Dear KWIC members and friends,
please find a May/early June community events listings with other
information and action items following.
For more event listings and details, please visit the Community
Calender at www.kwic.info. If you'd like to have your name removed from
our mailing list, please send an email to k...@trentu.ca.

The Seasoned Spoon, Trent's only (and very tasty) cooperative cafe has
new spring/summer hours and is now open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
Tuesdays, Wednesday's and Thursdays!

And don't forget to come out to the Annual Gilmour Street Yard Sale on
Saturday May 23rd. Look for the KWIC Table at 543 Gilmour Street and
support community global education by purchasing a plant, a cup of fair
trade coffee, something sweet. We will also be selling Zatoun Fair Trade
Olive Oil, soap, and Za'atar from Palestine! So come by and say hello!

Enjoy the sunshine! And many thanks to Courtney Ferren from PCVS who
updated the calendar and compiled this listing. Our next community
listing will be sent out in September.

May-June Community Events

1.May 1st: Shifting Gears Campaign
2.May 13th: Silent Auction and Fun Fair
3.May 16th: Jamaican Self Help Plant Sale
4.May 20th: May Green Drinks
5.May 21st: Taking It Global
6.May 23rd: KWIC Green Thumb Plant Fundraising Sale
7.May 30th: 108 Salutations For The Earth
8.June 13th: Car Wash and Fun Fair
9.June 17th: Ode’min Giizis - Strawberry Moon Festival
10.Other Community Information and Action Items
a) Showplace Volunteers
b) Dalai Lama Honours 49 Compassionate Heroes
c) Peterborough Airport Contamination (Deadline May 13th!)
d) Liberal Nuclear Disarmament
e) Stop Canadian Air Strikes
f) Green Energy = Green Jobs
g) Ottawa Arms Bazaar
h) Reminders/Notes

1. May 1st: Shifting Gears Campaign
How can you have fun, win great prizes, and get yourself and the planet
in shape? By Shifting Gears! Shifting Gears is a month-long commuter
challenge, encouraging people to try fun, healthy and sustainable
transportation to get to work. Instead of driving alone in May, try
walking, cycling, transit or carpooling. Keep track of your progress
online (or use the paper tracking sheet) and you'll be entered into
weekly draws for awesome prizes, based on your level of participation.
Last year, 52 Trent staff walked, biked, bussed or carpooled to work,
saving 1289 kg of CO2! Let’s see how much we can save this year!
Spread the word and sign up today! It’s easy to do at the Peterborough
Moves website. You can register, track your trips, download a Shifting
Gears poster, or find out about prizes and upcoming events:
www.peterboroughmoves.com
Prizes!
Weekly Draws:
o May 11: Pizza Lunch for up to 20 people at your workplace
o May 18: Dinner for two at Rare Steak House
o May 25: Dinner for two at the Parkhill on Hunter
o June 1: $150 gift card to Wild Rock Outfitters
Grand Prize Draw for all participants:
o Ontario Resort Gift Package (valued at $750)
Free Shower and Change-Room Service!
The Trent Athletics Centre has kindly offered morning towel and shower
service along with the use of their change-rooms before and after work
for those participating in Shifting Gears. See Jill in Athletics for a
special pass for the month of May. Need help? You can get your bike
tuned up at one of Wild Rock Outfitters’ Bike Check-ups, May 15, 22,
29, 7:30 am - 9:00 am, at Confederation Park. Or if you’re walking,
stop by the Walking Energizer Station at the Peterborough Regional
Health Centre, from 7:30-9 a.m. on May 13, for refreshments on your way
to work! As in previous years, Trent is also aiming to host a
fundraising BBQ and bike tune-up in mid-May (details to follow).
How do I sign up?
Register and track yourself online as a Trent staff member at
http://www.peterboroughmoves.com/shifting-gears-registration or
contact Richard Morgan, your Shifting Gears Coordinator at Trent, to
have a tracking sheet sent to you.
After the challenge is over, return your tracking card (Internal Mail
to Richard Morgan, Development Office, Mackenzie House) by June 4 to
have your results entered in the grand draw! To read more about the
Shifting Gears Workplace Challenge, please visit
www.peterboroughmoves.com

2. May 13th: Silent Auction and Fun Fair
Prince of Wales Elementary School invites everyone to participate in a
fundraising silent auction and fun fair. Games, dunk tank, food and fun
for the whole family! Free Admission. Located at 1211 Monaghan Rd at
Sherbrooke Street. For more information please contact Prince of Wales
at (705)750-0126

3. May 16th: Jamaican Self Help Plant Sale
Please come by for the JSH Plant Sale on Saturday May 16th from 9am -
Noon at 170 Morrow Street (Just near the Market)! Also, if you have any
plants to share - please contact JSH at (705)743-1671 for details.
All proceeds for JSH programmes in Jamaica and Canada.

