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[OPIRG-EVENTS] "Confronting Globalization and Militarism"
Join us for a talk by Steve Staples on
"Confronting Globalization and Militarism"
WHO? Steven Staples
Chair, International Network on Disarmament and Globalization
Issue Campaigns Coordinator, Council of Canadians
WHAT? A talk on: "Confronting Globalization and Militarism"
From the FTAA to the WTO and NATO, global economic and war alliances are
working against the ability of people to create communities that are
based
on social justice and environmental sustainability. Economic
globalization
protects the interests of transnational corporations and weapons makers,
and blocks the efforts of people to work for peace.
WHEN? Tuesday, March 27, 2001 (8 p.m.)
WHERE? 91A Fourth Ave., Ottawa
(just east of Bank St, in the Glebe)
(Friends Meeting House)
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potluck alert! potluck alert! potluck alert! potluck alert!
potluck
alert!
And..... we're having a POTLUCK DINNER too! (same evening, same
location)
So... please join us for a potluck dinner at 6 pm., before Steve's talk
Steve and his wife Carolyn Hyslop are new to Ottawa, having recently
moved
from Vancouver. Their little baby boy is new to the world!
Please join us in welcoming them all with some warm Ottawa hospitality!
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More about Steve:
Steven Staples is the Chair of the International Network on Disarmament
and
Globalization, a network of activists and researchers in more than
thirty
countries who are concerned about the new global economy and the need
for
peace, disarmament, and the funding of human needs. The network was
established at the Hague Appeal for Peace in 1999.
He is also the Issue Campaigns Coordinator for the Council of Canadians,
a
citizens' organization dedicated to opposing corporate rule and
promoting
social justice and democracy. The Council of Canadians is the largest
citizens' group in Canada, with 100,000 members.
Steve has dedicated himself to exposing the links between globalization
and
militarism, and how globalization promotes war - as well as the
production
of weapons to wage it. He speaks to audiences in the US, Canada, and
Europe, most recently the World meeting of Abolition 2000 in Tahiti, the
Hague Appeal for Peace in the Netherlands, the Association of Asian
Parliaments for Peace founding meeting in Bangladesh, the civil society
events in Seattle during the WTO, the Arms Trade Study Group of the
Council
on Foreign Relations in Washington D.C., and peace conferences in
Canada,
Russia, and Spain.
He has produced two video documentaries, his articles are published in
the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' journal, the Monitor, and he
makes
regular appearances on Canada's national news media on issues of foreign
policy and globalization.
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This event is organized by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade.
For more information, call 613-231-3076.
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Richard Sanders
Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
Editor, Press for Conversion!
541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 5R2
Tel.: 613-231-3076 Fax: 613-231-2614
Email: <ad207@ncf.ca> Web site: <www.ncf.ca/coat>
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