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SUMMARY:Nothing to Lose but Our Fear
DESCRIPTION:Nothing to Lose but Our Fear: A Conversation on Resistance and Persistence in Dangerous Times \nJoin us for an evening of timely and vital conversation about sustaining ourselves and our movements for social justice and social change in dark times. Author and activist Fiona Jeffries will be in conversation with Fazeela Jiwa followed by a facilitated discussion. Fiona will talk about her recent book (Nothing to Lose but Our Fear: Resistance in Dangerous Times) and the important lessons it offers about confronting fear\, sustaining hope\, and building movements capable of changing the world. Copies of Fiona’s book will be for sale at the event. Free and open to all! \nFazeela Jiwa is a writer\, editor\, and facilitator who has worked in public and alternative education\, co-operative housing\, and sexual assault crisis work. Her published poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction considers complicity with\, and resistance to\, representations of race and gender in cultural productions. Reach her at www.fazeelajiwa.com \nFiona Jeffries is a researcher\, writer\, and teacher working in the autonomist feminist tradition. Her writing and political interests focus on questions of precarity\, repression\, resistance\, commoning and care amidst the global enclosures. She has published on a wide range of topics including political violence\, cultural theory\, feminist politics\, media and gender violence\, and insecurity culture. Jeffries’ 2015 book\, Nothing to Lose but Our Fear\, was published by Between the Lines in Canada and Zed Books in the U.K. Find her online @fionajeffries
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/nothing-to-lose-but-our-fear/
LOCATION:NSCAD Art Bar\, Haliffax
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SUMMARY:Fight the Fees Lunch and Learn
DESCRIPTION:1PM in the dining area in front of the Grawood. Lunch provided by The Loaded Ladle!\nCome out and hear some very knowledgeable folks tell us about why it is so important that we fight and win free education!
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/fight-the-fees-lunch-and-learn/
LOCATION:Dalhousie Student Union Building\, Room 302\, Halifax
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SUMMARY:After the Sands: Gordon Laxer’s book tour across the Maritimes
DESCRIPTION:Gordon Laxer’s book tour across the Maritimes: Oct 24–28 \nAuthor’s presentations promise to bring rare insight & controversy to today’s debates on Canada’s transition to a low carbon future\ \nGordon Laxer\, author of the award-winning book After the Sands\, will be on a speaking and book-signing tour through PEI\, Nova Scotia\, and New Brunswick from October 24 – 28 \nGordon Laxer’s After the Sands outlines a vision to transition Canada to a low-carbon society. Ralph Nader hails it as “a myth-destroying blockbuster book.” \nDespite its oil abundance\, Canada is woefully unprepared for the next global oil supply crisis. Canada imports 30 percent of its oil\, yet—unlike twenty-seven of the other twenty-nine member countries in the International Energy Agency—has no strategic petroleum reserves to meet temporary shortages. Canadians use much more oil per capita than other sparsely populated\, northern countries like Norway and Sweden. \nAfter the Sands sets out a bold strategy using deep conservation and a Canada-first perspective. The goal: to ensure that lower-income Canadians get sufficient energy at affordable prices in a carbon-constrained future and prevent the rich from cornering reduced energy supplies. \n“Is Prime Minister Trudeau taking bold action on climate change or blowing hot air? Trudeau promised big at the Paris climate talks last December that Canada would lead in keeping the world below a two degree Celsius global temperature rise. Yet instead of striding boldly forward\, Ottawa took a baby step by placing a paltry $50 a tonne tax on carbon. That will raise gasoline prices a measly 11 cents a litre by 2022. That’s two cents a year more starting in 2018. Why would we expect an 11 cent boost over six years to do anything when pump prices 30 to 40 cents a litre higher in 2014 