RISE Awards 2008
The RISE Awards are coming up on Thursday, May 15! The show will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Citadel Maclab Theatre.
The final version of the RISE Poster has been e-mailed to all staff. Please forward it to all of your contacts. Encourage everyone you know to buy a ticket!
General tickets are only $20.00!
VIP Tickets are $80.00, and include admission to the VIP reception at 6:30 p.m., as well as a tax receipt.
RISE posters and handouts are available either at the main reception desk or from Katrina.
If you are attending a meeting, meeting with colleagues, teaching a class, etc., bring along some RISE handouts and let everyone know about the event.
If you know of somewhere we can promote the RISE Awards, take a poster and hang it up.
Thank you!
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Accountants’ Bridging Program – Poster
CMA Program – Poster
News from the Professional Programs
Mobilizing for Action - Culturally Responsive Pathways for Isolated Immigrant Seniors
Employer Liaisons: Who Are They and What Do They Do?
Brown Bag Seminar: Immigrants, Visible Minorities & Labour Market Performance: Good News, Bad News, Challenges & Hope
AEII - Policy Analyst - Program Services 2 – Internship
Alberta Works: Policy Manual Update – Academic Upgrading
Alberta Works – Health Benefits Brochure
Inaugural Edmonton Youth Week Launch
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ESPA's 5th Annual Fair Trade Fair & Film Festival
part of TransFair Canada's National Fair Trade Weeks
DATE/TIME: Sat., May 17 from 12-6pm
LOCATION: STRATHCONA BAPTIST CHURCH (Gymnasium), 8318 104 St. (right across 104th from Gazebo Park/Farmer's Market)
ADMISSION: $5 admission includes THREE excellent films and a copy of Co-op America's 2008 Guide to Fair Trade
Our 5th annual event includes a full afternoon marketplace with artists, NGOs, unions and vendors selling Fair Trade-certified, sweatshop-free or otherwise ethically-produced clothing, textiles, fashion accessories; soccer and volleyballs; chocolate, coffee, tea, sugar; plenty of arts & crafts; mouth-watering vegetarian dishes, good vibes, good karma, short videos and...
THREE FEATURE FILMS:
- 1:00PM: "Banana Split" (50 min.) The banana is the cheapest fruit you can buy in Canada at any time of the year and Canadians eat approximately 3 billion bananas a year. In Canadian supermarkets bananas account for over 10% of total sales in the produce section and 1% of total sales. All this despite the fact that the nearest plantation is 5000 kilometres away and the banana is the most perishable fruit on our store shelves. Banana Split takes the viewer on a journey that begins with the hustle and bustle of a fruit market in Thunder Bay, Ontario and ends up with an examination of the daily challenges of life in Honduras. In addition to being a popular fruit in Canada, bananas are used as a staple food in more than 100 tropical and sub-tropical countries. In the developing world, bananas rank behind rice, wheat and corn as the most important staple food crops. Filmed in Canada, the United States, Honduras and France, Banana Split explores the North/South split between Canadian consumers and the people whose lives revolve around the "curvaceous fruit from the herbaceous plant." *AWARDS: WINNER Best Feature length Documentary, 2005 Latin America Environmental Media Festival; Canadian International Development Agency's Deborah Fletcher Award of Excellence in Filmmaking on International Development 2004; Official Selection: 2003 Ökomedia – International Environmental Film Festival; Travelling World Community Film Festival.
- 2:30 PM: "China Blue" (90 min.) takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where Jasmine and her friends are trying to survive a harsh working environment. But when the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his teenage workers to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable. Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retail companies don’t want us to see – how the clothes we buy are actually made. "Tacit fury." - TIME *AWARDS: WINNER Winner: DOEN/Amnesty International Human Rights Award, IDFA (Amsterdam); Best Documentary, International Independent Film Festival of Mar del Plata (Argentina); NOMINATED: Joris Ivens Award, IDFA (Amsterdam); Best Documentary, Hawaii International Film Festival; Official Selection at 37 film festivals in 24 countries.
