[KWPeace-groups] Upcoming Events: March for Our Lives March 24 (this Sat!), Films, Talks & Meetings

[Ellen Papenburg]

Jim and I sadly can't participate tonight after all.  Co-op board meeting
(of our building).

Report:
CoC (Council of Canadians) recently had a delegation of 8 members to
Kitchener Centre MPP Daiene Vernile to voice our concerns regarding omnibus
bill 160, which gives more free reign to private clinics and increasing the
number of these clinics with the huge possibility of eroding our existing
healthcare and costing the public more money. We supplied her with
questions to ask at Queens Park. We had also meetings with other MPPs at
earlier dates.

CoC also had a table at the World Water Day Symposium  at the university of
Waterloo.

Have a great meeting!

Jim and Ellen,  COC.

via my android phone

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 23:25 Tamara Lorincz <tlorincz at dal.ca> wrote:

> UPCOMING EVENTS FOR PEACE, EARTH AND JUSTICE Please spread the word. Thank
> you!
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> #MarchForOurLives solidarity event Wilfrid Laurier University concourse,
> 75 University Ave. on Sat. March 24 from 11am-12:30pm.
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> More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/760775737452788/
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> KW Peace Group Monthly meeting & Potluck
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> Monday, March 26
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> @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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> WHERE: Peace and Justice Room, Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church
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> 57 Stirling Ave N
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> Kitchener, ON N2H 3G4
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> All welcome
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> More info: https://kwpeace.ca/
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> Challenge of Higher Education in a Time of Tyranny featuring Dr. Henry
> Giroux
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> Thursday, March 29th, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
>
> Auditorium, Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb St. Waterloo
>
> Under President Trump, the plague of mid-20th century authoritarianism has
> returned in the guise of an apocalyptic populism and one of its targets are
> those institutions that extend from higher education to the critical media.
> Trump has labeled these institutions as enemies of the American people
> primarily because they take seriously the notion that critical thinking,
> among other things, should be a way of thinking about education in the
> broader sense of connecting equity to excellence, learning to ethics, and
> agency to the imperatives of social responsibility and the public good.
> This talk will focus on the threat that the Trump presidency poses to both
> higher education and democracy itself. In addition to taking up these
> issues, the talk will point to several recommendations that provide an
> alternative to some of the oppressive conditions now shaping institutions
> of higher learning, particularly in the United States.
>
> More info & to RSVP:
> https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/global-populism-democratic-futures-summit/
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> Global Populism and Democratic Futures Summit - March 28 & 29
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> Global Engagement Program
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> Auditorium, Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb St. Waterloo
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> Waterloo, ON
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> More info & to RSVP:
> https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/global-populism-democratic-futures-summit/
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>
> Conscience Canada Annual General Meeting on Sat. April 7 from 2:00-4:30 at
> the Conrad Grebel College, Rm 2202., 140 Westmount St. N, Waterloo.
>
> Speaker: "The Climate Costs of Canada's new Defence Policy" at 3:30 pm.
>
> More info: http://www.consciencecanada.ca/
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> SPECIAL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT EVENT TO MARK REFUGEE RIGHTS DAY
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> Tuesday, April 10
>
> Implications of the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the
> United States
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> Legal challenge
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> Expert assessments
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> Personal stories
>
> Where: Grebel gallery at Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount
> Rd N, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6
>
> RSVP: Sonal Marwah at smarwah at ploughshares.ca<mailto:
> smarwah at ploughshares.ca>
>
> More info: http://ploughshares.ca/2018/02/save-the-date/
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> Film Screening "A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization"
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> Tuesday, April 17
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> 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
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> Auditorium, Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb St. Waterloo
>
> With Sr. Roberto Dormond Cantú Ambassador The Embassy of Costa Rica in
> Canada The award-winning 2016 documentary "A Bold Peace" presents the
> unique political and cultural history of Costa Rica. Over 60 years ago,
> Costa Rica became one of the only nations in the world to disband their
> military and to redirect national resources towards education, health, and
> the environment. "A Bold Peace" challenges our thinking about war and
> peace. This inspiring film also shows how this small Central American
> country has become on an international leader on diplomacy, disarmament,
> environment and climate change. More information can be found here:
> http://aboldpeace.com/ Followed by a Q&A with Ambassador Dormond Cantú.
