Getting ready for Festin, AGM and network meetings

Staff, volunteers and consultant all working full out to get ready for next week.  We are SO excited about our events but its a race against the clock the finalize everything.  The Annual General Meeting, in and of itself is huge:  new Board, new bylaws.  The Festin, the RAD "coming out" in Montreal, as an organization that lives here, in this city, with a whole bunch of wonderful inspiring partners doing wonderful inspiring things. I am worried we shall have to tell our speakers they have 4 minutes, not five. We had a confirmation from Melissa Mollen Depuis tonight, which is great news. The connection to Idle No More was missing in this event so far.  The network events are also shaping up to be facinating, and Wednesday panels on policy change (with Libby Davies and Rod Macrae) and on trade (with Sophia Murphy and Scott Sinclair) promising to raise a bunch of important issues for how we shall move forward together.