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[OPIRG-EVENTS] Global Cops teach-in - Oct. 5 - Ottawa
Global Cops
The Corporate Security State's Assault on Democracy
October 5, 2001
Ottawa Canada
St. Joseph's Parish
151 Laurier Avenue East
Evening Panel
Dominion Chalmers United Church
355 Cooper Street
Please REGISTER at the door, pre-registration is closed
For information contact
End the Arms Race
405 - 825 Granville Street
Vancouver BC V6Z 1K9
Canada
toll free 1.866.559.5527
fax 604.687.3277
phone 604.687.3223
ear@peacewire.org
Sliding scale for the full day $20 to $60
Evening panel only $5
Subsidies available
Early Registration closes October 1, 2001
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The Corporate Security State's Assault on Democracy
October 5, 2001 Ottawa Canada
St. Joseph's Parish 151 Laurier Avenue East
DRAFT AGENDA
After each panel there will be follow-up workshops (one hour each) for
participants to further discuss the issue.
Co-Chairs Mel Watkins, Science for Peace and Arciris Garay, Campaign for
Nuclear Phaseout
9:00 am Terrorism and War
Deborah Bourque, Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Svend Robinson, Member of Parliament
Jean Grossholtz, Mount Holyoke College
10:00 am Corporate Economic Warfare
Chief Art Manuel, Shuswap Nation Tribal Council
Jerry Mander, International Forum on Globalization
11:00 am Private wars: Defending Corporate Interests
Emmanuel Rozental-Klinger, The Canada Colombia Solidarity Campaign
Owens Wiwa, AFRIDA
1:00 pm The Military Enforcer of the Free Market
Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute
Steve Staples, The Council of Canadians and the International Network on
Disarmament and Globalization
Diana Johnstone, Researcher and author
2:00 pm The Criminalization of Dissent
Lyndsay Poaps, Check Your Head
Jaggi Singh, Researcher and Activist
Aziz Choudry, GATT Watchdog
3:00 pm NATO: The World Police & the Global War System
James Bissett, Former Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Senator Doug Roche, Author and Former Ambassador to Disarmament
4:00 pm Master of Space with a Nuclear Fist
Alice Slater, Global Resources Action Center on the Environment
Andrew Lichterman, Western States Legal Foundation
Evening Panel 7:00 pm
The Corporate Security State
Dominion-Chalmers United Church
355 Cooper Street Ottawa
Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians
Jean-Claude Parrot, Canadian Labour Congress
Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons in Space
Saturday morning (Round table 9:00 am to 12:00 noon) Strategy for a historic
era: the Global Democracy Movement Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute (Chair)
* This is an historical moment
* Building the movement for the long-term
Protecting ourselves from corporate state violence-protecting human and
social rights, and the environment; creating economics for people; and a
time to end war.
Sponsors: End the Arms Race, GRACE (Global Resource Action Center on the
Environment, The Council of Canadians, The International Forum on
Globalization, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Coalition to Oppose the Arms
Trade, Canadian Labour Congress, Ottawa and District Labour Council,
Canadian Union of Public Employees, National Union of Public and Government
Employees, Canadian Auto Workers, Ontario-PIRG Ottawa, Canadian Union of
Postal Workers, Canadian Voice of Women, Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom-Canada, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in
Space, Abolition 2000 Military Industrial Working Group, Science for Peace,
and International Network On Disarmament and Globalization.
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Len Bush, National Representative
National Union of Public and General Employees
15 Auriga Drive, Nepean, On, Canada, K2E 1B7
(613) 228-9800 / (613) 228-9801 [fax]
www.nupge.ca / lbush@nupge.ca
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