[sust-mar] Please circulate: 3 petitions to sign & 12 upcoming events - Tonight "Drinks for Disarmament"

[Tamara Lorincz]

Hello Sust-Mar!

Hope you are enjoying beautiful sunny weather in Atlantic Canada.

3 petitions to sign & 12 upcoming events for circulate far & wide. Please see below.

In solidarity for peace, earth and justice,
Tamara

Please sign our open letter to all Members of Parliament letting them know you are opposed to the Trudeau government's costly, carbon-intensive fighter jet procurement: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fighterjets

Please also sign the parliamentary petition "No TMX pipeline": https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3541

Please join MiningWatch Canada, Oceans North and other Canadian organizations in calling for a moratorium on deep seabed mining in international waters. Sign the parliamentary petition: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3483

Read: Soaring costs threaten DND's (war)shipbuilding mandate
By Alan Williams, July 14, 2021, The Hill Times,
https://www.hilltimes.com/2021/07/14/soaring-costs-threaten-dnds-shipbuilding-mandate/306498?utm_source=Member+-+Hill+Times+Publishing&utm_campaign=b50398c42d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_07_18_10_00&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_207adb2c89-b50398c42d-90712821&mc_cid=b50398c42d&mc_eid=5f8e61fff3

Read: Singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer joins campaign against fighter jets
CBC, July 20, 2021: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/harmer-jets-1.6109848

UPCOMING EVENTS:
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Tonight! Join VOW for our "DRINKS AND DISARMAMENT" conversation!
Thursday, July 22
7:00-8:00 p.m. ET (4 pm PT / 8 pm AT)
Online open, casual conversation about peace & disarmament.

Bring a drink of your choice, and join us for an open discussion to learn more about how disarmament can transform Canada's foreign policy! Canada is planning to buy armed drones, fighter jets, attack helicopters, build warships and export weapons around the world - there's another way! Let's disarm and export peace. Come and join our 1-hour online meeting. All are welcome.
Organized by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW)
Click on this link tonight at the start time 7pm ET:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86155063704?pwd=VG1ObnJ1SEVsSXJ6ZkgwelNwQlJoQT09&fbclid=IwAR3x8KrLaQ6HyiC_JudrXNiU6VQnx-o96vu3-32SlK8FgOxyCgKjN5rpk04#success

See the event on Facebook as well: https://www.facebook.com/VOWPeace/photos/a.10158022900211936/10159158191626936/

For more information, email: info at vowpeace.org<mailto:info at vowpeace.org>

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WEBINAR "HEAT - B.C. IS ON FIRE!"
Thursday, July 22, 7 p.m. Eastern Time
With leading SA member Florencia Schade speaking from Wetsu'wet'en territory, Gene McGuckin of Eco-socialists of Vancouver, and Gary Porter, Socialist Action British Columbia organizer.
Organized by Socialist Action. Link: https://youtu.be/6383UTNV4K4

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SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF COLOMBIA
As we are approaching July 20, the 209th anniversary of Colombian independence from Spain, on behalf of the Anti-Imperialist Alliance (AIA), I am writing to invite you to the upcoming action which will take place on Friday July 23rd at 3pm at the Embassy of Colombia, Ottawa, 360 Albert street.

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WILPF CANADA MONTHLY MEETING
Sunday, July 25th, 2pm PDT
The Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) is having its monthly meeting on Sunday, July 25th, at 2pm PDT. To learn more, become a member or attend a meeting, please email: wilpf.canada at gmail.com<mailto:>.
Find out more about WILPF Canada: http://wilpfvancouver.ca/ (there's also a Nanaimo chapter!)
Find out more about WILPF International (the world's oldest feminist peace organization): https://www.wilpf.org/

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"WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CUBA?" WEBINAR
This is the latest panel discussion hosted by the International Manifesto Group.
The Panel will take place Monday, July 26 at 9:00-11:00AM EDT / 8:00-10:00AM CDT / 2:00-4:00PM UK Daylight Time.

