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» The
final issue of CEJI's newsletter, Jubilation, is available here.
Dancing on the Blankets
at the Supreme Court
» The
ARC/CEJI Blanket Train arrived in Ottawa on June 21, bringing more than
1000 blankets from across the country. Go here
for two reflections and here
for some photos of the event.
»
On June 14, the Canadian Ecumenical
Jubilee Initiative joined with the David Suzuki Foundation, the Assembly
of First Nations, and the Canadian Council for International
Co-operation to release a joint statement in Ottawa calling on Canada to
abandon its emphasis on expanding oil and gas supplies until it ratifies
the Kyoto Protocol. They are urging Ottawa to then develop an energy
policy that supports the protocol. Go here
to read the statement, and here
for an updated action on climate change.
» The
Global Land Rights Campaign for regulation of the Export Development
Corporation has made some progress on the issues of transparency and improved standards of environmental and social risk
assessment. Go here for
a report. (See also an
urgent action regarding the disappearance of Kimy Pernia, an
Colombian Indigenous leader opposing an EDC-financed dam.)
» Read
about an upcoming event in Camrose, AB on September 28-30
entitled "Sacred Land, Sacred Communities A Weekend Gathering to
Reconnect with All Our Relations".
»
The UN General Assembly agreed by consensus to convene an
International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) in the first
quarter of 2002 in Mexico, involving political decision-makers at the
highest political level including a summit level. To find out how to
participate in the preparatory process, see the website of the FfD-Secretariat
at
Find
out more about the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative including its
themes and proposals, its members, background on the meaning of Jubilee,
and how you can become involved. For a more in-depth understanding of
the Initiative and its theological background, see the Vision Statement
(below).
The
News and Updates page contains all the latest news on the Initiative
(including the Jubilee 2000 Debt Campaign). (For archived news
items, go here.)
This Year III campaign seeks Right Relations with Aboriginal Peoples
through a petition on Canadian Aboriginal land, treaty and inherent rights as
well as an action calling upon the Canadian government to
effectively regulate Canadian corporations and the Export Development
Corporation.
This
Year III campaign seeks Right Relations with
the Earth by calling upon the federal and
provincial governments to take effective steps to limit human-induced
climate change and to ratify the Kyoto Greenhouse Gas Protocol. It also
asks Imperial Oil to cease its opposition to ratification of the Kyoto
Protocol. Information is also included here on workshops aimed at
reducing greenhouse emissions by increasing the energy efficiency of
church buildings.
This
section includes background
information on the Jubilee 2000 Debt Campaign; in-depth factsheets;
a copy of the Jubilee petition
presented to the Canadian government and G-7 leaders; declarations,
reports, and analysis related to debt relief proposals; and a
section reserved for periodic letter-writing
campaigns and urgent actions.
During our second year focusing on the
theme of Redistribution of Wealth, we invite communities across to the country to declare
themselves a Jubilee people by taking the Jubilee Pledge and becoming involved
in some of the actions it outlines. Read the pledge, find out how to animate a
community process for taking the pledge, and look at the actions being
suggested at a national and global level.
A
complete list of publications from the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee
Initiative and its member organizations including pricing and order
information.
Information
on resources for Jubilee education and worship including excerpts from
the Jubilee posters and the book "Sounding the Trumpet" Jubilee Initiative graphics and trumpet fanfare;
plus additional prayers and educational resources.
Extensive
Jubilee theology resources including the entire contents of the book
"Making a New Beginning" plus a variety of articles from other
sources.
Articles
from a variety of sources on the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative,
the Jubilee 2000 Debt Campaign, and related themes such as debt,
structural adjustment, economic justice, and ecology.
A
list of Jubilee networking contacts across Canada as well as space for
the posting of local and regional event.
The
Vision Statement, entitled A New Beginning -
A Call for Jubilee is the key document explaining the
themes of the Initiative and their roots in the theology of Jubilee. The
statement reflects on contemporary issues in light of the biblical
meaning of Jubilee and then proposes possible ways of living out Jubilee
today.
International
partners, links, and statements related primarily to the Jubilee 2000
Debt Campaign. As well, this page contains information on the Southern
Jubilee Partners' Fund.
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Announcements
As planned, CEJI now closes its doors. The groundswell continues,
however, and our work on land rights, ecological integrity, and debt
continues in the newly formed ecumenical coalition Kairos:
Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives.
Here are a few important notes about the Jubilee campaigns continuing
through Kairos:
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The
Aboriginal Land Rights Petition Campaign
is continuing through to 18 September 2001. Keep collecting signed
petitions! For more information, contact Ed Bianchi,
.
-
The
Climate Change Postcard Campaign
calling on Canada to ratify the Kyoto Protocol will continue until
the end of October, in advance of the COP-7 meetings on Kyoto in
Marrakesh this coming November. Contact Joy Kennedy (interim staff)
for more information at
.
The
Debt Campaign will also continue. Contact John Mihevc for
more information at
.
This
Website will continue to be maintained for an interim
period (until at least the end of 2001 or so).
Climate Change Caravan
A student-led coalition of national and regional
environmental groups, unions, councils, etc. are challenging the government that
Canadian people, as individuals and communities, can reduce their greenhouse gas
emissions to meet the Kyoto targets faster than the government can. Since
leaving Tofino on May 7th, 2001, the Climate Change Caravan has been engaged in
a self-propelled, fossil-fuel-free movement across Canada. They are visiting
communities across the nation, ending in Halifax on September 20th, 2001. Go to
for more information, and to find out how you can participate.
Assembly
of First Nations Endorses "Land Rights, Right Relations" Campaign
Photo by ARC
Assembly
of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Matthew Coon Come showed support
for the Aboriginal Rights Coalition's (ARC) and Canadian Ecumenical
Jubilee Initiative's national education and action campaign by signing
the Jubilee "Land Rights, Right Relations" petition during the
AFN's National Fisheries Strategy Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia on
Monday, 29 January. Go here for
more details.
Jubilee
Year III:
Renewing the Earth, Restoring Relations
Whether we have struggled
with the global debt burden or the growing gap between rich and poor,
our Jubilee work has never been about a settling of accounts for
accountancy’s sake. It has instead been a time in which we recognize
that debt and maldistribution of wealth are symptoms of global
relationships gone wrong. The Jubilee movement is based on the
recognition that relations between the Global North and the Global South
have in the past been and continue to be distinguished by the domination
and exploitation of peoples and the land. To cancel debts and to
redistribute wealth out of a sense of justice, not charity, was to take
tentative steps towards mending global relationships.
Now, the "Renewal
of the Earth" thematic allows us to explore relationships
among all people and between people and the Earth. It begins with our
recognition that we have a relationship with the whole inhabited world,
with its peoples, animals and plants, life giving soil, and living
water. In that spirit, the education and action themes this year have
been organized around two sub-themes: Right
Relations with Aboriginal Peoples and Right
Relations with the Earth. Go
here for a full thematic introduction to Year 3, here
for a worship service on Right Relations with Aboriginal Peoples, and here
for a worship service on Right Relations with the Earth, all drawn from
the new CEJI Leadership Guide, Restoring
Right Relations.
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