MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - May 28, 2026
Posted: Thu May 28, 2026 10:37 amMAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - May 28, 2026
2 SPECIAL EVENTS
NOTE TIME CHANGE: SATURDAY MAY 30, 10 am: RALLY—HANDS OFF CUBA, SCARTH STREET MALL, SOUTH END, NEAR THE BUFFALO AT 12TH AVE
SATURDAY MAY 30, 10 am- 4 pm: TREATY 4 TO PALESTINE—KEFFIYEH RIBBON SKIRT SOLIDARITY WORKSHOP, YWCA 2817 12TH AVE
Sponsored by Palestine Solidarity Regina
[ https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122 ... 6204097528 ]
SPECIAL READING: THE NATIVE BROTHERHOOD AT SASKATCHEWAN PENITENTIARY
https://izi.travel/en/6bdb-native-broth ... entiary/en
The exhibition is on for the next couple of weeks: Archer Library, University of Regina
MORE SPECIAL READING: JUSTICE FOR WOMEN VICTIMIZED BY REGINA POLICE
'WE'RE NOT GOING TO STOP ASKING': REGINA GROUP CALLS FOR INQUIRY INTO COPS' ACCESS TO WOMEN'S DATA
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... omens-data ]
PRIVACY BREACHES PROMPT WOMEN TO DEMAND CHANGE AT REGINA POLICE SERVICE
[ https://www.cjme.com/2026/05/26/privacy ... e-service/ ]
VICTIMS CALL FOR HARSHER PUNISHMENT OF POLICE OFFICERS WHO VIOLATE PRIVACY
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -9.7212697 ]
PRIVACY ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION FOLLOWING MULTIPLE TRUST BREACHES BY REGINA POLICE OFFICERS
[ https://www.ctvnews.ca/regina/article/p ... -officers/ ]
GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING
LIBRARY DIRECTOR AND CEO JEFF BARBER TO RETIRE THIS FALL
[ https://www.reginalibrary.ca/about/media/4464 ]
REGINA PRIDE PARADE TO BE A 'TEST RUN' FOR NEW ROUTE: POLICE
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... ute-police ]
STILL CHANGING LIVES: EVENTS MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY OF CANADA
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -9.7214360 ]
SASKATCHEWAN’S INVOLUNTARY TREATMENT EXPERIMENT: NO STANDARDS, NO OVERSIGHT, NO ACCOUNTABILITY
[ https://tammyrobert.substack.com/p/sask ... -treatment ]
THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE ROCKIES, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the ... irect=true ]
ALBERTA'S OIL AND GAS MAGNATES ARE BEING OUTFLANKED BY CHINA
[ https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/0 ... rification ]
KINEW CRITICIZES ALBERTA PREMIER OVER DUTY TO CONSULT ON SEPARATISM
[ https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/k ... i-AA248kc5 ]
ALBERTA IS SPENDING BIG TO WIN BC INDIGENOUS PIPELINE SUPPORT
[ https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/05/27/Albe ... e-Support/ ]
THE WATERLOO CASE: DO GOVERNMENTS HAVE A LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS?
[ https://housingrights.ca/the-waterloo-c ... elessness/ ]
SEARCHES FOR UNMARKED BURIALS FACE FUNDING BARRIERS, WITNESSES TELL INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ppt- ... -9.7213082 ]
DATA REVEALS ALARMING OBSTETRIC VIOLENCE TOWARD INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN QUEBEC
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal ... -9.7212326 ]
CANADIAN TIRE SETTLES RACIAL PROFILING CASE
[ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=12 ... 3704471032 ]
CAN THE IMPERIAL CORE BE REFORMED? | CHRIS HEDGES & AARON MATÉ AT THE VANCOUVER WEB SUMMIT
[ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/can- ... e-reformed ]
GUILBEAULT SAYS CANADA 'BACKSLIDING' ON CLIMATE ACTION AS HE RESIGNS AS MP—Good for him!
