[Stopwar-l] Upcoming meetings and events

[StopWar]

In this email:

1) StopWar General Meeting Nov. 2
2) Book launch Nov. 1
3) World Peace Forum Nov. 11-12

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1) You are invited to StopWar’s next general meeting:

Wednesday, November 2, 5:30pm
at the Maritime Labour Centre (111 Victoria Dr.)

The agenda will include a report back from the recent convention of the
Canadian Peace Alliance, introducing the new campaign ‘Peace and
Prosperity, Not War and Austerity'.

See more information about the campaign here:
http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/PeaceandProsperity.html


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2) Book Launch - Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil? by Derrick O'Keefe

Tuesday, November 1, 7:00pm (Doors 6:30pm)
People's Coop Bookstore, 1391 Commercia Drive

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About the book and the Counterblasts series from Verso


"The debates and polemics Ignatieff has engaged in over the past
decades—on topics including war and empire, torture, civil liberties in
the war on terror, the nature of modern liberalism, the impact of human
rights discourse, and the potential for and desirability of societal
transformation—remain as relevant as ever. But Ignatieff’s career as a
politician and public intellectual raises a series of questions... What
exactly is the state of liberalism today? Can imperial wars ever be
justified? Were the torture and other murky practices of the “war on
terror” necessary as a lesser evil? What are the responsibilities of
intellectuals?"

About the series: Counterblasts is a new Verso series that aims to revive
the tradition of polemical writing inaugurated by Puritan and leveller
pamphleteers in the seventeenth century, when in the words of one of them,
Gerard Winstanley, the old world was “running up like parchment in the
fire.” From 1640 to 1663, a leading bookseller and publisher, George
Thomason, recorded that his collection alone contained over twenty
thousand pamphlets. Such polemics reappeared both before and during the
French, Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions of the last century. In a
period of conformity where politicians, media barons and their ideological
hirelings rarely challenge the basis of existing society, it’s time to
revive the tradition. Verso’s Counterblasts will challenge the apologists
of Empire and Capital.

http://www.versobooks.com/books/494-michael-ignatieff

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3) World Peace Forum Events:

Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Another World Is Possible - But How Do We Get There?

www.peaceforumteachin.org

Nov 11 at the WISE Hall - The Wizard of Oz - the music, the movie, and a
short talk about the symbolism and subversive message of Oz, the Tin Man
and those ruby slippers!

Nov 12 at Langara College - What can we learn from past visions and
attempts to build a better world, and what can we do today?! Industrial
utopias, liberation movements, the theory of a no growth economy,
dissident art and artists, Greece, Egypt, South Africa, and WHERE DO WE GO
FROM HERE ?? See the new website for the full program and join us!