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>Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:59:37 -0300 (ADT) >From: Daniel Haran <ah813@chebucto.ns.ca> >Subject: WEEK OF ACTION TO END IRAQ SANCTIONS Apr. 26- May 1st >Sender: ah813@chebucto.ns.ca >To: Halifax Peace List c/o <ah813@chebucto.ns.ca>, netcc@chebucto.ns.ca >Cc: Michael.Bradfield@Dal.Ca, Youth For Social Justice <yfsj@hotmail.com>, > Dave Caulfield <dcaulfield@ns.sympatico.ca>, > Jessica Squires <cfsnspei@globalserve.net>, > Jan Slakov <jslakov@TartanNET.ns.ca>, mark@chebucto.ns.ca, > Antoni Wysocki <au120@chebucto.ns.ca> >Reply-to: Daniel Haran <ah813@chebucto.ns.ca> >MIME-version: 1.0 > > > >*PLEASE POST WIDELY * NOTICE OF EVENTS * > >About a month ago, the Peace Action Group was started, and the Nova Scotia >Campaign to End Iraq Sanctions was launched. As part of the week of action >called for by the Iraq action coalition's student committee (which is >co-ordinating action on 100 campuses) we are holding the following two >events: > > >1- MOVIE NIGHT "SEEING THE BIG PICTURE" > > .Eyewitness Sudan > .Let Iraq live > .Crisis and Kosovo > > As part of Cinema PIRGatory, > NSPIRG's weekly movie night. > > Monday, Apr. 26th. 7PM, Burke 'A', Saint Mary's U. > > >2- MARCH AND RALLY Saturday, May 1st, Noon-2PM, starting at Dal SUB, > Rally at the Parade Square. > > >following is a bit more about the movies, about us and contact info. > >Peace-- Daniel. > > > >* EYEWITNESS SUDAN: The War of the Future. A powerful expose of the August >1998 U.S. bombing of the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant, the small factory >that provided more than half the medicine for Sudan. The smoking ruins and >dashed hopes of Sudanese doctors are skillfully juxtaposed to footage of >Clinton, Albright and Berger's charges. This investigative documentary >connects the years of sanctions and U.S. funding of a contra-army to the >cruise missiles sent against an impoverished African country. 28 minutes > >* CRISIS AND KOSOVO, an analysis of the deepening economic world crisis >juxtaposed with United States military posturing around the world. 29 >minutes > >* LET IRAQ LIVE, a powerful new video by award-winning filmmaker Gloria La >Riva, "Let Iraq Live" portrays the incredible journey of 84 people from >the United States who risked 12-years imprisonment to take millions of >dollars of medicine to the Iraqi people. > >"Let Iraq Live" exposes the human toll of US/UN sanctions on Iraqi >society. More than 1.5 million civilians, mostly children, have >died from disease and malnutrition in the last eight years, according to >UNICEF. The searing images of human suffering captured in >this dramatic video will likely turn even the casual viewer into a >political activist. > >Led by Ramsey Clark, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, and Rev. Lucius Walker in >May 1998, the Iraq Sanctions Challenge is the story of civil disobedience >on an international scale. 28 mins. > >* >The Nova Scotia campaign to end Iraq sanctions is a group of concerned >people working to end the economic sanctions against Iraq. > >Since 1991 more than one million Iraqi civilians have died from hunger and >disease as a direct result of the sanctions. > >An initiative of the Peace Action Group, the Nova Scotia campaign to end >Iraq sanctions is working to break the silence around the ongoing human >catastrophe that results from the punitive trade embargo on non-military >goods. > >The Nova Scotia campaign to end Iraq sanctions is united in our demand for >the Canadian government to join other members of the UN Security council >in their call for an immediate end to comprehensive economic sanctions. > >(Peace Action is a working group of NSPIRG, a student funded, mostly >student directed organization which works on social justice and >environmental issues.) > >* >Contact Info: NSPIRG @ 494-6662; Daniel @ 423-6228 or ><ah813@chebucto.ns.ca> > > > -30- nspirg nova scotia public interest research group 6136 university ave halifax, ns b3h 4j2 902-494-6662 nspirg@is2.dal.ca executive director : linda pannozzo -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- You received this because you are subscribed to "sust-mar", the Sustainable Maritimes mailing list. To unsubscribe, send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> with "unsubscribe sust-mar" (without quotes) as the body of your message. To post a message to sust-mar subscribers, send it to <sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca> Posts that are off-topic or excessive length (10K) will be rejected. For help contact <sust-mar-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>
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