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Dear Friends of SJS,


Please check out these great upcoming events:


CJPME-Victoria writes:

We are delighted to advise you of an important panel discussion on Palestine, to be held in Victoria as part of the 10th Annual Victoria Anarchist Book Fair, on Sunday, September 13, 2015, at 4pm. Details of the event are as follows:

Panel Discussion on Palestine: Solidarity with Palestinians--Priorities for Canadian Activists

Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015

4pm

Fernwood NRG

1240 Gladstone Avenue

Victoria BC V8T 1G6
Organised and hosted by the 10th Annual Victoria Anarchist Book Fair

The discussion will focus on two key issues:

  1. How do we in Canada advance Palestinian solidarity work?
  2. How do we in Canada deal with Zionist efforts to demonise and undermine Palestinian solidarity ... work?

Confirmed participants on the panel are:

  • Leila Durzi: Ms Durzi is a Palestinian-Canadian who has been active for many years in Palestinian solidarity work.
  • Omar Mansour: Mr. Mansour is from Gaza, in Occupied Palestine, where he was a graduate student as well as a social and political activist until 2014, when his university was bombed during the summer 2014 Israeli attack on Gaza. Omar is currently studying business at the University of Victoria.
  • Larry Hannant: Mr. Hannant, an academic and writer, is a history instructor at Camosun College, teaching courses in the History of Human Rights and History of the Middle East. Larry is a long-time supporter of Palestinian resistance to Zionist colonisation of Palestine.
  • Michael Carpenter (moderator): Mr. Carpenter is a graduate student and research fellow at the University of Victoria. He recently conducted research with a grassroots resistance movement in Occupied Palestine. Michael also helps coordinate UVic's Middle East Discussion Group, a campus-wide forum for graduate students.

To read more about the10th Annual Victoria Anarchist Book Fair, or to contact the organisers, please visit their Facebook event page at:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1681428325420374/ or visit their website at: http://victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca/

Kind regards,

Frances

Frances Everett
Coordinator, CJPME, Victoria Chapter

778.679.2943

Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

10090 boulevard St-Laurent, Suite 201, Montréal, QC H3L 2N7

438-380-5410

(www.cjpme.org)



Rethinking Amalgamation: Cautionary thoughts about amalgamation in the CRD

A public forum

Thursday, September 17, 2015 7:00pm

Young 310, Lansdowne Campus

Camosun College


Speakers:

Dr. Robert Bish – Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria, where he was Professor of Public Administration and Economics from 1981 through 1998. He was also Co-director of the Local Government Institute from its establishment in 1995 through 2002. He is currently the Academic Chair of the Board, Tulo Centre of Indigenous Economics.

Johnny Carline – From 1996 to 2012, Johnny Carline was Chief Administrative Officer of Metro Vancouver. In that position he developed Vancouver’s Sustainable Region Initiative, an integrated set of plans covering land use, utilities, parks, health, housing, air quality and food for the Greater Vancouver region. Before that he held a series of senior planning positions in Toronto, Vancouver, Richmond and Surrey. He is retired and living in Metchosin.

All welcome. No charge.

Q & A to follow presentations.

Sponsored by the Humanities Department, Camosun College

Further information – Larry Hannant 250 380 0462

Thanks,

Larry


Pacific Peoples’ Partnership is thrilled to be celebrating 40 years of action by hosting our 22nd Pacific Networking Conference, entitled Rising Tides: Our Lands, Our Waters, Our Peoples. This innovative conference will be held from September 22nd- 26th, 2015 within Coast Salish Territories in the Greater Victoria Area.

You are cordially invited to join us for an inspiring, transformative learning experience hosted deep in the heart of Coast Salish Territories. Together we will exchange ideas, strategies, knowledge, and build synergy between peoples of the South Pacific, First Peoples of Canada, and members of our wider community. Through an emphasis on experiential learning, this conference will explore our conference themes: Land Stewardship, Environmental Sustainability, Human Rights, Governance, and the Strengthening of Arts and Cultural Practices.

Three days of conference programming will be hosted in Songhees, T’Sou-ke, and Tsartlip Nations. Here, we will explore many forms of knowledge while we present a diverse lineup of speakers, panelists, artistic demonstrations, roundtable discussions, guided tours and extensive cross-cultural community building and networking opportunities.


For a full program schedule and more information please refer to the attachments, or visit our website at: http://www.pacificpeoplespartnership.org/events/event/pacific-networking-conference-2015

Registration is now open at: https://www.picatic.com/risingtides2015. Please note, we are pleased to provide a $20 discount on the full conference registration to Pacific Peoples’ Partnership members, donors and partners. Simply use the code PPP-Members-and-Supporters in the promotional code box. Also note that there is a limited amount of travel and participation bursaries available, please email us directly to discuss your needs at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The conference will also be held in conjunction with our 8th One Wave Festival. You can learn more about this programming at: https://www.facebook.com/onewavefestival

Should you not be able to attend these events please consider helping us mark our 40th Anniversary with a donation at: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/pacific-peoples-partnership-association/


We sincerely hope you will be able to join us for these exciting programs.

Warmest regards,

April and the Team at PPP

April Ingham

Executive Director

Pacific Peoples' Partnership

Suite 407, 620 View Street

Victoria, BC V8W 1J6

Ph. 250-381-4131

Fax. 888-812-7346

www.pacificpeoplespartnership.org



Mining Justice Action Committee and the International Solidarity Committee of CUPE Vancouver Island are pleased to co-sponsor at Latin American and Spanish Film Week

Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians (Huicholes: Los últimos guardianes del peyote)

Tuesday, September 22 — 7 PM only at UVIC Cinecenta (University of Victoria)

Please join us for for the Victoria Premier of Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians (Huicholes: Los últimos guardianes del peyote)
by Hernán Vilchez (Mexico, 2014) – 125 min

Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians is a story about the Wixarika People, one of the last living Pre-Hispanic cultures in Latin America, and their struggle to preserve Wirikuta, their sacred territory and the land where the peyote grows, the traditional plant that keeps the knowledge of this iconic culture of Mexico alive. However, this territory is in danger. In 2010 the Mexican government granted concessions to several mining companies to explore and exploit the area, a natural reserve of 140,000 hectares of desert and hills in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, rich in gold, silver and other valuable minerals. This visually stunning documentary explores the struggles and hopes of the Huicholes today.

Director in attendance! Q & A after the show

Hernán Vilchez (1971) studied filmmaking in his native Argentina and Cuba. In the past decade he has produced and directed commercials, television, music videos and documentaries in Latin America and Europe. Specializing in filming indigenous and ancestral ceremonies around the world, he has worked in the Amazon jungle, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Uganda, and Senegal. He currently directs his own independent documentary projects and a new international series project, The Roots of Faith.

Part of the proceeds of the show will support Mosqoy, a registered Canadian charity that promotes educational and cultural rights for Andean communities in Peru (mosqoy.org)

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