[sust-mar] Some upcoming webinars, actions & petitions to sign related to peace, earth & justice

[Tamara Lorincz]

Hello Sust-Mar friends!

7 upcoming events & 3 petitions to sign.

In solidarity for peace, earth and justice,
Tamara

7 UPCOMING EVENTS:
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CANADA AND AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS
Tue, July 21, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
By Project Ploughshares
Join us for a discussion on the new mandate for Canada to support a ban on autonomous weapons!
About this Event: The recent mandate letter for Canada's foreign minister indicated that Canada will be supporting efforts to ban fully autonomous weapons. How will this mandate be carried out and what role can Canada play in the international discussions and beyond?
Join Canadian civil society representatives for a conversation to understand what Canada could do and where the UN discussion on this topic is at the moment.
Link for the webinar will be provided upon registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/webinar-canada-and-autonomous-weapons-tickets-113668744274
Some background:
Countries have been meeting at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva and discussing AWS since 2014. Due to COVID-19, meetings scheduled for June and August of this year have been pushed back to the Fall. Still, it is unclear if these meetings will happen.

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WAR, MILITARIZATION & CLIMATE CRISIS: Climate Justice Organizing in the Time of Covid-19
WEBINAR!
Speakers | Q&A
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22
5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3615948504916/WN_0mtcLvYuS1-rV1lw-d0whA
The U.S. military is the world’s biggest climate destroyer, emitting billions of tons of greenhouse gases while waging wars that have a devasting impact on human lives and the environment. The Department of Defense in Canada is the largest consumer of fossil fuels in Canada. Military bases bring pollution and destruction both within the borders of the U.S. and Canada and abroad.
Join Climate Convergence and our guest speakers from Ottawa and Hawai’i for a Webinar about the devastating impact of war and militarization on the climate and the necessity of working together with the antiwar movement to fight for humanity and the planet!
Featuring Speakers:
KAWENA KAPAHUA ~ Hawai’i
Native Hawaiian activist based in Hawaiʻi working to protect Hawaiian land and human rights on Maunakea as well as in a plethora of other Hawaiian issues. He is a co-organizer of the Cancel RIMPAC Coalition in Hawaiʻi that has been working to end the RIMPAC war games and is also pushing for the demilitarization of Hawaiʻi in order to further the welfare of the people of Hawaiʻi, its land, and waters.
TAMARA LORINCZ ~Waterloo
PhD candidate at Balsillie School of International Affairs (Wilfrid Laurier University), co-founder of the East Coast Environmental Law Association, and Board Member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace.

The webinar will also include an update on the struggle against the TMX pipeline expansion.
Acknowledgement: This event takes place on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
*** Please contact us if you have technical questions about Zoom, or challenges participating! ***
Climate Convergence | www.climateconvergence.ca<http://www.climateconvergence.ca> | climateconvergence604 at gmail.com<mailto:climateconvergence604 at gmail.com> | @climate604 | 778-889-7664

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“MILITARISM’S RACISM AND VIOLENCE AT HOME AND ABROAD: NATO AND US AFRICOM”
Margaret Kimberley and El Jones
Thursday, July 23
6:30-8:00 PM EDT
Please join Melissa and Tamara for a webinar with featured speakers: Margaret Kimberley, who is with United National Antiwar Coalition, Black Alliance for Peace and the Black Agenda Report, and El Jones, award winning Canadian poet, activist and journalist, to discuss the racism and violence of militarization at home and abroad. We will also talk about the growing presence of NATO and US AFRICOM on the African continent and how that undermines peace and development for the people. We will learn more about Canada’s involvement in US AFRICOM and how Canada’s operations with NATO are threatening conflict with other countries. We will make the links between police brutality on our streets and war around the world. We will share ways we can resist this militarism and raise our voices for peace, nonviolence and global solidarity.
To register please email: ontario at vowpeace.org<mailto:ontario at vowpeace.org>  and for more information visit the Canadian Voice of Women on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VOWPeace/

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NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION: NO NEW FIGHTER JETS – STRIKE FOR CLIMATE PEACE

Friday, July 24, 2020

Anytime in front of your Member of Parliament’s Office

16 actions taking place in Sidney BC, Victoria BC, Vancouver BC, Langley BC, Regina SK, Ottawa ON, Toronto ON, Hamilton ON, Collingwood ON, Kitchener ON, Waterloo ON, Montreal QC and Halifax NS

Details of actions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eEHuocLlwgRwpPyuR9-0iKegZFwCN2nuZL4cCyH6CDs/edit



Organized by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, World Beyond War and Peace Brigades International-Canada.

