY CONVERSATIONS—CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY JUNE 19, 5:30 pm: PRIDE IN CANADA—THE FIGHT CONTINUES
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY JUNE 19, 6 – 8 pm: OPEN MIC NIGHT—PEACE & POWER, DUNLOP ART GALLERY, CENTRAL LIBRARY, 1311 12TH AVE—OUTSIDE ON LORNE ST
For all skill levels. Share your poetry, spoken word, dance, rhymes, or anything you’ve been creating. Drop-in and be part of this inspiring event, as we celebrate peace, power, and collective action. Performances in first hour followed by Open Mic. Email jvaughn@reginalibrary.ca to sign up in advance!!
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/1150499309335313/ ]


THURSDAY JUNE 20, 11 am: WHAT’S THE HARM? RADIATION, RADIOACTIVE EMISSIONS AND HEALTH
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


THURSDAY JUNE 20, 5 pm: AMNESTY BOOK CLUB PRESENTS OMAR EL AKKAD, AUTHOR OF WHAT STRANGE PARADISE
An online event; [ https://www.facebook.com/events/468416282224845/ ]


FRIDAY JUNE 21, 10 am: LEGAL CHALLENGE TO REGINA’S NEW WARD BOUNDARIES IN COURT, COURT OF KING’S BENCH, 2425 VICTORIA AVENUE
Let’s pack to the courthouse and show them we are against the new ward boundaries—boundaries that suburbanize Cathedral and other core neighbourhoods and disempower the core.


TUESDAY JUNE 25, 2 pm: OUR ROOTED RELATIVES, ARCHER LIBRARY ROOMS 107.32-33, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA
About: Presentations on the importance of flora and land-based knowledge from an Indigenous worldview. This event is free and open to the public.
Presenters:
Elder Betty McKenna, from Sapotawayak Reserve, Treaty 4 Territory in Manitoba
Dr. Fidji Gendron, Associate Dean (Academic) and Professor of Biology at First Nations University of Canada


TUESDAY JUNE 25, 7 PM: WHY ARE CANADA & THE US BACKING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE? WITH JEET HEER, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR THE NATION, CENTRAL LIBRARY, LORNE ST & 12TH AVE
Jeet Heer will speak about the sources of the American alliance with Israel and Canada’s role in imperialism. The talk will take up the long history of the US-Israel relationship, Canadian and American affinity with Israel as settler colonial states, and why Joe Biden is committed to Israel’s onslaught in Gaza despite the political damage to his reelection chances and the diplomatic damage to America’s international reputation.
Hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Regina


WEDNESDAY JUNE 26, 10 AM: CULTURALLY BASED PROGRAMS AND HEALING: A PANEL ON INDIGENOUS HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION
[ https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/ ... gistration ]


TUESDAY JULY 9, 7 pm: TEACH-IN TUESDAY—ORGANIZING FOR THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION, HAMPTON HUB, 1221 15TH AVE


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 7 pm: AN EVENING TO CELEBRATE THE POSSIBILITY THAT IS EDUCATION, DARKE HALL, 2255 COLLEGE AVE
6:30pm (doors open)
7pm-9pm Keynote speakers followed by open Q & A
9pm-10pm reception
Keynotes:
Dr. Cynthia B. Dillard, Dean of Education, Seattle University
Dr. Joel Westheimer, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/1156795555372601/ ]


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS:

TELL SCOTT MOE HE’S GOT TO GO—I AM DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION IN SASK
[ https://www.saskndp.ca/got-to-go ]


CANADA PENSION PLAN: STOP INVESTING IN WAR CRIMES
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/cce8c ... 58893e3e75 ]


ASK BANK CEOs HARD-HITTING QUESTIONS ON THEIR ROLE IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS
[ https://act.leadnow.ca/bigbanks_on_tria ... 2024-06-10 ]

DEMAND THAT THE EPA BAN TOXIC BEE-KILLING NEONICS IMMEDIATELY
[ https://action.foe.org/page/68578/actio ... arded=true ]


BAN ISRAEL FROM THE OLYMPICS
[ https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/olympics_ban_loc/ ]


- Making Peace Vigil