[KWPeace-groups] Meeting Notes for Monday 26 March 2018

[Bob Jonkman]

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"Final" draft with all your updates posted to
https://kwpeace.ca/meeting-minutes/minutes-of-spring-2018-kwpeace-organizational-meeting-and-potluck/

But it's only digital -- let me know if there are any further
additions, deletions, updates or changes, and I can add, delete,
update and change them.

- --Bob.


Kitchener-Waterloo Peace and Social Justice Groups
bobjonkman at kwpeace.ca           https://kwpeace.ca

On 2018-03-27 06:28 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Hi: For those of you who weren't able to make it to the potluck
> meeting on Monday, here are the notes I took.  For those of you who
> *were* there, please let me know of any additions, deletions,
> changes, or other errors.  I'll have them posted on the KWPeace
> site later tonight if there are no corrections  (it'll look much
> prettier!); right now I have to get to the WR Nonviolence
> meeting...
> 
> = Spring 2018 KWPeace Organizational Meeting and Potluck = Date 26
> March 2018 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm Location Peace and Justice Room,
> Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church, 57 Stirling Avenue North,
> Kitchener Map Participants Laura Hamilton: Divest Waterloo, Food
> Not Bombs, Faith and the Common Good Cathy Scott: Fair Vote
> Waterloo Sharon Sommerville: KW Council of Canadians, Alliance
> Against Poverty Dwyer Sullivan: Educators 4 Justice, Camp Micah,
> Conscience Canada Sue Klassen: Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church,
> Peace and Justice Working Group, Grand Valley Institute outreach,
> Alternatives to Violence Victor Klassen: Gehan Sabry: Cross
> Cultures Magazine Lynn Schulze: Crossing Borders Program Alejandra:
> Crossing Borders Program Bob Jonkman: Green Party, WR Nonviolence,
> KWPeace
> 
> Regrets Mo Markham: KW Vegan Society, KW Animal Save, Kitchener
> Waterloo Climate Save, Mother Earth Save
> 
> 
> 
> Meeting Notes
> 
> We should get Community Justice Initiatives (CJI) to come to
> KWPeace meetings
> 
> Groups Reports Fair Vote Waterloo
> 
> Electoral Reform is on hiatus, it is not active at the government
> level FairvoteWRC is still doing education No petition, but has a
> form to pledge to vote only for a party with a commitment to
> Proportional Representation
> 
> 
> KW Council of Canadians
> 
> Primary campaign is water Also health care as a local initiave Bill
> 160, the overhaul of health care delivery It's presented as an
> omnibus bill Includes removal of ban on private hospitals Increased
> use of private clinics for diagnostics Concerns over patient
> privacy and info sharing The cost of private care is greater KWCoC
> has met with all local MPPs This needs to be a campaign issue in
> the Provincial Election (7 June 2018) Waterloo MPP Catherine Fife
> is on board, will present petitions in legislature "Privatization
> by stealth" Privatization requires profit -- fair wages and
> employment equity? (private workers vs. unionized workers) MPPs
> presented excuses of "aging infrastructure" and "aging population"
> 
> 
> Alliance Against Poverty
> 
> Political Action Campaign to implement Free Transit for all First
> steps: Get Free Transit for low income people
> 
> 
> Educators For Justice
> 
> Speaker Candice spoke on native justice at Conrad Grebel
> University on Friday
> 
> 
> Conscience Canada
> 
> Promotes the divestment of 8.9% tax used to fund Canadian military 
> to be used for other purposes Saturday, 7 April 2018 at 3:30pm is
> Conscience Canada AGM; Tamara Lorincz will be speaking on Canadian
> military spending and the effects on climate change.
> 
> 
> English Catholic Teachers
> 
> Social Justice for Human Rights
> 
> 
> Crossing Borders
> 
> A group of refugees and students, coming together to break down
> barriers Have done 100 presentations to schools, organizations! 
> Workshops with 16 kids, presented to City Hall, schools, &c. 
> Partnering with Mennonite Coalition for Refugee Support (MCRS) 
> Working on a partnership with CJI Have received grants (maybe can
> provide some experience for the Social Develop Centre's Community
> Hub initiative) Jeremy Horne has been their fundraiser 10 years of
> Crossing Borders Started by kids, from program during Human Rights
> Week
> 
> 
> Cross Cultures
> 
