[KWPeace-groups] Reminder about Weds Jan 15 + 24 Upcoming Events for Peace, Earth & Justice in the KW Area

[Tamara Lorincz]

Hello KW Peace

Please see below a list of 24 upcoming events for peace, earth and justice in the KW area. Please feel free to forward on. 

Reminder: We are going to have an organizing meeting for the rally "No War On Iran! Troops Out of Iraq! Peace in the Middle East, Moment of Silence for Flight 752" on Wednesday, January 15 from 5:00-6:30 pm at Chic Pea Pita &  Grill, 91 University Avenue E (corner with Weber St). It will be pay-your-own way for dinner or you can just have a drink. Chic Pea has vegetarian and vegan options: https://www.chicpeagrill.ca/  We want to have a space where we can get to know people better over a meal. Please let me know if you are going to come so I can ensure we have a big enough table. You can reply to: tlorincz at dal.ca   

In solidarity,
Tamara Lorincz

UPCOMING EVENTS

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DOSED DOCUMENTARY + Q&A - ONE SHOW ONLY AT APOLLO CINEMA!
Showtime: January 13th, Monday, Doors at 6:30pm, movie will begin at 7:00pm at The Apollo Cinema.
Kitchener premiere of the award-winning psychedelic documentary DOSED followed by a Q&A panel discussion.
After many years of prescription medications failed her a suicidal woman turns to underground healers to try and overcome her depression, anxiety, and opioid addiction with illegal psychedelic medicine like magic mushrooms and iboga.
An evening dedicated to psychedelics, mental health, addiction, compassion, education, and solutions. The DOSED screening will be followed by a Q&A led by James Jesso, Trevor Millar of MAPS Canada, and special guests (TBA).
The event is presented by The Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary and ticket proceeds go towards ongoing marketing of Dosed Movie with a % to MAPS Canada for continued research and clinical studies for the therapeutic use of psychedelics to treat mental health and addiction issues.
Watch the trailer at: http://www.DOSEDMOVIE.com
More info: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dosed-documentary-qa-one-show-only-at-apollo-cinema-tickets-82328421525

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WOMEN IN POLITICS
Tuesday Jan 14 at 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
85 Queen Street N
Kitchener Public Library
Room D
Kitchener, ON N2H 2H1
WCT Waterloo Region Chapter presents a panel discussion on women in politics.
Please join us on Tuesday, January 14 for networking, light refreshments, and a panel discussion of women in politics, featuring:     
Karen Redman, Chair, Region of Waterloo
Laura Mae Lindo, MPP, Kitchener Centre
Julie Garner, Prinicipal, Earnscliffe Strategy Group
Stephanie MacKendrick, Author of IN GOOD HANDS: Remarkable Female Politicians from Around the World Who Showed Up, Spoke Out and Made Change (April, 2020)
with moderator Dorothy McCabe, WCT Waterloo Region Board Member
Tuesday, January 14, 6:30pm @ Kitchener Public Library, Room D (85 Queen Street N)
Cost:
$15 WCT members (+HST)
$25 Non-Members (+HST)
Student members $5 (+HST)
Student non-members $15 (+HST) - please email mailto:wctwaterloo at wct-fct.com for student discount codes (must have proper student identification)
All attendees will receive advance copies of IN GOOD HANDS: Remarkable Female Politicians from Around the World Who Showed Up, Spoke Out and Made Change by Stephanie McKendrick courtesy of Kids Can Press, a division of Corus Entertainment.
Email: mailto:wctwaterloo at wct-fct.com
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/445335069493252/

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DUTY TO DISSENT: HENRI BOURASSA AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR, WITH GEOFF KEELAN
January 15 @ 7:00 pm
LCMSDS
232 King Street
Waterloo, Canada
Laurier Military History Speaker Series
Henri Bourassa was at once the loudest and most eloquent voice against the First World War in Canada. From cautious acceptance to outright rejection, Bourassa's perspective provides valuable insight into the underlying political turmoil of the war and the impact of a world war on Canadians as they began to understand their role on the world stage.
Geoff Keelan received a doctorate from the University of Waterloo, was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Western University, and currently works at Library and Archives Canada as an access archivist.
More info: https://canadianmilitaryhistory.ca/event/duty-to-dissent-henri-bourassa-and-the-first-world-war-with-geoff-keelan/

