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.

• November 1st, Friday – Weekly Climate Strike
• November 1st, Friday – Stand Against Genocide
• November 2nd, Saturday – Weekly Ceasefire Now event at the Market
• November 2nd, Saturday – Stop the UCP!
• November 2nd, Saturday – 3 Minute Movie Halloween Challenge
• November 3rd, Sunday – Silence is Complicity
• November 5th, Tuesday – Greening Faith Buildings Webinar
• November 5th, Tuesday – Pack the Leg for Trans Rights!
• November 7th, Thursday – Addressing the Climate Elephant Workshop
• November 7th, Thursday – Save Our CPP Town Hall
• November 7th, Friday – Weekly Climate Strike
• November 8th, Friday – Rally for Respect
• November 8th, Saturday – Weekly Ceasefire Now event at the Market
• November 9th, Saturday – March for Mathios
• Nov 11, 2024 – Nov 22, 2024 – COP28th United Nations Climate Change Conference
• November 11th, Monday – Remembrance Day
• 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
• November 19th, Tuesday – How can we stand up for pollution pricing?
• November 20th, Wednesday – Action Hour: Tell your MP we need Financial Regulation now!
• November 23rd, Saturday – National Housing Day Community Education Event
• November 28th, Thursday – Monthly Meeting of Four Our Kids Alberta

Videos of the Week

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November 1st, 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

November 1st Friday – Stand Against Genocide:
Time: 4 pm
Location: Main Quad, University of Alberta
Instagram: Muslim Student Association

November 2nd, 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

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 Smith 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 2nd, Saturday – 3 Minute Movie Halloween Challenge: “Join the WTF Edmonton group to be kept up to date with this and other events: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wtfedmonton
The We The Free 3 Minute Movie Challenge invites members of the public to view a short clip of standard animal agriculture practices in exchange for a vegan treat.
Please wear dark blue or black upper clothing.
Time: 5 pm
Location: 103rd Street (Gateway) and 82nd Avenue
Facebook: We The Free Edmonton

November 3rd, Sunday – Silence is Complicity: EDMONTON STAND UP!!! Rally this Sunday in front of CBC Edmonton at 1:30 PM. Calling out the media’s complicity, censorship and silence! on the on going genocide against Gaza! Link in bio to sign open letter!”
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: CBC, 102nd Avenue and 100th Street (NW corner)

November 5th, Tuesday – Pack the Leg for Trans Rights!: “This Tuesday November 5th, we are going to SHOW UP for Trans Albertans and allies by packing the legislature. RSVP here and plan to support hundreds of other Albertans who have had enough of Danielle Smith’s attacks on trans and queer youth.
This protest will follow the rules and decorum of the legislature and is meant to make sure that the UCP have to “look us in the eye” as the tear up human rights and trans rights.
The legislative assembly convenes at 1:30pm and rises at 6pm, so you can show up throughout the afternoon, but we encourage folks to come early to make sure you can find a seat.
If we reach capacity, we will cycle folks in and out to make sure everyone has an opportunity to participate in packing the legislature.
***This action is a joint effort between Trans Rights YEG, PIA, and all our kin from across Alberta.”
Time: 1:30pm
Location: Alberta Legislature, 10800 – 97th Avenue North Steps
Register (you do not need to do this): Public Interest Alberta

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

November 7th, Thursday – Save Our CPP Town Hall: “Next fall, Albertans will face a critical decision via referendum: whether to remain in the viable and dependable Canada Pension Plan or to trust the UCP’s unproven scheme for an Alberta Pension Plan. 
Premier Smith and the UCP are spending millions of dollars trying to convince Albertans of their plan for the APP. From the faulty calculations used to make pie-in-the-sky promises of higher benefits and lower contributions to working Albertans, to the reverse engineering of evidence to move forward with this plan, to purposefully obscuring the results of consultation with Albertans, Albertans have seen time and time again that they just can’t trust Smith and the UCP with their retirement security.
Thousands of Albertans have already taken action to protect their retirement security. And thousands more will join us as we ramp up to campaign hard to save our CPP. Are you one of them?” 
Time: 6:30pm 
Location: Bellvue Community League, 7308 112 Ave NW, Edmonton
Register: Public Interest Alberta