4. May 20th: May Green Drinks
Next Green Drinks meeting will be Wednesday May 20th at Riley’s on
George St. (just North of Sherbrooke). It will be held in the back room
or rooftop deck depending on the weather. Please come join us, all are
welcome, anytime after 5pm. Visit
http://www.greendrinks.org/index.php?country=Canada&city=Peterborough...

or www.greendrinks.org

5. May 21st: Taking IT Global
TakingITGlobal is partnering with the International Labour Organization
to  promote intercultural dialogue as a tool to ignite change on the
issue of  Child Labour. This month-long event will occur offline,
through local  discussions among youth in their communities, and online,
on the  TakingITGlobal website where youth all around the world will
have the unique  opportunity to reflect on what they dialogued
artistically to be submitted and featured in our Global Gallery. We are
asking likeminded persons and  organizations within our global community
to spread the word on this event  by copying and pasting the text below
and forwarding it to your list serves, sharing it within your wider
networks, and even writing about it in your blogs!
This May, take action on the change you want to see! In honour of World
Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development on May 21st,
TakingITGlobal is calling on youth to come together online and in their
communities to engage in a dialogue of change. This year's dialogue
focuses on Child Labour and the many different ways that youth
everywhere can make a difference. Youth are encouraged to reflect on
what they have learned during this event by submitting their personal
artistic expression on the issue of child labour to our Global Gallery
(http://www.tigweb.org/express/gallery)! To find out more about how
you can participate in this event please check out our event page at,
http://projects.tigweb.org/dialoguechange

6. May 23rd: KWIC Green Thumb Plant Fundraising Sale
At the Gilmour Street Yard Sale: Find KWIC at 543 Gilmour Street for a
mug of fair trade coffee, home-baked goods and a variety of plants and
herbs. Donations of plants also welcome (please drop them off at 543
Gilmour)! Proceeds support local global education.

7. May 30th: 108 Sun Salutations For The Earth
Charitable Event for the Ecology Park and Transition Town Peterborough
at Ecology Park on Saturday May 30th from 1:00pm - 4:00pm.
Earth Rights Rock! Show your support by coming down. All yoga
enthusiasts of all levels are invited to join! Brooke, Carolyn, and Tina
are to dance through 9 sets of 12 Sun Salutations.
For more information and pledge form please contact Transition Town
Peterborough at
(705)932-7592
Together we can!

8. June 13th: Car Wash and Fun Fair
Prince of Wales Elementary School invites everyone to support a Car
Wash & Yard Sale in the school parking lot. Great stuff for great
prices! Clean and friendly service! All proceeds support school
activities. 1211 Monaghan Rd at Sherbrooke Street.

9. June 17th: Ode’min Giizis - Strawberry Moon Festival
Everyone Welcome! Events will take place at various downtown businesses
and venues, and will be co-presented by local arts organizations in a
spirit of creativity, unity and the sweetness of the strawberry.
Giizis (strawberry moon) is the sixth moon of the Anishnaabe calendar.
It marks the beginning of summer, the longest day of the year and the
harvest of the strawberry in June. The root word of ode'min is ode,
which signifies the 'heart' in Anishnaabe language. As the strawberry
resembles the shape and colour of the human heart it also represents the
sweetness and kindest of emotions that bring people together to feast
and exchange ideas.
June 7 to July 4:
VISUAL ART EXHIBITION
Curated by William Kingfisher, featuring regional Anishnaabe artists at
the Art Gallery of Peterborough, Black Honey, Kubo, Blue Tomato,
Catalina, and The Sapphire Room.
June 18th:
Putting the WILD back into the West with Belle Savage & Buffalo Bill
Performance and installation with Saskatoon performance artist Lori
Blondeau and Vancouver’s Adrian Stimson. Looped film screenings of
Kent Monkman's 'Shooting Geronimo', 'Group of Seven Inches', and
'Robin's Hood' at Artspace.
June 19th:
Concert with Peterborough Native Sarah DeCarlo, Yellow Thunder Woman
(L.A.), Keith Secola and His Wild Band of Indians (Arizona) at The
Market Hall.
June 20th:
A Reading of his work in cabaret form. Tomson Highway on piano with
singer Patty Cano. An evening performance of 14 songs from two of Mr
Highway's own musical plays, 'The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane
Mosquito' and 'Rose' at The Market Hall.
June 21st:
Ode'min Giizis Traditional Gathering. Storytellers, drummers, world
champion hoop dancers, regional cuisine, art vendors and 30-foot
performance tipi. A community procession is planned for noon from
Peterborough City Hall to Del Crary Park for grand entry around the drum
at Del Crary Park.
June 22nd:
Film Screenings: 'Canary Effect' by Yellow Thunder Woman and more...at
the Art Gallery of Peterborough.
June 23rd:
An Intimate Evening With Buffy Sainte Marie. Conversation with the
multimedia artist, activist, Academy Award winner, singer songwriter at
The Market Hall.
June 24th:
Concert with Buffy Sainte Marie. With NYC-based a cappella trio Ulali.
In partnership with The Peterborough Festival of Lights at Del Crary
Park.

