[sust-mar] 12 upcoming events & 4 important resources: "Resisting Fighter Jets at home & abroad" on Weds. July 7

Tue Jul 6 15:08:56 EDT 2021

Hello Sust-Mar friends,

Please find below 12 upcoming events and 4 important resources to share below. Please feel free to distribute this list far & wide.

If you haven't already, I urge you to watch Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg's 7-minute trenchant speech at the Austrian World Summit on July 2, 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6eQwAi2U18

Also, please also watch well-known Palestinian activist Muna El-Kurd's graduation speech, 2-minute here "Don't stay silent about injustice!": https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1412320414584360961

VOW is hosting an important webinar tomorrow "Resisting fighter jets at home and abroad" tomorrow. Details and more below.

In solidarity for peace, earth and justice,
Tamara

UPCOMING EVENTS:
(1)
THE COLOMBIAN STRIKE: REPORT AND ANALYSIS FROM THE GROUND WITH THE POPULAR MOVEMENT
Tue July 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
Register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kd-irqD8vHtP1okQDI7GifJzhWgmoLlOj
In this webinar we will discuss the protests in Colombia with Víctor de Currea-Lugo in Bogota and hear from Teri Mattson, the CODEPINK Latin America Coordinator, about her recent visit to Colombia with an international delegation of solidarity and human rights observers who traveled the country to document gross violations of human rights by the security forces of Colombia.  Register to attend.
Background information:
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/29/colombia-an-observers-account/
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CPgjUgEnhOq/?utm_medium=copy_link
WTF: Colombia Protesting Neoliberalism
Co-sponsored by Latin America Solidarity Coalition of Western Massachusetts.

(2)
Highly Recommended! THE COUNCIL OF CANADIANS AND INDIGENOUS CLIMATE ACTION INVITE YOU TO JOIN US FOR A SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF "THE CONDOR & THE EAGLE"
TUESDAY, July 6th at 4pm PT / 5MT / 6CT / 7ET / 8pm AT
- PANEL DISCUSSION will start at 8:30pm ET
Register: https://event.webinarjam.com/register/201/zygvyurn?utm_source=Council+of+Canadians&utm_campaign=4e4b2886d4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_06_21_05_41_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f477a42a0b-4e4b2886d4-384106604&mc_cid=4e4b2886d4&mc_eid=11ed0031e4
Inclusive Donation-Based Event: This event is inclusive, free to those who can't afford it. For all others, suggested donations on a sliding scale of $15-100 are requested in lieu of a flat ticket price. Your donations will support the essential work done by Canadian Indigenous leaders Kanahus Manuel and Molly Wickham. Part of the funds collected will also go towards the film impact campaign "No More Sacrificed Communities" and be used to provide small honorariums to our panelists.

(3)
RESISTING FIGHTER JETS AT HOME AND ABROAD:
WITH ACTIVISTS FROM CANADA, ISRAEL, WISCONSIN & VERMONT
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
12:00pm-1:30 PM EST
(CT 11 am / IDT 7pm)
Help us stop Canada from buying fighter jets! We need climate action & health care!
To REGISTER  to attend the webinar, please click this link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvf-iorjsjE9YJBMKH6UhWhMY2aMhv37Ll

Join our important discussion with peace activists from Canada, Israel, Wisconsin and Vermont about how they are resisting the procurement, use and basing of fighter jets. We will hear from Pitasanna Shanmugathas & Rachel Small from the No New Fighter Jets Coalition who are trying to stop Canada from buying 88 new fighter jets at a life-cycle cost of $76.8 billion. Yonatan Shapira, a former Israeli Air Force pilot turned peace activist, will speak about the destruction caused by Israel's F-35 Joint Strike fighter jets in Gaza and the futility of fighter jets for defence. From Vermont, former Colonel Rosanne Greco, a retired US Air Force pilot, and John Reuwer, a member of World BEYOND War's Board of Directors, will share their struggle to stop the placement of F-35s in Burlington. Vicki Berenson, an organizer with Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin, will talk about the campaign to stop the siting of F-35s at Truax Air National Guard base in Madison.
*Be sure to bring a small sign "No Fighter Jets" because we will hold them up and take a photo at the end of the webinar!
This event is being held to stop the Canadian government from buying a new fleet of costly-carbon intensive combat aircraft, find out more about the #NoNewFighterJets campaign here: www.nofighterjets.ca<http://www.nofighterjets.ca>
Please retweet and share widely within your social media networks about our upcoming webinar. https://twitter.com/VOWPeace/status/1410404176295862272

