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Dear Friends of SJS,
EXTREME OIL: Corporate power, tar sands expansion, and the capitalist pressure to extract
Éric Pineault is a Professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and of Sociology at l'Université du Québec à Montréal.
Éric's talk will focus on the proposed Energy East pipeline, which would carry tar sands crude from Alberta to Canada’s east coast. He will discuss the economics and politics of tar sands expansion as he follows the pipeline route from where it runs along the St Lawrence in his home province of Québec, back to its starting point in Alberta.
Victoria:
Friday May 20, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Legacy Gallery (630 Yates St)
Free but you need a ticket: http://www.ccpabc.ca/extreme_oil_victoria
Presented by the Corporate Mapping Project, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — BC Office, University of Victoria Faculty of Social Sciences and the National Observer....
BASIC INCOME PETITION
There's a new petition taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in signing it.
Cette pétition prend de l'ampleur sur Change.org, souhaitez-vous la signer? Elle demande que le gouvernement fédéral introduise un revenu minimum garanti pour toutes et tous.
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Basic Income in Canada!
Petition by Citizens For Basic Income
Canada
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Supporters
Dear Honorable Jean-Yves Duclos and other Members of Parliament,
Times have changed, and we, the undersigned, call on the Canadian Government to implement a basic income program for all eligible residents in a timely manner. The cost of basic living necessities continues to rise, and in the context of increasing:
Basic living costs, income and wealth gap, precarity, austerity, non-inclusive zoning, and inaccessible public and social services
We strongly believe that a basic income is the only welfare program that can ensure that citizens today have equal and inclusive access to a minimum standard of living.
Sincerely,
Citizens for Basic Income
PNG ARTIST KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE JUNE 14 - JULY 6, 2016
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Claytus Yambon, Nancy Wani, and Edward Dumoi, PNG guests.
PNG ARTIST KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
VISIT OUR CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN!
In June 2016, Pacific People’s Partnership will have the honor of hosting three distinguished artists from the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, as well as several artists from surrounding communities, on the ancestral lands of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ people. These artists, who have the potential to form a bridge between North and South communities through art and storytelling, will have the opportunity to engage in critical dialogue on themes pressing to each community. We are committed to ensuring each artist is well taken care of during this exchange.
This exchange has been made possible through the generosity of those around us.
Our community has shown exceptional generosity throughout the planning process by offering time, accommodation, food, program opportunities and gifts towards this exchange. We are confident that our guests will have an outstanding experience. As an organization, it is important to us that we appropriately compensate the contributions made by community members, and have resources at our disposal to ensure that any programming we facilitate is accessible to everyone in the community.
We are seeking to raise an additional $5000 to bring this event to its full potential.
This money will be put towards compensating the host family, local artists and elders, providing food for community events and honouring participants through an exchange of gifts.
Please support us by donating to this crowdfunding campaign. As a token of our appreciation, we will send you a special gift.
DONATE NOW!
Hay'sxw'qa! (Thank you!)
We would like to acknowledge and express gratitude to the host nations, the Songhees, Esquimalt, Tsawout, Tsartlip, Tseycum, Pauquachin nations. We also acknowledge that this event would not have been possible without the following supporters:
The Christiansen Fund
Museum of Anthropology
Alcheringa Gallery
Indigenous Governance Program (University of Victoria)
Royal British Columbia Museum
MediaNet
Gumboot Productions
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Our mailing address is:
Pacific Peoples' Partnership
Suite 407-620 View Street
Victoria, BC V8W 1J6
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