Saturday, September 17, 2011

Dr. Vandana Shiva presents "Making Peace With The Earth", in Calgary, Sept. 24, 2011


photo of Vandana Shiva with the Earth, is from here

All that follows is from *here*:
Dr. Vandana Shiva presents "Making Peace with the Earth", Calgary
Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 10:00am - 11:00am 
Location: 
Red & White Club, McMahon Stadium, 1833 Crowchild Trail NW
Contact Name:
Danielle Paydli
Contact Phone:
(306) 242-4097
Contact Email:
Danielle.Paydli@oxfam.ca
URL:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/peacestudies/ShivaSeptemberEvent 
Dr. Vandana Shiva receives 2011 Calgary Peace Prize & presents "Making Peace with the Earth" on Sept 24. Register today
Please join on us Saturday, September 24 at the Red & White Club as Alderman Gian-Carlo Carra & Chancellor Emeritus Joanne Cuthbertson present the 2011 Calgary Peace Prize to Dr. Vandana Shiva, philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author of several books. Her acceptance speech is titled "Making Peace with the Earth".  During this event, organizations and businesses that are involved in peace, social justice, environment, development, women's issues, food policy advocacy and natural health will be presenting and selling their products. Vandana Shiva books will be on sale at this event. Tickets are $12. For tickets, visit the Univeristy of Calgary: http://www.ucalgary.ca/peacestudies/ShivaSeptemberEvent 
Consortium for Peace Studies would like to thank the following organizations and people for supporting/ sponsoring the Calgary Peace Prize 2011: 
Oxfam Canada, Calgary Food Policy, Alberta Food Policy, Slow Food Calgary, Calgary Seedy Saturday, Hugo Bonjean – Author, Community Natural Foods, Planet Organic, Ten Thousand Villages, The Zeitgeist Society of Calgary, The Arusha Centre, River Café, Project Ploughshares, Initiatives of Change, Bullfrog Energy, Sheldon Chumir Foundation, David Swann (Liberal Party), Vogel and Company (lawyers), EPCOR Centre, Green Calgary, Indian Canada Association of Calgary, Shastri Indo Canada Institute, Judy MacLauchlan of UC Senate, Faculty of Social Work at UC, Faculty of Environmental Design at UC, Faculty of Nursing at UC,  Social Work Student Association at UC,  Political Science Students at UC, Eco Club at UC, U of C Student Union