Fwd: March 8th - Yves Engler Guest Speaker - Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt

[Danielle Jeanneault]

Good Morning,
The Department of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University is hosting a 
talk by Yves Engler on his book /Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The 
Truth May Hurt/.
We would appreciate if you could forward the event information below as 
well as the attached poster to your faculty, students, and any other 
parties you feel may be interested. We hope to send you a printed copy 
of the poster in the next couple of weeks.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Kirsten Pries, MA
Administrative Assistant
Department of Sociology
Wilfrid Laurier University
Phone: (519) 884-0710 ext.3982
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All are invited to attend a guest lecture by
by Yves Engler
*Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt
Thursday March 8, 2012  7:00 pm
Dr. Alvin Woods Building 2-106
Wilfrid Laurier University
Yves Engler has been dubbed "one of the most Important voices on the 
Canadian Left today" (Briarpatch), "in the mould of I. F. Stone" (Globe 
and Mail), "ever-insightful" (rabble.ca) and a "Leftist gadfly" (Ottawa 
Citizen). His six books have been praised by Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, 
William Blum,Rick Salutin and many others.

Written in the form of a submission to an imagined "Truth and 
Reconciliation" commission aboutCanada's foreign policy past, Lester 
Pearson'sPeacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt will change how you think 
about this country's most famousstatesman. Rather than an 'honest 
broker' or 'peacekeeper' Pearson was an ardent cold warrior who backed 
colonialism and apartheid in Africa,Zionism, coups In Guatemala, Iran 
and Brazil and the US invasion of the Dominican Republic. A beneficiary 
of US intervention in Canadian political affairs, the Nobel Peace 
laureate provided important support to the US in Vietnam and pushed to 
send troops to the American-led war in Korea. Pearson helped construct 
the post World War II US-empire. This book challenges one of the most 
important (and useful) Canadian foreign policy myths.

For details, please see the attached poster.

This Event is FREE and Sponsored By:
The Department of Sociology, the Department of Political Science, The 
Faculty of Arts, and the Academic Council on the United Nations System 
(ACUNS) .

For Additional Information contact:

Dr. Peter Eglin, Department of Sociology, at peglin at wlu.ca 
<mailto:peglin at wlu.ca> or ext. 3877
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