Newsletters, articles and events for Kitchener-Waterloo's Peace and Social Justice activists
There will be vendors of homemade goods, information tables for community groups, music in the gazebo, food, and games for kids (with prizes!).
Join us for this celebration of Diversity, Peace, and Social Justice, held yearly since 2005!
If you’re on Facebook let us know you’re going!
The Nonviolence Festival is one of many Peace and Social Justice organizations in the KW Peace Collective.
Who: Nonviolence Festival
What: 9th Annual Day In The Park
When: Noon to 5:00pm, Saturday, 13 July 2013
Where: Victoria Park Island [map]
Read more, or request a table for your group, at http://www.nonviolencefestival.com/
From Eleanor Grant’s newsletter:
And looking ahead:
MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL
Sat June 22 and Sun June 23
Victoria Park map 1
more at:
http://www.kwmc.on.ca/content/multicultural-festivalNonviolence Festival’s 9th annual
DAY IN THE PARKSat July 13 from noon to 5
on Victoria Park Island map 2
Read more, or request a table for your group, at
http://www.nonviolencefestival.com/* * * * * * * * * * *
Thanks to all the good folks who are working to organize these events.
Eleanor Grant writes a semi-regular e-mail newsletter on social justice issues. You can contact Eleanor at eleanor7000@gmail.com
It seems the tri-Pride Week started today:
tri-Pride is the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer) Pride Festival celebration in Cambridge, Kitchener & Waterloo, Ontario. Join us this year May 22-June 2 for tri-Pride Week, including the tri-Pride Live Music Festival on Saturday June 1 at Kitchener Civic Square, King Street & Victoria Park’s Clock Tower.
What: tri-Pride Live Music Festival
When: 22 May to 2 June, 2013
Where: Kitchener Civic Square map1, Victoria Park Clock Tower map2
Also: Saturday, 1 June 2103 from 12:00noon to 8:00pm iCal
Register: Eventbrite: tri-Pride Live Music Festival
Eleanor Grant writes:
Hello Friends –
Please take a moment to sign the appeal below from IndustriALL global union.
It calls on Bangladesh to guarantee freedom of association (including the right to unionize), and improve building and fire safety and the minimum wage for the more than 3 million garment workers in Bangladesh. (According to Global Labour and Human Rights, the starting wage in these awful garment factories is 14 cents an hour, and many women work more than 12-hour days. Read more at http://www.globallabourrights.org/ )
And meanwhile, consider joining in the annual Labour Day of Mourning to commemorate workers who’ve been killed or injured or made ill on the job. SUNDAY APRIL 28, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Victoria Park at the workers’ monument – between the pavilion and the river. Hosted by Waterloo Regional Labour Council. All are welcome.
Eleanor Grant
Visit the IndustriALL Web Site or the IndustriALL Facebook page.
Eleanor Grant writes a semi-regular e-mail newsletter on social justice issues. You can contact Eleanor at eleanor7000@gmail.com
Sunday, 28 April 2013, 10:30am: LABOUR DAY OF MOURNING
Victoria Park, between the Pavilion and the river (map).
This annual event commemorates those killed or injured on the job.
According to the Ministry of Labour, “every day in Ontario, an average of nearly 50 young workers under age 25 are injured or killed on the job”. Eroding labour standards are a huge issue, that’s not getting nearly enough attention.