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Public Event Announcement
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Organization: Victoria Friends of CubaContact person: Randy Caravaggio 250-743-2994Time $ Place: 4pm Saturday, July 23 @ 1240 Gladstone Ave. in the Fernwood Community CentreAdmission: $15 (kids free)
FEWSTA CUBANACelebrating the 63rd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution4:00pm Saturday, July 23 - 1240 Gladstone Ave. (Fernwood Community Centre)Full dinner served at 5:00pmLive Music, Speakers and whole lot funAdmission $15 (kids free) - Tickets at the door or reserve them at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Sponsored by Victoria Friends of Cuba
July 2016 - BCSEA Monthly - Summer's for Solar!
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100% Renewable Energy by 2050 – coming to your town soon
As if the 2015 federal candidates debates weren’t exciting enough, for 2016 the Victoria Chapter has taken on the municipalities of southern Vancouver Island.
Inspired by the Renewable City Strategy of the City of Vancouver, we are asking the municipalities in our area to adopt a 2050 goal of meeting 100% of their energy use with renewables. And we mean all energy use in the community, not just municipal operations.
Towns and cities are leaders on energy issues. Last December, as nations met at the UN Climate Conference in Paris, 1,000 mayors from around the world stepped up with major...
Big news from RAVEN
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[Happy Interdependence Week!] Media & Residential Internship Opportunities + Kombucha Recipe + Gratitudes
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Weekly offerings, happenings, and know-how of Ashevillage & friends.
Greetings PAOV
At Ashevillage, we find the concept of Interdependence vs. Independence worth noting! "The principle of interdependence is the key to the existence of nature's entire system. The best example we have of this are the cells in the human body. They connect with one another through mutual giving for the benefit of the entire body. Every cell receives what it needs to exist, and applies the rest of its strength toward the general body." ~Professor Gunter Blobel, M.D., Ph.D. We see this in symbiotic relationship throughout the natural world and seek to apply it to human interpersonal interactions for a whole and vibrant life for all.
Within our interdependence we also seek conscious sovereignty for all - the full right and power for self governance. Self Responsibility. Using our so-called independence to help proliferate goodness in the world. We prefer to celebrate this vs. abstract concepts of freedom, imperialism & forms of patriotism that proclaim dominance over others.
Wishing you a happy Interdependence Day!
The Ashevillage Team
call for support and film showing
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Dear Friends of SJS,
Call for support:
Hello everyone,
The Thinking Garden, our beautiful documentary film about Hleketani Community Garden in South Africa, will be released later this summer. We can’t wait to screen it! (Photo: farmer Rosina Masangu got a preview when Liz was in Jopi village in June.)
Twelve days to go in our *final* fundraiser: Please consider helping to get the word out via Facebook, email, or by whatever means at your disposal.
https://igg.me/at/thinkinggarden
(the video is a few early clips from our successful Arts Council application)
Myriad thanks for your support of Hleketani Community Garden -- The Thinking Garden.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth, Christine, Mo and Basani
Elizabeth Vibert Christine Welsh Moira Simpson Basani Ngobeni
E. Vibert and C. Welsh
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Terrible is all around us but we believe in a vision that is as simple as it is huge: equality for all people!
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Dear PAOV,
Terrible is all around us.
Yesterday, the village of Al-Araqib was demolished for the 100th time.
Earlier this week, police violence against Palestinians in Jerusalem escalated yet again, with worshippers at Al-Aqsa mosque hit with tear gas and rubber bullets.
July celebration
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Please help: 30 seconds to email Elizabeth May and the Green Party, to tell them to hold their ground / Aidez nous : prenez 30 secondes pour encourager Elizabeth May et le Parti Vert
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Dear Victoria,
Please act – just 30 seconds
Green Party leader Elizabeth May is backtracking on some key party resolutions relating to Israel-Palestine. Show her and her party that the resolutions...
Enbridge court challenge: A big win for First Nations and the environment
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- Published on Monday, 04 July 2016 18:00
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Dear Paov,This week is a week for celebration.
As of last Thursday, Enbridge no longer has federal approval for its proposed Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers project.
Ruling on a series of legal challenges launched by First Nations, environmental organizations and Canada's largest private sector union, the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the federal approval of Northern Gateway and sent the issue back to Cabinet for redetermination.
The Court held that Canada "offered only a brief, hurried and inadequate opportunity" for consultation with First Nations before the federal Cabinet approved the project, which...
Read more: Enbridge court challenge: A big win for First Nations and the environment
Paov, ready to speak up for the ancient forests on #WalbranWednesday?
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Christy Clark vs. Treaty 8 First Nations
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- Published on Monday, 04 July 2016 13:15
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Dear PAOV,
What an amazing response!
I just wanted to make sure you saw Brittany’s email below. Time and again, the Leadnow community just blows us away with your generosity and commitment. From coast to coast to coast, people like you are digging deep and have just helped us raise $10,000!
Can you chip in and help us hit $18,000? We’ll get straight to work designing our hard-hitting ads tomorrow and the more we raise right now, the more effective our ads will be.
Click here to donate: https://secure.leadnow.ca/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1694&ea.campaign.id=52957
Thanks for all you do,
Amara, on behalf of the Leadnow team
First "boycott ban" case defeated in UK high court | The Electronic Intifada
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To:
Justice for Palestinians 1; Zionism 0 in the UK
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/first-boycott-ban-case-defeated-uk-high-court?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=901d474274-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-901d474274-290673841
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Patriotism isn't funny, but our Canada Day contest just might be
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- Published on Friday, 01 July 2016 15:45
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rabble.ca 15th anniversary.
