A Submission from the Niagara Arts Centre
On Friday, April 5, acclaimed writer and social justice advocate Jamie Swift will visit St. Catharines, Ontario to speak on the themes of his newly co-authored book Warrior Nation: Re-Branding Canada in an Age of Anxiety.
In Warrior Nation, co-author Ian McKay, a Queens University historian, and Swift document a campaign of Canada’s ‘new warriors’ to distort Canadian military history.
Through this neo-conservative-led campaign, martial culture is glorified while the imperialist politics of war are obscured. Fear mongering, romanticization of past wars and celebration of militarism underlie Canada’s rearmament and its emerging national image as a warrior nation, prepared for perpetual war.
In addition to speaking on Warrior Nation, Jamie Swift will introduce the PeaceQuest campaign. PeaceQuestCanada.ca intends to cultivate Canadians’ deeply held commitment to peace as we approach the 100th anniversary of the War to End All Wars and Canada’s 150th year as a nation. We are inviting Canadian communities to join us in creating their own versions of PeaceQuest. The idea is to reach a broad public by having local PeaceQuest activists develop partnerships with choirs and theatre companies, faith communities and educational institutions… and everything in between.
This free event takes place at 7 p.m. at the Niagara Artists Centre, 354 St. Paul St., St. Catharines and is organized by Brock University’s Department of Sociology. Light refreshments provided. All are welcome!
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These so-called neo-con warriors should be forced to walk amongst the bloated corpses in places like Iraq (or witness the deformed babies from depleted uranium armaments) before they open their gluttonous mouths.
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