Summer 2022 Updates & Events

IT’S FESTIVAL SEASON! After two years in suspension, festival season has unleashed into full swing across the prairies. The Pride Festival and Jazz Fest kicked it off in June for Saskatoon.

As we write this, Back to Batoche is wrapping its 50th with exciting news of the Batoche Historic Site lands being returned to the Metis Nation!

Festivals can be a part of our radical self-care and community-care. A chance to celebrate life, reconnect with ourselves and each other, and remember the joy that makes liberation worth fighting for. A time to experience community-care as it could be.

June 2022 Updates & Events

Every month, we start The Stand’s board meeting the same way. First, we approve new member applications from individuals and grassroots groups. We welcomed two new member groups this month – the Saskatoon Peace Coalition and a brand new organization called the Ad Astra Foundation, which is building international solidarity and using a decolonizing perspective to guide international development work.

May 2022 – Updates & Events

May is a month of important commemorations. International Workers’ Day (aka May Day) takes place every year on May 1. We aren’t aware of any Saskatoon events this year, but the Regina & District Labour Council hosted a week of May Day events. A few days earlier on the National Day of Mourning, gatherings were held in remembrance of the 31 Saskatchewan workers who died on the job in 2021. In Alberta, 178 people died from work-related injuries and illnesses last year.

February 2022 – Events & Updates

We’re gearing up for an active year building solidarity, strategy, and skills with the individuals and grassroots groups that are members of The Stand and the progressive activist community as a whole. At our AGM in January, we presented The Stand’s 2022 Priorities from our consultation with grassroots groups. And we’re thrilled to welcome four new board members to help bring our 2022 priorities to life!

September 2021 – Introducing The Stand’s Community Activism and Organizing Calendar!

The Stand Community Organizing Centre is excited to announce the launch of our new online community calendar of public organizing and activist events fWe are excited to announce that The Stand Community Organizing Centre has launched an online, curated Community Calendar for activism and organizing events in Saskatoon/Treaty 6 Territory, and that we are devoting volunteer resources to its maintenance.

Pandemic Protection for Protests

To help keep each other safe from COVID-19 while we rally for justice, The Stand with support from the Student Medical Society of Saskatchewan is providing masks, hand sanitizer, and safety information for rallies and protests in Saskatoon.

June 2020 Update – AGM, New Board, and Black Lives Matter Solidarity March

We are writing with our first update from The Stand – Community Organizing Centre since the COVID-19 pandemic hit our community. On March 19, heeding the advice of 200 Saskatchewan doctors, we closed our doors to the public along with our co-locator Turning the Tide Bookstore. This meant that we effectively shut down services to the public by halting meeting space rentals, co-working, and equipment rentals.

The Gift of Social Change

The holidays can be a tricky time of year for those of us trying to resist consumerism and capitalist exploitation. This year you can support grassroots activism in Saskatoon, all while finding the perfect gift for family and friends!Donate in their name and receive a donation certificate to give to them over the holidays. Big

March Events & Campaigns

Next Up Saskatchewan presents… 4-7pm on Sundays, January – AprilCore Neighbourhood Youth Co-op (905 20th Street West)Next Up Saskatchewan is holding regular space every Sunday at the Core-Neighbourhood Youth Co-op where leaders from diverse backgrounds can come to learn about justice related issues, develop skills as an organizer, and build relationships with others who are working

February Newsletter

Fighting Fascism and Cold Weather Together Saskatoon is in the news for record-setting cold, but the Polar Vortex isn’t keeping this town’s activists down! Last Friday, in some 30 degrees below, 30 activists from groups like Climate Justice Saskatoon, Next Up, and Stop the Cuts came together for a Creativity Social hosted by the Saskatoon