Climate Action Muskoka News

March 24, 2022

In this week's newsletter

• Special Fridays For Future Global Strike Tomorrow! #PeopleNotProfit
• Political Action of the Week: Attend #PeopleNotProfit Global Strikes
• CAM Partners with Retired Teachers of Ontario to Deliver Climate Curriculum to Muskoka Students
• PROMPT Presents: Voting to End Poverty — A 7-part series
• Celebrities call on RBC to stop financing B.C.'s Coastal GasLink project 

Special Fridays For Future Global Strike Tomorrow! #PeopleNotProfit

Join us tomorrow — Friday, March 25 for a special #FridaysForFuture #People Not Profit Global Climate Strike. 

Bracebridge
11:30 - 12:30 | Memorial Park

Huntsville
11:30 - 12:30 | across the bridge from Main Street, between the bridge and Pizza Nova.

Haliburton 
Noon to 1:00pm | Meet In front of the locomotive at the end of Head Lake, Haliburton Village

Parry Sound
11:30 - 12:30 | Meet at Mary and James Street intersection. "Our Fridays For Future, 'People Not Profits' action tomorrow is a perfect opportunity to answer President Zelenski's call for people around the world to gather in the street in support of Ukraine," says an email today from Climate Action Parry Sound. "This is still a Fridays For Future 'Strike' for Climate Action, but some of our 'People Not Profits' signs (not all I think) should make the connection between Profits (oil profits uppermost) and War."  

We stand as one body and we stand as one voice. Now, more than ever, it is important to unite our activist voices worldwide. #PeopleNotProfit

Learn more about the strike and its organizers, check out the world map of strike locations and access digital assets HERE. 

Political Action of the Week: Attend #PeopleNotProfit Global Strike

Come out and join us at one of the Global #PeopleNotProfit climate strikes. Bring signs or post a message on social with the #PeopleNotProfit hashtag or making the connection between the fossil-based world economy and so many of the ills we are facing: climate breakdown, biosphere destruction, war, poverty, forced migration, air and water pollution.

DYK? Friday March 25 will be Climate Action Muskoka's 132^nd  weekly strike in Muskoka, counting the in-person strikes, pop-up strikes and digital strikes!

CAM Partners with Retired Teachers of Ontario to Deliver Climate Curriculum to Muskoka Students

You have no doubt heard of Climate Action Muskoka's Community Carbon Challenge, an initiative to highlight and promote everyday actions that we can all take to reduce our carbon footprint to achieve a 50% reduction in GHG emissions by 2030.
This week, in partnership with the Retired Teachers of Ontario RTOERO, District 46 Muskoka, Community Carbon Challenge-inspired curriculum along with CCC bookmarks are being delivered to all Muskoka students in grades 4-6 in the Trillium Lakelands District School Board, Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board, and every private school.

A downloadable PDF of this curriculum is free to access

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Know a teacher who might be interested? Please share!  

Pictured above: TLDSB Superintendent of Education Jay MacJanet receives a delivery of bookmarks and curriculum. Left to right: Tamsen Tillson, Sue McKenzie, Len Ring, Jay MacJanet, Janet Libke, Linda Mathers and Joanne Garvey.

“We hope that students will take the ideas home and encourage their families to take up the Challenge to reduce their GHG emissions”, says CAM member, Len Ring.  

A study of youth around the globe, released in Britain last September prior to the global COP26 Climate Summit, reveals that young people are feeling helplessness and despair about the climate crisis. It identified the source of their anxiety as adults not taking the actions required to protect their future. Source.

The bookmark project in Muskoka provides the opportunity to enhance family discussions that focus on solutions, starting with individual actions.  

Have you signed up yet to take the Community Carbon Challenge? Learn more and get started today!

PROMPT Presents: Voting to End Poverty — 7 Part Series

Join the Muskoka-based anti-poverty group PROMPT as we vote to end poverty this provincial election in this free, all-ages 7-session online series. Explore poverty in Parry Sound-Muskoka and what our local candidates plan to do about it. Register

SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 7 – 8PM: Housing
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 – 7 – 8PM: Income & Living Wage
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 – 7 - 8PM: Labour & Decent Work
Tuesday May 10, 2022 – 7 – 8 PM: 1st Candidate Night
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 – 7 – 8 PM: 2nd Candidate Night
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 – 7 – 8 PM: 3rd Candidate Night
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 - 7 - 8 PM: 4th Candidate Night  

Celebrities call on RBC to stop financing B.C.'s Coastal GasLink project 

If built, the 670-kilometre pipeline would transport natural gas from northeastern B.C. to a liquefied natural gas facility in coastal Kitimat, where it would be exported to global markets. Read article, view video.

About Climate Action Muskoka

Climate Action Muskoka is an inclusive, non-partisan group of citizens concerned about climate change in Muskoka who believe in working together to inspire individuals, groups, and every level of government to make the dramatic changes needed to meet this historic challenge.

You can find us online at www.climateactionmuskoka.org.
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