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Film showing
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Please join the Victoria Friends of Cuba for the upcoming Social Justice Film showing:
SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM NIGHT PRESENTS:
7:00pm Thursday October 152994 Douglas (BCGEU Hall)
Admission by donation
A cinematic kayak journey revealing the reality of BC’s North Coast, where the Enbridge Corporation is proposing to navigate hundreds of supertankers loaded with millions of barrels of Bitumen from Alberta’s Tarsands.Showing people the reality of the coast that is threatened by Tar Sands Oil Super Tankers and how the conditions of the west coast can effect these massive foreign ships.
Social Justice Film Nights are on the 3rd Thursday of every month - Sponsored by Victoria Friends of Cuba.
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Social Justice Studies ProgramUniversity of Victoriaweb.uvic.ca/socialjustice/@UVicSJS on TwitterUVicSJS on FacebookUVicSJS on YouTube
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upcoming events and opportunities
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Dear Friends of SJS,
Hoping that all of you have some special people to share the upcoming holiday with in whatever way you can.
There several events next week that remind us that many in our communities still struggle to find ways to share holidays with their families and friends. Other events encourage us to find other ways to make the changes necessary:
SUPPORT REGIONAL HOUSING
FIRST INITIATIVE
Wednesday, October 14, 1 PM
Capital
Regional District office, 625 Fisgard, Lekwungen Territories
Come show the Capital Regional Hospital District that you
support the Regional Housing First Strategy!
This initiative proposes to make significant progress on
homelessness by building 367 units of supported housing by 2018.
Over the past 25 years Canada's population increased by 30%
while annual national investment in housing decreased by over 46%. Rather than
sit around waiting for the federal government to live...
October 15 event
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SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM NIGHT PRESENTS:
7:00pm Thursday October 152994 Douglas (BCGEU Hall)
Admission by donation
A cinematic kayak journey revealing the reality of BC’s North Coast, where the Enbridge Corporation is proposing to navigate hundreds of supertankers loaded with millions of barrels of Bitumen from Alberta’s Tarsands.Showing people the reality of the coast that is threatened by Tar Sands Oil Super Tankers and how the conditions of the west coast can effect these massive foreign ships.
Social Justice Film Nights are on the 3rd Thursday of every month - Sponsored by Victoria Friends of Cuba.
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Upcoming Events
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Canada in Africa - 300 years of Aid and Exploitation with Yves Engler, Canadian Author & Activist 7:30 pm Tuesday, October 6 UVic, Harry Hickman, Room 105
Free admission. Donations are welcomed.
Canadian author, Yves Engler, launches his latest critical overview of Canadian policy towards the African continent. Based on an exhaustive look at the public record as well as on-the-ground research, Canada in Africa documents Canadian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, "scramble for Africa", missionary movement and European colonialism. Ottawa's promotion of neoliberal economic prescriptions, which have benefitted Canadian mining companies, is often bitterly resisted by the anticolonial struggles of local communities.Engler sheds light on Canada's part in the violence that has engulfed Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo, while it shows indifference to the dire effects of climate change on ever-growing numbers of Africans."This should be required...
from Palestine by Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh
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futile attempts to prevent it. The rampage by colonial settlers started
with the arson attack on the Dawabsheh family home several weeks ago
(mother, father and child martyred, second child still in hospital).
Reactions were expected and the settlers are now getting green light to
massacre Palestinians and attack their holy sites. The arrogance of
Netanyahu unleashing his settlers on AlAqsa mosque and then staring down
the United Nations and lecturing them about Iran was like a Greek myth:
tragic and theatrical. This theater of the absurd would be comical if it
was not so devastating. The silence of the US validates the widespread
belief here that this theater is intended to hide a deal struck between
Netanyahu and Obama whereby the US will let Israel proceed with its plans
to Judaize Jerusalem and annex other areas of occupied territories. All
politicians played their assigned role and Mahmoud Abbas continued...
upcoming events on sexualized violence and poverty
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Dear Friends of SJS:
here are another two great events happening on campus and in the community:
HOLDING COMMUNITY SPACE FOR SURVIVORS
TO: UVIC campus community and Victoria community at large,
Come and join students, staff, faculty and community members in transforming a space marked by violence into a space characterized by community care, respect, support and learning: On October 8 at 6:00 pm in Parking Lot 1 at the University of Victoria. This gathering is in response to the incident of sexualized violence on September 26th, 2015 on campus.
The space will host AVP’s Clothesline Project, The Men’s Circle at UVic, and performances by the local youth poet laureate Zoe Duhaime and City Councillor Jeremy Loveday.
At 7:15 pm the movie
The Hunting Ground...
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[evoz] thanks and coffee
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[evoz] reminder - 2 meetings for Yves Engler
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upcoming events
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Dear Friends of SJS,
Please join us at some of these great upcoming events:
Tuesday, October 6th:
Canada in Africa - 300 years of Aid and Exploitation
Tuesday, October 6
7:30 pm
UVic, Harry Hickman, Rm 105
Sponsored by Victoria Peace Coalition, UVic Social Justice Studies, Council of Canadians Victoria Chapter, Social and Environmental Alliance, Friends of Western Sahara, Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation, Central America Support Committee (CASC), Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Victoria Friends of Cuba, Mining Justice Action Committee (MJAC), African Awareness Committee.
