Water Updates
| Action alert! Nestlé Waters Canada Water Taking Permit |
The Swiss multinational Nestlé wants to extend its Permit to Take Water with the Ontario Provincial Government. The company currently has permission from the Province of Ontario to take 3.6 million litres of water from an aquifer near Guelph to bottle its Pure Life Brand of bottled water. It is now asking the province to extend this permit for 10 years!!!!!!!!!
We need your help to stop this from happening. Please send your comments to the Ontario Provincial Government from this link.
Provide your own comments or copy and paste the following sample
(adapted from the Wellington Water Watchers Submission)
| Join us for Bottled Water Free Day 2011!! Submit your Events! |
On March 10 2011, communities across Canada will be mobilizing to take action to ban the bottle and reclaim public water.
We’re contacting you to join the Canadian Federation of Students, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the Sierra Youth Coalition, Development & Peace and the Polaris Institute in the countdown to Canada’s second Bottled Water Free Day!
How can you play an active role in Bottled Water Free Day?
- Encourage your members, networks, friends and colleagues to pledge to stop drinking bottled water where public water is available on www.bottledwaterfreeday.ca
- Organize an event in the build-up to and on Bottled Water Free Day. Materials and support documents are available on the website.
- Contact your local city councillor, school board trustee and university/college presidents and ask them to make their town, school board or post-secondary institution bottled water free.
For more information or to download campaign materials, visit www.bottledwaterfreeday.ca. If you have any questions please send an e-mail to info@bottledwaterfreeday.ca
We hope you will join us for Bottled Water Free Day 2011
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Next meeting
KAIROS MEETING, MARCH 2, 2011
1.30 pm at Barat Residence
Opening Worship ( Anna)
Kairos in the limelight ( exchange of comments… What now? 10 minutes
Review of agenda items
Workshop plans and progress reports
Welcome and MC
Schedule
Facility and materials requested by Ed ( DVD player/projector, flip chart/ white board)
Ed’s proposed sessions (review)
Lunch plan ( small group to plan?) / finger food ,sweets, refreshments-cold/hot
Invitations—Publicity How are we doing with contacts?
Posters
Media/PSA ( Time line )
Pictou Landing resource person?
Information Table…..Kairos materials, petition, companion sheets, other
Registration –Marilyn
Closing prayer ritual
Music?
Airport pick up
Accommodations
Other
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Next Meeting: April 6th ? Plans for Kairos Sunday
Truro and Area February meeting
Minutes Kairos Truro and Area Cluster
February 9, 2011, 12:00 p.m.
Kennedy Room, Immaculate Conception Church
Present: Rhoda, Doris, Don, Dick, Jocelyn, MaryJo, Joan
Absent: Joanna, Lorne, Barton
The meeting commenced with an inspirational reading by Rhoda. Joan volunteered for the March devotional.
1. The minutes were accepted as read with amendments for Water Day (March 10) and today’s meeting date.
2. Correspondence: Don read his letter regarding Bill C393, which he sent to Barton. It will be forwarded to Judith Harris, First United Church.
3.Treasurer’s Report: Unavailable
4. Old Business:
1. Dick reminded the group of “Sisters in Spirit” which will be presented on February 15th. He received a request to present it the next day in Antigonish under the auspices of the “Sisters” in Afton, the Mother House of Saint Martha, and St. FX among others. Dick mentioned that aboriginal women are not well served by the Justice system in Canada. Rhoda remarked that Lenore Zann has an office in Millbrook on a monthly basis which is gratifying to the women there.
Motion: We donate $50.00 Nova Scotia native Women’s Association on the evening of Feb 15, following the lecture and discussion period. Don/Jocelyn
2. Water Day, March 10th. The emphasis for Council of Canadians as well as Kairos is to resist privatization of municipal water systems.
New Business:
1. Bev MacDonald, Regional Representative to National requests our input on the annual meeting. Is it valuable to meet annually, and if so, where and in what format. Suggestions include a) at least 1 1/2 days, perhaps in the Truro area, hosted by a church with catering provided by several ladies’ groups. b)Delegates could be billeted with Truro Cluster members. However, members do like the hospitality and meetings rooms of the Tatamagouche Center.
2. Communication: We would like to have communication regarding actions on the national level but also have the opportunity to transmit our ideas, our plans and actions to other groups and to national, as well.
3. Regional Representatives Meeting is scheduled for may 10 and 11. Bev requests photos of our Kairos events for a display. We will submit, among others, photos of the Drumming and Sisters in Spirit. Would photos of African Comfort Dolls be appropriate?
4. Bev will attend the Sabeel Conference in Bethlehem in February. She is offering to facilitate a workshop on Israeli/Palestinian affairs upon their return. Rhoda warned that the presentation must be balanced.
5. A new organizational model will be introduced for regional program planning process, The Movement Building Circle
6. A banner in support of Indigenous Rights will be sent to Ottawa for a ceremony June 20-21. As soon as information on the dimensions are received we will invite participation from needle workers in all churches.
7. UNDRIP presentation by Ed Bianchi, Kairos National at St. James Presbyterian Church in Halifax, April 2, from 10am to 3p.m.