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DIFFERENTIAL INCLUSION, SOFT DOMINATION AND GOOD INTENTIONS: A REFLEXIVE EXAMINATION OF REFUGEE SPONSORING RELATIONSHIPS
January 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Free
Room 142, Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb St.
In this consideration of the idea and social reality of social inclusion for newcomers, Luann Good Gingrich applies Bourdieu's "epistemic reflexivity" to the analysis of the institutional and interpersonal relationships in the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program. Reporting on a community-based qualitative study with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ontario, Dr Good Gingrich examines the tensions and contradictions of sponsor-newcomer relationships and associated positions and dispositions (or habitus) that are produced, at the institutional and interpersonal scales. Her analysis draws on focus groups and interviews with MCC sponsors and corresponding sponsored refugee newcomers arriving in Ontario between 2007 to 2015.

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MLK: A CALL TO CONSCIENCE FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Monday, Jan. 20 from 7-8:30 pm
Room 142, Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb St.
This free public screening is to mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day. The documentary, "A Call to Conscience,"gives greater insight into Dr. King's civil rights and anti-war views and deconstructs his most important but least known speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence". This powerful film puts Dr. King's legacy into a contemporary context, particularly in light of the new Poor People's Campaign, the Black Lives Matter movement and the ongoing wars in the Middle East. The film includes rare archival footage and interviews with pre-eminent King scholar Dr. Clayborne Carson, academic Dr. Cornel West, African-American historian Dr. Vincent Harding, & Institute for Policy Studies fellow Phyllis Bennis. The screening will be followed by a discussion, led by Tamara Lorincz, about nonviolent resistance, social justice and peace activism in this current era of the climate emergency and the Trump presidency. Copies of Dr. King's speech will be made available.
Co-hosted by the BSIA Conflict & Security Research Cluster, PACS-CAN and KW Peace.
More info: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/film-screening-mlk-a-call-to-conscience/ 

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MOVING BEYOND 'SLAVERY SCANDALS': REFLECTING ON GLOBAL FISH WORK
January 21 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Free
Balsillie School of International Affairs . Room 1-42
67 Erb Street West
Since 2014 governance initiatives in fisheries have been forced to respond to the outbreak of 'slavery scandals' concerning working conditions on fishing vessels, particularly in Thailand. These scandals are framed through a simplified narrative that invokes slavery, human trafficking and fisheries crime, dramatic narratives being successful in making the often extremely dangerous and difficult working conditions found in off-shore fishing visible. However, these slavery narratives do not fit well with the grounded and often ambiguous legalities and illegalities found in industrial fishing, and provide poor guidance towards improving these working conditions. Our research flags how little is understood about migrant labour on the high seas, and how poor working conditions persist far beyond mainland Southeast Asia. In this talk we take up these issues drawing on fisheries research based in Thailand and Taiwan, both of which rely almost entirely on migrant workers from Southeast Asia as their workforce.
About the speakers
Melissa Marschke is an Associate Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is currently involved in research projects examining (a) work across the seafood sector, and (b) sand livelihoods, with a geographical focus on Southeast Asia (but more recently she has become interested in seafood in Canada and the Caribbean).
Peter Vandergeest is Professor of Geography at York University. His current research is concerns working conditions and labour relations in the commercial fishing industry, focussing on migrant workers and state jurisdiction across ocean spaces. Geographically his research is oriented to Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and he also maintains research on forest conservation in the latter region.
More info: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/moving-beyond-slavery-scandals-reflecting-on-global-fish-work/

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CINEMA SERIES: "ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH"
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
CIGI Campus Auditorium, 67 Erb Street West, Waterloo, Canada
Public Event: Cinema Series
More info: https://www.cigionline.org/events/cinema-series-anthropocene-human-epoch

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THE JOURNEY OF RECONCILIATION: LOCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR SETTLER CANADIANS with Kelly Laurila
Tuesday, January 21
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Waterloo Main Library
Since the release of the 2015 Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, many Settler Canadians are engaging in discussions of reconciliation. There is often, however, an angst of not knowing what to do, fear of saying or doing the wrong thing or feeling guilt or shame about the injustices done to Indigenous peoples, so that denial or avoidance may be chosen instead of engagement. Kelly Laurila, who is Indigenous Sáami and Settler, will share what she has learned about reconciliation and how one can find a place within this journey.
More info and RSVP: https://www.wpl.ca/renison-university-college-lecture-series

