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Dear Friends of SJS,
Please join us at some of these great upcoming events:
Tuesday, October 6th:
Canada in Africa - 300 years of Aid and Exploitation
Tuesday, October 6
7:30 pm
UVic, Harry Hickman, Rm 105
Sponsored by 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), African Awareness Committee.
And on Wednesday, October 7
12:30 pm
Camosun, Lansdowne Campus
Young 216
Sponsored by Camosun College Faculty Association's Human Rights and International Solidarity Committee and the Camosun African Awareness Committee.
Book launch Canada in Africa - 300 years of Aid and Exploitation
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. Ottawa's promotion of neoliberal economic prescriptions, which have benefitted Canadian mining companies, is often bitterly resisted by the anticolonial struggles of local communities.
Engler sheds light on Canada's part in the violence that has engulfed Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo, while it shows indifference to the dire effects of climate change on 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.
Wednesday, October 7th:
UVIC wide conversation about the TRC report
Please join a group of us on October 7th at 11:30 – 1pm at the First Peoples House Ceremonial Hall for a UVIC wide informal conversation about the TRC report Call to Action (conveniently attached here).
Please circulate this email to your UVic networks. Details available on the poster.
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Onowa
For more information about TRC see: http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=890"
Wednesday, October 14th:
Getting out the Youth Vote:
FORUM ON NATO, RUSSIA AND WAR?
Please join us for a Forum discussing the future of NATO in the context of the enlargement of NATO and Russian expansion in Europe. Experts will discuss the European situation and assess the prospects for a return to the Cold War.
Dr. Claire Cutler, Professor of International Relations and International Law in the Political Science Department at the University of Victoria.
Dr. Derek Fraser, Associate Fellow at the Centre for Global Studies and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science, and an Advisor to the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. He gained extensive experience in East-West relations and the communist and post-communist world in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and was ambassador to Hungary, Greece, and Ukraine.
Dr. Allen Sens, Professor of Teaching in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include armed conflict and conflict management, European Security, and international peacekeeping operations. He has written widely about NATO in the European context.
Dr. Scott Watson, Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria specializing in international security.
Sponsored by the University of Victoria Department of Political Science and the Centre for Global Studies.
Friday, October 30, 2015
David Strong Building, Room C116
At 2:00 pm
All Welcome!
Margo MatwychukDirector
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