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/guilbe ... -9.7213921 ]
SAY GOODBY TO INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT OF NUCLEAR PROJECTS IN CANADA
[ http://assessing-nuclear-risk.ca/ ]
GLOBAL AFFAIRS CANADA KEEPS ISRAEL’S ‘ANTISEMITISM’ LOBBYING SECRET
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/global-aff ... newsletter ]
CANSEC ARMS FAIR BARS MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS FROM ATTENDING
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/cansec-arm ... attending/ ]
‘BIGGEST WEALTH DIVIDE IN MODERN HISTORY’: GRAPHIC SHOWS SHOCKING REALITY OF US ECONOMY—No doubt the same is true in Canada
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-k- ... my-graphic ]
NINE LITTLE INDIANS TELLS THE STORY FROM SOUTH DAKOTA’S PAINFUL NATIVE BOARDING SCHOOLS
[ https://www.keloland.com/news/local-new ... g-schools/ ]
“THEY ARE NOT ALONE INSIDE”: PROTESTS OUTSIDE NEWARK ICE JAIL SUPPORT HUNGER-STRIKING DETAINEES
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/27/delaney_hall ]
ISRAEL HAS PHYSICALLY DIVIDED GAZA WITH OVER 25 KILOMETERS OF EARTHEN BARRIERS
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-isr ... -ceasefire ]
“DESIGNED TO BREAK YOU”: GAZA FLOTILLA ACTIVISTS FACED VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ABUSE IN ISRAELI DETENTION
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/26/ ... repression ]
U.S. BOMBS IRAN DESPITE PEACE TALKS; ISRAEL STRIKES LEBANON TO “FORCE TRUMP’S HAND”
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/26/ ... gotiations ]
DEMOCRACY HAS NEVER PREVENTED RACIST TERRORISM
[ https://www.artistespourlapaix.org/la-d ... e-raciste/ ]
HOW THE WAR ON TERROR CREATED THE AGE OF TRUMP, with Chris Hedges
[ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how- ... reated-the ]
“HOW OLIGARCHS DOMINATE OUR DEMOCRACIES”: NORTHWESTERN PROF. JEFFREY WINTERS ON BOOK “THE BLIND SPOT”
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/27/the_blind_spot ]
WITH EPIDEMIC ‘OUTPACING’ RESPONSE, WHO CHIEF WARNS EBOLA OUTBREAK WILL ‘GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER’
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/who-ebola-warning ]
IN FIRST ENCYCLICAL, POPE LEO WARNS AGAINST UNRESTRAINED AI IN HANDS OF MEGA-RICH FEW
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/pope- ... telligence ]
YOURI SPEAKS TO JASMINE PEARDON ON HER TRIP TO CHINA & SEEING ITS ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWbJOyHNe8 ]
CAPITALISM CAN’T BE FIXED
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PooFxcFQ-GY ]
[ https://globalgreen.news/en/capitalism- ... n-toronto/ ]
IT’S 1984 ALL OVER AGAIN
[ https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-385 ]
THE FIFTH ASSEMBLY OF THE WORLD HUMANIST FORUM HAS CONCLUDED: “THE PATH TO THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN NATION IS BUILT EVERY DAY FROM THE GRASSROOTS UP”
[ https://www.pressenza.com/2026/05/the-f ... sroots-up/ ]
DISCOVER THE UNKNOWN. PROTECT THE DEEP
[ https://www.greenpeace.org/internationa ... xpedition/ ]
EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS
THURSDAY MAY 28, 10 am: TELL THE CIB—DO NOT SPEND PUBLIC MONEY ON LNG
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... 5MaNVDDzsQ ]
SATURDAY MAY 30, 10 am: RALLY—HANDS OFF CUBA, SCARTH STREET MALL, SOUTH END, NEAR THE BUFFALO AT 12TH AVE
SATURDAY MAY 30, 10 am- 4 pm: TREATY 4 TO PALESTINE—KEFFIYEH RIBBON SKIRT SOLIDARITY WORKSHOP, YWCA 2817 12TH AVE
Contact [ rosemelaniemonique@gmail.com ] to reserve your spot. Sponsored by Palestine Solidarity Regina
SATURDAY MAY 30, 6 pm: CAN POLITICS BE CIVIL AGAIN?
