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Make every day a fair trade day by switching to fair trade products at home, at work, at church, and when you purchase gifts for friends and family. It is easy to take action for global justice |
SCIC Adopts Earth Charter The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society. SCIC's Earth Charter working group has been working on ways to promote these principles in SCIC programming. To learn more about the Charter and what it is calling for, its website can be found here. |
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising Environment Canada delivered some bad climate change news on Earth Day of all days. New data released by the federal environmental agency shows Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, which is further evidence of Canada’s poor record when it comes to taking serious action on climate change. Read More |
see Earthbeat print version under "publications"
Crisis in Peru
The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest.
Peru's government is also clashing violently with indigenous groups protesting the rapid devastation of the Amazon rainforest by mining, oil and logging companies. The forest is a global treasure - let's stand with the protesters and sign the petition to President Garcia to stop the violence and save the Amazon at avaaz.org.
For more information about what citizen's of Saskatchewan can do; or to donate please contact Sue Deranger.
The Youth for International Development Do-It-Yourself Media Training
This four day event will inform participants about major global issues while providing them with tools for activism and the necessary skills for producing their own creative media. It will allow them to become engaged in the world community while having a whole lot of fun.
The workshop streams that are being offered this year are:
Film and video– learn how to shoot, edit and post video to the internet. Become an online activist by creating slick home-made video with issue-based content.
Drawing and comic making– improve your artistic skills and learn how to draw. Comics and art are great ways to educate, express and encourage!
Theatre as Activism– learn about creative ways to get people’s attention and engage them about world issues. Flash mobs, radical cheerleading, Guerilla theatre and more!
The program will be staffed by professional artists, educators and organizers. Once the camp has concluded, participants will be encouraged to continue their work and will be provided with ongoing opportunities for the publication and promotion of what their ideas and creations.
Click here to download the registeration form
Member Profile: CUSO-VSO Merger
Changing the world, one volunteer at a time
Strategy Advocates Voluntary Standards for Mining
Two years after the multi-stakeholder Advisory Group to the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Extractive Sector submitted its consensus report to the Canadian government, the government response ignores the report’s central recommendations, such as making diplomatic and financial support for resource companies operating overseas contingent upon socially responsible conduct.
SCIC Members in Northern Saskatchewan are Making a Difference
Global Neighbors in Burma
Global Neighbors is a registered charity based out of Prince Albert that works with Burmese refugees and migrants who have crossed into Thailand due to extreme persecution and hardship within Burma. Each year Global Neighbors organizes several exposure tours which consist of teams from 12 -20 people from Canada who are engaged in doing service projects that provide housing and education for displaced, orphaned and poor children. To date Global Neighbors has built an orphanage for 180 children, a teacher’s residence, a daycare for 80 children, six portable classrooms as well as hundreds of desks and bunk beds.