The Activist Agenda (Edmonton) is released on Thursday so you can see what might fit into your busy weekend. This list is constantly being updated so I suggest that you check throughout the week for any updated actions. Visit Activist Agenda to see the latest version.

• October 17th, Thursday – Rights to Roofs
• October 18th, Friday – The Need to Strengthen the Peace Movement in Edmonton and Canada
• October 18th, Friday – Weekly Climate Strike
• October 19th, Saturday – Weekly Ceasefire Now event at the Market
• October 19th, Saturday – Make them Pay Town Hall
• October 20th, Sunday – Rise Up for Palestine and Lebanon
• October 20th, Sunday – Justice for Mathios
• October 21st, Monday – Stewarding/Marshalling Training
• October 24th, Thursday – Alberta School Walkout
• October 24th, Thursday – Rally for Respect
• October 24th, Thursday – Roadtaking Training
• October 25th, Friday – Halloween Critical Mass Ride
• October 27th, Sunday – Enough Is Enough UCP
• November 2nd, Saturday – Stop the UCP!
• November 5th, Tuesday – Greening Faith Buildings Webinar
• November 12th, Tuesday – ECOHH Monthly Meeting
• November 15th to17th – Parkland Conerence 2024: The Road Ahead: Strategies for Building a Better Future
• November 15th, Friday – FIRE AND OIL: Rising to the Challenge of a More Flammable World
• November 16th – Peace Train Vigil
• November 16th, Saturday – We Charge Nakba: Genocide of the Palestinian People and Limits of International Law

Videos of the Week

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October 17th, Thursday – Rights to Roofs: “Join us as we recognize the International Day to Eradicate Poverty on October 17th, 2024! We will be premiering our housing documentary and stay for a discussion panel afterward. Thank you to our allies at the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights for moderating the discussion. Please click the QR code to register or email us at saf@selfadvocacyfederation.com”
Time: 12 noon
Location: Landmark Cinemas, City Centre, 10200 – 102nd Avenue (third floor)

October 18th, Friday – The Need to Strengthen the Peace Movement in Edmonton and Canada:
Time: 7 pm
Location: Ukrainian Centre, 11018 – 97th Street

October 18th, Friday – Weekly Climate Strike: A weekly reminder to Edmontonians that we are in a Climate Emergency.
Extra signs will be available for people to use – or bring your own.
Time: 8 am to 9 am
Location: 109th street and 88th Avenue
Facebook: Edmonton Climate Strike
Hashtags: #ClimateStrike #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrikeYEG #FridaysForFutureYEG

October 19th, Saturday – Weekly Ceasefire Now event at the Market: “We will stand together in solidarity with people around the world calling for an immediate Ceasefire Now in all conflict zones and all parties work towards a just, respectful, and long-lasting peace.”
Time: 11:00am
Location: Old Strathcona Farmer’s Market, 10310 – 83rd Avenue

October 19th, Saturday – Make them Pay Town Hall: “The fact is: life is getting harder and harder for working Canadians. We are all being touched by the cost-of-living and climate crisis. 
Food prices are skyrocketing. Rent is soaring. Homeownership feels increasingly out of reach. More and more of our summers are spent with our windows shut, trying to keep the smoke out of the air our families breathe. 
At the same time, the architects of these crises — the billionaire class, Big Oil, and the Grocery Cartel — are making out like bandits, posting record profits as they gouge Canadian families and automate Albertans’ jobs out of existence. 
It’s clear that we need an excess profits tax on BIg Oil and the Grocery Cartel to curb the rampant greedflation making life worse for us all, and put the money they’re fleecing from us back into the programs and services that allow all Canadians to thrive. 
Join Common Horizon Edmonton for their Make Them Pay Town Hall, where we’re building the People Power to demand bold action on the climate and affordability crisis. Together, we’ll discuss how corporate greed is driving these crises—and how we can fight back together.”
Time: 3 – 5pm
Location: Robertson-Wesley United Church, 10209 123 St NW
Register: Common Horizon
Hashtag: #MakeThemPay

