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Mulgrave’s Last Great Canadian Penny Drive

Jan 14th, 2013

It’s coming soon. Save your last lucky pennies. Get rid of all your silver coins! Get ready to compete amongst homerooms. Get ready for prizes! And support a great cause…

When? Mon Jan 28-Thurs Feb 7

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Why? Fun, of course. Supporting the Half the Sky Movement. Read more below

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Pennies used to be a sign of luck, but soon they will just be a relic of the past. As you may be aware, the Canadian mint is set to remove the penny from circulation as of Feburary 4th. Let’s put those last lucky pennies to good use. The Upper School Digital Good Club has decided to hold he Last Great Canadian Penny Drive from January 28 to February 7^th to raise awareness and funds to support the Half the Sky Movement http://www.halftheskymovement.org/. Like the penny drives of the past at Mulgrave, homeroom groups will be in competition to collect the most pennies. Those with the most in the Middle and Senior School will get very lucky prizes. But beware. Your homeroom competitors can also put silver (toonies, loonies, quarters, etc) into a jar in your homeroom, the total of which will be deducted from your penny count.

The underlying objective of the drive is to raise awareness at the same time about the oppression of women and girls in developing countries through a screening of a section of the recent critically acclaimed PBS documentary “Half the Sky” http://www.halftheskymovement.org/. The documentary tackles the overlapping problems of girls and women related to sex trafficking, gender-based violence, maternal mortality and education. The Half the Sky movement seeks to put an end to the oppression of women and girls worldwide through a global media project that uses video, websites, blogs, games and more to raise awareness about gender issues and to provide concrete steps to fight these problems and empower women and girls. Many of us aren’t really informed of the gender discrimination women and girls face throughout the world. Were you aware that more girls were killed in the last 50 years than men were killed in all the wars of the 20th century? In the words of Sheryl WuDunn, co-founder of the Half the Sky Movement, “In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge in the 19th century, and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge that women and girls face is the moral challenge of our time”.

All pennies (and silver) will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation http://www.somaly.org/which is part of Half the Sky Movement. There will also be a penny box set up in the front school office for parents to make a donation. Make some change! Please donate to this worthy cause.

Hannah R. G9 rahimh@mulgrave.com

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#LiNK #SHIFT TOUR: Liberty in #NorthKorea #socialgood

Aug 11th, 2012

by Antony Wilson.

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SHIFT IS LAUNCHING SEPTEMBER 27TH

A campaign that will change the course of history by changing the public’s perception on North Korea.

North Korea has been defined by
its politics, our generation will
define it by the people.

HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW

BOOK A

SCREENING

By hosting a Shift screening this fall you are joining a movement to shift the public’s perception on North Korea. Our presentation will provide context to the realities faced by the North Korean people and the changes happening inside the country. Your screening will serve as a platform for people to actively engage in shifting the public’s perception so that the stories of the North Korean people gain the attention they deserve. It starts with you.

WHAT A SCREENING LOOKS LIKE

INTRODUCTION

Our team of representatives will introduce themselves and Shift campaign.

THE FILM

To provide context to the North Korea crisis we will screen our documentary, The People’s Crisis, followed by the Shift campaign video.

DISCUSSION/Q&A

Our representatives will share more about Shift, LiNK’s programs, and provide ways for the audience to get involved and ask questions.

GET INVOLVED TABLE

After the presentation our representatives will be available for further discussion and provide resources, including merchandise available for purchase.

THE PEOPLE’S CRISIS

GET STARTED

Book a screening to bring our team to your community this fall.

via blog.linkglobal.org

We are exploring bringing LiNK to Mulgrave in November. We will be doing some screening and references for this Invisible Children connected initiative which focuses on North Korea.

Do you have any critical feedback or references for the credibility, transparency and funding of this group’s educational and social justice agenda and sponsorship? Have you seen any of their films?

“Guns don’t kill people, Americans kill people” – Michael Moore responds to Aurora

Aug 1st, 2012

by Antony Wilson.

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Great response to the Aurora mass shooting incident by filmmaker and political commentator Michael Moore who once again answers the question “Why us [Americans]?” with regards to the overwhelming dominance of US gun deaths compared to the rest of the world; he responds, as he did 10 years ago with Bowling for Columbine, that it is the US culture of violence and fear that sits at the root of the issue, in a country that produces 8000-9000 gun deaths per year, 80% of all gun deaths in the 23 richest countries in the world. Gun control or no gun control, the roots of violence and use of violence to solve problems are American traditions that must be addressed if the US really wants to address the issues of gun deaths in their country.

Check it out here:

It’s the Guns – But We All Know, It’s Not Really the Guns

By Michael Moore

Since Cain went nuts and whacked Abel, there have always been those humans who, for one reason or another, go temporarily or permanently insane and commit unspeakable acts of violence. There was the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who during the first century A.D. enjoyed throwing victims off a cliff on the Mediterranean island of Capri. Gilles de Rais, a French knight and ally of Joan of Arc during the middle ages, went cuckoo-for-Cocoa Puffs one day and ended up murdering hundreds of children. Just a few decades later Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for Dracula, was killing people in Transylvania in numberless horrifying ways.

In modern times, nearly every nation has had a psychopath or two commit a mass murder, regardless of how strict their gun laws are – the crazed white supremacist in Norway one year ago Sunday, the schoolyard butcher in Dunblane, Scotland, the École Polytechnique killer in Montreal, the mass murderer in Erfurt, Germany … the list seems endless.

And now the Aurora shooter last Friday. There have always been insane people, and there always will be.

But here’s the difference between the rest of the world and us: We have TWO Auroras that take place every single day of every single year! At least 24 Americans every day (8-9,000 a year) are killed by people with guns – and that doesn’t count the ones accidentally killed by guns or who commit suicide with a gun. Count them and you can triple that number to over 25,000.

That means the United States is responsible for over 80% of all the gun deaths in the 23 richest countries combined. Considering that the people of those countries, as human beings, are no better or worse than any of us, well, then, why us?

Read more…