10. Other Community Information and Action Items
a) Showplace Volunteer
Showplace is currently looking for/accepting volunteer applicants. For
more information or an applicant form please visit Showplace at 290
George St North.
b) Dalai Lama Honours 49 Compassionate Heroes
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be the honoured guest at a luncheon at
the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, April
26, 2009. His Holiness will acknowledge and thank the 49 highly
compassionate individuals who are the honourees of the Unsung Heroes of
Compassion 2009 event. The honorees-25 women and 24 men range in age
from 12 to 77, hail from 13 countries, and come from a variety of
ethnicities, cultures, religions and backgrounds. Gathered from the far
corners of the earth, each demonstrates the timeless and universal human
goodness celebrated by every wise culture.
c) Peterborough Airport Contamination (Deadline May 13th!)
The Peterborough Airport is contaminated with radioactive tritium. With
the plan to spend $37 million to expand the airport it is important that
steps be taken now to clean this up before it gets worse. You wouldn't
expect to find this level of tritium contamination on the doorstep of a
large nuclear generating station. It is unacceptable that visitors and
employees at the Peterborough Airport are and will be unknowingly
exposed to tritium. Every and all exposures to radioactive tritium
increase the risk of genetic mutation, birth defects and cancer.
Members of the public, as well as Peterborough City and County Councils
have an opportunity to be heard on this matter. The Canadian Nuclear
Safety Commission (CNSC) is currently reviewing the operating licence
for Shield Source Inc.  The public has until May 13th to make a written
submission to the CNSC.
d) Liberal Nuclear Disarmament
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF, the ambitious leader of the Liberal Party, has
announced:
The very clearly stated intention of President Obama to reduce the U.S.
nuclear arsenal and to work with other nations, perhaps finally to
eliminate nuclear weaponry provides the unique opportunity for Canada to
set itself firmly on the side of nuclear abolition, and for Ignatieff to
make a dramatic advance over his Conservative rival.
It is urgent for us to immediately seize this opportunity and urge
Ignatieff and his cohorts to place this issue front and centre in the
liberal platform. We should do this forthwith, collectively as groups
and as individual voters.
Michael Ignatieff can be reached as follows:
Ignatief...@parl.gc.ca
Phone:  613 995 9364
e) Stop Canadian Air Strikes
The military is engaging in a lobbying campaign to have a squadron of
our CF-18 Hornet fighter bombers deployed to Afghanistan. The planes
would be used to attack suspected insurgents and to fight with Canadian
and U.S. troops engaged in search and destroy missions. But they will
also kill untold numbers of Afghan civilians in these attacks.
The deployment of CF-18 fighter bombers would be a major increase in
our combat role in Afghanistan, and should be opposed by Canadians.
Please send your letter to Prime Minister Harper right away at
http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=43362268&msgid=568467&act=I...

Canadian warplanes should never be part of these deadly bombing and
strafing runs in Afghanistan. How many deaths of innocent Afghans would
be on our hands?
f) Green Energy = Green Jobs
Ontario could create up to 90,000 jobs with investments in green energy
and to upgrade the electricity grid, according to a report commissioned
by the Green Energy Act Alliance, WWF-Canada, and Blue Green Canada.
Continuing Reading at:
http://www.greenenergyact.ca/EbulletinLink.asp?MailingID=55376&LinkID...

g) Ottawa Arms Bazaar
Trucks will roll into Lansdowne Park in three weeks, ready to unload
their cargoes of shiny new products for the big trade show. The
products, innovative marvels of fine engineering, will be displayed,
demonstrated and (their manufacturers hope) bought.
Then, at an unknown point down the road in a place comfortably distant
from Ottawa, some of these gadgets, gizmos and gleaming implements will
be used to do precisely what they were designed to do. Some shiny new
bit of high-tech efficiency, exhibited so effectively over two peaceful
weekdays in May on a site by the quiet Rideau River to buyers strolling
the aisles, morning coffees in hand ¬ this shiny new purchase will help
to shred flesh, blow off human limbs, wipe out innocent lives, create
indescribable depths of grief and add to the world’s sum total of
hatred.
Outraged peace activists and religious groups have been campaigning
energetically against the show, but their petitions and demonstrations
will likely meet with the same success people of good will everywhere
usually achieve in the face of big swagger and big bucks. That is to
say, nada.
The outrage has to be more widespread. Maybe it would be, if the
average citizen knew that CADSI, according to its own website,
represents 700 Canadian-based member companies generating $10 billion
annually in military and security sales ¬ half of which is exported. Or
that “they also sell an additional $20 billion of their world class
technology-based product and service solutions to commercial customers
at home and abroad.”
To read the full report please visit
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Breaking+faith/1554202/story.html

h) Reminders/Notes:
∙ May 17th is International Homophobia Day, for more information please
visit www.homophobiaday.org

∙ May is “Asian Heritage Month”, show your support and
appreciation!

∙ The Community and Race Relations Committee is currently hiring a
Community Outreach and Publicity Assistant and the application deadline
is May 22nd at 5pm, contact/apply via e-mail at racerelat...@gmail.com

Julie Cosgrove, Coordinator Kawartha World
Issues Centre
Phone: 705-748-1680
Email: k...@trentu.ca
Website & Community Calendar: k...@trentu.ca

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The Kawartha World Issues Centre is a charitable global education and
resource centre which promotes understanding and dialogue of world
issues to enable people to engage in positive social and environmental
change.