Greetings Friends!
SEA Election Meeting &
Potluck Social
July 12, 5:30 pm
2547 Prior Street (Ben's House)
WE WILL BE ELECTING EXECUTIVE MEMBERS SO COME ON OUT AND VOTE!OR BETTER YET,
WHY NOT THROW YOUR HAT IN THE RING?
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Meeting Agenda - July 12th - 6pm
Our Members Meetings are open to all interested participants
- Announcements: Bring a list of upcoming events to share.
- Elections -
Vacant Positions: Chair, Recording Secretary
Standing again: Treasurer (Nicolas), Communications (Ocean) & Membership (Larry) - Campaign and Committee Updates
- Potluck, BBQ and Fun Social Mixer
STOP SITE C DAM!
We need your help tabling at local farmer's markets!
CITY SLICKERS AGAINST SITE C DAM
City people that know about Site C do not want this destruction by the Christy Clark's Government to continue. We are attending City Farmer's markets around the Greater Victoria area and focusing on all the reasons why this project is so bad. The response we are getting when people understand is fantastic and support is building.
The Sierra Club of BC is sponsoring this weekly activity and Marie can be contacted if you want to join us at -
Please join/visit us between 9 am and 2pm and tell your friends:
- Paddle for the Peace (Brentwood Bay) - July 9th
- Sooke Country - July 16th
- Moss Street - July 30th
- Goldstream Langford - August 6th
- Moss Street - August 13th
- James Bay - August 20th
Theresa & Colin - kia ora
Turning the Tide 2016!
IT'S STILL NOT TO LATE TO REGISTER
KAYAKTIVISTS UNITE!
July 22-26, 2016
The Social Environmental Alliance is excited to support the 3rd Annual TTT: The People’s Paddle for the Salish Sea!
This year's People's Paddle for the Salish Sea is a five-day paddle from July 22-26, 2016 that will include overnight camping on Pender Island, Mayne Island, and Salt Spring Island, workshops, and community celebrations. Go to www.TurningtheTide.ca to register now.
This year, we will strengthen the focus on building the community of paddlers, with all-ages fun, outdoor recreation and culture, and learning about challenges and opportunities facing our coastal communities and the ecology they depend on. We are especially excited about a cultural event at Xwaaqw'um (Burgoyne Bay) during our two-day stay on Salt Spring Island, which we would love for you to be a part of.
Please join us and help spread the word about Turning the Tide as we paddle, sail and swim to protect the Salish Sea and connect our coastal communities in solidarity.
For complete participant info package:
https://turningthetideca.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/turning_the_tide_2016_participant_package1.pdf
We’re looking forward to paddling with you!
Join us for July's RADICAL RANTS!
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
STAND UP! SPEAK UP! SPEAK OUT!
New Location: Spiral Cafe, 418 Craigflower
A new activist gathering and people's forum,
dedicated to social, environmental and economic justice.
JOIN & INVITE
Sponsored by:
Social Environmental Alliance, Socialist Fightback BC, Cascadia Now,
and the free radical bulletin board
Admission is $5 or pay what you can (no one turned away due to lack of funds) & all proceeds will go to worthy causes.
Focused on social, environmental and economic justice, the series aims to foster a space where we can speak truth to power, celebrating our solidarity and having fun at the same time while offering a voice to the voiceless.
The evening will include featured ranters, a soap box open mic to get you up there, audience participation activities and roundtable discussions to get you involved and a flyer table to keep you informed, spreading the word, being heard!
This is your forum! All power to the people!
Hosted by J Ocean Dennie,
Communications Director, SEA
We acknowledge this event is taking place on traditional Lekwungen territory.
JOIN THE EVENT AND LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR FEATURED RANTERS AT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1733101510266739/
25th Anniversary Walbran Valley Convergence
JULY 30 - JULY 31
This July marks the 25th anniversary of the Walbran valley road blockades, the Road Stops Here Campaign, a successful series of non-violent direct action(s): tree-sits, road barricades, office sit-ins, hunger strikes, banner hangings and public protests that were pivotal in the creation of the 13,000 ha Carmanah/Walbran Provincial Park.
A quarter of a century later, three generations of concerned citizens join together to halt the needless destruction of the world-class ancient temperate rainforest in the heart of the watershed, in the beautiful Central Walbran valley/ Pacheedaht/Qwa-ba-diwa territory foolishly left out of the park in '94, and still, after all the backlash, slated for logging by Surrey-based Teal Jones, who has been recklessly clearcut logging the steep sidehills to the height of land, along park boundaries, on the south side of Walbran river. Enough is enough!
All are welcome for this weekend of camping, celebration of place and all the good work being done by so many at this mass Convergence in the sweetest time of the year, in one of the sweetest places on the island, the best of the last, the last of the best, of the great ancient red cedar forest.
Join the Friends of Carmanah/Walbran for this festive gathering to join the past with the future, in our common cause to end old-growth logging, once and for all, in the Walbran valley.
Check out the Facebook event page for more info and ride-sharing.
Wheels for the Walbran
Transportation Fund
Facilitating Access to the Heart of the Walbran Valley
MESSAGE FROM BOBBY ARBESS, FRIENDS OF THE CARMANAH WALBRAN (FOCW):
It is a huge privilege and yet a spiritual necessity at the same time to be in such sweet places in the natural world, which were once, before colonization, almost the whole world. We need to figure out a way to make it easier for folks to get out to Kax:ics/ Walbran valley.
It seems that one of the biggest obstacles for people getting into experience the natural splendour of the remnant ancient temperate rainforest is lack of transportation.
Most people don't have access to the kind of vehicles required to travel down rough logging roads into the remote heart of this popular and still threatened portion of the traditional Pacheedaht and Qwa-ba-diwa territory.
To overcome that barrier, the Friends of Carmanah/Walbran are opening a fund to subsidize the cost of transportation to this threatened ecological paradise, 3 1/2 hours from Victoria.
FOCW could then purchase a small bus or passenger van for people who have no other way to get out there to experience the magic and soul medicine of this place.
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Please contribute to Wheels for the Walbran-Transportation Fund, so anyone, regardless of means, can enjoy the best of what's left of our South Vancouver island's ancient forests--and build our movement to protect it!
To donate (please indicate you wish your donation to support the Wheels for the Walbran):
https://www.gofundme.com/savewalbran
To learn more about the Walbran valley and Friends of Carmanah/Walbran:
https://friendsofcarmanahwalbran.com/
https://www.facebook.com/friendsofcarmanahwalbran/?fref=ts
Farmland Protection Coalition Update
From Cheryl:
Two decisions on pieces of ALR land in Langford from the City of Langford block exclusion of 1/2 of all the remaining ALR land in Langford. Both properties released by the ALC were excluded based on poorer quality of soils present. This is sad news but at least poorer soil quality was cited as the reason for the unanimous decision of the three members of Vancouver Island ALC Board to exclude the lands. And again in the decision it was mentioned the City of Langford's planned charge of $13.45 per sq. meter applied to land after exclusion at the time of rezoning and going toward a City of Langford ALR fund was in no way part of their decision-making. That Langford ALR fund is yet to be determined particularly regarding what and/or how the money would be spent on improving the ALR. Copyright © 2016 Social Environmental Alliance, All rights reserved.You are receiving this message because you've signed the SEA contact list at an event in the community or corresponded with SEA.
Our mailing address is:
Social Environmental Alliance#403-1035 Pendergast StreetVictoria, BC V8V 2W9 Canada