[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: ACTION: organizations invited to join #NoIsraeliArms4Canada a campaign related to the $5B armed drone procurement

Fri Aug 6 18:45:31 PDT 2021

Thank you Dwyer for this timely piece on this day of remembrance of the
bombing of Hiroshima!

Greg

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 11:50 AM Dwyer Sullivan via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Hello all
> Here is an important op ed connecting climate change, fossil fuel ,nuclear
> threat and Toronto. Much to think, pray and act on.
> Peace Dwyer
>
> Dwyer
>
> Act Justly, Love Tenderly, Wall Humbly With  Your God
>     - Micah 6:8
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From:* Jan Slakov <janslakov at shaw.ca>
> *Date:* August 6, 2021 at 7:58:02 AM MST
> *To:* Mary Groh <marygroh05 at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Doug Hewitt-White <hwdoug at gmail.com>, Dave Bechtel <
> dbechtel75 at hotmail.com>, Anna Nieminen <am_niemi at live.com>, Elizabeth
> Curry <bassish at gmail.com>, Charlie Diamond <chdiamo at rogers.com>, Scott
> Albrecht <salbrecht at golden.net>, Jeevan Bhagwat <jeevaniv at yahoo.ca>,
> edwyersullivan at gmail.com
> *Subject:* *Re: ACTION: organizations invited to join
> #NoIsraeliArms4Canada a campaign related to the $5B armed drone procurement*
>
> I agree this is important to endorse.
>
> and for those who are interested, I’ll copy below an article Lyn Adamson
> wrote that was in today’s Toronto Star, in honour of Hiroshima Day
>
> love & best wishes, Jan
>
> On Aug 5, 2021, at 6:28 PM, Mary Groh <marygroh05 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I just got this message, and some of you also may have received it.  I am
> in favour of Conscience Canada  endorsing this project, which is clearly
> anti-military.
> Militarism holds too much power in Canada, even when we see ourselves as
> at peace.
> Mary
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Karen Rodman, Just Peace Advocates <
> karen.rodman at justpeaceadvocates.ca>
> Date: Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 6:12 PM
> Subject: Fwd: ACTION: organizations invited to join #NoIsraeliArms4Canada
> a campaign related to the $5B armed drone procurement
> To: <nonewfighterjets at googlegroups.com>
>
>
>
> Dear No New Fighter Jets friends
>
> *Organizations are invited to join the Canadian BDS Coalition campaign as
> an endorser HERE
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSA_SBxu3NAjNF6sTyp_KaX7ou8BpKQf5QXial5rgSizv2mQ/viewform> *
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Karen Rodman, Just Peace Advocates <
> karen.rodman at justpeaceadvocates.ca>
> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 18:01
> Subject: ACTION: organizations invited to join #NoIsraeliArms4Canada a
> campaign related to the $5B armed drone procurement
> To:
>
>
>
> <graphic drone.JPG>
>
> Dear friends
>
>
> We write to you as a representative of one or more organizations who stand
> against war, and with social justice, and who has joined in previous
> campaign/s such as "stop illegal Israeli military recruiting in Canada" or
> "CPPDivest."
>
> We ask you to have your organization/s sign on to this call
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSA_SBxu3NAjNF6sTyp_KaX7ou8BpKQf5QXial5rgSizv2mQ/viewform> to
> stop armed drone purchases by Canada, and impose a military embargo on
> Israel.
>
>
> Armed drones threaten people’s lives around the world. Rather than making
> the world safer, they are used in extrajudicial executions, surveillance of
> targeted populations and other violations of human rights. Palestinians in
> Gaza live under a constant threat of armed drones, filling the skies
> nightly with their distinctive hum. Now, the Canadian government wants to
> spend taxpayer dollars to purchase armed drones – and one of the leading
> contenders was “battle tested” on Palestinian and Syrian civilians by the
> Israeli military.
>
> *The Canadian BDS Coalition urges action to stop the armed drone
> procurement process and impose a military embargo on Israel.*
>
> *The Canadian government is moving nearer to obtaining armed drones, worth
> $5 billion of Canadian taxpayer dollars.*
>
> Canadian government officials briefed industry partners on systems
> requirements which includes *long-range surveillance and the ability to
> engage targets remotely*, both considered important *features to protect
> Canada as well as for participating in foreign missions*.
