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Dear Friends of SJS,
The 100 for $100 - Supporting Tiny House Warriors Blocking Kinder Morgan

On the first day of the legal hearings against Kinder Morgan's Transmountain expansion, Grand Chief Stewart Philip addressed a rally of supporters outside the courthouse. He reminded them: "The other battle is on the ground. Thousands have pledged to do what it takes to stop this pipeline...Regardless of what happens in these court proceedings, we'll be on the frontlines standing in solidarity".

The Secwepemc have been preparing for that day. As part of their strategy to block Kinder Morgan from accessing their territory, the Secwepemc are intending to build tiny homes on trailers to have the capacity and infrastructure to protect any part of the 518km of their land where Kinder Morgan has routed its 900,000 barrel a day pipeline. As Kanahus Manuel has unequivocally stated, "We're standing in the way of the pipelines. We're occupying and... claiming back our traditions and establishing our traditional villages."

Two tiny homes are already completed. Solidarity activists in Lekwungen and WSANEC have begun construction of a third. This e-mail is an invitation for you to support the local project by helping to raise funds. We are launching the 100 for $100 challenge in the hopes of inspiring 100 people to commit to raising $100 to provide with the Secwepemc with a completed, solar-powered home painted with a Coast Salish mural to be pulled to Neskonlith by the end of November.

The mobile tiny homes will not only help the Secwepemc assert jurisdiction to their traditional territories. They will also leave a lasting legacy in their community by providing housing and supporting long-term efforts by the Secwepemc to resurge material, cultural and spiritual practices throughout their territory.

Details on the challenge: https://www.facebook.com/events/130152131074965/

Details on the local build: https://www.facebook.com/events/123419121693593/

Details on the wider project: https://www.facebook.com/tinyhousewarriors/

Donations can be made online at: https://chuffed.org/project/tiny-house-warriors-wsanec-build

Or by e-transfer at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you have any questions about this project, or want support in coming up with ideas to raise $100, please e-mail Seb Bonet (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Thank you!

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see attached information sheet.

Deadline for applications will be noon on November 3, 2017.


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OCT. 25:


Professional Women and the Justice System Panel Discussion, St Ann’s Academy

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 – 7.00pm – 8.30pm

The second Women in Leadership Critical Conversations panel discussion of our current series will take place October 25th at St. Ann’s Academy. The Panel is sponsored by the Society of Friends of St Ann’s Academy (SFSAA), and the Faculty of Education, University of Victoria. Drawing from feedback from the sold-out Women in Leadership Conference held in October, 2016, it was apparent that the community needs to continue the conversations of gender justice and change.

Eva Silden, an Instructor and former Chair of the Criminal Justice Department at Camosun College will Chair the panel discussion on real and perceived gender bias and progressive change. “Most of us, who work in and study the justice system, recognize that it is largely a system built by and for men. It is only within the last 40 years or so that women have begun to work in policing, law, corrections in any perceptible numbers. As such, it should not come as a surprise that women working in the justice system continue to face inequalities and discrimination. A key starting point for exploring some of these issues is to come from a place of curiosity. I hope this conversation with our panel members and audience will help to shed some light and learning on these issues”.

The panel will include Shannon Perkins, Sergeant Victoria Police Department; Paula Donnachie, Crown Counsel; Treena Smith, Parole Supervisor with Correctional Services Canada; and Holly Craig, Probation Officer.

Lifecycles Project Society will provide light refreshments made from fresh produce. Admission to the panel discussion is by donation.

To register, for general enquiries or more information about the series, write to Satty Virdi, Executive Director at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..


Oct. 26:


Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 20th anniversary fundraising event

We hope you can join CCPA-BC director Seth Klein, associate director Shannon Daub and resource analyst Ben Parfitt for a special 20th anniversary fundraising event in Victoria on Thursday, October 26.

Help celebrate and support the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' vital work in BC, and get their take on openings for progressive change in relation to:

  • The political moment in BC,
  • The rise of the far right, and
  • The climate challenge.

