We have 14 individual plots available to garden! The plots are 10’ x 10’, and require about 2-4 hours of work per week. Signing up for a plot means you are responsible for care and clean-up of the plot from when you pay your deposit (Mid April-May) to November 1^st (clean-up deadline). You may register for up to 2 plots per household, space providing.

There will be a $20 fully refundable deposit for each plot before gardening season begins. Deposits must be paid whether you are a returning or new gardener. For more information about this, see attached “Garden Guidelines”.

Returning gardeners have until Tuesday, May 1, 2012 to pay their deposit and renew their plot.

New gardeners have until Friday, May 4, 2012 to register for a plot and pay deposit.

Those who have expressed interest in a plot – make sure you pay your deposit to confirm your spot! Deposits can be paid to Hannah De Jong or Roy Berkenbosch.

We are also looking for volunteers for the larger community plot. Volunteers work in teams in a rotation to weed, harvest, and water the community plot. If you’re interested, contact Hannah De Jong at hannah.dejong@kingsu.ca

Thank you – and I hope to see your green thumbs out there!

Come dressed in your finest threads and prepare to be delightfully entertained by a charming array of musical talent from some of King’s most riveting performers. Come to bid on items in the silent auction, and win everything from pottery and fine wine to yardwork, babysitting, and a catered Indian dinner! Come to savor or simply stuff your face with delicious food. But most importantly, come to support a fantastic cause!

Tickets are $40. Student price is $30. Get your tickets today at the King’s Bookstore, or by contacting hannah.dejong@kingsu.ca.

Babysitting will be available during the dinner.

Thank you for your tremendous amount of support and encouragement so far!

“It is women who must bear the brunt of increasing poverty and decreased opportunity.

We need to proclaim that all life is precious – that girls in Afghanistan are precious, that girl babies are just as precious as boy babies and that women working as servants and in factories contribute economically as much as high flying women (or men) in the corporate world.

Women also need to respect other girls and women – unfortunately when women are disempowered by poverty and have no role in decision making, they can perpetuate injustice, just like Sahar Gul’s female in-laws.

We need women and men of faith who are willing to take a stand for girls and women who have no protection and no power. And we need to remember that we can bring change.”

Read the rest of the article here.

View the full job description here:   Summer Student Intern

DODGE, DIP, DUCK, DIVE, AND DODGE!

Have you got the balls? Come play some serious dodgeball to raise money for the 2012 Honduras Water Project Team!

Each team member needs to raise $2,400 to cover flights, in-country living expenses, and the materials and partner support for the project. They need your help!

Get a team of six together and sign up outside the Student Life office at King’s to play. Everyone welcome!
$10 per team member. Team funds are due to Hannah De Jong by March 1st. Big prize to the winners!

UNLEASH RUBBER FURY!!!!!

January 18 and 19, 2012

Black Friday, Occupy Wall Street, economic instability – these topics are front and centre in public discourse – and front and centre at this season’s

King’s University College’s semi-annual Interdisciplinary Studies conference as well.  Our theme is “You’re Richer WHEN you Think”.  Our plenary session lectures will be offered by Scott Bader-Saye, author of “Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear”; William Cavanaugh, author of “Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire”; and also Aiden Enns, editor of GEEZ Magazine.  There will also be several breakout sessions and a Fair Trade Fair.  For more information please visit www.kingsu.ca .  Admission is free of charge and open to the public.

View the complete schedule here.

The Debt Crisis: A case of false memory syndrome

by Trevor Harrison

“The acclaimed author, Milan Kundera, has written that, “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” But the ongoing world financial crisis shows how false memories can fool us and make us unable to confront corporate power.

For over a year, we have been bombarded with stories of the threat of “sovereign defaults.” The PIGS – one can imagine political conservatives salivating as they arrived at that acronym – Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain (to which add another “I” if one includes Ireland) have been roundly denounced for the size of their public debt to GDP (83 percent in Portugal, 94 percent in Ireland, 118 percent in Italy, 144 percent in Greece, and 63 percent in Spain). Then, to these countries as the year progressed was added the United States at 60 percent to GDP.

In terms of the latter, US debt is substantially lower than it was at end of the Second World War. Government spending helped win the war (in conjunction with the other Allied countries), while also pulling the country out of the Great Depression and, through the programs of the New Deal, set the stage for economic growth and a more egalitarian society in the decades that followed.”

For the rest of the article, click here.

Dr. Harrison is Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Lethbridge.  He is also co-director of the Parkland Institute.

The Parkland Institute is an Alberta research network situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. It operates within the established and distinctive tradition of Canadian political economy and is non-partisan.

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