Meeting began at 7:00pm on Dec 7th, 2014
- People for Emily to contact:
- Ian Stump from the School for Nonviolent Direct Action
- Matthew Albrecht- Organizer of Nonviolent Humanist League
- Matthew Bailey-Dyck- Grebel sessional professor, tried to get a group going previously
- Josie Winterfeld from Stirling Mennonite
- New mayor Dave Jaworksky- maybe get connected through Brenda, as Emily met with her 2 months ago
- Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic
- Peace Organizations to check out
- Educators for Justice- provide resources to Catholic School
- Camp Mica- they do leadership camps about peace and justice
- Conscience Canada- help people defer taxes from military spending
- Also have stories of conscientious objectors, collections of personal stories
- Christian Peacemaking Teams- honouring peacemaking heritage and WWI resistors
- Veterans for Peace
- Possible future events/initiatives
- Alternative Remembrance Day services
- Advocate for small arms treaty.
- Why is Canada not ratifying? Because selling arms is good for business
- Movie series
- Could be at Kitchener library movie room or Princess Cinema
- Could get suggestions of films from the Nonviolence film festival people (Allbrecht)
- Speaker series
- Being a coordinating presence in KW
- We could have a newsletter or some kind of online posting board where peace and justice groups’ events and initiatives can be posted.
- There are a lot of people passionate about peace and social justice, but not always coordinated.
- Could be a newsletter sent out, or a page on the PeaceQuest website
- Peace, Pies, and Profit- fundraiser for Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) that happens at Grebel. There are skits and raffling pies
- We can ask Grebel if it is happening and how we can partner with that event
- Theatre of the Beat- they have social justice plays, such as Gadfly, which is about Sam Steiner who resisted the draft
- We could talk to them about doing another show, either a replay of Gadfly or something different
- Educators for Justice could be a potential funder
- Federal election coming up
- Looks like it won’t be until after May 1st
- We can gather talking points and make questions for candidates that highlight peace issues on the political debates
- Housekeeping
- We would like to have somewhere that we can discuss PeaceQuest things virtually. Maybe a discussion board or email thread
- Emily will look into it
- Edmodo is a possibility
- Next meeting will be January 11th at 7pm in the Fretz Seminar room in the CPA.
- We would like to have somewhere that we can discuss PeaceQuest things virtually. Maybe a discussion board or email thread