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Tip: Your message to SUST-MAR must be html-free. So, BEFORE you hit SEND, please go to your "Format" pull-down menu and select "Plain text." Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________ Hello Sust-Mar! Three events FYI: 1. Surviving Landmines: The Legacy of the Perfect Soldier An exhibit by Giovanni Diffidenti Wednesday December 3 at 8:30pm The Velvet Olive - Market Street - Halifax FEATURING KOJO (A great groovy dancing band!) On December 3rd we mark the Anniversary of the Ottawa Convention banning the use of anti-personnel landmines. To celebrate the Convention, and those whose lives the Convention has helped, Oxfam and the Youth Mine Action Ambassador Program invite you to join us for a unique and powerful exhibit entitled Surviving Landmines: The Legacy of the Perfect Soldier. The exhibit will be appearing one night only. Suggested donation is $5 students/unwaged and $10 waged. Proceeds from the door will go to Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief. 2. Care about fish and the oceans? Come to our second organizing meeting for the "Day of Action for Fish and Fish Habitat" this Thursday, December 4 from 5:30-6:30 PM at the Ecology Action Centre (EAC), 1568 Argyle St. Brownies supplied. Our Day of Action is planned for the third week of January and we need all hands on deck to pull it off - a fish die in, a consumer/restaurant campaign, a panel discussion, a film showing, theatrical pieces are some of the events planned... All our welcome to help out! For a copy of Ransom Myers' and Boris Worm's Nature article about the threat to the major fish species, please go to: http://fish.dal.ca/ 3. The Halifax Peace Coalition invites you to participate in our reading and discussion on "Canada and Militarization" on Monday, Dec. 15 from 7-9PM in the seminar room of the silver Computer Science Building, 6050 University Avenue, Dalhousie University (the security person in the front lobby can tell you which seminar room exactly). We will be reading Stephen Staples' piece "Breaking Rank: A Citizens' Review of Canada's Military Spending" booklet. To get a copy of the booklet, you can purchase it through the Polaris Institute for $8 including shipping or you can download it for free from the Polaris Institute web site (it's 49 pages and you need adobe acrobat reader): http://www.polarisinstitute.org/ For more information about this reading group, please email Carolyn at 'cvangurp@chebucto.ns.ca' For more information about the Halifax Peace Coalition, please visit our web site at: http://hfxpeace.chebucto.org/ We usually have meetings event Monday from 7-8PM in the Computer Science Building - new members are very welcome! Happy December! Tamara Tamara Lorincz BA, BComm, MBA, LLB 55 Willowbend Court Halifax, NS CANADA B3M 3L3 (902) 443-2423 tlorincz@dal.ca CESR: http://is2.dal.ca/~cesr/ EAC: http://www.ecologyaction.ca HPC: http://hfxpeace.chebucto.org/ "A better world is possible" ____________________________________________________________________________ Did a friend forward this to you? Join sust-mar yourself! Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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