[sust-mar] Upcoming events for peace, earth & justice (I'm coming to Halifax Nov. 1-8)

Tamara Lorincz tlorincz at dal.ca
Tue Oct 25 02:49:51 EDT 2016 

Dear Sust-Mar Friends,

Please find below 20 upcoming events for peace, earth & justice that includes three federal consultations and some new important resources. Please spread the word. I'd love to see you - please join me: I am protesting the warships outside Irving Shipyard at noon on Nov. 2, presenting on climate & militarism at noon at Dal on Nov. 3, presenting on a panel on military sexual violence at SMU on Nov. 4,  and attending the Voice of Women for Peace conference from Nov. 4-6. Hope to see you at some of the events and while I'm in Halifax from Nov. 1-8. Looking forward to being back on the beautiful east coast!

In solidarity,
Tamara Lorincz

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LECTURE:  “THE ARCTIC OCEAN, ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, AND THE LAW OF THE SEA” 
Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 07:00 PM
Rm 104, Schulich School of Law, 6061 University Avenue
Dalhousie University
Tore Henriksen is a professor of law at UiT The Arctic University of Norway who specializes in the law of the sea. He was the first director of the LLM program on law of the sea, established at UiT in 2008. Since earning his PhD in international fisheries law in 2001, he has published on international marine environmental law and international maritime law. In recent years, he has been particularly interested in the law of the sea as applied to the Arctic. Professor Henriksen is the director of the K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea (JCLOS). The research centre was established in 2013 based on funding from a private foundation, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and other external funding. JCLOS currently employs 27 associates who cover a wide spectrum of issues relating to the law of the sea. Free public lecture. Contact: lauri.macdougall at dal.ca
https://www.dal.ca/news/events/2016/10/27/the_marine___environmental_law_institute_presents__tore_henriksen.html

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LECTURE: “AFTER THE SANDS: ENERGY AND ECOLOGICAL SECURITY FOR CANADIANS”
Thursday October 27, 2016 - 07:00 PM
Ondaatje Auditorium, McCain Building, 6135 University Ave. 
Dalhousie University
Gordon Laxer is the Founding Director of the Parkland Institute and a professor emeritus at the University of Alberta. He has authored six books, including Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada, which received the John Porter Award in 1991 for the best book written about Canada. His latest book After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians (Douglas and McIntyre, 2015), was nominated for the 2016 John W. Dafoe prize for non-fiction literature and won the Errol Sharpe Book Prize in May of this year. 
https://www.dal.ca/news/events/2016/10/27/ess_lecture_series__after_the_sands__energy_and_ecological_security_for_canadians.html
Free public lecture.

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FILM SCREENING: “HALIFAX’S ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT: A CHRONICLE” 
A Film Screening Event Marking the 25th Anniversary of The Landmark 1991 Documentary, No Harbour for War
Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 7pm
Room 105, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, 6061 University Avenue, Halifax, NS
No Harbour For War, chronicles the history of the City of Halifax and its intimate entwining with imperialist war, while also poignantly covering Halifax’s anti-war and anti-imperialist movement of the 1980s & 1990s. This event reclaims the historical memory and power of this broad and vibrant movement. A panel discussion featuring the film-makers and some of the more than 25 voices that appear in the documentary will discuss the legacy of Halifax’s anti-war movement and the current challenges that face today’s anti-war and peace forces. The film will be followed by discussion with Producer / Director Chuck Lapp, Co-Director Bill McKiggan and anti-war activists featured in the film. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/673320392824979/ 

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WEDNESDAYS AGAINST WARSHIPS! RALLY
Wednesday, November 2
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Outside the Irving Shipyard, 3099 Barrington St., Halifax
At the Niobe Gate Entrance near Devonshire Avenue. 
The Government of Canada is wasting $40 billion to build a new fleet of surface combatants at the Irving Shipyard in Halifax. We do not need warships, we need green jobs, affordable housing, child care and better public transportation. Please join me to say “NO to warships and a war economy and YES to a green economy, action on climate and peace.” Organized by Tamara Lorincz, for more info: tlorincz at dal.ca 
In recognition of the UN International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict (http://www.un.org/en/events/environmentconflictday/) AND in solidarity with the WECAN’s ‘Women Act for Climate Justice: Ten Days of Global Mobilization’ October 28-November 6 http://wecaninternational.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/330389227326993/ 

