[*Organizing meeting for Tibet demonstration is this Thursday, April 3 at 7pm at 6050 University Avenue at Dalhousie, Room 142 (Teaching Lab 3) to plan and to make a banner.]
Thursday, May 18 4:30-6:00 PM Room 255, Sobey Building, Saint Mary's
University, Halifax Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., former Senator and UN Disarmament Committee
Chair, will speak from his new book "Beyond Hiroshima". Free public
discussion. All welcome.
Wednesday, March 29, 7:30pm
Weldon Law Building, Room 105, 6061 University
Ave. Premiere screening of the acclaimed
film Aristide and the Endless Revolution and a report-back from a
recent trip to Haiti by independent journalist Stuart Neatby. $4
donation. "Award-winning filmmaker Rossier has created a moving
and informative testimony to the Haitian peoples'struggles against
oppression, and the role played by outside influences and interests in
their country."
Saturday, March 18, 12pm
Farmer's Market (Lower Water St.)
For a peace march to Victoria
Park March 18 is the third anniversary of the
illegal
invasion of Iraq and once again people all over the world will be
marching to
end the occupation. Events in Halifax will be co-sponsored by HPC and
SCAW (Students Coalition Against War). Join us to help plan this day of
action.
Monday, March 13, 7:30pm
Weldon Law Building, Room 105, 6061 University
Ave. Patrick Elie, a former
cabinet minister in the Aristide government of Haiti and a leading social
justice activist in Haiti, is on a five-week speaking tour across
Canada.
Friday, March 3, 7:30pm
Ondaatje Theatre, McCain Building, 6135 University Ave.
Special screening of the new film "Regarding Cohen" about local Immigration
and Refugee lawyer and founder of the Halifax Refugee Clinic, Lee Cohen.
Tuesday, February 28, 7:30pm
Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Ave., Dalhousie University
Premier Screening of the new National Film Board documentary with director Elle Flanders in attendance.
Thursday February 2, 7 pm McNally Building, Saint Mary's University
Free public talk with columnist Scott Taylor. Also lunchtime public
meeting at the
Lord Dalhousie Room, Henry Hicks Arts & Admin Building, Dalhousie University.
Wednesday January 25, 7:30 pm
Weldon Law Building, 6061 University
Ave. Rm 105
Free public talk by the director of Ottawa's Polaris Institute.
Also lunchtime public talk from 12
-1:30 at the Dalhousie MacDonald Building, University Hall.
This
is your chance to respond to Canada's new International
Policy Statement on-line. It's essential that
members of the foreign affairs committee hear what Canadians think
about this policy. To request to attend the public consultations,
contact the Committee Clerk: Andrew Bartholomew Chaplin, Clerk of the
Committee, Room 637, 180 Wellington Street, House of Commons, Ottawa,
ON K1A 0A6, Tel: (613) 996-1540 Fax: (613) 996-1962 E-mail:
released earlier this year. Make your voice
heard!
For more details and briefing materials click here
Satuday November 19, 1pm Peaceful demonstration
against Canada's betrayal of democracy in Haiti at Victoria Park. Part
of the Pan-Canadian week of action in solidarity with the Haitian
people. Join Canadians from across the country to speak out against
Canada's training of a despotic police force, its
destabilization campaign against an elected, popular government, and
its continuing attempts to legitimize the coup process in Haiti.
Organized by Haiti Action Halifax and the Halifax Peace Coalition.
Friday November 18, 7 pm
Saint Mary's University, Sobey Bldg Auditorium, Rm 255. Justin Podur,
journalist and member of Solidarity Across Borders, the International
Solidarity Movement, and the Toronto Haiti Action Committee, recently
traveled to Haiti with a delegation of independent journalists. His
dispatches shed light on the duplicitous role of Canadian officials in
orchestrating the repression being played out in the poorest
neighborhoods in Haiti. He will present a reportback on his experiences
and on his interviews, which included UN officials, grassroots
activists, Canadian officials, and so-called "chimeres" in Bel Air.
Wednesday November 9,
8-9:30pm Weldon Law Building, 6061 University
Ave., Rm 104
Attend
a town hall where the implications of the policy will be outlined and
participants will have the opportunity to respond on-line. You can
also respond on-line.
Read a
recent report from the Polaris Institute, Report
Decries Rise in Military Spending, Decline in
UN Peacekeeping. (Did you know that in 1992-93, the
government spent a little more than $9 of every $10 earmarked for
overseas missions on UN operations. Today that spending level for UN
missions has dropped to 31 cents out of every $10, and Canada is
incresingly taking part in ad hoc U.S. or NATO-led
operations.)
Tuesday, Nov 8, 7:30-9:30pm
Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Ave., Rm 104
Mel Hurtig will read from his recent writings on a variety of
Canadian concerns and in particular, Canada-US relations, the growing
dangers of nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism, and
political engagement. Quote Hurtig discovered in a secret Department
of Defence report about a future nuclear attack: "You could take
out Halifax quite nicely."
Tuesday, October 11, 7pm
SMU Sobey's Building, Robie St. Join film-maker and journalist Kevin Pina for the
screening of newly released "Haiti: The Untold Story", which
chronicles human rights abuses by the Haitian police and the July 6,
2005 massacre by United Nations forces of unarmed civilians in the
pro-Aristide neighborhood of Cite Soleil.
Thursday, October 6, 7pm
Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Ave., Rm 104
"The militarization of space is a real threat to
survival, a serious threat to survival... maybe the end of the
species." -- Noam Chomsky. Commemorate Make Space for Peace Week
by attending the screening of Arsenal of Hypocracy: The Space Program
and the Military Industrial
Complex. To understand how and why
the space program will be used to fight future wars on earth from
space, it's important to understand how the public has been misled
about the origins and true purpose of the space program.
Friday, September 30, 7:00pm
Weldon Law Building, 6061 University
Ave.,
Rm 104 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.
Saturday, September 24, 1 pm, Victoria Park
Pan-Canada day of action against wars of occupation in solidarity with
our American friends who
will participate in a huge anti-war demonstration in Washington, DC. We
call on our government to
--uphold international law by declaring the war of occupation in Iraq
to be illegal under the charter of the United Nations
--remove Canadian troops from Afghanistan as it is the largest
contingent of support for the US led war of terror
--support US military war resisters wanting to come to
Canada
--stop supporting the murderous Haitian national police,
call for the release of political prisoners and return ousted
democratically
elected leaders in Haiti.
Saturday August 6, 2-4pm, Peace
Pavilion
The mayor of Halifax
will declare August 6, 2005,
the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima,
to be Peace Day in the Halifax Regional Municipality. The Halifax Peace Coalition, Voice of Women, Physicians for Global
Survival will hold a public gathering on that day to commemorate the
60th
anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki and draw attention to
current issues and actions regarding nuclear disarmamentat the World Peace Pavilion, Dartmouth (downtown Dartmouth
Waterfront
immediately on the Rt exit of ferry terminal). Alternate rain locale
The Market, Alderney Landing thought the left exit of the ferry
terminal. Fold a crane to be sent to Hiroshima or make a peace flag to go to the
UN office in NY. Bring along your picnic lunch, chat with a neighbour,
or just enjoy the view and listen to the music.
HPC acts on Canadian policy that fosters
inequity or injustice, root causes of violence. Living in the shadow of
empire, we want a foreign policy that promotes justice, equity, and
peace. We are currently working on Canada's involvement
in:
Students Coalition Against War
(SCAW)