Shannon, Seth and Ben will also reflect on the CCPA’s role and highlight their plans to shine a critical light on public policy. There will be refreshments served after the talk and a chance to connect with other members of the CCPA community.

WHEN: October 26, 2017, Thursday, at 7pm

WHERE: First Metropolitan United Church, 932 Balmoral Rd, Victoria

Buy tickets online at ccpabc.ca/hope2017

Please forward this email to your networks, and share the event page and attached image on social media. If you have any questions, please contact our supporter engagement specialist, Leo Yu, at 604-801-5121 ext. 225 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Victoria City Council Meeting - Banning single-use plastic bags

thursday october 26th

CIty of Victoria Councilors will be voting on how we are going to move forward with a phased-in ban on single-use plastic bags. Join us on the 26th at 6:30pm! Let your Councilors know that you support an outright ban vs a fee. Tell them you will support local businesses in the transition away from these unnecessary plastic items! You can signup to address Victoria City Council here: http://www.victoria.ca/cityhall/council-address-form.aspx
We need to act a quick as possible!
If you can not make the meeting, please write your city councillors, not only in Victoria but in all municipalities in the CRD!
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UVic Vegan Club - "Carnage” Screening

Hey folks! We are happy to present our first movie screening this year with "Carnage." This film is an entertaining mockumentary that comedically presents a utopian future where nobody consumes meat anymore.

This event is open to everyone, not just UVic Vegan Club members, so please invite your friends to watch this hilarious movie. The screening will be held in the Michele Pujol Room within the SUB at the University of Victoria on Thursday, October 26th. We will start the movie just after 6:00 to let everyone settle in. We encourage you to bring some treats or snacks to share and also grab some vegan popcorn from Munchies just down the hall.

This event is totally FREE and we hope to see you there next week!

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Café Simpatico

Friday October 27 - 1923 Fernwood Road.

Doors open at 7 pm Music at 7:30 pm

Presentation at 8 pm

From The Thrift Store to the Tianguis: Unraveling the Fabric of the U.S.-Mexico Border with Melissa Gauthier

Melissa Gauthier will speak about the international second-hand clothing trade and discuss how gifts of unwanted garments are commodified by charity collectors and commercial recyclers of worn clothing in the Global North and become a resource for developing local livelihoods in the Global South. She will share insights from her research into used clothing markets along the U.S.-Mexico border in an attempt to unravel the moral complexities of this trade characterised by increasing social and economic inequalities both within and between trading states. Melissa is a cultural anthropologist and a member of the Anthropology Department at the University of Victoria.

Presented by the Victoria Central America Support Committee

Refreshments served. Fair trade organic coffee for sale. admission by donation.

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Voices of the Salmon Frontlines: Circle at the Legislature

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“For 30 years we have been saying ‘No!’ to fish farms, and for 30 years we have been watching salmon returns decline. My relatives have no fish in their freezers. Enough is enough!”.
-Sherry Moon, Midsummer island occupation

“The provincial and federal government have promised to ratify the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP). And yet, we have been threatened with RCMP and court injunctions. Is this what reconciliation looks like?”
-Ernest Alfred, Swanson island occupation

Amidst the worst Fraser River sockeye run in history, join us, frontline Salmon Protectors from the Namgis and Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw Nations Swanson and Midsummer Island fish farm occupations in the Broughton Archipelago, in our determined fight to protect coastal wild salmon. Our traditional salmon food fishery and coastal ecosystem need protection from the ravages of open-pen Atlantic salmon farms, which have been devastating wild salmon and operating on our unceded territories for the past 30 years without our consent.

Chiefs and village members from the Namgis, Lawitisis, Mamalilikala and Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw, Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis and Gawaneuek First Nations are travelling to the colonial centre of power to deliver our urgent message firsthand to the BC Legislature -- Fish Farms Out Now! The 20 open-pen Norwegian-owned fish farms operating in the Broughton Archipelago have pushed Sockeye and other native salmon populations to the brink of extinction and must be immediately removed from the marine environment. We are asking government, industry, First Nations and coastal communities to come together to develop a just transition strategy for workers and communities.

