{"id":715,"date":"2018-10-18T20:46:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T04:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:46:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T04:46:51","slug":"agm-28-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"AGM 28 October 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>\u201cHuman Rights from a Faith Perspective\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>All are invited to come and enjoy this year\u2019s annual gathering, from 2 to 4:30 pm<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AGM-2018-VMS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-716 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AGM-2018-VMS-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AGM-2018-VMS-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AGM-2018-VMS-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AGM-2018-VMS-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AGM-2018-VMS.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a> on Sunday Oct 28th, which will include a keynote address (see below), election and introduction of 2 new board members, a review of the main events and partnerships of the past year, questions, refreshments and socializing.<\/p>\n<p>Our keynote speaker for this year\u2019s AGM is Moussa Magassa, who has been nominated for the Muslim seat of the Victoria Multifaith Society.<\/p>\n<p>Moussa\u00a0Magassa is the Human Rights Education Advisor for the Dept. of Equity and Human Rights at UVic. His\u00a0areas of interest include human rights education, global and transformational leadership, ethics and social justice activism, social transformation and peacebuilding, and immigration and refugee studies. Magassa is a\u00a0PhD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at UVic. He holds\u00a0an\u00a0M.A in Human Security and Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University in Victoria, and a BA (Hons) in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies from the Kwazulu-Natal University, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The AGM will be held from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, 28 October, at the Ismaili Jamatkhana,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/maps\/place\/1250+Esquimalt+Rd,+Victoria,+BC+V9A+3N8\/@48.4303046,-123.4174849,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x548f735026538efb:0xaf250e001e4ea205!8m2!3d48.4303046!4d-123.4152962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.google.ca\/maps\/place\/1250%2BEsquimalt%2BRd,%2BVictoria,%2BBC%2BV9A%2B3N8\/@48.4303046,-123.4174849,17z\/data%3D!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x548f735026538efb:0xaf250e001e4ea205!8m2!3d48.4303046!4d-123.4152962&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1540010108532000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEvH2F0Vz8I0xVbjFuGNjXJRrxI2A\">1250 Esquimalt Rd.<\/a><\/u>, Victoria. There is no charge. VMS membership can be renewed at the AGM or at any other event, at $10 per year for an individual member, or $50 per year for an organization or faith group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHuman Rights from a Faith Perspective\u201d All are invited to come and enjoy this year\u2019s annual gathering, from 2 to 4:30 pm on Sunday Oct 28th, which will include a keynote address (see below), election and introduction of 2 new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=715\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}