[Sust-mar] LISTING OF 8 PEACE, WOMEN, SOCIAL JUSTICE, & ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS from Sept. 30-Oct. 26

[Tamara Lorincz]

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY - LISTING OF 9 PEACE, WOMEN, SOCIAL JUSTICE, HEALTH
& ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS Great fall line-up. Not comprehensive, so keep your
ear to the ground and mark your calendars!


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1.
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Waging War on the Poor: Canada in Haiti
Halifax Book Launch
FRIDAY, September 30, 7:00pm
Weldon Law Building, Dalhousie University,
6061 University Ave., Rm 104
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Join Yves Engler for the Halifax launch of the newly published "Waging War
on the Poor Majority: Canada in Haiti" (Red/Fernwood Publishing),
co-authored by Yves Engler and Anthony Fenton.

We will also present exclusive video footage from the upcoming documentary
"Haiti: The Untold Story" by Haiti-based journalist Kevin Pina. Discounted
copies of "Canada in Haiti" will be available for sale.

Find out what Canada is doing in Haiti in our name.

Organized by Haiti Action Halifax and the Halifax Peace Coalition
(halifaxpeacecoalition.ca).

"The story of Haiti is one of resistance, of a spirit that exists inside us
all, to assert our essential humanity. Unfortunately the story is also one
of how much the rich and powerful feel threatened by this spirit and how far
they are prepared to go to crush it. While Canadians prefer to see their
government as a force for good in the world, the reality is that it most
often sides with the rich and powerful. "Canada in Haiti" is a powerful cry
for justice and a warning about what can be done in our name when we aren't
looking."

"In both their writings and activism, Yves Engler and Anthony Fenton have
done some of the most important work in exposing Canada's shameful role in
Haiti." -- Naomi Klein, author No Logo.

"Yves and Anthony's book is a crucial weapon in understanding, and acting,
on the paternalistic and neo-colonial role the Canadian government, and its
NGO allies, plays in Haiti." -- Jaggi Singh, Montreal-area activist and
writer.

"Most Canadians will find the revelations of this book shocking, disturbing,
revolting but absolutely undeniable. In graphic detail, Fenton and Engler
describe how, contrary to rhetoric, the neo-colonial "responsibility to
protect" doctrine has in fact translated into a cynical and deadly
socio-political experiment conducted on and against Haitians." -- Jean
Saint-Vil, Ottawa-based Haiti solidarity activist.

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2. 
TAKE BACK THE NIGHT
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2005
7pm at Grand Parade Square 
 

The Take Back the Night March is a critical part of the women's community
here in Halifax. Each year at Dal, women are exploited by those they know
and those they do not. Just this past weekend, two women were made victims
of crime: one woman was attacked on campus; another, in her own bed. TBTN is
one time when women can walk without fear and say NO MORE to gender-based
violence. Our theme this year is: building non-violent communities from the
inside-out. It is important to establish those critical links between
violences perpetuated against women and children and the broader culture of
violence that glorifies aggression and normalizes conflict. We have asked
male participants to march in solidarity with women and carry candles. 

The March this year will be held on September 30 at Grand Parade Square in
Halifax. The evening begins at 7:00pm with speakers, music, and spoken word.
The March itself begins at 8:00pm and ends roughly at 9pm at the Micmac
Native Friendship Centre.


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3.
Amnesty International Halifax is proud to present:
NELOFER PAZIRA

A Bed of Red Flowers:In Search of My Afghanistan

NELOFER PAZIRA is a journalist and filmmaker based in Toronto.  She starred
in Kandahar and co-directed Return to Kandahar. She currently works for
CBC?s nightly newscast, The National. She has recently set up a charity ?
Dyana Afghan Women?s Fund ? to provide education and skills training for
women in the city of Kandahar. 

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
Saint Mary's University
Sobey Building
Scotia Bank Conference Theatre
7:00 - 8:15 p.m. Viewing of Return to Kandahar
8:15 - 8:45 p.m. Reception
8:45 - 10:00 p.m.  Book Reading and Q&A with Nelofer Pazira

Public event, all welcome.  Admission by donation.

