Upcoming Events

Two Upcoming Events
Canada in Africa - 300 years of Aid and Exploitation with Yves Engler, Canadian Author & Activist 7:30 pm Tuesday, October 6 UVic, Harry Hickman, Room 105
Free admission. Donations are welcomed.
Canadian author, Yves Engler, launches his latest critical overview of Canadian policy towards the African continent. Based on an exhaustive look at the public record as well as on-the-ground research, Canada in Africa documents Canadian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, "scramble for Africa", missionary movement and European colonialism. Ottawa's promotion of neoliberal economic prescriptions, which have benefitted Canadian mining companies, is often bitterly resisted by the anticolonial struggles of local communities.Engler sheds light on Canada's part in the violence that has engulfed Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo, while it shows indifference to the dire effects of climate change on ever-growing numbers of Africans."This should be required... reading for every human with a conscience and all those that desire to join the forces fighting for change." - Nnimmo Bassey, winner of the Right Livelihood Award ("Alternative Nobel Prize") and author of To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa. Sponsored by Victoria Peace Coalition, UVic Social Justice Studies, Council of Canadians Victoria Chapter, Social and Environmental Alliance, Friends of Western Sahara, Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation, Central America Support Committee (CASC), Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Victoria Friends of Cuba, Mining Justice Action Committee (MJAC), African Awareness Committee.
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SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM NIGHT PRESENTS:

7:00pm Thursday October 152994 Douglas (BCGEU Hall)
Admission by donation
A cinematic kayak journey revealing the reality of BC’s North Coast, where the Enbridge Corporation is proposing to navigate hundreds of supertankers loaded with millions of barrels of Bitumen from Alberta’s Tarsands.Showing people the reality of the coast that is threatened by Tar Sands Oil Super Tankers and how the conditions of the west coast can effect these massive foreign ships.
Social Justice Film Nights are on the 3rd Thursday of every month - Sponsored by Victoria Friends of Cuba.

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