For background, as part of the annual arms show, Lockheed-Martin hosts an "Hour of Good Cheer" where they liquor up the people who they hope will buy their products. What is wrong with this?
War is nothing to cheer about.
Procurement of these toys by the government takes money away from Children, Health, Education & the Environment (as well as delayed maintenance and salaries for CF personel)
We believe that attendance at such an event should constitute a violation of the conflict of interest guidelines (both because of the deliberate impairment of judgement, and because of the acceptance of a gift.)
Purchase of these products has a miniscule economic multiplication effect on the domestic economy versus application of these funds to the economic stimulus package.
Saturday, December 20 1:00-2:00PM Victoria Square Park (Corner of South Park St. and Spring Garden Rd.)
Please join us for a solemn vigil to mark the tragic death of 103 Canadians soldiers, 2 aid workers and 1 diplomat and thousands of innocent civilians in Afghanistan. This is the season of peace, so it is important that we take time out of our busy schedules to express our grief and to continue our call for an end of Canada's participation in the war/combat mission in Afghanistan. In December, the United Nations has again raised concern about civilian death from foreign troops and the International Council on Security and Development's study has found that the security situation in Afghanistan has worsened dramatically. We will have a short vigil at the park and then we will march slowly and silently down Spring Garden Road. We will have a special reading of Malalai Joya's latest speech. Malalai came to Halifax last fall and she is the courageous Afghan parliamentarian who was ousted unjustly from the government for her criticism of the corrupt Karzai government and the foreign occupation in her county. She wants peace for the women, men and children in Afghanistan. Please support Malalai's message and come to our vigil and wear black. Signs welcome. Let's show our government that Canadians are concerned about the soldiers' death and show Afghans that we are care about the hardships they are suffering.
Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition. For more information: Web: www.hfxpeace.chebucto.org Email:
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Thursday, December 4th, at 7:00 pm The Potter Auditorium Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building 6100 University Ave, Halifax, NS Presented by the Metro Interagency on Family Violence and the Dalhousie Women's Centre.
In his new book, The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hurshman, and Criminal Domestic Violence in Canadian Homes, Vallée uses Armour's life story and other case studies, including Hurshman's, to prove the need for a dramatic shakeup in North American legislative, law-enforcement, and judicial approaches to domestic criminal violence. Stephen Lewis wrote an impassioned foreword for the book, urging the creation of a fully funded United Nations international agency for women that would provide "a tremendous force for advocacy and intervention" and would "inevitably move toward the recognition that domestic violence is its own holocaust....We're not just fighting for women's human rights; we're fighting for women's lives."
With Thanks to: The Nova Scotia Deputy Minister's Interdepartmental Committee on Family Violence The Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women The Westin Hotel
Thursday November 27th 7pm Room 303 of the Dalhousie Student Union Building *Refreshments Provided, Childcare Available*
A panel discussion looking at the role Halifax plays in supporting the machinery of war. Come hear discussion on military recruitment, "No Harbour for War", the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, and the Dal Lockheed Martin funding, as well as to discuss ways to resist war locally. Featured panelists include: Andria Hill Lehr, whose son was deployed to Afghanistan and who has been a vocal critic of the war. She is also the author of A Mother's Road to Kandahar. Tamara Lorincz, a local peace activist with the Halifax Peace Coalition and the co-recipient of the 2005 International Peace in Space Award. Kaleigh Trace and Jesse Robertson, members of the Student Coalition Against War. Tony Seed, editor and publisher of Shunpiking Discovery Magazine and Shunpiking Online.
Monday, November 24 7:30-9:00 PM Room 105, Dalhousie Law School, 6061 University Avenue Come to watch Evo Morales Ayma, the President of Bolivia, give a profound speech at the United Nations this past September. Learn about the incredible Bolivian Indigenous Peoples' Movement, the new constitution
Friday, October 24: 7-9pm Room 105, 6061 University Avenue Dalhousie University
Join us for a free public talk with Scott Taylor, publisher and editor of Esprit de Corps Magazine and weekly columnist for the Chronicle Herald, as he discusses his recent experiences in Afghanistan and why the current military mission in Afghanistan will not work.
Saturday, October 25th: 1-3pm Beginning at Victoria Park (corner of Spring Garden and South Park), Ending at Grand Parade
Come out, take to the streets, and demand an END to the war in Afghanistan, an END to increased military spending at the expense of our social and environmental programs, and unite with others across Canada taking a stand in solidarity! as part of the National Day of Action. Bring drums, noisemakers, and snazzy slogans to tell the Conservative Minority that we need to negotiate a withdraw now, before another soldier or civilian is injured or killed. We need to take care of our fraying social programs and our fragile environment before we consider investing $490 billion in our military over the next twenty years. We need to make these priorities heard loud and clear, so come out and demand an END to this madness!