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4. 
The Affordable Energy Coalition Invites You to Attend a Public Information
Forum KEEP THE HOMEFIRES BURNING The value and necessity of a ELECTRICITY
RATE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM For Low-Income Nova Scotians

Carole Horne, Field Worker for Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Halifax
and Louise Smith-MacDonald, Co-ordinator of Every Woman's Centre in Sydney
will speak to their experience assisting many of their low-income clients
with difficulties in affording the basic necessity of power, and the
barriers created for these individuals by NS Power policies and expectations
that go beyond the income level of many NS Power domestic clients.

Megan Leslie, Community Legal Worker for Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, will
present a rate assistance model developed for the Affordable Energy
Coalition and presented at the 2004 Nova Scotia Power rate increase
hearings.  The issue is currently under appeal at the Nova Scotia Court of
Appeal.

Often low-income Nova Scotians are faced with the dilemma of heat or eat.
Come learn more about this innovative solution.

When:     Wednesday October 5, 2005
Time:      7-9pm
Where:    Rm 104 Weldon Law Building, 6061 University                      
              Ave, Halifax

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5.
KEEP SPACE for PEACE WEEK
FREE PUBLIC FILM SHOWING ON OCT. 6!

Arsenal of Hypocrisy :
The American Space Plan and U.S. Military Industrial Complex

Thursday, Oct. 6
8:00 - 9:00 p.m. 
Room 104
Weldon Law School Dalhousie University
6061 University Ave.
Free Film

Arsenal of Hypocrisy (2003, U.S., 60 minutes) features Global Network
Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Coordinator Bruce Gagnon, Noam
Chomsky and Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell talking about the dangers of
moving the arms race into space. The one-hour production features archival
footage, Pentagon documents, and clearly outlines the U.S. plan to "control
and dominate" space and the Earth below. The video spells out the dangers of
the Bush "Nuclear Systems Initiative" that will expand the use of nuclear
power in space by building Project Prometheus - the nuclear rocket.
Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon, warns that a war in space would
create massive bits of space debris that would create a mine field
surrounding the Earth and forever pollute the space environment. Mitchell
calls space a fragile environment that must be protected. Noam Chomsky talks
about how the U.S. intends to use space technology to control the Earth and
reminds the viewer that the U.S. refuses to negotiate a global ban on
weapons in space. Chomsky also speaks about the role of the media in
suppressing this important issue. The video contains archival sound of
President Dwight Eisenhower in 1961 warning the American people about the
power of the military industrial complex. Must see! 

Organized by the Society for Corporate Environmental and Social
Responsibility (CESR) and the  Halifax Peace Coalition (HPC) Web site:
www.hfxpeace.chebucto.org / Email: hfxpeace at chebucto.ca 

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6.
Visioning Tibet:  Healing the Blindness of a Forgotten People Halifax
screening with Tibet Vision Project founder, Marc Lieberman, M.D. 
Tuesday October 11, 7.00 pm. Ondaatje Hall, McCain Building, Dalhousie
University FREE ADMISSION 

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7.
KILLAM LECTURE SERIES *Three incredible lectures!!!

All lectures are held in Ondaatje Hall, Dalhousie University, at 8 p.m.

Walden Bello
University of the Philippines
Tuesday, October 18
"How Can We Advance Political and Economic Democracy?"

Corporate-driven globalization accompanied by unilateralist military
intervention and the rewriting of international law has become the main
threat to the consolidation of political and economic democracy globally.
The current global disorder is placed by Walden Bello within an overarching
framework resting on three key concepts: overextension, overproduction, and
crisis of legitimacy.  He addresses not only the causes of the crisis but
discusses strategies to advance peace and democracy globally.

A campaigner for peace and economic justice and author of the bestseller
Dilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire, Walden Bello is
a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the
Philippines.  He is also executive director of the Bangkok-based research
and advocacy organization, Focus on the Global South.


Elizabeth May
Sierra Club Canada
Tuesday, October 25
"Can Civilization Survive Climate Change?"

