[KWPeace-groups] Upcoming events for a Ceasefire in Gaza & Teach-in on Palestine in Waterloo & More upcoming events for peace, climate & social justice plus resources

Tue Jan 23 09:27:56 EST 2024

Hello KW Peace,

Please find below a long list of upcoming events for a Ceasefire & Palestine in Waterloo and more upcoming events for peace, climate & social justice plus resources at the bottom.

The petition was only for Waterloo residents and it surpassed the 500 mark - thanks for your support.

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THIS WEDNESDAY! The Palestinian Youth Movement is excited to announce our collaboration with UW Voices for Palestine for the first teach in of the semester!

Join us to learn about the joint history of Palestinians and Indigenous resistance in their struggle for liberation against settler colonialism and genocide.

"From Solidarity to Joint Struggle: Indigenous Palestinian Teach-In"

EVENT DATE AND TIME: Wednesday January 24th from 6-9PM

LOCATION: University of Waterloo (TBA)

Register for the event using the link below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9_mirBEkIgWqL1v0Rr7eHigBwonT8E7aH0vYsosTKUOCo0Q/viewform

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

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THIS SATURDAY! DAY OF ACTION WATERLOO UNITED FOR PALESTINE

It's time to end Liberal complicity! Make your voice heard and join your neighbourhood rally at MP Bardish Chagger's office.

Saturday, January 27 at 1 pm
Waterloo City Hall * 100 Regina St.

MP Bardish Chagger, we demand you tell Trudeau to:
* Call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire
* End Canada's weapons trade with Israel
* Advocate for an end to the siege on Gaza

Please wear masks and bring signs, Palestinian flags, and banners!
SIGN THE PETITION: "Waterloo Demands a Stop to Genocide in Gaza! Real Ceasefire Now!": bit.ly/PetitionBardish<http://bit.ly/PetitionBardish>

MORE UPCOMING EVENTS
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WEBINAR: NATO/Militarism in Africa - Women Speak Out
Tue January 23, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
NATO expands into Africa as US bullies the continent into more militarism.
Register: https://masspeaceaction.org/event/nato-militarism-in-the-africa-women-speak-out/
Since the end of the last century with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of the Soviet Union, NATO is on the move. Its "out of area" military operation in Afghanistan in 2011, lasted for 20 years. Since 1994 the African counties Algeria, Egypt, Mauretania, Morocco and Tunisia are together with Israel and Jordan in the NATO partnership program Mediterranean Dialog (MD) NATO. Thus began a "Global NATO," project to use the NATO military alliance beyond its own charter obligations from the South China Sea to the Caribbean Sea forwarded to Australia.
Africa's long anti-colonial  history with its giant leaps forward with infrastructure and development are now being challenged by the re-entry of NATO and its ensuing military infrastructure throughout the continent.  Global Women for Peace/ United Against NATO (GWUAN) and MAPA present the first in a series of webinars on the terrible cost of militarism around the world.  Women from Africa will share their experience and concerns about these military developments in their societies, countries and the continent.
Speakers:
- Cyrille Rolande Bechon - Nouveaux Droits de l'Homme Cameroun, IPB Council member - Cameroun
- Phakamile Hlubi-Majola (short Pax), spokesperson for the South African Union NUMSA (MetalWorkers), works closely with the Pan African Secretariat of the IPA - South Africa
More info: https://masspeaceaction.org/event/nato-militarism-in-the-africa-women-speak-out/

NOTE: "Canadian special forces to again train African troops despite concerns about such soldiers previously overthrowing civilian governments": https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-special-forces-to-again-train-african-troops-despite-concerns-about-such-soldiers-previously-overthrowing-civilian-governments

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WEBINAR: From Terror to Transformation: Can the Violence in Palestine-Israel
Thursday, January 25, 2024 06:30 PM in
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ic5zvxwrSSCLORGMO9CVEw#/registration
Organized by Breaking the Silence

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WEBINAR: The Ongoing Nakba: the Impact of 75 years of No Accountability
Thu January 25 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
Register: https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-ongoing-nakba-the-impact-of-75-years-of-no-accountability/
We are seeing this catastrophe unfold in front of our eyes:
Hundreds of thousands of Gazan civilians are fleeing to southern Gaza, which continues to be attacked.  Hospitals and schools have been bombed, and hundreds of health care workers have been killed.  Thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in tents in squalid areas, with little food or water, increasing disease with little to no medical care.
As our speaker, Jehad Abusalim, said in a recent tweet, "This is 1948 all over again, on a much larger and more brutal scale... This is the result of 75 years of zero accountability and complete impunity for this savage state. This is the result of normalizing anti-Palestinian hate and racism."
Jehad will talk about the current situation in Gaza and the complexities of helping his own displaced family in Gaza and his analysis of "the ongoing Nakba".
Jehad Abusalim is the Executive Director of The Jerusalem Fund and its educational program, The Palestine Center.  He was formerly the Education and Policy Coordinator American Friends Service Committee and a Fellow at the Foundation For Middle East Peace.  Jehad earned a PhD in Hebrew and Judaic Studies/History from NYU, and is the editor of Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, an anthology of Palestinian writers and artists,  published by Haymarket Books in 2022. He has been published in +972 Magazine, Al-Jazeera English, Palestine Square, Journal of Palestine Studies, and Vox, and contributed to the anthology Gaza as Metaphor with a chapter entitled "From Fence to Fence: Retelling Gaza's Story." Jehad's family continues to live in Gaza.

