Upcoming events.
Hikma Election Info Meeting
Join us for HIKMA Election Information Meeting
London Muslim Mosque (Masjed)
151 Oxford Street
Basement Level
For GAZA
Join us for a powerful speaker panel for Palestine, where community leaders and advocates will share urgent reflections, bold calls to action, and messages of resilience in the face of injustice.
📅 Friday, April 18 ⏰ 1–5 PM 📍 Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
🎤 Featuring: Leanne Mohamad, Sarah Jama, Dr. Aliyah Khan, Ousama Alshurafah, and Khaled Alqazzaz
🧺 Bring your own prayer mats. Let’s gather as a community and stand united for Palestine.
Caribbean Feminist teach in: with Bisan Owda Journalist from Gaza and Batoul Hamzy from Climate Sirens
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Disarming Earth Day: War Is Not Green! Liberating Earth From Empire
Join us for the last teach-in of our series leading up to Earth Day 2025. This month, we plan to highlight the impact of U.S. war, militarism, and imperialism on people and the planet. This 4th teach-in will cover the central issues that we have been discussing and building toward: that War Is Not Green. We will cover the cost of war to the planet, the conjoined fates of the climate and anti-war movements, and what it means to build an anti-militarist climate movement that calls for an end to US warfare and imperialism, stands for repatriation of indigenous land, and builds a new world.
In order to combat the climate crisis, we need to confront US militarism and imperialism. The U.S. military is the #1 institutional polluter in the world, with over 800 poisonous bases around the world, consistently building up pointless escalation and presence in every hemisphere. In moments of crisis at every level, we need to center our movements toward common targets and our collective futures.
Online Workshop: Self-Care for Activists
Are you looking for a safe and supportive space to relax and release your stress in these challenging times?
Please join us on Saturday, April 26 at 3:00pm ET (find the time in your time zone) to hear from World BEYOND War's Board President Kathy Kelly, learn what WBW chapters are doing around the globe, and feel renewed while in community during a transformative guided breathwork session, led by Amy Romanowsky.
Breathwork targets and helps release the stuck emotions and traumas that we hold onto as we advocate for a better world. Breathwork can lead to a feeling of bliss and peace in your body.
Bios of our Presenters:
Kathy Kelly is Board President of World BEYOND War. From 1996 – 2003, she traveled twenty-seven times to Iraq, defying the economic sanctions and remaining in Iraq throughout the Shock and Awe bombing. She also joined subsequent delegations to the war-torn regions of the West Bank, Lebanon, and Gaza. Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, she has co-coordinated an international network to assist young Afghans forced to flee their country.
Amy Romanowsky, a former fashion designer for JCrew, is a healing arts practitioner certified as Reiki Master, Breathwork III facilitator, and Women’s Devi Circle Facilitator.
Please invite your friends, family, and colleagues around the globe. All are welcome!
Ticket proceeds will support the global work of the World BEYOND War network. No one is turned away for lack of funds. All ticket prices are in USD. This will be a live event, and will not be recorded.
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Host Contact Info: greta@worldbeyondwar.org
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Solidarities & Feminisms in Times of Crises
Keynote Speaker:
EL Jones
Disarming Earth Day: The Poison of US Bases & Global Military Presence
Join us for the second teach-in of our series leading up to Earth Day 2025. This month, we plan to highlight the impact of U.S. war, militarism, and imperialism on people and the planet. This second teach-in will cover the cost of the physical launching pads of war and the imperialism, militarism, and colonialism: US bases, military exercises, and other aspects of its global presence. The US has over 800 bases around the world, which act as testing sites, mini-terriorites and colonies, and are extremely poisonous and dangerous to those around them.
In order to combat the climate crisis, we need to confront US militarism and imperialism. The U.S. military is the #1 institutional polluter in the world, with over 800 poisonous bases around the world, consistently building up pointless escalation and presence in every hemisphere. In moments of crisis at every level, we need to center our movements toward common targets and our collective futures.
Speakers list in formation including:
Nodutol for Korean Community Development
O'ahu Water Protectors
David Vine
CONTACT
Aaron · aaron@codepink.org
Darnell Distinguished Lecture
nviting you to the Department of Anthropology's Darnell Distinguished Lecture in Theory, Ethnography, and Activism next Wednesday, April 9. We'll be hosting Dr. Diana Allan (McGill University) for a talk titled "Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon." Prior to the talk, we will also host a Western University screening of her new film, Partition (2025).
