PSA: Dr. Martin Luther King Tribute Concert
Last year’s tribute concert was award-nominated, so you definitely need to be there for the 2019 show! With Reeny Smith and Owen O’Sound Lee (directing and performing)
PSA: You are invited to the Halifax Homeless Memorial Service – December 21st
PSA: Please join us in remembering and honouring those who have lost their lives while experiencing homelessness and poverty.
News release: Human Rights Awards for Shelburne’s South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED)
Congrats to Louise Delisle and the South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED)! I learned a lot about activism and rural Nova Scotia from listening to them. We posted this same news release yesterday, but with a photo that is no longer current. We are reposting with a current photo of Louise and her fellow SEED members, with apologies.
News release: Event to mark Day of Action Against Genocide and Human Rights Day in Halifax
News release: activists and speakers will be holding a media conference on the progress made since the initial wave of action in response to the Rohingya Genocide Crisis, as well as examining similar worldwide events.
Reading the Thing to my son, age nine – A poem by Phillip Crymble
A poem by Phillip Crymble, about the Thing. This is the last of nine poems we published during latter part of 2018, after issuing a formal call for poems in May. We’ll do it again in 2019.
Press release from NS Federation of Labour re ServiCom layoffs
News release: This province to do more to protect workers from wage theft, and more to protect workers when companies declare bankruptcy, says NS Federation of Labour president Danny Cavanagh The Federation of Labour is planning to collect donations for the 600 workers who were not only laid off, they are owed 3 weeks pay with three weeks to go before Christmas. The concern is these workers will have no pay or ability to access EI benefits before Christmas.
News release: NSFL says three days of paid domestic violence leave in NS will make a difference, but will continue to seek ten days
News release: “The change announced today is an important start in addressing domestic violence in Nova Scotia, but it is not far enough and we would like to see ten days of paid domestic violence leave as the best way to give victims true economic stability”, says Nova Scotia Federation of Labour president Danny Cavanagh.
News release: MP Fillmore’s office flooded by youth demanding bold action at climate talks
Young people in Halifax crowded into MP Andy Fillmore’s office as part of a widespread sit-in for bold climate action. “Youth are taking action because the recent UN climate report has given the world 12 years to act, and this Liberal government is failing to take adequate steps to prevent climate disaster.
News release: ACORN to highlight Eastlink’s lonely refusal to participate in low-income program
This Saturday at 12 noon ACORN members and allies will launch a mock food drive to support EastLink’s Bragg family, who last month claimed to be too small a company to provide low-cost internet to low-income Nova Scotians. The patriarch of the Bragg family, John Bragg, has reported wealth of 1.3 Billion dollars.
PSA: Disability Rights Coalition community forum
You are invited to the Community Forum hosted by the Disability Rights Coalition to learn about the current status of services for persons with disabilities and their families. Nova Scotia has the highest rate per capita of those living with a disability in Canada and is one of the last provinces who have large segregated institutions who warehouse people because of their disability.