- 4:30 PM: "Global Banquet: The Politics of Food" (56 min.) exposes globalization’s profoundly damaging effect on our food system in terms that are understandable to the non-specialist. It debunks several underlying myths about global hunger (that hunger results from scarcity; that small countries don’t know how to feed themselves; and that only market-driven, chemically-based, industrial agriculture can feed the world). This film reveals how agribusiness squeezes out small farmers and how trade liberalization undercuts subsistence farming—in the U.S. as well as in the developing world. It demonstrates how food security is linked to social development and how women, in particular, are affected by that. It links factory farming and the alteration and patenting of life forms to degradation of the natural environment. Through interviews with farmers, policy analysts, and international activists, The Global Banquet examines the ethical questions at the heart of the globalization debate. Beyond that, it shows how farmers, laborers, environmentalists, animal-rights activists, church groups, and students—worldwide—are mobilizing to address the situation. * AWARDS: James Goldstone Award for Excellence in Filmmaking (Vermont International Film Festival), Cine Golden Eagle Award, U.S. International Film & Video Festival Award for Creative Excellence.
- PLUS: Short Music Videos by Oxfam (3:05) and Danielle Harvey (4:15) Animation by Ed Stephenson (00:43)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9887841691
For more info about TransFair & National Fair Trade Weeks see: http://www.transfair.ca
For more info about Fair Trade issues see Oxfam: http://www.oxfam.ca
Let us know if you would like a full-size digital copy of the poster.
Thanks!
Edmonton Small Press Association (ESPA)
P.O. Box 75086 RPO
Edmonton, Alberta
T6E 6K1 Canada
780-434-9236
http://www.edmontonsmallpress.org
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18332213920
5th Annual Fair Trade Fair & Film Festival
May 17, Noon-6pm @ Strathcona Baptist Church Gymnasium
See the links above for more info!
End Global Hunger - click here every day!
http://www.thehungersite.com
http://www.freerice.com
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Children of Islamic Nations
Annual fund raising dinner
Date: May 25 ,2008
Time: 6p.m.
Place:maharaja banquet Hall
Ticket: $10 each
Help change lives.
Support education for disadvantaged children.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Muzamil Siddiqui.
For more information Please call :
- Mrs. Sofia Yaqub (461-1691)
- Dr. A. Aziz khan,( 461-0767)
- Mr. M. Asif ( 462-7709)
Canada’s Food Guide in 10 Languages
Health Canada’s Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion (ONPP) has released Canada’s Food Guide in 10 languages in addition to English and French. Translated directly from the 2007 Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide, these resources are available in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi (Persian), Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, and Urdu. These languages reflect the nation’s top 10 non-official languages spoken in the homes of recent immigrants.
Providing access to healthy eating information for Canadians who are new to the country, or less familiar with English and French, is important to Health Canada. The translated Food Guides are a practical complement to existing Food Guide resources, including Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide, the resource for educators and communicators, and the Food Guide Web site. Canada’s Food Guide integrates the latest science on nutrition and health into a practical pattern of eating, and acknowledges the changing ethnic makeup of Canada by including a range of foods from a variety of ethnic cuisines. The Food Guide Web site features interactive tools, such as My Food Guide Online, which allows individuals to create a customized printout in the same 10 languages, as well as in English and French.
ONPP invites you to share this information and hopes that you will find it valuable. For more information please visit www.healthcanada.gc.ca/foodguide
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Block Arms Shipments to Zimbabwe
Dear friends,
Trade unionists, church groups, and legal organisations across South Africa are joining to block arms shipments to Zimbabwe. Help show their leaders that the world stands with them--sign the petition now:
CLICK TO ADD YOUR NAME!
CAMPAIGN UPDATE
In ten days, 155,000 people worldwide signed an Avaaz petition urging South Africa's Thabo Mbeki to press for democracy in Zimbabwe--and then flew a massive banner over the United Nations headquarters. The flight grabbed the attention of world media, from South African radio, newspapers, and TV to CNN and the BBC... and the next day, South Africa shifted its position.