>
>
> *Organizations are invited to join our call as a campaign endorser HERE
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSA_SBxu3NAjNF6sTyp_KaX7ou8BpKQf5QXial5rgSizv2mQ/viewform>.*
>
> *THE CALL*
>
>
> *To: Minister of Public Services and Procurement Anita Anand      M**inister
> of Transport Omar Alghabra*
>
> *We insist the Canadian Government cancel immediately the procurement
> process for the purchase of remotely piloted aircraft systems for
> surveillance. (*Remotely Piloted Aircraft System for the National Aerial
> Surveillance Program (T8493-150035/D
> <https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/tender-notice/PW-CAG-004-27603/list-of-interested-suppliers>
> ))
>
> *It is essential that civil-society groups are engaged in carefully
> scrutinizing the policies that would guide Canada’s military use of any
> drones for domestic surveillance and in foreign missions. This is even more
> essential when these unmanned devices may carry arms.*
>
> *At least one of the companies on the short-list is the research,
> development and manufacturing arm of the Israeli military, Israel Aerospace
> Industries. The Israeli military, using IAI products developed explicitly
> for its use, routinely commits war crimes against the people of Palestine
> and exports **war machines that have been ‘tested’ on Palestinians and
> Arabs, especially in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.*
>
> *In recent months, people of conscience in Canada watched in horror as the
> Israeli regime ruthlessly targeted Palestinians from all regions of
> historic Palestine. What started as a popular movement to #SaveSheikhJarrah
> residents from further ethnic cleansing expanded into a broad unity of
> Palestinians from Jerusalem to Gaza to Haifa to Toronto and Vancouver all
> sending the same message. Palestinians will no longer accept the status quo
> of Israeli apartheid.*
>
> *As the Palestinian human rights organization **Al-Haq*
> <https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/18344.html>* has reported:*
>
> *“Israel has used its arms industry to systematically control the
> Palestinian people and repress all Palestinian challenges to its military
> occupation and apartheid regime. Israel uses unnecessary, disproportionate,
> and excessive force while suppressing peaceful protests, at
> search-and-arrest operations, and at checkpoints, in complete disregard for
> Palestinian life. Israel’s excessive use of force is further evidenced now,
> as Israeli forces continue to attack Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,
> Palestinian protesters throughout the occupied West Bank, including East
> Jerusalem and Palestinian citizens of Israel.”*
>
> *We further join the call to exclude ZIM, Israel’s largest cargo shipping
> company, which routinely transports Israeli arms to their final
> destination, from Canadian ports. As noted by the Canada Palestine
> Association:*
>
> *Port Authorities in Canada*
> <http://cpavancouver.org/2021/06/letter-to-transport-minister-omar-alghabra-israeli-apartheid-not-welcome-in-canadian-ports-blocktheboat/>* fall
> under the Ministry of Transport. As such, Minister Alghabra, allowing and
> enabling such Israeli apartheid profiteering makes both the ports and the
> Canadian government further complicit in the ongoing dispossession of the
> Palestinians.*
>
> *Thousands of people have already called upon you, Ministers Alghabra and
> Anand, to cancel the $36M Canadian government contract with Elbit Systems,
> another Israeli arms company selling weapons “battle-tested” on Palestinian
> and Arab civilians, for a remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS) or drone.*
>
> *We **insist* <https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/18344.html>* that you show
> leadership by:*
>
> ·       *Cancelling the procurement process and ending the contract for
> armed surveillance drones*
>
> ·       *Cancelling the contract with Elbit Systems for Arctic
> surveillance drones;*
>
> ·       *Prohibiting Zim ships from accessing Canadian ports*
>
> ·       *Ending all trade in weapons with Israel through a two-way arms
> embargo and ending military-security cooperation with Israel.*
>
>
>  ---
>
> We will be going public with this call later in the month. At this point,
> our focus is to have organizations sign on as endorsers Please do not share
> on social media, but do share with any organizations within Canada,
> Palestine or internationally that would have interest in endorsing.
>
>
>  We hope your organization will *join our call as a campaign
> endorser HERE
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSA_SBxu3NAjNF6sTyp_KaX7ou8BpKQf5QXial5rgSizv2mQ/viewform>.*
>
> In solidarity
>
> Karen Rodman for Just Peace Advocates, a member of the Canadian BDS
> Coalition
>
> www.justpeaceadvocates.ca
> www.bdscoalition.ca
>
>
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>
> *From: *Lyn Adamson <lyn.adamson9 at gmail.com>
> *Subject: **Op Ed in the Star this morning - We Restricted Nuclear
> Weapons. Now we must limit Fossil fuels.*
> *Date: *August 6, 2021 at 3:36:19 AM PDT
> *To: *VOW Board <vowboardofdirectors at googlegroups.com>, Sandy Greenberg <
> greenberg.sandy at gmail.com>, Yusur Al-Bahrani <vowapplication at gmail.com>,
> Tamara Lorincz <tlorincz at dal.ca>, Jan Slakov <janslakov at shaw.ca>
>
> Hi all,
> My op ed is published in the Star today.  I wanted to say so much more -
> because nuclear weapons are still a major (and even growing) threat to
> global security - until all  countries sign the UN Treaty for the
> Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons adopted in 2017 - which Canada has not
> signed. However the NPT did limit the spread of the weapons to other
> countries.  And an op ed has to be focused and make a clear point.  Right
> now the climate crisis is an even worse threat to our global survival so
> that's what I focused on.  Every year there's a commemoration of the
> Hiroshima bombing, this year Toronto's is online at 7 pm tonight so if you
> are able to join in register here:
> https://actionnetwork.org/events/hopefortheearth
> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Factionnetwork.org%2Fevents%2Fhopefortheearth&data=04%7C01%7C%7C1251b38d30034817bc7f08d940b7f46a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637611981080013990%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=%2BNZCQH3Li9aHTvGGYMpVdxTJc4s1zLK9qzr%2FXdKV3tU%3D&reserved=0>
>
> -  Lyn
>
>
>
> https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/08/06/we-restricted-nuclear-weapons-now-we-must-limit-fossil-fuels.html
>
> CONTRIBUTORS
> <https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors.html>
> OPINION
> We restricted nuclear weapons. Now we must limit fossil fuels
> LA
> By Lyn AdamsonContributor
> Fri., Aug. 6, 2021timer3 min. read
>
> On Aug. 6, 1945, a single nuclear blast destroyed Hiroshima, Japan.
