Call from the Canadian Blue Community Water Watchers:
| Water Watchers set some strategic priorities to focus on through 2024-2027. We have been moving through these priorities with great success for our small, nimble team, and yet we have found the need to extend our already stretched capacity to be sure we can meet the emergent challenges we are all facing such as opposing Bill 5 and Bill C-5 (to mention just 2). All of this happens off the sides of our desk – and from time to time, we need to hire out work just to meet these growing needs. Can you help replenish our coffers so we can continue doing this important work? |
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| In being responsive, we are also finding new emerging needs as organizers in these challenging times. Last week we hosted a virtual event unlike anything we have ever held before. We invited our community of fellow Water Watchers to come together to share our feelings about what we are witnessing in real time. None of us could ignore the hazy skies and air quality index warnings earlier this month from wildfires raging out of control across the north. And many are feeling pummeled at the relentless onslaught of omnibus bills provincially and federally that are eroding democracy and hard won environmental and social justice protections. And we continue to watch with horror the desperate humanitarian crisis all over the world. We need one another more than ever these days. Grief is overwhelming many of us – a direct measure of all that we so dearly love. Together we can remind each other to breath; to remember we are water beings; that we are deeply entangled and connected; that we are not alone. And we won’t give up or give in. |
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| In solidarity and gratitude, Arlene Slocombe |
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