On-Air Spring Membership Drive starts
April 9 to April 23
Listen to CFRO 102.7 FM throughout the member drive to hear special shows, local music and the radical grassroots programming that Co-op Radio is known for.
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Join in the fight against cancer
Text FIGHT to 45678 to make a $5.00 donation to the Canadian Cancer Society
www.daffodilday.ca
"It might look like a daffodil but it's actually a badge of courage"
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Take Incineration off the Table!
BC Victories and the Metro Vancouver Threat
We have some great news for you -- and we also really need your help!
- First two pieces of great news: the proposed hazardous waste incinerators that we’ve written about in the past in Kamloops and Christina Lake were both defeated in the last couple weeks by locals who voiced their concerns. Citizen action making a real difference!
- However, here in our region, Metro Vancouver’s proposal to build garbage incinerators (or as the industry likes to call them "waste to energy facilities") is entering a critical phase.
- Waste incinerators are one of the largest single sources of dioxin and other harmful toxins in Canada, and they emit more climate changing pollution per megawatt hour than a coal fired power plant. The real solution to our waste issues is strong Extended Producer Responsibility laws that limit wasteful packaging, as well as region-wide improvements to both recycling and composting.
- This Friday, April 9th is the date when the Metro Vancouver Board will vote on whether to send a waste plan based on incineration to the public for consultation, but we can take incineration off the table if we act now. We know garbage incinerators are a really bad idea and the public engagement process would be much better spent brainstorming solutions to reduce waste over all.
Here are 2 ways you can take action:
1.Send a message to every member of the Metro Vancouver board telling them how you feel about incineration. You can use this handy letter-writing tool or send an email directly to waste.incinerators@writewild.net for your message to be forwarded automatically on your behalf to every member of Metro Vancouver's Board.
2.Join other concerned community members and show up in person on Friday, April 9, 9 AM, 4330 Kingsway (two blocks north of the Patterson Skytrain station), in the second floor boardroom. Your presence will send a message to politicians that you care about the decision they are about to make.
If you’d like, bring your coffee mug and join me at Ethical Bean for a cup of coffee (located above the Millennium line entrance on the north end of the Broadway station) to thank them for changing their minds about a pilot project to have their bags incinerated.
Then we’ll be leaving from Broadway Skytrain station at 8:15 AM for Metro.
For more information visit www.wildernesscommittee.org/waste
- If you have any questions or would like to get more involved in this campaign please don't hesitate to contact me directly. If the thought of burning garbage makes your blood boil, we really could use your help at this critical time.
Ben West
ben@wildernesscommittee.org
Tel 604-683-8220
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Victoria Coalition Against Poverty
The Olympics are Over (But Poverty in BC is not)
Meet at: Ministry of Health (Pandora and Blanshard)
March to: Ministry of Housing and Social Development (Pandora and Quadra)
- Please join us in fighting back against cuts to social services in B.C. The event will include speakers, art, music and food. Come join in demanding affordable housing, livable incomes, and accessible, quality healthcare! Stand up for dignity and justice!
- The Victoria Coalition Against Poverty (VCAP) is a coalition of grassroots organizations that together are demanding an immediate end to poverty. Reach us at viccoalitionagainstpoverty@gmail.com
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Book Launch and Talk with Author Richard Becker PALESTINE, ISRAELAND THE US EMPIRE At Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings. St., Vancouver
Press Contact: Janine Solanki, MAWO Executive Committee member: 778.881.6156
- This special event will features guest speaker Richard Becker. He is a noted writer and commentator on Middle Eastaffairs. Becker has visited the Middle Easton numerous occasions. He led fact-finding delegations to Palestinein 2000 and 2002, during which he delivered medicine to Palestinian hospitals. Becker helped produce the video Palestine Fights for Freedom (2002) based on his experiences. He has been a featured speaker at political forums and conferences in the United Statesand across the world. Richard Becker is the Western Regional Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). ANSWER has organized mass protests of hundreds of thousands of people against the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanonand Palestinefrom mid-2002 to the present. This event is part of a US/Canada speaking tour with Becker's new book, “Palestine, Israeland the US Empire. Becker gives us the most sharply focused and penetrating analysis we have of the real dynamics at work in the continuing persecution of the Palestinian people. He calls for international unity among all people to end this tragic injustice. Hear his call and join in the struggle. Ramsey Clark, former U.S.attorney general, former litigation attorney for the Palestine Liberation Organization Official website for Palestine, Israeland the US Empire
http://www.pslweb.org
Sponsored by: SFU's Mobilization Against War & Occupation Club (MAWO-SFU) and the Simon Fraser Students Society (SFSS)
Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) 604.322.1764 | info@mawovancouver.org
