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Upcoming Events and Actions:
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HPC Planning Meetings
Last Thursday of the Month, 7pm
Next Meeting: July 3, 2008  (6050 University Ave, Rm 142)

Help us plan upcoming events and actions. For those used to the weekly meetings, we have decided to reduce the frequency of the full meeting to something more managable: Once a month.  Between that, those working on event planning can meet online or in person to get things going and tell us about their progress at the monthly meetings. 

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Annual Peace Day in Halifax

August 6, 2008

Peace Pavilion in Dartmouth, on the waterfront (Near Alderney Landing)

 3:30-4:30 Join us for our 4th Annual Peace Day Ceremony that will include greetings from the Hakodate Friendship Society, Poetry, Music, Singing and a Dedication of Catlinite Stone used to make Sacred Peace Pipes by Mi'kmaq Elder Bill Lewis.  

 Speakers include: Dr. Thomas Turay (Centre for Development and Peace Education Sierra Leone), and Andrea Hill-Lehr (author of "A Mother's Road to Kandahar").

5-6:30 (Helen Creighten Room, Alderney Public Library): Free Film Screening "Hope for the Future" with Students for Teaching Peace.

 

Sponsored by: Halifax Peace Coalition, Physicians for Global Survival, NSVOW Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace, Students for Teaching Peace

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Recent Events:
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"Stand Up for Tibet: Light the Torch of Peace"
Saturday, April 5  1:00-2:00pm
Spring Garden Public Library

Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition, Students Coalition Against War,  and others.

Find out more: TEAM TIBET "Bring Tibet to the 2008 Olympics"
http://teamtibet.org/ Join the strugge of a freedom loving people to have
their voices heard by supporting Team Tibet.


[*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.]
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Film Showing: War Resisters
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 7pm


   The Halifax manifestation of the cross-Canada demonstration in support of War Resisters who have requested asylum in Canada rather than be forced to fight in the illegal occupation of Iraq is being organized by SCAW (Students Coalition Against War).   They will be showing either "Let Them Stay" or "Yes Sir, No Sir".  

Canada's Role in Afghanistan: An Unembedded Journalist's Report
Thursday, June 14 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Alumni Hall, New Academic Building
University of King's College, Halifax
(Campus Entrance off Coburg Rd.)

Scott Taylor, Esprit de Corps Journalist and Author

A free public lecture

Co-hosted by the School of Journalism, University of King's College

"View from a Grain of Sand" Film Screening and discussion about Canadian involvement in Afghanistan
Please join the Halifax Peace Coalition and the Agora Church for a free film screening of "View from a Grain of Sand".
Followed by a discussion with Scott Taylor of Esprit de Corps magazine.

Friday March 14  7pm Sharp.
2730 Fuller Terrace (corner of Ontario St & Fuller Terrace)

From Kosovo to Kandahar:
Thursday, March 13, 2008  7:30 - 9:00 PM
Room 104, Weldon Law School, 6061 University Avenue, Halifax

Scott Taylor, a former professional soldier, has been editor and publisher of Esprit de Corps, an Ottawa-based magazine since 1988. Since January 2007, Scott Taylor has made two unembedded trips into Afghanistan. In the course of those visits he has interviewed former warlords,



An evening with Malalai Joya
Thursday, November 8, 2007 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Scotiabank Theatre, McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building, Dalhousie University, 6135 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Friday, November 9, 2007 7:00pm - 9:00pm
New Glasgow Public Library

Malalai Joya is a former member of Afghanistan's Parliament. A women's rights advocate who has been dubbed "the bravest woman in Afghanistan", she rose to prominence nationally and internationally in 2003, after publicly denouncing the inclusion of "warlords" within the current NATO-supported government of Afghanistan.

Stand for Peace (Vigil)
Friday, October 12, 2007 Noon-1pm
Lawn of Spring Garden Rd Public Library (corner of Spring Garden Rd. and Grafton St.)

No to the NATO/Canadian combat operation in Afghanistan. No bombing of Iran.
No more killing, no more violence, and no more wars. No more military spending. Yes to justice, yes to nuclear disarmament and yes to the earth.
Join VOW this Friday for their monthly vigil as we stand for peace!

Troops out of Afghanistan; No War on Iran
October 27, 2007 1pm
Victoria Park (Spring Garden and South Park)

   Rally at Victoria Park, followed by a march through Downtown Halifax.

