Important Community Events & KWIC Participation

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Dear KWIC volunteers,

Below are a couple of community events in which you might wish to participate ~ and to represent KWIC in these important discussions.

 

1. Sunday, December 5th, 1-5 pm

Code Blue: Planet Earth People's Assembly on Climate Justice

St. John's Anglican Church

Everyone Welcome.

 

From the Council of Canadians:
If you haven’t checked out the updated webpage with our new resources yet, including a map of assemblies, check it out: www.canadians.org/assemblies.

New outreach video to help encourage people to join People’s Assemblies: We’ve put together a short video encouraging people to get involved in People’s Assemblies on Climate Justice. We are encouraging people involved in assembly organizing to use it (link to it in emails, on facebook pages and more) to help promote attendance to their communities assembly.  I encourage all of you to watch it, you can find it at: www.canadians.org/assemblies. You can also find it on youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk7Yvg48dxw

 

2. Human Rights Day Event - Dec. 9th, 7- 9pm,  Peterborough Public Library
What is the history of the land we walk? Who are the Local Indigenous People?
with Doug Williams, Director of Studies for the PhD program in Indigenous Studies at Trent University.He is a member of the Pike Clan of the Mississaugas of Curve Lake First Nation, and was raised in the language and culture of his people Doug is proud to work to ensure that Indigenous Knowledge is maintained within community.

Sponsored by The YWCA of Peterborough, Victoria & Haliburton
and The Unitarian Fellowship of Peterborough

 

KWIC has been invited to participate and set up an information table. If you can help out by participating in the event, setting up or taking down, please let Julie know!

 

Many thanks! julie

 

 

Julie Cosgrove, Coordinator Kawartha World Issues Centre

Phone: 705-748-1680

Email: kw...@trentu.ca

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