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Picket the Jewish National Fund, Vancouver
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Picket the Jewish National Fund JNF Dinner
Sunday, April 10, 2016, 4:45 pm
Four Seasons Hotel (W. Georgia and Howe St.), Vancouver, B.C.
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JNF Canada has used its tax-deductible status for building and maintaining the infamous “Canada Park” on the ruins of 3 Palestinian villages, Imwas, Yalu and Beit Nuba, which were located in the occupied West Bank and destroyed after the 1967 war. On April 10, 2016, the Jewish National Fund JNF Pacific Region is holding its annual “Negev Gala Dinner” and this year, it is “working with ‘No to Violence Against Women’(in Israel) to build a shelter for women and children”. They claim that “this shelter is for everyone, regardless of background.” The JNF, with its racist policies of neither leasing nor selling land to non-Jews (i.e. Palestinians), cannot use a project like...
[evoz] complete message & petition information
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This week another Honduran environmental activist was tragically murdered. Nelson García worked alongside Berta Caceres trying to stop the disastrous Agua Zarca mega-dam in Honduras.
In the wake of this news and thanks to pressure from over 135,000 SumOfUs members, the FMO Development bank -- one of the project’s largest investors -- has suspended all disbursements into all projects in Honduras, including the Agua Zarca project.
This is huge news -- but we haven’t won yet. FMO’s CEO and other executives are due to travel to...
Upcoming events
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A reminder of our TRC workshop with Dian Million tomorrow:
Friday March 18, 2016
10:30 am – 1:30 pm
Ceremonial Hall, First Peoples House
University of Victoria, Lekwungen Territory
10:30 am– 11:30 am: Keynote: Dr. Dian Million
"Practicing 'Decolonial Love': Damages, Relations, Truth and Telling"
Taking seriously Leanne Simpson's beautiful and challenging admonition to practice 'Decolonial Love", I ask what are the practices of love for our selves in the midst of so much state violence. Looking at a bigger picture of two nations states where Indigenous women are murdered or go missing daily, where our families still lose large numbers of children to state and provincial social welfare systems, and our youth to prisons what is this love we summon? One of the recent TRC recommendations is that Canada hold a truth and telling on the conditions that kill so many Native women. I argue that the larger state attacks on our...
Upcoming Events
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Below are some other great events happening around town this week and next:
Thursday, March 17:
Victoria Friends of Cuba's Social Justice Film Night presents:
"THE LAST MOUNTAIN"
In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle with severe consequences that affect all of us, regardless of our social status, economic background or where we live. It is a battle that has taken many lives and continues to do so the longer it is waged. It is a battle over protecting our health and environment from the destructive power of Big Coal.
The mining and burning of coal is at the epicenter of America’s struggle to balance its energy needs with environmental concerns. Nowhere is that concern greater than in Coal River Valley, West Virginia, where a small but passionate group of ordinary citizens are trying...
SJS Annual Lecture
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Dear Friends of SJS,
Please join us this Thursday, March 17th for the Social Justice Studies Annual Lecture:
Dr. Dian MillionUniversity of Washington
Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights: A Conversation with a literature of damages, marketability, truth and telling.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
7 pm - 9 pm
David Turpin Building A120
University of Victoria, Songhees, Esquimalt & WSÁNEĆ Traditional Lands
Dr Million will also be our guest and keynote speaker on Friday, March 18th for a TRC Action Event:
"Practicing 'Decolonial Love': Damages, Relations, Truth and Telling"
Friday, March 18, 2016
10:30 am – 1:30 pm
Ceremonial Hall, First Peoples House
University of Victoria,
Social Justice Film NIght
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"THE LAST MOUNTAIN"
In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle with severe consequences that affect all of us, regardless of our social status, economic background or where we live. It is a battle that has taken many lives and continues to do so the longer it is waged. It is a battle over protecting our health and environment from the destructive power of Big Coal.
The mining and burning of coal is at the epicenter of America’s struggle to balance its energy needs with environmental concerns. Nowhere is that concern greater than in Coal River Valley, West Virginia, where a small but passionate group of ordinary citizens are trying to stop Big Coal...