Click here to register to attend this event and please share widely! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-is-happening-in-cuba-tickets-163955498309

About this event
A major disinformation campaign is re-interpreting the current unrest in Cuba as anti-government, even claiming photos of pro-government demonstrations as anti-government. In fact, its causes lie in the 60-year old blockade, further tightened by Trump and continued under Biden even during the pandemic. It is asphyxiating Cuba's normal social and economic development. Cuba has weathered the fall of the Soviet Union and the Special Period that followed. How are the Government and people dealing with this new challenge?

The experts on this panel discuss the current situation, misunderstandings about it and what is really going on in Cuba.

Speakers:
Arnold August is a Montreal-based author and journalist (MA Poli Sci, McGill University). He has written three books on Cuba: 1. Democracy in Cuba and the 1997-98 Elections, 2. Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion ("A tour de force from an expert who clearly know his field well", Tony Kapcia, University of Nottingham), 3. Cuba-US Relations ("Any open-minded discussion about the asymmetrical Cuba-U.S. relations should start with this highly readable, informative book", James D. Cockcroft, three-time Fulbright Scholar). Arnold, an award-winning journalist, is published in English, Spanish and French in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.

Claudia Chaufan, Argentinian MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Health Policy at York University, Canada. She researches the geopolitical economy of global health and is actively involved with organizations working on antiwar, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles.

Keith Bolender, award winning journalist and author on Cuba-USA relations, including "Voices From the Other Side", "Cuba Under Siege" and "Manufacturing the Enemy; The Media War Against Cuba". He has written extensively for the past 20 years on Cuban issues for the Toronto Star, The Guardian, Florida Sun Sentinel, the Council for Hemispheric Affairs, North American Council on Latin America, Monthly Review, Progresso Weekly. Lecturer on Cuba-USA relations throughout North America and the UK, including at the United Nations, European Union and the Scottish National Parliament. Member of the Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) on their roster of experts for Cuban Affairs.

Wendy Holm is an award-winning Canadian Agrologist, Resource Economist, Journalist and Author who has been working with Cuban agricultural cooperatives for 23 years. Since 1999, she has taken over 1,000 Canadian farmers, chefs and students to Cuba in 57 Delegations to learn about Cuba's leadership in sustainable farming practices. Organizer of two Havana conferences (2011, 2014) on Cuba's new cooperative path, Wendy also taught a University of British Columbia field studies course in sustainable agriculture in Cuba every May from 2005 to 2016. During this time, Wendy also organized and led two international projects to support Cuban agricultural cooperatives. The first - an international dairy project - won a CIDA International Cooperation Award for sustainability. In the second, Wendy worked with Saint Mary's University and Cuban partner ANAP (National Association of Small Farmers) to develop a Cuban version of the Coop Index, a diagnostic tool to support farm cooperatives as Cuba embarks on its road to a more cooperative, people-centred economy.

Claude Morin is a retired professor from the History Department at Université de Montréal where he taught for more than three decades. He holds a doctorate in history from the Université de Paris-X. His main research fields were colonial Mexico, then Cuba, the Caribbean and Central America in the 20th century. He is the author or editor of six books and some forty articles or chapters in collective works. He has commented and still comments on Latin American news in the print and electronic media. He also led groups on cultural trips to Latin America.

Moderator: Radhika Desai is a Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. She is also the Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group. She is the author of Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire.

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WEBINAR: USA: THREATS TO WORLD PEACE, INTERVENTIONS AND MILITARIZATION
Monday, July 26, 2021 l Time: 12pm/Chile/ ET - USA - 1pm/Brazil - 6pm/Germany l
Interpretation: English and Spanish
REGISTRATION: bit.ly/webinarpeace
https://actionnetwork.org/events/usa-threats-to-world-peace-interventions-and-militarization

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FEMINIST RECOVERY: WHAT'S NEXT FOR CHILDCARE IN CANADA?
I wanted to share information about YWCA Canada's upcoming event on what's next for child care featuring leading gender equity advocates. We'll be reflecting on recent national and global developments and progress on the care economy. With a Federal election around the corner, we'll also be speaking to what else we should be focusing on to ensure a feminist recovery.