(4)
LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING AHEAD: the 25th anniversary of the 1996 ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons!
July 8. More info: https://www.abolition2000.org/en/news/2021/07/04/looking-back-and-looking-ahead-the-25th-anniversary-of-the-1996-icj-advisory-opinion-on-the-legality-of-threat-or-use-of-nuclear-weapons/
11am - 2pm Eastern Time USA (EDT). 5pm-8pm Central European Time (CEST)
Hosted by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SoWcZOh8S7uGN2fBnsCVtw

(5)
WEBINAR: PEOPLE'S GLOBAL ACTION FOR KOREA PEACE AMID US-CHINA STRATEGIC COMPETITION
On 8 July 2021, Thu 10am (KST&JST), there will be a webinar: People's global action for Korea Peace amid US-China strategic competition, hosted by the Korea Peace Appeal Campaign to raise awareness of the current political situation on the Korean Peninsula and to encourage people to participate in the global action of the campaign and finally end the Korean war! Peace and denuclearization on the Korean peninsula!
*            8 July 2021, Thu 10am (KST&JST) @ ZOOM
*            7 July 2021, Wed 9pm (EDT), 6pm (PDT)
*            Register: https://apply.do/zeT8

(6)
KILLING GAZA WITH MAX BLUMENTHAL AND DAN COHEN
Thu July 8 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
Join us on July 8th, at 6pm EDT, we will be screening the film, Killing Gaza. After watching the film, we will be joined by filmmakers and journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen for a conversation about the film, Gaza, Palestine, Israel, and US policy.
Register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIod-CrpzosHNMuYBsIFdsGDD3lnQaf2DVS

(7)
FOR PEACE IN YEMEN, US MUST ADMIT SAUDI LOST. WITH DR. ANNELLE SHELINE
Jul 7, 2021 07:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Organized by Massachusetts Peace Action
Dr. Annelle Sheline is a Research Fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute and an expert on religious and political authority in the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to beginning her PhD, she worked as a journalist in Egypt and Yemen. In addition to academic writing, she was written for The Washington Post, The Nation, Foreign Policy, Politico, The National Interest, and The Globe Post. Dr. Sheline has also done field research in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, the U.A.E., Jordan, Morocco, and Egypt.
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqdeiprTwpHNZpvZPI_gjSehmdMLgwiBNT?emci=2a488c38-44d8-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=4dc4f687-55d8-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=272926

(8)
US/CANADA HANDS OFF VENEZUELA! ONLINE PICKET ACTION
Fifth Monthly Online Picket Action!
Thursday, July 8, 2021 at 7 PM EDT
https://www.facebook.com/events/852557965617630/?source=6&ref_notif_type=plan_user_invited&action_history=null
Organized by Mobilization Against War and Occupation Vancouver
>>> Featuring Speakers:
* LUIS ACUÑA - Charge d'Affaires of the Venezuela Embassy in Canada. Luis is a former Minister of Higher Education in Venezuela and former elected governor of the state of Sucre in Venezuela. He will be speaking direct from Caracas.
* YVES ENGLER - Dubbed "Canada's version of Noam Chomsky" (Georgia Straight), "one of the most important voices on the Canadian Left" (Briarpatch), "in the mould of I. F. Stone" (Globe and Mail), "part of that rare but growing group of social critics unafraid to confront Canada's self-satisfied myths" (Quill & Quire), "ever-insightful" (Rabble), "Chomsky-styled iconoclast" (Counterpunch) and a "Leftist gadfly" (Ottawa Citizen), Yves Engler (yvesengler.com) has eleven published books.
* AZZA ROJBI & MICHAEL LARSON - Organizers with the Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice Venezuela Solidarity Campaign. They will be giving an eyewitness report from the Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples in Venezuela in June 2021, where they participated alongside 500 delegates from 57 countries, as the only delegates from Canada.
End Sanctions on Venezuela!
#HandsOffVenezuela #SancionesSonUnCrimen #SanctionsKill