>
> Hosted by the Balsillie School of International Affairs and co-sponsored
> by Project Ploughshares. Free, all welcome. To RSVP and for more
> information, visit BSIA: www.balsillieschool.ca/events<
> http://www.balsillieschool.ca/events>
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> 'Stop this carnage': The politics of death and mourning in the production
> of Europe's 'migration crisis'
>
> WHEN: 19 April 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
>
> WHERE: Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb Street West
>
> Waterloo, ON, ON, N2L 6C2
>
> Between 2014 and 2016 an estimated 1.6 million refugees and migrants
> crossed the Mediterranean by boat to Europe. Over 12,000 deaths were
> recorded of people trying to make the journey, and many more unrecorded
> deaths are thought to have occurred elsewhere along the way before reaching
> the sea. In 2015, at the height of Europe's so-called 'migrant/refugee
> crisis', over one million arrivals were recorded in Italy and Greece and
> 3771 people died during the crossing. Against this backdrop, the paper
> locates the discussion over migrant deaths at sea in the context of debates
> on borders, deaths and the politics of mourning. It identifies the key
> stages in the development of European responses to the crisis, showing how
> EU policymakers oversaw a reorganisation of the governance of migration and
> border control in the Mediterranean whilst under pressure from tragic
> events at the EU's external borders and outpourings of public grief.
> Finally, drawing on interviews with refugees and migrants who crossed the
> Mediterranean, I will focus on the different ways that witnessing and
> becoming aware of the risk of death, as well as a longing for survival, can
> shape migration decisions and experiences.
>
> About the speaker
>
> Nando Sigona is a social scientist with over fifteen years research and
> teaching experience in migration, refugee, citizenship and ethnic studies.
> He joined the School of Social Policy in February 2013 as a Birmingham
> Fellow. Dr Sigona's work investigates the migration and citizenship nexus.
> This is achieved through in-depth examinations of a range of experiences of
> societal membership including, but not limited to, those of: EU families;
> refugees; Roma, undocumented migrant families, ethnic minorities,
> unaccompanied minors, children of undocumented migrant parents, dual
> citizens, 'failed' asylum seekers, and stateless people.
>
> More info: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/events/
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> The Fate of Humans in a New Geological Age: Beginning to Think About the
> Anthropocene
>
> April 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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> WHERE: Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb Street West
>
> Earth System scientists have concluded that as a result of human
> activities the Earth has recently entered a new geological epoch, the
> Anthropocene. When we begin to reflect on this fact, it is astonishing.
> Humans have become so powerful that we can shift the geological evolution
> of the planet itself. At the same time, environmental destruction and the
> destabilisation of Earth System processes like the carbon cycle mean that
> the Earth is more unstable and dangerous for humans than it has been for
> many thousands of years. Beyond the implications for humans, with the
> arrival of the Anthropocene epoch the Earth itself also seems to have
> entered a new phase in its 4.5 billion-year history because for the first
> time a conscious, willing being can change how it functions. In this
> lecture Clive Hamilton explores some of the profound implications of these
> events.
>
> About the speaker:
>
> Photo of Clive HamiltonClive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at
> Charles Sturt University in Canberra and the author of Defiant Earth: The
> Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene. His books on climate change and
> geoengineering have changed the global debate. He has held visiting
> positions at the University of Cambridge, Yale University, Sciences Po and
> the University of Oxford. His articles have been published in the Guardian,
> the New York Times, Nature and Scientific American.
>
> This talk is presented by the Balsillie School of International Affairs
> and the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
>
> More info: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/events/
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> Will the Anthropocene End the Social Sciences? A Roundtable Discussion
> with Professor Clive Hamilton
>
> WHEN: 25 April 2018 @ 10:15 am - 12:00 pm
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> WHERE: Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb Street West
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> Waterloo, ON, N2L 6C2
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> Canada
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> Professor Clive Hamilton argues in his recent book Defiant Earth (2017)
> that our Anthropocene epoch is a new human-induced rupture in the Earth
> system. Humanity has now altered the workings of the planet in such
> profound and negative ways, that our current social structures and
> political institutions must soon change to keep pace with the
> Anthropocene's inevitable transformations, or face collapse. As we now
> enter this Anthropocene epoch of unprecedented uncertainty, this roundtable
> asks: how do we as scholars respond to this human-made epoch? What research
> questions should we be asking in a new Earth System? What should scholars
> do, specifically, in response to these new circumstances? What comprises
> philosophy, critique, science, and ethics, in the new 'age of humanity?'
> Does the Anthropocene spell the end of the social sciences, or can it
> ignite their reinvention?
>
> Join us at the BSIA for this rare discussion with Prof. Clive Hamilton and
> other leading scholars in the environmental and social sciences. It will be
> an opportunity to share your opinions and engage in dialogue and discussion
> about the fate of academia and humanity in our new Anthropocene epoch.
>
> Roundtable Participants include:
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> - Clive Hamilton (University of Canberra, Australia)