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LECTURE: “HEALING DIVIDED SOCIETIES: THE FORUM FOR CITIES IN TRANSITION”
Wed, Nov 2, 2016 - 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM
Location: Burke Building Burke Theatre B
Halifax, Saint Mary’s University
Speaker Padraig O’Malley is an Irish peacemaker, noted author and professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston who specializes in the problems of divided societies, such as South Africa and Northern Ireland. He has written extensively on these subjects and has been actively involved in promoting dialogue among representatives of differing factions. O’Malley is the 
John Joseph Moakley Chair for Peace and Reconciliation in the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Free Public Lecture. All welcome. More info: http://www.smu.ca/about/events/calendar.html/?view=fulltext&month=11&day=2&year=2016&id=d.en.105411&timestamp=1442008800&

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“A CLIMATE FOR WAR? A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF WESTERN MILITARIES’ GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, DEFENCE EXPENDITURES AND ENERGY SECURITY STRATEGIES” 
Free public lecture by Tamara Lorincz
Thursday, November 3
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lord Dalhousie Room of the Henry Hicks Building, Dalhousie University
VOW and the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies are co-hosting a talk entitled “A Climate for War?” about the fuel consumption and climate impacts of the American, British and Canadian militaries. It investigates how emissions by these militaries are reported or not in the national greenhouse gas inventories submitted to the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change. Tamara Lorincz graduated with an MA in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom in 2015. She was awarded the Rotary International World Peace Fellowship for 2013-2014 and was a senior researcher for the International Peace Bureau in Switzerland. She has an LLB/JSD and MBA specializing in environmental law and management from Dalhousie University. Tamara is the former Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network and spokesperson for the Halifax Peace Coalition. Her current research focuses on the military’s impacts on the environment and climate change, the nexus of peace, sustainable development and security, gender and international relations, and military sexual violence. The lecture will take place at noon in the Lord Dalhousie Room of the Henry Hicks Building (the clock tower building). The event is free and open to the public. In recognition of the UN International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict (http://www.un.org/en/events/environmentconflictday/) AND in solidarity with the WECAN’s ‘Women Act for Climate Justice: Ten Days of Global Mobilization’ October 28-November 6 http://wecaninternational.org/ 
Organized the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace (NSVOW).
For more information, please contact http://vowpeace.org/  or contact: info at vowpeace.org or phone: 416-603-7915 / (local) 902-455-8544
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/202311733537482/ 

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PREMIERE FILM SCREENING “PARTNERS IN PEACE” IN HALIFAX ON NOVEMBER 3
Thursday, November 3
7:00-9:00 p.m
Paul O'Regan Hall, Central Branch Library located at 5440 Spring Garden Road in Halifax
VOW and the Halifax Public Libraries are co-hosting the premiere screening of the new documentary “Partners in Peace” on November 3. The screening will take place at the Central Branch Library at 7:00 p.m. This inspiring film follows a delegation of Canadian and American women on a journey to Israel and Palestine. Their quest is to learn about the decades-long conflict and to reach out in solidarity to women activists striving amidst the turmoil. The event is free and open to the public.  More details here: http://www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/programs.html?ids=54682&d=1 
Free, public event. All welcome. 
Organized the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace (NSVOW).
For more information, please contact http://vowpeace.org/  or contact: info at vowpeace.org or phone: 416-603-7915 / (local) 902-455-8544
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1793632220912838/

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BREAKFAST TALK: “MY JOURNEY FOR PEACE ACROSS EUROPE” 
Friday, November 4
7:15 AM – 8:30 AM
The Westin (Yuk Yuk's), 1181 Hollis St
Presenter: Tamara Lorincz was awarded the Rotary International World Peace Fellowship for 2013-2014. As part of the fellowship, she attended the University of Bradford where she graduated with an MA in International Politics & Security Studies (distinction) in 2015. Her fellowship included an Applied Field Experience where she worked for the International Peace Bureau as a senior researcher in Geneva, Switzerland. While in Europe for two years, she travelled extensively for peace meetings and conferences visiting thirteen countries. Tamara will share what she learned about European peace activism and peace research.  Buffet breakfast is $20, which supports the Rotary Club’s community work.
Organized by the Rotary Club of Halifax Harbourside
For more info: http://rotaryhalifaxharbourside.ca/event/club-meeting--tamara-lorincz---2013-14-peace-fello/

