MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - April 4, 2024

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - April 4, 2024


GOOD READING & LISTENING & VIEWING:


GARBAGE PILING UP IN REGINA’S NORTH CENTRAL NEIGHBOURHOOD
[ https://globalnews.ca/news/10392503/gar ... h-central/ ]


NDP SAYS PUBLIC HOUSING CONDITIONS A 'CHRONIC ISSUE' ACROSS SASKATCHEWAN
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewa ... skatchewan ]


SASKATOON POLICE USING BICYCLE BYLAW AS 'A RUSE' TO STOP, SEARCH AND CATALOGUE INDIGENOUS MEN, LAWYER SAYS
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoo ... -1.7154736 ]


IS LAKE DIEFENBAKER’S IRRIGATION MEGAPROJECT STILL ENVIRONMENTALLY VIABLE?
[ https://leaderpost.com/feature/is-lake- ... lly-viable ]


CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY HOUR, APRIL 1, with Yves Engler
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5w0NQgMTs ]


HAITIANS RESIST FOREIGN INTERVENTION AS U.S. PUSHES FOR UNELECTED “TRANSITION COUNCIL” TO RULE ISLAND
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/3/h ... ierre_ives ]


PRO-ISRAEL ADVOCATES ARE WEAPONIZING ‘SAFETY’ ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
[ https://theintercept.com/2024/03/28/saf ... Newsletter ]


WHEN STARVATION IS A WEAPON, THE HARVEST IS SHAME, by Kathy Kelly
[ https://peaceandplanetnews.org/when-sta ... -is-shame/ ]


“GENOCIDAL MACHINE”: DR. GHASSAN ABU-SITTAH ON ISRAEL’S DESTRUCTION OF GAZA’S HOSPITALS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/1/g ... n_al_shifa ]


"A WAR MACHINE OUT OF CONTROL”: ISRAEL KEEPS ATTACKING AID WORKERS AS GAZA FACES FAMINE
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/3/i ... an_egeland ]


“DYING SLOWLY WHILE THE WORLD IS WATCHING”: BETHLEHEM REVEREND ON ISRAEL’S WAR ON PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/1/e ... ther_isaac ]


'FULL MARKS FOR CYNICISM': ISRAEL PILLORIED FOR PUSH TO DESTROY UN'S GAZA AID AGENCY
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/unrwa-israel-gaza ]


ISRAEL HAS INFLICTED 'UNPRECEDENTED' DAMAGE ON GAZA'S INFRASTRUCTURE
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/israe ... amage-gaza ]


'INDICTMENTS NOW,' SAYS UN EXPERT AFTER ISRAEL MASSACRES WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN WORKERS
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/world ... -un-expert ]


GENOCIDE PREVENTION GROUP ISSUES 'URGENT SOS WARNING' AS ISRAEL TAKES AIM AT RAFAH
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/lemki ... cide-rafah ]


BEN ARAD, YOUNG ISRAELI CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR: ‘I WILL NOT TAKE PART IN A WAR OF VENGEANCE’
[ https://www.pressenza.com/2024/04/ben-a ... vengeance/ ]


STATE DEPT. WHISTLEBLOWER: BIDEN IS SKIRTING U.S. LAW BY RUSHING MORE BOMBS & WARPLANES TO ISRAEL
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/2/biden_arms_deal ]


DIMITRI LASCARIS ARRIVES IN BAGHDAD - MARCH 30, 2024
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2c3beCeboo ]


BAGHDAD AIRPORT AND THE ENDLESS TRAVESTY OF THE U.S. OCCUPATION OF IRAQ, with Dimitri Lascaris
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qbx49NTPuw ]


'A DECLARATION OF WAR': ISRAEL ACCUSED OF BOMBING IRANIAN CONSULATE IN SYRIA
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-israel-war ]


U.S. OBSTRUCTS IRAQ'S EFFORTS TO JOIN CHINA'S 'BELT-AND-ROAD' INITIATIVE
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9W-Q75rh0M ]


FORBES BILLIONAIRES LIST SHOWS 'UTTERLY UNCONSCIONABLE' WEALTH GROWTH OF WORLD'S RICHEST
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/forbe ... llionaires ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS:

THURSDAY APRIL 4, 11 am: THE TRUTH ABOUT OPEN-PEN SALMON FARMS
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... GVZCj-Cquw ]



THURSDAY APRIL 4, 7 pm: BOOK LAUNCH—SQUANDERED: CANADA’S POTASH LEGACY, BY ERIC CLINE, COLLEGE BUILDING, 2155 COLLEGE AVE, CB 139 MULTIPURPOSE HALL
[ https://uofrpress.ca/Books/S/Squandered ]



THURSDAY APRIL 4, 7 pm: CANDIDATE 101—A WORKSHOP ON HOW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE CANDIDATE IN THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION, UNION CENTRE, 2709-12TH AVE



SATURDAY APRIL 6, 2 pm: RALLY DENOUNCING NATO, FEDERAL BUILDING SCARTH ST & VICTORIA AVE
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will soon be celebrating 75 years of its existence - a day that millions will be remembering the deaths of their loved ones at the hands of NATO. Join Regina Peace Council members to demonstrate for Peace, Disarmament, and Global Cooperation and Against Hate, War, and Aggression.
For more information call me, Ed, at: 306 718 8010.



SATURDAY APRIL 6, 12:00 - 1:30 pm: FOSSIL FOOLS DAY, RBC, 3425 E Quance St
Stand in solidarity with Indigenous Land Defenders resisting projects funded by RBC.
RBC is complicit in human rights abuses and genocide at home and around the world. This includes the Coastal GasLink pipeline violating Wet’suwet’en rights, tar sands extraction causing devastating health impacts, and weapons and surveillance technology used in the genocide in Palestine. They profit from land theft and war, ecocide and genocide.



SUNDAY APRIL 7, 1:30 PM: CONSCIENCE CANADA WAR TAX RESISTANCE ZOOM MEETING
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85675787245?p ... .1#success ]



SUNDAY APRIL 7, 2 pm: RALLY FOR PALESTINE, 11TH AVE, ACROSS FROM CORNWALL CENTRE



FRIDAY APRIL 19. 7 pm: ORIGIN SHOWING AT CENTRAL LIBRARY FILM THEATRE, LORNE ST. & 12TH AVE
[ https://www.reginalibrary.ca/film-theatre/browse-films ]


SATURDAY APRIL 20, 10 am – 5 pm: ELECTRIFY REGINA, INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTRE, EVRAZ PLACE
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/4421675 ... f=newsfeed ]


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS:

CALL OUT RBC FOR BANKROLLING CLIMATE CRIMINALS
[ https://act.leadnow.ca/rbc-socials/ ]


KEEP VIA RAIL A PUBLIC ENTITY
[ https://www.change.org/p/via-rail-canad ... lic-entity ]


CALL FOR AN END TO THERMAL COAL
[ https://ecojustice.ca/take-action/end-t ... ssil-fuel/ ]



BOYCOTT THE BIG CARROT FOR SUPPORTING ISRAEL
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/suppo ... rect_link& ]



CANADA: PRESSURE ISRAEL TO END STARVATION IN GAZA!
[ https://www.cjpmecontent.org/end_starvation_gaza ]


- Making Peace Vigil