Read this before midnight on March 17th
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Dear rabble readers,We've already heard from Avi Lewis, Murray Dobbin, and Pam Palmater about why you should donate and support independent media and help out the activists and organizations fighting for the climate, Indigenous rights, and social justice in Canada. But now we need to talk about numbers.
The first number is 0.
That's what we charge for rabble's daily progressive online news coverage. It's completely free. We're able to do this because of our non-profit structure that keeps costs low, and the help of our allies and readers that keeps our news coverage completely independent.
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Handcrafted Herbalism: Free Mini-Course >> Foraging ~ Botany ~ Medicine Making
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Greetings,
We’re excited about the debut of our friends' very first free online herbal mini-course! Come join Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine for a gander into the world of handcrafted herbalism where you'll explore wild foods foraging, herbal medicine making, and a bit of juicy herbal botany to boot. It’s simple to enroll, just click on this link by March 22nd.
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Reminder: Mar 15 - Free Webinar on Global Trends in Sustainable Energy & Climate Leadership in BC
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BCSEA is a non-profit society that relies on memberships to advance the low-carbon economy. Will you please join us?
Tomorrow! Free Webinar on Global Trends in Sustainable Energy & Climate Leadership in B.C.
with Clean Energy Canada
This is a friendly reminder that tomorrow, March 15th from 12pm - 1pm, you are invited to join the first of BCSEA's FREE 2016 Webinar Series!
If you haven't registered yet, there's still time! Register by clicking here.
If you have registered, be sure to join us via the link in the GoToWebinar invitation sent to you.
A little about our webinar, and our presenter, Merran Smith:
B.C.’s carbon pollution is increasing. Between 2011 and 2013 it climbed by 1.5...
Our last, best hope is Indigenous Nationhood
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Donate to rabble.ca right now and support media that fights for Indigenous self-determination 
Dear rabble readers,
I'm a lawyer, professor, activist, and advocate for Indigenous self-determination. That means my job often involves making a lot of people uncomfortable, pushing them to talk about facts.
The fact I feel we need to talk about most is that we're in crisis. Canada is killing First Nations people, destroying the land and robbing us of our voices.
There is hope though. The best prospect we have to halt growing inequality and wanton environmental destruction is through Indigenous self-determination.
We built it and they came! / Nous lavons con
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For over ten years, Fair Vote Canada has been building a massive movement for proportional representation.
So much of our work is done behind the scenes talking to Politicians, Influencers and other organizations to build a country-wide movement for equal & effective votes.
Our work is starting to pay off!
Last week, with friends and allies, we launched the Every Voter Counts Alliance – not just blue voters, not just red voters, orange voters or green voters – Every Voter Counts!
From Our Dear Friend The Milpa Farmer
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Greetings,
Zev Friedman, permaculture designer and teacher with the Permaculture School, is offering this milpa farming series. If you want to learn how to grow staple foods on a village scale in a forest ecosystem, we think this would be worth your time....
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What is a Milpa?
”Milpa” is the Nahuatl word for a sophisticated and ancient form of food, medicine and fiber production practiced in various forms by indigenous people throughout the Americas. Milpas provide a real example of truly sustainable agriculture that permaculture aims to create.
If you have heard of the mutually beneficial plantings of the Three Sisters of corn, beans and squash, the trio is a simplified form of milpa. Milpas can include not just three, but 12-20 annual plants, all grown symbiotically together. Traditionally these crops are grown in clearings rotated through a forest ecosystem over decades. Each of these clearings transforms into 'forest agriculture' after 7-15 years of annual production. This cycle enables maximum ecological diversity, sequesters carbon dioxide, creates topsoil, and provides resilient and autonomous food systems. The people who grow milpa eat an incredibly well-rounded cuisine of annual crops, forest and perennial crops, and animal foods that provide high quality and diverse nutrition.
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BCSEA invites you to Energy Connections 2016!