than today did not curb Canadians harmful carbon fuel use? The Trudeau government is artfully deceiving Canadians that it’s tackling one of the biggest crises of our time\,” charged Gordon Laxer \n“Why aren’t we having a debate in Atlantic Canada about the region supplying itself with its own oil instead of running a pipeline 4\,600 kilometres from Alberta to New Brunswick\,” asks Gordon Laxer. “Newfoundland has enough non-fracked\, conventional oil to supply all east coast Canadians with the most secure oil of all –its own. Most Atlantic Canadians live on or near a coast. Why pipe oil from afar when tankers can ship all they need from Newfoundland’s oil fields? Tankers can be phased out as Atlantic Canadians’ oil use falls in the de-carbonizing transition the world is embarking on\, whereas an oil pipeline would have to pump harmful Alberta bitumen at full volume for at least 30 years to pay off the costs of building the pipeline. How would this help wean us off carbon fuels?” \n  \n\n\n\n\nWinner of the Errol Sharpe Book award \nFinalist for the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize \n  \n“The extraction of Alberta bitumen dooms both control of climate change and Canada’s transition to clean energy. No one has made this linkage more persuasively than Gordon Laxer.” \n  \nProfessor Patrick Bond\, University of KwaZulu-Natal. South Africa \n  \nWeb: www.gordonLaxer.com \nTwitter: @afterthesands \n  \nGordon can be reached for interviews by cell at 705-330-4589 or by email at gordon.laxer@ualberta.ca\n\n\n\n  \nTour Schedule \n\nCharlottetown – Monday\, October 24 – 7 p.m.\n\nMurphy’s Community Centre\, Room 207\, 200 Richmond Street \n  \n\nFredericton\, N. B. – Tuesday\, October 25 – 7 p.m.\n\nWilmot United Church Sanctuary\, 473 King St. (At Carleton) \n  \n\nSaint John – Wednesday October 26 – 7 p.m.\n\nGanong Hall\, University of New Brunswick Saint John\, 100 Tucker Park Rd. \n  \n\nHalifax – Thursday October 27 – 7 p.m.\n\nOndaatje Theatre\, Marion McCain Building\, 6135 University Ave (Dalhousie    University) \n  \n\nAcadia University – Friday October 28 – 1 p.m.\n\nBAC 142 \n\nMahone Bay – Friday October 28 – 7 p.m.\n\nMahone Bay Centre\, 45 School Street \n  \nGordon Laxer\, PhD\, is the founding director and former head of Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. A political economist and professor emeritus at the University of Alberta\, Laxer is a prominent public intellectual. \n  \nTo learn more about Gordon’s Maritime book tour visit www.gordonlaxer.com
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/after-the-sands-gordon-laxers-book-tour-across-the-maritimes/
LOCATION:Dalhousie University McCain Building\, 6135 University Ave\, Halifax 
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SUMMARY:Precarious U - Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:One-third of all Canadian university teachers are hired on part-time or short-term contracts.\nWhat does this mean for your work-life\, the education of our young people and the future of our\nuniversities?\nHow is this linked to other disturbing trends in post-secondary education – underfunding\,\ncorporatization and the erosion of academic freedom – and what can be done about it? \nPanelists:\nKaren Foster\nDalhousie University sociologist and author of a\nresearch report on precarious academic work in NS \nKaren Harper\nContract Instructor \nSylvia Fuller\nAssociate Professor of Sociology\, University of British\nColumbia. Specializes in work and labour\, inequality\, gender \nDavid Robinson\nExecutive Director\, Canadian Association of University Teachers \nModerated by:\nClaire McIlveen\nColumnist specializing in labour and social issues\, currently on\nstrike against the Chronicle Herald \nTHURSDAY\, OCTOBER 27\, 7-9 PM\nSAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY\nSOBEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS\nSCOTIABANK AUDITORIUM\n923 ROBIE ST.\nOPEN TO ALL: ADMISSION FREE\ncommunications@dfa.ns.ca or info@ansut.ca
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/precarious-u-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:St Mary’s University Sobey School of Business
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