In June 1988, Canada hosted the first major international conference on
climate change.  The consensus statement of the scientists present began,
"Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive
experiment whose ultimate consequences are second only to global nuclear
war."  The reality is that climate change is not really an environmental
issue.  It is about the survival of the human race.  Elizabeth May asks
whether we are repeating the experience of past advanced civilizations which
ignored the constraints of the natural world, and perished.

Elizabeth May is an environmentalist, writer, activist, and lawyer.   She
has been Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada since 1989 and is a
member of the Board of the International Institute of Sustainable
Development.  May holds a law degree from Dalhousie and in 1999, the
University created a permanent chair in her honour, the Elizabeth May Chair
in Women's Health & the Environment.  She is the author of The Cutting
Edge:  The Crisis in Canada's Forests and three other books.


Paul Rogers
Dept of Peace Studies, University of Bradford Thursday, October 27 "Global
Security, The War on Terror and the New American Century"

Four years after 9/11 and the start of the "global war on terror", the
al-Qaida movement remains active across the world, a bitter
counter-insurgency campaign continues in Afghanistan, Iraq is mired in a war
that has already cost over 30,000 lives and there is a risk of a
confrontation with Iran.   A conflict has now developed between a vision
of
a New American Century and a disparate quasi-religious movement that
threatens that vision.   Moreover, the location of the world's most
abundant oil reserves at the heart of this dispute means that a 30-year war
could well be in prospect.  Paul Rogers considers how this struggle will
shape the future of our world.

A professor in the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University, Paul
Rogers analyzes the linkages between economic disparity, environmental
constraints and international insecurity in fostering conflict.  His most
recent books are Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century and A
War on Terror: Afghanistan and After.  Rogers gives frequent radio and TV
interviews to stations and networks around the world, and writes a weekly
column on international security for the Open Democracy web journal.

For more information about the Killam Lectures 2005, please contact
<<mailto:Philip.girard at dal.ca>mailto:Philip.girard at dal.ca>Philip.girard at dal.
ca.

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8. 
Health Law Institute Seminar Series
The State of Canada's Health Care System

Roy Romanow
Faculty Lounge (Rm. 312), Weldon Law Bldg.
October 20, 2005. 12:00 pm

Seminars will begin at 12:10 and end by 1:30. Time will be allotted for
questions and discussion. A light lunch and hot and cold drinks will be set
out by 12:00. All welcome! No registration required.

Contact: Barbara Carter (494-6184) or Stephanie Revoy (494-6881)

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9.
Announcement of Community Workshops on Oceans Management

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO - Maritimes) recently released a draft
Integrated Oceans Management Plan for the Eastern Scotian Shelf. The draft
Plan sets out objectives and strategies for sustainable use and conservation
of a 325,000 km2 offshore area between Halifax and the Laurentian Channel.
The Government of Canada also recently released a federal Oceans Action
Plan, which identifies the entire Scotian Shelf, including inshore areas, as
a priority region for integrated management. This fall DFO will be holding
community workshops to discuss future directions for oceans management along
the Scotian Shelf. Topics discussed will include:

The draft Integrated Oceans Management Plan, Objectives for Human Use of the
Ocean, Identification of Important Marine Areas & Priorities for Action
Planning
 
Anyone with an interest in marine management, ocean industries, or
conservation is encouraged to participate. Dates and locations are as
follows:

Shelburne: October 18th, Community College, 1:00-4:00pm or 6:00-9:00pm
Sydney: October 20th, Coast Guard College     1:00-4:00pm or 6:00-9:00pm

Sheet Harbour: October 25th, United Church Hall, 1:00-4:00pm only Moser
River: October 25th, IOOF Hall, 6:00-9:00pm only
Guysborough: October 26th, Guysborough Legion, 1:00-4:00pm or 6:00-9:00pm

Comments on the draft Integrated Oceans Management Plan can also be
submitted directly to DFO until October 31st, 2005. For more information or
to register, please contact:

David Millar
Oceans and Coastal Management Division - DFO Maritimes
Ph: (902) 244-6069
Fax: (902) 426-3855
E-mail: Millardc at mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Web: http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/e/essim/essim-intro-e.html

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