Details:
Wednesday, April 9
Arts & Humanities 1B02
Film screening of Partition (60 min): 2pm
Darnell Distinguished Lecture: 3:15pm
Reception following lecture at Garden Room in Somerville House.
All are welcome, so please feel free to distribute to your networks if there's interest-- especially student networks. Non-Western community are also welcome to attend. No registration required for in-person attendance, but folks may request a Zoom link (lecture only) through the form here: https://anthropology.uwo.ca/about_us/events/darnell_lecture.html
Palestinian Child’s Day
On the occasion of Palestine Child’s Day, Doctors Against Genocide in partnership with the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network and Healthcare Workers for Palestine, invites you to the Global Symposium: "Not Another Child."
The "Not Another Child, Not Another Hospital" campaign iis our collective call to the global medical and human rights communities to protect the lives and dignity of every Palestinian child and every child around the world.
📅 Date: April 6th
🕒 Time: 2 PM ET
📍 Register Here: Zoom Link
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hu5dfig9SDS8ChEWTR2SAQ#/registration
Featured Speakers (in alphabetical order):
Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, Director General, Gaza Community Mental Health Programme; Co-founder, Palestine-Global Mental Health Network
Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, British-Palestinian war surgeon and frontline witness to the genocide in Gaza
Lawyer Sahar Francis, Palestinian human rights defender and Director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Dr. Nidal Jboor, Internist and Co-Founder of Doctors Against Genocide.
Dr. Lama Khouri, Psychoanalyst and Co-Founder of Palestine Global-Mental Health Network
Dr. Karameh Hawash Kuemmerle, Pediatric Neurologist and Co-Founder of Doctors Against Genocide
Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Palestinian feminist scholar, Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London; Co-founder of the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network and theorist of the concept of “Unchilding”—the systematic erasure of Palestinian childhood through violence, surveillance, and dehumanization
Dr. Asfia Qadir: A board-certified Adult and Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist. Currently practicing in Minnesota with a focus on the intersections of child development, transgenerational trauma, and BIPOC mental health. She is a member of Doctors Against Genocide and Healthcare Workers for Palestine.
Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng: Special Rapporteur on the right of physical and mental health
Organizing for Palestine this Federal Election: Mass Mobilizing Call
Join us to learn how to organize in your neighbourhoods to put Palestine on the ballot this election and to keep organizing no matter who wins on April 28.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 4pm PST / 7pm EST
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Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Occupation 101: Voices Of The Silenced Majority," by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish.
Please click here to register for this event.
Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, UK 17:00; Running Time 88 minutes, 2006, English subtitles. The film screening will be followed by discussions with the audience.
About the Film
Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority is an award-winning documentary film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict directed by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish, and narrated by If Americans Knew founder Alison Weir. The film focuses on the effects of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and discusses events from the rise of Zionism to the Second Intifada and Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, presenting its perspective through dozens of interviews, questioning the nature of I[sraeli-American relations — in particular, the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and the ethics of US monetary involvement. 1] Occupation 101 includes interviews with mostly American and Israeli scholars, religious leaders, humanitarian workers, and NGO representatives — more than half of whom are Jewish — who are critical of the injustices and human rights abuses stemming from Israeli policy in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
About Filmmakers
- Abdallah Omeish: Abdallah Omeish is a Libyan-born filmmaker and co-director of "Occupation 101." Alongside his brother Sufyan, he aims to reveal the realities about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its root causes.
- Sufyan Omeish: Sufyan Omeish is a Libyan-born filmmaker and co-director of "Occupation 101." With his brother Abdallah, he seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, highlighting the voices of leading scholars, activists, and humanitarian workers.
Cakes that Ignite Change! 🇵🇸
Enjoy 4 delicious cake jars for just $50, delivered straight to your doorstep on March 29th Just in time for Eid, all while making a life-changing impact!
How It Works:
Step 1: Order online at islamicrelief.ca/cakes before March 24th
Step 2: Receive your cake jars at your door & indulge in the sweetness!
Step 3: Share a picture with #CakesForPalestine and spread the love!
📍 Delivering in: GTA, London, Windsor, Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton & Vancouver
🇵🇸 Proceeds support Emergency Relief in Palestine.