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WEBINAR: War in Gaza: How Al-Aqsa Flood Changed the World
This webinar will take place on Sunday January 28, 2024.
8 am CST (Winnipeg); 9 am EST (New York); 2 p.m GMT (London); 7:30 pm IST (New Delhi) & 10 pm CST (Beijing). This event explores how the launching of Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October 2023 has geopolitical dimensions that have changed the world.
Organized by the International Manifesto Group: https://19999b-73e.icpage.net/war-in-gaza-webinar?sId=58950320&sKey=CHD9&mId=241566

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WEBINAR: Just Transition Guide Fireside Chat with David Suzuki & Melina Laboucan-Massimo
When: Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 4 - 5:30 p.m. PT / 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
Where: Virtual (join from anywhere with an internet connection) Register here: http://tinyurl.com/mh664eda
Join us for a fireside chat between two of Turtle Island's most prominent environmental activists on climate change and Indigenous leadership!
This virtual event follows November's official launch of the "Just Transition Guide," a project led by Melina Laboucan-Massimo, in collaboration with Sacred Earth Solar, Indigenous Climate Action, the David Suzuki Foundation, Power to the People and RealWorld Media. The guide explores Indigenous-led pathways toward equitable climate solutions and resiliency in the climate crisis.
View the full guide here:
https://sacredearth.solar/just-transition-guide

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WEBINAR: War and Climate Change
A UNAC webinar
February 2, 2024, 12 noon EST
Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yBL5YUX9QjSLKIvXMlpPuw#/registration
Speakers: Lisa Savage, Maine Natural Guard * Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Tamara Lorincz, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace & Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Pippa Bartolotti, UNAC & Women United for peace Against NATO
As wars proliferate, and the planet becomes more polluted and less safe, C02 in the atmosphere is now the highest it has been for 14 million years.
A report from the Institute for Policy Studies calculates that the cost of U.S. militarization in the last 20 years is a staggering $21 trillion. Estimates calculate the total cost of shifting to 100% renewable energy over 10 years would be a fraction of this - $4.5 trillion.
We have reached a point where the US and many governments see climate change only as a security issue. Instead of working to make our lives tolerable under climate change, spending is diverted to the military and the security apparatus is strengthened.
The US military is the world's biggest climate change enabler.
Join us for this important webinar
Organized by United Antiwar Coalition: https://www.unacpeace.org/

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WEBINAR SERIES: Neutrality in the 21st Century and Why It Remains Relevant
Organized by the International Peace Bureau
February 5, 12, 19, 26
Register and more info: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtc-mhqjojHdyjJOlcrSHVO6fIVqyMgBbH#/registration

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FYI: WORLD SOCIAL FORUM IN NEPAL in February 2024
https://join.wsforum.net/

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UNITED ANTIWAR COALITION (UNAC) CONFERENCE
Decolonization and the fight against Imperialism
A conference for the entire movement
Saint Paul, MN, USA, April 5-7, 2024
Organized by United Antiwar Coalition: https://www.unacpeace.org/

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FYI: Summit and Rally: No to NATO, Yes to Peace
Start: Saturday, July 06, 2024*10:00 AM
End: Sunday, July 07, 2024* 4:00 PM
Converge on the capital to oppose NATO!
Washington DC* 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500 US

*75 Years is Enough! Abolish the North Atlantic Treaty Organiztion (NATO).
Get involved with the No to War, No to NATO Network: https://www.no-to-nato.org/
Women Against NATO: https://womenagainstnato.org/

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TAKE ACTION: Please sign the parliamentary e-petition for an arms embargo against Israel: https://www.cjpme.org/arms_embargo_israel?utm_campaign=em_2024_01_04_arms_embargo&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cjpme

TAKE ACTION: Hunger Strike for Gaza sign up for a day: https://www.gazastarving.com

Please sign & share: Tell Canada: Support South Africa's ICJ case, stop genocide in Gaza!
https://www.cjpme.org/support_icj_case

*Please consider putting a candle, flag for Palestine, sign "ceasefire now" on our door or window. Please contact the Prime Minister to tell him to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine: pm at pm.gc.ca<mailto:pm at pm.gc.ca>

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READ article: "How the China panic in Canada was engineered by the Five Eyes and the Canadian security intelligence service": https://johnmenadue.com/how-the-china-panic-in-canada-was-engineered-by-the-five-eyes-and-the-canadian-security-intelligence-service/
Full Report "The Five Eyes and Canada's 'China Panic': A Threat to Diplomacy, Research & Peace in the Pacific?" by Dr. John Price
https://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/capi/assets/docs/capi-publications/price--china-panic.pdf
*China is not our enemy!

RESOURCES:
This past week, the G77 + China had their 3rd Summit in Kampala, Uganda, please see UN Secretary General's remarks about this important meeting: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2024-01-21/secretary-generals-remarks-the-third-south-summit-g77-plus-china-delivered AND official site: https://3southsummit.ug/ AND ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/g77summit_ug

*The Non-Aligned Movement also had their summit in Uganda "Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Affluence", please see: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3249189/how-non-aligned-movement-fits-chinas-global-geopolitical-ambitions AND https://www.africa.com/uganda-non-aligned-movement-nam-g77-summits-to-boost-tourism/ ON TWITTER: #NAMSummitUg2024

Russian Foreign Minister gave an important 3 hour press conference, I encourage you to listen to the first 30 minutes about what he says about the West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9shBC6GwlKk (we never get the Russian perspective)

Please retweet Toronto peace pictures: https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1748896887921315915

Please retweet Hamilton peace rally pictures: https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1748893347538706649

Check this out and mark your calendars! No to NATO, Yes to Peace in Washington DC from July 6-7, 2024: https://nonatoyespeace.org/

Tamara

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