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Video campaign against conflict metals reveals your gadgets' dirty secrets
Actor/activist Brooke Smith and cinematographer Steven Lubensky teamed up with actors Joshua Malina and John Lehr to create a viral video spoof of infamous Apple's "Get a Mac" ads that reveals Mac and PC share dirty secrets -- they contain metals helping to fuel the war in the Congo.
Our world at war
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The Canadian Red Cross presents the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) international photo exhibit "Our World at War" which provides a unique and first-hand look at what war and armed violence do to people's lives. The exhibit features some of the photos from five award winning photojournalists (James Nachtwey, Ron Haviv, Chris Morris, Franco Pagetti and Antonin Kratochvil) who travelled to eight countries, where they met countless displaced families, prisoners, orphaned children, war surgeons, poor and widowed mothers, disabled volunteers, rebel fighters, rape victims, counsellors, midwives and others affected by armed conflict.
Resistance to the media's narratives of war
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Ploughshares Calgary is pleased to have Dr. Susan Ross, 2008-‘09 University of Calgary Consortium for Peace Studies Research Fellow speak at our May monthly public meeting.
Israeli strikes hit UN schools
from al jazeera:
The United Nations has called for an independent investigation after a third UN school has been has been hit by an Israeli strike, killing 40 people and injuring 45. It's the third strike on a UN school in the last 24 hours, as Al Jazeera's Roza Ibragimova reports.
Canada has role to play in Mideast
Speaking on CBC Radio's Sunday Edition on the weekend, an Israeli commentator described the situation Israel faces as "agonizing."
This seems apt, given the horrific recent developments in Gaza. But Yossi Klein Halevi wasn't referring to the results of Israel's military assault - including Red Cross reports of Palestinian children found starving next to the corpses of their mothers. Rather, he was referring to the harsh criticism Israel is receiving from around the world.
For Halevi, the issue boils down to terrorism. With Hamas rockets falling on Israel, what alternative does Israel have but to strike back?
We came from Africa
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Settlement worker Charles Lomudak and Burnaby city employee William Kollong give a talk on refugees of conflict and displacement in a forum hosted by CBC's Kathryn Gretsinger. Part of the Canadian Red Cross's "We Fled by Land, Sea, and Air" series.
Free admission