[KWPeace-groups] Collecting $20 Tim Horton's cards for the homeless + Upcoming events

[Tamara Lorincz]

Hello KW Peace,

I hope everyone is well.

For the past two months, roughly every two weeks, my husband, sons and I have collected bedding, food and supplies and brought them out to the three homeless encampments in Cambridge, Victoria Park and Weber St. I have spoken to many of the people at the encampments and they said that they would love hand sanitizer to keep their hands warm and clean, batteries for their flashlights and especially they would love Tim Horton's or Walmart gift cards.

So, for Valentine's Day, I am making little gift bags with chocolate, a $20 Tim Horton's card and note "Happy Valentine's Day! Bringing you a little love". I have collected 12 gifts cards from my neighbours & my family, but I'm short and I need 20 more. Would anyone like to contribute a $20 Tim's card for the people at the encampments? If so, you could drop off at my house 511 Chesapeake Crescent /or I could pick up from you /or you could leave at the Balsillie School front desk 67 Erb St /or you could e-transfer me at tlorincz at dal.ca<mailto:tlorincz at dal.ca> and I'll go to Tim's to get it for you. **Everything will go to the people in need. If you have anything else to donate especially hand sanitizer, I could take it as well. Let's bring the most vulnerable people in our community a little love!

Below are a list of upcoming events for peace and justice and petitions to sign. Please share widely.

FYI: Save our Public Hospitals townhalls here: https://twitter.com/OntarioHealthC/status/1621186794418016256

Thank you for your support!
Tamara


Upcoming Events

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WEBINAR: PEACEBUILDING AND TRUTH & RECONCILIATION IN CANADA
Tuesday, February 07, 2023 * 7:00 PM ET
Register: https://bit.ly/3jER31R
Join World BEYOND War on February 7 to discuss peacebuilding, mediation, and Indigenous relations in Canada with Lorelei Higgins, a Métis Canadian Cultural Mediator, Rotary Peace Fellow, Rotary Positive Peace Activator and an Indigenous Relations Strategist. She is also Mrs. Canada Globe 2022. Lorelei leads conflict transformation projects globally, with a focus on Indigenous human rights.
Lorelei Higgins' work bridges the divide between peace work, Indigenous relations and reconciliation in Canada, and mediation across borders. What can we learn about truth and reconciliation from mediation work? What is everyday peacebuilding? What kind of peace work do we need to do within Canada's borders? Join us to discuss the intersections of these topics and more.

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PEACE IN UKRAINE (A WAR INDUSTRY RESISTERS NETWORK WEBINAR)
Wed February 8 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
Register here: https://masspeaceaction.org/event/peace-in-ukraine-a-war-industry-resisters-network-webinar/
The war in Ukraine tragically goes on and on, creating enormous suffering, most intensely inside Ukraine, but also across Russia, and, with soaring energy prices and grain shortages, around the planet. The United States continues to send billions of dollars worth of military weapons to Ukraine, generating enormous profits for the war industry.
This webinar will examine how US military contractors and the energy companies are benefiting from the war, their influence in government policies, and how we can oppose the war profiteers and politicians who are content to see this war drag on and on.
Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. She is the author of Drone Warfare, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection and Inside Iran. In 2012, she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation's Peace Prize; she is also recipient of the 2014 Gandhi Peace Award and the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Nicolas J. S. Davies is the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. He has written extensively for Huffington Post, Alternet, Consortium News, Common Dreams, Salon, The Progressive, and Foreign Policy in Focus.

Dan Kovalik teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects. He is the author of several books, including his most recent Nicaragua: A History of US Interventions and Resistance. He recently addressed the UN Security Council on the conflict in Ukraine.

(3)
WEBINAR: DROP THE F-35 DEAL: A DISCUSSION ON CANADA'S F-35 FIGHTER JET PURCHASE
Thursday, February 09, 2023
7:30-9:00 PM ET
Register: https://bit.ly/3Y9yx0D
Join Paul Maillet (Retired Canadian Air Force Colonel and CF18 Fleet Manager), James Leas (Save Our Skies VT), Danaka Katovich (CODEPINK), Brent Patterson (No Fighter Jets Coalition) and moderator Tamara Lorincz (VOW, WILPF) for a virtual panel and Q&A on Lockheed Martin's F-35 Fighter Jet and Canada's decision to buy them.
Paul Maillet is a retired air force colonel with 25 years as an aerospace engineering officer in the federal department of national defence (DND), and four years as the DND Director of Defence Ethics following the Somalia affair. He is also a former Green party candidate who managed the CF-18 fleet during his time in the military.
James Leas is an attorney and activist who has published on Truthout, Counterpunch, VTDigger, NY Times, LA Times, Vermont Law Review, & Vermont Bar Journal. He founded the F-35 news report, CancelF35.substack.com in 2020. He is currently running for City Council in South Burlington, Vermont featuring opposition to the F-35 training flights from the airport in that city. For more information about his campaign, https://jimmyleas.com.
Danaka Katovich is CODEPINK's National Co-Director. Danaka graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor's degree in Political Science in November 2020. Since 2018 she has been working towards ending US participation in the war in Yemen. At CODEPINK she works on youth outreach as a facilitator of the Peace Collective, CODEPINK's youth cohort that focuses on anti-imperialist education and divestment.

