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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><a name="_Hlk72240127">Hello Sust-Mar,<o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">On May 16, in recognition of the 73rd anniversary of Nakba, the Canadian Voice of Women’s (VOW) released a statement on Palestine:
</span><a href="https://vowpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/VOW-Palestine-May-2021.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://vowpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/VOW-Palestine-May-2021.pdf</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">VOW denounced the Canadian government’s May 12th statement and Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau’s May 15th tweets, we called for Canada to cease arms
exports to Israel, cancel Elbit contract and other federal government subsidies between Canadian-Israeli SMEs, support a ceasefire, increase aid to UNRWA for Palestinians and to support 1325 and women’s efforts for peace i.e. Women Wage Peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">WILPF also released statements on Palestine and Afghanistan:
</span><a href="https://www.wilpf.org/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://www.wilpf.org/</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Read: To end military sexual violence, defund the CAF<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span><a href="https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/to-end-military-sexual-violence-defund-the-caf"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/to-end-military-sexual-violence-defund-the-caf</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Below are 12 upcoming events and 8 actions you can take. Note: Ray’s book launch “Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy” is rescheduled to May 27.
See below. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">In solidarity for peace, earth & justice,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Tamara<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">UPCOMING EVENTS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">WEBINAR: PALESTINE AND BDS WITH RANIA KHALEK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Wednesday, May 19th @ 1:30 pm EDT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Join us on Wednesday, May 19th, at 1:30 pm, for a talk with Rania Khalek. Rania is a journalist with Break Through News and an expert on Palestine, Israel,
and the Middle East. Rania previously worked for the Electronic Intifada -- one of the premier outlets reporting on Palestine. We will discuss the current violence, the historical context, and the call for Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanction (BDS) of Israel
-- a call originated from Palestinian civil society annd modeled after the anti-aparthied movement focused on South Africa. Click here to register:
</span><a href="https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMld-GrrjIuHdMw__BCLNU9kX722F6OB7PI?emci=038460a9-52b7-eb11-a7ad-0050f271b5d8&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid="><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMld-GrrjIuHdMw__BCLNU9kX722F6OB7PI?emci=038460a9-52b7-eb11-a7ad-0050f271b5d8&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">WEBINAR: HAITI: THE PEOPLES' RESISTANCE TO IMPERIALISM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Time Zones are: 7PM BST - 2PM EDT - 7PM WAT - 11AM PDT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Join Brother Omowale and Bussa with Frantz Jerome, Maud Jean-Michel, Walter Riley and Kevin Pina for a discussion on the current political situation in
Haiti, as part of African Liberation Month.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">More info and to register:
</span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/haiti-the-peoples-resistance-to-imperialism-tickets-154615038743"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/haiti-the-peoples-resistance-to-imperialism-tickets-154615038743</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">WEBINAR: “Community Q&A: What’s Happening in Palestine?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Thursday, May 20th at 8:00 p.m. EST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">CJPME is doing a Webinar this Thursday, entitled, “Community Q&A: What’s Happening in Palestine?” to answer these and any other questions. We’ll do a 15-minute
overview of the history of Palestine, and how Palestinians came to be living under Israeli military occupation. Then we’ll take an hour for all your questions! Featuring guest panellists Mark Ayyash and Rasha Budeiri, both Palestinian Canadians (see bios below.)