October 20th, Sunday – Rise Up for Palestine and Lebanon:
Time: 2 pm
Location: Violet King Henry Plaza, 10801 – 99th Street

October 20th, Sunday – Justice for Mathios:
Please note that this is a date change.
Please wear white.
There is limited parking in the area but great transit.
Time: 3 pm
Location: Tipton Park, 10849 – 81st Avenue
Facebook: Justice for Mathios

October 21st, Monday – Stewarding/Marshalling Training: Learn how to safely and respectfully marshal large groups of participants.
“Come and learn how to steward in a variety of situations. At the end of the training we will have a chance for questions and discussion.
At around 7:40 we will hold a Stewarding Briefing for Insure Our Survival”
Time: 12 noon MT
Location: Online
Register: Action Network

October 24th, Thursday – Alberta School Walkout: Students and supporters are encouraged to exit class quietly for 30-45 minutes and then return to your classes. Contact us if you need help locating information about your school. #ProtectTransKids #ABSchoolWalkout
Time: 10 am
Location: any Albertan school
Twitter: Alberta School Walkout
Instagram: Alberta School Walkout

October 24th, Thursday – Rally for Respect: CUPE is hosting a rally and I think the AUPE is showing up as well. This should be a big one.
Time 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Location: Alberta Legislature Building (I assume the north steps), 10800 – 87th Avenue

October 24th, Thursday – Roadtaking Training: Part of marshalling/stewarding a large march is blocking traffic (corking) and taking over the roadway. Sometimes this might include moving the crowd down a one-way roadway in the opposite direction of traffic flow. How do you safely manage that?
I am assuming that there might be some aspect of negotiations with the police/traffic authorities.
Time: 12 noon MT
Location: Online
Register: Action Network

October 25th, Friday – Halloween Critical Mass Ride: “We ride.
Critical Mass rides are to make visible the number of cyclists in a city and remind city administrators that we require safe, smart, and effective infrastructure to all us to use our bicycles (or other human-powered devices).
Bring noise makers, lights, signs/messages (if safe to do so), cameras, etc and join your community in a celebration of the intelligence of the bicycle.
This ride will have a Halloween theme to it because – it can be scary out there… and it shouldn’t be! Please make sure your costumes keep you warm/dry, don’t hamper your vision or mobility, etc. Lights for bicycles.
Let’s have some fun!
The route will likely be about 8 kms. There could be a social afterwards.
Stay tuned for more details.
Please check back for updates before the event
Time: 5 pm and departing at 5:30pm
Location: Churchil Square, 102a Avenue and 99th Street (we will meet between city hall and the square)
Facebook: Edmonton Critical Mass

October 27th, Sunday – Enough Is Enough UCP: Lots of notice for this rally. It will coincide with the opening of the fall session of the legislature that is happening on Monday, October 28th, 2024.
Time: 2 pm
Location: North stairs, Alberta Legislature Building
Facebook: Enough Is Enough – Edmonton

November 2nd, Saturday – Stop the UCP!: Joint rallies in Calgary and Edmonton on November 2. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
Join us on November 2nd, 2024 to defend our schools, our healthcare, and the rights of our neighbours. 📚🩺🏳️‍⚧️
The Government of Alberta, under Premier Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party, has undermined our public schools, defunded and destabilized our healthcare system, and threatens our rights and freedoms, starting with our transgender neighbours.
Danielle Smith is out of step with the values of Albertans and she needs to start listening to all of us! We are workers, parents, teachers, pensioners, and queer people. We are proud Albertans and we are speaking up for a fair, free and equitable Alberta.
On October 28th, Premier Smoth is expected to unveil her latest policies that put personal political agendas ahead of everyday Albertans. Who do these policies actually help?
These latest actions, rationalized with fear and misinformation, will make life harder for transgender Albertans and their families.
In response, we ask all Albertans who want a fair, equitable, and progressive future to speak up for the province we want. Come together as concerned citizens, workers, teachers, parents, queer people and everyday Albertans to stop the UCP and get Alberta back on track.
Time: 3 pm to 5 pm
Location: Alberta Legislature, 10800 – 97th Avenue
Instagram: Pride Corner on Whyte
#stoptheucp #albertansdeservebetter #protectourtranskids #protecttranspeople #protectpublichealthcare #protectpubliceducation

