Agenda:

• Welcome
• President’s Report
• Financial Report
• Nominations & elections
• Plans for next year

 

Photo by Sergey Pavlov

Meeting is NOT cancelled tonight.  Meeting will be ON as originally scheduled – Feb 22, 6:00pm.

McMaster University Hamilton

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He was part of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism.

He writes a weekly column for Truthdig, and has written for Harper’s magazine, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, the Nation, Adbusters, Granta, Foreign Affairs and other publications. He is the author of the bestsellers Death of the Liberal Class, Empire of Illusion, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning and, most recently, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.

Friday March 22, 2013

Reception: 6:30 pm, Dinner 7:00 pm

Hamilton Convention Centre, 1 Summer Lane, Hamilton

Ticket Price: $50 each; $450 for a table of 10

Sponsors for the event include: Hamilton Community Foundation, India Canada Society of Hamilton, Black History Month Committee, Culture of Peace Hamilton

Living Gandhi and King Today

Daryl Davis is a dynamic speaker, internationally known musician, actor and author. He will share his experience in transcending racial and cultural barriers around the world and how he successfully applied this approach where it is needed now more than ever, right in his own country.

A number of Klan members, after coming to know this black man, voluntarily left the KKK, giving him their robes & hoods.

Daryl Davis provides a living example of how to engage with an adversary through non-violent dialogue as pioneered by Mahatma Gandhi and Rev. Martin Luther King.

Daryl Davis is the author of the book Klan-Destine Relationships

Mr. Davis will give a talk and will play the piano after the talk.

For Information and Tickets please contact: ahmed@mcmaster.ca or call Ashok Kumar 905-575-7795, Gary Warner 905-521-0017, or Khursheed Ahmed 905-979-9696

Ontarians Invited to Pay Respects to The Honourable Lincoln Alexander
http://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2012/10/ontarians-invited-to-pay-respects-to-the-honourable-lincoln-alexander.html

October 20, 2012

Ontarians will have a number of opportunities to honour the life and contributions of the Honourable Lincoln Alexander, Ontario’s 24th Lieutenant Governor.

A state funeral will be held Friday, October 26 at Hamilton Place. Further details on the funeral will be released as they become available.

Mr. Alexander will Lie in State at the Ontario Legislature in the lobby of the Main Legislative Building beginning Sunday, October 21.

Members of the public will have their first opportunity to pay their respects in person on Sunday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., and again on Monday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Main Legislative Building.

Mr. Alexander will then lie in repose at Hamilton http://hamilton.ca/index.htm  City Hall from Tuesday, October 23 to Thursday October 25. The public is invited to pay their respects each
day from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Books of condolences will also be available at the Ontario Legislature and at Hamilton City Hall. Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor is also hosting an online http://www.lt.gov.on.ca/en/GuestBook/View.aspx  book of condolences.

Biography and Lieutenant Governor’s tribute to The Honourable Lincoln Alexander http://www.lt.gov.on.ca/en/LA/LA.asp

Premier McGuinty’s statement on the death of The Honourable Lincoln Alexander
http://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2012/10/ontario-premiers-statement-on-the
-death-of-lincoln-alexander.html?utm_source=newsroom_ontario.ca_news&utm
_medium=rss_click&utm_campaign=rss_feed

Guest Speaker: Dr. Richard Preston Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, McMaster University

Event supported by local and international organizations such as: Hamilton Mundialization Committee; International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Mayors for Peace, Project Ploughshares, Physicians for Global Survival; Centre for Peace Studies (McMaster University); Amnesty International; Gandhi Peace Festival; United Nations Association; Interfaith Council for Refugees and Human Rights; Culture of Peace Hamilton; Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); Hamilton Voice of Women; Burlington Association for Nuclear Disarmament; Children’s International Learning Centre.

Photo by Janice Lukas

Citizens of Hamilton are invited to a Hiroshima-Nagasaki remembrance ceremony to be held in Council Chambers at Hamilton City Hall, at 12:00 noon on Thursday, August 9, 2012. 

The ceremony is being held on Nagasaki Day (Aug 9), which is the anniversary and day of remembrance for the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, the second nuclear attack on a civilian population.  The theme of the event will include remembering the horrific results and aftermath of the use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II, but also a call for vigilance and a message of hope for the future.

The programme will include a musical presentation, a display of traditional Japanese calligraphy, a community affirmation against nuclear arms, the traditional Pledge of Nagasaki, and a presentation titled “Never Again: How do we build a belief in a culture of peace?” by guest speaker Dr. Richard Preston.

Preston, professor emeritus of anthropology at McMaster University, is the 2010 recipient of the World Citizenship Award, presented by the Hamilton Mundialization Committee on behalf of city council to Hamilton citizens who have made significant contributions toward peace through either local or global work.

The annual event, originally organized by Project Ploughshares, is now also co-organized or supported by many local peace organizations, including the Hamilton Mundialization Committee; Culture of Peace Hamilton; Gandhi Peace Festival; International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Mayors for Peace; Physicians for Global Survival; Centre for Peace Studies (McMaster University); Amnesty International; United Nations Association; Interfaith Council for Refugees and Human Rights; Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); Hamilton Voice of Women; Burlington Association for Nuclear Disarmament; and Children’s International Learning Centre.

For more information, please contact

Khursheed Ahmed (with the Gandhi Peace Festival)
ahmed@mcmaster.ca

 
Ray Cunningon (with Culture of Peace Hamilton)
ray.c@cogeco.ca

 
Jeff Bonner (with Hamilton Mundialization Committee)
info@mundialization.ca

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