Sorry for the delay on posting this week’s Activist Agenda; my laptop broke (the screen disengaged with the CPU portion) and I have been busy with working on getting the coop ready. Slow going.

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/information/changes.
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• June 1st to June 30th – Hunger Strike
• June 1st – 30th – Bike Month Challenge
• June 1st, Sunday – We Stand with Palestine
• June 7th, Saturday – Good Note Spring Festival
• June 14th, Saturday – No Kings
• June 14th, Saturday – Rise Up Alberta
• June 22nd, Sunday – Art 4 Gaza
• June 22nd, Sunday – Show Your Stripes Day
• July 11th – 13th – Growing Resilience Together: An Ecogrief Retreat

Videos of the Week

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June 1st to June 30th – Hunger Strike: “Beginning Thursday May 22, people in amiskwaciwâskahikan (edmonton) are joining others around the world in a 40-day fast in solidarity with people in Gaza. Initiated by @veteransforpeace with over 20 organizations co-sponsoring, “40 Days And Escalate!” is a protest against the escalated total siege of Gaza and a renewed commitment to do everything we can to end the most immediate threats to Palestinian survival (genocide), and work longer-term to end the Occupation.
Israel has blocked all food, water, medicine, shelters, and other supplies while escalating bombing, mass displacements, and ground invasion, and attacking aid ships attempting to provide humanitarian supplies via sea.
Our purpose of this 40 days of action is to (1) highlight Israel’s reprehensible engineered starvation and siege, and (2) the Canadian government’s failure to take meaningful action to stop the genocide. We can’t be silent and let genocide be normalized.
We demand action to break through Israel’s siege, so humanitarian aid can get into Gaza under UN authority; and that Canada enact a full arms embargo. We and other complicit nation-states must stop arming Israel NOW!
Throughout this 40 day fast we aim to have a public presence in different locations around the city, and to organize community conversations about what we can do, now and in the long term, to press not only for the necessary immediate actions to stop the genocide but also for full decolonization and an end to the Occupation.
If you want to join for one meal, one day, or any part of the 4-day period, see our signup form linked from our bio.”
Instagram: YEG Fast for Gaza

June 1st – 30th – Bike Month Challenge: “Dust off your bikes and gear up to participate in the EFCL’s 2025 Community League Bike Month Challenge!
The Challenge will begin on June 1 and run through to June 30. Whichever League’s members ride the farthest, wins! Leagues across the city have adopted the challenge as a fun way to promote active transportation and recreation in their neighbourhoods through a little friendly competition.
The 2024 Community League Bike Month Challenge was fantastic! We had a total of 31 Leagues collectively ride close to 148,000 kms — that’s the equivalent of nearly 4 times around the world!”
It seems that community leagues need to register and then members of individual community leagues record the distances they ride – Michael.
Register: Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues

June 1st, Sunday – We Stand with Palestine: Human presence for the Palestinians.
Time: 1 pm
Location: 10thst Street and Whyte (82nd) Avenue

June 7th, Saturday – Good Note Spring Festival: “The Good Note Spring Festival Continues! This year’s family friendly festival will include a community potluck, workshops, vendors, and a variety show with diverse acts spanning music, art, and poetry and more!
​This year’s festival is also a fundraiser for our friends at Earth’s Refillery Co-op! The former store, Earth’s General Store, had to close their doors in September 2024 after over 30 years. Now they’re back, with a new name and vision for a cooperative cafe & refillery!”
[A little self serving post. I am also one of the coop worker owners of Earth’s Refillery Coop. If you wish to provide financial support for Earth’s Refillery Coop you can find information on our fundraising page. and/or become a member.- Michael]
Time: 3 pm
Location: Good Note Community Farm, 22255 Township Road 510, Leduc County
Facebook: Good Note Community Farm

June 14th, Saturday – No Kings: There are many American citizens and former American citizens living in Canada. They can host their own local No Kings rally/event wherever they now live.
PS – I also think that Canada should dump our monarch.
URL for more information: No Kings Indivisible or Mobilize.US

June 14th, Saturday – Rise Up Alberta: “We will leave with clarity on action areas to pursuer that will disrupt the Smith government agenda from Sparation to privatization of health care and public education and social justice issues amongst other concerns.
Lunch will be served and there is free parking”
This is a Reboot Alberta event.
Time: 10am – 4pm
Location: ArtsHub Ortona, 9722 102 Street
Tickets: 43.93$ at Eventbrite

June 18th – end of early bird prices for Growing Resilience Together – An Ecogrief Retreat– see below.

June 22nd, Sunday – Art 4 Gaza: “Hope is felt through our gathering, solidarity, and self expression.
We gather today for continued hope with community. Bring art supplies, art work you’re working on, banner ideas you want to donate to the current protests happening across amiskwaciwâskahikan.
All struggles for liberation are interconnected, and allows us connection in times of great loss.
Bring a culturally appropriate offering (flowers, herbs, tobacco) for those no longer with us, make art for those who are alive.
June 22nd 2:00pm-5:00pm **weather permitting** if there is intense rain or wind event will be postponed.”
Time: 2 – 5 pm
Location: Ezio Faraone Park, 11004 – 97th A venue
Instagram: Touch Grass Club

June 22nd, Sunday – Show Your Stripes Day: “Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer. 21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we ask everyone to use the warming stripes to talk about how we are already experiencing the consequences of climate change.”
More information: Show Your Stripes

July 11th – 13th – Growing Resilience Together: An Ecogrief Retreat: “”Growing Resilience Together – An Ecogrief Retreat” is an adult-only opportunity to acknowledge the emotional depths of our eco-grief.  There will be time to spend with yourself, to share with others in a safe communally held space, to be with what is – fully – in these times of converging crises and uncertainty. Lay facilitators Melanie Hoffman (GGN Flow facilitator), Chris Peet, and Nathan Binnema, will create a container for you to explore and experience our full range of feeling and expression, and host activities based in the work of How to Live in a Chaotic Climate, the Work that Reconnects, and other rituals. Expect opportunities to laugh, cry, relax, open up, nourish, and connect with yourself and nature.”
Location: 54404 Range Road 65, Gainford
Registration: Institute for Contemplative Ecology

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