Blog Entries tagged 'equality'

Looking for your feedback! West Hill United and Accessibility

dana.wilson.li@gmail.com — Wed, 05 May 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Last year as we explored becoming an Affirming Ministry, we agreed that affirming would extend beyond LGBTQ to others who were marginalized due to class, ability, and age. As a result, the Board is assessing barriers to access, both within and outside West Hill.

Have you been impacted by access issues within the church? Outside of the church? On the web? Or do you have and interest in these issues? Have you planned events for West Hill and weren't sure about access issues? We'd like to [...]

Canadian Charter of (Conservative) Rights and Freedoms

gretta@westhill.net — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

After claiming that the absence, in the publication of the new study guide for immigrants, of reference to Canadian equality rights as they pertain to gays and lesbians was the result of an oversight , homophobic Immigration minister, Jason Kenney, is found to have personally wielded the red marker that struck sections on gay equality and marriage from early drafts.

So you buy green, but do you buy queer?

gretta@westhill.net — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100

This amazing buyers guide will help you determine whether the companies you support also support the people you support. Put together by the Human Rights Campaign foundation in the States, an organization working toward achieving and maintaining rights for LGBTQ people across some of the most homophobic regions in North America, the guide indicates that despite tragic choices on the part of state legislatures, a very positive response to equality has been seen throughout the b [...]

Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot

gretta@westhill.net — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:00:00 +0100

With thanks to Scott Campbell for the link.

The horrific price of girls' education in Afghanistan

gretta@westhill.net — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan continues and as their oppressors well know, fear is the most effective weapon they have. 'Poison gas' puts 50 Afghan schoolgirls in hospital Nearly 50 teenagers have been admitted to hospital after a suspected mass poisoning at an Afghan girls' school, the second such incident in a month.

MayWorks!

gretta@westhill.net — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0100

MAYWORKS is the largest and oldest festival honouring workers and the arts and it is happening THIS week in Toronto.

Choosing to connect with the more radicalized May Day labour celebrations around the world, the festival brings together visual, theatre, music, and film artists who lift the challenges facing working people through their particular medium.

From the website: "There has never been a movement for social change without the arts being central to its impact. It is t [...]

Toronto Pride Parade 2009

dana.wilson.li@gmail.com — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Every year, a contingent of churches, along with several United Churches, march in the Toronto Pride Parade. Metropolitan United Church has been putting a float together for years and invites other United Churches in Toronto to be part of the fun by marching with them. The only stipulation is . . . ya gotta put in the time, in order to shine. That is, you need to help construct the float at least once (usually on a Saturday morning).

I took part in this a few years ago [...]

International Women's Day

marioniam@rogers.com — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:00:00 +0100

"Iron Jawed Angels" is an enthralling movie (Hilary Swank) about the fight for women's equality and voting rights, and very appropriate for International Women's Day. Not new - been on the shelves for quite a while. If I had known this story early on, maybe I would have appreciated so much more all that the women in a earlier time (U.S.) had struggled through.

These were the Suffragettes who demonstrated, were arrested, spent time in prison - so that they, and t [...]