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please check out some of the exciting events coming up:
Global Talk with Dr. Robert Dover
What: The legislative borders of urban health policies: the impact of differentiated health regimens
Date: Wednesday, September 16th
Time: 10:30-12:00
Where: Sedgewick C168
The Borders in Globalization project and The Centre for Global Studies co-host a special Global Talk next week with Dr. Robert Dover, an associate professor of anthropology at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia. His recent research has focused on the protected right to health, and the social, legislative, economic and political impediments that interfere with that right, especially in vulnerable urban and rural populations in Colombia. He has also participated in health-related projects in Cape Town, South Africa, regarding urban space and health, and the social determinants of obesity.
Tea, coffee, and light snacks will be served.
Free Public Workshop
Dignity for All - Canada’s
National Anti-Poverty Plan
Please join Citizens for Public Justice and Canada Without Poverty for a free public workshop to learn about their national anti-poverty campaign – Dignity for All.
Learn about the anti-poverty plan and build skills and strategies for action on local and national levels.
The workshop will be held on:
Date: Thursday September 17th
2015
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Location: Fairfield United Church 1303 Fairfield Road,
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or call Fairfield United Church office 250-384-2425 or register on Fairfield United Church’s face book event
page.
For parking information, http://fairfieldunited.ca/parking
“By taking the plan from coast-to-coast-to-coast, we will be working with communities to develop tools to tell policy
makers in their communities that #WeNeedAPlan and #WeHaveAPlan. “ Canada without Poverty, and Citizens for Public Justice
This workshop is co sponsored by Faith in Action and Fairfield United Church.
VICTORIA FRIENDS OF CUBA PRESENT
Social Justice Film Nights on the 3rd Thursday of every month
Dear Friends,Our Victoria Friends of Cuba committee will begin the upcoming Social Justice Film Night season with some great films and speakers. We hope that we can keep counting on your support and hope to see you at these showings.Victoria Friends of Cuba
A Film by Stephanie Soechtig
7:00pm Thursday September 17
2994 Douglas (BCGEU Hall) Victoria
Everything we’ve been told about food and exercise for the past 30 years is dead wrong. FED UP is the film the food industry doesn’t want you to see. From Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth) and director Stephanie Soechtig, FED UP will change the way you eat forever.
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7:00pm Thursday October 15
2994 Douglas (BCGEU Hall) Victoria
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._______________________________________________________________________
7:00pm Thursday November 19
2994 Douglas (BCGEU Hall) Victoria
Debbie Hubbard will share stories and experiences from her recent time in East Jerusalem as a human rights observer with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). EAPPI is a program co-ordinated by the World Council of Churches.
Robert Fisk to speak on ISIS in Victoria, BC
In one week, on Sunday, Sept. 20th, CJPME will be hosting veteran Middle East journalist and author Robert Fisk in Victoria. We cordially invite you to hear this articulate and insightful scholar and journalist.
Fisk’s lecture will focus on how the Syrian civil war – especially the rise of the so-called “Islamic State” – has destabilized the existing order in the Middle East. Fisk’s talk is entitled: ‘Goodbye, Mr. Sykes! Adieu, M. Picot!’ How the ISIS ‘caliphate’ frightens the Middle East – and us.
Ticket information:
Ticket information:
Victoria, BC - Sunday, Sept. 20, 7:00 p.m.
Location (see map): University of Victoria, David Lam Auditorium, Room A144, MacLaurin Building, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2.
Students (with ID): $10 advance / $15 at the door
Non-students: $15 advance / $20 at the door
You may buy advance tickets on-line for this event by clicking here, or by calling 438-380-5410. For additional details on the Victoria event, please see the CJPME website. Share the Victoria Facebook event with your friends.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, and the Department of History, University of Victoria.
More about Robert Fisk:
Based in Beirut since 1976, Dr. Fisk has been the Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent since 1988. He is the author of five books, including the seminal tome The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (2005), Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (1990) and The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings (2008). He is a highly respected veteran journalist because of his direct and uncompromising reporting and analysis.
Fisk's address will be followed by a Q&A period.
Please share this email widely with friends and acquaintances.
Hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
The CJPME Leadership
Telephone: 438-380-5410
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