November 7th, Thursday – Addressing the Climate Elephant Workshop: “Speaking to others about climate change can be one of the most difficult conversations to hold. At this online workshop, participants will learn how to have more effective conversations about climate change with their friends and family. This workshop is a welcoming, judgement-free space to address climate change concerns in our lives and personal relationships.
Carbon Conversations Toronto (CCTO) is a volunteer-led group with a mission to normalize climate action. Climate change can leave individuals feeling anxious, hopeless and in despair. CCTO h8thelps people find their power and motivation and turn that into climate action. Since 2017, CCTO has facilitated courageous, open-hearted conversations about climate change through their flagship Climate Change and You program, climate cafes, and other climate workshops.”
Time: 5 pm MT
Location: Online
Register: For Our Kids

November 8th, 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

November 8th, Friday – Rally for Respect: “ Rally for Respect on November 8! UNA Local 33 invites nurses, their co-workers and supporters to a rally for safe patient care and public health care outside the Royal Alexandra Hospital on Friday, November 8 from 2:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m.
UNA members are encouraged to join the rally during their breaks and non-work time.
#NeedNursesAB#AlbertaNurses“
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Location: Kingsway Avenue, Royal Alexandra Hospital
Facebook: United Nurses of Alberta

November 8th, 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

November 9th, Saturday – March for Mathios:
Time: 1 pm
Location: James Kidney Park, 11824 – 77th Street
Facebook: Justice for Mathios Arkangelo

Nov 11, 2024 – Nov 22, 2024 – COP28th United Nations Climate Change Conference: I do not hold much hope for this process to affect any major change from ‘business as usual’. The fossil fuel industry, their policital puppets and cheerleaders, the abling media outlets, etc. all want to keep pumping emissions and profits.
Website: United Nations

November 11th, Monday – Remembrance Day: The Mennonites and Quakers are hosting a Remembrance Day event.
“2024 HAS BEEN A YEAR OF UNBELIEVABLE WAR, DESTRUCTION AND
OPPRESSION. AS WE LAMENT CONTINUED INJUSTICE AND VIOLENCE,
COME AND JOIN OUR VOICES IN SOLIDARITY AS WE PRAY AND WORK FOR
A JUST PEACE IN OUR SHARED WORLD”
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: Churchill Square, 102nd Avenue and 99th Street

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

November 19th, Tuesday – How can we stand up for pollution pricing?: “Too many Canadians are blaming the carbon tax for their financial pain, jeopardizing a climate policy most of us initially supported. What’s at stake isn’t just the price of gas – or the next election. The Axe the Tax campaign risks mortgaging our kids’ future. How do we stand up for the principle that every parent teaches their children: when you make a mess, clean it up.
Join us for the launch of our Pollution Pricing Posse at our next Community Call on November 19 @ 4pm PT / 7pm ET. Gen Squeeze Founder Dr. Paul Kershaw and Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment President Dr. Melissa Lem will lead a discussion about how and why we must stand up for this keystone policy.
Facts alone won’t change Canadians’ minds about pollution pricing when their wallets are so squeezed. Join us to strategize about winning back their hearts.”
Time: 5 pm MT
Location: Online
Register: Eventbrite Generation Squeeze

November 20th, Wednesday – Action Hour: Tell your MP we need Financial Regulation now!: “Climate-Aligned Financial Policy is a crucial piece in the fight against climate change. We need strong rules for our banks and pensions so that they stop investing heavily in fossil fuels and start investing in the clean energy transition at the rapid pace we need.
Join us for a quick action hour and send an email to your MP demanding more urgent action to regulate our banks and pensions!
The more they hear from people like us, the more they’ll understand that this issue is important to the public. 
We’ll provide email templates and guidance. Feel free to pop by or stay for part of the time!
Zoom link available upon registration”
Time: 10 am
Location: Zoom
Register: For Our Kids

November 23rd, Saturday – National Housing Day Community Education Event:
Time: 1pm
Location: Violet King Henry Plaza, 10801 – 99th Avenue

November 28th, Thursday – Monthly Meeting of Four Our Kids Alberta:
Time: 8 pm MT
Location: Online
Register: Zoom link

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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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