Canadian Colleagues Offered A Chance to Help SPME and SWC With
Discounted Tickets To “Spirit of Hope Benefit” May 31 in Toronto
Canadian Network Participants of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East are being offered an opportunity to participate in the Simon Wiesenthal Center Spirit of Hope Benefit, Sunday May 31, 2009 in Toronto. Tickets for SPME contributors will be at $72.00 CAD/$60 USD @ ticket. These tickets normally available for $150 CAD will be discounted for SPME Faculty with SPME and SWC sharing the proceeds. Funds collected by SPME will go to help SPME efforts in Canadian Universities.
Tickets need to be purchased by April 15, 2009 through spme.org/donation.html . We will then purchase the tickets and they will be available at the door for you and your party. When you make your payment make sure you note that it is for the SWC Benefit. It is very important that you then write to SPME at spme@spme.org to let us know your contribution is for the SWC Spirit of Hope Benefit so we can add your name(s) to the event ticket list.
The Benefit is described below:
The Spirit of Hope Benefit will tackle the most difficult international issues to arise in decades: the financial crisis; how President Barack Obama will ‘change’ the world and his proposal for dialogue with rogue states; Iran’s nuclear and regional ambitions; instability in Pakistan; the possibilities of peace in the Middle East; deeply strained relations with a Russia ‘on the move’; China’s rise to power; and a decline in the standing of western democracies in the minds of people around the world at a time when terrorism threatens their very existence.
As citizens begin to grasp the breadth and depth of these issues, they will come to realize the solutions are not with one government or on one continent – they are truly global.
FEATURE SPEAKERS
Secretary Michael Chertoff: Secretary of Homeland Security, 2005-2009 Secretary Michael Chertoff oversaw the Department of Homeland Security from 2005-2009. Faced with the daunting task of managing threats to America’s security, Chertoff provided risk based protection, reduced major vulnerabilities, and mitigated potential consequences. His integral role in tracing the 9/11 terrorist attacks to al-Qaida won Chertoff approval for the Patriot Act and other anti terrorism measures.
The Honourable John W. Howard: Prime Minister of Australia, 1996-2007. John Howard served as Prime Minister of Australia for four terms. He is noted for his tight fiscal policy, repayment of Australia’s debt, expansion into Asian and Chinese markets, as well as his strong views on intolerance. He was among the first to join the War on Terror as his nation was shaken by the 2002 attack in Bali that killed 91 Australians.
Ambassador John Bolton: America’s Permanent Representative to the UN, 2005-2006 & Under Secretary of State for Arms Control & International Security, 2001-2005. During his tenure at the UN, Ambassador Bolton was an outspokenadvocate of preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons, expelling Syria from Lebanon, and promoting peacekeepingefforts in Somalia and Darfur. He championed a strong resolution calling for sanctionsagainst North Korea and led the Security Council to approve a unanimous resolutionto end the 2006 Hezbollah war on Israel. Ambassador Bolton is the author of Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the UN and Abroad (2007).
Spirit of Hope Benefit
Main Presentation at Roy Thomson Hall; Major Gifts Dinner at Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Major Gifts Dinner 5:00 pm – Main Presentation 7:30 pm
SPME is grateful to the Simon Weisenthal Center for providing this opportunity to its network participants.
For further information about this event contact Susan Kendal, Director Canadian Friends of Simon Weisenthal, skendal@fswc.ca, tel: 416.864.9735 ext. 32; toll free: 1.866.864.9735 or Sam Edelman, Executive Director SPME, sedelman@csuchico.edu , 530-570-8137 cell and office.
