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BC seeking feedback on plans to log more caribou habitat

Details: Published on Saturday, 30 January 2021 06:59; Written by editor

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[evoz] Zoom event on Jan. 31

Details: Published on Friday, 29 January 2021 21:30; Written by editor

The Story of Spain’s ;ast colony- now Africa’s last colony WESTERN SAHARA Sunday Jan. 31 at 7 pm PST Update on ZOOM on Western Sahara - see below post: Just confirmed that Senia Bachir, one of the main characters in Sirocco, will be one of our speakers at the event this coming Sunday!! Here is a little bit about her: Senia Bachir is a refugee and activist from Western Sahara. For nearly two decades, she has been advocating for the freedom and the right to self-determination of her people, as well as exposing the brutal and oppressive occupation of Morocco. Since 2015, she has been working in the office of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission. An invitation to an upcoming ZOOM on Western Sahara. Africa's last colony is occupied by Morocco. The Canadian fertilizer company NUTRIEN ( originally Potash Corp and Agrium) imported illegally mined phosphates from WS that a company owned by the Moroccan government extracts and exports. This is illegal under the Geneva Conventions which Canada has signed but yet allows this import. See the moving film of the story of Westerns Sahara with Saharwis in the refugee camps in Algeria and those brutally oppressed in Western Sahara. SUNDAY, JANUARY...
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State of BC Health

Details: Published on Friday, 29 January 2021 10:37; Written by editor

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Your monthly update from the BC Health Coalition

UPDATE Progress report: BC catching up on surgical backlog, yet still lacks a long-term vision for surgical system improvements

Last June, BC Health Coalition members sent a clear message to Health Minister Dix and Premier Horgan: we want public solutions to B.C.’s surgical backlog. In response to the province’s Surgical Renewal Plan, 2966 of you joined us in a letter-writing campaign. Together we called for scaled up public investments in evidence-based system improvements that reduce wait times and build the capacity of our health care system now and for the future.

Eight months into the Surgical Renewal Plan, what assessment can we make? While the government is to be commended for significantly ramping up public operating room hours, there has been a very significant increase in outsourcing surgeries to private, for-profit surgery clinics. These increases address a spcific short-term need but at the cost of our public system's capacity to deal with backlogs in the long-term. In fact,...

[evoz] Cafe Simpatico January 29th

Details: Published on Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:09; Written by editor

Tomorrow night! Don't miss this amazing presentation: Presentation: Chilean Constitution Update Friday January 29th: 7:30 pm Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/97368462608 Meeting ID: 973 6846 2608 Presentation: Chileans are currently preparing to elect a Constitutional Convention of 155 members, expected to be a mixed of independents and political party representatives, that will write a new constitution from a blank page. The Constitutional Convention will have gender parity and reserved seats for representatives elected by indigenous nations. The current constitution, imposed in 1980 during the military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet, and fostered during the last 30 years of civilian governance, embedded a model of protected democracy coupled with a raw neoliberal economic model. This has produced one of the most unequal societies in the world, while wiping out 150 years of the Chilean social movement's achievements. This presentation is about how Chileans have arrived at this extraordinary institutional moment in their history, paradoxically rooted in a deep mistrust of traditional political parties and public institutions, and what the majority of Chileans are hoping for in their new constitution. ===bio==== Lorena Jara Díaz Lorena is a Chilean-Canadian who arrived in British Columbia in the late 1970s. She became an organizer with the Canadian-Chilean solidarity movement for the defense of human rights in Chile, and later did the same for the El Salvador solidarity movement....

We are getting under their skin

Details: Published on Wednesday, 27 January 2021 09:05; Written by editor

r1Hello Paov,

Thank you for your continued interest in the work of West Coast Environmental Law.

I focus on West Coast’s Climate Program and our efforts to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their fair share of the costs of climate change.

I am pleased to share that our collective actions are getting attention by those whom we most want to notice our actions: Fossil fuel companies and the governments that support them.

