[Sust-mar] Please circulate: Events for peace, earth & justice + Conference with Minister of Finance

[Tamara Lorincz]

A variety of events across the province on environment, sustainability
education, peace & social justice. Please circulate! Thank you! 

Happy World Water Day  & The International Day for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination on March 21!

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EVOLVE TO RENEWABLE ENERGY - A FREE PUBLIC LECTURE WITH INTERNATIONAL
RENEWABLE ENERGY EXPERT Paul Gipe 
-       Join international renewable energy expert Paul Gipe for a lively
look at how Feed-in tariffs speed up the shift to renewable energy and slow
down climate change.  With over 30 years experience in renewable energy,
Paul Gipe will show how by adopting a bold programme for renewables Nova
Scotia can be a leader, not a follower along the path to green energy.  A
more inclusive feed-in-tariff in Nova Scotia would creates jobs, financial
benefits, energy affordability and reduce fossil fuel use.
Date:          Wednesday, March 16, 2011 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm with Q & A
Where:        Dalhousie University Killam Library, MacMechan Auditorium
(ground floor), 6225 University Avenue, Halifax
Info:            www.wind-works.org     
Contact:      Peggy Cameron, 902-492-4372, info at pcameron.ca      


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BILL REES "ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT"
Thursday, March 17 at 7pm
Ondaatje Hall, Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building, 6135
University Ave., Halifax, NS.
Professor Rees has taught at the University of British Columbia since 1069
and he is the former director of the School of Community and Regional
Planning at UBC. Much of Rees' work is in the realm of ecological economics
and human ecology and is known in this field as the originator of the
"ecological footprint" analysis. Public lecture organized by the College of
Sustainability: http://sustainability.dal.ca/PUBLIC_LECTURES/


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NOVA SCOTIA’S ECONOMY & THE PROVINCIAL BUDGET WITH MINISTER OF FINANCE
Conference with the Minister of Finance Graham Steele Monday, March 21,
5-6:30 pm at the Scotia Bank Theatre, Sobey Building, Saint Mary’s
University Welcoming remarks by Dr. Dodds, President of Saint Mary’s
University, Q&A and reception Organized by the Economics Society of Saint
Mary’s University at econ.society.smu at gmail.com


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BREAKING RANK: U.S. WAR RESISTER CHUCK WILEY SPEAKS OUT: TALK & FILM
SCREENING Talk & Film Screening “Breaking Ranks”
TOUR DATES:
• Th. March 17, 12:00-2:00 p.m., Riverview Room of Jenkins Hall, Nova Scotia
Agricultural College, College Road, Bible Hill. 
• Th. March 17, 7:00- 9:00 p.m., Rm. 241, Beveridge Arts Centre, Acadia
University, 10 Highland Ave.,Wolfville. 
• Fri. March 18, 12:00-1:30 p.m., Rm. 1107, Mona Campbell, Dalhousie
University, 1459 LeMarchant St., Halifax. 
• Fri. March 18, 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Sobeys 255, Sobeys Bldg., 903 Robie St.
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. 
Free, public talk and film screening with Chuck Wiley, the most senior U.S.
military officer to become a war resister in Canada. Chuck was with the U.S.
Navy for 17 years and deployed to Iraq on the USS Enterprise. In 2007, he
refused to redeploy to Iraq and came to Canada as a war resister. He will
share his compelling personal story of conscience. Plus there will also be a
special screening of the NFB documentary “Breaking Ranks” about four U.S.
soldiers seeking sanctuary in Canada. Chuck is on a tour of Nova Scotia to
raise awareness of the plight of war resisters in Canada and to mark the 8th
anniversary of the illegal war and occupation of Iraq and. Part of the
national campaign to “LET THEM STAY”.  About War Resisters Campaign Canada:
www.resisters.ca  - LET THEM STAY For more information about Nova Scotia
Tour, please contact Halifax Peace Coalition: 
(Web) www.halifaxpeacecoalition.ca (Email) hfxpeace at chebucto.ca (Facebook)
“Halifax Peace Coalition”


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PEACE VIGIL TO END THE WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ Come to mark the 8th
anniversary of the illegal U.S. war & occupation of Iraq. Join the call to
end the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. Sat. March 19, 1:00-2:00 p.m. at Halifax
Public Library, 5381 Spring Garden Rd., Halifax. US War Resister Chuck Wiley
will be joining us!


