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--></style></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Wishing you peace, strength, and good health in these tumultuous times. Please take care of one another. - a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>A letter from the virus. #LISTEN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Stop. Just stop. Be still. Listen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>4 min. video<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-SyZiwXKs0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-SyZiwXKs0</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Watch Naomi Klein outline the dangers and opportunities of the current state of the world vis-a-vis covid-19 and the climate crisis. 8 min. video.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-capitalism/">https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-capitalism/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>This is the best time to ride a bike! The streets are empty, the air is clearer, bikes enable social distancing, it's fun, and it promotes health -- a strong immune system requires a healthy and well-exercised body. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://grist.org/climate/coronavirus-has-caused-a-bicycling-boom-in-new-york-city/">https://grist.org/climate/coronavirus-has-caused-a-bicycling-boom-in-new-york-city/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Pandemics: Lessons Looking Back From 2050<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>by Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Imagine, it is the year 2050 and we are looking back to the origin and evolution of the coronavirus pandemic over the last three decades. Extrapolating from recent events, we offer the following scenario for such a view from the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.ethicalmarkets.com/pandemics-lessons-looking-back-from-2050/">https://www.ethicalmarkets.com/pandemics-lessons-looking-back-from-2050/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>50 Ways to Stay SANE During the Coronavirus Pandemic<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Lots of great links and ideas from Guy Dauncey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://thepracticalutopian.ca/2020/03/20/50-ways-to-stay-sane-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/">https://thepracticalutopian.ca/2020/03/20/50-ways-to-stay-sane-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Here’s a list of grassroots groups that have come together to ensure vulnerable community members have access to food, housing, healthcare, and other necessities. Scroll down to the Toronto section.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LsHkTBMS0YX_4F7OSAt55ppV0xICi50AXdF62vRw4W8/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LsHkTBMS0YX_4F7OSAt55ppV0xICi50AXdF62vRw4W8/edit</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#7030A0'>Demand a COVID-19 Emergency Basic Income in Canada - petition and letter to your MP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://ubiworks.ca/emergency-ubi/">https://ubiworks.ca/emergency-ubi/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#7030A0'>Petition: Stop the Cuts to Toronto Public Health<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.progresstoronto.ca/public-health-cuts-petition">https://www.progresstoronto.ca/public-health-cuts-petition</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#7030A0'>#CancelCANSEC, North America's biggest weapons show<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Despite the growing coronavirus pandemic, the CANSEC 2020 weapons show will take place as scheduled in Ottawa May 27 and 28. CANSEC is billed as “North America’s largest trilateral defence event” and is expected to attract 12,000 government and military officials and weapons industry representatives from 55 countries to Ottawa. Weapons dealers should not risk the health of the people of Ottawa in order to market, buy, and sell weapons of war, endangering the lives of people around the world with violence and conflict. CANSEC must be cancelled – and Canada should ban all future weapons shows. Send a letter here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/cancelcansec-north-americas-biggest-weapons-show/">https://actionnetwork.org/letters/cancelcansec-north-americas-biggest-weapons-show/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#7030A0'>Don’t bail out Big Oil. Support workers and renewable energy jobs instead.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Jason Kenney and his oil lobbyist friends are jumping on this moment to pressure Trudeau to include a big bailout for oil companies in the upcoming federal budget, further locking us into a fossil fuel economy. Our government must stop using Canadian tax dollars to prop up the fossil fuel industry. Instead, they should invest that money in renewables, and create opportunities for workers that are here to stay. Sign the petition to make sure they get the message.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://act.stand.earth/page/17696/petition/1">https://act.stand.earth/page/17696/petition/1</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#7030A0'>PM Trudeau: Save Lives Not Pipelines<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Halt all funding to Trans Mountain Pipeline in the midst of a global health crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://act.leadnow.ca/pm-trudeau-save-lives-not-pipelines/">https://act.leadnow.ca/pm-trudeau-save-lives-not-pipelines/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#7030A0'>Rapid and dramatic increase in shelter and drop-in space needed to slow COVID-19 spread and curb deadly consequences for Toronto’s homeless<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://ocap.ca/covid-19-homeless-response/">https://ocap.ca/covid-19-homeless-response/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#7030A0'>Sign the petition to phase out Ontario’s gas plants<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://www.OntarioClimateAction.ca">www.OntarioClimateAction.