——————————————————————————————–Thursday January 27th at the Blarney Stone Pub from 5:30 to 8:00pm. 216 Carral st (Gastown)International Development Drinkshttp://blog.students.ubc.ca/globallounge/2011/01/23/international-development-drinks/ The British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) and the Engineers Without Borders Vancouver (EWB) would like to invite you to International Development Drinks on Thursday January 27th at the Blarney Stone Pub from 5:30 to 8:00pm. This evening will provide an opportunity to connect with major non-governmental organizations operating in Vancouver. Additionally, we will be hosting returned overseas volunteers, graduate students, professors, members of CIDA, and young social entrepreneurs. Please join us for a night of socializing, networking and discussion.
The evening will feature:
———————————————————————————————————-Friday, January 28 2011 @ 08:00 PM – – 10:00PMEND:CIV: Resist or Die screening with Franklin Lopez, Vancouver, B.C. |
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When: | Friday, January 28 2011 @ 08:00 PM – – 10:00PM |
Contact: | http://endciv.com/ |
Where: | Purple Thistle 260-975 Vernon Drive Vancouver, B.C. |
Description: | The acclaimed film END:CIV: Resist or Die, recently released on a PM Press DVD, is currently touring throughout North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia. This screening will also feature a talk by director Franklin Lopez. Follow the link below for more information on the film, including a streaming clip. While attending this event, please stop by the PM table to peruse books by authors included in the film and a selection of our other DVDs. Our planet is in crisis. Every ecosystem is collapsing. Another 120 species will go extinct today. And the carbon level keeps rising. For years, Derrick Jensen (author of the recently published Resistance Against Empire and Mischief in the Forest–click here for more info) has asked his audiences, “Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?” No one ever says yes. In END:CIV, based partly on the premises of Jensen’s Endgame, explores Jensen’s work and exposes the accelerating ecological and social disaster that is industrial civilization—and the environmental movement’s refusal to face the scale of the crisis. Through interviews with Jensen and other radical activists, END:CIV makes the case that industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can’t fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won’t stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. END: CIV is, finally, a call to act as if we truly love this planet. END:CIV features interviews with Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill (author of 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith (author of The Vegetarian Myth), James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan, Steven Best, Aric McBay, George Poitras, Shusli, Zoe Blunt, Dru Oja Jay, Maya Rolbin-Ghanie, Shannon Walsh, Macdonald Stainsby, and Mike Mercredi. |
This week at UBC
Tuesday, January 25 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Liu Institute for Global Issues, Room TBD
http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/sites/liu/files/Events/2011_Jan25_Journalists-for-human-rights.pdf
Crafting a Human Rights Story – How to Make Your Readers Take Action
With Ken Zolotar
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 — 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Room TBD
Journalists for Human Rights (Jhr) is Canada’s largest international media development organization. Their aim is to make everyone in the world fully aware of their rights – a goal which is as unique as it is powerful.
Jhr uses the media because it is simply the most effective and efficient way to create wide-spread societal awareness on rights issues.
All students and faculty at UBC are welcome to attend this free Jhr Info Session and Human Rights Writing Workshop. The training techniques in this workshop have landed Jhr trainers on the front page of the Toronto Star. The workshop will cover effective techniques that include:
• journalism integrity
• empowering the reader
• connecting the story to a greater law
• inspiring action through writing
For complete information, please visit www.ligi.ubc.ca/events/upcoming.htm
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Thursday, January 27th from 4-5pm in Buchanan B312
Workshop: “BECOMING CHANGE”
“Becoming Change: Exploring the interconnection between poverty, exploitation and international service from the inside out”
Thursday, January 27th from 4-5pm in Buchanan B312
Join us for a public forum in which participants engage in critical dialogue on the ethics of international engagement in this student-led workshop. Brought to you by the Student Directed Seminar “Developing Internationalists” and the Ethics of International Engagement and Service Learning (EIESL) project.
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