[KWPeace-groups] Minutes from January 19 meething
Eleanor Grant
eleanor7000 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 18:45:40 EST 2017
Thanks Emily, now I can read it.
Sounds like a great meeting! I was planning to come, but came down with
that flu bug last week. I had wanted to launch - or relaunch - the peace
and justice newsletter I used to do from 2002 to 2012 (and suspended for
lack of a computer on which I could do mass e-mails). I started it up again
in December and have done 2 issues.
I'll try to attend April 6 to tell more about it - meanwhile if you would
like to be added to my e-mail list please let me know.
Thanks for the good work you're all doing.
Eleanor Grant
PS - Esther could you contact me? I'd like to talk further about Cuba and
Palestine.
Tx, E.
On 23 Jan 2017 17:26, "Emily Mininger" <e.mininger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I think the attachment may have gotten blocked due to size, so please find
> the minutes in the body of this message.
>
> KW Peace Meeting Minutes January 19th, 2017
>
> · Present: Jim, Ellen, Sharon, Dwyer, Bob, Laura, Mo, Esther,
> Isaiah, Sue, Matt, Janelle
>
>
>
> · Welcome to Jim and Ellen, joining us for the first time to
> represent Council of Canadians, and also to Janelle.
>
> · Events
>
> o Women's March in Toronto was Saturday, Jan 21st
>
> o Trusted Clothes is doing a clothing swap on January 28 from 10:30-1pm
> at 787 King St W Kitchener http://kwpeace.ca/event/trusted-clothes-swap/
>
> o Activities for Peace
>
> · Feb 15 - Charades for Peace at Queen Street Commons, 7pm
>
> · March 15 - Board Games for Peace at Queen Street Commons, 7pm
>
> - March 3rd - High School day for peace at Grebel
> https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/events/high-school-peace-day-art-peace
>
> o March 3rd, 7:30pm - Dr. Mary Jo Leddy will be giving a talk "Room
> Enough for Hope: Canada's Response to the Refugee Crisis."
> https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/events/public-lecture-room-
> enough-hope-canadas-response-refugee-0
>
> - March 4th, 1-3pm, Wesley United Church - Goodhearted Women Singers are
> doing their annual concert with the police choir to bridge
> communities
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> o March 5th - Blanket exercise at St. Jerome's led by local indigenous
> people
>
> o Ahmadiyya Muslim Women's Association conference March 5th from 10-2. A
> women only conference. Last year Esther spoke for Christian Peacemaker
> Teams (CPT) and had a table. There's a complimentary lunch. The theme is
> Religion in the 21st Century
>
> o Citizens Climate Lobby, Divest, and Food not Bombs are planning to
> host a screening and book launch for Cowspiracy.
>
> - Cross Cultures is having their International Day of Race Relations at
> City Hall on Tuesday, March 21st all day. There are booths, a
> concert,
> speakers, and more. Theme is "Our Home on Native Land." If you
> want to have
> a booth contact Gehan https://kwpeace.wordpress.com/
> tag/cross-culture/
>
> o Age of Consequences film to be showed at Grebel, was going to be March
> 21st but the date is probably changing due to conflict with Cross Cultures
> event.
>
> o Mo is planning an Earth Day event during the 3rd week of April
>
> · Updates
>
> o Esther was here in place of Rochelle to represent CPT, as Rochelle is
> currently in Columbia for a 4 week training. Esther is then going to Cuba
> for a Humanitarian Aid trip
>
> o Food Not Bombs is shifting focus from just serving to also include
> action against poverty. If you want to have info on a table during one of
> their servings you can do so. They serve 1:30-3:30 on Saturday in front of
> City hall. Any leftovers go to House of Friendship
>
> · Another group called Vegan Lunch Bag gives out a vegan lunch bag
> and warm clothes
>
> · Soup for the Soul - a local chef gives out soup near Frederick
> and King (61 King St E) one day a month. Next one is January 27th from
> 4-5pm
>
> o Sue is doing a training with the Alternatives to Nonviolence project
> January 20, 21, and 22 at Grand Valley. The training was developed in
> upstate NY because inmates wanted training on how to solve conflicts
> nonviolently. The goal is to foster connections and use transforming power
> of nonviolence.
>
> o Sharon says there's lots going on with FairVote and electoral reform.
> At the September 14th town hall it was clear that there is support for
> changes to the electoral system that include some kind of proportional
> representation, but if you read the report, you don't get the sense of
> strong support and they use confusing language
>
> · Apparently Raj Saini told someone that only 1 person had come to
> him in support of proportional representation electoral reform, which is
> clearly false. At the very least he's been met by 1/2 dozen people about
> this issue.