Register: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/315899976767885?ref=newsfeed"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://www.facebook.com/events/315899976767885?ref=newsfeed</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(4)<br>
BOOK LAUNCH: Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War - Book Tour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Thursday, May 20, 2021 • 4:30 PM • Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">On Thursday May 20, join editors and contributors for a discussion of the book Viviremos: Venezuela Vs. Hybrid War. For the Venezuelan people the word
“Viviremos” (we will live) is a forceful proclamation to uphold and defend their dignity and sovereignty in the face of a brutal hybrid war carried out by the United States and its allies. That is why in this webinar we will explore the concept of Hybrid War
and how it is being resisted by the Venezuelan people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Register:
</span><a href="https://www.codepink.org/05202021"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://www.codepink.org/05202021</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">WEBINAR: THE INNUMERABLE WAYS CANADA SUPPORTS ISRAELI APARTHEID - AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">May 21, 2021 07:00 PM in Montreal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">This event is for anyone living in Canada who wants to understand how Canada is complicit in Palestinian dispossession and what you can do about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">SPEAKERS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Jonathan Kuttab - Co-founder of Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and of Nonviolence International. Jonathan Kuttab will speak about what’s going on
today and the nature of Israeli apartheid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Yves Engler - Author of Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, Yves Engler will speak about the ways in which Canada is complicit in Palestinian dispossession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Karen Rodman - Founder of Just Peace Advocates, Karen Rodman will speak about campaigns challenging Canadian complicity with Israeli violence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Register:
</span><a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j7UdZjnbRGK4dOl-p9I6Jg"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j7UdZjnbRGK4dOl-p9I6Jg</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(6)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">WILPF Canada Members Monthly Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Apr 25, 2021 02:00 PM Vancouver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Join Zoom Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span><a href="https://lse.zoom.us/j/4990245341"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://lse.zoom.us/j/4990245341</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">More info:
</span><a href="http://wilpfvancouver.ca/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">http://wilpfvancouver.ca/</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">GATHER AND RENEW: 6TH ANNIVERSARY DMZ CROSSING CELEBRATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Monday, May 24, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">8 pm ET/5 pm PT/2 pm HT/Tuesday, May 25 9am Seoul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Featured Speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">- Christine Ahn, Executive Director, Women Cross DMZ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">- Aiyoung Choi, Board Chair, Women Cross DMZ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">- Lisa Natividad, Professor, Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">- Cindy Wiesner, Executive Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance & more<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Register here:
</span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuceGrpjspGNFwIQIO4b49YIfrrk889_Ie"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuceGrpjspGNFwIQIO4b49YIfrrk889_Ie</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(8)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">BOOK LAUNCH “BANNING THE BOMB, SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Author and activist Ray Acheson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Thursday, May 27, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">7:00 pm ET via Zoom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">To register:
</span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvdOuvrDooGdO3h4Lkx_kUzbOPYuuaWAK1"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvdOuvrDooGdO3h4Lkx_kUzbOPYuuaWAK1</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Please join us for the Canadian launch of Ray Acheson’s new book “Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy”. Ray is the Director of Reaching Critical
Will, the disarmament program of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and has written this important book on new nuclear disarmament.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">The story in this book offers a look inside the antinuclear movement and its recent successful campaign to ban the bomb. From scrappy organizing to winning
the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 and achieving a landmark UN treaty banning nuclear weapons, Ray Acheson narrates the journey of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and developments in feminist disarmament activism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">The book launch is organized by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, Science for Peace and WILPF-Canada and is being held in commemoration of the International
Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">*You can pre-order Ray Acheson’s new book “Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy”
</span><a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614896/Banning-the-Bomb-Smashing-the-Patriarchy"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614896/Banning-the-Bomb-Smashing-the-Patriarchy</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
and use the pre-order discount code: RLFANDF30.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(9)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">WEBINAR: WHY IS CANADA ARMING SAUDI ARABIA'S WAR IN YEMEN?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 3 PM ET<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">The brutal U.S.-backed, Canada-armed, Saudi-led war in Yemen has gone on for over six years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">This war has killed almost a quarter of a million people, and Yemen today remains the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Over 4 million people have
been displaced because of the war, and 80% of the population, including 12.2 million children, are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Despite this devastation, despite well-documented evidence of continuing violations of laws of war by the Saudi-led coalition, and despite documentation
of the use of Canadian weapons in the war, Canada has continued fuelling the ongoing war in Yemen by continuing arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Canada exported nearly $2.9-billion worth of military equipment to Saudi Arabia in 2019 alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Register:
</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/3779868115445416/?source=6&ref_notif_type=plan_user_invited&action_history=null"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://www.facebook.com/events/3779868115445416/?source=6&ref_notif_type=plan_user_invited&action_history=null</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(10)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Asia Europe People’s Forum for a Just, Peaceful and Sustainable World from May 17-24<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Lots of great online sessions:
</span><a href="https://aepf.info/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://aepf.info/</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(11)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">“From Weapons Fairs to War Zones: Unraveling the War Machine” #NOWAR2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: JUNE 4-6, 2021. Register now!
</span><a href="https://nowar2021.worldbeyondwar.org/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://nowar2021.worldbeyondwar.org/</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(12)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION: SOLDIERS WITHOUT GUNS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Start: Saturday, June 12, 2021, 8 PM New York Time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Join us on Sat, June 12 at 8am Perth / 12pm Auckland (Fri, 6/11 at 8pm New York) for a screening of Soldiers Without Guns, an extraordinary film that tells
the story of how the bloody Civil War on the island of Bougainville was halted by a contingent of the New Zealand Defense Force that landed on the island, carrying no weapons, armed only with guitars, the haka, and other instruments of peace. After the 90-minute
film screening, we’ll have time for Q&A and discussion with the film director Will Watson, veteran and cultural advisor Des Ratima, and webinar participants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">ACTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">PETITION: TELL MINISTER ALGHABRA: CANADA MUST CANCEL $36M CONTRACT FOR ISRAELI DRONE!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Tell Canada’s Transportation Ministry to cancel the $36.16 million dollar contract for drone technology from Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company.
