[Stopwar-l] Upcoming StopWar events and meetings

[StopWar]

Upcoming events and meetings - from StopWar

1) Yves Engler book launch - Thursday, March 29
2) StopWar General Meeting - Wed April 4
4) Public Forum with David Barsamian

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1) Yves Engler book launch - Thursday, March 29

Book launch and forum:

Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt

with author Yves Engler

Thursday, March 29 7pm

at W2 Media Cafe (111 W. Hastings)

Admission by donation. Books will be available for sale.

Written in the form of a submission to an imagined “Truth and
Reconciliation” commission about Canada’s foreign policy past, Lester
Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt will change how you think about
this country's most famous statesman. This book challenges one of the most
important (and useful) Canadian foreign policy myths.

Yves Engler has been dubbed “one of the most important voices on the
Canadian Left today” (Briarpatch). In addition to six published books,
many of Engler’s writings have appeared in the alternative press, as well
as mainstream publications such as The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star,
Ottawa Citizen and Ecologist. His six books have been praised by Naomi
Klein, Noam Chomsky, William Blum, Rick Salutin and many others.

Yves Engler’s is bound to provoke a lively discussion because Engler
arrives at the startling conclusion that “Stephen Harper’s foreign policy
resembles that of Pearson more than any Liberal would ever admit.”

Endorsed by Vancouver's StopWar Coalition.

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2) StopWar General Meeting - Wed April 4

StopWar’s next general meeting is Wednesday, April 4, 2012 5:30pm. Please
note the new location - 65 W. Cordova (at Abbott)

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3) Public Forum with David Barsamian

"Media and Democracy"

April 15, 2012

2.00 pm-5.00 pm

Room 1700

SFU Harbour Centre

515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC

David Barsamian is the founder and director of Alternative Radio, the
independent weekly audio series based in Boulder, Colorado, a nationally
syndicated program carried by 125 radio stations.

He has interviewed and authored books with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn,
Eqbal Ahmad, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. His best-selling
books with Chomsky have been translated into many languages. His latest
books are How the World Works and What We Say Goes (both with Noam
Chomsky) and Targeting Iran. David's interviews and articles appear in The
Progressive, Z and other publications.

Barsamian is winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU's Upton
Sinclair Award for independent journalism, and the Cultural Freedom
Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative
Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes.

Barsamian, who had visited India many times in the last 40 years,
reporting on conditions, learning Urdu and playing sitar, was deported on
arrival in New Delhi on September 23, 2011 and prevented from carrying out
scheduled interviews in regard to the  thousands of recently discovered
unmarked graves in Kashmir and with Dr. Binayak Sen, who had been
imprisoned for years as a Maoist-sympathizer for rendering medical
assistance to insurgents in India's tribal areas.

David Barsamian will discuss world affairs, the economic crisis and global
rebellions, the state of journalism, and censorship.

For further information contact Chin Banerjee: 604-421-6752.

Co-sponsored by Committee of Progressive Pakistani Canadians (CPPC) and
Progressive Nepali Forum in Americas (PNEFA).