upcoming event and job possibility
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- Published on Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:34
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Dear Friends of SJS,
From the Peace Valley Environment Association (http://www.peacevalley.ca/):
Site C Events:
Please join an evening of discussion, solidarity and action with Chiefs and Elders of Treaty 8 First Nations in Victoria, Vancouver and Kamloops, May 12 to 14,
Treaty 8 First Nations are challenging the Site C dam and changing the
game for B.C.communities facing destructive mega-projects. Why is this important for all British Columbians, and how can non-Aboriginal people support Treaty 8 First Nations’ struggle for justice?
Victoria event details:
Date: May 12, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Location: First Metropolitan United Church, 932 Balmoral Rd, Victoria
Admission by donation. All proceeds from the event will go to Treaty 8 court challenges against the Site C dam.
Speakers: Chief Roland Willson, West Moberly First Nation, Chief Derek
Orr, McLeod Lake Indian Band, George Desarlais, West Moberly Elder; and Craig
Benjamin, Amnesty International Canada
Please RSVP on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/events/868194306577093/>.
In addition to the Victoria event, Sierra Club BC is co-hosting Treaty 8
events in Vancouver<https://keepingthepeace.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/keeping-the-peace-join-the-gathering-in-vancouver/>
on May 13,... and in Kamloops<http://shuswapnation.org/event/keeping-the-peace/?instance_id=1489> on May
14.
The B.C. and federal government are barrelling ahead with the Site C dam
even though the governments’ own review panel found that that Site C would cause severe and irreversible impacts to Treaty 8 First Nations and negative impacts on the Peace Valley region as a whole. Treaty 8 First Nations and Peace Valley landowners are standing up in court for human rights, cultural survival, and productive farmland.
The Victoria and Vancouver events are co-hosted by Sierra Club BC, Amnesty
International Canada, Wilderness Committee, Peace Valley Environment
Association,and the faith justice initiative KAIROS. The Kamloops event is co-hosted by the Shuswap First Nation and Sierra Club BC.
Union Organizing Position (see attached poster):
UNITE HERE Local 40, BC's union for hospitality workers, is seeking passionate activists interested in becoming full-time union organizers (job description attached). We're looking for activists who are committed to fighting for justice and organizing the unorganized.
UNITE HERE's members are mostly women and immigrants, working low wage jobs in hotels, restaurants, airports and other food service outlets. There are approximately 10,000 hotel workers in the Vancouver area.
Experience as a labour union organizer is not necessary but language skills (Mandarin, Cantonese, Punjabi, Tagalog) are highly desirable. The organizer position is entry level.
Please feel free to circulate this email to anyone who may be interested.
Thank you for your help!
Lynn
Lynn Flandera
Recruiter, Western Canada
UNITE HERE
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Margo MatwychukDirector
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