In a recent report commissioned by the Alberta Inquiry into “Anti-Energy Campaigns” and written by the industry-based Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), West Coast was referred to as “the leading organization promoting litigation against energy producers specifically in Canada…”

While there are many inaccuracies in the reports around this inquiry (including misinformation about funding sources for our Climate Program), the Industry and Alberta government have definitely taken notice of our work. It is clear that the fossil fuel industry feels that our efforts to hold them accountable threaten business as usual in this polluting industry.

Paov, we have long held the belief that once these big oil companies realise that they will be liable for their actions that have harmed the climate, and the public expects them to pay their...

One-day phone blitz for forests!

Details: Published on Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:45; Written by editor

One-day phone blitz for forests!

[evoz] Cafe Simpatico January 29th

Details: Published on Friday, 22 January 2021 15:59; Written by editor

Please do not repost on facebook: Presentation: Chilean Constitution Update Friday January 29th: 7:30 pm Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/97368462608 Meeting ID: 973 6846 2608 Presentation: Chileans are currently preparing to elect a Constitutional Convention of 155 members, expected to be a mixed of independents and political party representatives, that will write a new constitution from a blank page. The Constitutional Convention will have gender parity and reserved seats for representatives elected by indigenous nations. The current constitution, imposed in 1980 during the military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet, and fostered during the last 30 years of civilian governance, embedded a model of protected democracy coupled with a raw neoliberal economic model. This has produced one of the most unequal societies in the world, while wiping out 150 years of the Chilean social movement's achievements. This presentation is about how Chileans have arrived at this extraordinary institutional moment in their history, paradoxically rooted in a deep mistrust of traditional political parties and public institutions, and what the majority of Chileans are hoping for in their new constitution. ===bio==== Lorena Jara Díaz Lorena is a Chilean-Canadian who arrived in British Columbia in the late 1970s. She became an organizer with the Canadian-Chilean solidarity movement for the defense of human rights in Chile, and later did the same for the El Salvador solidarity movement. In the...

Climate change knows no borders

Details: Published on Thursday, 21 January 2021 18:01; Written by editor

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Tie up the loose ends in Argonaut Creek!

Details: Published on Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:04; Written by editor

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[evoz] Zoom on Guatemala available on adio file

Details: Published on Tuesday, 19 January 2021 11:01; Written by editor

Dear CASC supporters,

The Zoom with Café Simpatico: January 15: is now available on an audio file: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tszxfgVLC6ZVwjWbhpUYOOGuTy_fO4rG/edit#slide=id.p8

The presentation on Guatemala: Human Rights Update with Carmen Miranda Barrios and Wendy Mendez for Victoria Central America Support Committee

Our guests, two Guatemalan Canadians gave us a broad and well-informed discourse on Guatemala and suggested the following actions of solidarity:

- Support @FAMDEGUAG in the search for the disappeared and bringing about
transitional justice
- Campaign for the release of political prisoner Bernardo Caal Xol who
denounced the abduction of rivers in Q’eqchi’ territories by Energy
Resources
Capital #LibertadParaBernardo
- Buy Café Justicia: Cafe Justicia | Fair trade coffee supporting social
justice (in...

Help enact a climate law Canadians can be proud of

Details: Published on Monday, 18 January 2021 16:44; Written by editor

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[evoz] Reminder: Cafe Simpatico Tonight 7:30 - Guatemala Human Rights Update

Details: Published on Friday, 15 January 2021 16:57; Written by editor

Cafe Simpatico: January 15: 7:30 pm Guatemala: Human Rights Update with Carmen Miranda Barrios and Wendy Mendez Join us for this exciting event! Wendy Mendez is a human rights defender, founder of the grassroots organization HIJOS Guatemala (sons and daughters of the disappeared), and petitioner before the Inter American Human RIghts Courts in the Military Diary Case. Carmen Miranda-Barrios is from San Marcos, Guatemala. Came to Canada in the early 90s and landed in Halifax, N. S. Made her way from east to west with the goal of finding other Guatemalan exiles who were living in Vancouver and joined the Women group "Nuestra Voz" and worked with Canadian and Guatemalan women to raise funds to send to women grassroots groups back home. She is also a member of the BC CASA volunteer group that promotes and sells Café Justicia to support the Campesino Community of the Highlands (CCDA) struggle for their right to land, health and the common good. Through the years, Carmen manage to go back to school and finished her doctoral degree at the University of British Columbia with a speciality in Diaspora, Media and Exile. She has taught Spanish language courses at UBC, Douglas College and currently teaches a course on Global Indigenous Perspectives in Langara College....

