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Celebrate With Us!

Building Peace and Justice: From the Local to the Global

Share in Celebrating the City of Halifax’s recent joining the list of “Mayors for Peace” on International Human Rights Day.

Date & Time: Wednesday, Dec. 10, 7:00-9:00pm
Location: Local Women’s Council House, 989 Young Ave. (at Inglis), Halifax

Program:

  1. Isabelle Gagnon – harpist, will play before and after the programme
  2. Olga Milosevich – Master of Ceremony and Panel Moderator
  3. Joan Smith – Mi’kmaw Gathering Song
  4. Alexa McDonough – Introduction of Councillor Watts
  5. Councillor Jennifer Watts – Response on behalf of the City of Halifax
  6. Yoko Nishiguchi – Greeting from Hakodate, Sister City and member of Mayors for Peace
  7. Nancy Covington – Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, Physicians for Global Survival
  8. Panel Discussion – Building a Culture of Peace
  9. Maya Eichler, Professor Women’s /Political Studies MSVU
  10. Christine Saulnier, Director CCPA Nova Scotia
  11. Allison Sparling, MSVU Graduate and Social Activist
  12. Questions/discussion – Nancy, Maya, Christine, Allison and audience
  13. Linda Ruffman – Moving From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace, The White Poppy Initiative
  14. Sandy Greenberg – song
  15. Closing remarks – Olga Milosevich

Time to celebrate, make new friends, meet old friends

Snacks from Our Thyme Café, Dartmouth

 

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30th Anniversary of Debert Action – Screening

FBdebert There was a full house at the auditorium of the Museum of Natural History in Halifax at the screening of Debert Bunker: By Invitation Only on the 30th anniversary of the action decrying, protesting, and ridiculing the rehearsal for nuclear war that took place at the bunker in Debert, Nova Scotia on February 29, 1984.

Directed and Produced by Liz MacDougall, the documentary showed the actions of several affinity groups who came together in 1984 to illustrate the horror that would take place outside such a bunker for everyone except the 318 men and 11 women who were chosen to be allowed into the bunker in an absurd and futile attempt to keep the government, military, and communications structures going following a nuclear attack.

With an obvious lack of understanding of what it would take for a continuation of the human race, the bunker plan would attempt to save old, white men, who would be ushered into the supposedly safe cocoon, leaving their wives and children behind to suffer and die. This 30-minute film transfixed the audience and brought them to the raw emotions of grief, rage, and defiance. The connections and common purpose felt by the participants was felt by those watching the video.

Nova Scotia Voice of Women sponsored the screening, as well as Liz MacDougall’s creation of the new digital re-make that was shown. Many Voice of Women members, including Muriel Duckworth and Betty Peterson, were at Debert that day, bringing women’s voices for peace into the cold February air.