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Our Song’ by Dala

Dala’s beautiful song called, ‘Our Song’, will unite the country once again in Music Monday this year 2008.

Music Monday is a very special demonstration of our love of music – in our lives and in our schools. On the first Monday of May each year, students and teachers take their music programs outside into the open air of their school grounds or into their communities, to perform a short concert. There are outdoor concerts right across the country from the elementary level right through to secondary schools – some small celebrations, some large. Some will perform on their own; others will collaborate with local schools and organizations. Many community and professional organizations and ensembles are also involved, along with musicians and artists across the country.
Now approaching our fourth year, each year the event grows larger as Music Monday is celebrated in schools and communities throughout Canada. In 2007, more than 1500 schools and organizations participated representing more than 650,000 students, teachers, parents and music lovers everywhere. Music Monday drew 17.5 million measured media impressions and drew upwards of 25,000 visitors to our website each month as we counted down the days.

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Canadians are a giving and charitable people on the whole. Canadians are compassionate and caring. The whole Boat For Hope event at the Kelowna Yacht Club was put on by volunteers, people volunteered their time, boats, fuel etc and businesses assisted in any way they could selflessly. Thank you to Nester Market for supplying enough food and drinks to feed hundreds.

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The proper appearance for pirates is very important, first the outfit or fashion must let it be known in no uncertain terms that you are a PIRATE but it must also transmit certain amount of ‘Hot Babes’. And you decide is it a pirates treasure chest with glitter or just a hope chest?
This is for the Kelowna Yacht Club’s Boat for Hope. Thank to the Kelowna Yacht Club for all their work and dedication.

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Piracy has come to Canada, boaters be aware. Exclusive video from Okanagan Lake.

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eZine True Story: What Happened When a Manitoba Charity Sought Help Online?

Without a budget for TV production, Macdonald Youth Services (MYS), a leading Winnipeg-based registered charitable organization, set out to recruit online volunteers to produce what is usually thought not doable via the Internet: create an engaging video awareness message that would illustrate MYS’s 75 year history in Manitoba. But the potential of the Internet to help non-profit organizations in one of the most challenging of tasks was unleashed. Online volunteers from Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; Clinton, New York and Portland, Oregon joined virtual hands to produce a 30 second, 75 year time capsule TV PSA to illustrate MYS’s rich history.

For further information, or to volunteer online, for a leading and trusted charitable organization, please visit Macdonald Youth Services’ Web site now at:

http://mys.ca/volunter

or e-mail Randy Tyler at:
http://mys.ca/cgi-bin/randy_email.cgi

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The Boat for Hope is a charity event put on by the Kelowna Yacht Club to help kids and families of kids with disabilities. Sometimes we all have to take a step back to see how truly fortunate we are and that for many people around the world and at home HOPE is all they have.

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As governments and communities worldwide mobilize to help earthquake-stricken Haiti, Muslims in the United States are doing their part by raising funds and partnering with organizations — both religious and secular — to aid earthquake victims.

This spirit of cooperation in Haitis greatest time of need is highlighted by Islamic Relief USAs ongoing interfaith aid partnership with the Mormon Church.

We are partnering with the Mormon Church on shipments of aid including hygiene kits and temporary shelters, Naeem Muhammad of Islamic Relief USA told America.gov of relief slated for Haiti. We do a lot of partnerships with them, such as in Indonesia with the tsunami and in Pakistan with the earthquake.

Impoverished Haiti is familiar territory for the Zakat Foundation of America. Zakat Foundation Executive Director Khalil Demir told America.gov his organization has partnered with California-based What If? Foundation to support a meal program for Port-au-Princes children. What If? Foundations chairwoman of the board, Margaret Trost, told America.gov she is grateful for the Zakat Foundations support.

The Zakat Foundation has made it possible to feed these children in large part because of their grant to us last year, Trost said. Now, both organizations are working together to send earthquake relief to Haiti.

The Zakat Foundation aims to send two chartered cargo planes laden with supplies to Haiti. Muhammad of Islamic Relief USA said he hopes his organization will have an assessment team on the ground within days.

Fundraising for Haitian earthquake relief efforts is of utmost importance to these and other Muslim-American organizations. Islamic Relief USA launched a worldwide appeal for $1 million in aid and the Zakat Foundation pledged $50,000 in immediate assistance.

There has been a huge response from people to our request for aid. It is the same here as it would be in Muslim countries — we have been receiving donations nonstop, said the Zakat Foundations Demir.

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) has established a special Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund (HERF). We established the fund because we realize the magnitude of the devastation and feel we are morally compelled to contribute to alleviate the suffering in Haiti, said ISNA Secretary-General Safaa Zarzour in a press release.

Muslim Americans at the local level are donating earthquake aid to Haiti through ISNA and other large Muslim-American organizations. In Chicagos 400,000-strong Muslim community, fundraising efforts are under way to help Haitian earthquake victims, according to Kiran Ansari, interim executive director of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago.

We have set up a fund at the council where we will send funds to organizations like the Zakat Foundation and Islamic Relief USA, Ansari told America.gov. We have sent out a request to all the khatibs in area mosques to make the situation in Haiti part of their Friday sermon.

