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[evoz] A forwrded message about emergency refugee rally

Details: Published on Friday, 04 September 2015 06:00; Written by editor

Please join this emergency rally to support refugees. Saturday Non- 1 pm at Government & Wharf, Inner Harbour, beside Tourist Information Office Join the demonstration on Saturday at noon declaring that No One is Illegal. Bring homemade signs saying calling on our government to open the borders and showing how immigrants are welcome here.

Many people have wept at the photographs we have seen. They could be our children, our nieces and nephews, our cousins or grandchildren. Come show your fury and grief at our government’s callous indifference to the suffering of our fellow human beings. From Shane For information see: ps://www.facebook.com/events/866680666713863/

[Video] Charles Eisenstein: A New Story + September Savings

Details: Published on Thursday, 03 September 2015 14:15; Written by editor

Offerings, happenings, and know-how of Ashevillage & friends.

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RESILIENT LIVING WORKSHOP, October 12-16
Gardening + Fermentation + Wild Food + Herbalism
With Guest Teacher, Charles Eisenstein + Local Team

“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.” ~ Charles Eisenstein

VIDEO >> A New Story of the People examines the role that stories play in how we think about ourselves and each other, and offers a glimpse at a new emerging story that can help bring about a more sustainable & resilient world. #resilientliving #newstory
Read more: [Video] Charles Eisenstein: A New Story + September Savings

This is the Canada we're fighting for

Details: Published on Thursday, 03 September 2015 12:15; Written by editor

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Sept. 2015 - BCSEA Monthly - Welcome to the first edition!

Details: Published on Thursday, 24 September 2015 23:45; Written by editor

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Welcome to the First Edition of BCSEA's Monthly Newsletter

Welcome to the first edition of BCSEA’s monthly newsletter, launched to keep you up to date and informed about our work to promote sustainable energy in BC.

Last month, the Board appointed a new Executive Director, and we’re busy making plans to sharpen our focus on making renewable energy and energy conservation accessible to all British Columbians. Of course, our day-to-day work continues, including participating in the City of Vancouver’s Renewable City stakeholder engagement process, submitting comments on the Ministry of Environment’s intentions paper on GHG offset regulations and the BC Government’s Climate Leadership Plan, hosting six events around the province later this month...

[HumanRights] New video on our work and seeking volunteers

Details: Published on Wednesday, 02 September 2015 11:00; Written by editor

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Opportunities to volunteer exist in these areas:

A) Scientific Research Projects. There are over 20 projects here. Examples:
Biodiversity in specific areas (e.g. Wadi AlQuf, Al-Makhrour, Wadi Fukin)
including Field work, research on diverse groups of living things (birds,
mammals, insects, snails, medical plants), and research on geology,
paleontology, and ethnology.

B) Ecosystem structures: Design of living outdoor and animal/plant exhibits
that interactive and not “zoo like” or “garden like”). The main goal is to
recreate a habitat that will allow a growth in number of species and an
equilibrium in the ecosystem created. Here people interested as well as
landscape designers, architects, and others who can contribute are needed.

C) Education/behavioral change: Developing the education system in schools,
to increase the curiosity for the children and the way they are thinking
about the nature around themselves. Developing and training children about
recycling/ up-cycling. And developing SMART science exhibition for students
in the museum.

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Raven Coal proponent misses another deadline, and then accuses environmental regulators of bias!

Details: Published on Tuesday, 01 September 2015 17:15; Written by editor

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End Israel's Apartheid & Occupation Billboard

Details: Published on Tuesday, 01 September 2015 10:45; Written by editor

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Hi folks,
Our billboard from Pat Bay highway came down today. Our committees, Victoria Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and Victoria Friends of Cuba sends a great big thanks to all the many folks who helped us with putting it up, taking it down, sending funding and hundreds of letters of support to make sure that it stayed up. We've never seen or received as much support as we have received for this project.
It was a well worth project to have been part of. Thousands of people were able to see it.
Now it will be down for one month and go up again in Nanaimo in October.
We shall continue our struggle until Israel will end its Apartheid and Occupation of Palestine.
Always in solidarity and friendship,
Victoria Coalition Against Apartheid &Victoria Friends of Cuba

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CAIA Active Members Committee

