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<DIV id=ecxyiv1681273929>On April 10, University of Toronto students and
community members will protest a <B>high-level military conference</B>
being held on campus, sponsored by the Munk School of Globa<SPAN>l
Affairs. The protest will target the increasing militarization of global
studies at the University, which is being promoted alongside the ceding of
academic planning control to the corporate sector.
<BR><BR></SPAN><STRONG>WHAT: </STRONG>Protest Against the Canada-Australia
Military Conference on Afghanistan at UofT<BR><STRONG>WHEN:</STRONG>
Tuesday, April 10, 1 to 3 pm<STRONG><BR>WHERE:</STRONG> Hart House, 7 Hart
House Circle, Toronto<BR><SPAN><BR>The two-day conference entitled
“Afghanistan: The Australian and the Canadian Experience Compared” is
being co-sponsored by UofT’s Munk School and Trinity College’s Centre for
the Study of Contemporary International History (CCSCIH). The protest is
planned to coincide with a panel discussion featuring Major-General
Jonathan Vance, Director of Staff, Strategic Joint Staff, Canadian Forces,
and one of the architects of the occupation of Afghanistan.<BR><BR><IMG
alt="Inline image 1" src="cid:65C3C07A7FF04B5EA963A0EB0B70F43E@Cynthia"
width=335 height=220><BR><BR>The Munk School is becoming a testing ground
for the militarization of Canadian campuses. As University administrators
consent to the withdrawal of public funding, academic decision-making
authority is being given over to powerful companies like Barrick Gold.
While career prospects in socially-conscious research are being squeezed
to the unfunded margins, the global security-industrial complex is
positioning itself to recruit newly precarious young scholars.<BR><BR>In
response, we will gather to <B>oppose the militarization of our
university</B> and the <B>occupation of Afghanistan</B>, and to demand
that our resources be invested in building spaces for research in favor of
social justice instead of imperialist war.<BR><BR>We oppose Canadian
imperialism in its multiple forms: from outright invasion and bombing, to
the training and supervision roles that are the new focus of Western
occupying forces in Afghanistan; to the mining companies like Munk's
Barrick Gold who profit from militarization around the world. A conference
concerned with regional peace and security might want to talk about the
insecurity and destabilization caused by Barrick Gold's incursions into
the Balochistan region around the Afghan/Pakistan border. Instead, this
conference excludes the voices of the local Afghan community and different
anti-war perspectives, and aims to recruit researchers into the
military-industrial complex.<BR><BR><B>We say NO to the military/corporate
agenda at UofT!<BR></B><BR></SPAN><SPAN><I>Please share this email message
and the event on <A
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/292498174158674/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>Facebook</A></I></SPAN><BR><SPAN><SPAN><I>For more
information, go to </I></SPAN><I><A
href="http://militaryfreecampus.wordpress.com/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><SPAN>http://militaryfreecampus.wordpress.com</SPAN></A> or
email <A href="http://compose?to=whosecampusut%40gmail.com" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>whosecampusut@gmail.com</A></I></SPAN> --
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