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VIGIL: WHITE POPPIES FOR PEACE 
(END THE WARS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ; NO WAR WITH RUSSIA)
Friday, November 4
12:00-1:00
Outside the Halifax Central Library
Annual white poppy for peace vigil to reflect on the social and environmental costs of war. The white poppy campaign was started in Britain in 1933 by the Women’s Co-operative Guild as a “definite pledge to peace that war must not happen again”. This campaign has been continued over the years by the British Peace Pledge Union and peace activists all over the world. The white poppy can be worn alone or with the red poppy. Many of the women in the Guild had lost husbands, brothers, sons and lovers in the First World War. The symbolism of the white poppy expands our consciousness to include all of the human casualties of war as well as the environmental devastation.
*We will stand for peace and call to end the war in Syria, end Canada’s fuelling of the bombing of Syria and Iraq, and end Canada’s involvement in dangerous and destabilizing NATO operations in Eastern Europe – No war with Russia. Free, public event. All welcome. 
Organized the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace (NSVOW).
For more information, please contact http://vowpeace.org/  or contact: info at vowpeace.org or phone: 416-603-7915 / (local) 902-455-8544

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PANEL & PUBLIC DISCUSSION: MILITARY SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Friday, November 4
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Room 101, Atrium Building, Saint Mary’s University off Inglis St.
Panelists are Dr. Shelly Whitman, Dr. Maya Eichler and Tamara Lorincz
Join us for a free panel and public discussion about sexual harassment and sexual abuse in the Canadian military and in UN peacekeeping. We will discuss the 2015 External Review into Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Harassment in the Canadian Armed Forces and the first annual progress report released earlier this year. Is the federal government doing enough to stop sexual violence within its ranks? Dr. Shelly Whitman is the Executive Director of the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative at Dalhousie Univerity. Dr. Maya Eichler is an Assistant Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Social Innovation and Community Engagement at Mount Saint Vincent University. Eichler is working on a Civilian-Military Response to Military Sexual Violence. Tamara Lorincz is a member of the Voice of Women. Lorincz recently graduated with an MA in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. Her dissertation was entitled, “The War Within: A Comparative Analysis of the Pervasiveness, Prosecution and Politics of Violence Against Women in Uniform in the American, British and Canadian militaries.” 
Free, public event. All welcome. 
[Campus map: https://www.smu.ca/documents/campus-map.pdf]
Organized the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace (NSVOW).
For more information, please contact http://vowpeace.org/  or contact: info at vowpeace.org or phone: 416-603-7915 / (local) 902-455-8544

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CONFERENCE "WOMEN TAKING ACTION FOR PEACE: PERSONAL, POLITICAL, GLOBAL" 
Saturday, November 5
9:00-5:00 p.m.
Sobey Building, Saint Mary’s University (see costs below)
On Saturday, Nov. 5, VOW has an all-day conference from 9-5 (doors open at 8:30 for registration and a light breakfast).  Lunch and snacks will also be provided.  The conference will take place at the Sobey Building at Saint Mary's University on the top floor in the Unilever Lounge. The Sobey building is the farthest building to the right as you look at the campus from Robie Street. Topics include “Creating the Successful Grassroots Movement to Ban Uranium Mining in Nova Scotia” by Gillian Thomas and Donna Smyth, “Why Human and Legal Inequality Exists for Women and Girls Who Survive Non-State Torture” by Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, “Reframing the Halifax Explosion as an Act of War” by Janet Maybee,”Development and Implementation of Local and International Peace Education Programming” by Bridget Brownlow, and “Nuclear Basics in a Nuclear Age” by Nancy Covington. There will also be breakout and small group sessions. Organized the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace (NSVOW): http://www.nsvow.org/
[Campus map: https://www.smu.ca/documents/campus-map.pdf]
Cost for Conference Saturday Only                                  
$30 – VOW member (lunch and snacks included) / $35 – VOW non-member (lunch and snacks included)
$20 – student (unwaged) (lunch and snacks included)
Lunch and snacks will also be provided.  *No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 
Organized the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace (NSVOW).
For more information and to register, please contact http://vowpeace.org/conference-registration/ or contact: info at vowpeace.org or phone: 416-603-7915 / (local) 902-455-8544

