[OPIRG-EVENTS] Teach-in on War on Iraq - this Sunday!

[Jamie Kneen <jkneen@magma.ca>]

**Here is an updated notice of the teach-in this weekend. Please send it to
all your contacts and networks in the Ottawa region, print it out and post
it prominently, announce it, and so on ... Most of all, come to it!**

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Teach-in: No War Against Iraq

Sunday, 3 November, 2:00 pm
Room 101, Azrieli Pavilion
Carleton University.
(For directions, see the end of this email.)

        (1) Panel Discussion: 2:00 to 3:15

Speakers:
   Richard Sanders "Reasons for the war on Iraq"
      (Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade)
      http://www.ncf.ca/coat/

   Steven Staples
      "Globalisation and militarisation"
      (Polaris Institute)
      http://www.polarisinstitute.org/

   Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen
      "Effective strategies for building alternatives, locally and globally"
      (TRANSCEND and PATRIR)
      http://www.transcend.org/ http://www.patrir.ro/

   Bahija Reghai (to be confirmed)
      "The war on the people of Iraq"


         (2) Action/information workshops (concurrent): 3:30 to 4:30

   - Building local support for resistance movements in Iraq: the Iraq 
Peace Teams
   - Questioning "collateral damage": use of depleted uranium and cluster bombs
   - Sanctions-busting date campaign, Voices of Peace
   - Radical cheerleading, OPIRG Carleton
   - Nonviolent Civil Disobedience, TRANSCEND
   - Prop-making, Anxiety Performance, OPIRG Carleton
   - Weapons inspection action, OPIRG Carleton


         (3) Coordinating meeting for 17 November rally against the war
         5:00 to 6:00


Attention!
We need help getting the word about this teach-in out to people! If you
can help getting flyers out to community centres, high schools, churches,
mosques, etc. please pick up some flyers at Octopus Bookstore, 116 Third
Ave. (close to Bank St.) and distribute.

Organised by the Ottawa Iraq Anti-War Action Committee
ottawairaqaction@hotmail.com
tel. 523-1077

Poster (Print and post!)
http://www.nowar-paix.ca/Posters/teachinposter.pdf

CallOut for Teach-In (Please distribute widely!)
http://www.nowar-paix.ca/Posters/teachin.pdf

More about NOWAR/PAIX
http://www.nowar-paix.ca/


and... don't forget!

Rally against the war on the Iraqi people.
Sunday, 17 November, 2:00 pm Across Canada Rally
Parliament Hill
http://www.nowar-paix.ca/Posters/callout.htm
http://www.nowar-paix.ca/Posters/callout17Nov.pdf
Contact ottawairaqaction@hotmail.com

DIRECTIONS to the Teach In, Sunday Nov. 3, 2 p.m.:
The Azrieli Pavilion is just east of the Dunton Arts Tower which, being 22
stories tall, is the tallest building at Carleton University.
To get to the Azrieli Pavilion, turn off Bronson Ave into the Carleton
campus and take the first right. Then turn left at the first stop sign.
Pass one stop sign and turn right into a large parking lot.  Walk west,
through or around the Unicentre, to the Azrieli Pavilion. The Teach In is
in Room 101.
If in doubt, ask a student!


For more information on any of the above, contact:
ottawairaqaction@hotmail.com
tel. 523-1077


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