<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"'Ellen Woodsworth' via wilpfcanada" <wilpfcanada@googlegroups.com><br><b>To: </b>"wilpfcanada" <wilpfcanada@googlegroups.com>, "robyn" <robynsk1234@gmail.com>, "Sarah Rohleder" <rohledersarah2@gmail.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, May 9, 2024 9:53:26 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>What's up with the On to Ottawa Peace Caravan ? Take a look<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><p class="MsoPlainText" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;text-align:center"><br></p><p class="MsoPlainText" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;text-align:center"><b>SCHEDULE FOR PEACE CARAVAN IN OTTAWA</b></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"><b><u>MONDAY MAY 27 </u></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Arrive in Ottawa from Toronto about 2:00 </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Bronson Centre - booked and paid for - large space, stage and sound system</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">4:00 Set up our banners, tables and peace art from the caravan </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">4:30 - 6:00</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Workshops - discussions on and recommendations for Peace </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> WILPF three issues</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">- Demilitarize with Tamara Lorincz & UROOJ putting an intersectional lens on war in Gaze and around the world</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">- Decarbonize with Kathrin Winkler & youth activists</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">- Decolonize with Lorelei Williams from Butterflies in Spirit and local indigenous leader ? WHO</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">- Peace making art & posters by Pia Massie and others ?</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">6 - 7 PM Potluck / reception - everyone brings things, East Coast Caravan arrives</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">7 PM - 8 </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">MC Patsy George, Lorelei Williams, Indigenous woman leader, performer and activist, </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Ellen Woodsworth & Kathrin Winkler or Sandy sharing stories from the caravan and how to we can build a peace movement, funding for social issues and address Indigenous TRC & MMIWG recommendations versus $50 Billion for the Defence Budget, </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Report back with recommendations from each workshop</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Where do we go from here:</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">SPEAKERS: Masa Kateb story teller, Rachel Small World Beyond War, Urooj Mian She Associates, Tamara Lorincz WILPF</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">WRAP UP WITH MUSIC</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">8:30- 10 PM </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">FILM4Falastin - Films and discussions = 1.5 Degrees of Peace, and several films that Urooj’s students highly recommend</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"><b><u>TUESDAY MAY 28</u></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">12:00 Rally on Parliament Hill with indigenous leaders, Montreal Raging Grannies & speakers from the caravan WILPF & VOW and ?</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Meeting with MP’s - Ellen reached out to May’s assistant and Don Davies, letters sent to the leaders</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"><u>Riverside United Church : </u></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Speakers:</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Indigenous leader from the area</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Tamara posing Federal Budget versus green socially sustainable, just world VOW - Kathrin/Lyn ?</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Story telling by Masa</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Peace art making workshops by artist Pia Masse</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Music by Joy and Raging Grannies </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">FILM4Falastin – Movies and discussions </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"><font size="5"><b><u><br></u></b></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"><font size="5"><b><u>On to Ottawa Peace Caravan events to be held in:</u></b></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Kelowna </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Calgary</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Regina</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Winnipeg</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Thunder Bay ?</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Sault Ste Marie</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">North Bay</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">London</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Kitchener</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Toronto</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Ottawa</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">In most of these cities people are generously offering to billet us. </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Our caravan has a Art Van and another van and is composed of a muslim, Jew, two of Japanese heritage, lesbians, men & women, artist, film maker, story teller, musician, social media expert who will post daily, doctor, grandmother and many other amazing skills. </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">The two vans will be driven back across Canada and will have room for a couple of other drivers if you know of anyone who would like to join us. </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"><br></p><div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important">Thank you for all your support in donations.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important"><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important">in peace and solidarity,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important"><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important">Ellen </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important"><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important">Ellen Woodsworth</span><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important">Co President WILPF Canada</span><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important">Speaker and intersectional consultant on</span><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important"> </span><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important">cities</span><br style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 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);font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline !important">Former Vancouver City Councilor</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br>I live on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations </div>
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