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GALA DINNER & CEREMONY: “OUTSTANDING WOMEN FOR PEACE AWARDS” 
Saturday, November 5
6:00-9:30
Unilever Lounge, Sobey Building, Saint Mary’s University
Dinner, Awards Ceremony and Silent Auction (see costs below)
That evening, Saturday, Nov. 5, we have our “Outstanding Women for Peace Awards” Dinner from 6-9:30.  We will be awarding the Muriel Duckworth Award for Peace Activism, the Shirley Farlinger Award for Peace Writings, the Anne Goodman Award for Peace Education, and the Kim Phuc Youth Award. There will be entertainment by spoken word performer, El Jones, and songs by Sandy Greenberg.  The awards program will start at 7:00, and anyone wanting to come at that time after the dinner is welcome to come without registering.  [Campus map: https://www.smu.ca/documents/campus-map.pdf]
$50 – regular price / $75 – solidarity price /$30 – student/unwaged price
No charge after dinner
Organized the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace (NSVOW).
For more information and to register, please contact http://vowpeace.org/conference-registration/ or contact: info at vowpeace.org or phone: 416-603-7915 / (local) 902-455-8544

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AGM: CANADIAN VOICE OF WOMEN FOR PEACE 
Sunday, November 6
10:00-1:30 Meeting & Lunch / Reception 2:30-4:30 PM
Unilever Lounge, Sobey Building, Saint Mary’s University
Doors will open at 9:30 for registration and a light breakfast. Lunch will also be provided. We will start the meeting at 10:00. We will hear National, Financial, Chapter and Camp Reports from across the country. We will elect our Board of Directors, and we will hear reports from three VOW members on activities of the past year. Tamara Lorincz will report on the submission she did on behalf of VOW for the Canadian Defence Review entitled “FROM PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY TO SUSTAINABLE PEACE: A Gender-Based, Eco-Feminist and Nonviolent Approach to Canadian Defence and Security Policy”. Yusur Al Bahrani will report on her stay in Jordan, where she researched and wrote about women activists there, and Lyn Adamson will report on her very recent trip where joined 150 women activists from India and around the world gathered for a four day conference on peace and nonviolence. Then at 2:00, we will break, and travel to the Black Cultural Centre in Cherry Brook, Nova Scotia for a reception from 3-4:30pm. Transportation will be offered at no charge by private individuals with cars, or at no charge by taxi.
$30 – VOW member / $35 – VOW non-member / $20 – student
Light breakfast, lunch and snacks will also be provided.  *No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
For more information and to register, please contact http://vowpeace.org/conference-registration/ or contact: info at vowpeace.org or phone: 416-603-7915 / (local) 902-455-8544

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RACISM: INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES
Wednesday November 9, 2016 
7:00 PM
McNally Theatre Auditorium, Saint Mary's University
A discussion on racism from Indigenous perspectives, with Senator Murray Sinclair, former Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Free public lecture. Contact: Dr. Ingrid Waldron: iwaldron at dal.ca
https://www.evensi.ca/racism-indigenous-perspectives-saint-marys-university/188572266 

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AN EVENING WITH TWO OF NOVA SCOTIA’S MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ORIGINATORS
Aiming for Net Zero Speaker Series
Wednesday, November 16, 7:00 pm
H-19 Auditorium, Dalhousie School of Architecture
5410 Spring Garden Road, Halifax
Please join the Ecology Action Centre’s Built Environment Committee for a discussion on setting new goals for the built environment, with Bill Lahey and Marty Janowitz. Bill Lahey is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Efficiency One. He was recently named as the new President of Kings College, and is a former Deputy Minister, Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour. Marty Janowitz is the Chair of the Nova Scotia Round Table on Environment and Sustainable Prosperity. Marty is the Vice President and Discipline Leader, Sustainable Development Stantec, And the former Executive Director, Clean Nova Scotia, and former President,  Nova Scotia Nature Trust. They each have vast experience, and together play leading roles in some of Nova Scotia’s and Canada’s most significant environmental policy, regulatory and planning processes.
We hope to learn what role the EGSP Act may play to establish improved requirements to reach net zero in all buildings in Nova Scotia, and the impact that such goals will have over the next five years and into the future.
More info: https://ecologyaction.ca/press-release/aiming-net-zero-speaker-series 

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GOVERNMENT OF CANADA LAUNCHES PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS ON THE 2017 FEDERAL BUDGET
http://budget-lebudget.ca/
Share your ideas on how to strengthen Canada’s middle class and how to grow our economy over the long term. To participate, you can take survey, join an online public forum, or send an email or tweet with #Budget2017. http://budget-lebudget.ca/about 
 Deadline is January 1, 2017. *Please call the federal government to move the $23 billion from the military to critical social and environmental needs. Thank you, Tamara Lorincz


