After a hectic holiday season Cafe Etico is splashing into spring - here are a few highlights.
CoDev's Annual Fundraising Dinner Returns!
International Solidarity Conference 2020
Forced Migration - Popular Education- Social Investment
An opportunity for international solidarity activists from CoDevelopment’s Canadian partners to exchange experiences and best practises from their international solidarity work.
Deepen understandings of the distinctions between development, charity, and international solidarity.
Develop toolkits for solidarity action in your organization.
When: Saturday, January 25, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Who: International Solidarity Committees of our Canadian partners and other interested members of CoDevelopment Canada and its partners.
Where: BC Teachers’ Federation Building, 550 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver
Registration deadline is Monday, January 20.
The conference opens with a presentation from Daysi Marquez, Coordinator of COPEMH’s (Honduran high school teachers) project on youth migration from Honduras. Daysi’s presentation is followed by panels and workshops where international solidarity committees of CoDev’s Canadian partners share strategies and tips, and participants to deepen their understanding of solidarity and internationalist action. Workshop themes include: Using Labour’s Capital for Social Justice, International Solidarity and the Climate Crisis, Forced Migration: Canada’s Role.
Registration: CoDev members or delegates from a CoDev partner: $40. Non-members: $50
UnderMining Indigenous Rights: Pan American Silver in Guatemala
Hosted by CoDev, Mining Justice Alliance Canada, MiningWatch Canada, and Students for Mining Justice
Undermining Indigenous Rights: Pan American Silver in GuatemalaWednesday, November 206-8 pm
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver unceded Coast Salish Territories
On November 20th and 21st, delegates of the Indigenous Xinka Parliament will visit Vancouver to share their stories of resistance to Canadian mining, to communicate their longstanding practices of self-determined development, and to call on Vancouver-based Pan American Silver to Stop UnderMining Indigenous Rights! Drop the Escobal Mine!
This event features Luis Fernando García Monroy. Luis is from the San Rafael las Flores, Santa Rosa region in Guatemala and has been active in the resistance to the Escobal mine for nearly a decade. Luis, his father, and other community members were shot outside the mine while participating in a peaceful protest in 2013. He was a plaintiff in the lawsuit against Tahoe Resources, which was concluded earlier this year. Currently, he works as a paralegal and community organizer with the Xinka Parliament.