Last monday's meeting

[Ashley Fehr]

Hi everyone,

So at last Monday's meeting I reported that we ended up collecting about 200 signatures on petitions calling for a public federal G20 inquiry.

Unfortunately, even with all of the rallies across the country, even with the support of the CCLA, Amnesty and many more strong voices, we haven't seen anything happen. yet.

I'm going to send some e-mails and make some phone calls around to see what more we can do. I don't feel as though we're done, though the issue is quickly being swept to the side. I'm not happy until we have an inquiry.

If nothing else we would like to encourage everyone to send e-mails to their MPs, to make phone calls, to write letters, to do what they feel is effective, to still call for the inquiry. Expect an e-mail hopefully tomorrow (we're just organizing some links for the e-mail) to ask you to do this. It will go out to the larger e-mail list.

On a semi-related note, we also discussed having a dialogue in about a week and a half. This dialogue will be extremely small. It is an invitation from some CAPP organizers to a few black block organizers. It is a follow up to an invitation they suggested during the July 17 rally that we discuss our different tactics and we discuss how to work together (if we want to work together).

This is to be dealt with extreme caution and we want to keep this as quiet as possible, for the integrity of the discussion. if you'd like to discuss having this dialogue further, I encourage you to come to the next CAPP meeting on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 7:00 pm, still at VCC Broadway Campus. Please e-mail me with any concerns or comments you have.

In the meantime, please keep hope strong and the will alive. There is a lot going on in the world, but I still feel strongly that we need to ensure something is done to look into why our human rights were violated. 

With hope,

Ashley

[Shari Laliberte]

Hello,

Was just reminded by a friend of mine- that the Under the Volcano fest
is coming up next weekend. Have just had a look and the due date for
applications to have a info booth at the fest is August 4th (Tuesday).
Can't remember if we decided to go ahead with this one?

Here is link and I'm attaching the application form (cost=25.00). Did
we decide if we're going to aim to have a presence there?

http://volcano.resist.ca/infofair.html

Shari

[Ashley Fehr]

Oh you're right! I think there was a will to do it. I, unfortunately, will be away. Do we have commitment from anyone to attend on behalf of CAPP? Let me know ASAP and I'll try to get the application done.

[Shari Laliberte]

I'm aiming to go anyways, so I could help...but perhaps we could talk about it tonight and decide together as we have until tomorrow to submit application...Shari

Shari Laliberte R.N., Ph.D. Student

School of Nursing

University of British Columbia

604-484-6014

*on leave from Assistant Professor position

School of Nursing, Thompson Rivers University

*BC Mental Health Foundation-CIHR INMHA Doctoral Research Training Award

2007-2010

[Masrour Zoghi]

I'd be happy to help out too. We can talk more about it today.


Masrour.