The timing is critical -- please show your support for wild salmon, the Salmon Peoples across this coast, indigenous self-determination, rights and title and healthy coastal ecosystems -- join the Circle for Salmon. There will be Indigenous frontline speakers, drumming, dancing and food, all in celebration of salmon as an indispensible food source, keystone species and the cultural lifeblood of the Indigenous coastal Salmon Peoples.

This action will take place respectfully on the territory of the Lekwungen peoples of the Songhees and Esquimalt nations.

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CAPI funded internships, research funding, and scholarship

The UVic Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives is excited to offer funded internships, research funding, and scholarships. Check out the attached posters for details!

We would appreciate if you could help us get the word out by circulating the attached posters to your students and faculty. I have also attached a power-point slide that could be used in lecture power-points. I’ll follow up with hard-copy posters for your departments to put up later this week.

Funded internships are available in India, Malaysia, Thailand, and Japan.

Depending on their partner organization’s focus, interns work with grassroots organizations on various issues such as community development, governance, gender issues, refugee rights and education, climate change and disaster preparedness, and more. See attached poster for more info.

Research funding is available for UVic graduate research within the Commonwealth. Priority goes to those with a research focus on the Asia-Pacific region. See attached poster for more info.

One scholarship is available for a graduate student incoming to UVic from a Commonwealth country. Priority goes to student from the Asia-Pacific, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. See attached poster for more info.

Upcoming info sessions:

  • November 22nd, 1:30-2:30pm, Sedgewick Building Room C168
  • January 31st, 1-2pm, Sedgewick Building Room C168

For more info: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 250-721-7022.

Thanks very much,

Kenda Chang-Swanson

Work-study Student

International Internship Program

Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives

Sedgewick C137, University of Victoria

www.capi.uvic.ca

Tel: 250.721.7022


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CJPME Joins Amnesty in Critiquing Arms Control Legislation

For Immediate Release

Montreal, October 17, 2017 — Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is proud to join Amnesty International and nine other civil society organizations* in critiquing the federal government’s proposed arms control legislation encapsulated in Bill C-47. Bill C-47 is a bill intended to enable Canada to accede to the international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). However, CJPME and its NGO partners consider C-47 to be highly flawed, such that Canada would not be fully compliant with the Treaty with the passage of C-47. CJPME and its partners have issued a joint document highlighting their top 10 concerns with bill C-47.

One of the most prominent problems with Bill C-47 identified by CJPME and its partners is its failure to impose ATT norms on Canada’s arms exports to the US – a country not expected to accede to the treaty. The US is Canada’s largest arms purchaser, representing over half of Canada’s arms sales. Omitting these sales means that literally the majority of Canada’s military exports will remain unregulated and unreported under C-47. CJPME President Thomas Woodley states, “By failing to apply the ATT standards to arms exports to the US, the bill as it stands violates the letter and spirit of the ATT.”

The ATT seeks to contribute to regional peace and prevent human suffering by “establishing the highest possible international standards for regulating or improving the regulation of the international trade in conventional arms.” CJPME has been calling on the Canadian government to sign and ratify the ATT for years. As such, CJPME welcomes the government’s supposed intent to regulate international arms sales and limit human rights violations perpetuated by unwise or illicit arms transfers. Nonetheless, CJPME and its partners point out the significant gaps in the proposed legislation that suggest that Canada will fall far short of fulfilling key obligations under the Treaty.

The international arms trade is one of the greatest causes of instability and human rights violations in the Middle East and around the world. Canada is part of a minority at the UN which has not yet signed the ATT. More than 90 other nations, including many of Canada’s closest allies, have already signed the ATT and committed to regulating all international arms transfers. CJPME urges the government to implement the amendments necessary to ensure full accession to the ATT.

* Partners endorsing the critique include Amnesty International Canada (English branch), Amnistie internationale Canada francophone, Project Ploughshares, Oxfam-Canada, Oxfam-Québec, Rideau Institute, Group of 78, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, World Federalist Movement-Canada, and the Human Rights and Research Education Centre at the University of Ottawa.

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For more information, please contact:
Miranda Gallo
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
Telephone: 438-380-5410
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