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ALARM | Responding to Our Climate Emergency Exhibition Opening
January 23 @ 10:45 pm - January 24 @ 1:00 am
ALARM | Reflecting on Our Climate Emergency 
Join us as we open this important series of immersive exhibitions, events, and dialogues to highlight the risks and possible solutions. Thursday, January 23, 20205:45pm Doors 6:30pm Introduction7:15pm Exhibitions Open. The warning signs, both big and small, are all around us. Please join us as THEMUSEUM weighs in on our Climate Emergency. Four Exhibitions, One Planet- Agents for Change | Facing the Anthropocene- MELTING ICE- EXTINCTION- SPECTRUM | The Climate Emergency Experience, Opening February 2020 Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/alarm-responding-to-our-climate-emergency-exhibition-opening-tickets-86603396089?mc_cid=c0e5c87db7&mc_eid=48291d4301 
More info: http://wrenvironetwork.ca/event/alarm-responding-to-our-climate-emergency-exhibition-opening/

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GEOTHERMAL TECHNOLOGIES IN CANADA: FUTURE PATHWAYSEXPORT THIS EVENT TO CALENDAR
Thursday, January 23, 2020, 9:00 Am 
FED - Federation Hall
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada
https://uwaterloo.ca/events/events/geothermal-technologies-canada-future-pathways-0

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GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST "NO WAR ON IRAN! TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ! PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST" & VIGIL TO MOURN FOR FLIGHT 752
Saturday, January 25
2:00-3:00 pm
Waterloo Public Square, 75 King St. 
We will have a peace rally in solidarity with the Global Day of Protest "No War On Iran!" on Saturday, January 25 from 2:00-3:00 p.m.  at the Waterloo Public Square. We do not want another war in the Middle East. We say "No War On Iran." We want US-NATO-Canadian soldiers and special forces out of Iraq. We need de-escalation and diplomacy. The Canadian government should urge the US to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and end its crippling sanctions against Iran. We want peace with Iran and peace throughout the Middle East. We will also observe a moment of silence to mourn the victims of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 that was accidentally hit by an Iranian missile on January 8 killing 176 passengers including 82 Iranians, 57-63 Canadians and 11 Ukrainians among other foreign nationals. The Waterloo action is organized by KW Peace, WR Nonviolence and the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. Co-sponsored by LSPIRG. Rallies are taking place at the same time across the country and around the world. Find out more about the Global Day of Protest here: 
https://www.answercoalition.org/iran-jan-25    
Waterloo Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/469771517017056/ 

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"RAT PARK' FREE! FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION AT KPL
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Kitchener Public Library 85 Queen St. N. Kitchener, ON N2H 2H1
Could the secret to solving the world's drug crisis lie in a forgotten Canadian psychology experiment from the 1970's involving rats and heroin? Following three stories on opposite ends of the world, Vice Studios' Rat Park, a new Crave Original Documentary from director Shawney Cohen, examines the complex issue of drug laws and addiction, exploring why the problem may not be about the drugs themselves, but the environments we live in.
The film draws on the conclusions of Alexander's experiment by exploring how we ended up in the worst overdose crisis in history, and how it's perpetuated by ineffective drug policies around the world. Drawing on original footage from Portugal, USA, Philippines, and Canada, Cohen says "The radical difference between these places and their drug policies shows how the Rat Park experiment plays out in real life. You can't deal with drug crises independently of people's environments and their socioeconomic situations."
More info: https://www.theworkingcentre.org/event/22092

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FOOD & FAITH: MENNONITES FARMING LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY | FILM SCREENING: SEVEN POINTS ON EARTH
Public Lecture | January 31 at 7:30 PM | Conrad Grebel University College | Great Hall |
Mennonite sociologist Winfield Fretz called farming the 'sacred vocation.' Even though fewer and fewer Mennonites are involved in it, we are all dependent on, if not blessed by it. We used to talk together about farming and faith a lot more when more of us were farmers. Maybe it's time to talk again. "Seven Points on Earth: Film and discussion with Paul Plett"
Filmmaker Paul Plett captured the lives of seven Mennonites farming in Manitoba, Iowa, Bolivia, Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Siberia and Indonesia. His film offers an unprecedented look at Mennonite farming and faith around the world. Come view the film and engage in discussion with Paul.
This event is free. Please register to reserve your space.
Reception to follow.
More info: https://uwaterloo.ca/events/events/food-faith-mennonites-farming-locally-and-globally-film