And on Wednesday, October 7
12:30 pm
Camosun, Lansdowne Campus
Young 216
Sponsored by Camosun College Faculty Association's Human Rights and International Solidarity Committee and the Camosun African Awareness Committee.
Book launch Canada in Africa - 300 years of Aid and Exploitation
Canadian author, Yves Engler, launches his latest critical overview of Canadian policy towards the African continent. Based on an exhaustive look...
Oct. 2015 - BCSEA Monthly - Volunteers Excel
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Volunteers Excel
Our volunteer chapters excelled last month, hosting five candidates debates on Vancouver Island and in Metro Vancouver, in partnership with the Dogwood Initiative. The debates focussed on green jobs, renewable energy, intergenerational equity, the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipeline proposals, the National Energy Board and Canada's share of greenhouse gas emissions, and aimed to raise awareness and understanding of sustainable energy issues and the candidates’ positions in the lead up to the federal election. The debate series has already reached hundreds of voters, with two debates remaining in Sidney and North Vancouver.
Staff and volunteers also reached out to hundreds of students...
coming talk
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We are co-sponsors of the following
Canada in Africa
300 years of Aid and Exploitation
with Yves Engler, Canadian author and activist
Tuesday
October 6,
7:30 pm
University of Victoria
Harry Hickman Building
Room 105
Free admission: Donations
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[evoz] Event in Victoria [UPDATE]- SANDRA MORAN, a Guatemalan Congress woman
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[Please disregard previous notice]
MEET SANDRA MORAN, A GUATEMALAN CONGRESS WOMAN
DATE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4th.
TIME: 6:15 PM – POTLUCK DINNER
PLACE: JAMES BAY COMMUNITY SCHOOL CENTER, 140 OSWEGO
CONTACT: SHEILA REID : 250 480 1121
Many of you will remember Sandra Morán as the percussionist in the revolutionary band Kin Lalat that came to Canada in the early 90's. Their stirring music was an awakening to the realities in Central America for many Canadians. At that time she had already spent 10 years in exile having fled the death squads in her native Guatemala. Today she is one of Guatemala’s most prominent feminists and performance artists and she has recently won a seat in Congress with the Convergence party. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2">
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Seniors
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Paov -- This year I heard from a home support worker who visits a senior woman living alone in her home. She told me that above anything else, this senior just needs someone to sit and hold her hand because she is lonely and isn’t sure she wants to keep on living.
The home support worker said she can barely stand to go to the woman’s house because under the strictly limited care plan and very short time she’s allowed to spend with the woman, she can’t - in fact, she’s not allowed - to sit down and listen, even for five minutes. So the worker comes, does a few short tasks, and leaves the woman to sit alone and isolated.
Our report (http://www.bchealthcoalition.ca/seniors) this year found that this is a tragically common scenario - in...
Reminder: Oct.1 @ 12:30pm Rally in Solidarity with First Nations in Court vs Enbridge
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Dear Paov,As you know, starting tomorrow, October 1, eight First Nations will stand up in court against Enbridge. These nations, two of whom are represented by West Coast, are seeking to overturn the federal government's conditional approval of the proposed Enbridge pipeline and tankers project. The hearings will take place over the course of six days, Oct.1-2 and 5-8 and also include legal cases brought by four environmental groups and a union representing oil sands workers. You can read more about what's at staker0
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This October 1st is the beginning of the end of Enbridge
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Rally to stop the Site C dam TOMORROW in Victoria!
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Read more: Rally to stop the Site C dam TOMORROW in Victoria!
[Video] How Mushrooms Can Save The World + Natural Building Apprenticeship
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Offerings, happenings, and know-how of Ashevillage & friends.
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[Video] PAUL STAMETS: How Mushrooms Can Save Bees & Our Food Supply #mycoresilience
How can mushrooms save the world - and how can you grow your own edible and medicinal mushrooms? Last week we had the honor of seeing Paul Stamets, world-renowned mycologist, speak in Asheville. Paul has been doing groundbreaking work on how fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer uniquely powerful, practical solutions we can implement now to boost the biosphere’s immune system and equip us with benign breakthrough mycotechnologies to accelerate the transition to a restored world. Watch this video where Paul shares the ways that mushrooms are helping humans create resilience.
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Harper attack ad goes viral, now help get it on national television.
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Hey all you election-jammers and voter-rousers,
Adbusters is shaking up #cdnpoli like never before. Our controversial attack ad incited outrage amongst Harper supporters, including Harper’s own Defense Minister Jason Kenney, whose hate-tweet we shall forever cherish.
Read more: Harper attack ad goes viral, now help get it on national television.
So Much Happening at PeerNetBC!
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Annual General Meeting & Fall Workshop Opportunities
OPEN CINEMA Season 13: Numbers, Sabbaticals and Upcoming Screenings
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