Even as the Zimbabwe crisis worsens, an extraordinary solidarity movement has taken hold across Southern Africa--sparked by a South African dock workers' union that refused to unload a Chinese shipment of Zimbabwe-bound weapons.[1]
Their refusal to facilitate Zimbabwe's crackdown has ignited a wildfire that is spreading across the continent. Now, as pressure builds, China is publicly wavering--and might decide to bring the arms home.[2] Click below to sign a petition to keep arms away from Zimbabwe. The petition will be launched at a press conference in Johannesburg before the end of this week, and used to lobby key leaders until the crisis ends. Join the call now:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/no_arms_for_zimbabwe/5.php
Three weeks on, the results of the March 29 elections have still not been released, and Zimbabwe's crisis is getting worse. Mugabe's government has unleashed a brutal campaign to retain power. The opposition says that ten have died, and hundreds have been injured; now, a "human wave" of refugees is fleeing to South Africa and other neighbouring countries.[3]
But even as the political emergency deepens, an African-led upswell of resistance has begun to turn the tide. In the last ten days:
More than 150,000 Avaaz members worldwide signed the petition for democracy in Zimbabwe, including citizens of 53 of Africa's 54 countries.
The goal: prod South Africa's president Mbeki to pressure Mugabe. To make sure the message got through, Avaaz hired a small plane to fly a 280 square metre (3000 sq ft) banner over the United Nations.[4] The next day, amidst pressure from other governments and worldwide media coverage of the Avaaz stunt, South Africa finally shifted its position on Zimbabwe.[5] Last week, a Chinese ship carrying 77 tonnes of Zimbabwe-bound weapons and ammunition docked in Durban, South Africa--but, refusing to aid Mugabe's crackdown, the dockworkers refused to unload it. Unions, churches, and legal groups throughout Southern Africa quickly mobilized; the ship was forced to leave the harbour, and other ports in the region are vowing to block the weapons as well.[6] As the grassroots outcry has grown, political officials have begun to press their case. Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa urged other African leaders not to allow the weapons to reach Zimbabwe.[7] United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and former UNSG Kofi Annan have called for democracy. And more and more other leaders in Africa and worldwide are joining in.
The Chinese arms ship is now sailing up the Western coast of Africa.
Union officials tell Avaaz that it could stop in Namibia to refuel, but is probably headed towards Angola.[8] Time is short. A strong international outcry now can help support the groups in both countries--dockworkers, NGOs, and church leaders--who are working to block the weapons and support Zimbabwean human rights.
There is more at stake here than the weapons in this ship. Together, we can build a consensus that Zimbabwe should not be sold ANY weapons in this time of crisis--and in the longer term, we can build momentum for a strong international Arms Trade Treaty[9]. Moreover, stopping the flow of weapons provides a concrete, immediate step that leaders in the region can take on Zimbabwe--paving the way for stronger actions in coming days and weeks.
Add your name to the petition, and then send this link to friends and family:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/no_arms_for_zimbabwe/5.php
The situation in Zimbabwe is dire. But because of people power--the courage of ordinary workers and community members, standing on principle--the political currents are shifting, and hope is emerging for change. And in the global media, a new strain can be heard amidst the grinding stories of brutality and chaos.
This crisis has many layers, and raises issues that range from the legacy of colonialism to the uncontrolled international arms trade. At the heart of it is the simple idea that every human life is equally precious, and that every person has rights. The people of Zimbabwe took their stand in the voting booth. The dockworkers of South Africa took their stand at the harbour. Now, even if we can only offer a click, it is time to do our part as well.
With hope,
Ben, Ricken, Graziela, Galit, Paul, Iain, Pascal, and Veronique--the Avaaz.org team
Sources:
Business Day: "South Africa: Unions Bid to Halt Zimbabwe Arms Ship."
New York Times: "China Says Shipment of Arms for Zimbabwe May Turn Back."
New York Times: "Human Wave Flees Violence in Zimbabwe."
Radio Africa: "Mbeki put under pressure at the UN over Zimbabwe"
Mail: "South African leader forced to speak up after long keeping quiet on Mugabe."
Associated Press: "Zimbabwe's neighbors unite to block arms shipment"
Reuters: "Zambia asks African states to bar Chinese ship"
See http://controlarms.org.