A treat for you = Hope for them! Let’s turn sweetness into support. Order now & ignite change! 🌟
Public Lecture: Dr. Saree Makdisi, "Gaza and the Question of Palestine"
Professor Makdisi’s teaching and research are situated at the crossroads of several different fields, including British Romanticism, imperial culture, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism, and the cultures of urban modernity, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces, including London, Beirut and Jerusalem. He has also written extensively on the afterlives of colonialism in the contemporary Arab world, and, in addition to his scholarly articles, has also contributed pieces on current events to a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books.
His most recent book is Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (University of California Press, 2022). He is also the author of Reading William Blake (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2014); Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (Norton, 2010); William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (University of Chicago Press, 2003); and Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge University Press, 1998). He is presently working on a new book project, London’s Modernities, on the mapping and unmapping of London from the nineteenth century to the present.
Teach-In 1 From the Land to the Table
Teach-In 1 From the Land to the Table ar 900 King St. The Grove at Western Fair is part of the ACT-UP research, which seeks to build beloved community & free us all from systems that harm and divide us. Together we will make and share a meal, learn from Elder Mary Lou Smoke and community organizers, and share thoughts, ideas and questions about food as community care, connection and resistance.
The Principal Investigators are Dr. Lesley Bikos and Dr. Jess Notwell, Assistant Professors in the Department of Sociology at King’s University College. Want more information? Please contact Lesley and Jess by emailing inbelovedcommunity@proton.me.
Who can participate? All are welcome at this Teach-In! Research participation is open to anyone 18+ and we hope 60% of research participants will be from Indigenous, Black, Muslim, Palestinian, disabled, unhoused, and queer communities
What is the purpose of the teach-ins? To strengthen knowledge about, skills in, and relationships needed to enact different aspects of community care.
This research has been approved by the King’s University College Research Ethics Review Committee and is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Iftar with Islamic Relief
Join Islamic Relief our Grand Iftar in London, where the community can come together to support Orphans in Gaza & Sudan, a cause that is near and dear to all our hearts. It's our chance to unite as one Ummah, driven by the hope to create real, lasting change.
Alone, we can achieve great things. Together, we can make miracles happen.
"To save a life is to save all of humanity." (5:32)
Join Us:
🗓 Date: Saturday, March 15th
📍 Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
🎟 Tickets:
Early Bird: $35 |
General Admission: $45 |
Table of 10: $400 |
Children (3-12): $20 |
https://events.islamicreliefcanada.org/event/have-iftar-with-islamic-relief-canada-a-night-of-purpose-in-london-101/register
SHIFA - Science and Healing Initiative
SHIFA - Science and Healing Initiative for Adolescents Virtual Event Registration!
Join us for an evening to discuss issues facing Arab youth and teenagers (ages 10-18) and the importance of biological health, and social research with Arab youth in the Greater Toronto Area. There will be discussion and a virtual raffle!
For more information about the event and to register, click the link:
NCCM Gala - The Time is Now
Mississauga Convention Centre
75 Derry Road West Mississauga, ON L5W 1N5
NCCM Gala - The Time is Now
We are thrilled to invite you to an extraordinary evening of inspiration, solidarity, and advocacy. Join us on Sunday, February 16, 2025, as the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) hosts a special fundraising dinner featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates, a leading voice on race, justice, and equity, at the Mississauga Convention Centre.
Why You Won’t Want to Miss This Event:
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an acclaimed author, journalist, and thought leader whose work has profoundly shaped global conversations on race, history, and justice. His groundbreaking book, Between the World and Me, won the National Book Award and cemented his reputation as one of the most powerful voices of our time.
Through his new book, The Message, Coates looks with devastating clarity about how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground. He tackles the complexities of systemic injustice, the enduring impact of colonialism, and the moral imperatives of advocacy. As a dynamic speaker, he challenges us to reflect deeply on our roles in building a more equitable and just world.
On this special evening, Coates will share his insights on solidarity with Palestine, the broader fight for justice, and how advocacy can transform societies.
Your Support Matters
By attending this dinner, you will be directly supporting NCCM’s vital advocacy and community empowerment initiatives. Together, we can amplify the voices of the marginalized and build a stronger movement for equity and human rights.