PANEL ON THE ETHICS OF MILITARY RESEARCH IN THE UNIVERSITY
Counter-Stryker proudly presents:
PANEL ON THE ETHICS OF MILITARY RESEARCH IN THE UNIVERSITY
Monday March 12 at 3:00 PM
UCC Council Chambers, Rm. 315
3rd floor, University Community Centre, UWO
SPEAKERS:
Dr. David Noble, Professor in Department of Social and Political Thought, York University. A critical historian of technology, science and education, and co-founder of the National Coalition of the Universities in the Public Interest
Dr. Paul Hamel, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto.
President of Science for Peace and author of numerous articles on issues of military research and human rights in academia.
Dr. Steve D'Arcy, Huron University College, Philosophy, Dr. D'Arcy is an Assistant Professor in Philosphy. His research interests include the ethics of militant social protest and the politics of identification.
Dr. Ted Hewitt: Vice-President of Research adn International RelationsUWO. Dr. Hewitt is responsible for all aspects of reseach support and promotion at the University and his portfolio includes Reseach Ethics.
Moderator Dr. Sandra Smeltzer, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO.
Counter-Stryker is a group focused on the ethical and political issues of military and corporate research conducted at UWO and at Canadian universities in general. We object to universities becoming integrated into military production by the lure of corporate funding.
Event endorsed by: Centre for Social Concern, People for Peace, Oxfam UWO, Public Interest Reseach Group, London SPHR, London Indymedia, War Resisters Support Group, Huron AWOL, Western New Democrats, Fanshawe Social Justice Club, Global Importune, LaCASA, the Society of Graduate Students UWO, MIT Student Council, Medical Students for Human Rights
PANEL ON THE ETHICS OF MILITARY RESEARCH IN THE UNIVERSITY
Monday March 12 at 3:00 PM
UCC Council Chambers, Rm. 315
3rd floor, University Community Centre, UWO
SPEAKERS:
Dr. David Noble, Professor in Department of Social and Political Thought, York University. A critical historian of technology, science and education, and co-founder of the National Coalition of the Universities in the Public Interest
Dr. Paul Hamel, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto.
President of Science for Peace and author of numerous articles on issues of military research and human rights in academia.
Dr. Steve D'Arcy, Huron University College, Philosophy, Dr. D'Arcy is an Assistant Professor in Philosphy. His research interests include the ethics of militant social protest and the politics of identification.
Dr. Ted Hewitt: Vice-President of Research adn International RelationsUWO. Dr. Hewitt is responsible for all aspects of reseach support and promotion at the University and his portfolio includes Reseach Ethics.
Moderator Dr. Sandra Smeltzer, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, UWO.
Counter-Stryker is a group focused on the ethical and political issues of military and corporate research conducted at UWO and at Canadian universities in general. We object to universities becoming integrated into military production by the lure of corporate funding.
Event endorsed by: Centre for Social Concern, People for Peace, Oxfam UWO, Public Interest Reseach Group, London SPHR, London Indymedia, War Resisters Support Group, Huron AWOL, Western New Democrats, Fanshawe Social Justice Club, Global Importune, LaCASA, the Society of Graduate Students UWO, MIT Student Council, Medical Students for Human Rights
posted by Trent at 1:44 PM
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Solidarity with Counter Stryker from Hawai'i
Aloha Counter Stryker
Greetings from Hawai'i, a country that was invaded and occupied by the US more than a century ago to expand the military reach of American Empire. We send this message of solidarity and gratitude for your efforts to disengage your university from the military industrial complex that manufactures Strykers.
DMZ-Hawai'i / Aloha 'Aina and many people in Hawai'i have been organizing to stop the invasion of our islands by a US Army Stryker Brigade. The Army has seized an additional 25,000 acres of land, a 10% increase from the military's existing footprint in Hawai'i. The projet is being driven in part by military pork despite the overwhelming opposition of the affected communities. We won a small and temporary win when the appeals court ruled that the Army violated environmental laws in stationing Strykers in Hawai'i without considering alternatives. Some of the expansion has been halted pending completion of a supplemental environmental impact statement. See dmzhawaii.org for more information.
Through the Save UH Stop UARC Coalition, we have also been fighting the establishment of a University Affiliated Research Center, a Navy classified research lab at the University of Hawai'i. Students, faculty and community occupied the UH President's office for a week in 2005 and successfully derailed fast track plans for the UARC. However the project is still technically alive and lurking in the shadows for the opportunity to pounce. See stopuarc.info for more information about this campaign.
We wish you success in your efforts to stop the war machine in Canada as we press onward to stop it here in Hawai'i. We hope that there may be an opportunity to work together to oppose what Hawai'i peace activist Jim Albertini has dubbed "modern chariots of empire".
In solidarity
Kyle Kajihiro Program Director, AFSC Hawai'i Member of DMZ-Hawai'i/ Aloha 'Aina
P.s. Perhaps you are already aware of the war resistance movement in Washington State that engaged in civil disobedience to block the deployment of Strykers to Iraq: http://www.omjp.org/
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