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Emergency Petition for Action to Stop the World Food Crisis
Dear friends,
Rocketing prices threaten to starve millions and make us all less secure -- sign the emergency petition for action to stop the world food crisis
Have you noticed food costing more when you shop? Here's why -- we're plunging headlong into a world food crisis. Rocketing prices are squeezing billions and triggering food riots from Bangladesh to South Africa. Aid agencies say 100 million more people are at risk of starvation right now[1]. In Sierra Leone alone the price of a bag of rice has doubled, becoming unaffordable for 90% of citizens[2]. Fears of inflation stalk the whole world, and the worst could be yet to come.
We need to act now -- before it's too late. As Ban Ki-Moon holds a high-level UN meeting on the crisis, we're launching an urgent campaign with African foreign minister and human rights campaigner Zainab Bangura.
Click below to see Zainab's video message and add your name to the food crisis petition -- we need to raise 200,000 signatures by the end of this week to deliver a massive global outcry to leaders at the UN, G8 and EU:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/9.php
The prices of staple foods like wheat, corn and rice have almost doubled, and the crisis is slipping out of control -- so we're calling for immediate action on emergency food aid, speculation and biofuels policy, while asking forthcoming summits to tackle deeper problems of investment and trade.[3]
The global food crisis touches and connects us all, creating a tsunami of hunger for the poor and damaging economies and squeezing citizens in the rich world too. But solutions are on the horizon if leaders act fast [4]
-- sign the petition at the link below now, then forward this email and ask friends and family to do the same:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/9.php
With hope,
Paul, Galit, Ricken, Graziela, Iain, Mark, Pascal and the whole Avaaz team
Sources:
1. BBC: "How to stop the global food crisis":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7365798.stm
"The New Economics of Hunger", Washington Post, 27 April 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/26/AR2008042602041_pf.html
2. Zainab Bangura, Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone, video message to Avaaz members http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/9.php
3. Chinese news citing World Bank figures:
http://www.cctv.com/english/20080426/102406.shtml
Reuters: "Rising food prices to top UN agenda"
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSL1890947220080424
4. See BBC article above, and "Rising Food Prices" by Alex Evans (Chatham House report) http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/11422_bp0408food.pdf
UN scientific report on fixing the world food system:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7347239.stm
The Guardian: "Credit crunch? The real crisis is global hunger", George Monbiot http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/15/food.biofuels
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National Metropolis Conference – Plenary Session Videos
Greetings,
CPAC (Cable Public Affairs Channel) is broadcasting the plenary sessions taped during the 10th National Metropolis Conference. The schedule is as follows. The videos will also soon be available for viewing online at www.cpac.ca.
Plenary 1: The Role of Host Communities in Attracting, Retaining Newcomers and Minorities Wednesday, April 23rd at 3:00 PM Eastern (4:00 PM Atlantic / 12:00 PM
Pacific) and Thursday, April 25th at 4:30 AM Eastern (5:30 AM Atlantic / 1:30 AM Pacific)
Plenary 2: The Role of Families in Integration Wednesday, April 23rd at 5:00 PM Eastern (6:00 PM Atlantic / 2:00 PM
Pacific) and Friday, April 25th at 4:30 AM Eastern (5:30 AM Atlantic / 1:30 AM Pacific)
Plenary 3: Temporary Migration - A Solution to Labour Market Responsiveness?
Friday, April 25th at 12:00 AM Eastern (1:00 AM Atlantic) and Thursday, April 24th at 9:00 PM Pacific
Plenary 4: Serving a Diverse Population
Friday, April 25th at 11:00 AM Eastern (12:00 PM Atlantic / 8:00 AM Pacific) and Saturday, April 26th at 12:00 AM Eastern (1:00 AM Atlantic) and Friday, April 25th at 9:00 PM Pacific
Plenary 5: Does a Commitment to Citizenship, Inclusion and Integration Prevent Extremism and Radicalization?
Thursday, April 24th at 1:30 PM Eastern (2:30 PM Atlantic / 10:30 AM
Pacific) and Saturday, April 26th at 4:30 AM Eastern (5:30 AM Atlantic / 1:30 AM Pacific)
Plenary 6: Is Residential Concentration a Barrier to Social Integration?
Thursday, April 24th at 3:00 PM Eastern (4:00 PM Atlantic / 12:00 PM
Pacific) and Friday, April 25th at 1:45 AM Eastern (2:45 AM Atlantic) and Thursday, April 24th at 10:45 PM Pacific
