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Reminder: TWO EVENTS in Hamilton & Burlington

WATER: Life Before Profit
Saturday, January 28 9am - 1pm .
Westdale United Church, 99 North Oval, Hamilton
(Free. Wheelchair accessible. Parking on street.
Enter via North Oval door)

Co-sponsored by: Kairos: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
Hamilton-Burlington Committee, and
IDEA (Interfaith Development Education Association) Burlington

The President of the World Bank has predicted that the wars of the 21st century will be over water. Water - its ownership, safety and security - is
literally a matter of life and death.

Speakers:
Hamilton Councillor Brian McHattie and Paul Lemieux,
Animator for the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace.
For more information, call Joy Warner of Kairos at
905-521-0017, or IDEA at: 905-637-3110

HAITI: "Responsibility to Protect"? or Failure to Protect?
Monday, January 30 7:30 pm
East Plains United Church, 375 Plains Rd. East,
Burlington
Free. Wheelchair Accessible.

Co-sponsored by: BAND (Burlington Association for Nuclear Disarmament),
IDEA (Interfaith Development Education Association)
Burlington, Kairos: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives Hamilton-Burlington
Committee,
Wider Work Committee of East Plains United Church.

In February 2004, Canada, France and the United States removed from power the democratically-elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In the intervening two years, Haiti has been ruled by an unelected interim government, supported by national police and a UN-sanctioned foreign military-political occupation force, in which Canada is an active participant. Canada justifies its action in Haiti by a new doctrine called "Responsibility to Protect." Although the situation has been often unclear, there have been reports of thousands of deaths and of hundreds of Haitians incarcerated without charges being laid, and forced into internal or external exile.

Speaker: Justin Podur is a writer (often for Z Magazine), translator and activist living in Toronto. He has undertaken several research trips to Haiti, most recently in November 2005.
Video: Haiti: The UNtold Story

"Anyone with knowledge of illegal activity and an opportunity to do something is a potential criminal under international law, unless the person takes affirmative measures to prevent the commission of the crimes." - Declaration of War Crimes Tribunals following World War ll

posted by Annamarie at 2:23 AM