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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster – One Year
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Press Advisory – For Immediate Release
2012

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster – One Year
Later





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The War Lovers Why It Feels So Good to Be Embedded with the U.S. Military
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The War Lovers
Why It Feels So Good to Be Embedded with the U.S. Military

By Peter Van Buren  http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175392/

Objective reporting on the SEAL team that killed bin Laden was as easy to find as a Prius at a Michele Bachmann rally. The media simply couldn’t help themselves. They couldn’t stop spooning out man-sized helpings of testosterone -- the SEALs’ phallic weapons, their frat-house, haze-worthy training, their romance-novel bravado, their sweaty, heaving chests pressing against tight uniforms, muscles daring to break free...



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BC Housing Closing Shelters But Opening New Vacant Lot!
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BC Housing Closing Shelters But Opening New Vacant Lot!
Free BBQ & Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Today @ Noon

WHEN: Thursday, April 7th 2011

TIME: 12pm

WHERE: Meet At 590 Alexander St (Future Site of a 100-Unit Social Housing Complex) We will then proceed to 606 Powell St (Future site of another 100-Unit Housing Complex).



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2010 Corporate Golden Piggy Awards set for April 11.
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2010 Corporate Golden Piggy Awards set for April 11.

by Porky d' Oro
The much anticipated 2010 Corporate Golden Piggy Awards ceremony is set for April 11th at the St. Ann's Academy Auditorium at Humboldt and Blanshard Streets in Victoria.   The show starts at 2:00 PM.

"This is Canada's premier pig roast of the corporate swine and their excesses," says Art Farquharson, Producer.



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Left Coast Events (i) â?" February 25, 2009
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Left Coast Events (i) â?" February 25, 2009

(1) Malcolm X: Celebrating a Life of Resistance (Feb 25)
(2) Forum Series: 30 Years After the Iranian Revolution (Feb 25)
(3) World Peace Forum Invitation (Feb 25)
(4) Free John Graham Benefit Show (Feb 25)
(5) Canadian Landmine Awareness Week 2009
(6) Seriously Free Speech Appeal (Feb 26)
(7) Economics for Everyone Structured Reading Group (Feb 26)
(8) February at Rhizome Café
(9) MAWO Calendar of Upcoming Antiwar Events & Actions
(10) The economic downturn & how it is affecting marginalized communities
(Feb 26)
(11) Taking Justice To The Stage (Feb 26 - Mar 1)
(12) Environmental Racism: Tar Sands, Colonialism and Resistance (Feb 27)
(13) Rally at GM Place to support Unite Here workers (Feb 27)


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Left Coast Events (i) Vancouver– January 21, 2009
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Left Coast Events (i) – January 21, 2009

(1) Let Them Stay Week
(2) NORMAN FINKELSTEIN @ UBC: January 21st. What We Can Learn from
GANDHI: Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict
(3) *WEDNESDAY* MAWO General Meeting & Calendar of Upcoming Antiwar Actions
(4) Betty K this Wednesday: Night at the Indies
(5) NO GATEWAY BAILOUT! Thurs Jan 22, 12 noon
(6) January at Rhizome Café
(7) BOOK LAUNCH POOKA PRESS
(8) Social Justice Film Festival - White Rock
(9) Province-Wide STAND for Housing, January 24
(10) (Vancouver forum) Inaugurating Peace? Obama and the war in Afghanistan
(11) Sat Jan 24 - Ceasefire is still an Occupation! Justice for the
Children of Gaza!


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Left Coast Events (ii) Vancouver – January 21, 2009
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Left Coast Events (ii) – January 21, 2009

(1) Left Film Night in Vancouver - Sunday, Jan. 25
(2) Sun Jan 25th: Stand for the DTES - Protest the Street Sweeps!
(3) Anne Feeney Concert
(4) GHETTOIZING PALESTINE - MASSACRING GAZA
(5) VDLC Economics Conference - Jim Stanford in Globe & Mail
(6) Cascadia's Upcoming Events in BC
(7) CCPA Gala Fundraiser: Maher Arar at 2009 event, tickets available now
(8) Feb 8th and Feb 14th DTES Events
(9) Feb 12: Anti-Olympic Torch-Light Parade
(10) World Community Film Festival Feb. 13-15 at Langara-pls. forward
(11) Live Flamenco in Kits