Oh, Canada.July 1 is a time for lefties to endure an entire uninterrupted day of cringe-inducing displays of patriotism. Red and white facepaint everywhere and way too many people will harangue and lecture the world on social media about peacekeeping, multiculturalism and our "dreamy" prime minister.
The patriotic trinkets news outlets offer on Canada Day -- like a Canadian flag cut-out centrefold -- are just awful.
Over at CBC Montreal, they've put together probably the worst example of Canada Day schlock in a generation: The not-so-great Canada Day "Tuques Up" challenge. It is like a patriotic card game version of charades.
Warning: the card game is pretty embarrassing so be warned about looking at the complete collection, which inexplicably includes Liberal MP Marc Garneau who they may have mistaken for Chris Hadfield.
At rabble we usually give pause, and reflect on our problematic Canadian national mythology. But this year, we also want to give you something fun to cure those red and white blues.
The CBC suggests that readers come up with their own cards for tuques up. So we did.
Download and enjoy our version. You won't be sorry! (get it?)
The point is that alternative media plays a serious, but sometimes irreverent, role in society. rabble is a necessary and subversive space for radical ideas that are otherwise invisible. Canada needs more radical ideas, more undermining of the status quo, more pressure on the powerful, and less pressure on the powerless.
Read more: Patriotism isn't funny, but our Canada Day contest just might be
Victory! $453 Returned to Barista
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JUNE/JULY 2016
We are a network of workers and labour activists that fight for workplace justice, increased wages, and better conditions for retail and service workers.
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Campaign Victory!
by Eric Nordal
We're excited to announce that this week, we finally got the wages that've been owed to our barista friend that was getting paid below minimum wage and fired without cause! The campaign began in January, and we went through a lot to finally get here. We have so much appreciation for the workers and the community that stood with us to make this a big victory. Read more about how it all went down here.
Victory! Enbridge approval overturned by federal court
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How will the TPP affect you?
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- Published on Thursday, 30 June 2016 22:45
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Here’s a photo of the plane that flew your message over Ottawa this morning:
Yesterday leaders from the US and Mexico met with our government in Ottawa to talk trade. Over the next few days the media will be paying attention to the Trans-Pacific Partnership - a bad trade deal that will kill jobs, increase the cost of medicine, and let corporations sue us for our common sense policies. Corporate lobbyists will be using this moment to pressure our leaders to ratify the TPP, so it's a key one for us to counter their spin.
That’s why we’re so grateful to the hundreds of people from the Leadnow community who chipped in to pay for a plane to fly over Ottawa this morning pulling a massive banner that says “RejectTPP.ca” - a big, bold link to a hard-hitting new website that covers the dangers and costs of this outdated corporate power grab.
Do you know how the TPP will affect you? This new website will help. Click here to check out the new website to see the top reasons for rejecting the TPP, and then use our simple tool to send a message to our government that you want them to Reject the TPP: RejectTPP.ca
Mark your calendars, the dates we stop Kinder Morgan
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Plants and Healers International Summer Newsletter 2016
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Frank Cook's birthday was on June 9th! This always offers a great opportunity to remember him in various ways. He was a prolific maker of various beverages so this year PHI executive director Marc Williams decided to make a liqueur in his honor. This liqueur contains Currants, Raspberries, and Dandelion roots from the garden of an amazing 91 year old lady named Elly who Marc works for periodically. Another addition is Kumquats from Frank and Marc's friend Mycol Stevens and everything was immersed in Apple brandy. It will eventually be sweetened with honey from the legendary Doug Elliott. Frank had a tradition of shaving his beard on his birthday and so Marc decided to honor this tradition by shaving himself on that day as well. Nice that Frank can live on in so many forms of practices that people can continue in their own lives. Another example is the posting of a song by Lydiyah Sea on Frank's birthday that was inspired by him and a picture of his partner Alexis shaving him on his birthday many moons ago that you can see to the left. What do you do to honor Frank and his incredible impact in the world. Let us know!
Read more: Plants and Healers International Summer Newsletter 2016
Holy Smokes, Were winning!
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Yesterday, we received a copy of a press release sent out by the elected Chair of the electoral reform committee, Francis Scarpaleggia. He was singing our song!
He said: “I am honoured to be part of this historic process to examine options available for modifying Canada’s electoral system so that the distribution of seats in the House of Commons better reflects each party’s share of the popular vote,”
You can only do that by introducing proportional representation into our electoral system.
You can find the full press release here.
[Canadian-BDS-Coalition] Green Party: Our Action has been Requested
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Good afternoon
As you know, this August, the Green Party is holding its biannual convention in Ottawa. In advance of that convention, party members may submit policy resolutions to be voted upon by party members. Two such motions have been submitted. These include:
- a resolution sponsored by party leader Elizabeth May, to endorse revoking the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) because of its racist practices (see resolution at https://www.greenparty.ca/en/convention-2016/voting/resolutions/g16-p010
- a resolution supporting Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (see resolution https://www.greenparty.ca/en/convention-2016/voting/resolutions/g16-p006).
When these motions were made available to Green Members, an attack was launched by several...
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