Needs No Introduction

This is the second in a three-part series of talks from the Social Change Institute, held at Hollyhock on Cortes Island in early May.

This time out, Van Jones, an environmentalist, social justice advocate and social entrepreneur who Judy Rebick believes might become a greater leader than Martin Luther King. Van Jones, 37, is the founder and National Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Headquartered in Oakland, CA, EBC is a national organization that challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice system.

This is the second in a three-part series of talks from the Social Change Institute, held at Hollyhock on Cortes Island in early May. This time out, Van Jones, an environmentalist, social justice advo

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simmons of the Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) address the Social Change Institute conference

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons - The Bioneers Story

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons are respectively the founder and co-executive directors of Bioneers.

One year after Kenny founded the organic biodiversity seed company Seeds of Change, where he and Nina served as CEO and President until 1994, he founded the Bioneers conference to highlight practical solutions for restoring the Earth and human communities. Together they have co-produced Bioneers for the past sixteen years. Kenny is an award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker and radio producer. Nina is also an leader in community-based marketing.

The two were named ?Utne Visionaries? in 1996, and in 2006 received the Global Green Award for Community Environmental Leadership from Green Cross International, founded by Mikhael Gorbachev, for their work with Bioneers.

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Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simmons of the Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) address the Social Change Institute conference at Hollyhock on Cortes Island, British Columbia. Their talk took place in early May and

Dr. Michael Geist is a professor of law at the University of Ottawa, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, and is a leading authority on internet-related legal issues in Canada. Dr. Geist is a member of Canada's National Task Force on Spam and is a syndicated columnist for the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen. Dr. Geist is also the editor of In The Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law (2005, Irwin Law).

The Hart House Lecture Series was inaugurated in 2001, with the aim of initiating discussion about identity and society. Organized by students, the Lecture brings issues raised by students to a national audience.

Thanks to Dray Perenic of Hart House and CIUT for their help in producing and recording the lecture.

Dr. Michael Geist presents Our Own Creative Land: Cultural Monopoly and the Trouble with Copyright, at Hart House, University of Toronto, March 30, 2006.

Flora MacDonald has been active in Canadian politics since the 1970s. She served as an MP and Cabinet Minister, and in 1979 she became the first woman to be appointed Secretary of State for External Affairs.

Since leaving politics in 1989, Flora has been involved in a range of human rights and environmental activities around the globe, and is currently working in Afghanistan and India.

She has received numerous honours in her life, including the Order of Canada, the Pearson Peace Medal, India's Padma Shri Award, and the EVE award from Equal Voice. Equal Voice is a national multi-partisan advocacy organization committed to promoting the election of more women to every level of government, and to raising awareness about the under-representation of women in Canadian politics. Equal Voice has chapters in every province, as well as youth chapters.

The Canadian Club of Toronto was founded in 1897, and is one of the premier public affairs forums in North America. Over its 109 year history, many distinguished leaders and newsmakers have visited the Club's podium, including Winston Churchill, most Canadian Prime Minsters, Sheila Fraser and the UN's Louise Arbour, to name a few.

Canadian political pioneer and human rights crusader Hon. Flora MacDonald speaks at the Canadian Club luncheon in her honour, receiving the 2006 EVE Award from Equal Voice for her political and social

Dr. Arne Kislenko in an Associate Professor of History at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, and an Adjunct Professor in International Relations at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre. Dr. Kislenko has experience in foreign affairs and Canadian Intelligence.

He was recently named Ontario's Best Lecturer by TV Ontario's Big Ideas competition.

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In this two-part series, Dr. Richard Burton and Dr. Arne Kislenko discuss the socio-economic history of China and China's role in current international affairs. Presented March 22, 2006 at Ryerson Uni