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> - Simon Dalby (BSIA)
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> - Anne Wilson (WLU)
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> - Audra Mitchell (BSIA)
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> - Scott Hamilton (BSIA)
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> - Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty (CIGI)
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> ** It is also recommended that participants in this event attend Prof.
> Hamilton's 24 April lecture at the BSIA, which will serve as a catalyst for
> this discussion.
>
> Coffee and pastries will be provided upon registration.
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> More: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/events/
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> WHAT: "Pursuing Peace: Stories from Home and Abroad" Gala Dinner
>
> WHEN: Friday, April 20, 2018 | Alumni Networking - 5:30 p.m., Gala Dinner
> - 6:30 p.m.
>
> WHERE: Federation Hall, University of Waterloo
>
> COST: $100 per person ($50 receiptable)
>
> Purchase tickets online or contact Alison Enns 519-885-0220 x24217.
>
> In celebration of the Peace and Conflict Studies 40th anniversary, Grebel
> is hosting a gala dinner featuring the Honourable Bob Rae as keynote
> speaker. Under the theme of "Pursuing Peace: Stories from Home and Abroad,"
> Rae will share stories of his work in Canada's Indigenous issues and his
> recent work in Myanmar. Rae is a Canadian lawyer, negotiator, public
> speaker, and former Premier of Ontario.
>
> At the Friday, April 20 Gala, guests can meet alumni, supporters, and
> current students who are passionate about peace! The evening includes a
> PACS alumni networking opportunity at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m.,
> remarks from PACS representatives, keynote speaker Bob Rae, alumni
> profiles, and a group sing-along led by Bob Rae. Proceeds from the dinner
> go to the Master of Peace and Conflict Studies Student Support Fund. This
> fund makes education more accessible for our future leaders and peace
> practitioners.
>
> For over 40 years, the PACS program has helped students to widen their
> perspectives and build a multi-faceted view of the world. As the first
> undergraduate peace program in Canada, PACS continues to be a leader in
> peace education, providing a vibrant, interdisciplinary learning experience
> at an undergraduate, master's, and certificate level.
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> Jane Goodall in Kitchener on April 25 at 7:30 pm Centre in the Square,
> limited tickets available:
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>
> https://centreinthesquare.com/event/the-jane-goodall-institute-of-canada-presents/
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> PEGASUS: Peace, Global Health And Sustainability Conference in Toronto
> April 27-29: https://www.pegasusconference.ca/ Join leading policymakers,
> implementers, researchers, and an array of speakers to advance
> conversations and collaborations that promote health for all. Confirmed
> speakers include:
>
> * James Orbinski, Humanitarian Advocate & Former President, Doctors
> Without Borders * Ira Helfand, Co-Chair, International Physicians for
> Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and Past President, Physicians for Global
> Survival * Erin Hunt, Program Coordinator, Mines Action Canada * Miriam
> Khamadi Were, Chancellor, Moi University * Chelsea Gabel, Director,
> McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI), and Assistant Professor,
> Department of Health, Aging and Society and the Indigenous Studies Program,
> McMaster University * Bernice Downey, Medical Anthropologist, and Assistant
> Professor, School of Nursing, Department of Psychiatry and Indigenous
> Health Lead, Faculty of Health Science, McMaster University * Kim Perrotta,
> Executive Director, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
> * Warren Bell, Board Member, Canadian Association of Physicians for the
> Environment * Cathy Vakil, Queen's Family Medicine Centre * Elisa Hategan,
> Author and Journalist * Sharon Koivu, Site Chief, London Helath Sciences
> Centre (University Hospital) * Karen Born, Knowledge Translation Lead,
> Choosing Wisely Canada, and Assistant Professor, IHPME, University of
> Toronto Join the conversation and encourage others to attend!
>
> The 2018 PEGASUS Conference will be held at the University of Toronto -
> Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) from April 28-29
> (Pre-conference - Friday, April 27). This exciting two-day event, will
> bring together key experts from industry, education, government and
> non-government organization sectors to share experiences and knowledge with
> all participants. This conference aims to transform our world through
> awareness and knowledge on Peace, Global Health And Sustainability. The
> 2018 conference theme: From Evidence to Action will provide a clear lends
> on how we move towards meaningful action, channeling new ideas of advocacy,
> research, policy, education and participation in global change towards
> peace, health and  sustainable solutions.
>
> REGISTRATION FEES:
>
> Student/Young Professional: $125
>
> Standard Registration: $300
>
> Pre-conference Only (Friday, April 27): $50 Single Day (Saturday or
> Sunday): $150 Gala Dinner Only* (Saturday, April 28): $50
>
> * Space for the Gala Dinner is limited, register early to avoid
> disappointment DON'T MISS THIS EVENT!... For further details, visit us at:
> www.pegasusconference.ca<http://www.pegasusconference.ca>
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> World Beyond War international peace conference in Toronto, September
> 21-22, Registration open: http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2018/
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> Please sign the Canadian parliamentary petition on nuclear disarmament:
> https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1402  if
> you haven't already.
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> ***
>
> In solidarity for peace, earth and justice,
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>
>
> Tamara Lorincz
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