Dear peaceables,
New Year’s Eve seems like pretty good timing for my last digest of the year. I’m putting it together at Pearson Airport as I await my flight to Chile for the first International Training Course on Popular Education in Health, being piloted by Educación Popular en Salud.
This digest is dedicated to the memory of Terri Jackman, who died in November after an all too short life as a tireless fighter for human rights and an example of compassion and solidarity. My heart goes out to Terri’s family and many friends who loved and will miss her.
My wish for 2010 is that everyone who ever thought of taking an action for change would actually do it. Just imagine!
A happy and peaceful new year to you all,
Chris
Generation Five is an ambitious program that links child sexual abuse to systems of oppression and aims to end it in five generations.
The Maquila Solidarity Network supports the efforts of workers in global supply chains to win improved wages and working conditions and a better quality of life.
The US Chamber of Commerce is suing young activists who staged a satirical press conference about the Chamber finally helping to stop climate change. Avaaz.org is fundraising for the activists legal defence.
Support the Refuser Solidarity Network.
The ballooning defence budget dwarfs Canadian spending on the environment.
Lots of interest at the site of Grass Roots Feminism. See especially the report on the Civil Media Conference 2009.
The Nonviolent Peaceforce has a new web site.
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love; in fact, it is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
- Ernesto Che Guevara
David Swanson: Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech was “an infomercial for war.”
George Monbiot – is Canada the new Saudi Arabia?
Murray Dobbin on “The Ugly Canadian.”
Charlie Veitch explains why he makes his videos.
James Laxer on the underlying cause of the financial crash: inequality.
Anne Landman: Lessons learned from tobacco control should be applied to climate policy.
Every year Tides Canada recognizes the top ten organizations demonstrating “leadership, vision and real-world impact”. Here is the list for 2009.
Daniela Perdomo: “ Monopoly capitalism is the root of all of America’s problems.