January 2020 archive

DINE WITH CAPS at MARY STREET CENTRE! Feb 1, from 6:00-7:30

Chili Dinner is free! Donations to Terry Christenson’s GoFundMe legal campaign are welcome. A short video of Terry’s arrest will be shown (beginning with his climb over a 10′ barbed-wire fence onto Kinder Morgan tank farm); Terry’s brother Ken will perform one of Terry’s songs; then there will be a panel-discussion on the question: “Are …

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FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE CALENDAR

Updated Jan. 19 open link here: https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/calendar

A MESSAGE FROM CAPS FOUNDING ELDER

Open link to Frank’s letter to the editor below: https://www.parrysound.com/opinion-story/9793690-we-are-living-a-real-life-tragedy-with-climate-change-says-parry-sound-reader/

IN 2030 WE ENDED THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY. HERE’S HOW.

[PLEASE NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN CONDENSED TO ONE HALF OF ITS ORIGINAL LENGTH FOR PERFORMANCE PURPOSES BY CLIMATE ACTION PARRY SOUND] If words make worlds, then we urgently need to tell a new story about the climate crisis. Here is one vision of what it could look and feel like to radically, collectively take …

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NEW YEAR, NEW DECADE, CLIMATE WALK

A very big thank-you and miigwetch to everyone who showed up to bring in the new year and new DECADE OF RECLAIMING THE FUTURE yesterday, and especially to Matt McDonald for his powerful singing, and to Emily Bell for her excellent help in reading Eric Holthaus’: ‘In 2030 we Ended the Climate Emergency. Here’s How’!

FUZZY NEW YEAR PLANNING MEETING

We had a great meeting at the Boston tonight! (And we will try to meet once per month.) Here is the text of what I have posted on the Climate Action Parry Sound FB page:Climate Action Parry Sound is making a New Year’s Resolution to make 2020 the beginning of “The Decade of Reclaiming the …

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CHRISTMAS WITH TANYA (ANN COGNITO)

Judy and I had a chance to visit with Tanya Bucknor at her “Walk to Waken the Nation” camp in front of the parliament buildings in Ottawa on Christmas day. She normally has lots of company, but this was her quiet Christmas feast. Yesterday Tanya, and others from Extinction Rebellion Ottawa, had a little visit …

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THE ‘DECADE OF RECLAIMING THE FUTURE’ STARTS NOW!

We are taught to think of humans first. When we look at this photo we see a human tragedy unfolding due to a ‘climate emergency’ that threatens ‘the world as we know it’. In this New Year, the first of a decade during which the science tells us we have a last chance to mitigate ecological …

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