upcoming events and call for contributions/volunteers
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- Published on Tuesday, 16 February 2016 22:00
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Please check out these great upcoming events:
Wednesday, Feb. 17th:
LNG in Victoria? A Community Forum
With a massive liquified natural gas plant proposed for the Saanich Inlet, B.C.'s LNG industry is right on Victoria's doorstep. If approved, the facility will liquify 6 million tonnes of gas every year, filling tankers passing through the Saanich Inlet every 3-5 days for the next 25 years. While Steelhead LNG has already received export licenses to carry out the project, a number of environmental assessments are still pending, and residents have begun to voice their concerns about the risks the project poses.
Dr Eoin Finn, a retired chemist and partner of the major accounting and consulting firm, KPMG, will share his expert research on the safety, climate, ecological and economic impacts of B.C.'s proposed LNG industry, focusing on the Steelhead Malahat project. Updates will also be provided from the The Saanich Inlet Network.
Event sponsored by Sierra Club BC, Dogwood Initiative, The Council of Canadians, The Saanich Inlet Network, The Western Canada Wilderness Committee and Divest... Victoria.
Who: Dr Eoin Finn and representatives from the Saanich Inlet Network.
When: Wed, Feb 17, 7-9 pm
Where: Esquimalt United Church, 500 Admirals Road, Esquimalt.
Thursday, Feb. 18th:
Thursday, Feb 18
Victoria Friends of Cuba
https://victoriafriendsofcuba.wordpress.com/
Who controls the future of your food?
"GMO OMG" (Genetically Engineered Organisms - Oh My God) explores the systematic corporate takeover and potential loss of humanity’s most precious and ancient inheritance: seeds.
Investigates how loss of seed diversity and corresponding laboratory assisted genetic alteration of food affects us, the health of our planet, and freedom of choice everywhere
7pm Thursday February 18
2994 Douglas (BGEU Hall)
Admission by Donation
Feb. 21 and 22:
Our Haida Gwaii on the Edge of the World documentary will be back at Cinecenta Feb. 21st 3:00, 5:00 & 7:00pm, Feb. 22nd 7:00 & 9:00pm
http://www.cinecenta.com/default.aspx?PageID=1005&MovieID=1086
Many thanks!
Tina Schliessler (producer)
Feb. 26th:
Western Canadian Premiere
“Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara”
The Saharawi people under occupation and the lessons of Saharawi nonviolent resistance.
FEB.26 AT CAFÉ SIMPATICO
1923 Fernwood Road
Doors 7pm
Music 7:30pm
Film at 8pm
Refreshments: fair trade coffee by the cup and by the
pound.
Admission by donation.
Café Simpatico is presented by the Central America Support Committee and this event is cosponsored by: the Mining Justice Action Committee, Friends of Western Sahara & the Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation.
Call for Volunteers:
Citizen Assembly pilot - Researchers needed!
BCspeaks is a brand new Victoria nonprofit dedicated to making Citizen Assemblies a regular part of BC's political landscape. We want to enable ordinary citizens to become more involved in political decision making.
As a first step in this new initiative, BCspeaks
has designed a pilot project to run with Grade 12 students at a Vic High Social
Justice Studies class. Over the next three months, we will help the students
choose a local social justice topic, research and learn about it (this is where
you come in!), and present recommendations to the appropriate governmental body
(e.g. city council).
We need a couple of researchers who can dedicate 10-15 hours in late February and March to helping us research the student's chosen topic, including helping us identify subject matter experts who will appear and present to the assembly.
Please email Simon with questions or if you'd like to get involved: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: BCspeaks.org
Filmmaker looking for contributions:
Hello SJS community members! I am filmmaker/Uvic grad student, currently directing a feature documentary about legendary Vancouver politician/activist/socialist icon Harry Rankin. The film centres on Rankin's 1986 bid for the mayor's seat, and explores his legacy through six key characters: his son, his ally, his student, his partner, his comrade, and his opponent. What makes this project completely unique is that it builds upon an unfinished 1986 documentary film about Harry, and features never-before-seen footage of Harry as well as a cast of young political heavyweights in their early days (Libby Davies! Jean Swanson!
Jim Green! Gordon Campbell!).
We've nearly finished shooting the film, and are
currently fundraising to complete it. Have a look at our five minute demo
video, which you can watch here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-rankin-file-legacy-of-a-radical/x/8702162#/
I hope you enjoy the demo, and please contribute if you can - your contribution will help get this film finished, and help introduce Harry's remarkable achievements to a new generation of young activists.
Teresa Alfeld
Graduate Student l Dispute Resolution
School of Public Administration l University of Victoria
Phone: 604.788.4785
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Two Worlds, One Family
Doc uncovers Chinese-First Nations relations in early B.C.
The official trailer for All Our Father's Relations was released earlier this month (at UBC's Centennial Lunar New Year celebration) and is now available for sharing: http://thetyee.ca/Video/2016/02/10/Two-Worlds-One-Family/. The trailer with Chinese subtitles will be up on the film website later this week.
Margo MatwychukDirector
Social Justice Studies ProgramUniversity of Victoriaweb.uvic.ca/socialjustice/@UVicSJS on TwitterUVicSJS on FacebookUVicSJS on YouTube
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