Working Group on Nuclear Weapons
Chair: Dr Arnd Jurgensen
Next meeting: Friday, April 8th, 5-6 pm ET
Monthly, second Friday of every month at 5 pm.
To join: email sfp@physics.utoronto.ca
Working Group on Militarism and Climate Change
Chair: Dr Richard Sandbrook
Next meeting: Tuesday, April 5, 5 PM ET
First Tuesday of every month, 5-6 PM ET
To join: email sfp@physics.utoronto.ca
Past:
Nonviolent Response to Aggression
Sunday, March 20, 1 PM PT
George Lakey is a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. He has taught peace studies at Haverford, Swarthmore, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the AFSC working party that published the book In Place of War: An Inquiry into Nonviolent National Defense (1967). His memoir, Dancing with History, will be published in the fall by Seven Stories Press.
Register HERE
Students Against Nuclear Weapons Virtual Forum
January 24, 2022
The forum focuses on the humanitarian implications of the renewed nuclear-arms race and the potential of the United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to build a world free of the menace of nuclear war. Elizabeth May and Ray Acheson are the keynote speakers.
Canada’s Climate Record: Broken Promises, Bright Future?
November 7, 2021
This jointly-sponsored one-hour webcast assembles six experts to reflect on Canada’s climate record and future performance in the context of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
PANELISTS
Gail Greer, SCAN!
David Robertson, SCAN!
Ali Hashemi, biotech entrepreneur
Danny Harvey, climate scientists
Tamara Lorincz, NGO delegate from VOW for Peace
Mitchel Beer, EnergyMix
Lyn Adamson, ClimateFast
Moderated by Richard Sandbrook, President of Science for Peace
Militarism & Climate Change: Disaster in Progress
April 29, 2021
Both anti-war and climate movements are fighting for justice and life for all people on a livable planet. It’s increasingly clear that we can’t have one without the other. No climate justice, no peace, no planet.
Speakers:
- Jaggi Singh
- Clayton Thomas-Müller
- Kasha Sequoia Slavner
Climate Emergency Forum: What is to be done?
January 26, 2021
Speakers: Danny Harvey, Tamara Lorincz, Richard Sandbrook
Panelists: Allie Rougeot (Fridays for future Toronto)
Emmay Mah (Toronto Environmental Alliance)
Ali Hashemi (Extinction Rebellion)
Vanessi Gray (Aamjiwnaang and Sarnia against Pipelines)
Lyn Adamson (ClimateFast)