Supported by Pivot2Peace, the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF)-Canada, the Ottawa Raging Grannies, Labour Against Arms Trade, Regina Peace Council, Conscience Canada, KW Peace, Pax Christi Toronto, Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, Regina Peace Council, Victoria Peace Coalition, Just Peace Advocates and the Canadian Peace Congress.

More information, resources & signs: https://vowpeace.org/nofighterjets/

See Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/301620407863934/



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NO WAR, NO WARMING

Webinar

Monday, 27 July 2020

5:00 - 6:30 pm PDT / 8:00 - 9:30 pm EDT

This webinar is hosted by The Institute for Policy Studies and Co-Sponsored by The Leap, Climate Mobilization, and The Mexican Network of Mining-Affected People.

This webinar will take place is English and Spanish, with live interpretation into English and Spanish available.

If you want to better understand the connections between militarism, racism, and the climate crisis, join us on Monday, July 27, for a webinar on the subject: “No Warming, No War.”

From militarism to extractivism, from climate migration to border militarization, our panelists from the US, Mexico, and the Philippines will uncover the deep global links between militarism and climate change before exploring the existing paths, current limitations, and future possibilities of global cooperation on climate.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SYzv3ArFQB2zVvv6agVzzA
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75 YEARS: CANADA, NUCLEAR WEAPONS & THE UN BAN TREATY
Webinar
Thu, August 6, 2020
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
More info: http://hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/
The Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition invites interested viewers to participate in the 75th Anniversary Commemoration of the atomic bombings online on August 6 at 7 pm.
The commemoration will focus on 75 years of living with the threat of nuclear war, and the wisdom gained from its survivors. The main speaker will be Setsuko Thurlow who inaugurated the annual commemorations in Toronto in 1975 when David Crombie was the Mayor.
Setsuko Thurlow has been engaged throughout her life in public education and advocacy for nuclear disarmament. Her efforts around the world have been recognized by membership in the Order of Canada, commendation from the Japanese Government, and other honours. She jointly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in 2017.
Peace activist Phyllis Creighton, a historian, will sketch Canada's role in creating the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, its nuclear industry's reckless endangering of Dene workers, severely impacting the Indigenous community, Canada's continued sale of uranium and nuclear reactors enabling more countries to become nuclear armed, and its full commitment to NORAD and NATO, both nuclear alliances relying on nuclear weapons.
Music by Grammy-nominated flautist Ron Korb and photos, animation and brief excerpts from documentaries will show major highlights in the 75-year long effort to abolish nuclear weapons and give us hope for their eventual elimination.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/75-years-canada-nuclear-weapons-the-un-ban-treaty-tickets-108760389252?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-source=strongmail&utm-term=listing

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IPPNW Film Premiere
August 9
The International Peace Bureau IPB is a co-sponsor of an IPPNW-produced film, “The Vow from Hiroshima”, which will be available on the video platform Vimeo for 24-hours on August 9th. The link is https://vimeo.com/424163926. Please keep this in mind an share it prior to (and on) August 9th!

3 PETITIONS TO SIGN:


  1.  Please sign & share our petition “No New Fighter Jets for Canada; Invest in a Green New Deal & a Just Recovery”, petition will go to all MPs: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-new-fighter-jets-invest-in-a-just-recovery-and-a-green-new-deal?clear_id=true
  2.  Please sign & share the parliamentary petition e-2630 for the Trudeau government to drop all of its economic sanctions now. We are just 68 signatures short of the required 500: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2630
  3.  Please sign & share the parliamentary petition e-2710 to ban the importation of settlement products into Canada and incorporate a settlement exclusion clause into the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2710
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