(9)
WEBINAR: FOLLOW THE PIPELINES: HOW OIL AND PIPELINE POLITICS HAVE SHAPED US FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Mon July 12 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
In this webinar, author Charlotte Dennett, author of The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, A Daughter's Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil , narrates how she discovered the role of pipelines in causing and perpetuating the endless wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. From her investigation of the intrigues surrounding the construction and routing of the Trans-Arabian pipeline (the subject of her father's last mission to Saudi Arabia before his mysterious death by plane crash), she applies the lessons she learned -about the link between protecting pipelines militarily and politically-to the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Gaza and Yemen. She accompanies each example with pipeline maps. Charlotte Dennett is a former Middle East reporter and an investigative journalist and attorney. She is the author of The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, A Daughter's Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil (Chelsea Green, 2020)
Register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvcOqrqDIsEtLAGpaKpvV4uWu16lE23BQn

(10)
WEBINAR: GROUNDWORK: THE CHALLENGE, AND PROMISE OF REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
Mon, July 12, 2021
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EDT
Organized by Climate Fast Canada
Lots of great speakers.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/groundwork-the-challenge-and-promise-of-regenerative-agriculture-tickets-161279261613

(11)
BOOK LAUNCH WEBINAR:  THE WATER DEFENDERS: A CELEBRATION AND REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY IN EL SALVADOR'S VICTORY OVER MINING
Tuesday, July 13, 7-8:30 pm Eastern time (6 pm Mexico/Central time, 5 pm El Salvador/Mountain time, 4 pm Pacific time - oh, and 8 pm Atlantic time).
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IpnFGW_TQXyrEKhMG4fvVA

On the 12th anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran water defender Marcelo Rivera, join activists from Canada, the United States, and El Salvador in an online roundtable discussion on lessons from North American activists and organizations' decade-long solidarity relationship with Salvadoran water defenders for international solidarity work going forward. The conversation will draw on the rich history of Canadian solidarity with social movements in El Salvador.
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh, authors of the just-published book: The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed (Beacon Press, 2021) will kick off the discussion with observations from the book, which covers the Salvadoran people's struggle to protect their small, precious country and its imperilled waters from large-scale metal mining. A courageous struggle that led their country to become the first nation to ban mining in 2017! Then, moderator Jamie Kneen of MiningWatch Canada will bring in others for their reflections, including Vidalina Morales of La Mesa National of El Salvador, Jen Moore and Manuel Pérez Rocha of the Institute for Policy Studies, Laura Avalos, founder and former president of the Salvadorian Canadian Association of Ottawa and National Capital Region (ASCORCAN), René Guerra, former director of Salvaide, and Jim Hodgson, formerly of the United Church.

(12)
WEBINAR: THE US SHOULD PURSUE COOPERATION WITH CHINA: JEFF SACHS
Mon July 19 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqcumpqjIsGNyFr2RliX0U_sHgeZ8Unn_d
"Cooperation is not cowardice, as American conservatives repeatedly claim," wrote Jeff Sachs in a February 2021 article.  "Both the US and China have much to gain from it: peace, expanded markets, accelerated technological progress, the avoidance of a new arms race, progress against COVID-19, a robust global jobs recovery, and a shared effort against climate change."
In other recent articles, Sachs argued that the Xinjiang genocide allegations are unjustified and that the recent US/China agreement to cooperate on climate change is an important and welcome development.
Jeffrey Sachs is University Professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.  He is one of the world's leading experts on sustainable development, economic development, and the fight against poverty.   He chairs The Lancet's COVID-19 commission

His most recent books are A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018) and Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable (2017).

RESOURCES
(1)
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs released this report on arms exports last month: "Assessing Risk, Preventing Diversion and Increasing Transparency: Strengthening Canada's Arms Export Controls in a Volatile World". Read the report and recommendations here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/432/FAAE/Reports/RP11446706/faaerp09/faaerp09-e.pdf

(2)
As British Columbia and Alberta were under an unprecedented heat wave last week, the federal Natural Resources Department released its "Canada in a Changing Climate: Issues" report:
https://changingclimate.ca/site/assets/uploads/sites/3/2021/05/National-Issues-Report_Final_EN.pdf

(3)
Become a signatory to the new UN Women, Peace & Security-Humanitarian Action Compact that was presented at the recent UN Generation Equality Forum: https://wpshacompact.org/ You can read the 23-page compact here: https://wpshacompact.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WPS-HA-Compact-Framework.pdf

(4)
Watch "Julian Assange and WikiLeaks - story of a whistleblower", a new DW Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Ajc4R-mpI

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://list.web.net/pipermail/sust-mar/attachments/20210706/04d0ef36/attachment-0001.htm>