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Reminder that tonight is our 3rd and last Conversation with Activists for the semester, Please join us at 7:00 p.m. this evening to hear activist kym (hothead) hines talk about "Homeless in Victoria: Frontlines of Colonialismm" Cornett A120.
For those who attended the recent screening and discussion of Silence is Gold, and are heading over to Vancouver this weekend, you can participate in a discussion with Alain Deneault at the following event:
ALAIN DENEAULT DOUBLE HEADER AT UBC
UBC’S NEW MINING INSTITUTE AND THE BIG PICTURE
14 March 2014
Norm Theatre in UBC's Student Union Building
(1) 12- 2 PM FRIDAY 14 MARCH
NORM THEATRE, STUDENT UNION BUILDING
PUBLIC LECTURE: UBC's New Mining Institute and the Big Picture
https://www.facebook.com/events/232457570272486/
UBC now hosts the Canadian International Institute for Extractive Industries and Development (CIIEID), funded and mandated by CIDA to promote growth of Canada-based mining companies in their operations overseas. It partners with... companies that have been accused of human rights abuses, bullying, and a transfer of far greater costs than benefits to communities and countries. Now through the CIIEID, our university departments may be legitimizing these abuses. The UBC community should have a say in the matter!
Three quarters of the world’s mining companies are headquartered in Canada, with around 1200 of them headquartered in Vancouver alone! Alain Deneault will discuss why Canada is the legal haven of choice for the world’s mining industry, and put the CIIEID in context with Canadian legal, financial, and foreign policies.
Alain Deneault teaches critical thought in the political science department at the Université de Montréal and conducts research for the Quebec section of the Tax Justice Network. He is co-author of the bookNoir Canada: Pillage, corruption, etcriminalité en Afrique (Écosociété, 2008). His books most recently translated into English include Offshore: Tax Havens and the Rule of Global Crime (New Press, 2012) and Paul Martin and Companies: Sixty Theses on the Alegal Nature of Tax Havens(Talonbooks, 2005). His latest book Canada: A New Tax Haven will be released by Talonbooks in 2015.
(2) 2:30 - 5 PM FRIDAY 14 MARCH
NORM THEATRE, STUDENT UNION BUILDING
SILENCE IS GOLD film & discussion of SLAPPs
https://www.facebook.com/events/300379343444035/
Facing a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation - a SLAPP - is perhaps the worst nightmare for academics and journalists investigating and publishing original research that challenges the practices of large corporations. SLAPPs are meant to intimidate and silence critics: the high costs of a lengthy legal battle can exhaust and distract a researcher, and can lead to self-censorship. Learn about SLAPP legislation in Canada, and how Alain Deneault managed the lawsuits when SLAPPed by mining companies Barrick and Banro.
The film Silence is Gold raises key concerns about the practices of Canadian mining companies, the role of Canada on their behalf, the legal system that still allows corporations to intimidate researchers and journalists into silence, and points to the light at the end of the tunnel.
Followed by:
The University and the Capacity to Resist
With Dr. Stephen Collis
5:00– 7 PM FRIDAY 14 MARCH
Forestry CAWP 2916
https://www.facebook.com/events/1477205412500934/
Howard Caygill, in 'On Resistance', defines resistance as the building and maintenance of the capacity to resist. In this talk Dr. Stephen Collis will discuss the possibilities for building our capacity to resist within the existing neoliberal university, in alternative, free universities, and beyond the university. Ultimately, drawing on his own experiences as an academic and organizer, he proposes a "School for Resistance" that might take up the interstices between the capacity building of universities and that undertaken by grassroots social justice movements.
The talk will be given by Stephen Collis, a poet, activist and professor of contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University.
We would like to remind everyone that this event and this university are on unceded Coast Salish territory. While we are analyzing the university and the world, it is important to acknowledge our place in the on-going history of Canada as a colonial-settler state. The impact of colonization continues to this day, affecting both our material circumstances as well as our understanding of ourselves and the world.
This event is sponsored by the SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTRE
and is part of the RETAKING THE UNIVERSITY
student activism conference 12-14 MARCH 2014
WEB: ubc-sjc.ca
Here is a list of our upcoming events sponsored by the Victoria Friends of Cuba
Venezuela and Violent Protests
Public Event with guest speaker:
Marli Vanegas
Venezuelan Consul General in Vancouver
7pm Wednesday, March 12:
2994 Douglas (BCGEU hall), Victoria
Admission by Donation
Since February 12, 2014 violent activities initiated by the opposition against the democratically elected government of Venezuela has terrorized the population, left all kinds of material destruction to the country and has cost the lives of 18 people with hundreds wounded.
Guest speaker Merli Vanegas, Venezuelan Consul General from Vancouver will give an update as to what is really going on in Venezuela and answer questions people might want to ask.
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Social Justice Film Night
This film is dedicated to International Women’s Day
7pm Thursday, Mar. 20
2994 Douglas (BCGEU Hall), Victoria
Admission by Donation
"Taking Root – The Vision of Wangari Maathai"
TAKING ROOT is a compelling documentary narrative about the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1977, Maathai suggested rural women plant trees to address problems stemming from a degraded environment. Under her leadership, their tree-planting grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, defend human rights and promote democracy, and brought Maathai the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.
"It is the people who must save the environment. It is the people who must make their leaders change. And we cannot be intimidated. So we must stand up for what we believe in". - Wangari Maathai
Social Justice Film Night is on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
______________________________________________GERARDO ALFONSO in CONCERT FROM CUBA
7pm Tuesday, April 82994 Douglas (BCGEU Hall), Victoria Admission by DonationAll proceeds going towards "Cuban Doctors for Haiti Campaign"Gerardo Alfonso, Cuban popular musician and Sandra Ramirez, Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP) representative will be on a Canada cross country tour. Our Victoria Friends of Cuba with the Canadian Network on Cuba is cosponsoring their visit to Victoria.
For more info. visit http://victoriafriendsofcuba.wordpress.com
All sponsored by Victoria Friends of CubaFor more information on any of these events please visit our website:http://victoriafriendsofcuba.wordpress.com
"No to Climate Change, Yes to System Change"
A Public Lecture by Richard Smith
Wednesday March 26th at 7pm
University of Victoria
Harry Hickman Rm. 105
https://www.facebook.com/events/1407093686217220/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
Richard Smith has written on China, capitalism and the global environment for New Left Review, Monthly Review, The Ecologist, the International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, Adbusters, Truthout, and other publications. His book To Save the Planet, Turn the World Upside Down will be published in 2014
Event sponsored by: Environmental Studies, Sociology, Centre for Cooperative and Community Based Economies, Cultural, Social and Political Thought Graduate Program, Social Environmental Alliance, Smart Change, Council of Canadians Victoria Branch, GVTA Social Justice Committee, Vancouver Eco-Socialist Group
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