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Left Coast Events Vancouver – January 5, 2009
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Left Coast Events Vancouver – January 5, 2009

(1) (Jan 5-10) CUBA IN PERSPECTIVE for 50 yrs of the Cuban Revolution! (Vancouver, Canada)
(2) Solidarity in Practice: Sharing on Community Based Health Work in the Philippines
(3) January at Rhizome Café
(4) Jan 10 - 3rd Vancouver Rally to End the Siege on Gaza and Protest Israeli War Crimes!
(5) Two weeks until the BC-STV Conference!
(6) MAWO Calendar of Upcoming Antiwar Events & Actions
(7) Conflict Prevention in Africa and the World, Thurs. Jan 15, 7:30 pm
(8) NORMAN FINKELSTEIN @ UBC: January 21st. What We Can Learn from GANDHI: Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict
(9) VDLC: Economics For Everyone Public Forum and Conference
(10) Maher Arar at CCPA-BC Gala, Feb 12, 2009: Tickets now available


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Left Coast Events Lower Mainland and Vancouver– November 28, 2008
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Left Coast Events Lower Mainland and Vancouver– November 28, 2008


(1) 11th Annual European Film Fest starts Friday at Pacific Cinematheque!

(2) Reminder.. Nov 29 - Environmental Justice: Race, Displacement, and Land
(3) Next province wide STAND – November 29

(4) MAWO Calendar of Upcoming Antiwar Actions

(5) [R E D E Y E] Sat. , Sat. Nov 29 9 - noon, Co-op Radio, 102.7fm
(6) Pacific Cinémathèque co-presents *Art and Activism: World AIDS Day*
(7) Left Film Night - Sunday, Nov. 30
(8) AIDS in Two Cities ~ free public dialogue,
Dec 1, 2008

(9) December at Rhizome Cafe
(10) 2008 BC Pension Forum
(11) VSW Job Posting - Volunteer Program Assistant
(12) VSW Event on Dec. 11 - Daring to LEAP: the Art of Building Community and Collective Voice
(13) VDLC Annual Food Bank Drive

(14) Luminance V - A Multimedia Winter Solstice Celebration - Sat. Dec. 20

(15) Maher Arar at CCPA-BC Gala, Feb 12, 2009: Tickets now available


Hello everyone, my name is Andrew Barry, I am a social justice,
Cuba solidarity and anti-war activist. I have taken on the responsibility of organizing Left Coast Events listings for Vancouver events. Please send your event announcements directly to me to organize for the next LCE list! My email is andrewgbarry@yahoo.ca.

Thank-you, and continue staying up to date with Left Coast Events!



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Ninety Years After 'The War to End All Wars' - Teach-In
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Ninety Years After ‘The war to end all wars’ - a Teach-In

ellieo - November 8, 9, 11 at the Maritime Labour Centre, 10 - 1880 Triumph St., Vancouver, organized by the World Peace Forum Society. Keynote by international writer, historian and filmmaker Tariq Ali, and a reading of My Name Is Rachel Corrie. Full day registrations and individual tickets range from $5 to $40.

Detailed schedule at www.worldpeaceforumbc.ca


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Vision Unveils Tough New Protections for Vancouver Renters
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Vision Unveils Tough New Protections for Vancouver Renters

Vision -
Media Release - The Vision Vancouver motion, released today, calls for the City to develop several policies to protect rental housing, help increase community participation in development projects, and provide access to rental information. The Vision policies include:

- An anti-vacancy by-law, which would increase the levels of taxation on vacant properties being held for the purposes of speculation;



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Left Coast Events - Lower Mainland - March 7 08
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Left Coast Events - Lower Mainland - March 7 08

