Events and Resources
Conference:
"Resisting Global Militarism"
September 27-29, 2001.
David Lam Auditorium,
McLaurin Bldg., U. of Victoria
Speakers include:
Rt. Rev. Bill Phipps, Past-Moderator, United Church of Canada
Jaggi Singh, La CLAC
Cecilia Diocson, Philippine Women's Centre
Dr. John Price, Canada Asia-Pacific Research Network
Terry Wolfwood, VIPIRG and Barnard-Boecker Centre
Sharmeen Khan, University of Victoria Women's Centre
Steve Staples, Council of Cdns.
Panel on Missile Defense:
Svend Robinson, NDP MP
David Morgan, VANA
Paris Ann, Bombs Away!
For more information, contact: Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group, P.O. Box 3035, Stn CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P3. Tel.: (250) 472-4558; Email: <conference@vipirg.ca>
Web site: < http://www.vipirg.ca>
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Publication:
"Guns, Globalization, Greed: A Guide to the New World Economy"
This excellent 96-page publication edited by Chris Ney has articles on the following themes: "Militarism," "Corporate Power," "Impact on Peoples and Communities" and "Resistance."
For more information, contact: War Resisters League, 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY, 10012 USA. Tel.: (212) 228-0450; Email: <wrl@igc.org> Web site: <http://www.warresisters.org>
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List Serve:
"no_to_nato"
NATO out of Ottawa!
Canada out of NATO!
NATO PA
The "NATO Parliamentary Assembly" (NATO PA) will hold meetings in Ottawa, October 5-8, 2001. These meetings have been refered to by the Ottawa Citizen as a "dress rehearsal," "warm up," "dry run for [the] G8" meetings to be held in Ottawa in 2002. Not only is this event a "dry run" for Ottawa police, RCMP, CSIS, foreign security forces, various governments and the media, it is also a "warm up" for activists from many movements who wish to express opposition to militarism, corporate globalization, human rights abuses and environmental destruction caused by NATO and its member states.
JOIN OUR LIST SERVE
The Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade has created a list serve to help facilitate communications for individuals and organizations wanting to organize non-violent activities to oppose NATO's presence. Please join this list, learn more about the NATO meetings and help plan opposition to them:
(a) Send an email to <majordomo@ flora.org> with the following in the body of your message: subscribe no_to_nato
(b) You will be sent a confirmation and will need to respond before being added to the list.
You can view an archive of all the messages submitted to this list serve at: <http://www.flora.org/coat/forum/>
For more information, contact: COAT, Tel.: (613) 231-3076; Email: <overcoat@rogers.com> Web
site (this site) <http://www.ncf.ca/coat>
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Teach In:
"The Corporate Security State"
October 5-6, 2001.
Ottawa
This teach-in will be held during the meetings of the NATO-Parliamentary Assembly. As the anti-corporate globalization movement grows, governments are acting more and more as collaborators protecting global corporate interests. The tools of repression - tear gas, rubber bullets, blacklists and even live ammunition - are being used against people and democratic dissent in places like Seattle, Washington, Prague and Quebec. Economic warfare is creating a whole new class of 'the global unneeded." The war on drugs is about criminalizing poverty. And, the global war system while pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the pockets of global military producers protects western capital around the world. The consequence is a growing gap between rich and poor, environmental degradation, growing violence and war, and the loss of democracy.
The organizing group led by End the Arms Race, includes: Council of Canadians, Global Resource Action Center on the Environment, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, International Forum on Globalization, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, OPIRG-Ottawa, National Union of Public and Government Employees and other national unions.
For more information, contact: End the Arms Race, 405 - 825 Granville St., Vancouver, BC V6Z 1K9. Tel.: (604) 687-3223; Email:<ear@peacewire.org>