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BECHTEL LECTURE IN ANABAPTIST-MENNONITE STUDIES: BREAKFAST "FOOD & FAITH: MENNONITES FARMING LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY" 
Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 9:00 Am 
Conrad Grebel University College
Mennonite sociologist Winfield Fretz called farming the 'sacred vocation.'  Even though fewer and fewer Mennonites are involved in it, we are all dependent on, if not blessed by it.  We used to talk together about farming and faith a lot more when more of us were farmers.  Maybe it's time to talk again. 
"Farmers Breakfast Panel: Breakfast and discussion with Ontario Mennonites in Agriculture"
Breakfast and Discussion | February 1 at 9:00 AM | Conrad Grebel University College
This breakfast event is a panel discussion of the way farming, food, family and faith come together in our various lives.  Whether you make your living feeding others or have your life because of their work, you are welcome to join this breakfast roundtable. The panel includes Angie Koch of Fertile Ground Farm, Chris Mullet Koop of Elmwood Farms, and Sarah Martin-Mills of Growing Hope Farm.
This event is free. Please register.
Breakfast provided.
MENU:
Hash-brown casserole, breakfast sausage, hard boiled eggs
Muffins, coffee cake, bagels, (butter, jam, honey)
Yogurt, granola, fresh fruit salad (including bananas, kiwi, apples)
Juices - orange, apple, cranberry
Coffee, tea, water
PANELISTS:
Sarah Martin-Mills: Growing Hope Farm, farming for 3 years, mostly livestock, a non-profit operation for learning and giving to others.
Lloyd & Shirley Frey: Goldenview Holsteins/Frey Farms, 3rd generation farmers, 90 cow dairy with feed and some cash crop.
Angie Koch: Fertile Ground Farm, farming for 13 years, vegetables, organic market garden selling through CSA (Community Shared Agriculture).
Chris Mullet Koop: Elmwood Farms, 5th generation and 21 years, commercial egg and grape grower.
Mark Reusser: farm near New Dundee, not sure how many years, broilers and cash crop, VP of Ontario Federation of Agriculture
More info: https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/bechtel-lecture-breakfast-roundtable

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DOCUMENTARY FANTASTIC FUNGI 
Showings from Feb. 7-13
Princess Original, Waterloo
"His evangelical eco-doc even has a superhero-friendly title - Fantastic Fungi - and a message about saving the planet that stars mushrooms as capped crusaders, and mycelium as the hidden power that helps create life and natural harmony all over the world.
"At the heart of Fantastic Fungi is the central scientific reality that what fungi have been doing for billions of years is creating the nutrient-rich soil that led to plants and, well, us. Mushrooms are the visible, edible result of the rejuvenation constantly at work in forests wherever dead things lie, but underneath, the masses of wispy tendrils known as mycelium are nature's internet: connecting trees and swapping nutrients in a vast network that regulates itself for the betterment of all living things." - Los Angeles Times
More info: https://www.princesscinemas.com/movie/fantastic-fungi

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MANDELA: STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
On exhibit February 7 to August 3, 2020
Ken Seiling Waterloo Regional Museum
The exhibition for everyone who refuses to see the world in black and white. Mandela: Struggle for Freedom is a rich sensory experience of imagery, soundscape, digital media, and objects used to explore the earthshaking fight for justice and human dignity in South Africa - and its relevance to issues of today. Among its many dramatic visual features and original artifacts, the exhibition replicates Mandela's eight-foot by seven-foot prison cell. When entered, the cell becomes a digital theatre whose walls tell a story of repression and resilience.
More info: https://www.waterlooregionmuseum.ca/en/exhibits/mandela.aspx

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE!
with Bertie Gregory
Main Theatre, Centre in the Square
TUES,FEB. 11, 2020
@ 7:30PM
Photographer Bertie Gregory specializes in intimate shots of animals in their natural environment, whether that's a frigid Vancouver beach or the streets of London. In fact, it's in those spaces where nature and humanity coexist that he thrives-a result, no doubt of his teenage years chasing urban swans and pike with his camera. From up-close footage of a leopard stalking through Mumbai to evocative portraits of Vancouver's elusive coastal wolf, he has mastered the art of capturing what binds animal and human together.
More info: https://centreinthesquare.com/event/national-geographic-live-2/