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- Published on Friday, 11 March 2016 18:30
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BCSEA is a non-profit society that relies on memberships to advance the low-carbon economy. Will you please join us?
Dear PAOV,
The BC Sustainable Energy Association is proud to announce Energy Connections 2016!
On June 3rd, at the Pinnacle Hotel in Vancouver, BCSEA will bring together citizens, community groups, businesses, and government agencies to inspire and inform British Columbians to take action and implement solutions in clean energy generation,...
Canadas Next Climate Crime
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[evoz] EVENT: Decolonization, Reconciliation & New Directions: A Talk with Arthur Manuel
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Decolonization, Reconciliation & New Directions: A Talk with Arthur Manuel
Secwepemc leader Arthur Manuel is a member of the board of directors of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples and a spokesperson and one of the founders of the Defenders of the Land. He is the author of Unsettling Canada: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations.
All are welcome to this free event on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish people
Thursday March 17, 2016 7-9pm, Wilna Thomas Cultural Centre, Lansdowne Campus, Camosun College
Sponsored by the Camosun College Faculty Association’s Human Rights and International Solidarity Committee and the Camosun College Centre for Indigenous Education and Community...
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Social Justice Film Night
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The Last Mountain examines how companies systematically detonate and level the tops of mountains to get at the coal inside. Old mining techniques had their own sets of issues, but they at least left the surfaces of mountains alone. New methods leave behind barren, pockmarked moonscapes.
The documentary moves through a standard three-act story: the problem, the conflict, and the resolution. In this case, the problem and conflict come from the efforts of activists--including Robert F. Kennedy Jr.--to protect Coal River Mountain from destruction. Through sustainable energy, the movie argues with graphs and statistics, we can all move away from coal and the harmful techniques that come with it.7pm Thursday March 172994 Douglas (BGEU Hall)
Admission by Donation
Friends don't let friends dam the Peace
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[Gaza] Launching the Women's Boat to Gaza campa
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[*Le texte français suit le texte anglais*] [*البيان بالعربية في الاسفل*]
Messina, Sicily, ItalyMarch 8, 2016: For Immediate Release
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition* (FFC) has chosen March 8th, which marks International Women's Day (IWD), to announce the launch of their Women's Boat to Gaza (WBG) project.
The Women's Boat to Gaza will set sail mid-September of this year and plans to dock at a number of Mediterranean ports along its route and arrive Gaza on October the 1st.
The FFC's fourth mission (FF4) will be sailed by an all women crew and will carry aboard, notable women from all over the world in...
A week at U.Vic. open to public
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8th Annual MEICON-BC (The Middle East and Islamic Consortium of British Columbia) Student Conference, Saturday, March 19th, 9am-5pm, Fine Arts Building, University of Victoria - open and free to the public
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PANEL 1: Islamic Manuscripts and Interpretations of the Qur’an
9:45 am - 11:00 am, Full details at https://goo.gl/432xlr
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PANEL 2: Musical Influences and the Role of Graffiti in the Arab Uprisings
9:45 am - 11:00 am, Full details at https://goo.gl/432xlr -
PANEL 3: Foreign Policy and Extremism in the Middle East
11:30 am – 12:45 pm, Full details at https://goo.gl/432xlr -
PANEL 4: Resistance and Histories of Imperialism in Palestine - Michael Carpenter, PhD student and research fellow at UVic, and whom many of
you know, will be one of the panelists, and will present on Nabi Saleh: Popular Struggle and Global Citizenship from Palestine
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- Gearing up for trail building season!
- 10 fully funded 5-month International Aboriginal Youth Internships available in Zambia and Uganda! Deadline April 20th.
- all together
- still active in the winter
- [evoz] No Cafe Simpatico in March
- March 4 - Israel Apartheid Week, SPHR UBC Presents: A Discussion with Aiyanas Ormond and Sid Shniad
- Let's take back our power: there's still time to stop the Site C Dam-age
- Mar. 2016 - BCSEA Monthly - Global Trends in Sustainable Energy & Climate Leadership in B.C.
- upcoming events
- Introducing the Every Voter Counts Alliance
