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Talks and a Town Hall with Three Canadian Gadflies
Aboriginal Rights – Food Safety – Education
Corruption vs Professional Responsibility
>A United Church minister – fired. >A government scientist – fired. >A tenured university professor – fired.
All three fired for obeying their professional responsibilities – for refusing to look the other way.
Rev. Kevin Annett; Dr. Shiv Chopra; Prof. Denis Rancourt
-- >Aboriginal rights and Canada’s genocide -- >Food safety and public health -- >Education and liberation
The event with press conference and true town hall discussion will be MC'ed by renown human rights lawyer Yavar Hameed
Press conference starts at 6pm – Event is at 7pm
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Saint Paul University, Amphitheater (Room 1124, Guigues Hall building)
223 Main Street, Ottawa, ON
Open to all – Free admission
Kevin Annett is a tireless grassroots activist for aboriginal rights who ministers in the Vancouver East Side. He has brought residential schools and Canadian genocidal practice to the forefront of societal awareness. Noam Chomsky has said of Kevin that he is more worthy of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize than many recipients. His unwavering solidarity with residential school survivors was depicted in the award-winning documentary film Unrepentant.
http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/
Shiv Chopra has been called Canada’s most famous whistleblower. He and his Health Canada scientist colleagues stopped Bovine Growth Hormone and other horror drugs and chemicals, in the face of corporate-government corruption that puts profits ahead of public health, at the cost of their jobs and careers. Dr. Chopra’s memoirs “Corrupt to the Core” have recently been published in French and English.
http://shivchopra.com/
Denis Rancourt brought activism into the classroom and fought to implement advances in teaching and grading methods as part of a holistic pedagogy that promotes social responsibility and personal awareness in the hard sciences. His employer accused him of “academic fraud” and fired him for attributing the highest grade to all 23 students in one 4th year and graduate physics course. His battle is considered a major academic freedom case in Canada.
http://rancourt.academicfreedom.ca/
For the latest developments with this event see this page.
For information please contact the Committee for the Defense of Education (CDE):
claude.cde [at] gmail.com
LATEST INFORMATION for this Three-Gadflies event
- A one-page promotional flyer for printing and distributing is available HERE.
- Barring unforeseen technical difficulties, the event will be in simultaneous webcast on the front page of The Real News network HERE.
- The event will be followed by a music event gathering at The Laff, featuring a new talking blues song about a whistleblower by singer-songwriter John Carroll.
- Enthusiastic co-sponsors of the event include: Truth Action Ottawa.
- Facilitated by the Saint Paul University Student Association (SPUSA).