November 5th, Tuesday – Greening Faith Buildings Webinar:
Time: 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: Zoom

November 12th, Tuesday – ECOHH Monthly Meeting: Edmonton Coalition on Housing and Homelessness.
All are welcome.
Time: 10 am to 11:30 am
Location: Online – Zoom
Register: ECOHH

November 15th to17th – Parkland Conerence 2024: The Road Ahead: Strategies for Building a Better Future: “In recent years, Alberta, Canada, and the world have been on a dangerous path. It is a path toward inequality and unsustainability. It is a path that creates winners and losers, with the losers left at the side of the road. It is also a path that leads to environmental destruction. Those who put us on this path foment division and conflict. But this path is not inevitable. We can forge a better direction for our communities. We need to find new ideas and refresh old ideas to fit new challenges. More than anything, we need to find new ways to organize so that we may build a more just, more democratic future for everyone. This conference takes a hard look at the path taken and offers options for a way forward.”
URL: Parkland Conference

November 15th, Friday – FIRE AND OIL: Rising to the Challenge of a More Flammable World: “John Vaillant – Humans, aided by the fossil fuel industry (the “fire industry”), have altered the chemistry of our planet and its atmosphere in profound, life-changing ways. As a result, we are now, in real time, crossing a threshold into a new climate regime marked by previously unimagined extremes and whipsawing instability. How we conceptualize and respond to this unprecedented challenge is of immediate and paramount importance, not just to our psyches and our souls, but to the future of everyone on Earth.
In this Changemakers talk, John Vaillant will offer ways of seeing, feeling – and meeting – this epochal moment.”
Time: 7:20 pm
Tickets: 20$ for John Vaillant – Parkalnd Conference

November 16th – Peace Train Vigil: A group of people are travelling to Ottawa on the ‘Peace Train’. When it stops in Edmonton we will show up to show our support.
Time: 7 pm but check on the Via website for delays
Location: VIA Rail Station, 12360 121st Street
URL: Peace Train Canada

November 16th, Saturday – We Charge Nakba: Genocide of the Palestinian People and Limits of International Law: (Acedemics need to make the titles of their lectures and books unappealing).
“The ECMC Chair In Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta, in collaboration with Canada Research Chair in Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights, the Department of Political Science, and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (MEIS), cordially invite you to attend this lecture.”
“For eleven months and counting, the only nuclear power in the Middle East has waged a genocidal campaign against a besieged population who are predominantly refugees exiled from their homes still within eye’s view. Had international law been adequate to redress the condition of dispossession, exile, and torture, there would be no genocide today and Nakba would be a historical lesson rather than a source of contentious debate. Therefore, it should not be surprising that international law, including decisions issued from the International Court of Justice as well as arrest warrants requested from the International Criminal Court, have been unable to stem gruesome, relentless slaughter. This keynote will attempt to address this conundrum as well as the following questions: What explains this historic and contemporary insufficiency? How does the genocide in Gaza test the legitimacy, or lack thereof, of international law and legal institutions? Finally, what is the potential of existing legal frameworks and laws to meet this challenge?”
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Arts Barn (in Old Strathcona), 10330 84 Ave NW, Edmonton
Register: Eventbrite

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Science Literacy Course

The University of Alberta is offering this course again (free). Check out the details at https://www.coursera.org/learn/science-literacy

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