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Nov 21 Vigil to Stop Kinder Morgan Pipeline
See more information on the Victoria Council of Canadians web-site
No
Social License for Climate Crime! Solidarity with Indigenous Land Defenders! #StopKM #NoDAPL
Invite your friends on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/events/153827921754686/
Invitation to Participate in a Roundtable on Public Safety Review on Bill C-51
Nov. 23, 7 p.m.UVic, Clearihue D126
The Victoria Peace Coalition is organizing a Roundtable for representatives of groups or individuals who would like to make submissions to the government's Public Safety Review on Bill C51. If you are considering making a submission, we hope that you will attend. Also if you know of others who would like... to attend and find out more about the Security Review, please let them know.
The link to the Review Document is: https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/ntnl-scrt-gm-ppr-2016/ntnl-scrt-grn-ppr-2016-en.pdf
For more information contact Joan, Victoria Peace Coalition 250 294-1339
About the Annual Conference of the Society for Socialist Studies
The theme of the 2017 Society for Socialist Studies Conference is Liberation Here and Now: Continuity and Change in Socialist Studies at 50 Years and Beyond. The theme of Congress 2017 of the Social Sciences and Humanities is ‘From Far & Wide: The Next 150’. Taking place in the Dish with One Spoon territory, based on a treaty between the Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee, Congress 2017 at Ryerson University references the 150th anniversary of Canada’s confederation. We therefore particularly invite analysis this year that critically reflects on what is affirmed and whose struggles are erased in celebrations of Canada as a nation. As a settler colonial project founded on Indigenous dispossession, genocidal policies, and systemic racism, the Canadian state has continued to advance policies and practices consistent with the intertwined logics of colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy. Canada's "dominion" includes this internal imperialism and dispossession, contributing to resource extraction that now threatens human survival worldwide. At the same time, Canada often acts at capital's behest in the global South, engaging in a neo-imperial project that extends and reproduces relations of exploitation and alienation around the globe. We call upon participants to fundamentally trouble Project Canada, to celebrate past and future resistances and solidarities, and to engage in dialogue on how to get to a decolonized praxis and collective liberation here and now. As part of this dialogue, we remain open as always to sessions, papers, and roundtables on the full range of socialist inquiry. We note here other important anniversaries in 2017, such as 150 years of the publication of Marx’s Capital and 100 years since women’s enfranchisement in Canada. This conference is also an important opportunity to reflect on the Society for Socialist Studies at its 50thanniversary. How has Socialist Studies helped us know and change the world? And what conversations and transformations need to happen in the next 50 years?
About the Society For Socialist Studies
The Society for Socialist Studies (SSS) is an association of progressive academics, students, activists and members of the general public. Formed in 1967, the Society’s purpose is to facilitate and encourage research and analysis with an emphasis on socialist, feminist, anti-racist and ecological points of view.
The Society for Socialist Studies meets annually as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The largest multidisciplinary academic gathering in Canada, Congress is hosted by a different Canadian university each spring.
We encourage readers to sign up for notification of papers posted for this conference and we recommend that you review the About the Conference page for the conference's policies. Deadline for session, roundtable, and special event proposals: December 9, 2016; deadline for call for papers: January 31, 2017.
Call for papers, sessions, roundtables and special events: https://conferences.uvic.ca/index.php/sss/sss2017/index
Registration for Congress and for the SSS conference: http://congress2017.ca/
For the Socialist Studies website, including the Socialist Studies online, peer-reviewed journal: http://socialiststudies.ca/
For further information: Jamie Lawson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." target="_blank"> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. “
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YES 2SCS Update
Today's the day: we finally have a commitment from the Island Health Authority that they will be implementing supervised injection services in Victoria next year. So much has brought us to this place.
▪ We want to honour the lives of people who have been fighting for these services and who are no longer with us. We know their names, we loved them and cared about them, and they were a part of our community. In so many ways, they were failed by a system that criminalizes, dehumanizes, stigmatizes and shuts out.▪ We want to reaffirm today that harm reduction is about love, inclusion, intersectionality, justice, empathy and revolution.
▪ We want to reaffirm that the leadership of people who use currently illicit drugs and particularly those isolated and shunned through systems of race, class and gender, must be at the centre of all our efforts to increase access to care, to continue building resilient and loving communities, and to ending the War on People Who Use Drugs.
Things you can do:
▪ Please fill out Island Health's online survey and voice your support for SCS in our community. Survey is live until December 2.▪ Please attend Island Health's public feedback open houses: show up to support the highest quality services possible for people who use drugs in our community.
▪ Please visit the SOLID Society of Living Illicit Drug Users webpage to read more about what people who use drugs want from health services in our community. This includes a list of pragmatic demands for what immediate interim measures to address the current overdose crisis should include.
Finally thank you to all of you for your steadfast support of this campaign. In some ways, our collective work is just beginning. We're going to need your voices to make sure that these services are implemented in OUR community as soon as possible.
Stay tuned for upcoming events and more pressure for the types of quality health services we need for our communities.
yes2scs is a community campaign to ensure SCS are established and operating in Victoria in 2016. Our commitments include:
* facilitating a process to ensure adequate funding, appropriate services and locations, and a service provider who makes certain these services are trauma informed and culturally safe.
* continuing our work on the Federal Exemption process.
* continuing to work with all levels of government and key stakeholders on this goal and timeframe.
* ensuring people who use illicit drugs and organizations of people who use drugs are fully involved in these processes.
* recognizing the limits of SCS to prevent all OD deaths by continuing to respond to the harm caused by the criminalization of people who use drugs.
Support the implementation of supervised consumption services in Victoria
* Send letters to provincial officials to call for a clear funding commitment for this service
* Join our growing list of supportive organizations
* Show your individual support by uploading a 'I support' photo
* Visit our website for resources about SCS
* Like and share content from our Facebook Page
* Follow us and re-tweet us on Twitter
* Email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Margo MatwychukDirector
Social Justice Studies ProgramUniversity of Victoriaweb.uvic.ca/socialjustice/@UVicSJS on TwitterUVicSJS on FacebookUVicSJS on YouTube
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