2021: the beginning of the end of fracking

Details: Published on Tuesday, 12 January 2021 16:59; Written by editor

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Powerful Panel with Land Defenders and Naomi Klein

Details: Published on Sunday, 10 January 2021 09:59; Written by editor

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Facing 2021 together...

Details: Published on Sunday, 10 January 2021 09:59; Written by editor

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Authorization to continue receiving Electronic Messages from BCSEA

Details: Published on Friday, 08 January 2021 08:03; Written by editor

January 7, 2021

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[evoz] audio fil of Yves Engler

Details: Published on Thursday, 07 January 2021 12:44; Written by editor

Dear CASC friends. If you were not able to hear Yves Emgler on our Cafe Simpatico on Zoom or want to hear his excellent presentation again, here is the link to the audiophile of his talk :https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kg7BG7V7D-zSoG3HWZAna6nBoo8Itrw9/view Research for is latest book: “House of Mirrors: Justin Trudeau’s foreign policy” a revealing work of research and analysis provided the basis for his talk. Watch or more upcoming Cafe Simpatico on Zoom. Terry Wolfwood https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kg7BG7V7D-zSoG3HWZAna6nBoo8Itrw9/view

[evoz] Cafe Simpatico January 15

Details: Published on Thursday, 07 January 2021 10:50; Written by editor

[evoz] coffee available

Details: Published on Sunday, 03 January 2021 17:06; Written by editor

Hello All !
A batch of fragrant, freshly-roasted Nicaraguan coffee arrived to flavor the new year.The price is $15 per 1 lb. bag.

Phone Allen at 250 384-0477 to arrange purchase and pick up.

Stronger public health care for 2021!

Details: Published on Thursday, 31 December 2020 08:07; Written by editor

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Paov --

Today is your last chance to donate before the end of the year to support strengthening our public health care system.

If you have already made your year-end donation, thank you so much!

If not, it's not too late to donate before it's 2021. Click here to donate before midnight.

Thank you so much for your support of the BC Health Coalition.

We wish you a very happy new year!

Looking forward to working with you in 2021,

BC Health Coalition Staff Team

USMAN MUSHTAQ
(oos-maan muush-taak)

Coordinator (he/him/his)
Strategic Priorities & Planning, Organizational Health, Financial Strategy

ISHANI WEERA
(ish-ah-knee we-rah)

Campaigner (she/her/hers)
Campaigns Strategy, Policy Analysis & Advocacy, Media & Communications Strategy

AUDREY GUAY
(au-dree guh-way)

Organizer (she/her/hers)
Member Engagement & Outreach, Education & Capacity Building, Mobilization Strategy

Giving by cheque

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BC seeking feedback on plans to log more caribou habitat

[evoz] Zoom event on Jan. 31

State of BC Health

UPDATE Progress report: BC catching up on surgical backlog, yet still lacks a long-term vision for surgical system improvements

[evoz] Cafe Simpatico January 29th

We are getting under their skin

One-day phone blitz for forests!

[evoz] Cafe Simpatico January 29th

Climate change knows no borders

Tie up the loose ends in Argonaut Creek!

[evoz] Zoom on Guatemala available on adio file

Help enact a climate law Canadians can be proud of

[evoz] Reminder: Cafe Simpatico Tonight 7:30 - Guatemala Human Rights Update

2021: the beginning of the end of fracking

Powerful Panel with Land Defenders and Naomi Klein

Facing 2021 together...

Authorization to continue receiving Electronic Messages from BCSEA

[evoz] audio fil of Yves Engler

[evoz] Cafe Simpatico January 15

[evoz] coffee available

Stronger public health care for 2021!

If not, it's not too late to donate before it's 2021. Click here to donate before midnight.

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