student work opportunities and upcoming events
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UNI101 is looking for a workstudy student and some volunteers. They have extended the deadline until Monday Sept. 21.
See the attached posters.
World Children's Summit Celebration Event
Sept. 21
Help Celebrate the role children play in peace and their connection to nature! Keynote speakers - Robert Bateman and Dr. Saul Arbess ..performance by Linda Rogers van Krugel and Rick van Krugel - a special honouring of Louise Taylor who has devoted her life to the creation of a culture of peace. You will also be hearing for the first time ever The Peace Pole Song played by June Bender and sung by Fremke Woud..Come one come all this is a family free event!
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.
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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)
See Cinecenta website for information on other films being shown during the festival. http://www.cinecenta.com/
7:30 Tuesday, October 6
Canada in Africa - 300 years of Aid and Exploitation
UVic
Harry Hickman Rm 105
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 as well as Ottawa's opposition to anticolonial struggles and promotion of neoliberal economic prescriptions, which have benefitted Canadian mining companies that have bought up much of the continent's mineral resources, but are often bitterly resisted by local communities.
Engler sheds light on Canada's part in the violence that has engulfed Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo, as well as how Canada's indifference to climate change means a death sentence to 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.
Free admission. Donations to assist the book tour.
Sponsors: 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).
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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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