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WEBINAR: ONLINE DISCUSSION AND DOCUMENTARY "HAITI BETRAYED: #CANADA'S ROLE IN THE CURRENT CRISIS"
Thursday, Feb. 16 from 7:30-9:00 pm ET
Register: https://bit.ly/3HWZoYe
Join us for a free online panel discussion with Elaine Briére, filmmaker of "Haiti Betrayed," and special Haitian-Canadian guests Jafrikayiti Jean Saint-Vil and Garry Auguste, who will discuss the current crisis in Haiti and Canada's role past and present. The event is being held to remember the coup orchestrated by Canada, France and the United States against the democratically elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004 and to demand accountability. It is also held to recognize Black History Month and to stand in solidarity with the Haitian people who continue to resist the ongoing neocolonial oppression and violence by Canada in their country.
You are encouraged to watch the film "Haiti Betrayed" before the panel discussion. The film is available for free at www.foreignpolicy.ca (passcode: BH1915).
Read Jafrikayiti Jean Saint-Vil's latest article "A Legacy of Canadian Intervention in Haiti, 20 Years On": https://nacla.org/legacy-canadian-intervention-haiti-20-years
Organized by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Canada and the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.

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WEBINAR: No to War, No to NATO: North American perspectives on Ukraine, Russia, and the Alliance
Sunday, February 19, 2023 * 12:00-1:30 PM ET
Register:  https://tinyurl.com/NoToNATOWebinar
For the last year, the war in Ukraine has been reflected daily in mainstream news, but remains an issue clouded by confusion. While events of the last year are front page news, there is little talk about the many years of NATO provocations, aggression and military buildup against Russia. More and more each day, NATO countries including Canada, the US, and England are fueling the war, funneling even more weapons into Ukraine. Join the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network for a webinar featuring speakers from Canada, the US, and Ukraine.

Join the conversation with:
Glenn Michalchuk: President of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians and Chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg.
Margaret Kimberly: Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report and author of the book Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents. In addition to being a Coordinating Committee member of Black Alliance for Peace,  she is an Administrative Committee member of the United National Antiwar Coalition, and the Board of Directors of the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation. She is also a board member of Consortium News and the editorial board of the International Manifesto Group.
Kevin MacKay: Kevin is a professor at Mohawk College in Hamilton. He researches, writes, and teaches on the subjects of civilization collapse, political transformation, and global systemic risk. In 2017 he published Radical Transformation: Oligarchy, Collapse, and the Crisis of Civilization with Between the Lines Books. He is currently working on a book entitled A New Ecological Politics, with Oregon State University Press. Kevin also serves as Vice President of the Mohawk faculty union, OPSEU Local 240.
Moderated by Janine Solanki: Vancouver-based activist and organizer with Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO), a member group of the Canada-Wide Peace & Justice Network.

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INTERNATIONAL WEEKEND OF ACTION "PEACE NOW! STOP THE WAR, STOP NATO"
February 23-26
Join us on the streets & at online events. Plan an action in your city.
In Canada: http://peaceandjusticenetwork.ca
In UK: http://stopwar.org.uk
In Europe: http://no-to-nato.org

SIGN THE PETITIONS:

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Please sign & share our parliamentary petition and to tell the Trudeau government to #DropTheF35Deal: https://bit.ly/3Jvrawb

(2)
PETITION: APPEAL FOR PEACE: End the war in Ukraine, the world wants peace.
Target: National governments, the Commission of the European Union, members of the European Parliament, UN Secretary General, further responsible persons in Europe, the USA and Canada, and the global interested public.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/appeal-for-peace/?link_id=2&can_id=7316a2de1fc97e6819232d16dcbf6da0&source=email-appeal-for-peace&email_referrer=email_1800976&email_subject=appeal-for-peace


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