If you can, please help respond to this disaster with a donation. Call 0300 200 1999, visit your local shop or donate online through https://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/haiti-earthquake/index.php

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June 20 2009 we were invited to take video for YouTube of the Kelowna Yacht Club – ‘Boat for Hope Charity’ event.
The purpose of this event is to help bring a smile to the face of children with disabilities while also recognizing that siblings, parents and caregivers also need recognition and support. Organization for this event starts almost one year in advance; coordinating an event of this size with inherent difficulties is challenging but the Kelowna Yacht Club, its members, volunteers, supporting organization, charities and sponsors did a fantastic job.
Boat owners were down at the Kelowna Yacht Club as early as 6am to prepare the pirate theme of their boats. Entertainers, volunteers gave up their Saturday to make sure everything was attended to. There was a BBQ held for the families and children, hot dogs, smokies, pop and juice, fruit and ice cream and everything was donated by very generous sponsors all FREE. Musical performances, comedy, games – It was FANTASTIC. – THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DO THINGS RIGHT! ARRRR to the Kelowna Yacht Club and Sponsors and Volunteers of this amazing event!

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DO NOT take the poisonous swine flu vaccine!

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Damn Yankees!

Like the Free State Project in reverse, in the early 1900’s American farmers’ organizations headed north with their socialist politics, leading to the creation of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.) which swept provincial elections in Saskatchewan in 1944 to become the first socialist government in North America. In 1961 the C.C.F. became the New Democratic Party (NDP) which still exists in the modern day.

This sample clip is from the film “Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism” which explores Socialism’s meteoric rise and spectacular fall in a three-hour PBS documentary miniseries. The film traces socialism’s evolution through a series of compelling profiles of the movement’s most important figures: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Eduard Bernstein, Samuel Gompers, Clement Attlee, Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, Deng Xiaoping, Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair and the man who first coined the term “socialism,” Robert Owen.

A summary of the chapters within the 3 hours:

HOUR 1: THE RISE

ROBERT OWEN & UTOPIAN SOCIALISM IN NEW HARMONY INDIANA
In 1825 a progressive British industrialist travels to America to create a utopian community. Owen believes that abolishing private property will liberate mankind.

MARX AND ENGELS: BIRTH OF A MANIFESTO
Two young Germans forge a friendship that gives birth to the Communist Manifesto. Their analysis of history as a struggle between classes and their prophecy of the inevitable overthrow of capitalism define the movement.

EDUARD BERNSTEIN & A CRISIS OF FAITH
At the end of the 19th century, the intellectual heir of Marxism tries to reconcile the prediction of labor’s revolt with the reality of improved working conditions. The movement splits, Communism and Social Democracy part ways.

LENIN & THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
Vladimir Lenin responds to Bernstein’s critique by igniting a violent revolution and creating the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

SAMUEL GOMPERS & AMERICAN LABOR
While Europe faces revolution, American workers are organized by a former cigar-maker. Gompers rejects socialism and helps give birth to the American Federation of Labor.

CANADIAN SOCIALISM
See above.

HOUR 2: REVOLUTIONS

MUSSOLINI & FASCISM
Inspired by Lenin’s Russian revolution, Italy’s Benito Mussolini embraces socialism and joins forces with Adolf Hitler to create National Socialism, or fascism.

CHINA & THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM
Following World War II, Mao Zedong reforms China through nationalized industry, collectivized agriculture and complete state control over every aspect of daily life.

CLEMENT ATTLEE & SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
In Britain, a different kind of socialism takes hold after the Second World War, democratic socialism. Attlee’s Labour Party creates a comprehensive social welfare system and nationalizes major British industries.

THE KIBBUTZ
The Zionist movement in Israel creates collective socialist villages called kibbutzim. Residents of Kibbutz Ginosar describe the early years of this communal experiment.

JULIUS NYERERE & THIRD WORLD SOCIALISM
With the end of British colonial rule, Julius “Mwalimu” Nyerere turns to socialism to reshape Tanzania. He blends the teachings of Marx with African traditions to create what is heralded as the developing world’s alternative to Soviet-style communism.

GREAT BRITAIN IN THE 1970s
Economic stagnation challenges the Labour Party’s hold on British politics and opens the door for Margaret Thatcher’s conservative government.

THE KIBBUTZ PART II
As the second generation comes of age on the kibbutz, these socialist communities gradually move away from collectivism.

TANZANIA’S UJAMAA VILLAGES
Impatient with the lack of socialist progress, Nyerere begins to force Tanzanian’s to adopt his vision of the ideal collective society.

HOUR 3: THE COLLAPSE

GORBACHEV & REFORM
Mikhail Gorbachev confronts the violent past of Stalinism, but his efforts to bring a new openness to Soviet life have unintended consequences.

DENG XIAOPING & MODERNIZATION
In the 1980s, Deng de-collectivizes the communes that formed the soul of the Chinese Communist revolution. His reforms look suspiciously like capitalism.

GORBACHEV & REVOLUTION
Gorbachev’s efforts to reform socialism in the Soviet Union unleash forces that unravel the State’s control and lead to a complete transformation of the Communist world.

TONY BLAIR & NEW LABOUR
Blair transforms Attlee’s socialist Labour Party into “the party of business.”

THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM
Socialists and capitalists debate the impact of the collapse of communism and the political reversals of Social Democratic parties across Europe. Some ask whether the very definition of socialism is changing.

THE KIBBUTZ PART III
Residents of Kibbutz Ginosar observe how market forces are transforming their community.

For more information or to purchase the DVD or companion book, visit: http://www.pbs.org/heavenonearth/

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