End Israel's Apartheid & Occupation Billboard

Details: Published on Monday, 31 August 2015 22:30; Written by editor

Hi folks,
Our billboard from Pat Bay highway came down today. Our committees, Victoria Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and Victoria Friends of Cuba sends a great big thanks to all the many folks who helped us with putting it up, taking it down, sending funding and hundreds of letters of support to make sure that it stayed up. We've never seen or received as much support as we have received for this project.
It was a well worth project to have been part of. Thousands of people were able to see it.
Now it will be down for one month and go up again in Nanaimo in October.
We shall continue our struggle until Israel will end its Apartheid and Occupation of Palestine.
Always in solidarity and friendship,
Victoria Coalition Against Apartheid &Victoria Friends of Cuba

[evoz] first cafe simpatico of fall season

Details: Published on Tuesday, 01 September 2015 06:30; Written by editor

CAFÉ SIMPATICO Friday, September 25:

1923 Fernwood Road

Doors open at 7:30 pm with live music. At 8pm a special presentation tin Focus on Guatemala”

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Call for submissions: Part 5 of the Manifesto for World Revolution

Details: Published on Friday, 28 August 2015 14:45; Written by editor

Leave your smartphone
at home.

Hey all you jammers out there,

There are two issues left in the Manifesto For World Revolution series and we need your help to make it all work.

We are so close to stopping Enbridge

Details: Published on Friday, 28 August 2015 09:15; Written by editor

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SUMMER'S OVER: Save $10 on your subscription

Details: Published on Thursday, 27 August 2015 12:45; Written by editor

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Hey jammers,

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Thursday Call to Action to Save Mason Street City Farm

Details: Published on Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:15; Written by editor

Join us at the Public Hearing on August 27th, 7pm at City Hall We need 200 people to come and have their voices heard. Help us secure year round food production at Mason Street City Farm.

Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you plan on attending and speaking and Join the Event on Facebook!

Mentally Ill? Welcome to Prison

Details: Published on Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:00; Written by editor

More than half of all suspects shot and killed by police were suffering from mental illness - this is crazy.

And over 300,000 Americans in prison today have a mental illness diagnosis.

That’s why today we are releasing part one of our new series, This is Crazy: Criminalizing Mental Illness. This three part series calls on the critical and immediate need for the treatment of mental health through a public health system, not the barbaric criminalization of it.

Upcoming Events and opportunities

Details: Published on Wednesday, 26 August 2015 10:45; Written by editor

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Dear Friends of SJS,

FALL COURSE OFFERING:

This fall, join Human Rights Education Advisor Moussa Magassa as he presents a new special topics course for the Intercultural Education program:

IET 420: Settlement, Integration, and Belonging in Canada

An insightful look at how Canada navigates immigration and how refugees integrate into our intercultural country.

Tuesdays, September 15 – December 1, 2015

6-9 pm

UVic credit students can register using CRN 12068.

Non-credit registration is also open to community members/those seeking professional development. See https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/aspnet/Course/Detail/?code=IET420 to register.

Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 250-721-6460 for more information.

All the best,

Miranda

Miranda Angus

Program Coordinator

Intercultural Education

Division of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria

Room 357, West Wing, Continuing Studies Building

PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC ...

Zero tolerance for hypocrisy and complicity with Israeli war crimes!

Details: Published on Tuesday, 25 August 2015 11:00; Written by editor

New Democratic Party purges candidates over pro-Palestine positions in lead up to Canadian elections

Mondoweiss.net
Marion Kawas on August 24, 2015

"All three major federal parties in Canada need to be sent a loud and clear message that Palestinians and their supporters will not be censored and Palestinian rights will not be trampled on so easily. We must all show that there is zero tolerance for hypocrisy and complicity with Israeli war crimes!"

Canadian governments have a long history of complicity in Palestinian dispossession. As early as 1947, Lester B. Pearson, then Under Secretary of State for External Affairs and future Canadian Prime Minister, played a key role in drafting and passing the United Nations Partition Plan, so much so that Zionist groups dubbed him the “Balfour of Canada”.

Successive governments have carried on this tradition of one-sided support, although often under the pretense of “peacekeeping” and being a “honest broker”. Fast forward to...