Route: Rally@Victoria Park, then down Spring Garden, Barrington to Grand Parade for second part of rally

HALIFAX PUBLIC FORUM ON CLUSTER BOMBS
Wednesday, October 10 7:30-9:00 PM
Room 303, Dalhousie Student Union Building 6136 University Ave. Halifax

Mines Action Canada will host a free public forum on citizen action against
cluster bombs in the lead up to the negotiations of a new treaty on these
weapons by 2008.

FILM SCREENING: "Arsenal of Hypocrisy: The Space Program and the Military Industrial Complex"
Tuesday, October 9 8:30-9:30 PM
Room 303, Dalhousie Student Union Building 6136 University Ave. Halifax

A free public showing of an important film for International Keep Space for
Peace Week. "Arsenal of Hypocrisy" features Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Coordinator Bruce Gagnon, Noam Chomsky and Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell

Women in Afghanistan Films
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 7pm
Fourth Floor Auditorium, Seton Academic Centre, Mount St. Vincent University

Women in Afghanistan movie nightMovies at 7pm preceded
by bakesale.

Third Annual Peace Day in HRM
Monday, August 6, 2007 3pm-4:30pm
Peace Pavillion of the Dartmouth Waterfront Park

Join us for this annual fun free family-friendly event!

Film: "Arsenal of Hypocrisy: The US Space Program & Its Military"
Thursday, March 1 9:00-10:00 PM
Dalhousie Law School 6061 Univesity Ave. Halifax

Free. Donations appreciated. All Welcome!
About the film - Arsenal of Hypocrisy features Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.

Out of Iraq International Day of Action – Canada Out of Afghanistan National Day of Action
Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:00
Farmers' Brewery Market, Lower Water St.

Featuring speakers, musicians, drummers. This will be a child-friendly march. Bring your friends, family and noisemakers.

Featuring former US Marine and current War Resister Dean Walcott, and other artists and community activists against the war.
Organized by the Students Coalition Against War, the Halifax Peace Coalition and NSPIRG.
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March 18 – International Day of Action PDF Print E-mail
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. The pretexts used to justify the war in Iraq have been proven false, only to be replaced by new lies from the occupiers that they are bringing democracy, freedom and security to people in Iraq. Nothing could be further from the truth. Reconstruction in Iraq is at a standstill and the continued presence of the US/UK forces is creating more violence each day. Most people in Iraq see the US as unwanted occupiers of their country. A poll conducted by the British military and released to the Sunday Telegraph reveals only 1% of Iraqis think that the foreign occupiers are bringing security to Iraq and more than 82% are strongly opposed to the presence of outside forces.

In Canada hundreds of thousands marched to demand that we not get officially involved in the Iraq quagmire yet the Government of Canada continues to support the US agenda in Afghanistan. More than 1500 of our soldiers are being sent there to become embroiled in an increasingly hostile and unwinnable war. Government officials even admit the futility of the operation. Canadian Major General Andrew Lesley recently stated that "Every time you kill an angry young man overseas, you're creating 15 more who will come after you", therefore Canada should be prepared "for 20 years of war". Our soldiers are being sent to a violent war that is getting worse by the day with no end in sight.

The Government of Canada has increased its support for the US administration by issuing an International Policy Statement (IPS) that outlines a role for Canada as henchman to US hawks. The IPS states, "Today's front lines stretch from the streets of Kabul to the rail lines of Madrid to our own Canadian cities. The Government has made a commitment to respond to potential threats to Canadian security before they reach our shores." This is the same logic used by the Bush administration to justify preventive war.

All the while, US soldiers who choose to exercise their right and obligation under international law not to participate in the illegal war in Iraq, are seeking to remain in this country. Canadians opposed the war against Iraq, and now demand that war resisters from the US military be allowed to stay in Canada.

End the occupations of Iraq, Haiti, and Afghanistan. Let the war resisters stay. Join us on March 18th.



The march

March along Barrington St.

was an enormous success, and Michael Franti

Michael Franti

played at the rally. 

More pictures at: HPC Gallery Site, and Maritimes IndyMedia
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Current HPC Campaigns

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:


AFGHANISTAN

HAITI

IRAQ

MAYORS FOR PEACE

MISSILE DEFENSE

SECURITY CERTIFICATES

WAR RESISTERS

KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE

INTERNATIONAL POLICY STATEMENT


 
Please welcome two new groups to the hpc membership!
Students Coalition Against War (SCAW)
www.scaw.ca

 Canadian Federation of Students - Nova Scotia (CFS-NS)
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