8. A workshop for church outreach committees, March 4 to 6, Tatamagouche Centre, $195.00
9. Dick mentioned the issue with Harper’s prison expansion and the evidence form other countries that this is not a cost effective or humanitarian method of dealing with “petty crime”.
Next meeting, March 9th, 11:45, This is Ash Wednesday!!!
Joan MacDonald, Recording Secretary
Minutes from the Halifax Cluster of Kairos
Minutes from the Halifax Cluster of Kairos
February 3, 2011
In attendance: Gerry L, Theresa C, Linda S., Margaret Sagar, Fran Paton, Marilyn Smith, Carolyn Earle, Sharon Murphy, and Kenn S.
Regrets from Ruth Bishop, Carolyn Earl, Anna Parks, Sharon Murphy
AGENDA FOR KAIROS HALIFAX MEETING
February 3, 2011
- Welcome: warm welcome after a blustery day
Devotions: Anna will do March. Margaret will do today.
Luke 24 A ministry of accompaniment … walking with and standing in community with them. Disciples walk a journey seeking a new future in a new world… they only know Jesus in breaking bread and in community.
Kairos found out what it means to be accompanied by those who joined us in our difficulties… we do our work in community. We enter community when we are able to break bread with ‘the other’. We gain in the walking – have things made known in the breaking of bread.
Closing prayer (Micah 6:8)
- Minutes last meeting and any business arising: Book donation, Kairos update
- WORKSHOP: APRIL 2 AT ST. DAVID’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, HALIFAX
Theme: #1 in KAIROS 2010-2011 BROCHURE: EQUAL IN DIGNITY, EQUAL IN RIGHTS (Whose Land Is It Anyway? Why Can’t We Just Get Along? Indigenous Peoples: Land Rights, Right Relations: (would like to learn about UNDRIP)… Impact of development on Aboriginal folk (Pictou Landing) (Linda).
PRESENTER: ED BIANCHI OF NATIONAL KAIROS STAFF, INDIGENOUS RIGHTS COORDINATOR
- Start time: 10 am (we’ll arrive at 9:30)
- End time 2:30 at present (may change to a little later)
- Worship and music
- Lunch and snacks: Kitchen is booked… free will for lunch… finger food lunch… (details March 2) Coffee, tea, juice
- Who are we targeting? our Truro contacts (Kenn) ; other regional contacts; ARC- A (Kenn);
indigenous locals; local congregations- all KAIROS denominations; AST (Margaret students and faculty? Ask any at the friendship centre if wish to attend (Billy Lewis) (Gerry). Roger Hanka (Linda) could share briefly connection of Aboriginal connection to creation issues. Ask Clem (Gerry) to promote with student body (also Martha Martin)(Linda). Let Betty (Gerry) know. Interfaith coalition. (Theresa)Indigenous law association (?)(Linda) Ask Tata (Margaret) to promote. Ask Jay to promote/present? Sisters of Charity (Theresa) Human Rights (Ann Divine – Fran contact) Dwight Bishop (Gerry contact. Leonard and Meagan (Margaret)
- Who do we expect to come? See above
- Poster: Anna will do (with Kenn) plus a bulletin announcement… registrar Marilyn
- Numbers… thirty
- Budget: for publicity, for travel, for resources
- Information desk: resources available (companion forms, campaign material, petitions…
- Are there any local resource people who can add to presentation? (see above)
- How will we publicize? — e-lists for all denominations of KAIROS; local newspapers-which?; radio; TV
- Who will give lead on publicity? Anna
- Posters –who to design? Anna
- Press releases –timing-when? Who?
- Hosting the presenter-accommodation, meals, airport transport etc.
- Anything else!
Need to do much of this on March 2. Please make every effort to attend!
- KAIROS communities and companions report re who has and response from KAIROS
- Kairos Sunday
- Next Meeting March 2 at Barat Residence 1:30 Agenda items: follow up on arrangements for workshop which will be prior to April meeting. Need a chair- Margaret away.
- Adjournment 3:00 p.m.
For Poster
Kairos Educational Workshops
Presenter
ED BIANCHI OF NATIONAL KAIROS STAFF,
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS COORDINATOR
Indigenous Peoples: Land Rights, Right Relations
At the
Presbyterian Church of St. David
April 2, 2011 10- 3:00
Finger food lunch (freewill offering) provided
KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiative
Please e-mail and confirm attendance stdavids.stright@bellaliant.com
Addendum for Kairos Halifax Minutes of February 3, 2011
Kairos Sunday will be observed on Sunday May 1 evening
Theme: reconciliation ( which can link to Indigenous rights)
Speakers: Linda Scherzinger, Bev McDonald and her Anglican friend Sharon who has worked with Bev on sponsoring refugees from Palestine.
All 3 are going to Bethlehem for the Sabeel Annual Meeting in February- March.
Agreed this would be a great opportunity for them to share their experiences and information.
Place To be chosen from these in order of preference
1. St David’s Presbyterian (Kenn can this happen?)
2. St. James Anglican at Rotary
3 Rockingham UC
Posters/publicity etc to be done later.
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