[KWPeace-groups] This Sunday, Oct 16 Waterloo Public Square "Stop the Wars & Weapons" + 17 upcoming events

[Tamara Lorincz]

Hello KW Peace,

Please join Dwyer, Lee, Mary, Mo and I this Sunday. "Ceasefire Now: Stop the War & the Weapons" Sunday, October 16, 1:00-2:00 pm ET, Waterloo Public Square, 75 Erb St. Waterloo.

Our peace rally at the Waterloo Public Square this Sunday is in solidarity with the #FundPeaceNotWar Week of Action. From October 15th to 23rd, join Canadians across the country in demanding NO new fighter jets, warships, or drones! We need billions for housing, health care, jobs and climate, NOT for war profiteering!

We are also calling for a ceasefire and an end to the war in Ukraine. Shamefully, Canada continues to export weapons and military aid instead of supporting negotiations. We are risking dangerous nuclear escalation. We are also derailing global cooperation for climate action and worsening poverty. Canada is also exporting weapons to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt and many other countries that foment violence. All wars must stop including in Yemen, Palestine etc. We need peace for people and the planet! Local event organized by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW).

Afterward, we will go to Cafe 22 for coffee. Come & join us!

Week of Action organized by the Canada-Wide Peace & Justice Network.
https://peaceandjusticenetwork.ca/fundpeacenotwar/

Share on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/2VfeG3FjV

Finally, please see below for 17 upcoming events. Feel free to share.

In solidarity for peace, earth and justice,
Tamara


EVENTS

(1)
TONIGHT! ONLINE SCREENING: IMMORAL CODE: A FILM TO STOP KILLER ROBOTS
October 12 at 7pm Eastern time,
Immoral Code is a documentary that contemplates the impact of Killer Robots in an increasingly automated world - one where machines make decisions over who to kill or what to destroy. Automated decisions are being introduced across all parts of society.
Organized by Mines Action Canada.
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0udeCqqDsjHdGJjXVCnrGDaXLqR3kfF6c7

(2)
WEBINAR Ukraine/Russia/NATO Update
Ray McGovern
Thursday, Oct 13, 7pm ET
https://bit.ly/3CT77Ej

(3)
WEBINAR: Is Canada a Peacemaker?
Thursday, Oct. 13, 7 p.m. ET
Speakers:  Yves Engler, author and activist, and Tamara Lorincz, member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) and the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF Canada)
Organized by Socialist Action. Register: https://youtu.be/qXK-wShTnPs

(4)
WEBINAR: 10th NPT Review Conference: Assessment and Looking Forward to 2026
Thur. Oct. 13, 10 a.m. ET
The Multilateral Dialogue of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Vienna, together with Atomic Reporters, invites you to an online discussion on The Tenth Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference: Assessment and Looking Forward to 2026.
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6A1SD4aLSXqdMtwPXYipuQ?timezone_id=America%2FNew_York

(5)
WEBINAR: THE RIGHTS OF NATURE AND THE CRIME OF ECOCIDE
Thursday, October 13, 2022
12:30-1:30 ET / 5:30 PM  7:30 PM BST
Speakers:
Professor Philippe Sands, QC is professor of international law at University College London & Sir Jonathan Bate, FBA is Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University and a Senior Research Fellow in English Literature at Oxford University, where he was formerly Provost of Worcester College.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rights-of-nature-and-the-crime-of-ecocide-tickets-411259196327

(6)
WEBINAR: LET'S TALK ABOUT DECOLONIAL FEMINISM IN PRACTICE
October 13th at 9:30 am (Eastern time)
Click here to register :
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0scuCsrzMuG9Ey6r2XRSxohy1QOKbm7beN
Simultaneous interpretation (French, English, Spanish)
Conference organized by: The Comité québécois femmes et développement (CQFD) of AQOCI and the Chaire Claire-Bonenfant of Université Laval

(7)
WEBINAR: Through Pluripolarity to Socialism: A Manifesto One Year on
Sunday 16 October 2022 from 8 AM - 10 AM Central, 9 am Eastern, and 2 pm UK time.
At this Webinar, speakers will dwell on how the manifesto, its analyses and prescription stand up to the text of this eventful year. Lots of great speakers.
Click here to register to attend this event and please share widely! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/through-pluripolarity-to-socialism-a-manifesto-one-year-on-tickets-433799434787

(8)
WEBINAR: Confronting Islamophobia in Canada
Date: October 18, 2022
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. PT
Guests: Senator Salma Ataullahjan, Monia Mazigh, and Karl Nerenberg with co-hosts Robin Browne and Libby Davies.
You're invited to our upcoming Off the Hill live panel! This month, we're joined by Muslim leaders to discuss how to confront Islamophobia in Canada.

