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A final reminder: This evening:
NEIL BURTON MEMORIAL LECTUREClaudia Li"Shark Truth – Bridging the Worlds of Environmentalism and Culture"Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 7:00pmHarry Hickman Building, Room 105, UVic In this lecture, Claudia Li, founder of Shark Truth (the initiative that began as a campaign to ban shark fin soup) and co-founder of the Hua Foundation, will share an intimate story of the success and ethnic challenges of bringing an environmental and conservation lens to her community, and a lens of culture to environmental and conservation movements. A first generation Chinese-Canadian who grew up in a big traditional family that emigrated from Hong Kong in the 1980s, Claudia Li will discuss the struggle of constantly straddling the worlds of “culture” and “environmentalism.” How do we create solutions that can make both worlds happy? How do we redefine the meaning of culture and tradition to benefit both worlds? John PriceProfessor of... HistoryUniversity of VictoriaWeb: web.uvic.ca/~transpacPO Box 3045 STN CSC Victoria, B.C.V8W 3P4Tel: 250 721-7386Fax: 250 721-8772
Tomorrow, late afternoon:
CCCBE Speaker Series presentation featuring Dr. Marvin Brown
A Civic Economy that Provides for Everyone
Thursday, February 27th, 4:00 to 5:00 pm
David Strong Building, C013
As we consider how to design ways of providing for neighbours in our local communities and strangers in our global networks, we need to re-think the relationship between property ownership and civic membership. Thinking of civic membership as the foundation for property ownership, instead of the other way around, Dr. Brown will try to justify this choice in his presentation and demonstrate how such a civic economy might function.
Dr. Marvin T. Brown, is a professor of organizational ethics and business in the Philosophy department at the University of San Francisco. His latest book is Civilizing the Economy: A New Economics of Provision Books will be available for sale.
This CCCBE Speaker Series presentation is free & open to the public with support from Central 1 Credit Union, The Co-operators, Federated Co-operatives Limited and the Gustavson School of Business. Registration is not required.
Tomorrow evening:
SILENCE IS GOLD
(77 minutes)
French (subtitles) & English
7:00 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27
UVIC BOB WRIGHT CENTRE A104
Free admission + Door prize
What are the limits
to freedom of speech? Can we put a price on our spoken and written words?
Following the release of the book “Noir Canada,” author Alain Deneault, his
co-writers and his publisher grappled with these questions at great personal
expense after being sued for defamation in Quebec and Ontario courts by two
large Canadian mining companies. Deneault and his publisher fought back.
"Silence Is Gold" is a thriller of a documentary that tells their
story, set against the backdrop of the Canadian justice system.
Filmmaker
Julien Frechette's camera and his questions lead us through this
little-understood legal territory without judging or wading into the merits of
the cases. “Silence Is Gold” raises crucial questions about Canada’s role
and responsibilities in the global mining sector, the limits of free speech and
equitable access to the Canadian justice system. Watch the trailer: www.nfb.ca/film/silence_is_gold
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Margo MatwychukDirector
Social Justice Studies ProgramUniversity of Victoriaweb.uvic.ca/socialjustice/ @UVicSJS on TwitterUVicSJS on FacebookUVicSJS on YouTube
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