[ https://canadian-vote-summit-2026.raise ... lrusdebate ]
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 ]
WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 1 pm: COMMUNITY RESILIENCE TO ESCALATING CLIMATE THREATS—with David Suzuki
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... yj3AmeZypQ ]
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, NOON: END THE 500 YEAR WAR AGAINST AFRICA NOW
[ https://actionnetwork.org/events/end-wa ... frica-now/ ]
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/ ]
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/ ]
NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS
CALL YOUR MP ABOUT ALBERTA’S PIPELINE PLOY: KEEP THE OIL IN THE GROUND
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/action/call-you ... line-ploy/ ]
IN THE FACE OF THE U.S. FUEL BLOCKADE, CANADA MUST WORK WITH OTHER COUNTRIES TO SUPPORT CUBA (In case you had trouble with the link to this petition in Sunday’s Vigil email)
[ https://petition.web.net/CanadaActNowOnCuba#take-action ]
TELL MICROSOFT: NO TECH FOR GENOCIDE
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell- ... s-genocide ]
- Making Peace Vigil
2 SPECIAL EVENTS
NOTE TIME CHANGE: SATURDAY MAY 30, 10 am: RALLY—HANDS OFF CUBA, SCARTH STREET MALL, SOUTH END, NEAR THE BUFFALO AT 12TH AVE
SATURDAY MAY 30, 10 am- 4 pm: TREATY 4 TO PALESTINE—KEFFIYEH RIBBON SKIRT SOLIDARITY WORKSHOP, YWCA 2817 12TH AVE
Sponsored by Palestine Solidarity Regina
[ https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122 ... 6204097528 ]
SPECIAL READING: THE NATIVE BROTHERHOOD AT SASKATCHEWAN PENITENTIARY
https://izi.travel/en/6bdb-native-broth ... entiary/en
The exhibition is on for the next couple of weeks: Archer Library, University of Regina
MORE SPECIAL READING: JUSTICE FOR WOMEN VICTIMIZED BY REGINA POLICE
'WE'RE NOT GOING TO STOP ASKING': REGINA GROUP CALLS FOR INQUIRY INTO COPS' ACCESS TO WOMEN'S DATA
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... omens-data ]
PRIVACY BREACHES PROMPT WOMEN TO DEMAND CHANGE AT REGINA POLICE SERVICE
[ https://www.cjme.com/2026/05/26/privacy ... e-service/ ]
VICTIMS CALL FOR HARSHER PUNISHMENT OF POLICE OFFICERS WHO VIOLATE PRIVACY
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -9.7212697 ]
PRIVACY ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION FOLLOWING MULTIPLE TRUST BREACHES BY REGINA POLICE OFFICERS
[ https://www.ctvnews.ca/regina/article/p ... -officers/ ]
GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING
LIBRARY DIRECTOR AND CEO JEFF BARBER TO RETIRE THIS FALL
[ https://www.reginalibrary.ca/about/media/4464 ]
REGINA PRIDE PARADE TO BE A 'TEST RUN' FOR NEW ROUTE: POLICE
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... ute-police ]
STILL CHANGING LIVES: EVENTS MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY OF CANADA
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -9.7214360 ]
SASKATCHEWAN’S INVOLUNTARY TREATMENT EXPERIMENT: NO STANDARDS, NO OVERSIGHT, NO ACCOUNTABILITY
[ https://tammyrobert.substack.com/p/sask ... -treatment ]
THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE ROCKIES, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the ... irect=true ]
ALBERTA'S OIL AND GAS MAGNATES ARE BEING OUTFLANKED BY CHINA
[ https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/0 ... rification ]
KINEW CRITICIZES ALBERTA PREMIER OVER DUTY TO CONSULT ON SEPARATISM
[ https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/k ... i-AA248kc5 ]
ALBERTA IS SPENDING BIG TO WIN BC INDIGENOUS PIPELINE SUPPORT
[ https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/05/27/Albe ... e-Support/ ]
THE WATERLOO CASE: DO GOVERNMENTS HAVE A LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS?
[ https://housingrights.ca/the-waterloo-c ... elessness/ ]
SEARCHES FOR UNMARKED BURIALS FACE FUNDING BARRIERS, WITNESSES TELL INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ppt- ... -9.7213082 ]
DATA REVEALS ALARMING OBSTETRIC VIOLENCE TOWARD INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN QUEBEC
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal ... -9.7212326 ]
CANADIAN TIRE SETTLES RACIAL PROFILING CASE
[ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=12 ... 3704471032 ]
CAN THE IMPERIAL CORE BE REFORMED? | CHRIS HEDGES & AARON MATÉ AT THE VANCOUVER WEB SUMMIT
[ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/can- ... e-reformed ]
GUILBEAULT SAYS CANADA 'BACKSLIDING' ON CLIMATE ACTION AS HE RESIGNS AS MP—Good for him!