>
> Imagine 400,000 Hiroshima bombs a day. That’s the energy imbalance being
> created on the planet — an imbalance that has doubled, according to NASA,
> since 2005.
>
> And every time we leave our homes in a fossil-fuelled car, take a flight
> or turn on our gas-powered furnace or AC, we are adding to that energy
> imbalance. We are saturating an oversaturated atmosphere.
>
> The percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere today is 419 parts per million
> <https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2021/06/07/carbon-dioxide-levels-hit-50-higher-than-preindustrial-time.html> (ppm).
> It was 270 ppm at the start of the industrial age, and in 1988 the
> atmosphere contained 350 ppm. That’s a number that might be a safe level
> for a stable climate — but 419 ppm most definitely is not, as evidenced by
> the heat domes and wildfires being experienced in Canada, and floods and
> droughts throughout the world in a wild weather summer.
>
> We are experiencing chaotic climate conditions at a global average
> temperature rise of just over 1° Celsius
> <https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/global-temperatures>.
> But we aren’t about to stay there; we are very quickly heading to 450 ppm
> of CO2 in the atmosphere. According to climate scientists, that’s the
> tipping point when feedback loops will be set in motion that humans will be
> unable to reverse, and the global average temperature rise will soar
> uncontrollably.
>
> When you look out the door in the morning, the air doesn’t look that
> different to you. But from one day to the next this CO2 level, this energy
> imbalance, is creeping up — and up — and up.
>
> This science is available to all of us. Just watch the Netflix documentary
> “Breaking Boundaries: the Science of our Planet
> <https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81336476>” and you will see the
> enormity of the challenge before us.
>
> Despite decades of climate negotiations, we have not stopped adding to CO2
> in the atmosphere. Rather, the process is speeding up. That is why it is so
> urgent that we have a global agreement to immediately stop any new fossil
> fuel projects, to phase out existing uses of fossil fuels, and to go full
> tilt into a renewable energy future with everything we’ve got.
>
> In 1968, the world was headed for nuclear war. An uncontrolled arms race
> and the spread of weapons to more and more countries threatened our future.
> Far-sighted leaders saw that this threat had to be contained, and began
> negotiations for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
> <https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt/> (NPT) that was signed
> by 191 countries and has limited the spread of these weapons. We need that
> same kind of agreement now for fossil fuels.
>
> On July 15, Toronto became the second city in Canada and the fourth large city
> in the world to call on our government to negotiate a Fossil Fuel
> Non-Proliferation Treaty. Toronto has taken many steps to reduce our carbon
> emissions, but unless all local, provincial, state and national governments
> around the world are doing the same, the atmosphere we share will continue
> to contain increasing levels of CO2 — and a future of mass death will cast
> its shadow over us all.
>
> This weekend is the anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in
> 1945, Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, and is a sober reminder of the destruction we
> humans are capable of. We limited the spread of these weapons. Now the
> energy of 400,000 nuclear bombs added to Earth’s energy system per day is
> silently and invisibly dooming our future — if we do not take charge and
> stop.
>
> The International Energy Agency has declared the end of the fossil fuel
> age, and now our governments must do so as well. This proposed Fossil Fuel
> Non-Proliferation Treaty offers an opportunity to take this commitment
> globally, in advance of COP 26, the next climate negotiations in Glasgow
> this November.
>
> Canada could be a leading voice in this movement. Let’s call on all of our
> politicians and all our political parties to pledge no new fossil fuel
> projects — none — and to build the green energy future we need right now.
> Lyn Adamson is the co-chair of ClimateFast and of Canadian Voice of Women
> for Peace.
>
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