Featuring speakers:
* Martha Friendly - Executive Director, Child Care Resource and Research Unit
* Amy Juschka - Director of Communications & Advocacy, YWCA Metro Vancouver
* Chantelle Krish - Board Director with Minerva Foundation for BC Women, Strategic Advisor on Advocacy, Equity & Communications
* Amar Nijhawan - Women's Rights Policy & Advocacy Specialist, Oxfam Canada

Please join us on Wednesday, July 28th @ 12 noon ET - register here:
https://bit.ly/WhatsNextForChildCare-YWCA-Canada

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NO NEW COLD WAR WITH CODEPINK'S JODIE EVANS
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 * 7:00-8:00 PM ET
Register: https://actionnetwork.org/events/no-new-cold-war-with-jodie-evans
Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK, and decades-long political organizer and activist joins us on Wednesday, 7/28 at 7PM to talk about US-China relations, opposition to a new Cold War, and her global vision for international cooperation and peace. Evans has served as Director of Administration for California Governor Jerry Brown and has travelled across the world advocating for peace and reconciliation in places like Iran, Jordan, and Afghanistan, as well as North and South Korea.

Opposition to a new Cold War with China is founded in the push for international cooperation over international competition or confrontation. Toxic anti-China rhetoric not only propels the US closer to conflict with China, but also gives rise to anti-Asian hate crimes and demonizes the Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the US. Join us Wednesday, 7/28 at 7PM to discuss these issues and more.

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HOPE FOR THE EARTH: CANADA, SIGN THE BAN TREATY!
Start: Friday, August 06, 2021 * 7:00 PM ET
Online event. Register: https://actionnetwork.org/events/hopefortheearth
On the evening of August 6, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, we invite you to attend Hope for the Earth: Canada, Sign the Ban Treaty.

Peace activists and dynamic artists will highlight the importance of Canada's joining the growing number of nations signing the Ban Treaty, and how we can contribute to the elimination of nuclear weapons. This event will include esteemed speakers, musical performances, Mayoral Proclamations and a lantern ceremony. This event is being hosted by the Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition and World BEYOND War. Registration info will be shared with both hosts.
Speakers and performers include:
Setsuko Thurlow is a Hiroshima survivor and co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, for its work in achieving the 2017 UN nuclear ban treaty.  Kehkashan Basu is a UN Human Rights Champion; iconic youth leader; global influencer; and peace and sustainability campaigner for nuclear disarmament, the environment, and human rights.    Ron Korb is a Grammy nominated and multi-award-winning flautist. Playing a wide variety of indigenous woodwinds from around the world, his compositions evoke imagery of diverse cultural traditions.
Erin Hunt is the Program Manager at Mines Action Canada, an expert in humanitarian disarmament, victim assistance, and Canadian disarmament policy, and a contributor to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.  Nathaniel Erskine-Smith is the Member of Parliament for Beaches-East York and a vocal advocate for the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and why Canada should sign the Treaty.

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THE CIA AND THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX WITH RAY MCGOVERN
Start: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 * 7:00 PM ET
https://actionnetwork.org/events/the-cia-and-the-military-industrial-complex-with-ray-mcgovern
Join us on August 11th at 7pm EDT for a conversation with Ray McGovern. Ray McGovern is an activist who was previously a CIA analyst for 27 years. Part of his job was to prepare the President's Daily Brief. Ray is also the co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

When Ray retired from the CIA in 1990, he received the Intelligence Commendation Medal "especially meritorious service." He returned the medal in 2006 saying, "I do not want to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture."

Ray will be joining us for a discussion about the military industrial complex, US foreign policy, and his time at the CIA.

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ONLINE PICKET: US/CANADA HANDS OFF VENEZUELA
The 6th Monthly Picket US/Canada Hands Off Venezuela is:
THURSDAY August 12
4pm Pacific (Vancouver)/7pm Eastern (Toronto)
Register: https://www.tinyurl.com/HandsOffVzla
Organized by Mobilization Against War and Occupation: https://www.facebook.com/MAWOVancouver

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ICYMI: "Hidden in Plain Sight: Uncovering the Canada-Israel Weapons and Surveillance Trade." Watch this webcast hosted by World BEYOND War and Independent Jewish Voices Canada to learn about (and try out) brand new tools to empower our solidarity for a #FreePalestine and shut down this weapons trade.
https://www.facebook.com/worldbeyondwar/videos/176195684497538/


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