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/guilbe ... -9.7213921 ]
SAY GOODBY TO INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT OF NUCLEAR PROJECTS IN CANADA
[ http://assessing-nuclear-risk.ca/ ]
GLOBAL AFFAIRS CANADA KEEPS ISRAEL’S ‘ANTISEMITISM’ LOBBYING SECRET
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/global-aff ... newsletter ]
CANSEC ARMS FAIR BARS MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS FROM ATTENDING
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/cansec-arm ... attending/ ]
‘BIGGEST WEALTH DIVIDE IN MODERN HISTORY’: GRAPHIC SHOWS SHOCKING REALITY OF US ECONOMY—No doubt the same is true in Canada
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-k- ... my-graphic ]
NINE LITTLE INDIANS TELLS THE STORY FROM SOUTH DAKOTA’S PAINFUL NATIVE BOARDING SCHOOLS
[ https://www.keloland.com/news/local-new ... g-schools/ ]
“THEY ARE NOT ALONE INSIDE”: PROTESTS OUTSIDE NEWARK ICE JAIL SUPPORT HUNGER-STRIKING DETAINEES
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/27/delaney_hall ]
ISRAEL HAS PHYSICALLY DIVIDED GAZA WITH OVER 25 KILOMETERS OF EARTHEN BARRIERS
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-isr ... -ceasefire ]
“DESIGNED TO BREAK YOU”: GAZA FLOTILLA ACTIVISTS FACED VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ABUSE IN ISRAELI DETENTION
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/26/ ... repression ]
U.S. BOMBS IRAN DESPITE PEACE TALKS; ISRAEL STRIKES LEBANON TO “FORCE TRUMP’S HAND”
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/26/ ... gotiations ]
DEMOCRACY HAS NEVER PREVENTED RACIST TERRORISM
[ https://www.artistespourlapaix.org/la-d ... e-raciste/ ]
HOW THE WAR ON TERROR CREATED THE AGE OF TRUMP, with Chris Hedges
[ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how- ... reated-the ]
“HOW OLIGARCHS DOMINATE OUR DEMOCRACIES”: NORTHWESTERN PROF. JEFFREY WINTERS ON BOOK “THE BLIND SPOT”
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/27/the_blind_spot ]
WITH EPIDEMIC ‘OUTPACING’ RESPONSE, WHO CHIEF WARNS EBOLA OUTBREAK WILL ‘GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER’
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/who-ebola-warning ]
IN FIRST ENCYCLICAL, POPE LEO WARNS AGAINST UNRESTRAINED AI IN HANDS OF MEGA-RICH FEW
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/pope- ... telligence ]
YOURI SPEAKS TO JASMINE PEARDON ON HER TRIP TO CHINA & SEEING ITS ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWbJOyHNe8 ]
CAPITALISM CAN’T BE FIXED
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PooFxcFQ-GY ]
[ https://globalgreen.news/en/capitalism- ... n-toronto/ ]
IT’S 1984 ALL OVER AGAIN
[ https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-385 ]
THE FIFTH ASSEMBLY OF THE WORLD HUMANIST FORUM HAS CONCLUDED: “THE PATH TO THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN NATION IS BUILT EVERY DAY FROM THE GRASSROOTS UP”
[ https://www.pressenza.com/2026/05/the-f ... sroots-up/ ]
DISCOVER THE UNKNOWN. PROTECT THE DEEP
[ https://www.greenpeace.org/internationa ... xpedition/ ]
EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS
THURSDAY MAY 28, 10 am: TELL THE CIB—DO NOT SPEND PUBLIC MONEY ON LNG
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... 5MaNVDDzsQ ]
SATURDAY MAY 30, 10 am: RALLY—HANDS OFF CUBA, SCARTH STREET MALL, SOUTH END, NEAR THE BUFFALO AT 12TH AVE
SATURDAY MAY 30, 10 am- 4 pm: TREATY 4 TO PALESTINE—KEFFIYEH RIBBON SKIRT SOLIDARITY WORKSHOP, YWCA 2817 12TH AVE
Contact [ rosemelaniemonique@gmail.com ] to reserve your spot. Sponsored by Palestine Solidarity Regina
SATURDAY MAY 30, 6 pm: CAN POLITICS BE CIVIL AGAIN?
[ https://canadian-vote-summit-2026.raise ... lrusdebate ]
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 ]
WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 1 pm: COMMUNITY RESILIENCE TO ESCALATING CLIMATE THREATS—with David Suzuki
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... yj3AmeZypQ ]
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, NOON: END THE 500 YEAR WAR AGAINST AFRICA NOW
[ https://actionnetwork.org/events/end-wa ... frica-now/ ]
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/ ]
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/ ]
NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS
CALL YOUR MP ABOUT ALBERTA’S PIPELINE PLOY: KEEP THE OIL IN THE GROUND
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/action/call-you ... line-ploy/ ]
IN THE FACE OF THE U.S. FUEL BLOCKADE, CANADA MUST WORK WITH OTHER COUNTRIES TO SUPPORT CUBA (In case you had trouble with the link to this petition in Sunday’s Vigil email)
[ https://petition.web.net/CanadaActNowOnCuba#take-action ]
TELL MICROSOFT: NO TECH FOR GENOCIDE
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell- ... s-genocide ]
- Making Peace Vigil