1.  TONIGHT!  Cabaret Politique (Vancouver) - March 7th
2.  India Mahila Assoc celebrates Int Women's Day - March 7th
3.  Rally on International Women's Day - Mar 8th
4.  Citywide Housing Coalition:  Street-Corner "stands" For Housing - Saturdays
5.  On March 11, TAKE BACK THE POWER!
6.  Should Prostitution Be Legalized by 2010? - March 11th
7.  Liu & CIR Present: Anita Ho on March 13th
8.  Salmon Nation Artists Project (SNAP) CD/Booklet Release Concert - Mar 14th
9.  Join the World Against War Days of Action... Mar 15th
10.  Dennis Lakusta House Concert - Mar 16th
11.  Energizing the Countryside: Distributed Rural Electrification in China - Mar 18th
12.  Momentum for a Department of Peace - Mar. 20
13.  MARCH AGAINST RACISM! - March 21st
14.  Are there Aliens among us?  - April 5, 2008
15.  GLOBAL SOLIDARITY SCHOOL - Havana, Cuba - May 3 to 10, 2008
16.  Ministry for Peace: Specialisation Training - May 6-8th




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Left Coast Events (pt ii) - Lower Mainland - March 7 08
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Left Coast Events (pt ii) - Lower Mainland - March 7 08

1.  Theatre of the Oppressed Workshops
2.  Save our rivers - What can you do?
3.  VDLC Calendar of Events
4.  Introducing a news site about privatization and the struggle against it: PublicValues.ca
5.  wrecking ball to demolish many of Vancouver's oldest and finest schools
6.  Stop the sale of CANADARM and RADARSAT-2
7.  International Womenís Day celebration continues into May for HEU
8.  Help Gregor Become Mayor!
9.  Retirement Concepts set to slash care hours for seniors at Coquitlam nursing home

 


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Left Coast Events - Lower Mainland - Feb 19 08
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Left Coast Events - Lower Mainland - Feb 19 08

1.  Squamish Nation on the Rights of Indigenous (Feb.19 & 20 North Van) - derail NAFTA and the NAU
2.  Poetry for the People workshops - Wednesdays, Feb 20-Apr 16th
3.  THE PITT NEEDS URGENCY ACTION - Feb 20th
4.  Citizens Watchdog at the UN, Thurs. Feb. 21
5.  INVEST IN YOUR NEST - AN ETHICAL APPROACH - FEB 21 AT TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES
6.  FIVE RING CIRCUS - Feb 24th
7.  On Tuesday February 26th at 7 pm at the steps of City Hall
8.  Liu & CIR Present: Charli Carpenter "Children Born of War" - Feb 27th
9.  Get on the bus!  Save Pinecone Burke - Feb 28th
10.  An evening with Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier - Feb 28th
11.  ICO International Theme Open House - March 1st
12.  Jade Goddess Seminar with Saida Desilets - March 1 & 2nd
13.  Celebrate Women, Burns Bog and Save Money - March 8th
14.  Be the Change Symposium - March 29th
15.  Global Solidarity School - Havana, Cuba - May 2007


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Left Coast Events - Lower Mainland - Feb 5 08
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Left Coast Events - Lower Mainland - Feb 5 08

1.  ISM-Vancouver Member on Voice of Palestine - Feb 5th
2.  Green Drinks Feb 6th & Get Your Red Dot Now! - Whistler
3.  Figueroa tour urges unity to defeat Harper Tories - Feb 7th
4.  Resist Olympic Police State!  Feb 7th
5.  Olympic Rallies & Information Gatherings - Feb 9th, Feb 11th
6.  THE NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT AND MIGRANT JUSTICE - Feb 10th
7.  Beyond Nemo: Climate change, coral bleaching and the future of coral reefs - Feb 13th
8.  Labour of Love Sock Drive Will Benefit Homeless - until Feb 14th
9.  Free Public Presentation - Security & Prosperity Partnership - Feb 16th
10.  THE LANGARA DIALOGUES - Feb 20th
11.  "No" does not mean "No" for Vancouver City Council - take action Feb 26th
12.  CCPA gala fundraiser with Sheila Watt-Cloutier - Feb 28th
13.  "Medicare for Autism Now!" Rally - March 2nd
14.  Celebrate and help protect the Lungs of the Lower Mainland - March 8th
15.  Reconnecting to Life Retreat March 15-16


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