The money will purchase a “civilian” version of Elbit’s lethal military drone, the same one which was used to kill civilians during Israel’s assault on Gaza. Sign here:
</span><a href="https://www.cjpme.org/stop_elbit_drone"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://www.cjpme.org/stop_elbit_drone</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(2)<br>
PETITION: TELL CANADIAN GOVERNMENT TO WAIVE PATENT RIGHTS FOR VACCINE PRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">To Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister of Trade, Mary Ng<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Support the proposal for patent waivers on COVID-19 vaccines, to help save lives around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span><a href="https://act.leadnow.ca/patent-vaccine/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://act.leadnow.ca/patent-vaccine/</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Petition: HELP PROTECT PALESTINIANS FROM ISRAELI VIOLENCE BY APPLYING CANADIAN LAW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/help-protect-palestinians-from-israeli-violence-by-applying-canadian-law?link_id=4&can_id=ee3c7b2d417b93ff08e8b5ab1d49341e&source=email-nakba73-hold-canadian-government-accountable-to-own-laws&email_referrer=email_1176284&email_subject=nakba73-hold-canadian-government-accountable-to-own-laws"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://actionnetwork.org/letters/help-protect-palestinians-from-israeli-violence-by-applying-canadian-law?link_id=4&can_id=ee3c7b2d417b93ff08e8b5ab1d49341e&source=email-nakba73-hold-canadian-government-accountable-to-own-laws&email_referrer=email_1176284&email_subject=nakba73-hold-canadian-government-accountable-to-own-laws</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(4)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Sign this Parliamentary Petition: Demand a comprehensive study on Canada’s alleged political interference in Haiti:
</span><a href="https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3348"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3348</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(5)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">ENDORSE LETTER TO MINISTER GARNEAU RE: EVICTIONS IN SHEIKH JARRAH AND THE FORCED DISPLACEMENT OF PALESTINIANS IN EAST JERUSALEM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Deadline May 20<sup>th</sup> at noon:
</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6g7tDybFW4mslWnI0IyOC-XYqpzJayQQtcAPfgnMxo1OeNg/viewform?fbclid=IwAR3OaTcKaQX_v5I_BAWs8_wxACYNnsCCnfLtooB3RMTrMBrY0FZOt6iIXuM"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6g7tDybFW4mslWnI0IyOC-XYqpzJayQQtcAPfgnMxo1OeNg/viewform?fbclid=IwAR3OaTcKaQX_v5I_BAWs8_wxACYNnsCCnfLtooB3RMTrMBrY0FZOt6iIXuM</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(6)<br>
PETITION: HELP GET THIS OTTAWA MOM'S KIDS OUT OF GAZA AND TO CANADA! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Please sign and share this petition:
</span><a href="http://chng.it/RjycwGZt"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">http://chng.it/RjycwGZt</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(7)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">PETITION: FREE HASSAN DIAB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">For over 10 years, Canadian academic Hassan Diab fought false allegations of his involvement in a crime he did not commit. It is time to put an end to
this miscarriage of justice. Please show your support for Hassan by signing the petition. More info:
</span><a href="https://iclmg.ca/diab-letter/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://iclmg.ca/diab-letter/</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Please take a minute to sign the Parliamentary petition below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span><a href="https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Sign/e-3400"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Sign/e-3400</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">(8)<br>
PETITION: STRENGTHEN CANADA’S CLIMATE ACCOUNTABILITY LEGISLATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">Call on Parliamentary Committee on the Environment calling on them to strengthen Canada’s Climate Accountability legislation:
</span><a href="https://act.350.org/letter/c-12-response/?akid=150786.325225.8ytmqn&rd=1&t=8&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">https://act.350.org/letter/c-12-response/?akid=150786.325225.8ytmqn&rd=1&t=8&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk72240127">
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<p class="MsoNormal">FOR YOUR INTEREST<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal">In case you missed it, World Beyond War’s excellent, highly informative “Conversation on Russia, U.S., Peace, and War, with Vladimir Kozin and Ray McGovern”
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liwPumXPkCM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liwPumXPkCM</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal">Check out the podcast “Trailblazers & Troublemakers” by Canadian journalist Scott Costen:
<a href="https://anchor.fm/scott-costen">https://anchor.fm/scott-costen</a> <o:p>
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