(9)
International Webinar: No to NATO
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
11am PT / 2pm ET/ 8pm CEST
Organized by WILPF US.
Register: https://bit.ly/3TaGzn8
Join women peace activists from Canada, Finland, Germany, Sweden and the US who are working to end war, militarism and NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a US-led military alliance of 30 members that maintains Western domination, provokes conflict around the world, exacerbates the climate crisis and causes countries to increase military spending depriving them of resources for social and environmental needs. Learn more about the dangers of the transatlantic alliance and find out how we can build an international movement for peace, nonviolence and solidarity.
Speakers: Tamara Lorincz (WILPF Canada), Ulla Klötzer (Women for Peace, Finland), Kristine Karch (No to NATO Network, Germany), Agneta Norberg (Sweden) and Ann Wright (CODEPINK US)
Organized by the US Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF-US).
For more information, please contact: Theresa El-Amin theresa at projectsarn.org<mailto:theresa at projectsarn.org> or Nancy Price earthdemocracy at wilpfus.org<mailto:earthdemocracy at wilpfus.org>

(10)
ORGANIZING WEBINAR WITH GIDIMT'EN LAND DEFENDERS
19th of October | 8pm ET, 5pm PCT | Click here to register: https://bit.ly/3Vk2QAN

(11)
WEBINAR: Options for Afghanistan: One Year after the Return of the Taliban
Event Date: October 19, 2022 - 9:30 am to 11:30 am EDT
Location: online
Presented by CIPS, the Fragile States Research Network and the Asian Studies Network
Speakers: Sima Samar, Fatima Gailani, Arne Strand, Najim Dost
The Centre for International Policy Studies invites you to join us for a webinar with human rights, conflict and aid experts who will discuss the unfolding humanitarian crisis, the political climate, and current restrictions faced by women and girls in Afghanistan more than one year after the return of the Taliban.
The event will be in English. Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/options-for-afghanistan-one-year-after-the-return-of-the-taliban-tickets-433007847127

(12)
ONLINE & IN WATERLOO: Restoring a Strained Global Security Architecture Policy Conference
October 21 @ 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Balsillie School of International Affairs. Co-hosted with Project Ploughshares and Canadian Pugwash Group.
https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/restoring-a-strained-global-security-architecture-policy-conference/

(13)
HAMILTON: From Hegemony to Global Democracy: A Teach-In on Geopolitical Conflict
Join us for talks, panel presentations and discussion on the current conflicts between NATO, Russia, and China and the prospects for peace.
This seminar will take place at Arnold Centre 135 Fennell Avenue West Hamilton, ON L9C 7V7 on Sat, 22 October 2022, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM EDT
Click here to register to attend this event and please share widely!

(14)
ONLINE CONFERENCE: HARDTALK: Canada and the Asia Pacific
Monday, October 24, 9am-4pm
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hardtalk-canada-and-the-asia-pacific-tickets-429339896187

(15)
WEBINAR: The Think Tank-Military-Industrial Complex:
Shilling for the Merchants of Death
Wed, Oct 26 @ 8 pm ET - online

The role of think tanks in the military-industrial complex (MIC) is essential, but also little understood. Often funded by war corporations, they provide the grist for the mill of intellectual arguments and slanted worldview that support and propel US imperialism. The focus will be on how certain think tanks function as agents in the information wars that support our endless war making.
Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwodOipqjIjE9Mtm2qRG16N-H_jjlIyGqOF

