EWB McGill

Hey EWBers,

Just a few things for you this week, its bbq weather so be sure to stop by on Tuesday to grab a burger or pick up a shift – see you guys Monday and remember to vote for Annie (link at the very bottom).

Happy Sunday!

Rebecca
VP Communications

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In this edition:

• Chapter Meeting – Monday

• Public Outreach Meeting – Tuesday

• Youth Engagement Meeting – Tuesday

• BBQ – Tuesday (and Wednesday next week)

• Fair Trade Monday’s and Friday’s

• Send Annie to Space – voting until Thursday

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Chapter Meeting

Date: Monday, March 19th

Time: 5:45pm-7:15pm

Location: EUS Common Roon, McConnel Building

The session this week will first introduce Cash on Delivery, an innovative form of aid that EWB is considering making a major part of its advocacy work in the coming year. We are going to introduce the concept by looking at some current problems in the aid system and show how Cash on Delivery fits into the picture. We’ll try to get some feedback from all members about CoD to relay to the National Office. One of our Junior Fellows, Cécile, will then introduce her placement and some ideas she has for her summer in Ghana. She’ll also aim to get feedback from members in helping her plan her work.

Public Outreach Meeting

Date: Tuesday, April 3rd

Time: 5:30-6:30PM

Location: EUS Committee Room, McConnel Engineering Building

Agenda: Update of action items from last meeting, clarification of Fair Trade Campus (FTC) regulations, preparing to meeting with campus groups and FTC Meeting with MFDS and senior admin April 13th.

Youth Engagement Meeting

Date: Tuesday April 3rd

Time: 6:30PM

Location: Committee Room (MC08)

Agenda: Planning projects for next year and discussing the roles and tasks of directors (positions still open!)

BBQ’s This and Next Week

BBQ #1 [Tuesday April 3rd - In front of McConnell Building]: http://www.doodle.com/mxc9rnstrxpe24vt

We need more volunteers for this BBQ to happen! We’ll also be selling Fair Trade Juice so come flip burgers and help us promote fair trade!

BBQ #2 [ Wednesday April 11th - In front of McConnell Building]: http://www.doodle.com/e6qaf3nakdyygkq8

Fair Trade Monday/Friday

Come drop by for a cup of hot chocolate, tea or coffee at Fair Trade Monday’s/Friday’s or volunteer! New volunteers are always welcome so please sign up for a shift (or baking duty) on the following google doc:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjthPo1yRErrdEo4YVhzdzhyTGoxUlFjb2s0WUd4aVEhl=en_US#gid=0

We also need baked goods so if you’d like to pick up some fair trade sugar, email marie-eve.bastien@mail.mcgill.ca

Send Annie to Space!!

Annie, our VP Public Outreach is currently in 9th place in the contest to go to space! You can show your support by voting 10 times each day (your cell phone works too!) and ‘like’ her entry:

http://metroinspace.com/ca/view/cqve

The voting period ends this Thursday, April 5th and she needs to stay in the top ten to be considered for the next round!

Article source: http://my.ewb.ca/posts/92550/

An EWB McGill Global Engineering Team seminar

Thursday, March 29^th @ 5:30pm

McConnell Engineering (Location TBA) 

McGill alumnus and SNC Lavalin Engineer Steven Lightfoot is a politically involved engineer and entrepreneur. He will share thoughts on the positive impact that an increase in Canadian politicians with engineering backgrounds could have. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion, AND he’ll be joining us for drinks afterward!

SPACE IS LIMITED. Refreshments will be served.

RSVP to globalengineering@mcgill.ewb.ca by March 27th

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/257216884369735/

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Hey EWBers, 

Fair Trade Mondays/Fridays needs volunteers! New volunteers are always welcome so please sign up for a shift (or baking duty) on the following google doc:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjthPo1yRErrdEo4YVhzdzhyTGoxUlFjb2s0WUd4aVEhl=en_US#gid=0

We also need baked goods so if you’d like to pick up some fair trade sugar, email marie-eve.bastien@mail.mcgill.ca.

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Monday’s Chapter Meeting

Date: Monday, March 12

Time: 5:45 – 7:15 pm

Location: EUS Common Room Lounge

Film: Between Midnight and the Rooster’s Crow

Directed, produced and written by Nadja Drost

Synopsis:

In the aggressive search for the ‘black gold’ that drives Western economies, multinational corporations are working to extract billions of dollars of oil reserves from beneath Ecuador’s rainforest. BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND THE ROOSTER’S CROW investigates the operations of the EnCana Corporation, a firm that, despite proud public declarations of its social responsibility, is shown to be answerable for widespread environmental contamination and human rights violations.

BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND THE ROOSTER’S CROW focuses on EnCana’s development of a heavy crude oil pipeline from the Amazon across the earthquake-prone Andes to the Pacific coast for export. Since oil exploitation represents a solution for Ecuador’s economic crisis, the government has gone out of its way to facilitate EnCana’s plans, disregarding protests about property destruction and contamination. The government has even lauded EnCana for its supposed responsibility (the film’s title refers to a government decision to present EnCana with an environmental award).

Filmmaker Nadja Drost follows the cross-country route of the pipeline, along the way interviewing farmers, indigenous community representatives, environmental activists and others, who recount forced relocation, imprisonment, and intimidation, including shootings and beatings by the Ecuadorian police and army who protect EnCana’s pipeline.

Avoiding government and corporate security agents, Drost documents unsafe construction, toxic waste, and contamination of rivers, as well as the affects on Ecuadorians (skin cancer, miscarriages and birth defects) and the destruction of wildlife and natural preserves. Occasionally dredging up a lump of foul-smelling crude on the end of a stick, the filmmaker here becomes, literally, a muck-raking journalist.

We also see Drost presenting evidence of corporate misdeeds to Ecuadorian government bureaucrats, and confronting EnCana’s CEO at a stockholders’ meeting.

Ultimately, BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND THE ROOSTER’S CROW is a revealing case study of the troubling connections between multinational corporations, insatiable Western consumption patterns, and the resultant devastation wrought on the social, economic, and environmental conditions of foreign countries and populations.

Best Documentary, 2005 Paris Environmental Film FestivalAudience Award, 2005 Recontres Internacionales de Documentaire du MontrealBest Canadian Documentary, 2005 Hot Docs Documentary FestivalBest Documentary, 2005 Bogota Film Festival2005 Amnesty International Film Festival2005 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival2005 Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival

Article source: http://my.ewb.ca/posts/91974/

Hey EWBers,

We have a hot deal for you from Cocoa Camino, $1 per juice, and $0.80 per chocolate candy bar, taxes and delivery included!! We are going to place a group order but the catch is that we need to order a minimum of 25 cases of juice (12 units per case). If you want to get in on this sweet deal on fair trade products, reply to this email asap for more information!!

Rebecca
VP Communications

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In this newsletter:

1.) Chapter Meeting – Monday, 5:45pm

2.) Public Outreach Meeting – Tuesday, 5:30pm

3.)  Youth Engagement Meeting – Tuesday, 6:30pm

4.)  WAKA WAKA: Music BAttle – Saturday, 8:00pm

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1 ) Chapter Meeting

Date: Monday, March 5th

Time: 5:45pm – 7:15pm

Location: EUS Common Room, McConnell Building

We will be reading and discussing a case study written by our APS in Ghana, Robin Stratas. It focuses on EWB’s work in improving entrepreneurial skills among young Ghanians at various Agricultural Colleges throughout the country. She’s challenging us to help her solve a current problem that her team is facing in implementing their project. At the end of the session, we’ll be able to skype with her and also have a broader discussion about EWB’s approach to development.

2.) Public Outreach Meeting

Date: Tuesday, March 6th

Time: 5:30 – 6:30 PM

Location: EUS Committee Room, McConnel Engineering Building

Agenda: Fair Disruptions (March 8th), Fair Trade Campus update and next step

3.) Youth Engagement Team Meeting

Date: Tuesday, March 6th

Time: 6:30 – 7:30 PM

Location: EUS Committee Room, McConnel Engineering Building

Agenda: Final preparations for Youth Empowerment Project and new Youth Engagement Visioning items.

*To join the Youth Engagement team, please email youth.ewbmcgill@gmail.com

4.) WAKA WAKA: Music Battle

Date: Saturday, March 10th

Time: 8:00 – 11:00 PM

Location: Gert’s Bar, 3480 McTavish

Tickets: $5.00

Come out for an evening of music, competition, and debate. Not just your typical party at Gert’s, we have four bands: PASTURE, ALBATROSS, BUSTY THE BASS, IMPLOSION with OSMOZ and SHERKAN on vocals; all competing for the audience’s favour, but there’s a twist. Each will have a theme representing an aspect of African life, and they have 100% creative license to make their sure theme knocks your hats off. Four bands, four different musical genres, from four completely different realms of McGill and Montreal, have accepted the challenge to blend their music with the sounds of Africa.

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