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WE WERE NOT THE SAVAGES – PLEASE HEAR THE TRUTH BY DR. DANIEL PAUL Tue,
March 22, 11:30am – 1:00pm
Where: Atrium building, room 101, Saint Mary’s University
Description: On Tuesday March 22nd from 11:30 am – 1:00 pm we’re having Dr.
Daniel N. Paul speak as a voice for first Nations people. Dr. Paul’s talk
will take place in the new Atrium building, room 101 Dr. Paul is the Author
of the book “We were not the Savages.”


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GREEN ROOTS SYMPOSIUM: TOOLS FOR CHANGE IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
When: SAVE THE DATE! Fri. March 25 & Sat. March 26, 2011
Who: Educators, students, business owners/representatives, government
representatives & agencies interested in the pursuit of a sustainable Nova
Scotia
What: A symposium to inform attendees about tools for making changes to be
more sustainable at home, at work, in the classroom and in the community
Where: Halifax Region, exact location to be announced shortly
Why: To share stories of successful change made across the province towards
sustainability and to provide tools that inspire support of a more
sustainable Nova Scotia
More updates to come. Stay tuned at www.nsen.ca 
The 2011 symposium is a collaborative effort of SENSE: Sustainability
Education in Nova Scotia for Everyone Working Group of the Nova Scotia
Environmental Network, Nova Scotia Environment, the Nova Scotia Department
of Education, and BALLE Nova Scotia: Business Alliance for Local Living
Economies.


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GUEST LECTURE - "CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY AND THE CREATION OF GHETTO
PALESTINE"
with Jon Elmer
Thursday, March 24. Time: 7pm-9pm
Dalhousie Law School Rm. 105
Sponsored by Canadians, Arabs and Jews for a Just Peace.  Jon Elmer is a
Canadian journalist that has lived in and reported from the West Bank and
Gaza since 2003, currently based in Bethlehem. He is a regular contributor
to Al Jazeera English and IPS news agency; his work has appeared in Le Monde
diplomatique, The Journal of Palestine Studies and The Progressive, among
other publications. His work focuses on liberation movements as well as
military and foreign policy, with a particular focus on Canada. He lectures
regularly throughout Canada and the United States. http://jonelmer.ca
IAW 2010: Canadian policy and the creation of Ghetto Palestine:
http://www.youtube.com/user/apartheidweek#p/u/1/YdDg7mu4Y5Q
Canada-Israel: One of AJE's top 10 features of 2010:
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/05/2010527184439863164.html
Canada in the Middle East, Le Monde diplomatique:
http://mondediplo.com/2010/09/05canada
Interview with Jon on BDS movement:
http://ryersonfreepress.ca/site/archives/2424
More at http://jonelmer.ca/portfolio/


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"INTERCONNECTIVENESS" FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Mar 21/11 (7:00 pm)
Cheryl Bartlett, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Integrative Science
Professor of Biology, Cape Breton University 
Monday, March 21 @ 7 p.m.
KCIC Auditorium, Acadia University
ABSTRACT:  “Interconnectiveness” 
 says Mi’kmaw Elder Murdena Marshall of
Eskasoni First Nation wherever and whenever she explains her Mi’kmaw
culture.  And then she simply chuckles, while insightfully and merrily
continuing to say it, when people tell her the word does not exist in the
English language.  Murdena’s “interconnectiveness” can be viewed as the
dynamic of mindfully living within an expanding sense of holistic
relationships with everything and everyone, i.e. “all my relations” or “all
of Creation”.  Cheryl Bartlett, who is a Canada Research Chair in
Integrative Science, will explore “interconnectiveness” in her presentation
on March 21 – the International Day for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination and the Spring Equinox.  Cheryl will do this using an
integrative approach to bringing together knowledges from different
epistemic communities.  She will also explain the Integrative Science
co-learning journey in Unama’ki – Cape Breton where, for 15+ years,
university researchers and Mi’kmaw Elders have been working together (within
participatory action research projects) to recognize the strengths in both
Indigenous and western scientific knowledges and ways of knowing 
 and to
use these strengths together for the benefit of all. 
www.integrativescience.ca  For more information, contact: Phyllis
Rippeyoung, Coordinator of Women's and Gender Studies at wgs at acadiau.ca


