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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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Operation Enduring Failure: Canada's Role in Afghanistan PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, September 24 7pm
KTS Lecture Hall, New Academic Building at King's College, 6350 Coburg Rd

Join Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls, co-directors of the US-based Afghan Women's Mission and authors of the recently released book Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence for  a discussion of Canada and the International Community's Role in Afghanistan.
In the wake ongoing large-scale civilian casualties in Kandahar province as a result of Canadian and US-lead military operations, as well as the recent deaths of Canadian forces and reservist personnel, both Kolhatkar and Ingalls focus upon the consistent failings of the US-lead Operation Enduring Freedom, to deliver the security and development that has been promised to the country by Western leaders.  In addition, both authors focus upon what they see as the dangers of Canada's role in fighting a counter-insurgency-style war against the elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern provinces.

About the authors:

SONALI KOLHATKAR and JAMES INGALLS are the co-directors of the Afghan Women's Mission, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that works with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).  In February 2005, Kolhatkar and Ingalls traveled to Afghanistan to witness firsthand the results of U.S.policy, and to understand how ordinary Afghans felt about the war.

Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and producer of Uprising, a popular, daily, drive-time program on KPFK, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles.

James Ingalls is a Staff Scientist at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology.


For a flavour of their talk, you can listen to this radio interview recorded in Halifax for CKDU Radio. Listen online at http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=19353

More information at:
http://www.nspirg.org or call 902-405-9480.
www.rawa.org
www.afghanwomensmission.org

 
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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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