FILM NIGHT at the YWCA ON BARRINGTON: a presentation of "Helen's War" (documentary about Helen Caldicott) and "If you Love This Planet" from 7-9pm, September 18th at the YWCA on Barrington. Co-sponsored by the HPC and Physicians for Global Survival. Free. All welcome!
Wednesday, September 3 from 7:00 -9:00 p.m. Just Us! Café, 5896 Spring Garden Road (corner with Carleton St.)
Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Barry Stevens weaves history and a present-day detective story into a visually arresting and personal journey into the heart of desire for ultimate military power. THE BOMBER’S DREAM is a new, landmark, feature-length film that takes a hard look at the hidden history of the most significant military innovation of the past century and addresses the heated moral controversy of aerial bombing. Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition. This special screening of The Bomber’s Dream is in critical response to the Nova Scotia International Air Show (War Show) that is taking place on the weekend.
Tuesday, October 6 7:00 - 9:00 PM Just Us! Café, 5896 Spring Garden Rd., Halifax
Free. All Welcome. *International Keep Space for Peace Week* A free public showing of an important film for International Keep Space for Peace Week. The film features Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Coordinator Bruce Gagnon, Noam Chomsky and Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell talking about the very real dangers of moving the arms race into space. The one-hour production features archival footage, Pentagon documents, and clearly outlines the U.S. plan to "control and dominate" space and the Earth below. Noam Chomsky talks about how the U.S. intends to use space technology to control the Earth and reminds the viewer that the U.S. refuses to negotiate a global ban on weapons in space. He also speaks about the role of the media in suppressing this important current issue. The screening is co-organized with the Nova Scotia Voice of Women.
Thursday, September 4 at 4 PM Cunard Centre (near Pier 21) 961 Marginal Rd.
The vigil takes place during the Canadian Defence Security and Aerospace Exhibition Atlantic (DefSec 2008) where the biggest weapons dealers and military aircraft manufacturers in the world, such as Boeing, Raytheon, and General Dynamics, will be exhibiting their war-fighting systems. At 4pm these weapons manufacturers will be celebrating their “Hour of Good Cheer”: http://www.defsecatlantic.ca/
Please join us to send a message that weapons production must stop, we need a peace economy, war is not part of a sustainable future.
Wednesday, Sept. 10 from 7:00 - 9:00 PM Just Us! Café, 5896 Spring Garden Rd. Halifax
A provocative and powerful film! Starts at 7 PM sharp. Join us for fair trade coffee & snacks and watch this important film. David Suzuki said, “I give the film every superlative – riveting, revealing, inspiring, etc…It penetrates to the heart of the global, ecological, and social crisis that afflicts the world… required viewing for all who know we are on a destructive path and want to get off.” Organized by the Nova Scotia Environmental Network. For more information, please call (902) 454-6846, email
or visit our web site: www.nsen.ca
SAT. SEPT. 13 AT NOON SPRING GARDEN LIBRARY, HALIFAX
Join us for a Pan-Canadian Day of Action to Support the War Resisters on Saturday, September 13 at noon in front of the Spring Garden Library. Help us tell Stephen Harper: Don’t Deport the Hinzman Family! U.S. Iraq War resister Jeremy Hinzman and his wife and two children have been ordered to leave Canada by September 23rd. In spite of Hinzman’s four and a half years living, working and raising a family in Canada, the Harper government plans to deport him to the United States where he will likely face a court martial and a potential military jail sentence and felony conviction. This flies in the face of democracy and the will of Canadians: Parliament passed a motion in support of war resisters June 3rd, 82% of Canadians oppose the Iraq war (Strategic Counsel poll), and 64% of Canadians support war resisters (Angus Reid poll).
Thursday, September 25 from 7:00-9:00 PM McNally Theatre, Saint Mary’s University, 923 Robie St, Halifax
Dr. Helen Caldicott, internationally acclaimed nuclear activist, author, and Nobel Prize nominee will be speaking in Halifax. Dr. Caldicott is the 2008 TJ Murray Humanities in Medicine scholar. Her books will be for sale along with other books of interest. This free public talk is organized by Physicians for Global Survival and sponsored by Dalhousie University and Saint Mary's University. For more information, please visit: www.pgs.ca
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.
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.]
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,
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)
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".
Thursday, November 8, 2007 7:00pm - 9:00pm Scotiabank Theatre, McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building, Dalhousie University, 6135 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia
and
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.
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)