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Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

From: World Peace Map
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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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Vigil for Victims of Bombings PDF Print E-mail
Friday, September 8, 12pm
Pier 22, 1055 Marginal Road, Halifax

Join members of the Halifax Peace Coalition, Voice of Women for Peace, and the Raging Grannies for a vigil to mourn the victims of bombings.

Human Rights Watch reports innocent civilians are disproportionately injured or killed by aerial bombing campaigns. The vigil is taking place at the site of the Canadian Defence Security and Aerospace Exhibition Atlantic where some of the biggest weapons manufacturers in the world, such as Boeing, Raytheon, and General Dynamics, will be exhibiting their war-fighting systems. We condemn the arms trade that reaches $1 trillion annually and accounts for tremendous death and destruction around the world. We protest the companies that manufacture fighter jets, bombs, and cluster munitions that cause all this suffering. We also condemn the appearance at Nova Scotia International Air Show of the military aircraft, such as the U.S. Stealth Bomber and F-16 fighter jets, that possess nuclear and conventional bombs and cluster munitions.

Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition. Sponsored by the Voice of Women for Peace. Special performance by the Raging Grannies. This vigil is in response to the Nova Scotia International Air Show (War Show) [this are the product demonstration portion of the convention] that is taking place on the weekend. For more information, please email us at hfxpeace_AT_chebucto.ns.ca.

Location: Pier 22, 1055 Marginal Road, Halifax
(off of Lower Water St., on the waterfront behind the Westin Hotel)
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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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