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HUMANITY'S MISSION: CUBA'S MEDICAL INTERNATIONALISM IN HAITI Public lecture
on Cuba's Medical Assistance to Haiti by Dr. William Alvarez Consuegra,
Member of Cuba's Medical Mission to Haiti 7pm, Tuesday, March 22 Room 105
Weldon Law Building Dalhousie University
6061 University Avenue, Halifax
A free event sponsored by the Nova Scotia Cuba Association & Canadian
Network On Cuba In 2010, Dr. William Álvarez Consuegra was a director of
campaign hospitals for the Cuban medical mission in Haiti. He also served
from 2006-2008 in the  Cuban medical mission to Honduras sent in response to
Hurricane Mitch, and the 2005 mission to Pakistan dispatched in the
aftermath of the earthquake that struck that country. Currently he works and
teaches at the Dr. Ernesto Guevara General Educational Hospital, in the city
of Las Tunas, Cuba. Dr. Álvarez Consuegra is 38-years old and speaks Spanish
and English.  Cuba's medical internationalist mission in Haiti is a profound
challenge to those who argue that relations among the world's nations and
peoples are - and can only be - determined by self-interest, the pursuit of
power and wealth. Cuba provides the example that it is possible to build
relations based on genuine solidarity and social love: demonstrating the
alternatives which permit people to realize their deepest aspirations, and
that another better world is possible.


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EARTH DREAM PEACE FILM FESTIVAL IN MAHONE BAY April 8-10 *Lots of great
films including Scott Taylor's "Outside the Wire". The full line-up here:
http://www.planetfriendly.net/calendar/events.php?id=13884


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GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION ON MILITARY SPENDING Tues. April 12 at noon at the
Spring Garden Library in Halifax. Part of the international day of action to
call for the redirection of spending on war and weapons to social and
environmental needs. More details about local event to come. Organized by
the Halifax Peace Coalition and the NS Voice of Women for Peace:
www.halifaxpeacecoalition.ca See also: www.demilitarize.org *Please watch
this: http://demilitarize.org/featured/video-figure-cost-save-world/


(13)
PEACE-ING IT TOGETHER: PEACE EDUCATION CONFERENCE 
April 7-9, Halifax 
Organized by the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union:
http://www.nstu.ca/pklot/peaceing%20it%20together%20brochure%20web.pdf



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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES:  LAND RIGHTS AND RIGHT RELATIONS
With Ed Bianchi, Indigenous Rights Coordinator at KAIROS, and guests from
local First Nations TBA
Saturday April 2nd at St. David’s Presbyterian Church, Halifax
1537 Brunswick St. 9:30AM registration, 3:00PM finish
Join us for conversation on Indigenous rights locally and globally.
Through the participatory Blanket Exercise, learn about Canadian history you
weren’t taught in school. Explore what Canada’s endorsement of the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples might mean for Nova Scotia
and Canada. Discover what you can offer to the journey towards right
relations. Come with your knowledge and your questions. All welcome!  A PWYC
lunch will be provided.
For more information and to register, please contact
stdavids.stright at bellaliant.com
Sponsored by the KAIROS Halifax-Dartmouth group and KAIROS Canada
www.kairoscanada.org


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AFGHANISTAN: OUTSIDE THE WIRE
Esprit de Corps journalist Scott Taylor Talk & Film Screening “Afghanistan:
Outside the Wire” on Apr. 7 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Alumni Hall, King’s
College, 6350 Coburg Rd., Halifax.


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EARTH DREAM PEACE FILM FESTIVAL IN MAHONE BAY 
April 8-10 *Lots of great films including Scott Taylor's "Afghanistan:
Outside the Wire". The full line-up here:
http://earthdreamfilmfest.wordpress.com/

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*Please sign the petition against the $16 billion F-35 stealth fighters:
http://www.ceasefire.ca/ 

*PLUS: Great events planned at Saint Mary’s University for Sustainability
Week March 14-17: http://www.smu.ca/sustainability/  

For peace, earth & justice,

Tamara

Tamara Lorincz
55 Willowbend Court
Halifax, NS CANADA B3M 3L3
Phone: (902) 443-2423
Cell: (902) 478-1379
tlorincz at dal.ca
ECJ: http://www.ecojustice.ca
GN: http://www.space4peace.org/
HPC: http://www.halifaxpeacecoalition.ca/ 
NSEN: http://www.nsen.ca
"A better world is possible"

"Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary
spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility
to poverty, racism, and militarism." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

"Without a doubt, military spending represents the single most significant
perversion of worldwide priorities known today." Former President of Costa
Rica, Oscar Arias, 1999