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BOOK LAUNCH | ADVOCATING FOR PEACE
Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 7:00 PM
Schlegel Community Education Room
Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo
Advocating for Peace: Stories from the Ottawa Office of Mennonite Central Committee, 1975-2008
Join us on Thursday, February 13 at 7:00 p.m. for a program with the book author William Janzen, including selected readings and a Q&A. Hosted by the Institute of Anabaptist Mennonite Studies.
More info: https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/events/book-launch-advocating-peace

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FILM "THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE"
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
CIGI Campus Auditorium, 67 Erb Street West, Waterloo, Canada
Public Event: Cinema Series
More info: https://www.cigionline.org/events/cinema-series-through-lens-darkly-black-photographers-and-emergence-people

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FREE DOCUMENTARY THE IVORY GAME
February 25
7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Waterloo Main Library, 35 Albert St.
Location: James J. Brown Auditorium
The Ivory Game is an epic documentary feature that goes undercover into the dark and sinister underbelly of ivory trafficking. Join a team of intelligence operatives, undercover activists, passionate front-line rangers and tough-as-nails conservationists as they try to infiltrate the corrupt global network of ivory trafficking. Drop-in.
More info: http://calendar.wpl.ca/eventcalendar.asp

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FREEDOM TO READ WEEK - WHY ARE BOOKS BANNED?
February 27, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Kitchener Central Library Meeting Room A
This is Freedom to Read Week in Canada! Come out for this fascinating discussion of why books are banned.
In North America, most banned books contain controversial depictions of moral or religious content. But how do other parts of the world deal with such books? Looking back at a history of banned books in the world, this talk will discuss the reasoning behind restricting readers from specific texts and their impact on society.
Join Dr. Lamees Al Ethari from the English Language and Literature Department of the University of Waterloo for this timely talk about censorship and freedom to read.
More info: http://kplca.evanced.info/signup/Calendar

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PETER MANSBRIDGE TO MODERATE PANEL ON CLIMATE CRISIS
Earth Day, April 22, 2020 at Bingeman's Marshall Hall
Kitchener, ON - THEMUSEUM is pleased to be hosting a discussion on Climate Crisis in conjunction with its exhibition ALARM | The Climate Crisis Exhibition. The event will be held Earth Day, April 22, 2020 at Bingeman's Marshall Hall. Partnering with The Walrus magazine and Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) the panel will include representation from national columnists and local research fellows on the climate crisis and the environment.
Tickets are $50 per person for general seating. Also available is a $150 VIP package which includes seating in the front rows, an after-event reception with the panel and Peter Mansbridge, tax receipt and one admission to see ALARM | The Climate Crisis Exhibition. Members of THEMUSEUM will receive discounted admission. Tickets are available at THEMUSEUM.ca.

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THE DELISLE AFFAIR
Guelph Military Lecture Series
Wesley Wark | March 12 | 7:00pm
Guelph Civic Museum
52 Norfolk Street,Guelph
Wesley Wark is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa and an instructor at the Centre on Public Management and Policy. between 1998-2002. His most recent book is an edited volume: Secret Intelligence: A Reader (second edition 2019).  He served as co-director of a research team at the University of Ottawa engaged on a study of the impact of national security and counter-terrorism policies on Canadians since 9/11, funded by Public Safety's Kanishka Project. He recently completed a commissioned history of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP on its 30th anniversary.  He is currently working on a book on major espionage plots in Canada since 1945. He serves on the editorial advisory board of the journal, Intelligence and National Security, and is a former editor of the journal.
More info: https://canadianmilitaryhistory.ca/event/the-delisle-affair-with-wesley-wark/

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PEGASUS: PEACE, GLOBAL HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY AT THE BALSILLIE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
April 24-26, 2020
Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo
PEGASUS is a three-day conference that aims to advance awareness and understanding of Peace, Global Health and Sustainability. The 2020 conference will engage the next generation of leaders by bringing together health professionals, including: physicians, nurses and trainees, policymakers, academics, researchers, students, health-related organizations, community members, and an array of speakers to share ideas and strategies about Global Health.
More info: https://www.pegasusconference.ca/about-2#about-1