Month: September 2009

Panel on the corporatization of the University
Monday, September 21, 2009 3:00-5:00 pm at the University of Toronto

The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger by Jonathan Schell. US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites by Mark Danner. Afghanistan and Canada: Is There an Alternative to War? by John Morton. Afghanistan and Canada edited by Lucia Kowaluk and Steven Staples, 2009. The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human by Matthew … Read more Book Nook

This account is a summary of the highlights of the meeting. The full minutes can be obtained from the Science for Peace office. On Saturday, May 23 about 25 members of Science for Peace gathered at Wilson Hall, New College, University of Toronto for the 2009 AGM. President Judith Deutsch presided. She thanked the members … Read more Our Annual General Meeting

From Peace News On June 21 the Uranium Weapons Network was launched as part of the Campaign Against Depleted Uranium. A bridal die-in was held to commemorate the bombing of a bridal party in Afghanistan, one of several bombings by US and NATO forces. Trident Ploughshares blockaded four gates at Aldermaston’s Atomic Weapons Establishment to … Read more Peace and Protest in the UK

A small group of her constituents, organized by JustEarth, and including members of Science for Peace, went to a private meeting with Carolyn Bennett, 2 July, on climate change. Jean Moffat, speaking for the group, outlined its key concern as the lack of action of the present and past Canadian Governments to address climate change … Read more Meeting with MP Carolyn Bennett

Photographs of bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and victims’ art in City Hall rotunda, with posters, paper cranes, and peace tables in Nathan Phillips Square, signalled the Toronto commemoration on August 6 of the 1945 atomic bombing. Yakudo Drummers and the men’s Northern Lights Chorus drew some 300 people into the evening’s program on NPS, organized … Read more Hope for a Nuclear-Free World

There seems to be two opposing trajectories in terms of knowledge: as blinkered leaders (people in positions of responsibility) obstinately make regressive, astonishingly narrow-minded and self-serving decisions and, as the major media become increasingly trivial and inane, the actual accumulation of crucial information exponentially expands. By crucial information I mean facts critical to human survival … Read more Message from the President of Science for Peace

Getting food: Gathering: harvesting existing food sources without domestication or cultivation; includes hunting, plant gathering, fishing wild stocks. Whereas gathering food with no effort to domesticate or cultivate requires about 1 km2 per person, and the earth’s surface is approximately 148 million km2, even if we assume that all the earth’s surface is equally capable … Read more The State of Global Food Production and Recommendations for the Future