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#70AD47'>What is the link between climate change and covid-19? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Habitat destruction, deforestation, and warming temperatures can all cause more diseases to “spill over” from animals into humans. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://grist.org/climate/a-common-germ-pool-the-frightening-environmental-origins-of-covid-19/">https://grist.org/climate/a-common-germ-pool-the-frightening-environmental-origins-of-covid-19/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#70AD47'>What's the link between air pollution and covid-19? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Breathing unclean air is linked to high blood pressure, diabetes, and respiratory disease, conditions that doctors are starting to associate with higher death rates for COVID-19, so the downturn in economic activity has cleared the air and will improve people's ability to fight off infection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://grist.org/justice/one-more-way-the-world-wasnt-prepared-for-coronavirus-air-pollution/">https://grist.org/justice/one-more-way-the-world-wasnt-prepared-for-coronavirus-air-pollution/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#70AD47'>We invade tropical forests and other wild landscapes</span></b><span lang=EN-US>, which harbor so many species of animals and plants — and within those creatures, so many unknown viruses. We cut the trees; we kill the animals or cage them and send them to markets. We disrupt ecosystems, and we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts. When that happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/opinion/coronavirus-china.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/opinion/coronavirus-china.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#70AD47'>Video message from Jane Goodall on Covid-19<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Jane Goodall connects the Corinavirus with our depredation of the environment and our encroachment into wildlife habitat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOkBBMFlTpM&fbclid=IwAR2w6sdHXwy2whlOl_77cR0K8Ph6kQTQhbPCN5elsXY0uFIBvQSgiFVigDI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOkBBMFlTpM&fbclid=IwAR2w6sdHXwy2whlOl_77cR0K8Ph6kQTQhbPCN5elsXY0uFIBvQSgiFVigDI</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#70AD47'>'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>As habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-the-iceberg-is-our-destruction-of-nature-responsible-for-covid-19-aoe">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-the-iceberg-is-our-destruction-of-nature-responsible-for-covid-19-aoe</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#70AD47'>Green Jobs Are the Answer to the Coronavirus Recession<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The climate case for making the government the employer of last resort<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/156962/green-jobs-answer-coronavirus-recession">https://newrepublic.com/article/156962/green-jobs-answer-coronavirus-recession</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#ED7D31'>The Age of Hybrid Warfare<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Wed. March 25, 8 - 9 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>This webinar is co-hosted by World BEYOND War in partnership with Jovanni Reyes, member coordinator of About Face: Veterans Against the War.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/events/free-webinar-the-age-of-hybrid-warfare">https://actionnetwork.org/events/free-webinar-the-age-of-hybrid-warfare</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#00B0F0'>Indigenous Sovereignty, Ecosocialism and Social Change <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Friday, March 27, 7 - 9 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Webinar. Spring Reading Group. Join us to discuss some articles and their relation to our political action. All welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/910047419450832/">https://www.facebook.com/events/910047419450832/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>War Abolition 201: Building the Alternative Global Security System<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>April 13 to May 24<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Online Course<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>With what do we replace the war system (aka the military-industrial-corporate-governmental complex)? What truly makes us secure? What are the moral, social, political, philosophical and pragmatic foundations of an alternative global security system – a system in which peace is pursued by peaceful means? What actions and strategies might we pursue in building this system? War Abolition 201 explores these questions and more with the goal of engaging students in learning that leads to action.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/war-abolition-201-building-the-alternative-global-security-system">https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/war-abolition-201-building-the-alternative-global-security-system</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#7030A0'>For the best Canadian climate and energy news, read and subscribe to the Energy Mix newsletter<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://theenergymix.com/">http://theenergymix.com/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Submissions, subscribes, unsubscribes, and comments: <a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org">mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>