>
> · Getting the sense that the Liberals are studying it until it goes
> away, and making the claim that there isn't support or a broad consensus
>
> · If you want to act, you can write to the new minister and CC
> Justin Trudeau and Raj Saini with a physical letter (apparently emails
> don't count)
>
> · FairVote is gathering evidence, so if you met or contacted Raj
> about this issue, please send them the date and time and method of contact
> (Also if you met with Bardish Chaggar). They will use this information to
> then confront Raj.
>
> · May pass Alternative Vote in February so that they can say they
> passed electoral reform, but it's not the same as proportional
> representation
>
> o Isaiah has developed an *educational game* that explores and makes
> accessible the complex relationship between environmental limits, climate
> change and various conflicts within and between societies. He's happy to
> present this game to a group, it's good for 5-10 people. Contact him if
> interested.
>
> · It's being presented to KW Awesome next week to get funding to
> develop the game further
>
> o Eco Schools Ontario is a program funded by the government to get
> schools and individuals to participate in making their schools more
> sustainable. They can get certified if they get enough points, or can just
> do actions.
>
> o Water event at the Laurier Seminary on Monday that deals with
> indigenous rights and water for catholic High School teachers. If any
> teachers are interested connect with Laura
>
> o KOALA is working on banning fur farms that are subsidized by the
> government
>
> o KOALA is advocating to add "Meatless Mondays" to school lunches.
> Amarak is the provider of food for the schools in the area and is
> accommodating of social justice concerns - cooperated with the fair trade
> campus initiative at Laurier.
>
> o KW Animal Save is starting a climate change chapter. Many people ask
> what they can do to impact climate change, and two main actions that have
> an impact are taking political action and eating less meat.
>
> o Council of Canadians now has a chapter in Waterloo. They meet the 3rd
> Wednesday of every month at Bread and Roses.
>
> · Their first action was giving information about boycotting Nestle
> products at the Kitchener Market before Christmas
>
> o Social Action Group of the Unitarian Church buys beans every year and
> donate them to the food back. They are expecting to get 10,000lbs of beans!
>
> · The beansa re Romano beans grown in Ontario and are non-GMO
>
> · Did you know that Canada provides 30% of pulses (legumes, beans,
> etc) to the world?
>
> o Citizens for Public Justice are advocating "Give it up for Lent,"
> which asks Christians to give up things that have a negative environmental
> or sustainability impact
>
> · Maybe a launch should be planned for April 1st? Laura and Isaiah
> are talking about it
>
> o Esther is leading a delegation from October 24-28 to Palestine. There
> are 4 delegates on the trip who went last year. IT's open to all, and will
> include bearing witness during the olive harvest, when Palestinian people
> are harassed when harvesting olives, and need to get permits to harvest
> their olives. This is co-led by Robert Holmes.
>
> · Website
>
> o Few people upload to the site. Mostly it's automatically uploaded or
> Bob adds events.
>
> o CCJ Clearline, the provider of our web services, is no longer offering
> web hosting because it's no longer profitable. We will have to find a new
> host.
>
> o There are some VPS (Virtual Private Server) services that are
> $5/month. However we don't know if that will be enough bandwidth or
> storage, so we'll start with that and see how it goes. We may need to go
> with the next level up at $10/month
>
> o Probably will go with Data Mantle, as it's a local company
>
> o A VPS requires more work on our end. Bob will continue managing but
> would like help. Emily will help but if anyone else feels computer savvy
> and would like to be involved please let us know! The work needed to be
> done is maintain the systems and do backup.
>
> o This will mean we can get an HTTPS, or security certificate, for our
> site
>
> o We will likely set up the VPS site in mid-February. The website will
> look the same from the user perspective
>
> o Bob estimates he spends an average of 20min/day for the blog/calendar
> currently, this might increase to 1hr or 1/2 hr per day when we switch
>
> o Several people gave donations towards the website, so we have funds to
> continue for a while more, depending on which service we end up using.
> Some of those funds are also going towards renewing the domain name, which
> we will continue to renew through CCJ Clearline
>
> o Other options mentioned were Execulink, which is far too expensive at
> $200/month
>
> o Bravehost.net isn't great because you can't aggregate calendars and
> it's not easy to access data
>
> · Next KW Peace Potluck meeting is likely April 6th at 6pm. Sue
> will confirm that Stirling is available.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Emily Mininger <e.mininger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > It was great to see everyone at the potluck last week. Please find
> > attached the minutes of what we discussed.
> >
> > Our next meeting is tentatively schedule for April 6 at 6pm.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Emily
> >
> > --
> > Emily Mininger
> >
> > Email: e.mininger at gmail.com
> > Phone: 519-568-3879 <(519)%20568-3879>
> >
> > Check out peace groups and events in KW - KWpeace.ca
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Emily Mininger
>
> Email: e.mininger at gmail.com
> Phone: 519-568-3879
>
> Check out peace groups and events in KW - KWpeace.ca
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