> Plaque for Mutual Respect After seven months of bureaucracy 
> Unveiled at the UN Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination on
> 21 March 2018 Indigenous people want to mount this on a natural
> substrate To be place in Victoria Park near the entrance at the
> Clock Tower Amanda and Scott provided more information for the
> plaque Gehan is attending AGMs for ethnic associations Is now the
> president of the African Canadian Association for Waterloo and Area
> (ACAWRA) Reminder that Egypt is in Africa...
> 
> 
> St. John's Co-op Kitchen
> 
> There is a grant for a coach Sean ---, a Union Co-op to pool funds,
> limited to $10,000 Commitment to fair labour practices and a living
> wage The kitchen is a social incubator ...but also a back-end for
> other programs, eg. marketing your product get more funding (?) 
> Community Dinners, eg. Syrian Ladies Expected 100, cooked for 150,
> but 225 showed up Extra costs cut into the honorarium to the cooks 
> Will invite ACAWRA Start cooking classes to raise funds get stories
> to tell at dinners eg. from Crossing Borders Jacky Terry, board
> member at ACAWRA may have stories
> 
> 
> WR Nonviolence
> 
> No response from City Hall about booking Roos Island in Victoria 
> Park for Saturday, 14 July 2018 Bob thinks the drop-dead date for
> confirming the booking is end of April
> 
> 
> from Mo Markham
> 
> We have posted a petition on our page, and I think on the KW peace 
> page as well, to ask that the crown attorney request that Benjamin 
> Stein, the so-called farmer who left several thousand pigs to die 
> without food water heat Etc not have animals in his care again in
> his lifetime. This is mostly a publicity stunt, to try to get some
> media attention to this case, the largest case of animal cruelty in
> Canadian history. KW Animal Save AND London Pig Save will be
> attending the sentencing in Simcoe on April 26th, and sometime
> before then we will present the petition to the crown attorney. Our
> latest Save group, Mother Earth Save, will be holding a free 
> mothers' brunch on Saturday May 26th at st. John the Evangelist
> downtown to help young mothers understand what's happening to the
> planet, and how they can get involved to make change. There will be
> childcare provided And on Saturday June 23rd, the KW Vegan Society
> will hold a fundraiser for KW Animal Save and Kitchener Waterloo
> Climate Save. This will be a catered picnic and bonfire. I have
> posted this on the KW peace site, and it is also on the KW animal
> save page.
> 
> 
> Other Notes
> 
> Alejandra is a refugee from Colombia Got permanent residency
> through Humanitarian and Compassionate grounds The Refugee Board
> and Immigration Board don't communicate; she was still receiving
> notices after getting permanent residency How to get employment as
> a refugee? Kitchener Waterloo Multicultural Centre and City of
> Kitchener provided a Healthy Lifestyles Ambassador placement as a
> Lifeguard This program is no longer funded
> 
> 
> 22 April 2018 is Earth Day There is a Climate Walk in Toronto
> 
> 
> Access to politicians Local politicians treat delegations from
> activist groups as though they were "storming the Bastille"
> 
> 
> Festival season! Space at Kitchener City Hall None available before
> summer Difficult to get hold of _____ (organizer/venue
> reservation) But space is still available
> 
> 
> Joint All-Candidates Meetings Topic: Social Justice for Health,
> Anti-Poverty, Electoral Reform, Environment To be put on by: Social
> Development Centre Waterloo Region Divest Waterloo Alliance Against
> Poverty Fair Vote Waterloo TransitionKW Disability and Human Rights
> Group KW Council of Canadians Basic Income Waterloo Region By
> having multiple groups involved, candidates can no longer use the
> excuse of not participating because this is a "single issue". The
> Record and Rogers are no longer hosting a public All Candidates
> Meeting and the Chamber of Commerce doesn't allow questions (and 
> does not address social issues, anyway)
> 
> John Milloy Hosted a Faith and Politics (presentation? seminar?
> workshop?) Follow up at Centre for Public Ethics Get people active,
> teach them how to organize Monday, 9 April, 5:30pm to 7:30pm
> 
> 
> Indigenous Storytellers 10,000 year old stories Listening as well
> as telling On the Doctrine of Discovery There will be four
> performances
> 
> 
> 
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