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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 03:49:18 -0400
From: Cliff White <cwhite@canadians.org>
Sender: sust-mar-owner@chebucto.ns.ca
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Reclaiming Democracy
Food, Water and the WTO - Whose Future is it?
Interested In: Genetically Engineered Foods
The Bulk Export of Canadian Water
The WTO
The Corporate Attack on Democracy
How to Successfully Fight Back
Tony Clarke, Elizabeth May, and Victoria Gibb-Carsley and Jennifer Story
of the Council of Canadians will be speaking on these issues at the:
Dalhousie Student Union room 224\226
February 13, 1:00PM
Tony Clarke
Director of the Polaris Institute in Canada, Vice chair of the Council of
Canadians, Acting Chair of the Common front on the World Trade
Organization, Chair of the Committee on Corporations for the International
Forum on Globalization in San Francisco. Author of _Silent Coup:
Confronting the Big Business Take Over of Canada_, and (with Maude Barlow)
_MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to Canadian
Sovereignty_.
Elizabeth May
Environmentalist, author, activist and lawyer. Author of three books:
_Budworm Battles_ (1982); _Paradise Won: The Struggle to Save South
Moresby_ (1990); _At the Cutting Edge: The Crisis in Canada's Forests_
(1998). Honourary member of the board for the Canadian Environmental
Network and a founding member of the Canadian Environmental Defence
Fund and Women for a Healthy Planet. The first chair-holder of the
Elizabeth May Chair in Women's Health and Environmental Studies at
Dalhousie University. Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada.
Jennifer Story
Long time social activist. While studying at the University of
Guelph she worked as a writer and producer in both radio and print for a
number of university and media outlets. She also served as the National
Deputy Chairperson for the Canadian Federation of students. She later
became active in the co-operative movement and worked in the Philippines
with the credit union movement there. Since 1999 she has been the
Health Protection Campaigner for the Council of Canadians and is
currently responsible for the Council's successful Campaign Against GE
Foods.
Victoria Gibb-Carsley
Masters Degree in International and Intercultural Management; she has
worked in popular and Adult Education for the past ten years. She has
previously worked with the Ontario Public Interest Research Group in
Ottawa, and with Canada World Youth in Canada and Latin America, and as a
high school teacher in Canada and the Middle East. Currently Victoria is
the national organizer of the Council of Canadians where during the past
three years she has overseen the growth of Council chapters from 10 to 60.
As national organizer, Victoria works with the campaign teams, regional
organizers and chapters of The Council to realize national campaigns at a
local level across the country.
Join us for an Informative afternoon of Talk and Discussion.
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