(16)
VOW's Youth Panel on Peace, Disarmament & Climate Justice + 2022 Annual General Meeting Saturday, October 29 (online or/ in-person)
Join us on Saturday, October 29th
at 10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET / 2pm AT
Hybrid Event: In-person in Toronto and Online via Zoom > Register below
Guest Speaker Event
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is presenting a fantastic Youth Panel on Peace, Disarmament and Climate Justice, that will be moderated by Tamara Lorincz, VOW's Senior Researcher and Campaigner:
*            Lia Holla, Executive Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada
*            Kasha Sequoia Slavner, Gen-Z Award-Winning Documentary Film Maker
*            Anjali Rao, VOW Student Intern, University of Toronto Student
*            Sarah Rohleder, VOW Peace Campaign Intern, University of British Columbia Student
Annual Meeting
During the AGM we'll review VOW's activities, reports, resolutions, Board of Directors nominations, and upcoming peace campaigns. At the in-person location, we'll have some refreshments and White Peace Poppies available.
Registration is now open! All members and supporters are welcome.
More details: https://vowpeace.org/youth-panel-vow-agm/
REGISTRATION OPTIONS
OPTION 1: Attend in-person at Friends House, 60 Lowther Avenue, Toronto (In-person capacity limited to 35 attendees.)
Register to Attend In-Person in Toronto: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaFEAS7Cla05a3kKbHwzzNYTvavBCp4fSFVfPjmsluf1JVfg/viewform
OR
OPTION 2: Join by Zoom from anywhere
Register to Attend via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcod--pqTgoHtyHSCqSbrReiB0BP7CynIzK
There is no fee to attend or participate, but donations greatly appreciated towards costs. A $10 donation is suggested but not required.
Thank you!
Become a member: https://vowpeace.org/join-renew-donate/
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The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is the country's oldest national women's feminist peace organization. We work on issues related to disarmament, demilitarization, peace for climate justice, a culture of peace and nonviolence, and the Women Peace & Security agenda. Find out more: vowpeace.org

(17)
WEBINAR: US Crimes of War in Vietnam
A panel discussion of US war crimes during the Vietnam War. Citizens' Responsibility for Confronting and Remembering the Crimes of War
7:00 - 8:30 PM Eastern Time, Sunday November 20, 2022
Hosted by Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aT2V7ZA5RXC2v0h8-VEigw
Cosponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action and the Institute for Policy Studies
  Fifty years ago, 1972, was a critical time in the U.S. peace movement's struggle to end the US war in Indochina. The movement and an increasingly critical media created pressures that led to the signing of the Paris Peace Agreement in January of 1973.  Richard Nixon had campaigned for re-election on his "secret plan" to end the war, which in reality was to devastate North Vietnam so that Saigon would agree to an American peace treaty with Hanoi.  The US had been violating laws of war for years by using chemical weapons such as napalm and Agent Orange against civilians and forced relocation of rural populations.  But the Pentagon in 1972 expanded its methods and targets to include mining the Hai Phong harbor and bombing North Vietnam's dikes and dams essential for rice cultivation. The Pentagon's efforts culminated in the Christmas bombing of Hanoi, including Bach Mai, the country's primary teaching hospital. Responding to the escalation of military violence, a small group of US academics, lawyers and other activists created "Project Redress" in 1972.  They decided to "petition their government for the redress of grievance" for US war crimes in Vietnam. Hundreds of American academics, writers, lawyers, poets, actors, religious leaders, and intellectuals pledged to come to Washington and to remain in the Capital until their grievance was heard or they were arrested.
 In 2022 while US officials and the media debate holding Russia responsible for war crimes in Ukraine, this webinar offers an opportunity to reflect on the history of our own war crimes that led to the Redress campaign of civil disobedience.  It will consider the responsibility of all people to hold their government accountable for war crimes committed in their name.
  Moderator:
Prof. Carolyn Rusti Eisenberg, VPCC Board, Professor of US History and American Foreign Policy at Hofstra University. Her new book, Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger and the Wars in Southeast Asia, is being published December 2022 by Oxford University Press.
Panelists:
Dr. Robert J. Lifton, one of the original organizers of Project Redress. Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia University, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology at the City University of New York
Cora Weiss, President of the International Peace Bureau.  Founder of the Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam and arrested in conjunction with Project Redress.
  Richard Falk, one of the organizers of Project Redress, is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University; Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University. London; Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Organizer:  Doug Hostetter  <doughostetter at gmail.com<mailto:doughostetter at gmail.com>>
For updates and registration link
https://vnpeacecomm.blogspot.com/2022/10/crimes-of-war-in-vietnam.html

*Saturday, November 12 will be a Global Strike for Climate!
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