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GOVERNMENT OF CANADA LAUNCHES PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS ON NATIONAL SECURITY (DEADLINE DECEMBER 1)
The federal government has launched public consultations and a green paper on National Security. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2016. The specific areas covered are: Accountability, Prevention, Threat Reduction, Domestic National Security Information Sharing, Passenger Protect Program, Criminal Code Terrorism Measures, Terrorist Entity Listing Procedures, Terrorist Financing, Investigative Capabilities in a Digital World, and Intelligence and Evidence. VOW will be preparing a submission and will post it on our web site in mid-November. For more information about these federal consultations, please visit: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/defence/nationalsecurity/consultation-national-security.html *Please call the federal government to repeal Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act  (tabled as An Act to enact the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act and the Secure Air Travel Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts). Thank you, Tamara Lorincz

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GOVERNMENT OF CANADA LAUNCHES PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS ON POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF CHARITIES
The Canada Revenue Agency's online consultation on charities' political activities. These consultations are open to everyone. Please email your comments to: consultation-policy-politique at cra-arc.gc.ca . More info: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/chrts-gvng/chrts/whtsnw/pacnslttns-eng.html  All comments are requested by November 25, 2016.

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NEW RESOURCES: 
1. New non-fiction book by Yves Engler “A Propaganda System: How Canada’s government, corporations, media and academia sell war and exploitation”: https://yvesengler.com/ (on tour across Canada now)
2. New non-fiction book by Gordon Laxer “AFTER THE SANDS:  Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians” (on tour across Canada now) http://www.gordonlaxer.com/ 
3. New book of poetry by Sean Howard “The Photographer's Last Picture” http://www.gaspereau.com/bookInfo.php?AID=0&AISBN=9781554471607 
4. New book “Canada Since 1960: A People’s History – a Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture” Ed. Cy Gonick (Judy and Larry Haiven have a chapter)
5. New book “Advancing Nonviolent and Social Transformation: New Perspectives on Nonviolent Theories” Ed. Heather Eaton and Lauren Michelle Levesque (I have a chapter in this book ☺)https://www.amazon.ca/Advancing-Nonviolent-Social-Transformation-Perspectives/dp/1781794715
6. New documentary “The Shadow World” based on the book by Andrew Feinstein “The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade” – watch the film here http://shadowworldfilm.com/ Screened at the Vancouver Film Festival and is the winner of the Edinburg International Film Festival “Best Documentary”
7. This is the new Foreign Affairs parliamentary report on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women Peace and Security entitled “AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GLOBAL LEADERSHIP: CANADA AND THE WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY AGENDA Report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development” http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/HOC/Committee/421/FAAE/Reports/RP8433298/421_FAAE_Rpt03_PDF/421_FAAE_Rpt03-e.pdf [(Please note of the 10 members on the committee only 1 is a woman and of the 12 other MP participants only 1 is a woman (see p. 5)]
8. Report you might not have heard of “Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in Canada” http://deepdecarbonization.org/countries/ 

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HELP SUPPORT THE SIERRA CLUB ATLANTIC CHAPTER’S RE-IMAGINING THE HALIFAX HARBOUR INITIATIVE
Crowd funding: https://smallchangefund.org/project/vWAhmWjznYf27uPMi 
Through the Re-imagine Our Harbours project, we will promote dialogue and scenario planning based on local ecosystem facts, encourage scientific literacy and environmental education. The key features of the program will be an informational kiosk, an interactive monitoring station to inspire grassroots incentive-based, experiential learning and the use of creative contests to help promote the project. We will work with local artists to develop of a vision of our Harbour for the next generation. We hope to use this vision as an incentive to encourage the public to generate facts through a citizen science station. With your support, we can create a space for grassroots creative engagement and overcome negative public perceptions to create a new narrative for our waters.

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This month, October, is Women’s History Month (http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/commemoration/whm-mhf/index-en.html)
Do you know about 71-year old Elizabeth Penasue, a respected Innu elder and activist in Newfoundland & Labrador, who walked against the Muskrat Falls Hydro Dam this past February? 
Find out more about this incredible Canadian woman: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/elizabeth-penashue-labrador-muskrat-falls-walk-1.3462007 
Sign the petition in support of hunger striker Billy Gauthier who is opposed to the dam:  https://www.change.org/p/end-billy-gauthier-s-hunger-tell-nalcor-government-to-clear-muskrat-falls-reservoir/sponsors/new  AND Make Muskrat Right petition: http://makemuskratright.com/sign-the-petition


In solidarity for peace, earth & justice, 

Tamara Lorincz

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