[KWPeace-groups] Minutes from January 19 meething
Sue Klassen
sueklassen at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 10:15:46 EST 2017
Hi, Eleanor.
Please add me to your list as well.
Thank you!
Sue
> On Jan 23, 2017, at 11:32 PM, Dwyer Sullivan <dwyerandsheila at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Eleanor,
>
> Please add me to your email list - if I am not still on from before. thank
> you and keep up your good work.
>
> Peace, Dwyer
>
> On 23 January 2017 at 18:45, Eleanor Grant <eleanor7000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>> https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4a9435_
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>>> 657,al_c,q_80/4a9435_7f939b8d8a714422874cf9d5743f7ab9~mv2.webp
>>>
>>> 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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