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Editor's Book Nook

Apr 5, 2011
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Books

Swimming Against the Tide: The Peace Pledge Union Story 1934-2009. (Peace Pledge Union, 2010).

Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, For the Future of Us All. (AK, 2010).

Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the Nuclear disarmament Movement. (Stanford, 2009).

Convenient Killing: Armed Drones and the ‘Playstation’ Mentality. (Free download at www.for.UK/act/campaign).

Three Canadian writers are among finalists for the Lionel Gelber Prize.

  1. Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America by Shelagh D. Grant.

  2. Arrival City: The Final Migration and our Next World by Doug Saunders.

  3. Yalta: The Price of Peace by S. M. Plokhy.

Agenda for a New Economy: from Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth by David Korten (Berrett-Koehler Inc., 2009).

World on the Edge by Lester Brown.

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David Montgomery.

God’s Tears: Reflections on the Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (poetry) by David Kreiger, president of NAPF. (Coal Sack Pub – Tokyo, 2010)

The Bomb by Howard Zinn. (2010)

Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis by Alanna Mitchell. (Emblem McClelland & Stewart, 2009)

Security Without Deterrence by Commander Robert Green. (Astron Media and the Disarmament & Security Centre, 2010).

Documentaries

Gasland by Josh Fox

Inside Job by Charles Ferguson

Coal Country by Mari-Lynn Evans and Phylis Geller

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E-7705 

An important e-petition about Canada peacekeepers headcount

Science for Peace believes the UN peacekeeping mission program is an important tool for minimizing conflicts around the world. Guided by impartiality and undertaken only with the consent of warring parties, missions under this program are critical in the efforts to transition violent societies to peace.

 

We know that Canada has a long history of supporting these missions and has earned a significant reputation for its expertise in this area. Thus we have been dismayed by the fact that the actual number of Canadian peacekeepers has been drastically reduced over the last decade. Despite the paucity of our country’s contribution, we know that Canada is nonetheless recognized for its leadership and know-how.

 

We want to dramatically enlarge the contingent of Canadian Peacekeepers and play our part in the worthy project of reducing violence in this turbulent world. As well, in light of ongoing changes in Peacekeeping technology, we believe Canada should invest majorly in tech training and support for our Peacekeepers, and at the same time furnish such skill development to countries less able to provide this for their own contingents.

 

To focus public attention on this critical issue, we have created an e-petition to the government and are seeking your support.

Please have a look and sign e-7705 if you agree.

 

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7705

 

 

Gilles Fecteau

Treasurer, Science for Peace

Science for Peace

A Peace Education NGO

Based in Toronto

 

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Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7 Canada

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