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“Austerity and Anti-Terrorism: Two Lies and How To Fight Them”  Peace Forum Teach-In 2015  Sunday Nov 15, SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC
9:00-10:00	Plenary: Here A War, There A War, Everywhere A War, War Wars against Workers, First Nations, Muslims, and the Earth, amongst others     Ingo Schmidt
State of Things 10:15-11:15	The Financial Follies: The Rise and Fall of the American Dollar     Chris Shelton	Boom or Bust: Squeezing The Earth for all It’s Worth – The Perils of a Resource Economy Ingo Schmidt	Casual, Cheap and Disposable: Workers Without Union Protection and the Failure of Unions to ProtectSarah Jaffe, Lisa Descary	Greece and Ukraine: Victims of the EU Austerity Drive     Roger Annis, Sid Shniad
The Political Offensive 11:30-12:30	Legal, Schmegal: Canada’s Involvement in Illegal Wars     Gail Davidson	Green Crimes: The Criminalization of Environmental Activism in Canada     Lisa Barrett	Let Them Drown or Die in the Desert: Capital travels freely, but not workers     Daniel Tseghay	First Peoples/Second Class Citizens: The Continuing War Against Aboriginal Peoples from Missing Women to Missing Land and Resources Kanahus Manuel
LUNCH
1:30-2:30	The Past Is Not Coming Back: Reinventing Class Politics Sarah Jaffe
Alternatives 2:45-3:45	Alternative Budgets: What are they?Do they work?Bob Ages	Don’t Mourn, Organize: 100 Years After the Murder of Joe Hill: New Unions For New Times, The Fight for the $15 Minimum Wage. Shanee Prasad, Nadia Santoro, Sejal Parikh	Co-operatives: Workers’ Emancipation orCo-optation?  Alejandro Lazzari, Sara Sagaii	Is There Anything Left of Social Democracy? What Kind of Party Could Turn Discontent into A Social Force?     Gary Cristall, Ingo Schmidt
4:00-5:00	From Social Justice to Economic Freedom and Peace With Nature Sarah Jaffe, Kanahus Manuel & Bob Ages

 

 

Thank you

Thank you to CUPE BC, BCGEU, HSABC, VDLC, CUPE METRO, and the SFU INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES for you support for the 2015 WORLD PEACE FORUM TEACH IN!!

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Speakers` Bios

Chris Shelton

Chris Shelton is a born in Vancouver social activist whose interests are human rights, peace and urbanization. With degrees in Economics and Accounting from SFU he works in a boutique law office in Vancouver as their accountant.

Ingo Schmidt

Ingo Schmidt is an immigrant from Germany. He’s been active as shop steward, in anti-fascist mobilizations and international solidarity work. He’s also an economics columnist for a socialist paper and has published books on neoliberalism, social democracy and, dearer to his heart, Rosa Luxemburg.

Sarah Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe is a journalist, rabblerouser, Nation Institute fellow and the co-host of Dissent magazine’s “Belabored” podcast, as well as an editorial board member at Dissent and a columnist at New Labor Forum. She writes about labor, economic justice, politics, social movements, gender and pop culture. She is currently working on a book on social movements after the 2008 financial crisis.

Lisa Descary

Lisa Descary is public school teacher in Richmond, BC. She has been a school staff union rep, a socialist and a social justice activist for more than 20 years.

Roger Annis

Roger Annis is a retired aerospace worker in Vancouver, Canada and a frequent writer on political issues in Canada and internationally. He publishes a website called ‘A Socialist in Canada’. He has visited Crimea and Russia on several occasions over the last few years. He was a delegate to the antiwar conference that took place in Yalta, Crimea in July of 2014. He is an editor of the forthcoming website ‘The New Cold War: Ukraine and beyond’.

Sid Shniad

Among many other activities, Sid Shniad is a member of the national steering committee of Independent Jewish Voices – Canada. He is an inveterate editor and disseminator of useful information.

Gail Davidson

Gail Davidson is a lawyer promoting adherence to international human rights and humanitarian law and opposing impunity for violators. To further these goals Gail contributes to public education through research, writing and public talks, and to advocacy through lawsuits, citizens’ tribunals, briefs to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, communications to national authorities and international treaty monitoring bodies and reports to United Nations bodies. She is the executive director of Lawyer Rights Watch Canada and co-founder of Lawyers against the War.

Lisa Barrett

Lisa Barrett’s been steeped in the social and ecological justice tea since she was very young. She learned from the stories and lessons of Chief Dan George and Dominic Charlie and from her grandparents who were staunch indigenous rights defenders, environmentalists, feminists and peace activists. She’s trying to honour those who’ve done the hard work.

Daniel Tseghay

Daniel is a writer and organizer in Vancouver. He covers labour news for RankandFile.ca.

Kanahus Manuel

Kanahus Manuel is a mother of four freedom babies and a warrior from the Secwpemc Nation in the Shuswap region of so-called British Columbia. She has been active in fighting against development projects and corporations such as the Sun Peaks Ski Resort and Imperial Metals. Recently, she has been involved in organizing to raise awareness about the Mount Polley gold-copper mine tailings spill.

Bob Ages

Robert Ages is a labour economist who has been active with both the Canadian Peace Alliance and the Council of Canadians. He is now active in supporting the campaigns to stop the tar sands pipelines and fracking and spends time working with and fundraising for the Unis’tot’en and other First Nations.

Shanee Prasad

Shanee Prasad is a Burnaby teacher, active in BC Teachers for Peace and Global Education. She is a member of the BCFED (B.C. Federation of Labour) Young Worker Committee and has been an active campaigner to raise the minimum wage.

Nadia Santoro

Nadia Santoro was Lead Organizer of the BC Expansion Committee for the Peoples Social Forum.  Her main areas of focus are social movement history and broad alliance based organizing.
Sejal Parikh

Sejal is Executive Director of Working Washington. Previously she was the fast food campaign director which culminated in the historic passing of the United States’ first city wide $15 minimum wage law.

Alejandro Lazzari

Alejandro Lazzari is an undergraduate geography student at UBC. Originally from Argentina, his lived experience in that country made an indelible mark on his political thinking, and he has been theorising and mobilising against capital ever since. He is currently running Capital reading groups around the Vancouver area seeking to help in the formation of a general knowledge about Marx and his critique of capitalism.

Sarah Sagaii

Sara is a computer scientist by trade. She moved to Canada from Iran in 2009. At the moment, she is busy teaching computers to UBC undergraduates, while searching for a way out of Capitalism in her spare time.  She organizes the Vancouver branch of the Jacobin Magazine reading groups.

Gary Cristall

Gary Cristall is a long time Vancouver socialist activist and cultural worker. He teaches cultural policy and arts administration at Capilano University among other activities. His strange encounters with social democracy go back to an early experience with the Waffle tendency in the NDP in 1971.

 

 

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